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LITERARY a) Valedictory Address 2 b) "Bobby" Burns, Scotland's Tune Poet...................... 4 c) The Savior in the Light of Old Testament Prophecy 9

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EDITORIALS a) Welcome b) Something Wrong ALUMNI EXCHANGE COLLEGE NOTES CO-ED NOTES LOCALS : A.THLETICS . JOKES

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (Sylvan Broker) Members of the Faculty, Schoolmates, Friends: . The.class of 1931 bids you all a very hearty welcome to these, our graduation exercises. We are glad that you have seen fit, and have been able, to cast your cares and worries aside for a time in order to be here today.

Commencement is always considered as the crowning event of the school year. It usually marks the end of a year's work and the beginning of a vacation, but for us this year's commencement has an especial meaning; it is the crowning event of all our years at this school, for we are now about to leave it.

As we, from year to year, looked forward to and longed for this hour, it seemed quite distant and far away, but as we now look back upon those years replete with hardships and triumphs and recall the fleeting memories, both bitter and sweet, of study and recreation, the time spent at this institution seems only too short. Three years ago we completed our high school work under the able supervision and guidance of our various teachers, and today we can state that we have completed the Normal Department also.

We stand at the goal of our endeavors; seven years of conscientious work have brought us there, and now the time has come that we set up a new goal or ideal which we must constantly strive to attain, and this goal or ideal must be placed so high that it will be well worth our endeavors in striving to reach it. We must stand up for the principles of Jesus Christ and make sure of strengthening our characters by building on the Rock of Ages.

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Now we must enter the school of life, a school of hard knocks, and strive to guide children along the way to salvation.

We have spent years in acquiring knowledge; yet we are aware that our education is not as yet completed. We have had only a taste of the refreshing waters from the fountain of knowledge, but what we have obtained has been founded on Christian teaching and based on Christian experience. Our years in school have not been spent in vain. We have studied and labored, but who would not willingly do this in order to serve Christ, the revealer of the knowledge that passeth all understanding.

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Our aim was and still is to become efficient teachers. As such we shall soon go out into the world to cope with many difficult problems, for difficulties are sure to present themselves. In trying to master them however, we must keep in mind the words of Luther: "With might of ours can naught be done, Soon were our loss effected; But for us fights the Valiant One, Whom God Himself elected.

Ask ye, who is this?

Jesus Christ, it is, Of Sabaoth Lord, And there is none other God,He holds the field forever."

We should always remember our motto, "In Thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust"; we shall then be able to overcome all difficulties that may confront us. True adherence to this our motto will inevitably lead us safely o'er the stormy and treacherous waters of this life into the quiet and peaceful haven on the other shore.

We owe a great deal to those of our nearest relatives who have cheerfully made many sacrifices in order that we might complete our course of study at this institution.

We cannot reward them; we can only express our heartfelt thanks to them for the many things that they have made possible for us.

To the teachers, who have played an important part in fitting us for our life's calling, who have worked hand in hand with us, inspired us to renewed efforts when we were lagging, and tau-rht us to know and understand true Christian principles and-motives in life's pursuit we voice a respectful "thank you" as we grip their hands in parting.

Schoolmates, you who have aided in making our lives happy during our stay here, you too are the recipients of our well-wishes. We hope that you will all realize the goal for which you are now striving.

We thank the members of that

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class which has taken pains to beautify the auditorium this occasion; to each and all of you we now bid farewell.

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Classmates: Our college days are ended. Our farewells, one to another, must soon be spoken. \Ve knew that this day, this hour would eventually come and now it has come. The many happy hours we have enjoyed together while at work and play. will always be remembered, and though we are about to part yet are we happy for weare going to enter a great field of work and service. We must work; we must strive to attain our ideal, and I am confident that if we live up to our motto: "In Thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust"; we shall all fare well.

"BOBBY" BURNS, SCOTLAND'S TUNE POET "Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet ftow'rets she stems thy clear wave.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream."

In a clay cottage near the Brig 0' Doon in Scotland on January 25, 1759, "Bobby" Burns, the popular song writer, first cast a glance upon the world he had come to inhabit. The "clay' cottage" makes us feel that "Bobby" came from com-' paratively poor people. Although William Burns, Robert's father, was poor, he endeavored to make good as a farmer by leasing seven acres of land near Alloway. Besides Robert, Agnes Brown Burns, his mother, had born three sons and three daughters, and in order to keep his sons at home instead of hiring them out as farm laborers, the father rented the farm of Mount Oliphant and stocked it with the help of borrowed money. The venture did not prosper, and the family lived in poverty. A year later Mount Oliphant was exchanged for the farm of Lochlea, where William BUDS labored the rest. of his life.

In spite of all the hardships and poverty, William did not neglect the education of his children. Robert, before he was six, was sent to a school at Alloway MilL A little later the father together with the neighbors engaged John Murdoch as tutor for the children. This continued for two and a half years, at the end of which time the elder Burns took the education into his own hands, instructing the boys while at work and on long winter evenings. This lasted for some time, and

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then Bob was sent to Dalrymple for a quarter of a term.

Shortly after this he went to Ayr to board at the school with his former teacher, Murdoch. At Ayr he studied English and French with much enthusiasm.

In his childhood, Robert's interest and imagination was stimulated by an old maid relative of his mother. She was superstitious and told him many stories. His imagination was also stimulated by his personal readings. He read A Life of Hannibal, a History of Sir William Wallace, Shakespeare, Pope, Thomas, Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, Select Collection of Songs, Scotch and English, The Spectator, Pantheon, Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Sterne, and Mackenzie.

When but a youth Burns fell in love with Nellie Kilpatrick, who also inspired him. Because of her he produced the poem "Handsome Nell. During the next ten years he produced very few selections of lasting value. His whim for Nellie passed, and he found Ellison Bigby, whom .he thought he loved to the extent of marrying.

She, however, refused, and he became melancholy. He proposed to her his going into the flax-dressing business at Irvine. She refused to" listen, but he tried the experiment anyhow. He failed and returned to Lochlea. Shortly after his return, his pet ewe died, and his poem The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Author's Only Pet Yowe followed. Then he fell in love again; this, as you no doubt have noticed, was a habit. Three girls occasioned the following three poems: Mary Morrison, My Nannie 0, The Rigs 0' Barley.

At the death of his father he moved to Mossgiel with his family. He mourned the death of his father and wrote Prayer in the Prospect of Death to commemorate the event.

The records of his first summer at Mossgiel show anything but a happy life. He became physically ill. His morals became degraded through the companionship of a sailor. As a result, he became the father of an illegitimate daughter by Elizabeth Paton, a servant girl. The daughter was welcomed by "Bobby's" poem The Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten Daughter.

He was not successful at Mossgiel and so moved to Mauchline. Here he met Jean Armour, whom, I believe, he truly loved. A prolonged courtship ensued. Some time later he offered to take her to wife, but her father refused to . consent. Then Burns decided to get a position in Jamaica, West Indies. He was prepared to go, but his plans were disturbed by the birth of twins to Jean Armour. About this time someone induced him to make a publication of his poems and continue to write for that purpose. A year of fertility followed. Such poems as Holy Willie, Cotter's Saturday Night, To a Louse, To a Mouse, To a Mountain Daisy, and To the Deil appeared. Jean Armour's father filed suit against Burns but without success. Burns, as I said, loved Jean, but路

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as he could not have her he tried to forget her. This, most likely, occasioned his removal to Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh Burns. became socially popular. Although he had no social training, he was tasteful and tactful in society. Five months he remained. After that he went on a tour through southern Scotland. A few days before he left the city, he met Mrs. McLehose, who had separated from her husband because of mistreatment.

They became very intimate, and he wrote her scores of letters and bits of poetry.

His love for her, however, was not deep-rooted. He had been taking care of Jean for some time, and now he went back to her and found her an outcast of her people, for she had borne him another pair of twins. At this point he took her for his wife.

Ellisland was the next place of abode. By this time his poems had netted him between four and five hundred pounds.

He lent his. brother one hundred eighty pounds to pay a debt .: He built himself a home on a farm near Dumfries on the river Nith. Upon. completion of the home, they moved there and were happy. Burns's satisfaction with his domestic situation is characterized in a song composed at this time I Hae a Wife.

In spite of his happiness, he became uneasy and felt he couldn't depend on the farm alone for an income. so he turned the farm into a dairy to be operated by his wife and sisters.

He became an excise officer over ten parishes. He was so successful in this work that he sold his stock, left the farm, and moved to Dumfries, where his position netted him seventy pounds annually. At Dumfries he tried his best to keep out of debt, for he both feared and hated debts. He was a Jacobite and mingled in politics. He was interested in the French Revolution. All these facts influenced his works. The greatest happiness Burns experienced at Dumfries was from his song-writing.

He wrote words for James' Johnson and later for Mr. George Thompson. He worked 0:::11y from patriotic motive and for love of song. Twice he declined journalistic work in London, for he loved poetry, his greatest consolation.

In writing songs he refused to consider the possibility of writing for money even when he was in severe financial straits.

The year 1795 marks the beginning of his decline. His song-writing was then checked for some timo by the death of his daughter, Elizabeth, and by a severe attack of rheumatism.

Many people maintain that the cause of the rheumatism is traceable to the abuse of alcoholic liquors. Although Burns didn't drink for the sake of drink, he took it at first for sociability's sake, and later he found it a means of escape for depressions. These troubles finally broke him down. In 1796 he went to Brow-on-Solway to try sea-bathing and country life. He returned little improved, and his last task was calling his mother-in-law to help Jean, as he felt his end near. He

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died on July 21, 1796.

With Burns's death the reaction in popular opinion set in.

He was given a military funeral, and a subscription, which finally amounted to 1,200 pounds, was raised for his family.

His officialbiographer, Dr. Currie, doubled this sum so that Jean was able to rear her children respectably and end her days in comfort. Scotland, having done little for Burns in his life, was stricken with remorse when he died and has sought ever since to atone for her neglect by an idolatry of the poet and by a more charitable view of the man.

With song-writing Burns began his career, and with songwriting he ended it. It is through his songs that he is found rooted deep in the hearts of his countrymen, and in the hearts of all English-speaking people. Even our own United States has reserved a place for his songs. Page through a popular song book and see how he is represented.

For me "Bobby" Burns has a strange charm. Not only his thrilling songs prompted me to interest myself in him, but . also his appealing characteristics. Though immorality overshadows his life, there is something that makes one like him.

It may be the jollity of his name. It may be his songs, or perhaps I am a person who can see some good in everyone and like him for the little good he has. Speaking of his name"Bobby" Burns-repeat it. It is rhythmical; is it not? It does have a suggestion of song in it. I like to say it as it reminds me of his best old songs-"Should auld acquaintance be forgot," or "If a body meet a body," or "My heart's in the highland," or "On yon bonnie banks and yon bonnie braes."

Then there is "Flow gently, sweet Afton." In the summer when I am at home seated at my piano, I never fail to look up "Bobby" Burns's Scottish airs. Everyone likes to hear and sing them.

How did it happen that Burns wrote these familiar Scottish airs? One could hardly' call them original, yet Burns is not a plagiarist. It was like this. Old folk songs were sung and handed down from generation to generation through countless years. The "air" remained uncontaminated, but the words had so deviated from the original text that at Burns's time the words had lost their imaginative quality and had acquired instead only grossness. But why did Burns write so many, and how could he possibly revive them all?

Two men, James Johnson and George Thompson, each attempting to compilenational songs into a collection,influenced Burns. James Johnson was not capable of doing it, and so Burns became editor, virtually, after a period of- time in which he helped Johnson, of the Scot's Musical Museum, a collection of Scottish airs. The collection of Thompson was A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs. The chief purpose o~

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these collections was to preserve the melodies, but when the editors came to seek words to go with them, they found themselves confronted with a difficult problem. Burns was their salvation. Other poets had tried to revive or remodel the songs but seemingly without success. Nowhere had appeared such a combination of original genius and sympathetic feeling for the tone and accent of the popular muse with which Burns wrote his songs. Burns's contribution to Johnson's collection was 164 songs.

To remodel songs is not the easiest task?

How did Burns do it? The author himself gives us a sketch in answer to Thompson's request for words to be fitted to a tune. "Laddie lie near me must 'lie by me' for some time. I do not know the air; and until I am complete master of the tune in my own singing (such as it is), I never can compose for it. My way is: I consider the poetic sentiment correspondent to my idea of the musical expression, then choose my theme, begin one stanza, when that is composed, which is generally the most difficult part of the business, I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for subjects in nature around me that are in unison and harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my bosom, humming every now and then the air with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and then commit my effusion to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbow chair, by the way of calling forth my own critical strictures as my pen goes on. Seriously, this at home is almost invariably my way." (September, 1793.)

If we look at many of Burns's songs, we find we live in them. He has composed the words to fit the music. For instance, in singing Coming through the Rye we feel ourselves part of the scene, and if we listen closely, the rhythm produces a sound as of moving grain. By listening to, or singing, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, we get a vivid picture, and the music seems to be the river flowing along. In these and in scores of others he has let his imagination play, but in his political songs he has used little imagination, although they are often lively and painted. A Man's a Man for A' 'I'hat is one of his political poems. "It really is not poetry," says Burns. It is admirable, vigorous rhetoric in verse and has become the classic utterance of the democratic faith. As I before stated, he was in sympathy with the French Revolution, and into the aforementioned poem the fundamental doc.rme of Liberty, Fraternity, Equality is cast. This song, different from most of his songs, does not deal with love, but, nevertheless, there is a certain rhythm and expression which makes it appealing.

It can be compared to a calm, clear-running rivulet, for its meter is even; its understanding is clear; and the repeated "for a' that an' a' that" serves as tiny ripples on the rivulet.

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As it runs along it has a joyous melody in it in spite of its content. Here is a stanza from it: A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, an' a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fo' that!

For a' that, an' a' that, The pith of sense. an' pride 0' worth Are higher rank than a' that.

It is hard to believe that such a genius could have led such an immoral life. If patriotic Scots wish to justify the achievement of Burns on moral grounds, it is here that their argument lies: for whatever of coarseness and license there may have been in his life and writings, it is surely more than' counter-balanced by the restoration to his people of the possibility of national music and clean mirth. With God, however, it is a different thing.

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THE SAVIOR IN THE LIGHT OF OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY After the fall of man, God in His great mercy and kindness promised a Savior who would bring salvation to all people.

Throughout the entire four thousand years preceding the birth of the Savior, God painted a picture of ever-increasing vividness, portraying Christ and His work of redemption.

When God created man, He made him in His own image: that is, holy, without sin, and perfect in all things; for we read that Go::llooked upon everything that He had made and beheld that it was very good; therefore man also was perfect. But man could not resist temptation and thus he fell into sin.

Was God's plan completely disrupted?

Oh no, for God had in eternity ordained that Jesus was to save sinful mankind.

Shortly after man's fall into sin, we read in Genesis 3 :15 that God said to Satan, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel." In this prophecy of the coming Savior God gave the promise that He would put enmity between the serpent (Satan) and the woman (mankind). Through sin man had become an enemy of God and a friend of Satan. Here God promised that He would restore the friendship of man with Himself, thereby making him an enemy of Satan; thus we see that salvation can never be man's own achievement. The words, "It shall bruise thy head,"

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foretold that salvation could be wrought only by a hard struggle in which the seed of the woman, the promised Savior, would be victorious, for if a serpent's head has been crushed, it loses its power and is dead. "Thou shalt bruise his heel" shows that Satan would make a sly, cunning, and unfair attempt to spoil this salvation; this is a prophecy of Christ's death on the cross. This Scripture passage is called the Protevangel, that is, the first good tidings concerning the salvation of all sinful mankind. And we know that the people of this time understood this prophecy; for when Cain was born, Eve thought that he was the promised Savior.

Two thousand years passed, and God gave His people no further information concerning the Messiah, but the children of God remembered the first prophecy and believed in it.

Then God spoke to Abraham, Genesis 12 :3, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." God repeated this promise two more times at various occasions during Abraham's lifetime. Now it was established by God that the Savior was to be a descendant of Abraham; thus in him all the nations would be blessed.

Some years later God again repeated His promise, this time speaking to Isaac, Abraham's son, in Genesis 26 :4, "And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed." When Jacob was fleeing from the wrath of his brother, Esau, God spoke to him in a dream, clearly showing him that he, and not his brother Esau, was to be the bearer of the promise; we read in Genesis 28 :14 that God again repeated this promise to him years later.

A short time before Jacob's death, he called his sons before him and prophesied events which would take place after his soul had departed. In Genesis 49 :10-12 he delivered the promise to Judah, "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." This passage foretold that the Savior would not come after the sceptre had departed from Judah, that is, after the Jews had been placed under foreign rule.

The people of Israel spent about four hundred years in Egypt. During this period of time God gave them no new revelations concerning the coming Messiah. Then God led His chosen people out of Egypt; again, He gave them no direct Messianic prophecy, but He did give them a wealth of indirect prophecy in the Ceremonial Law. Jewish worship consisted of a continual service in sacrifice, pointing always to the fact that their salvation could be brought about only by a sacrifice.

In Exodus and Leviticus we find numerous prototypes of Christ. For example, on the Great Day of Atonement the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy-seat and obtained

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mercy for all the people; thus did Christ obtain mercy for us all by bringing His holy blood to the mercy-seat of God. Just as the blood of the paschal lamb saved the Israelites from the angel of death, so our Paschal Lamb, Christ, saves us from eternal death and damnation. The Sabbath also was a shadow of Christ; it was to point all the people of Israel to Christ their perfect Rest, "Thus ye shall have rest for your souls.': In fact, the entire Levitic worship was significant in that it ever was a prototype of Christ.

However, in Numbers we again find God giving His chosen people new promises concerning the coming' Savior. In Numbers 24 :17 where Balaam was forced by the Lord to bless Israel instead of. cursing them, he prophesied concerning the Messiah, who was to be one of Jacob's descendants, "I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not nigh; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite all the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." This prophecy is doubly important, because without the knowledge of this passage the wise men from the East would never have come to Bethlehem when Christ was born.

Moses prophesied concerning the Messiah in Deuteronomy 18 :15, 18, and 19, saying, "The Lord, thy God, will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken."

The words "like unto me" refer to the fact that, as Moses was the leader of the Israelites, so Jesus would be the leader of His people; as Moses led Israel out of the bondage of Egypt, so Jesus, our King of kings, would lead His people out of the slavery of sin. Moses' sole duty was to intercede with God for the sinning people; this was a prototype of Christ as our intercessor before God. Only one Messianic prophecy is found in the two books of Samuel, and this is in the second book, Chapter 7, Verse 12, reading as follows: "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. . He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever."

On first reading this, one is almost inclined to think that this passage is merely speaking of an earthly kingdom and temple, but we know that this must be a prophecy of the Savior, since it cannot refer to a temporal kingdom, because after Solomon the kings of Judah declined in power and morality. Also when God said "I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever," He could' not have meant a temporal kingdom because these do not stand forever. From this prophecy we learn that Christ was to come of the descendants of David and that God would establish His kingdom.

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We find a very definite Messianic prophecy in Job 19 :25 and 26, "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself and not another; though my reins be consumed within me"; most certainly Job speaks of the coming Savior when he speaks of his Redeemer.

Nearly all the Psalms contain Messianic prophecies.

Some are designated as such in the New Testament, and in others the contents are unmistakably prophetic of the salvation which was to come through Christ's innocent sufferings and death. In the second Psalm we find the entire chapter speaking of the coming Savior, especially Verses 7 and 8: "I will declare the decree; the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Psalm 22 prophesies of the crucifixion of Christ and describes it very accurately.

For example, Verse 1: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" are the very words Christ spoke when He was dying on the cross; verses six to eight tell of the mockery of the people and of the priests when Jesus was crucified, and they told Him to save Himself if He really was the Son of God, "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people: All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." In Verse 16, "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet," we clearly can see the picture of Christ nailed to the cross with His hands and feet pierced and the crowd of people around the cross, shouting and mocking Him. The scene in which the Roman soldiers part Christ's garments and cast lots for His mantle at the foot of the cross is foretold in verse eighteen, "They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture." .

Many Messianic prophecies are found in Isaiah. This prophet is often called the Evangelist of t113 Old Testaman., because he so minutely refers to the Savior. Isaiah 4:2: "In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth stall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel," is. the first prophecy of the coming Savior in this book The promised virgin birth of Christ is foretold in Isaiah 7 :4, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." In Isaiah 9:6 we find the greatest things said of the Savior in _ the entire Old Testament, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the

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Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace."

But the earliest, clearly expressed, and most definite prophecy of the Messiah as the Son of David is found in Isaiah 11 :1-5, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord." Many suggestions of the coming deliverance have appeared earlier, but here we find a distinct promise of a Second David. There is a great religious value in this prophecy, for the moral and spiritual character of the Messiah is here elaborately portrayed; He is to be the righteous, just, and merciful ruler, because He is possessed of the fear of the Lord. Other prophecies of Christ are to be found in Isaiah 28 :16, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste," and in Isaiah 42 :1-3, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth."

A prophecy of Christ which shows that He is not only come to bring salvation to the Jews but also to the other nations of the earth is Isaiah 49 :6, "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles." Isaiah 50 :6, "I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting," prophesies the actions of the common rabble and of the Roman soldiers towards Christ before they crucified Him. About 750 years before the Savior was born, God gave a very clear picture of Christ's crucifixion in Isaiah 53, as if it had been written by some one standing at the foot of the cross.

The most outstanding instance of the portraiture of Christ's suffering is found in Verses 4 to 6, reading as follows: "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Verse eight, "For the transgression of my people was he stricken," gives the cause for Christ's suffering and death, and verse nine, "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth," foretold that Christ would be innocent of the charges brought against Him and of His burial in the garden vault of Joseph of Arimathaea.

His death and the cause thereof are prophesied in verse twelve, "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors: and he

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bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." This passage also shows the coming Savior to be a mediator between God and man, who would take all sins upon Himself for the people.

Two prophecies in Ezekiel are more outstanding than the others; one is in Chapter 37, where God tells how out of a debased remnant He saved His people and caused them to adhere to His Word and how He put life into a world dead in sin, the other in Chapter 11, Verse 17, refers to Christ also; in this Israel is the dead tree.

Micah contains but one noteworthy Messianic prophecy, Micah 5 :2, "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands in Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."

This passage is the first place in the Old Testament which tells the exact city where the Savior was to be born; likewise it asserts that He is the eternal God. The Savior is described as the desire of all nations in Haggai 26 :9, "Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts."

In Zechariah many references are made to the corning Savior which describe His kingdom in detail. Zechariah 9:9 is a Messianic prophecy which foretold to the Jews Christ's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and the people's great erjoicing, "Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion; shout, 0 daughters of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass." The betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver and the purchase of the potter's field for this amount are foretold in Zechariah 11 :12 and 13, "And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed me for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter; a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord." Zechariah 12 :10, "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications; and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born," prophesies that after Christ's crucifixion some of His people would weep at the foot of the cross for Him. Christ is called the Shepherd, and His death is foretold in Zechariah 13 :7, "Awake, 0 sword, against my shepherd, and against the man

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that is thy fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; 'and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." This Scripture passage also is a prophecy of how the disciples fled when Christ was taken captive.

Zechariah 6 :12, "Behold the man whose name is Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build a temple of the Lord," calls Christ the Branch, who would build a tem. ple of the Lord, that is, the Christian Church on earth.

Malachi speaks of Christ as the Angel, or the Messenger of the Covenant, who is to cleanse the spiritual temple of the Lord; he likewise foretells the coming of Christ's herald, John the Baptist, in Malachi 3: 1-3, "Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts." John the Baptist is also foretold as Christ's herald in Malachi 4 :5, "Behold, I send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord."

With Malachi, the days of the inspired prophets ceased; there were no new revelations concerning the coming Savior after this time. The picture was complete, and now began the period of waiting for the Redeemer. After 430 years, when the fullness of time was come, God sent His Son to be our Savior and to redeem us from sin, death, and the power of the devil, and all Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Him.

E. G. S. '33

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The "D. M. L. C. Messenger" is published quarterly during the school year by the students of Dr. Martin Luther College. The subscription price is seventyfive cents per annum. Single copies twenty cents. Stamps not accepted.

We request payment in advance.

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Contributions to our Literary Department are requested from all alumni, undergraduates and friends.

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Volume XXII

September 1931

No.1

EDITORIAL STAFF MEILAHN ZAHN, Editor-in-Chief R. BEHMER. Business Manager G. BOOCK Alumni Notes A. LOBER, Ass't Bus. Mgr. ARDELLA DAHMS, Co-ed Notes ARTHUR MEIEI{, Ass't. Bu•. Mgr. FREDERIC MANTHEY, Locals VERA HAFENSTEIN. Exchange GERALD BECKER, Athletics ELEANOR LAHMAN. College Notes ADLOF WILBRECHT, Jokes

EDITORIALS WELCOME July and August, the vacation months, have fairly sped by, and September again finds thousands upon thousands of students making their journeys to the various schools of our land. Our own college naturally experiences the arrival of her portion of these students, both old and new. Truly, many old faces are not here to greet us, for school days as such cannot last forever, but we find an equally large number of new faces for us to greet. To these, the best we can say is "Just make yourselves at home." Speak and act as one of us, just as a member of a large family where training and surroundings are, as in every true Christian home, built oil Christ, the Solid Rock, for as the poet continues: "All other ground is sinking sand."

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New friends, we welcome you into our family and bid you take part in its activities. Naturally your aim in coming here is to obtain an education under Christian guidance and influence. Make that first in your life here. If you find you have extra time, and you will have beyond a doubt, interest yourselves in the athletics at our school. Girls as well as boys are accommodated. Then there are also the band and the literary societies, all eagerly waiting to welcome you into their midst.

Enjoy these privileges. Yes, on every hand a cordial welcome is extended to you.

Old students, let us not overlook the fact that when we ask our new friends to become co-workers with us in this large family, we automatically assume the responsibility of acting in a manner commendable to the Christian spirit spoken of above. Let not only our words, but also our actions and deeds shine forth as a hearty welcome to all.

SOMETHING WRONG During the last weeks many universities, colleges, and high schools have opened their annual football seasons. Thousands of men throughout the country have again answered the call of this great sport. .During past years a great number at Dr. M. L. College have envied these men because of the fact that the opportunity to play football was denied them. Truly, the lovers of this sport. could not be blamed for their attitude.

However, thanks to the business men of New DIm, this game was introduced at our college last year.

It is known that many schools establish and support football teams merely in order to gain fame and renown for their institution, and, by doing so, they idolize certain individuals.

This worshipping of sport heroes degenerates the main aim of football. Through the publicity which these players receive, they develop a superiority complex and thereby lose the true value of this sport.

As stated before, football has also become a major sport at Dr. M. L. College. Thanks to the manner in which football is carried on, however, this spirit has not as yet developed at our school. Football at Dr. M. L. College is merely another. manner of gaining sufficient exercise and fresh air, which bodily needs should not be overlooked. We are sorry to say, some of our able-bodied men are too blind to see these values.

The response to this sport at our school has been a sore disappointment. (me reason for this may be that, contrary to many other schools, we stress the real aim of football and not the side issues, such as fame and glory. It is our belief that another reason for the poor response is the fact that some

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people are living under false impressions: namely, they probably think football is a bit strenuous.

'I'his is a poor excuse for not being a candidate for the team, because it is not too strenuous for any healthy person. If our athletic department had made provisions, we would advocate a series of sand tables placed in the open air in order that all may have the benefits of mother nature.

As proof of the fact that everyone is interested in our sports, we need only to consider the fact that all the football equipment has been donated. All of us should show our appreciation for this act by being candidates and boosters for the team. Because football is a young sport at our college, it a backer of the team because it is a representative of the whole student body. Therefore, we again plead that more interest be shown among our students this year and in years to cannot be over-emphasized too much that everyone should be come.

R. S. '32

G. B. '32

ALUMNI

ALUMNI The graduates of the class of 1931 have accepted posi. tions in the following schools: Sylvan Broker, Lake Mills, Wis. Edmund Hellmann, Rhinelander, Wis. Walter Huber, East Fork, Ariz.

Harold Klatt, Columbus, Wis. Harold Kutz, Claremont, Minn.

Hertha Oswald, Flint, Mich.

Frank Redeker, St. -James, Minn.

Walter Steinberg, Milwaukee, Wis. Esther Bach, Des Plaines, Ill. Louise KeIrn, Kenosha, Wis. Anna Plagge, New Prague, Minn.

Emma Kirchhoff, Maribel, Wis. Margaret Raatz, Cibicue, Ariz.

Mildred Scharf, Boyd, Minn.

Hilda Zahn, Iron Ridge, Wis.

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Wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of ours.

There goes Juliane Duesterhoeft, who became the bride of Alfred Schramm on September 3. There goes Irma Oswald as the new "missus" of Norman Otto since June 24. There goes "Floppy" Zeitz, who at last has Wendt. On August 16, Margaret Klug and Gustav Gehlhar gave the world a chance to throw rice, confetti, and old shoes. Gerhardt Albrecht and Margaret Paustian were the main characters in a wedding ceremony which occurred on June 18. And now we get that lonesomefeeling because Jeanette Jordahl has also joined the ranks of the newly married. Success and God's blessing to you all!

Edwin Nolte, teaching at the St. Paul's school of New VIm, and Emma Loeslin have announced their engagement.

Emma gave up teaching, in order that she could be with her mother, who is ill. .

The opening day brought to D. M. L. C. not only the eager and the not quite so eager students but also members of the alumni who came to visit friends made during their school days. The visitors were Viola Louis, Lacorda Schimmelpfennig, MollyEngel, Mildred Scharf, Margot Schuetze, Hildegard Bussmann, Traugott Zuberbier, Mr. Albert Manthey, John Raabe, Victor Tiefel, Arthur Hinnenthal, and Herbert Kesting.

Two little lads and three wee maids have come to make their homes with members of the alumni. Rhoda Eileen is the new daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sophus Stensrud (nee Leona Price) ; Carol Ruth of Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Retzlaff; Cathryn Anne of Professor and Mrs. Ernst Sperling (nee Lydia Winter). Robert Magnus is the son of Mr. and Mrs..

Kurt Oswald, and Egbert Gerhardt of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Schapekahm (nee Martha Seehusen).

This time it wasn't the call of the West but a call from the East; and therefore Gertrude Schmidt left her school at Winthrop to teach at Appleton, Wisconsin,where she took the place of Melinda Bartsch, who has accepted a call to Manitowoc,Wisconsin.

Waldemar Pape, alias "Daddy," has movedfrom St. James to Lewiston, Minnesota.

John Meyer, '26, has accepted a call as teacher at Racine, Wisconsin.

Wâ‚Ź were sorry indeed to hear that Helen Limpert, who had been married to Mr. Arthur Lueck of Rockland, Wisconsin, since June 18, passed away September 13. She died of blood poisoning. We express our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved.

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EXCHANGE School days have just begun and naturally few school journals are to be found. We hope that by the time the next issue is published many exchanges will have reached us. To all we extend a most cordial welcome.

COLLEGE

NOTES

Professor C. Schweppe attended the Synod meeting, which was held in the gymnasium of Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin, August 12-18.

Among the decisions pertaining to educational institutions were the following: 1) The Northwestern Lutheran Academy at Mobridge, S. D., and the Lutheran Seminary at Saginaw, Michigan, were each allowed one assistant instructor.

2) The study of Greek was dropped from the high school course.

3) D. M. L. C. had no special requests; nothing of importance was done regarding our institution.

4) Action on a new library building for Northwestern College was postponed for two years.

Professor Sauer, our new inspector, is busy performing the duties of his office. We hope that he enjoys his new work and also hope that the boys cause him no unnecessary worry.

Tutor Voecks is also back in our midst, but now as a fullfledged professor.

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Professors' Vacations Professor and Mrs. E. R. Bliefernicht spent two weeks in the Black Hills.

Prof. and Mrs. Albrecht visited friends and relatives in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Prof. Klatt and family enjoyed the summer vacation in Columbus and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Prof. Klatt also attended the Pastoral Conference of the Norwegian Synod at Bethany College. Mankato, where he read a paper on. The Futility of Teaching History as a Secular Subject.

Prof. E. D. Backer attended a six-weeks' summer session at the American. Conservatory of Music at Chicago, Illinois.

He and his family spent the rest of the summer at Lake Francis, Lake Washington, and Nest Lake.

We're sure that not one of the students envy Prof. Sauer.

He spent most of his vacation moving from the bottom of the hill to the top.

Prof. C. Schweppeand family visited in South Dakota and Wisconsin. Prof. Schweppe didn't forget to come back in time to give his house a new coat of paint.

Prof. A. Schaller attended sessions for six weeks 'at the University of Minnesota. He and his family enjoyed two weeks of rest in the Black Hills.

Prof. Levorson spent the summer with his parents in Iowa.

Prof. R. Janke attended sessions at the University of Wisconsin. He and his family spent the rest of the summer at Fond du Lac, LaCrosse, and Platteville, Wisconsin, and Lewiston, Minnesota.

Prof. Voecks attended the Walther League Camp Workers' School at Arcadia, Michigan. He made a short tour through northern Michigan and also spent some time at Loon Lake, Wisconsin, and the Wis. Walther League Camp at Cleghorn.

Prof. Stindt and family spent the greater share of their vacation in New Ulm, entertaining visitors. Later they camped in northern Iowa for a week.

Prof. Palmbach spent most of his vacation at Appleton, Wisconsin. He also took a short trip to Madison and Monroe, Wis. While on this trip, he stopped at Watertown, Wis., to attend the Synod meeting.

Prof. Burk and family visited various places. Duluth, Minnesota, and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, were among these.

They also spent some time in northern Iowa.

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Prof. Sperling remained in New DIm during the summer vacation.

The Third Normals are now busy practice-teaching in our local Lutheran Parochial School. Gerald Becker and Emanuel Arndt have just completed their term, and Edith Bode and Raymond Behmer are now "serving their time."

The system of teaching has been rearranged this year.

The second grade and parts of the third, fourth, and fifth grades are in one room. The subjects are divided into two groups, and the teachers of each group alternate every four days. There is always a supervisor in the room, Prof. Stindt in the morning and Prof. Albrecht in the afternoon.

Yes, sir, D. M. L. C. boasts some improvements in and on its.various buildings.

The music hall simply shines with its varnished floors and polished pianos and organs.

The girls of Hillcrest Hall think that a fire drill would be lots of fun now that they have a fire escape on their home.

The' newly waxed floors of this building proved to be a real skating rink, including the usual bumps and tumbles (how about it, Grete?).

Our two college societies, Phi Delta Sigma and Phi Gamma Rho, will begin their literary work about October 1. The Normal students and those of the senior class are urged to join and show their interest in the literary activities. The new officersfor the present school year are: Phi Delta Sigma-Roland Jacobs, president; Richard Sievert, vice president; Hildegarde Paap, secretary and treasurer.

Phi Gamma Rho-Gilbert Timm, president; Lydia Rudolph, secretary; Edgar Wiechmann, treasurer.

September 14 marked the beginning of choir rehearsals.

The large choir meets on Mondays and Tuesdays. The small choir meets on Thursdays and Fridays and whenever possible on Sundays.

At present the entire mixed choir meets. Testing of voices for the small choir will begin soon.

After having rested their vocal cords for nearly three months, the Marlut Singers have resumed their rehearsals under the direction of Meilahn Zahn.

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this year. At present there are 175 enrolled, 65 in the normal department and 110 in the high school department. In all there are forty-four new students. The various states represented in the student body are: Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Washington, Arizona, New York, Missouri, and Iowa.

BAND RESUMES ITS WORK With renewed zeal and enthusiasm the band resumed its work September 8. The band experienced remarkable progress last year. The interest shown again this fall promises still further strides toward the goal ;i.e., a bigger and better band. In the past five years the band has been entirely selfsupporting. During this time the following additions were made to its supplies: a trombone, two clarinets, a cornet, a snare drum, a drum major's baton. Numerous new selections have been added to its music library. All old instruments that were in a usable condition have been repaired. At this writing the band's supply of instruments is entirely exhausted. There are thirty-five active members, and others are eagerly awaiting instruments.

Are you willing to show that you appreciate the efforts of the band by helping them? This can easily be done by joining the band as an associate member. A nominal sum of fifty cents makes you such a member. You then have the privilege of attending all rehearsals and concerts throughout the year.

CO-ED NOTES With the beginning of this school term, we see a number of new students. including twenty-two co-eds: Elsie Prosek, Hurly, Wis.; Kathryn Kent, Rhinelander, Wis.; Laverna Hillmann, Fairfax, Minn.; Dorothy Plagge, New Ulm, Minn.; Martha Bartz, Suring, Wis.; Henrietta Johnson, Perham, Minn.; Rosella Gehner, Montevideo, Minn.; Erna Wendt, Watertown, South Dakota; Elizabeth Berg, Bangor, Wis.; Gretchen Kelpe, Tomah, Wis.; Hilda Ulrich, New Ulm, Minn.: Erma Engel, Amboy, Minn.; Marie Bode, Vernon' Center, Minn.; Veleda Kelm, New Prague, Minn.; Renata Schaldach, Chaseburg, Wis.; Ruth Larson, Hanska, Minn.; Florerice Raddatz, Clements, Minn.; Ida Clements, Clements, Minn.; Elizabeth Wilson, Newberry, Michigan; Myrtle Blake, New Ulm. Minn.; Palma Bilstad, Lake Mills, Iowa; Marie Hinnenthal, New DIm, Minn.

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Miss Irene Kremmer brought her cousin, Elizabeth Berg, to our institution, Sept. 1, and paid some of her friends a short visit. Oh, didn't she come to stay? No, she has become a "teetcher" at her home town, Bangor, Wisconsin.

Margaret Stegemann and Esther Heimann, willing to try anything once, have moved from a private residence to the girls' dormitory.

Marcella Boerneke visited our institution for several days during the opening week of school. She has taken up training at a La Crosse hospital.

We have come to the conclusion that Lydia Rudolph, having been deserted by her grandmother and sisters this year, must feel very much like an orphan. Some of us really pitied her when we saw her trudge her long way to and from her home near the fair grounds. She is, however, now located near Center Street and can afford to sleep at least 15 minutes longer every morning.

Many of us were surprised when we saw that Zylpha Busse was here on the opening day of school and informed the II Normalites that she came to join their class. She, however, played "hookey" the very next day already, and we soon realized that she had gone back to Gibbon, Minn., to teach.

Alice Kuhnke, who was so fortunate as to get a position as teacher at Bay City, Michigan, surprised us all by appearing at our institution Sept. 14, for a several days' visit. Since the school had been closed for a week because of infantile paralysis, Alice and Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Stindt decided to take advantage of their vacation by motoring to New VIm. Notice to all D. M. L. C. girls! Before attempting to buy a victrola, be sure to get in touch with the "Albrecht gang."

They are able to give you any desirable information concerning phonographs and also the sending of telegrams.

LOCALS Hail! Hail! In the dormitory exchanges of greetings resound through the halls. Old friends meet again to relate their experiences of the past few months. The opening of school brings many new faces into our dormitory. Let's all get together and be friends. We welcome you all and hope that you will enjoy associating with us.

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This school year also. has brought into our midst a new inspector at the boys' dormitory, Prof. E. Sauer, who was called to fill the vacancy left by our dear Prof. Wagner. The personality and Christian character of Prof. Sauer have won for him a host of friends in the dormitory. We welcome him to our midst and hope and pray that God may grant him health, patience, and courage to carryon the task assigned to him. .

Several of the students of last year paid us a short visit on their way to other colleges. Some of those who came to bid farewell to D. M. L. C. were Allen Hoff, "Stubby" Frey, 'Victor and Fred Tiefel, H. Kesting, R. Albrecht and M. Reetz.

Good-bye and good luck.

W. Sorgatz appreciates the fact that the replastered spot on the ceiling of his room was finally painted after five.years.

Allfhat is necessary now is a few years' dirt to blend the colors.

New Ulm's newest publication, The Daily Messenger, has caused quite a stir amongst the new-comers. Schlenner wished to know why the Messenger only had one page now, when it was formerly in book form. Here's the book you've been waiting for, Orville.

Football practice is again in full swing, but Coach Voecks was a bit disappointed at the small number who answered his call. Come on you huskies; let's get out and toss around the pigskin.

Judging from the number of new members, the band may look forward to another successful season of work. Others are eager to join, but they have no instruments.

The band is making every possible effort to obtain instruments for these enthusiastic individuals. All assistance which anyone might offer will be greatly appreciated.

The Marlut Singers assembled to begin another season of diligent rehearsing.

New member s were needed and several "foxes" made noble attempts to fill the vacancies.

As usual, there are several portable phonographs in the dormitory.

Since the radio is not working as it should, canned music can be heard in the dormitory throughout the day. .

W. Nolte was determined to get to college early. result, he had to sleep out on the campus for one night. you suffered much from bug-itis, Schimmel?

As a Have

W. Ingebritson is running the advocators of canned music a close race. He has a new roll harmonica and keeps things a-hummin' on the first floor. Inky found out that it plays

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quite well backwards also-only

a slight change in the melody.

H. Hempel maintains that a person who refuses to acknowledge his guilt before his brother, a group of brethren, or finally the Church should be recognized as a heathen and a Republican.

Poor Paul!

Meilahn Zahn attempted to keep his birthday a secret, but all in vain. He received the usual treatment for such occasions from several of his dormitory associates. We wish you happy returns of the day, Meilahn.

Cars, both real and otherwise, have been grazing under the oaks behind the boys' dormitory since school began.

There is no saying that there are people up at college who are patiently waiting for the market to go up, so that these critters might be done away with.

Why?!

Timm wonders why his room has become such a rendezvous for bums, as he calls them. It might be because of the souvenir beer barrel from Canada. Gilbert maintains it is empty, but-one can never tell.

Due to a decrease in the number of boys in the dormitory, the fourth floor is entirely vacant this year. The race track has moved down to the second floor.

Arndt, Becker and Behmer have been doing practice teaching during the past few weeks. Each has his own opinion of the work, but all seem to agree that the work is most interesting. That's a good encouragement for those who will teach in the future.

Who Knows?

The III Normal boys are all enthusiastic over their new duty of playing in chapel. Some of them are playing before an audience for the first time and find themselves unconsciously keeping time to their heartbeats.

Manthey's surely must have skipped a beat now and then.

Prof. Voecks moved the last of his belongings to his new quarters on Jefferson Street. Coach Voecks maintains that he enjoys his own cooking. No doubt he believes in the old German maxim, "Viele Koeche verderben den Brei." One can hardly imagine him being a cook. But-where there's a will, there's a sidewalk.

The boys are taking advantage of the low cost of watermelons. Several rooms in the dormitory have enjoyed some real "nigger nights."

For further particulars ask Wacker.

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Meilahn Zahn played the part of a chauffeur to part of the Seehusenfamily. On September 12 he took them to Carthage, South Dakota, in his Ford. Zahn is fortunate enough to have a car that .can still stand such a trip. How's the Sunshine state, "Paul"?

Several of the Freshies are .still asking where they might purchase their season tickets for chapel.

'Many people at the present time are complainingbecause they have no work. Not so with A. Tiefel. He is kept busy sweeping four rooms each day. At that rate we won't put him on the list of unemployed. Let Tiefel's experience be an example to other misbehaving "foxes."

Prof. Sauer, as all great men, has birthdays. On September 16 he celebrated another of these yearly events. Unexpectedly, the III Normal boys heard of it. Several of them got the excellent idea of giving him a small gift. As usual, cigars were chosen. All enjoyed a brief period of hilarity in Prof. Sauer's officebefore going to bed. Prof. Sauer told us that Washington was dead, Lincoln was shot, and he wasn't feeling so well himself.

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On September 2, D. M. L. C. opened its doors after several months of vacation. Many old faces appeared to renew the task of obtaining knowledge. New faces can also be seen around the campus. Let us not forget the old proverb which says: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. We must have exercise. And why not make use of the athletic activities in obtaining this exercise. The main sport for this part of the season is football. Coach Voecks sent out his call for recruits to uphold the maroon and gray, but at this time only thirtv-five have answered the call. This number would be sufficient to form a formidable squad if all were heavy weights and wiry sprinters, but they are not. Many are from the lower grades of the high school department.

The interest shown by them is appreciated very much. Many more should get this exercise and this training for future material.

Let every male student come out, if possible, and enjoy this sport which is supported for all and not only for those who form the first team.

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will be forthcoming, so as to enliven the interest in this sport among the students, whether they are squad members or not.

Football is not the only sport in which our students are participating at present. Tennis is being enjoyed by many.

The two courts which are at their disposal are occupied throughout the day, especially by the younger boys and by those who think football too strenuous for them.

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When only a few minutes are available for leisure time, horseshoe has become a favorite to many. The clanging of shoes in the two courts provided by the institution is common music to our ears.

Politeness?

Professor (pointing to a cigarette stub on the floor): this yours ?"

Freshie : "No sir, you saw it first."

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One of the students made the remark that if he would get a car he would buy it with leather. We wish him the best of luck, but he would probably be the one to get skinned.

The GoodSamaritan of the Depression Hasn't Arrived Yet Professor Backer: "Weren't those new vocal books given to you?"

Class (in unison): "No, we had to buy them."

"Nature abhors a vacuum. What a break for some students!"

When Experience Speaks Prof. Schweppe: "How did the poison act?"

Bill: "Instantly!"

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Prof. Sauer: "Can you tell me the meaning of 'gerochen' in the sentence, 'Der Dichter wird gerochen'?"

II NormaIite: "It means he was smelled."

P. S.: "What makes you think so? The fact that he was dead for a long time?"

Believe it or not, some students could edit a dictionary.

Just allow your optics to roam over the following brilliant examples of definitions: Celibacy-A crime a priest commits when he marries.

Monologue-A conversation between two people such as husband and wife.

The government of England is a limited mockery.

The letters M.D. mean mentally deficient.

She Must Wear Fast Colors A student was talking of the many fast friends he had.

"In fact," said he, "one of my fastest friends is Miss X." In sending telegrams, students can take a tip from a certain Scotchman who wrote the following classic: Bruises hurt erased afford erector analysis hurt too infectious dead. (ten words) Translation: Bruce is hurt. He raced a Ford and wrecked her, and Alice is hurt, too-in fact, she's dead.

(Eighteen words) Little Girl: "Auntie, what would you prefer in your future husband, wealth, ability or appearance?"

Spinster: "Appearance. But he will have to appear pretty soon."

Studiousness Student: "I want to exchange this textbook."

Clerk: "Too late, you have had it a full term."

Student: "But I just found o'ut that every other page is missing."

---=-----'=-'.~-----A Scotchman will not smoke a cork-tipped cigarette because he does not like the taste of burnt cork. (Thanks to Prof. Bl.) We have heard of the heat affecting people's minds but we never thought it would give us a free period. ' It Looks Sick Marg Harnisch (reading in last "Why, the enrollment diseases."

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We, Made a Notation to That Effect!

Clara Mehlberg wanted to see her name in the Messenger, so here it is, Clara. Punktum!

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Scene in the Library (With apologies to Tennyson) Frosh to the right of us, Frosh to the left of us, New students in front of us Studied and grumbled.

Flashed all their pens in air, .

As all the maidens fair Wrote down their notes with care While others mumbled.

Oh, the big noise some made, Causing our thoughts to fade, As with their pencils they played, Scratching the table.

Dire the Iibrarian's glare As he "gave them the air" Causing them to move from there, While the rest trembled.

Count Ten! Arnie Lober (in Methods class): pass out in a line."

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HUMMEL BROS. New Ulm, Minn.

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New Ulm

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The BLUE LANTERN CAFE The Place Where You Get Good Meals,Lunches and Ice Cream REAL HOME COOKING

DR. H. C. EDMISTON OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN

New Vim, Minn.

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2 South Minnesota Street

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A. H. KUESTER, Proprietor

Wielandt & Stegeman Contractors and Builders Correspondence Solicited ~!ork Done in Any Section of the Community Plans and Specifications Furnished Estimates Cheerfully Given Office 1100 Center St.

J.

A. WIEDL, Proprietor

Champion Shoe Shop A Pleased Customer Is Our Best Advertisement ",,'t>

Phone 571

E FREESE, Proprietor

Auto Glass Replaced to Order

24 So. Minn. St.

F. J. BACKER HARNESS DEALER Kwik-Pak Parcel Post Laundry Cases Trunks, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, Purses, and Other Leather Specialties

Eugene Koehler Barber Shop.

HAIR CUTS 30c Efficient Service and Courteous Treatment 20 N. Minn. St.

New VIm

Williiam ~. Von Bank,

D. D. S.

DENTIST Office Phone 237 Residence Phone 797

FRED A. MEINE -01-

FRED MEINE CLOTHL\'G CO.

New VIm

See Us For Snappy Clothes

CHAS.

EMMERICH Plumbing

Steam and Hot Water Heating ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION BOTH PHONES 281 . CORNER CENTER AND MINNESOTA STREETS

Minn.

WHEN IN NEED OF FOOTWEAR Be Sure and Call on Us We carry a complete line of men's, ladies' and children's shoes We 'appreciate your business. Our prices are always the lowest, Qualitconsidered

ATHLETIC SHOES OUR SPECIALTY TRY OUR REPAIR DEPARTMENT FOR GOOD WORK

P. J. EICHTEN SHOE STORE New UIm, Minnesota

HIes not what you earn that makes you rich-but what you SAVE" WE PAY 4 % INTEREST ON SAVINGS Compounded Semi-Annually

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PRINTING

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E. C. VOGELPOHL ORGAN CO. . ORGAN ARCHiTECTS AND BUILDERS 405-409 North Broadway

New Ulm. Minn.

UNION HOSPITAL NEW ULM, MINN.

A Fireproof Hospital Suprervised by Graduate Nurses Giving the Best of Service Phone 404

D,rs. Hammermeister

~ Saffert

Physicians and Surgeons

MINNESOTA

NE\V ULM,

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Call 148 ELECTRIC SERVICE AT ITS BEST

Ulrich Electric Company

NATIONAL TEA CO. QUALITY GROCERS Cigarettes

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SPA ULDING

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0 N E Y"

The Model Bakery We carry a complete line of fine BREADS, FI~E ROLLS AND PASTRIES Phone 2~2 ..Taste The Difference" Phone 232 Residence Phone 150

Office Phone 60

DR. F. H. DUBBE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON NEW ULM,

MINNESOTA

Red Front Grocery FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES GLASSWARE

- NOVELTIES

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Phone 43 and 44

BANK WITH

FARMERS ~ MERCHANTS STATE BANK New Ulm, Minnesota

FRIENDLY HELPFUL SERVICE AT YOUR COMMAND

The Unrivaled Beauty of Brick Brick, when new, is beautiful, Years later the softened colors are even more attracive. The natural beauty of burned clay has no equal. It defies time.

Common Brick, with colored mortar, varied bonds; or straight bond decorated with a soldier course at the base, has the unrivaled beauty of burned clay yet is low in cost.

We also manufacture Cement Drain Tile and Culverts All kinds of Faced Blocks) W'indow Sills and Caps Artstone of Every Description Flower Vases, Bird Baths, etc.

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CONTENTS

LITERARY a)

Peace on Earth

2

b)

The Fading

2

c)

Christmas

d)

Coffee-Houses

e)

Cotton Mather

f)

The College Hero

Light Joy?

6 :.. 11 and His Peculiarities

13 16

EDITORIALS a)

Rejoice

18

b)

Gossip

20

c)

Education As the Cure-All...

21

ALUMNI

24

EXCHANGE

25

COLLEGE NOTES

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CO-ED NOTES

32

LOCALS

34

ATHLETICS

38

JOKES

45

'!'HE

D. M. L. C. MESSENGER'

2

PEACE ON EARTH Serenely shone the moon on high; 'The stars their sparkling luster shed.

In silence hushed were earth and sky; O'er all was night's dark mantle spread.

N ow were there shepherds on a plain, Who. o'er their flocks a watch did keep While sacred stillness here did reign, And all the world was wrapped in sleep.

When suddenly an angel bright Appeared with tidings from on high That Christ, the Lo.rd, was born that night; Loud hallelujahs pierced the sky.

"Peace o.nthe earth!" their song sincere Does sound to. all the world each year!

E. G. S. '33 ';

THE FADING LIGHT "Oh, Grandma, Grandma, you won't ever leave me, will you, grandma?

Say you wo.n't, Granny," cried little Sandy as he clasped his grandma tightly around her neck. What else but the specter of death staring Granny in the face could prompt her little Sandy to say such a thing?

"Sandy, Sandy, hold me tighter; I feel-like-like something dr-dread-dreadful-O Sandy!" as she clasped him tighter,-"something dreadful is-is going to happen."

These utterances were hardly audible, yet Sandy Newmas understood. He was getting to. be quite a man; at any rate, he thought SQ. His grasp tightened.

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"Granny," he said, "what am I to do after you're gone?

I'm alone in the world, and it's winter. To-morrow is Christmas and-s-O Granny, Granny!" he cried. His grandmother had again passed into a state of delirium. This time Sandy thought it to be the last. He was helpless; he couldn't leave her to summon aid, or could he? Sandy'S eyes brightened.

It was seven long miles to the nearest town, Vernaldo. The night was dark, and the wind was howling fiercely. The snow was piling higher and higher. Sandy sighed deeply.

His freckled face looked careworn for only a moment. Then it brightened.

One hand he lovingly withdrew from around this dear old lady who was all the world to him. He thoughtfully ran his fingers .through his rusty hair. He looked at his grandmother, saw that she had not expired, saw that her eyes were closed with heavy sleep. H2r breathing came heavily but regularly. He withdrew the other arm, arose from his kneeling position, brushed the hair back from the old lady's face, and stooped down to kiss her feverish brow.

Sandy was nine on his last birthday.

He had met hardships before, for his father had died when he was six. his mother and baby sister when he was eight; and now he felt he must part with his only treasure, his grandmother.

He was ready to face the hardest. A plan had already been formulated and was in the beginning of execution. Perhaps some one could help her-s-if he only knew who. He jumped into his little buckskin coat and cap, pulled on his overshoes, and silently stole to the bedside which he had only a few minutes before deserted. Again he stooped to kiss the lady. Then he quietly murmured, "Grandma. you keep on sleeping; I'll be back soon with a big surprise for you."

He picked up his mittens, took one last longing look at hi's gr-andmother, and then turned the oil lamp very low.

He opened the door very quietly, turned around and paused for a second and quickly disappeared in the darkness.

The night was dark. The snow had ceased to fall, and the air was bitterly cold. Stillness prevailed. The only signs of life were the faint light peeping through the window of the small cottage that Sandy had left and the chattering of Sandy's teeth as he tramped along. The time passed on. One mile was left behind. Two, three, four, and then five miles were between his dear little grandmother and him. He was nearly exhausted and frozen, for this midwinter's night was nothing for a little fellow like him to brave. Two miles lay between him and his destination.

He did not know where he would go or what he would do when he got there. All he knew was that he must get there. Would he complete his journey before all were to bed and when he could receive no help? "I must," he muttered and trudged onward.

THE

D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

4.

Now he entered the forest just outside Vernaldo. It was a rather dense forest and quite large. The tree tops were swaying back and forth and sighing as -if thy knew why this little boy made his appearance in their midst.

Alone in the dark forest he was. His steps now became faltering steps. Yet he was urged on. Suddenly he stopped short. His keen eyes looked around to see as well .as he could some familiar landmark.

A horrible thought came to him: "I am lost! I have lost the trail F' He could have sunk to the ground. The next fifteen minutes, which were hours to our little hero, were minutes of agony while wandering about trying to find his way. He did not know that he was right in the middle of the correct trailhe sank to the ground, half frozen, half senseless, and utterIy hopeless. .

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The next time Newmas opened his eyes, they beheld a :sight entirely different from anything he had ever seen.

An exceedingly white hand was placed upon his forehead. Another held his small plump one.

"Merry Christmas, Sandy Newmas. How do you feel this morning?"

Sandy was slightly startled.

He immediately became alert and cried, "Where am I? 0 Grandma, where-I must go to Grandma."

He threw back the covers of the pretty blue bed he was in. The white hands quickly caught him. quieted him, and covered him up .. A voice said, "Here now, you must be quiet. Grandma Newmas is all right. Daddy found you in the woods last night as he was on his way to bring you and Grandma something for your Christmas dinner."

"But Grandma is awfully sick; I came to town to get some one to help me last night 'cause she was very sick."

Sandy did not know in whose hands he was, nor did he know who this young lady's father was.

Naomi Merivachio was a beautiful girl. She was but eighteen, yet her understanding of children was exceedingly g'reat. Her blue eyes looked into Sandy's hazel ones.

She clasped Sandy's hand tighter.

Then she said, "Tell me, dear; tell me all about your tramp from your home to the woods."

Sandy did, and she told him how her father had found him on his way to his home. Here Sandy told her how some one had always come at Christmas time and left something but that the giver had never revealed himself.

Sandy suddenly asked, "What is Christmas and why do we have it? I know that people always give each other things, but why? I don't know. Will you tell me, Miss Merivachio ?"

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THE D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

"Surely I will." Then she told him that many years ago a little baby was born; that this baby was God's only son sent on earth to grow up like a man; that when He was a man, He was put to death by some cruel men who hated Him. She told him the wonderful truths about the Son of God, Jesus, and omitted narry a single detail.

During all this while, strange expressions played over Sandy's face. He smiled. Then he quickly sat up as if to say something, when a sound from the front door reached their ears. Footsteps were heard on the stairs, and finally Sammy Quinn, puffing, burst into the room. A tall elderly lady followed him. .

"Mis' Pattie," puffed the colored boy, "Mis' Pattie, Doctah Mahvachio sent me back with the sleigh foh yoh all to come back with me and him too (pointing to Sandy), and that powahfully quick, too."

They hurriedly made ready, jumped into the sleigh, and were off.

"0 God, save her, save her!" was Sandy's silent prayer ..

The sleigh stopped; Sandy jumped, out and Fattie followed.

They ran into the house and then into the tiny bedroom where they found Doctor Merivachio and Miss Aversen, the nurse, trying to make Grandma Newmas comfortable.

As Sandy and Pattie came into the room, all was quiet.

Sandy flung his arms around the dear old lady's neck and wept, "Granny, Granny."

A frail arm slowly raised and .encircled Sandy's neck.

"Sandy. I'm afraid it's all up. Sandy, I can't see the light yet. 0 Sandy."

"I have found it, I have found it; let me tell you. I found it this morning. Pattie told me." Excitedly Sandy told his grandmother the story of Christmas.

The doctor saw the lading light in the old lady's eyes.

He made a move to remove Sandy from the bed, but the frail hand tightened its grasp.

"Is it really true, Sandy?"

"Yes, yes, it's true, Grandma, 'cause Pattie told me all about it." • Pattie offered up a silent prayer.

So did the doctor and Miss Aversen. Then Pattie advanced, clasped the other frail hand of Mrs. Newmas, and placed her comforting arm around Sandy. "Yes, Grandma.¡ it's true. Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved. Now sleep in peace, dear lady; Sandy will be .our boy. He shall be my little brother."

Grandma's eyes closed; her hands clasped together; a faint sound escaped her lips. It was the sound of a triumphal Amen. She had closed her eyes and lips in Christ and in peace.

M. S. '33

THE

D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

6

CHRISTMAS JOY? "Did you heal' that tOO? I'm sure that some one knocked on the front door."

"But-.

It can't be. Who would call at this time of the night?

No one would even consider leaving his shelter during a blizzard like this; besides-" "There! There; did you hear it this time?"

"Yes, butWhy, I don't see why they alwaysMartha, I wish you would go along down," stammered Mr. Robertson, still half asleep.

Mr. and Mrs. Robertson were out of bed, had their slippers on, and had the candle lit in a few seconds. Mrs. Robertson took the warm blanket off her bed, wrapped it around herself, and followed her husband down the long, narrow, squeaky stairs. Just as they reached the bottom step, the noise was heard again. Jonah stopped on the bottom step as though he wanted to run back.

"Hurry up, Jonah. You aren't afraid, are you T" "No, dear. I'm not afraid, but-but--it's so cold."

Thus they reached the door, Mrs. Robertson trailing close behind her husband.

"Martha, you open the door. I will hold the candle so we can see who it is."

"Who ever heard of such a coward? Not that I'm afraid, but I think it's your duty to look. You know that I always get that terrible cough when I get into the cold wind," said Mrs. Robertson angrily.

Finally Martha took the candle and Jonah opened the door, but the wind was so strong that it immediately blew the candle out. The snow blew into their faces. They slammed the door shut and again lit the candle. It took Martha several moments to persuade Jonah to open the door again. This time they were careful that the wind would not blow the candle out.

"Martha, what is that?

I don't see anything.

Here. is only a heap of clothes." Jonah grabbed this bunch of rags and dragged it into the house. Mrs. Robertson lit a lamp and set it down beside the bundle of rags. She immediately began to inspect the ragged pack; Martha pulled on one end and Jonah on the other. In a few seconds they had the bundle pulled apart, and before them a little boy about one year old came to view. With his shining, dark, brown eyes he looked up at Mrs. Robertson as though he wanted to say, "You aren't my mother, are you'?" Mrs. Robertson, with tears in her eyes, bowed down to pick him up. He clung to her as though she were his mother. Jonah cried also. Were they tears of joy, or did he really feel sorry for this abandoned child? \

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THE D. M. L. C. MESSTilNnER

"To whom does this child belong?" Surely, there was no way of finding out that night. To-morrow? Perhapsperhaps not! After much talk Mr. and Mrs. Robertson went back to bed and took this little stranger along with them. It didn't take Jonah very long to go back to sleep, but Martha did not sleep another wink. She lay there long with wondering thoughts.

"What would have happened if they hadn't gone down? Surely, the child would have been frozen stiff by morning. How did the child get there?

Some one must. have put it there. We have to find out to' whom it belongs. It isn't so easy for a woman of fifty years to care for a child hardly one year. Something has to be done. We can't keep it." All these thoughts passed through her mind while the child slept peacefully in her arms.

Jonah awoke rather early in the morning; then he went downstairs and built a fire. This was something he had not done for the last fifteen years. He was a happy man, indeed. His only thought was, "Oh! If we can only keep this child." They had only one daughter, and she had died in her infancy. Later Martha came down with the little boy in her arms. He was as happy as could be.

"Well, what are we going to do with this little rascal 'l" was Martha's first question.

"Do? Why, what is there to do? Keep him, of course.

My only hope is that no one will come around and try to take him from us."

Martha was, indeed, very angry at these words and exclaimed, "Jonah Robertson, what has come over you now?

You don't mean to say that you intend to keep this child?

You know well enough that we can't take care of children any more. Now, if I have anything to say, you will go down town immediately and report this mystery."

Jonah was very excited and exclaimed, "And if I have anything to say you will go and do it yourself, or it won't be done. I am in favor of keeping the child and shall not have him taken from us." Jonah had already taken the child from Martha's arms and was holding him clumsily in his own.

Finally Jonah persuaded Martha to keep the child in case his parents would not come to claim him. Martha was still wondering why they brought this child to them instead of taking it to the Hasses, their neighbors, who had always wanted to adopt a child, but had not done so as yet. Martha told Jonah that she wanted to give it to the Hasses, but Jonah objected seriously. The news spread like wild-fire over the village, but neither the parents nor the person who had placed the child there was to be located. They saw only a few footprints in the snow on the porch, but even

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these were almost beyond recognition, for the snow had partially covered them.

In the afternoon the weather cleared up a little, and it stopped snowing, but it was still very cold. Jonah dressed in a sheepskin overcoat and went to talk to the police.

Every possible effort was made to trace the parents of this little boy, but all were in vain. Martha tried her best to keep this little boy, whom they named Richard, comfortable .and certainly succeeded in doing so.

The next spring Richard was big enough to follow his father into every part of the house and every corner of the yard. When Richard or Dick, as he was called by every one, was four years old, the Hasses adopted a little girl who was four months old. Now he had a playmate. From now on Mrs. Robertson had no trouble in locating her Dick; he was to be found at the Hasses home at almost every and any time of the day.

Soon Dick and Sally grew up to be sturdy young people.

They were "two of a kind." They agreed on everything.

They were not separated until Dick had to leave his home to go to Creighton University, which was seven hundred miles from his home. He entered this school when he was eighteen, and studied law. Sally went to the New Underwood High Schoo1. In the spring of 1910, both graduated, Sally from high school and Dick from university.

Sally got a position in the telegraph office of New Underwood, and Dick became a lawyer at Southerly, a city about two hun; dred miles from his home.

Dick had not been home for Christmas for the last four years, because Creighton was too far from New Underwood to go home for every vacation. During the last four years he had been home only once, and that was after his second year at the university.

'I'hat summer Sally was not at home, for she. had been asked to stay with her grandmother, who had been sick that summer. So Dick forgot Sally, and Sally forgot Dick.

This year for the first time in four years Dick had the opportunity of spending a Christmas in his dear home town, with his foster-parents.

He was certain that this would be a real Christmas for him, and can't you just imagine how happy his parents would be to have him with them again?

The more he thought of going home, the longer the time seemed till Christmas.

The hours seemed like days and the days like weeks. Finally the twenty-fourth of December arrived, the day for Dick to go home. After many hours of traveling, he was indeed happy when he heard the con-. ductor cry, "New Underwood." On the platform of the station he found his parents waiting for him. Mr. Robertson was so happy that he would not allow Richard to carry

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his own suit case; he carried it for him. As soon as they had arrived at home, Mrs. Robertson had a well-prepared supper placed on the table. Dick thought at that moment that this was the best meal he had ever eaten in his life.

"Be it ever so humble, there is np place like home."

After supper the happy trio went to church. Here Dick met many of his old friends. What a surprise it was for Sally to see a young man step un to her after the services and greet her with a, "Merry Christmas!"

She stood there, and' she stared at him. At first she did not know whether it was Richard or not.

"Thank you; the same to you. Pardon me, but-eraren't you ah-Richard Robertson?" stammered Sally.

"Yes, Sally, I am. Did I change so greatly that you didn't even recognize me?"

"Yes, you changed somewhat. It seems good to see you again, Richard. When and how did you come home?"

"Permit me to escort you home, and I shall tell you all about it," replied Dick.

Slowly Dick and Sally walked to the Hasses' home.

They had so much to talk about that they felt they barely started their conversation when they had already reached Sally's home. So Sally invited Dick to stay with them the rest of the evening as it was still quite early. Mr. and Mrs. Hass also asked Mr. and Mrs. Robertson to spend the evening with them. So all six entered the Hasses' home. All gathered around the newly decorated Christmas tree. Sally then took her position at the piano, and they sang many of the old Christmas carols. Dick and Sally sang many of the old songs they sang when they were children. The memories that this evening brought back were innumerable.

While they were thus amusing themselves. a knock was heard at the back door. Mr. Hass asked Richard to answer the call. Richard got Sally by the arm and asked her to go along; this she did. Martha laughed and said, "Oh, Jonah, isn't it just like us? Remember the night we found Richard on the porch? You made IDe go along to the door too. Even the weather is something like that night."

By this time they heard voices in the kitchen.

"Yes, mam. Of course, you may. Let me-" "Say, mother, will you please come here?" called Sally.

"Yes," replied Mrs. Hass. "I am Mrs. Davis," said the strange old, feeble woman who had just entered the house.

"Your name is Hass?"

"Yes, Mrs. Martin Hass. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Mother," interrupted Sally. "Her clothes are all wet; she is almost frozen stiff; she must be hungry."

"I am very hungry. I have walked far to-day. Oh, it is so kind of you people to take me into your house."

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In a little while Mrs. Hass with the aid of Sally had a meal spread before her. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, having heard part of the conversation, could no longer resist the temptation of entering the kitchen also. As they entered, this strange woman stepped back with a startled expression and became very nervous. What was the reason? No one knew. No one dared ask. They all sat down around the table, and she started to talk. She told her life's history-of how her husband had been taken from her by the mighty war, of how her home was broken up, and also of her two children who were with her no more. At first she hesitated to say anything more about the children, but upon questioning she confessed, "In my distress I could no longer support my only son. So one cold, wintry night, I placed him on the porch of a kind man and woman-" "Oh," uttered Mrs. Robertson and glanced knowingly at her husband.

"And that was the last I ever heard of him," she continued. "After my husband's return from the war, I searched for him, but-all in vain. Several years later we were again blessed with a child, a girl. When she was five weeks old, my husband was taken-from me. He-hewas-killed in-a-railroad accident. I could not supportand-care for the baby. So-so-1 had to put her-inan orphanage. Where my boy and girl are now, I don't know." And with this statement she glanced at the Robertsons again and broke down and could say no more.

Now Mr. Robertson stepped over to Martha and whispered in her ear: Both looked at Dick; they saw a resemblance. Could it be? Could it really be Dick's own mother ? Could it be Sally's? It seemed to be an impossibility, but-it must be true. .Tlow could it be otherwise?

Now Mr. and Mrs. Robertson stepped forward; both were pale and amazed. Mr. and Mrs. Hass could not see why they should take such an attitude toward the related incident. The thoughts, of Dick and Sally were the same, "Why should the parents be so interested in this situation'!"

Then Mr. Robertson, with tears in his eyes, walked toward Dick, put his hands on his shoulders, led him to the supposed-to-be strange woman and said, "This is your mother, Dick."

Astonished and shocked Dick simply gazed at his mother. It was hard for him to grasp this situation immediately. When he fully understood his father's words, he went to his mother, who sat there so forlorn-like. He seemed to have forgotten those around him as he, in his own way, proved his love for his new mother, who needed the love and care of such a son.

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It wasn't long before the situation was changed again.

In her new-found joy, the mother did not forget that she also had a daughter, and in discussing the problem of finding out whether there was a possible chance 'of finding the other child, Dick suddenly hit upon an idea and suddenly asked, "Mother, what was the name of the orphanage?"

She replied, "I took her to the Neighton Orphanage."

"Then Sally is your daughter!" shouted Mr. and Mrs. Hass at the same time. .

Thus the three were happily united, but their joy was not to last long, for the exertion of the many tribulations which their mother had endured plus the shock of such great joy had proved fatal to her, and she fell into a swoon.

A sad Christmas?

Yes, in a way, but Richard and Sally could not look upon it as such. Even though their dreams of the future were shattered, one had found a sister and the other a brother, not to forget the brief glimpse of joy and love their mother had received.

E. W. B. '34

COFFEE-HOUSES The coffee-house was probably the most outstanding feature of London life in the first half of the eighteenth century. It was not a new institution, for the first one had already been established in Constantinople in 1554. England's first coffee-house had opened in Oxford in 1650, and London's first one had been established in 1652. The height of its popularity was reached in the eighteenth century.

The coffee-house was primarily a gathering place where one could learn the' news, pass an hour or two in pleasant company, talk politics or the latest literary gossip, transact business, write a letter, and; in some cases, even gamble.

The coffee-house was the modern newspaper, club, and business office in one. .Each particular house attracted a special group of visitors. The Tories patronized Ozinda's; the Whigs, St. James. Lloyd's, which to-day is an insurance company known all over the world, started at this time as a coffeehouse, became the headquarters for shipping business and insurance.

Jonathon's was the most important stock and bond market.

White's Chocolate House was extremely aristocratic, and Garroway's was the haunt of the business men. Addison rather favored Button's, but, in general, literary men frequented Will's. Dryden had established its fame years before when he held a kind of literary court there, honoring young writers with a nod or maybe a little

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condescending praise. When Pope was a child, he was brought here to see this great man and to hear him speak.

Her.e bookshops and theaters were discussed from every possible angle. Learned me. such as the members of the Royal Society, met at the Grecian.

English literature in the early seventeenth century by no means lacked tolerance, reasonableness, or sympathy, for they were contained in the words of the scholars and courtiers and had made the drama important.

English literature contained these qualities, but not until the end of the civil war did the middle classes, as a whole, begin to outgrow medieval habits of thought and expression and to cultivate the modern "civility." This advance was partly due to the reactions of sentiment but mostly due to a certain change in the people's mode of life. London's inhabitants gathered more or less in groups or colonies and as there had been just as much a conflictof opinions as of arms when the civil war broke out, they had developed the necessity for discussion. Since they were careful of both their health and their allowance, they did not meet in taverns but began to patronize the coffee-houses, because a cup of this newlyimported Turkish beverage cost only one penny and was supposed to cure minor ailments.

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The coffee-houses offered to a class the social influence which tended to increase its coming to-gether, to define its tastes and to take stock of them.

Here it was where an average opinion was created and formulated.

Already at this time, in certain essential elements, the opinions of the middle class, which were to hold undisputed sway in the nineteenth century, were gaining great influence. This opinion then was not bold enough to impose its own influence. It aimed at a compromise be- . tween the aristocratic temper of moral freedom, which the Restoration had carried to a licentious excess, and the Puri:an spirit, which had been carried to the other extreme.

Thus, the middle classes had at least found a field in which it was possible to realize the ideal of observing human nature.

This again resulted in a new literature which was made to satisfy this arising curiosity in the humorous talk of the coffee-houses. 'Phe street, the tavern, and the home had for centuries. displayed the indifference or brutality of men; but the coffee-houses revealed the oddities of thought and manner which were far more interesting to the modern observer.

The Character of a Coffee-House brilliantly described amateur politicians grouped around some self-constituted authority, and introduced a ridiculous portrait of a "Townwit." Coffee-House Jests by Roger L' Estrange was a volume of conversational anecdotes gathered from different

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coffee-houses. The Coffee Scuffle displayed in a ridiculous manner a learned argument between an "all-knowing" school-master and a man of the world. In Coffee-House Politicians Addison relates how he, after having heard the current report of the king of France's death, made his way to the various coffee-houses to hear the many curious speculations of the most eminent politicians.

In this atmosphere, which the coffee-houses produced, Steele wrote his Tatler. Vivacious wit and a tone of easy familiarity were incorporated in this first paper and also in the Spectator, which came later.

So we find that the coffee-houses were not onlv places where the English people enjoyed their cups of coffee and discussed any and every topic of the day, but they also influenced the social and literary phases of life at this time.

Personally, I think that the. coffee-houses were the most interesting, sociable, and rather unique institutions of their kind.

E. M. L. '33

COTTON MATHER AND HIS. PECULIARITIES Cotton Mather was the last of the "Mather Dynasty."

He was the son of Increase Mather and the grandson of Richard Mather. Cotton was born in 1663, a precocious child. He finished his college course at Harvard at the age of fifteen. He assisted his father, who was then pastor of the Old North Church, and at the age of twenty he had sole charge of the church. From what we read of Cotton Mather, we are inclined to think that he did anything and everything except that which pertained to his church. I think this fact probably makes him seem more peculiar than he really was.

All of his peculiarities, many of which he was not conscious of, were the results of Calvinistic ideas. We readily recognize the close resemblance between his peculiarities and those of the clergy of the Calvinistic denominations of to-day. Probably his greatest peculiarity was his ambition to do things which were not especially assigned to him. He was truly "cumbered about many things," and whsn his neighbors' cats and dogs were fighting, he undoubtedly did his share in separating them. His innumerable outside activities kept him so busy that he could not visit the sick people in his congregation.

He solved this problem by dividing the congregations into three parts and placing a dependable man in charge of each section. He supplied his assistants with copies of A Visit of Advice to Families

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Visited with Sickness, which they in turn distributed to the families where sickness occurred. He recorded tliis in his diary as his own method. He referred to sickness very much in his diary. One explanation for this is that he was proud to be a physician. although we have no reason to believe that he was not sincere in his writings about his wife's sickness and death. He was very much in favor of inoculation for smallpox, although most of the people at that time opposed it and actually thought it to be the basest form of witchcraft and wholly against the Bible. We find in his diary that several of his children were sick with the smallpox. Cotton Mather was 'known to contradict himself, and this is a good example. He demanded inoculation of the members of his congregation, yet only one of his children was inoculated; the rest became sick, which fact he only lamented in his diary.

Upon reading his diary, a person can hardly avoid thinking that Cotton Mather tried to show himself as a man of prayer and fasting.

He recorded that the day following the completion of a book or some other work was spent fasting and thanking God. This gives us the impression that he liked to be heard as the Pharisees did when they prayed.

No wonder he was unable to visit the sick!

I The stand Cotton Mather took in regard to witchcraft is very interesting.

In spite of the fact that he took care of several people with weak minds in his own house and tried to cure them, he sanctioned the executions of many so-called witches. He wrote much about witch trials; he did not, however, give us the proceedings of the trials, he merely tried to justify them. These trials were a direct outgrowth of Calvinistic ideas. Similar trials were held in Geneva many years before. The first "witch" to be executed in Salem was Bridget Bishop. She was a woman about sixty years old, operating a roadhouse with her husband. This was not a respectable occupation and most likely caused suspicion. William Gemmill has the exact data of several trials in his book, The Salem. W;;'ch Tr-als, In each trial several persons testified against the accused. In Bridget's trial a committee of women first examined her to see whether she had any marks of the devil on her, The judge then questioned her, and this was the only chance given her to prove herself innocent. William Stacy was the first to accuse her. He related th'" story how fourteen years ago she had given him three pence for some work and how, immediately after, they disappeared from his pocket.

He also said that he had seen her at the foot of his bed, and that he actually believed her to have caused his daughter's death. When he had finished his accusations, Samuel Gray began. His accusations were much the same as Stacey's.

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and maintained that she was instrumental in the death of his daughter.

Sam Shaltoch, another accuser, testified that Bridget often came to his house to buy a hog, but that he had refused to make a deal. The oftener she came the more ailing his oldest child became. He testified that his child often fell down in the presence of Bridget for no apparent reason whatsoever.

The child later became insane, and \ this, naturally, was also held against Bridget. John Lauder was next to receive permission to pour out his accusations.

He briefly stated that he had quarreled with Bridget about seven years ago. His accusation was that she had come to his room the same night of the quarrel and tried to strangle him. After freeing himself, he found nothing in his room but a pig which suddenly disappeared as he approached it.

These testimonies were followed by many others of the same nature-simple, weird and unbelievable. The remarkable thing is that all the accusers, with the exception of one, related incidents which were supposed to have happened .from six to fourteen years before the time of tile trial. If Bridget Bishop was a witch, why was she not convicted at an earlier date? We know that writers of the Puritan age exaggerated very much. Taking this to be a reflection of the spirit of the people, we have the right to believe that these stories were grossly exaggerated and that the accusers "played safe" by relating stories which were supposed to have happened years ago so that no one could disprove them-the accused was not even given a chance.

Thus Bridget Bishop was sentenced to be hanged, to which event her husband followed her gladly. In one of his books Cotton Mather tells us that a crashing noise was heard in the church immediately before her execution, and they later found that a timber had moved itself from one side of the church to the other.

Cotton Mather had two mottoes. One was "Be short."

This, however, was intended for his friends that they might not waste any of his precious time. The other motto was, "Be fruitful."

This was meant for himself, and no one can say that he did not live up to his motto even though some of his ideas were wrong.

Cotton Mather's last days were full of sorrow and grief.

He had been married three times and was the father of fifteen children, some of whom caused him an unusual amount of trouble. His greatest ambition-that of becoming president of Harvard-was not granted him. In death he again contradicted himself by saying, "My last enemy has come; I would say my best friend." Immediatelyafterwards his contemporaries said that "the principal ornament of this country and the greatest scholar ever bred in it" had died.

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THE COLLEGE HERO He struts about the college campus and classroom with his gorgeous, shining "B" so conspicuously sewed on the front of his collegiate-looking sweater. All must bow before this almighty king of accomplishments; some willingly, some unwillingly. His worshippers stand in awe of him; his scorners scoff behind his back. Those who would be his loyal subjects must show their great admiration for their hero; they must let no one speak ill of him, and they must defend him at all times and in all places.

These humble, silent devotees are always faithful.

Their blind admiration for their hero will lead them to untold sacrifices. They will do anything his heart desires.

He is their royal monarch, and his word is law. There is no one in college who can surpass their god on the football field.

Of all the skilled, swift gridiron stars participating in the season's football games, their hero is the one who is the swiftest and the most skilled. The game is being played by him, and by him alone.. The other players are only there to assist him if he should need assistance.

Noone can take his honors from him in basketball. The same thing is true of our hero here. Does he not make the best plays?

Aren't most of his swan-like shots due to his miraculous agility and nimbleness? And isn't the high score always because of him? Certainly!

It would be folly to argue that point.

I have already mentioned the scoffers. Yes, of course, there are those who are exceedingly jealous of our hero's fine physique. His athletic form! What wouldn't they give to possess one only one third as imposing as his! That finely developed figure! Theirs seem to be dwarfed statures when compared to his. Some are envious because of his extreme popularity among the students.

But I wonder whether these scoffers are just a little bit justified in their feelings toward the star athlete. It is, of course, purely human nature to become jealous, but doesn't it really "get" you when you see a person who spent all his time at college playing football and basketball walk around with the air of being the possessor of the earth and the other eight planets?

Countless numbers of students have gone to college, studied extremely hard, gained an education, and gone out into the world and helped make it a better place in which to live.. They went to college with the sole aim in view to prepare themselves for life and its problems. Theirs was a serious task to them, and they fulfilled it faithfully and well.

Not so with the college hero. His glamorous life is shortlived like the gorgeous butterfly that comes into this world arrayed in beautiful colors. He has attained wonderful

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honors while at college, but of what good are these honors when he gets out into the busy work-a-day world and is . called upon to use his brains and judgment?

There are not those among the hard-headed business men who will overlook his inadequacy in the office because he at one time managed to save the good name of his dear college in a tough football game. Oh, no, such will never be the case. What are four, swift passing years in college when compared with the long span of life stretching out before him? They may as well not have been lived for all the good the college hero derives from them.

It really is unfair to criticize too harshly the poor athletes, for they have truly worked hard and faithfully to get 'their letter in basketball, football, or whatever it may have been. They have sacrificed hours of leisure for the steady grind of football practice or the tiring work on the track.

Not many of our stalwart sons could stand up under the heavy routine our heroes are obliged to go through.

Most of them never attempt it for the mere. simple reason that it's too hard work. All this tremendous labor doesn't, however, excuse the athlete from doing his school work. If he comes to college, he should be prepared to study some of the time, at least. Otherwise, why come? Hadn't he better stay at home and give a more studious person his place in the school's enrollment?

We cannot very well argue that a college curriculum should be entirely devoid of athletic activities.

No, athletics should be there-after the studying is over. A little football and little basketball afford just the proper amount of exercise for the player and just enough entertainment for the onlooker. Life preaches moderation to us from all angles, but in a modern American college it should be preached much more clearly and emphatically.

W. F. G. '32

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Volume XXII

December 1931

No.2

EDITORIAL STAFF ME'ILAHN ZAHN, Editor-in-Chief R. BEHMIDR,Business Manager G. BOOCK,Alumni Notes A. LOBER, Asst. Bus. Mgr. ARDELLA DAHMS, Co-ed Notes ARTHUR MEIER, Asst. Bus. Mgr. FREnEIRIC MANTHEY, Locals VERA HAFENSTEIN, Exchange GERALD BECKER, Athletics ELEANOR LAHMAN, CoIl.Notes ADOLF WlLBRECHT, Jokes

EDITORIAL

• REJOICE

"Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion; shout, O,d'aug'hter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee." .Tndeed, how greatly should we not rejoice over the advent of our King and Savior into this world. Through Him we

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have salvation. What a consoling message 'in these days of temporal and spiritual depression. Let us truly rejoice and spread the glad tidings. Let us sing .psalms of praise to the Creator for that great gift which He has given us. It is to the lowly Christ-child lying in the manger at Bethlehem that we turn especially during the Christmas season.

The message of peace which He brings is ever a source of comfort and joy. Therefore we can truly rejoice and sing praises. It is in this spirit of rejoicing that the Messenger wishes its dear readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

GOSSIP Whenever. we hear the word, gossip, we usually picture to ourselves two garrulous old women carrying on a tete-atete over the fence in the back yard, about everybody else's business but their own. True, there are women who enjoy nothing better than to gibble-gabble their time away in spiteful gossip. Nevertheless, it is unfair to limit our accu- . sation to the women alone. Nearly every person is guilty of gossiping; only some people are worse gossips than others, and women are not the worst ones by any means. Take, for example, those ever-present groups of men congesting the traffic in front of every pool hall in town. They can't talk about the present conditions of unemployment and the depression hour after hour, and in time even the topic of the absurdity of women's fashions becomes exhausted, so eventually they resort to this same cheap gossip which they so severely condemn in the opposite sex. For a further example that males are not insusceptible to gossip, observe that conclave of students which daily assembles behind the showwindow in Muesing's Drug Store for the purpose of doing a peculiar kind of "window shopping." Each male takes his post at such a place where, unobserved, he may get an unobstructed view of all the pedestrians passing the store.

Along comes a pretty, well-dressed, young lady. Like a flash, those heads behind the show-window bob together, and, out of their muffled conversation, an occasional audible murmur or giggle betrays that those boys are talking about something more interesting than the skull cap with a feather on it which is supposed to serve as the young lady's hat.

Then, along comes another fair maiden. The spectators again go into a huddle, and after each has voiced his opinion or passed some remark about the object of his inspection, they separate and wait for the next victim. And so far into the afternoon.

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We girls must live up to our reputation, so we occasionally take time to indulge in a little gossiping too. Our themes, however, differ from those of the boys. We seldom choose the opposite sex as the topic for our chats. We like to discuss interesting subjects, such as the latest fashions, our school work, some .amusing books we have read, and other harmless topics of that sort.

- Gossip mayor may .not be harmless.

When two persons, naturally endowed-with the "gift of gab" prattle away an afternoon in -idle talk just because they like to hear their own voices, perhaps the only result is that Mrs. Brown on her way home says to herself, "My, but that Mrs. Smith is some chatter-box 1" And Mrs. Smith that same evening says to her husband, "Mrs. Brown surely can talk! J couldn't get a word in edgewise all afternoon."

On the other hand, gossip may bring about evil results. Many an innocent person's reputation has been ruined by a mere bit of gossip spread by a scandalmonger.

When I was a little girl, there was one house which I dreaded to enter. In it lived three women, and if at any time their conversation varied from the most spiteful type of gossip, I do not recall it. I am quite certain that prejudices which I still possess against some individuals are the direct product of that house. I know of a certain community where gossiping is: carried on to such an extent that it is unsafe to tell vour neighbor that you are not feeling good. By the time' this piece of information has made the rounds in the neighborhood and everyone has embellished upon it, you are deathly sick and preparations for your funeral are being made.

After all, gossip and prittle-prattle of all sort are a confession of a narr~w mind and horizon. Great and important people find no time for idle talk. It is the little people who gossip.

L. R. '33

EDUCATION AS THE CURE-ALL There is only one way in which this world can be made a better place to live in. Educate the people to think, to respond, and to act along proper lines. When all are properly educated, then, and then alone cart we hope for a modern Utopia. Such words reach our ears frequently.

Many of our educators believe that evil can be swept from this country by providing more and better education. Most of our psychologists, denying the existence of the soul, still hope to educate the material being in such a manner that it will think and act as the best standards demand. Our sec-

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tarian ministers preach the reformation of man by law.

They believe that laws will accomplish almost everything.

Had they lived in Paradise, they surely would have urged a law against the eating of apples. Yet when these promoters of Calvinism find that laws do not accomplish what was expected, instead of admitting defeat, they try to cover their errors by declaring that man must be educated along such lines. Then all will be well.

Itis difficult to understand why education should be so greatly abused. Everyone who has any power for reasoning ought to be able to see the' folly of such attempts to make education a cure-all. At every turn the futile results of such education' as is implied above are evident. How about war? There are thousands whoare declaring that in order to abolish war the people must be instructed as to the values of peace. Teach the masses the glories of peace instead of the glories of war, and all will be cured. Let the ideals of harmony in thought and feelings prevail in our educational system, and there can be no more war. Establish universal customs and create unity in spirit among the various nations, and war will be an impossibility. Upon first thought this may sound plausible. But, really, how foolish! We know that as long as the world exists there will be sin, and as long as there is sin there will be war. All attempts to abolish war by education will prove a gross folly.

How many people actually desire war anyway? Invariably the masses do not. Wars are generally fought because of those whose policies are dictated by wealth. They are not concerned about results. They only serve the interests of their own fortunes.

Hence education can prove no more beneficial in eradicating wars than have the Kellogg Peace Pact and the League of Nations. The diminishing power of each. of these is quite evident to-day. Actions for peace are being taken, it is true, but these are incomparable with those actions carried on in Manchuria.

Another cry that is now so frequently heard is that demand for education as a factor in counteracting the present crime wave .. Again these cries are made right and left in the face of facts which prove the impossibilities of such attempts.

How it is possible for educators to say that education will stop crime is beyond comprehension. All statistics will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it is the educated person who is the criminal to-day. It would be impossible to suspect an ignoramus's being guilty of the majority of to-day's crimes. Such complex thought is required in most of the criminal acts that only the schooled person is capable of committing them. And even though the crime is frequently within the capabilities of an unschooled person, how about the millions of dollars that are taken annual-

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ly by the schooled, well-dressed, swivel-chair man who schemes and plans ways of beating the unsuspecting public?

And all this is done in the midst of an ever-increasing educational program.

Thus education is abused. It is heralded as the one and only means for curbing evils. War, gross crime, drunkenness, yea, even careless driving-all are looking to education as the savior. No problem is too big to be solved by education. Neither is there any too small. It almost seems too bad that the possibilities of education were not recognized centuries ago. Perhaps we should now be living .in a heaven on earth.

It has not been my contention to disparage the value of education in the least. Truly, education, when carried on properly, offers marvelous benefits. But therein lies the snare. The education which is offered the multitudes today is far from satisfactory.

It produces a polished veneer, but beneath that polish there lies a heart filled by nature with all the vices of the world, with all the lusts of the flesh, and with all the sins of the devil. Unless education is centered about, and based on, Christ, the one and only Savior of the world, it can accomplish nothing worth while. And even then, who would attempt to maintain that all that has been said of education as a factor in abolishing war and crime would be accomplished? We know that as long as there is sin, there will be crime. Nevertheless, a Christian education is the one and only means of truly counteracting the power of sin. In it. we have the "one thing needful."

Through it alone can we hope to make man better, for only when the heart is changed is anything worth while accomplished.

Therefore let us be up and doing. Let us provide schools where the youth can be educated-schools which are dominated by the spirit of Christ. And let us not look foolishly upon this education as a cure-all for every ailment.

Let us rather consider it as the means of teaching that salvation wrought by the Almighty Himself. When this salvation becomes the guiding power of man's actions, then the true cure-all has been found. And then alone can we hope for improvements in the morals of our people.

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ALUMNI

ALUMNI Do ten! Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller, who reside at Redfield, S. D., on August 2, became the parents of a baby boy, Robert Frederick by name. Mrs. Miller was known as Laura Meyer at D. M. L. C., having been a member of the class of '25.

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Had you heard that another Robert Frederick entered this world of ours? Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilhite (nee Gertrude Rauschke) of Sleepy Eye claim him.

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And the Reverend and Mrs. Schlavensky of Denmark, Wisconsin, have also had an addition to their family. Norma Jean, born September 26, has made them happy parents.

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To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hackbarth living- at Mission, South Dakota, was born Charlotte Ruth on November 18.

Mrs. Hackbarth was Emma Roeder before her marriage.

On August 2, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Waidelich (nee Arline Tetzlaff).

On September 20 occurred a pretty fall wedding at Vesta, Minnesota. Viola Kremin, class of '29, was led down the aisle to become the bride of Reuben Grell forever and .aye. They have started housekeeping at Garner, Iowa.

Theodore Lau, '26, teaching at Green Bay, Wisconsin, is now classed under the. ever-increasing number of husbands.

On August 15, Theodore and Viola Dahlke of Belle Plaine, Minnesota, were united in marriage.

Oho! we've nearly forgotten to mention the wedding of our good friend Laura Kreutzfeldt.

It took quite a time until we were accustomed to speak of her as Mrs. A. Westendorf. The ceremony took place on August 31.

And here's just a last year's graduate that's done got himself married, too. Harold Kutz brought with him to Claremont, Minnesota, as his newly wedded wife, Cecelia Brose.

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Now that we've discussed the new babies and the new married folks, let's talk about visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Zeitz visited us this fall. "Floppy" brought Helen to see her parents, and during their stay.at New VIm, they renewed old acquaintances' at college. Armin Schmidt, who teaches at Gibbon, Minnesota, was here several times in the last months. Mildred Scharf left her duties at Boyd, Minnesota, so that she could say "hello" to the old bunch again.

She stayed over the week end and when we on Monday again trudged to school,. we thought that she too would be busy teaching the A, B, C's. To our surprise she still was at New VIm, but she solved the puzzling problem for us by informing us of the potato picking day which was to be on that Monday. "Mil" was here over the Thanksgiving holidays, also.

Mrs. Gustav Gehlhar, nee Margaret Klug, has not settled down as housewife. She is teaching school in a wealthy district of San Francisco, where her husband has a position as pastor.

The death of Irene Mathews was sad news to all those that knew her. She passed away in June at Orange, California. but the remains were interred in the Fairmont cemetery, Minnesota. The cause of her demise was said to be cancer.

On November 15, Traugott Zuberbier was married to Laura Heinemann. Congratulations.

EXCHANGE The EXCHANGE column in the D. M. L. C. Messenger has a twofold purpose. First of all, it is to serve as a criticism of other school papers. We offer favorable criticism. and perhaps at some time we shall offer constructive criti-

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cism. All of our criticism is given simply with the idea of helping the different staffs in their work, and we expect that in return they will offer criticism of our paper also. The second purpose of this column is to put before our own students sentiments expressed in the various papers we receive, which apply to our own conditions as well as those of the school putting them forth. With this in mind, let us read the EXCHANGE notes.

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Would that we could impress this on the minds of all our students: "Chapel is a time for meditation and devotion and not a time for the exchange of the latest news items or to share the choicest bits of gossip which would have been much more beneficial if immediately surrendered to the realms of the forgotten."-The Concordian, Moorhead, Minn.

I should like to add that the morning devotion should not be replaced by one's concentrating his attention on something he has forgotten to prepare previous to the classes that are to follow. What good will that extra glance at the material actually do one? Let us begin our work intently devout toward God.

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The Concordia Courier is truly a school publication, for it presents only local happenings and helpful advice to its students.

It appears eleven times during the year. Thus .far I have found no publication delivering only school happenings in such an interesting manner. What would a publication like our own school paper, Northwestern's Black and Red, or The Concordia Comet look like if those promising "studes" would publish it? If this interest is any indication of their future work of interesting passing pedestrians in the simple truths of the Gospel, their successes will be manifold. Keep up the good work!

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Freedom of Speech "Freedom of speech is every human being's God-given heritage.

But some students seem to think otherwise. Instead of respecting a man for expressing his opinion (whether or not it agrees with theirs makes not a particle of difference), they ridicule and boo him, particularly if it is a bit of common sense that goes against their grain.

Such booing is despicable to say the least. If you have a worth while. common sense opinion, express it after you have asked for the floor. Otherwise remain quiet, and listen to others with the aim of forming an opinion." -The Spectator, River Forest, Ill.

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Excelsior!

It is the aim of the editorial staff of the Black and Red to make its production as interesting as possible. This is the aim of our staff also. The plan of the Black and Red is to add a column bearing the title "Forum" or "Student Opinion." Doubtless, such a column would be interesting, but adding such a column would just add another part to the paper. We are striving for interest in a different way, and that is how to make the columns we have more interesting. A great share of our student body is inclined to think that the D. M. L. C. Messenger is a "staff production" and so we have difficulty in getting individual contributions.

We know that there are capable people among us!

I fear that such a column (applying it to our problem) would not pan out so well. Perhaps The Black and Red is. free from the above. mentioned hindrance. We would appreciate suggestions to stimulate a student interest in our school paper.

CONCERTS "That music was simply exquisite!" was one of the .nany compliments paid to Mr. Harry Farbman.the American violinist, who appeared iri a .concert at our college auditorium on October 30. We must not overlook Mr. Melvin Zeidler, his accompanist, who displayed some very fine talent at the piano. The program was as follows: I Sonata No. I, opus 8 : Allegro con brio Allegretto quasi andantino Allegro molto vivace Messrs. Farbman and Zeidler

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II Symphonic Expagnole Allegro non troppo Andante Rondo

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III Andante Cantabile Tambaurin Chinois Berceuse Dance of the Goblins

Tschaikowsky-Auer Kreisler Paul Juon Bazzini

The second concert at D. M. L. C. for its students' and the public was an organ recital by the well-known Mr. Edward Rechlin on November 9. His recital was of special interest to us, because he makes it his aim to render only Lutheran church music. This program consisted 'of numbers by Bach and his contemporaries.

The improvisations on "Nun ruhen alle Walder" and "Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland" were enjoyed very much.

Mr. Rechlin is a graduate of the Concordia Teachers College at River Forest, Illinois, and has studied music under famous artists abroad. The fact that he just returned from a European tour made us doubly eager to hear his music. Hearing such inspiring organ music has its value especially in a college of our kind. We may at first feel as though we could never become the organists we should in order to fill our positions as parochial school teachers. No, we cannot all be great organists, but we can strive for a higher goal and thus improve the standard of our work.

* * * Literary Societies Both the Phi Delta Sigma and the Phi Gamma Rho societies have again begun their literary work. The former society gave the first program of this school year, on November 14. It is their aim to give programs which carry out one central idea. The theme of their first program was "The Civil War," which included the slave question, the life of the negro, Abraham Lincoln and his part in this war, an outline of the important generals and their battles, and a short sketch of the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the influence of her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Swanee River sung by a boys' quartet, and "The Stars and Str.pes Forever, rendered as a duet, added to the program.

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The Phi Gamma Rho presented its first program November 28. It is also their aim to carry out a definite theme in .their programs.

"The Development of the Lutheran Church in America," the topic which was carried out by means of speeches and playlets, included the church's lowly beginning, the signing of the Augsburg Confession, Roger Williams and the Puritans, the ministers and their part in the American Revolution, the founding of Concordia College, and the present extent of the church. Music, in the spirit of the program, helped the carrying out of the theme.

On Reformation Sunday, November 1, the college choir, assisted by a children's choir of St. Paul's parochcial school, sang Reuter's Jubelgesang zum Reformations Jubilaeum. a composition based on Luther's choral, "Ein Feste Burg."

Professor C. L. Schweppe attended the Wisconsin State Teachers' Conference at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, November , 4 and 5. The attendance numbered about 225, which number included a goodly number of pastors. Some of D. M. L. C. graduates who took part in the program were A. Wilbrecht, Kurt Oswald, and Ernst Krause. The two important topics under discussion were: a uniform report card for Wisconsin schools; the appointment of a school visitor.

Professor E. E. Kowalke, president of Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin, read a paper on Defeatism; Professor C. Schweppe read Other Schools-Are They Better Than Ours?; and the Reverend E. Reim read By-Producls of Religious Instruction.

Divine services were held on Thursday evening. The Reverend L. Koeninger of Manitowoc delivered the sermon, and the teachers' choir sang a selection.

We are sure that not one of those who heard The Friar of Wittenberg, as presented by Mr. W. C. Gran, regretted it. lt brought back to our memories the events of the Reformation and the wonderful manner in which God used Luther to bring about His desired end. The fact that Mr. Gran is blind caused us to appreciate his reading so much more.

Mr. Gran was assisted by the Small Choir. Following is the program as presented: The Friar of Wittenberg William Stearns Davis Presented by Walter C. Gran Time Place

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Nicolaus Amsdorf..

Friends of Luther Adolf Servant of the Lord of Regenstein Ilsa : Countess di Blankenburg Marianna Daughter of Cardinale di Forli

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"The just shall live by faith."

A Crown of Grace

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ACT II "The deed brave and holy that was to shake the world."

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Motette zum Weihnachtsfeste

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ACT III "Unless I am convinced by Scripture that I have erred, I cannot and will not recant."

Smiles? more than you could count. It really was a shame that a photographer wasn't on hand! The cause is easy to guess. Our faculty attended the Delegate Conference held at Sleepy Eye on November 4, and consequently, the students had a free day. And, now, the faculty can rightfully say, "Don't ever say we didn't give you anything."

The Sophomores started the "party ball" rolling this .year. It seems as though they simply couldn't wait until Thanksgiving for their turkey, so on November 22 they introduced him-don't get jealous, he was only a picture on a paper napkin!

And likewise, the I Normals thought that Santa Claus should favor them with an early visit, so they had a Christmas party on December 6 and invited him. Not such a bad idea, they thought, to get on the "good side" of him before December 25.

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The Christmas

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Our Christmas program, to be given on Thursday evening, December 17, follows here: 1.

Chorus:

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Die Weihnachtsgeschichte Reuter Vortrag: Gilbert Timm Piano: Emanuel Arndt Orgel: Meilahn Zahn Chor

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Versammlung: Kommt und lasst uns Christum ehren Orgel: Henry Gruenhagen

Es waren Hirten auf dem Felde Orgel: Meilahn Zahn

Thou Holy Night Meilahn Zahn

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Motette zum Weihnachtsfeste ..A. Mendelssohn Choral Choral und Engelgesang Wiegenlied Die Weisen vom Morgenlande-Choral Beschluss

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Versammlung : Von Himmel hoch da komm ich her Orgel: Lester Raabe

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Address:

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Choir: Unto Us a Christ is Born-Christmas of the XIV Century

Professor Victor Voecks

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Now Raise Your Happy Voices Organ i Victor Lehmann

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Emanuel Arndt In this Day, 0 Lord

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0 du froehliche Orgel: Erich Sievert

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D. M. L. C. students and many others had the opportunity to hear a most interesting and inspiring lecture given by a negress, Miss Rosa Young, who is a missionary among her own people in the black belt of Alabama. She told us of her life and of the mission work which is being done in Alabama by our Lutheran church, of the schools and churches, many of which were established by herself. She gave us a brief sketch of the lowly life which the negroes live, and told us how thankful they are to those who have taught them to know their Savior and what He has done' for them.. . .

Miss Young is a well-educated woman. Besides spending her entire life thus far for the welfare of her people, she has written several books. In A Light in the Dark Belt, she relates the story of her life, and the hardships and struggles which she endured in her endeavor to bring the Gospel to the negroes.

We were very fortunate to hear Miss Young, for she is laboring under ill health. May God preserve her health, so that she may carryon her wonderful work.

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Since the last issue of the Messenger, our co-ed list has increased with the arrival of Ruth Riess, whose parents have recently moved to New VIm. Although our Thanksgiving recess extended over only one day, many of the students were fortunate enough to snend the day with relatives or friends nearby. Thanks to kind friends in the congregation, those who remained here did not miss out on the usual feast.

The official observer of time is Henriette Johnson. She informed us on Nov. 23 that there were 24 days left until Christmas vacation. We have heard that some people study 'the dictionary, but she studies the calendar and can tell us the exact time of the rising and setting of the sun.

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Hildegard Paap spent a week end with her friend, Emma Loeslin at Ceylon, Minn.

Beata and Leona Lemke informed us that they had attended only half a dozen weddings this fall. Some people seem to have all the luck! Eldred Luehmann was fortunate enough to accompany them to one of the festivals.

Beata Lemke, Gretchen Kelpe, Thelma Boernecke, and Beata .Moldenhauer received a bright idea one day and decided to have a bacon fry at Dog's Back. Although they had no water at hand and had to stay about an hour extra. stamping out the fire, they said that it was just "oodles" of fun.

Hildegard Paap, Vera Lawrenz, and Hilda Bartels scent the first week end in November at the home of Florence Raddatz at Clements, Minn.

The Misses Schumacher, Schuetze, Paap, and von Stein helped Edna Deibert celebrate her birthday at a dinner party given in her honor by Ruth Seehusen.

A number of the dormitory girls, chaperoned by Prof.

Voecks, went hiking a few Sundays. One of these events proved rather exciting. To get a good laugh, just picture "Katy" Kent sitting in the woods, holding a gunny sack open and patiently waiting for snipes to enter. "Katy" had the last laugh, however, for after she had carefully carried the bag all the way back to the dormitory, she, with pride, displayed a snipe-in the form of a sparrow.

Here's a good example of college sleepiness. When Betty Robisch and Gertrude Vog-elarose one morning. they found, to their surprise, that their clock was 5 minutes early. They therefore went back to bed to get their full hours' beauty sleep. The next day they were grumblingly complaining, however, that they had to use most of those precious minutes to get in and out of bed.

A number of Eleanor Lahmann's friends eagerly hurried to her room on the evening of Oct. 13 to help her celebrate her birthday.

Is it any wonder that they were so eager to go? Why, of course not, for they had already seen the delicious chicken which she had promised to serve them at that time .

Superstition has not been entirely banished even in this enlightened century. For example, among the inmates of the girls' dormitory there are still many who are having their fortunes told by a method known as "sleeping on wedding cake" -even "Shorty" and "Connie" were guilty of this! •

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On Oct. 30, the girls at Redekers' Hall received their annual Hallowe'en supper, given by Mrs. Redeker. It must have been quite a feast, for the entire next day the girls had no appetite whatsoever.

On Nov. 22, Ruth Larson, Ruth Seehusen, and Oliva Stindt accompanied Prof. Leverson to Hanska, Minn., where they spent the day at the Larson home.

Bacon frys are seemingly becoming quite popular. Ano .her group of girls had one in the basement of the dormitory. At this one Eleanor Lahmann helped eat 2 pounds of bacon, and still she is wondering why she doesn't get fat.

Surely the evil spirits reigned supreme and created great havoc at the girls' dormitory on Hallowe'en night.

Beds were upset, and all the private property which was not under the bath tub, in waste paper baskets, under the beds and dressers, or hanging outside of windows was in its proper place. .

Lydia Rudolph had the opportunity to go to her home for Thanksgiving.

She was lucky enough to get permission to stay there until Sunday-but dare we say lucky? "Lyd" said that she considered herself rather unlucky, for she had to spend most of the time in the dentist's chair.

Oliva Stindt had the misfortune to sprain her ankle so severely by falling on the slippery floor of the girls' room one day, that she was obliged to walk on crutches for a few weeks. The fact that she was transferred up and down the hill every day, however, was of some consolation to her and made her grin and bravely bear her suffering.

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Thanksgiving is a thing of the past, yet the memory lingers on. To SOmestudents that fact is more pronounced than to others. Again the college students enjoyed delicious meals on Thanksgiving.

We all wish to express our appreciation to the kind donors in our St. Paul's congregation.

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The literary season has opened .. In other words, it has "started to begin to commence to make an Anfang" in their diligent practice. Both societies are showing. marked enthusiasm for literary work.

Ooooooooooh!

The football season is but a fond memory to mariy.

Especially so to the members of the III Normal class who completed their career as football "heroes" at D. M. L. C. May their example spur others on to work hard for a "Bigger .and B~tter" football season next year.'. !

Hinz waited until after the football season to have his tonsils. removed. Probably Leo felt that in weight he could not 'spare even so small a thing as a tonsil.. Maybe so r The tenth grade had a class party. Outside of the fact that "Rolly" Guenther suffered from another spasm of "oratorical hash," all had a good time. No harm meant, Roland.

Hallauer and E. Eggert believe that sweeping halls is a good cure for what's going to ail anyone.

For further particulars send inquiries to Hallauer-Eggert Company.

Ihlenfeldt and Wiechmann were absent from our midst for time. The former was in Wisconsin and the latter in Illinois. Wedding ceremonies attracted both of them.

Both returned none the worse for the experience.

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"Schimmel" had difficulty in setting a date for Thanksgiving. He wished to know whether it was on a Sunday .this year.

Hallowe'enis' a time for hilarity.

Prof. Sauer realized that fact. Following his suggestion, the boys of the dormitory enjoyed a wiener roast on that night.

Why!?

The Michigan boys have been carrying a broad grin on their faces ever since the Minnesota-Michigan football game.

We wonder why? What is the reason, Roekle and Wacker?

Timm, no doubt, has felt the urge of outside influence.

He "installed" a set of curtains in his room. Probably that accounts for a part of the many visitors he has. How about it, Gilbert?

Weyland seems elated over his new band instrument.

Judging from the sound of things, he seems to think himself the trumpeter on the wall.

Erich Sievert believes in keeping up with the times.

He had his tonsils. removed. Twins usually wish to be as much alike as possible. Not so with Erich's brother, Richard. He believes in keeping what belongs to him.

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Arndt's interests are numerous. At present, however, he is giving his attention to a pet mouse. He doesn't' intend to kill it, because he believes in the survival of the fittest. Don't give in to the mouse, Emanuel.

In terms of astrology, Norbert Berndt was born under the wrong constellation. Old "Mis-Fortune" has been hounding him for some time. He went home to recover from an injury received in a .fall. We wish him a speedy recovery.

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When in precarious position, never say "Oh Yea." If you don't believe it, ask Schlenner.

Grenz was away from the dormitory for a few days.

He attended the funeral of his grandfather.

Bade has difficulty in differentiating between bread and meat and potatoes .. Absentmindedly he held his bread in one hand and poured the "kniep" over his meat and potatoes.

The Marlut Singers made their first appearance of the year in the literary program presented by the Phi Gamma Rho Society. They also assisted at the concert given by the New DIm Symphony Orchestra.

The I Normals were guests of Louise Bauman on Hal'lowe' en. Everyone seems to have enj oyed himself im mensely. .

Due to the fact that Jacobs lost his patience, his "patent-leather" hair-comb has been undisturbed for some time.

Nevertheless beware Roland.

Beware!

Huhn and Koepsell, no doubt, believe that there is a time for work and a time for play. Their play time may correctly be called "strummin' time." The banjo and ukulele duets resound through the halls of the dormitory quite frequently.

Up to the present, the boys have been unmolested in their "play."

Speaking of instruments, we must not forget our "moaning" saxophones. Judging from the sound, Schulz and Gruenhagen have some very sick patients on their hands.

Now that the football season has come to a close, most of the boys are interested in basketball. Coach Voecks is busy with his basketball squad. The other boys are diligently practicing for the coming class games.

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Taking into consideration various happenings dormitory, the following sign should be put up:

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Those who are troubled with "night mares" will find a halter at the foot of their bed.

That has not been done as yet. Consequently, we have witnessed several cases of somnambulism. Martin Birkholz made a futile search under his bed for his Latin books. A diligent student, indeed! Wantoch, probably realizing the need of newspapers in the dormitory, came down the hall with his quilt under his arm ready to sell papers. His patrons were few, so he went back to bed. He doesn't seem to have suffered any ill effects from his experience.

During the past months, Frank Redeker, has visited the dormitory several times. He is now "teecher" in St. James, Minnesota.

Rumors are about that a bright future is in store for Duehlmeier in the scientific field. He already has the record for breaking test tubes and other minor laboratory apparatus.

The Greek division of the twelfth grade enjoyed a wiener roast given by Prof. Schaller several weeks ago.

Hormann's phonograph is again in working condition.

No doubt, we shall be entertained again in the future.

Tiefel is very forgetful.

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FOOTBALL The 1931 football season of D. M. L. C. closed Nov. 11.

Although the team did not have much success in winning games, it improved very much over that of last year. This only being the second season of football at our institution, a great deal could not be expected. The boys did not get the experience they need for a winning team, because only a few games were available. The team did not get going until the last game, when it lost to a stronger team which it outplayed. Coach Voecks did very well under present conditions, and we believe that he will turn out a winning team in the near future.

St. Paul Luther 54-D. M. L. C. 0 On Oct. 3, the D. M. L. C. boys played the first game of the season against the St. Paul Luther team at St. Paul.

Only a few players of the entire D. M. L. C. team had participated in a real game before. They lacked confidence, and when the St. Paul Luther team appeared on the field,

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the remammg small spark of confidence left them. The opponents were much larger and heavier. The game started with D. M. L. C. receiving the ball. The offense failed to gain ground, and the team was put on the defensive. St. Paul Luther gained almost at will, but only managed to put over one touchdown in the first quarter.

The St. Paul boys put over their second touchdown in the opening minutes of the second quarter.

After battling back and forth for some time, the D. M. L. C. opponents pushed over another touchdown. The half ended 20-0 in favor of St. Paul Luther.

The second half was more disastrous than the first for the Martin Luther boys. The St. Paul gridders kept the game in their hands and added two more touchdowns before the third quarter ended. The final period brought three more touchdowns for the Lutherites.

During the last few minutes of play the New Ulm boys staged .a short rally but the gun ended the game with the ball resting on the St. Paul 20 yard line. The final score was 54-0.

The outstanding players were Gustafson and Reiff of the St. Paul team.

Gustafson made 41 points and carried away the highest honor. The outstanding players for D. M. L. C. were Lehmann and Arras.

St. Paul Luther Albrecht Goldenman Hedberg Adams White Grabermann Lau Andersen Gustafson Pietrich Johnson

D. M. L. C.

LE................................................Meier LT G. Becker LG Huhn C............................................

Albrecht RG Grenz RT..................................................Hinz RE................................................Arras QB L. Raabe LH..........................................Lehmann RH................................................Lober FB : R. Sievert

St. Pete.r High School 18-D. M. L. C. 6 On Oct. 23, the team again journeyed away from home for a game. This time it was to St. Peter to engage the high school of that city. This game was hard fought throughout.

The D. M. L. C. boys lacked the fire and grit which a football team should have. The St. Peter team fought very hard and showed good offensive work from the very start.

They shoved over a touchdown in the first quarter.

The D. M. L.. C. boys then settled down and threatened the St. Peter goal but were unable to put over the extra push for a score.. Almost the entire second quarter was played in St. Peter territory.

The half ended 6-0 .in favor of St. Peter.

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The third quarter started with renewed determination in both teams. After an exchange of several punts and a recovery of a St. Peter fumble by D. M. L. C., Lehmann completed a pass to Lober which he then carried 30 yards for a touchdown. The try for a point failed. and now the score was tied 6 to 6. Late in the quarter, St. Peter recovered a D. M. L. C. fumble on the Ulmites 25 yard line ..

Here the quarter ended. The fourth period was disastrous to D. M. L. C. The St. Peter boys were successful in driving the ball over the goal marker for their second touchdown of the game. The extra point was missed. The score now: was 12-6 for St. Peter. The rest of the quarter was hard fought until a short punt by Lehmann was picked Up'

by Tharner of St. Peter on the D. M. L. C. 30 yard line. He then raced through the entire New DIm team for the third touchdown. The try for extra point failed again. This brought the score to St. Peter 18 and D. M. L. C. 6. Thus ended the game and another defeat for D. M. L. C. St. Peter High School Klein Toepple 'I'oepple

Quirk Engesser Lauman Essling Anderson Gresham Lindberg Frawley

D. M. L. C. LE R. Sievert LT G. Becker LG Huhn; C............................................Albrecht RG................................................Grenz RT Diersen RE..................................

Arras; QB L. Raabe RH................................................Lober LH W. Bartels FB..........................................Lehmann:

Mankato S. T. C. Freshmen 13-D.

M. L. C. 6

On Nov. 6, the D. M. L. C. football team was defeated on the home field by the Mankato State Teachers College freshmen by the score of 13-6. Expecting to meet defeat by a large score, the Lutherans, nevertheless, showed more fight than in previous games, and outplayed their heavier and more experienced opponents. Only after the D. M. L. C. substitutes entered the game, was Mankato able to' score. The game was clean, and the Mankato boys showed real sportsmanship.

In the opening minutes of the game Mankato threatened to score, but the D. M. L. C. boys tightened down and had possession of the ball most of the time during the first quarter.

They worked the ball deep into the Freshmen's territory as the quarter ended. A fumble by Lehmann in the beginning of the second period foiled a chance for the home team to score. The remaining part of the quarter found the ball resting mainly in the mid-section of the field, The half ended with the score 0-0.

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The second half started with the D. M. L. C. reserves on the field. Mankato took advantage of this and managed to put over a touchdown by virtue of a pass. The try for extra point was good. A few minutes later Willikson caught a punt and raced 40 yards .through the entire D. M. L. C. team for the second touchdown for Mankato. The try for extra point failed. Coach Voecks noticing the turn of events, immediately sent in his starting lineup and the situation was reversed. The locals took the game in hand by completing several passes. Lehman intercepted a Mankato pass on his own 38 yard line and returned the ball for 22 yards just as the quarter ended. The score at this stage of the game was 13-0 for Mankato. The fourth quarter was started with a pass by Lehmann to Bartels, who, by good running and with the help of good interference, scored the Lutherans' only touchdown. Lehmann failed to buck the line for the extra point. The last part of the game was fought very hard. The D. M. L. C. boys worked fiercely to even the score, but the game ended as three successive D. M. L. C. passes were incomplete. Final score 13-6. .

M. S. T. C. Freshmen Griep Wolf Jepson Higgins Cramblitt Cuddy Hoerr Searle Huiras Williksen Just

D. M. L. C.

LE LT LG

,

R. Sievert G. Becker Zahn C A. Meier RG E. Behrens RT Hinz RE Koepsell QB L. Raabe RH................................................ Lober LH.............................................. Roekle FB Lehmann

D. M. L. C. Reserves 6-Holy Trinity, New Ulm 6 .

The D. M. L. C. reserves ended the football season for our school by gaining a 6-6 tie with Holy Trinity of New Ulm. The score does not indicate which was the superior team. D. M. L. C. clearly outfought and outplayed their opponents and had control of the ball for the major part of the game. Several threats were made to score only to lose the ball on downs. Immediately after the kickoff D. M. L. C. filled the air with passes, many of them being incomplete.

Trinity scored in the early part of the game on an intercepted pass and a run of some 58 yards. The try for the extra point failed. At half time the score stood 6-0 in Trinity's favor.

Coach Voecks evidently gave the boys something to think about during the intermission, for they came out and

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played a much better brand of football than before. Evidence of this fact is this: the D. M. L. C. boys recovered five Trinity fumbles, besides scoring the tying counter. A long pass, Roekle to Koepsell, and several line plunges by Roekle and Manthey advanced the ball from the 40 yard line to the 1 yard line. Then Manthey carried the ball across for the lone D. M. L. C. score. Koepsell's try for the point failed.

It looked as though D. M. L. C. would score again, but they lost the ball on downs as the game ended. On the whole the game was well fought on both sides, although D. M. L. C. did have the heavier team; we must commend Holy Trinity for the scrappy well-trained team they showed themselves to be.

Coach Voecks will lose almost half of his present squad through graduation.

Those who played their last game of football for Dr. Martin Luther College are Capt. V. Lehmann, R. Sievert, G. Becker, A. Huhn, L. Raabe, M. Zahn, G.路Timm, F. Manthey, G. Koepsell, H. Gruenhagen, L. Hinz, 1. Frey, and P. Albrecht.

Something

New

For the first time in the history of D. M. L. C. the zirls participated in athletics other than the customary basketball and volleyball. Their choice was kittenball.

Professor Voecks selected six second Normal girls as captains and scheduled the 'games to be played. The captains. Edna Deibert, Vera Hafenstein, Eleanor Lahmann, Victoria Schuetze, Adelia Schumacher, and Elizabeth von Stein chose their respective teams. The games were scheduled to be played in the form of a tournament.

Edna Deibert's team, which scored the. highest, was awarded first place; Elizabeth von Stein's team was given second place; third place was awarded to Vera Hafenstein's team. The teams of Victoria Schuetze, Adelia Schumacher, and Eleanor Lahmann received fourth, fifth, and sixth places respectively.

The following is the result: Team Games Won Games Lost Deibert 5 0 Von Stein 4 1 Hafenstein , , 3 2 Schuetze 2 3 Schumacher 1 4 Lahmann 0 5 All the girls were given an opportunity to take part in kittenball, and all the classes from ninth grade to third Normal inclusive were well represented.

The girls are now practicing for the basketball tournament, which is to be staged after Christmas vacation.

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Basketball No sooner had the football season ended when Coach Voecks sounded the call for basketball recruits. About forty students reported for the preliminary work. After drilling the boys for a week, Coach Voecksreduced the number of players to twenty-five. Out of this group those who will represent our college were chosen. At this time, however, it is impossible to state a definite lineup for the five positions. .

Coach Voecks has worked hard to get his boys in trim for the first game. He has good material and we shall have an excellent group of cagers on the floor.

Veterans who have returned this year are R. Sievert, Lehmann, Bremer, Behrens, Beck, Bartels, and Wacker.

New faces most likely to be seen in the lineup are Wiechmann, Roekle,and E. Sievert. . A schedule of fifteen games has again been arranged for the D. M. L. C. squad.

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Ardella Dahms wants to know whether comes under the heading of "seat work."

punishment

Well, initiations are still in order. Did you ever hear of a "Freshie" asking the druggist for a yard of scrimmage line. No, it wasn't Katie this time. Ask Irma Engel or Helen Weyland.

We Hope So That students often do not say what they mean or mean what they say, can be seen from the following remark heard in Methods Class: "Pupils should be trained to come into the classroom with clean feet."

Teacher: "When was Moses born ?"

Pupil: (No answer.)

Teacher: "Can't you see ? Your books say 'MosesB. C. 1578.' " .

Pupil: "I thought that was his telephone number."

Lydia found the following note pinned on the door of her boarding-place: We locked the' door so nobody can get in. You'll find the key under the rug.

If a Scotchman had to settle with a waiter, he'd prefer to do it on a field of honor.

Then there was a Scotchman who told his son he had heard that Santa Claus was going to drive a bantam car this year.

Dead-beats, eh?

Vera: "When I was down in Des Moines, I saw several skulls from New VIm in the museum."

Muggie: "Did you recognize any of them T" Two-Faced Kurt Hinnenthal (at play practice): "We face the audience too much with our backs."

You will find in real life than no men cut a wider swath among the women than do the fat men.

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Physical Geography "Describe the unpleasant section of Oh-Vic-

Might Mislay the- Equator Monitor: "Why were you kept in at school?" .

Freshie: "I didn't know where the Azores were."

Monitor: "Well, in the future just remember where you put things."

SH-h-h!" .

Admiral Byrd's lectures on Antarctic life are called "astonishing."

We are told one audience was so quiet you could hear a gumdrop.

CHIVALRY (With apologies to Bennett) ,"Hats off! . .Along the street there A bunch of femmes!

Bright colored jackets Hats off!

The ladies are passing

comes Hats off, you bums! against the sky: by !

Blondes and brunettes with noses up-tiltedCan't you imagine why mere males wilted?

Hats off! .Do not talk back to a girl Unless you're "adorable" and your hair has a curl.

Men of backbone, hair filled with greaseMarch of a strong sex's swift decrease.

Equal justice, right, and lawDoes anyone here still believe that old saw?

Rights of the women, great and strong To ward their sex from ungentlemanly wrong.

Pride, and snobbishness of her kind, Live in woman's privilege to change her .mind.

Hats off!

Along the street there comes A whiff of perfume! Hats off, you bums, Disgruntled male voices say with a sigh: "Hats off!" ' The ladies are passing by."

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Always First With The Latest IN YOUNG MEN'S CLOTHES AND FURNISHINGS

CRONE BROS. CO. The Grand Hotel Barber Shop IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL ARNDT BROS., Proprietors

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WHEN IN NEED OF FOOTWEAR Be Sure and Call on Us We carry a complete line 0.£ men's, ladies' and children's shoe; We appreciate your business. Our prices are always the lowest, Qualitconsidered

ATHLETIC SHOES OUR SPECIALTY TRY (lUR REPAIR DEPARTMENT FOR GOOD WORK

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HIt's not what you earn that makes you rich-but what you SAVE" WE PAY 3% INTEREST ON SAVINGS Compounded Semi-Annually

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NEW ULM GREENHOUSES New UIm, Minn. - Phone 45

A. L. Kusske, M. D. Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and Fitting of Glasses

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Model Barber Shop WE ARE HERE TO PLEASE YOV!

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Wielandt & Stegeman Contractors and Builders Correspondence Solicited "'lork Done in Any Section of the Community Plans and Specifications Furnished Estimates Cheerfully Given Office 1100 Center St.

J

A. WIEDL, Proprietor

Champion Shoe Shop A Pleased Customer Is Our Best Advertisement 4.'t>

Phone 571

E. FREESE, Proprietor

Auto Glass Replaced to Order

24 So. Minn. St.

F. J . BACKER HARNESS DEALER Kwik-Pak Parcel Pest Laundry Cases Trunks, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, Purses, and Other Leather Specialties

Buy Where Tou See This Sign We are a Home Trade Store.

Owned and Operated here in . this Community. We pool our . "..-~~., buying with 500 other hard- ~.~.,..,..,~ " , ~ -=." ware stores. You buy better . because we buy better.'

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SPECIALTIES:

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Piles, Warts, Moles, Skin Cancers, etc., removed without the knife, at Office.

Special rates to Students.

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Phone 88

The Unrivaled Beauty of Brick Brick, when new, 'is beautiful Years later the softened colors are even more attracive. The natural beauty of burned clay has no equal. It defies time.

Common Brick, with colored mortar, varied bonds, or straight bond decorated with a soldier course at the base, has the unrivaled beauty of burned clay yet is low in cost.

We also manufacture Cement Drain Tile and Culverts All kinds of Faced Blocks, W'indow Sills and Caps Artstone of Every Description Flower Vases, Bird Baths, etc.

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Established 1883

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March 1832

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Where Yon Buy Quality

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CONTENTS

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LITERARY a)

Easter

Joy

2

b)

The Authorized

c)

The Southern Lyrists, Timrod, Hayne, and Lanier

d)

We Americans

11

e)

Smith

14

f)

Our National

Version

:

3

the Prevaricator Idol..

8

16

EDITORIALS a)

The New Staff

19

b)

Visiting

20

ALUMNI a)

News

21

b)

The Alumni

EXCHANGE COLLEGE CO-ED

Association

22

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NOTES

27

NOTES

30

LOCALS

32

ATH:LETICS

34

JOKES

路

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EASTER JOY While dawn's bright hues o'erspread th~ sky, Before the golden sun arose, Three sorrowing figures hurried by Towards a tomb, man's last repose.

But when they reached their journey's end, A wondrous sight did they behold; An angel did from heaven descend, 'Who glorious tidings to them told; "He whom ye seek, the tomb has left, As sages old did prophesy; To save a world of hope bereft He came to earth for men to die."

Rejoice! Death reigns supreme no more; Let all the Savior now adore!

-E. G. S. '33.

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THE AUTHORIZED VERSION or KING JAMES BIBLE "Happy, and thrice happy, hath our English nation been, since God hath given learned translators to express in our mother tongue the heavenly mysteries of His Holy Word, delivered to His church in the Hebrew and Greek languages; who although they have, in some matters of no importance unto salvation, as men been deceived; yet have they faithfully delivered the whole substance of the heavenly doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures."-Dr. Fulke.

We read that the history of the English Bible is a history of revisions, 'I'he-earliest translation of the entire Bible into the English language was by Wycliffe and his friends. Wycliffe did not translate from the original languages, however; he used the Latin version, the Vulgate.

His work contained various errors because of the faulty Latin version. The value of Wycliffe's translation lay in the fact that it gave to the common people for the first time the Bible, the Word of God. Wycliffe's first translation was copied and distributed in 1382. He and his friends busied themselves with improving and revising it again and again. About a century and a half later Tyndale gave to the English people a translation that was truly good. His aim was to make it more than a translation of a translation; he therefore used the original Hebrew and Greek texts. As guides he used the various portions of the Bible that had been translated by former English scholars, and he used the Vulgate. But he also used Luther's German Bible; it is believed that while he was in Germany he received personal help from Luther.

His first translation was published at Worms in 1525. In 1535 Miles Coverdale published at Antwerp his translation of the whole Bible. The so-called Matthew's Bible, essentially a compilation from Tyndale and Coverdale, appeared in 1537. It was prepared by John Rogers, alias Matthew. Because of the deficiencies of both the Coverdale and the Matthew version, Coverdale, at the request of Thomas Cromwell, undertook a new revision, which appeared in 1539. This became known as the Great Bible.

Then, a number of years later, Whittingham and his associates, who were English refugees in Geneva, undertook to write a revision of the Great Bible. This was published in 1560 and became known as the Geneva Bible. The Bishop's Bible, published in 1568, was another revision of the Great Bible, so-called because its revisers were bishops.

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The next and greatest of all English Bible translations was the King James Version. Its dialect was as near to men's 'minds as their own speech.

When James the Sixth of Scotland became king of England, the Great Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the Bishop's Bible were the three versions most used in England.

The Bishop's Bible was acknowledged by the authorities in Church and State. The Geneva Bible, however. was the book of the people. The Puritans had great expectations after James became king in England. Scotland's state religion was Presbyterian, and James had publicly avowed his gratitude that he belonged to the purest church in Christendom ; they therefore expected him to remove from the Established Church of England the various abuses and superstitious elements which it contained. A number of the prominent Puritans drew up a document known as the Millenary Petition and sent it to the king. It stated their. grievances and appealed for changes. Instead of granting or refusing their requests, King James made arrangements for a debate. All the leading bishops of the Established Church and the prominent clergymen. of Puritan tendencies were invited to come to Hampton Court to consider the whole ecclesiastical situation and to discuss the matters which were in dispute. .It was at this Hampton Court Conference in 1604 that a proposal was made for a new, exact Bible translation into English. The suggestion was made by Dr. Reynolds, the president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He believed that the popular editions had certain faulty renderings which were corrupt and "not answerable to the truth of the original." The general feeling of the Conference, however, seemed not in favor of a new translation.

It is believed that Bishop Bancroft of London expressed their views when he replied that "if every man's humor were to be consulted, there would be no end of translating."

For some unknown reason the king intervened at this point and declared himself in favor of the proposed new translation.

It may be claimed, therefore, for King James that it was due to him that the good work was begun which resulted in the appearance of the Authorized Version three centuries ago. In a speech he condemned all the current translations as unsatisfactory and denounced the Geneva Bible as the worst of all the versions in use. He felt the sting of some of its outspoken notes, for they ran counter to his deep-rooted convictions and prejudices.

King James was a learned and well educated man. He was very fond of displaying his learning, especially in connection with theology. It can be safely said that he was shrewd enough to see that a new translation under his learned and royal auspices would add greatly to the glory of his reign, Whatever his motives might

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have been, it is not believed that they were led by love for the Word of God, nor by any desire to give to the common people the Bible in a language which they could understand.

Soon af cer the Hampton Court Conference King James appointed fifty-four learned men. These were to undertake the work of translating the Bible from the original languages into the English.

The names of these men included the wisest and most learned scholars of that time.

Many were professors at Oxford or at Cambridge.

Bishop Bancroft of London was instructed by the king to help the translators in whatever way possible. He was to get other learned men who were especially familiar with the Hebrew and Greek languages that they might be consulted.

The king, through Bancroft, arranged for the translators' compensations.

Whenever "a living of twenty pounds" became vacant, the king was to be informed of the circumstance, in order that he might recommend one of the translators to the patron.

Many of them received high promotion in the Church; the only layman among them was made a knight.

Later, 'at the time of the final revision, each translator received the sum of thirty shillings a week from the Stationer's Company. They also received free entertainment in the colleges.

What these translators or scholars did during the first three years can not be definitely stated.

It is believed that they did private studying and individual translating, but no records can be found of this period. After the year 1607, however, records, from which we may learn the manner and order of their work, were kept. The translators were divided into six companies, Two companies met at each of the three 'centers: Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge.

We read that only forty-seven of the scholars selected took an active part in the work Dr. Reynolds, who had suggested the enterprise at Hampton Court and who had also been one of the appointees, died in 1607. The first company consisted of ten members, and it met at Westminster.

This company was presided over by the dean, Dr. Lancelot Andrewes.

Many considered him the most learned man in England.

It was said that he might have been "interpreter-general at Babel." This group translated Genesis to Second Kings inclusive. The second company was composed of eight members, and it met at Cambridge.

Their share of translating included First Chronicles to Ecclesiastes.

The third company, seven in number, met at Oxford and translated from Isaiah to the end of the Old Testament.

The fourth company, which also consisted of seven members, met at Cambridge.

The translation of the Apocrypha was assigned to them, and they were the first to complete their share of the work.

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The fifth company, eight in number, which met at Oxford, . had the Gospels, the Acts, and the Revelation of St. John as their portion; and finally, the Epistles were entrusted to the sixth company, which met at Westminster.

This company had seven members. The translators were bound to observe no less than fifteen specific rules. Some of these follow: "The ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the Bishop's Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the truth of the original will permit."

"N 0 marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanations of the Hebrew or Greek words which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text."

"Such quotations of places to be marginally set down, as shall serve for a fit reference of one Scripture to another."

"Every particular man of each company to take the same chapter or chapters; and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinketh good, all to meet together, confer what they have done, and agree for their parts what shall stand."

"As anyone company hath dispatched anyone book in this manner, they shall send it to the rest, to be considered by them seriously and judiciously; for His Majesty is very careful on this part."

"These translations to be used, when they agree better with the text than the Bishop'S Bible; viz., Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's (Great Bible), Geneva."

These rules were followed so long as the translators found them convenient. They changed the earlier translations no more than necessary and frequently followed the order and form of the original language. But besides the modern translations allowed them for their guidance, they used the various commentaries of the great scholars.

Even translations which were defective in many respects were ransacked for illuminating words and expressive phrases. They left nothing undone and spared themselves no toil in their determination to make their work as perfect as it could possibly be. Although they were known as the best Hebrew and Greek scholars, they delved still deeper into the mysteries of these ancient' languages. And they were truly masters of the English language. After they had discovered the exact meaning of each passage, they also succeeded wonderfully in expressing the thoughts in a clear, vigorous English and with a simplicity, dignity, and harmony which have never been excelled. .

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As soon as the work of the groups was completed the whole was reviewed by a final board of twelve revisers, which met daily for nine months at Stationer's Hall. We read that Bishop Bancroft insisted on fourteen alterations.

The version thus produced was indeed a true representation of the best opinion of the time, and it was not like any of the former translations that were largely the work of individuals.

In the year 1611 this new translation was published.

It had a lengthy preface of well-nigh twelve thousand words. In this preface the translators "justify the dernand for a new version, show why this should shake no man's faith, give an account of previous translations, and indicate the chief principles and considerations which guided them in their work." Besides this preface the new version had a special "Dedication to King James." This addressed the king in magnificent words, which seem to us of the present time quite out of place. It, however, must be remembered that this was the period in which many believed sincerely in the Divine Right of Kings; consequently James was thus so highly exalted and honored.

The full title of the book was: "The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesties. Anno Dom. 1611."

The words "Appointed to be read in Churches" are. believed to have been taken from the title-page of the Bishop's Bible by the king's printer with the approval of the king and the bishops. There are no records to be found of any special action of church or parliament to explain the title otherwise. Hence its authority is not due to court influence, royal preference, or ecclesiastical decree, but is due to its own merits and its superiority over its rivals. This should fill every Christian with the heartiest satisfaction.

Its triumph might neither have been so rapid nor so complete had there been any attempt to force it on the nation by some royal or ecclesiastical decree.

At the beginning of its appearance the version was criticized and opposed by many, but the translators had expected that. The Bishop's Bible was used for many more years. Even after it was no longer printed, some 150,000 copies were imported from Holland. Nevertheless the King James Version won general favor rapidly and retained this favor unto the present day. For three centuries it has held its place as the Bible of the Englishspeaking world.

V. A. L. '35.

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THE SOUTHERN LYRISTS, TIMROD, HAYNE, AND LANIER The contributions of the South to literature during the period from 1825 to 1875 were small in comparison to those of New England. By this I do not mean to say that the work of the Southern writers was in any way inferior to that of the North. On the contrary, the writers of the South, who were fewer in number, wrote selections which were equally as distinctive as those of their Northern coworkers in the literary field. The Southern writers were not organized into literary clubs as in New England.

Some person may, however, mention the group in Charleston over which Simms presided. This was a literary organization, but it was short-lived. Practically all literary interest and production ceased with the beginning of the Civl War. Because of this fact, the poems and stories of these writers were direct outgrowths of individual experience and imagination.

The Southern writers were separated in regard to time and place. Considering that, it might be stated that these writers did not portray the national life as did the New Englanders.

The writers of the South were not influenced much by the feelings and attitudes of their day.

That, however, does not mean that their literature was not great. Some of our most interesting literary contributions are independent of time and place. Such lyrists as Timrod, Hayne, and Lanier are true representatives of the field in which they worked. Each portrayed some part of Southern life and scenery or wrote on some aspect of the world of romance. The works of these men are treasured to the present time as a part of American literature.

The following is a brief discussion of the three writers and their literary contributions.

Each of these poets lived during the time of the Civil War. The trials and hardships which they were forced to undergo had a marked influence upon their health. Two of them, Timrod and Lanier, died before they reached the age of forty.

Lanier's poems rank high among the best of our country. At one time Lanier wrote, "Whatever turn I have for art is purely musical; poetry being with me a mere tangent into which I shoot sometimes." The talent possessed in music did much to contribute to his success.

Lanier ranks high in that field of poetry called the "Onomatopoetic Field." Lanier believed that words and phrases have beautiful sounds similar to musical tones. He realized that the matching of the sounds of expression with the meaning was essential in writing poetry. .Naturally, if a poet follows this theory, his poems-will invariably be

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lyrical. Just so it was with Lanier. He represents the song of the birds, the sighs of the wind, the rustling of leaves, and the swaying corn in his lyrical fashion. Not only is this true of his shorter poems, but when he began to write longer selections, his melodious style was still evident. The sound and movement of the poems aid in bringing out the true meaning. The Song of the Chattahoochee with the ever lingering refrain concerning the "hills of Habersham" and the "valleys of Hall" is a good example.

The Symphony is considered by many to be the best example of this type of poetry, for it exhibits everyone of Lanier's artistic qualities. Lanier said that in this poem he "personified the instruments of the orchestra and made each instrument discuss some social question of the time in the progress of the music." The theme of this poem is given in the first two lines: "0 Trade! 0 Trade! would thou wert dead!

The time needs heart-'tis tired of head!"

The spirit of commercial life should be replaced by love from the heart. Regarding this selection Pace says, "These opening lines begin wi.th the outcry of the violins, which speak for the poor.. Next comes the flute, speaking for the voices of nature, her 'utmost depths and heights.'

Then follows the clarinet, representing the Lady who longs for the restoration of love as the only ground for marriage; the horn representing the knight of the days of chivalry, who believes that the Lady's wish will be granted; the hautboy, calling for the simplicity and song of childhood.

The harmony is completed by the 'ancient, wise bassoons,' and we hear the voices together sing that only love can sqlve the discord true."

Some people may argue that The Marshes of Glynn excels The Symphony. In the former Lanier describes the serenity and beauty of the marshes in Georgia. In carrying out his portrait, he gradually weaves into this melodious picture the comfort derived from the belief in the greatness of God. Anyone who appreciates lyric poetry will realize the grandeur of Lanier's poetry. He accomplished much in his short life. It is difficult to estimate what heights he might have attained with the opportunities and environments which Lowell and Longfellow had. The concluding lines of his Life and Song portray the ideal which he wished to attain: "His song was only living aloud, His work, a singing with his hand!"

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The next lyrists worthy of mention are Timrod and Hayne. Both of them served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Both were from Charleston, South Carolina, at that time the literary center of the South.

They were intimately associated with each other, and their poetic ideals are similar. Dr. Mabie says, "They touched the two themes which lay deepest in their hearts, love of nature and love of the personal and social ideals of the Old South, with perfect sincerity, with deep tenderness, and with lyric sweetness."

The first writings of Timrod appeared as contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger. He had a sensitive nature and a keen observation for things dear to him. As a result he paints vivid word pictures in most melodious fashion of the beautiful flowers of his native state, and gives his readers a vivid view of the fields of snow-white cotton. Most of his poems are short. In his Ode at Magnolia Cemetery and The Unknown Dead, he pays tribute to those who had fallen fighting for the Confederate cause.

Several of his stirring war songs are Carolina and The Cotton Boll. The latter is his most characteristic poem.

In it he portrays the future prosperity of a downtrodden South. Timrod also wrote sonnets. Some of them rank high in that field of literature. . After he had been forced to leave the army because of' ill health, he became a war correspondent of a Charleston newspaper. His prosperity was short-lived, for he lost all with the fall of the Confederacy. When Hayne asked him about his life, he said, "I can embody it all in a few words -beggary; starvation, death, bitter grief, utter want of hope." His health was failing fast, and on October 6, 1867, the South lost another of its lyric poets. .

Paul Hamilton Hayne was a close friend of Timrod, and it was he who prepared a memorial edition of Timrod's poems. Hayne received a good, education' and after studying law for some time, he turned to theliterary field.

His first collection of poems appeared in 1855: Like 'Timrod, he lost all when the Confederacy crumbled. He started anew in a small cabin in Georgia. Hayne believed in the' brotherhood of man. As a result of this belief he did all .in.his power to heal the breach between the North and the South. His writing may be divided into various groups under the following headings i Youthful Poems, Sonnets, Dramatic Sketches, Poems of War, Legends ani! Lyrics, Humorous Poems, and Poems for Children. The outstanding characteristics of his poems are his realistic portrayals of. Nature. His solitary life gave him ample chance for meditation. Melancholia did路 not result from his meditations, but instead a thread of sorrow was interwoven with

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his threads of melody as he wove into his "lyric carpet" the pictures of Love and Nature.

The poems of Lanier, Timrod, and Hayne have been enthusiastically received by both the critics of the North and the South. Their fiery lyrics of war, their melodious verses of Southern streams, meadows, marshes, flowers, and trees are universally admired. As long as lyric poetry continues to be a haven of refuge for those who seek relief from the burdensome load of heavy fiction, or the humdrum prattle of these free verse innovations in poetry by the "hog butchers of poetry," so long will the names of Lanier, Timrod, and Hayne be known to American literature.

F. M. '32.

WE AMERICANS At times my heart swells with sympathy for us poor Americans. We are constantly being lampooned and ridiculed. When traveling abroad, Americans seem to have become a byword for everything that is base and vulgar.

What really is the matter with us? Why do other nations, especially the Europeans, find so much fault with .us ? Are we really as vulgar as they make us out to be, or is there perhaps a tinge of jealousy in the hearts of Europeans for our greater wealth, our ease and comfort of living?

Surely there must be some truth in all the disturbing .things one hears about us, or the term, Americanism. would not have become one of approbium, as it is today. We are still, it is true, even in these depressing times, the wealthiest nation. But I do not feel that it is our wealth, that is, not our wealth in itself, that makes other nations despise us so. There are other wealthy nations, but there is no such odium attached to any of them as there is to that term, Americanism.

Besides, our wealth seems to come in quite handy, for a great many European countries are hopelessly indebted to the United States. On hearing a rumor one day that Japan had declared war on China, a certain individual was even heard to ridicule the report, saying that it was an impossibility, seeing that neither of the two powers. had asked the United States for a loan.

Whatever other objections our nearest neighbor has to us Americans, she surely does not resent our wealth, for since prohibition has gone into effect, she has a very flourishing tourist trade. Canada has become a playground for wealthy American vacationists.

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No, it is not our wealth in itself which creates so much animosity in the hearts of Europeans. There is another reason.

It is the opinion of Europeans that Americans are boors. We lack culture and refinement. Like Caesar, we are ambitious. We are not many centuries old, but we want all the wealth and culture that other nations lay claim to, and we want them immediately.

First of all we must succeed. That word success is everlastingly ringing in our ears. It is voiced at practically every commencement exercise from the eighth grade up to college. We must all without fail amount to something. We must get ahead; primarily by getting ahead, of course, we mean being able to earn a' handsome salary.

It is often no easy task to amass a fortune, but through various devices, known and unknown, some not spoken about openly, a great many Americans are able to acquire a considerably large fortune.

According to most magazine advertisements, of course, the easiest and surest way of making a success of one's self is to enroll in the International Correspondence School.

We do not, however, measure our entire success in terms of money. Although Europeans do not think so, we try very hard to become refined, to interest ourselves in things artistic.

But we seem to be too enthusiastic and too much in a hurry. Every little boy who speaks his piece excellently at the school program is a potential statesman.

Fond papa and mama can sit by the hour and listen to ten-year-old daughter play "The Death of the Flowers." Most likely the music sounds as though the flowers are at least wilted, but their daughter is going to be a famous musician some day. .

It seems that we Americans inherently tend to mold ourselves one like the other, in our dress, our manners, our speech, in fact in almost anything.

We even seem to observe a certain code in our climb up the, social scale.

After the husband and provider has gone up the ladder of success a few rungs, the American family moves from the apartment in the city to the fashionable suburbs, where it purchases a home of the Spanish type with its profusion of wrought iron balustrades and fireplaces. The children begin to take music lessons from aunueic master with a French name, who charges exorbitant prices. The wife employs a maid, no longer an occasional hired girl, and begins to serve tea and talk about the servant problem, since that is the fashionable thing to do. .

Since the husband is still busy in becoming wealthy, the wife assumes the responsibility of acquiring the necessary culture. It is quite difficult to learn to love knowl-

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edge, but she persists with stern and rigid martyrdom to devote herself to the finer things in life. She joins some cultural or art club and in a very potpourri of teas, committees, and minutes of the last meeting, proceeds to absorb culture. The members of these various cultural or art clubs attend a great many concerts and lectures. At their club meetings they speak a great deal about living life to the full, of finding themselves, of their creative urge, whatever that may be. In one meeting they. listen to papers being read about the great figures in American literature.

In the succeeding meetings they will take the English, French, and German writers, but then they will most likely leave the literary field and move on to other fields of art. They will speak a little about the Renaissance, painting, and music, and within one year will have delved into all the channels of art. They feel that they have made quite a comprehensive study of the fine arts, and it is surprising what lovers of art they have become.

They have a vague notion of Milton writing Paradise Lost, of Goethe being a rationalist and the author of Faust.

They are able to recall a little about Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Tolstoi, but they have not read any of their works.

They have, however, devoted themselves to reading a great many outlines. They have read outlines of history, psychology, science, literature, in fact of almost every subject.

These shortcuts to culture or outlines must be a great help to people who are in a hurry to acquire their culture.

After they have become wealthy enough, these American families usually decide to travel, so that they will not become mentally stagnant and in order to widen their outlook and broaden their views. They proceed first of all to Europe and with a Baldeker continually in hand proceed to see everything worth seeing, from the Norwegian fiords to the gondolas of Venice. They have themselves photographed in front of every monument and building which the Baldeker declares to be important.

They do a great deal of cooing about the quaint people. They love to be buttonholed and asked a great many important questions, and when given the opportunity will expand for hours upon the glamours of America. By their stentorian-voiced methods of attracting a great deal of attention, and by their lavish display of money in order to get the best of service everywhere, they really do make themselves obnoxious to truly refined people.

Now that they have become wealthy and cultured, they desire nothing better than to annex a title; so papa and mama use every endeavor to marry their daughter off to some titled nobility of Europe. The reverse is also true, however, for especially in the past years, a great ..many of Europe's nobility. having nothing left but their

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titles, proceed to America in order to marry the daughter of some soap or chewing gum king. I can see nothing commendable in such procedures either.

But it is no wonder that Europeans feel as they do about us when they must witness time and time again such barbarity on the part of traveling Americans. We are not all like that, however. There are a great many sane Americans. There are many Americans who are cultured, refined, and' intellectually brilliant. America still has her coterie of aristocrats who so to speak wear the "Mayflower" in their buttonhole and who can vie with the best of Europe's aristocracy in the matter of aloofness and of raising- eyebrows. But perhaps the majority of our mad Americans who are trying so hard to get rich, to become cultured in a hurry, will soon tire of the mad. pace they are going, will realize that they are not really happy and will learn to enjoy .sane, happy, and contented living.

F. R. "32.

SMITH THE PREVARICATOR Captain John Smith has gone down in History as a famous adventurer, explorer, colonist, and leader of the Virginia settlement.

His name has gone down in American Literature as the pioneer writer of the history and life of early America and as the person who gave the Indian to American Literature.

History records Captain Smith as an active, valiant soldier and adventurer.

His literary productions reveal that he was an egoistic, imaginative, exaggerating, dramatic-loving, adventurous sort of person. In fact, we may go so far as to say that he was a braggart and a liar.

Since he was a true representative of the Elizabethan Age, we might probably find an excuse for some of the romantic enthusiasm and exaggeration which characterize .all his writings. Because of his introducing fictitious adventures and incidents into his writings, however, he deserves nothing more than to be branded a prevaricator. . Probably the best grounds for 'calling Smith a liar are his romantic invention of the Pocahontas episode, which is recorded in his A General History of Virginia. - In this story he dramatically describes how. on one of his trading expeditions, he was one day captured by the Powhatan Indians. After spreading a great feast before him and showing him much kindly treatment, the' Indians held a council to determine Smith's fate. The verdict was that he be put to death. Two great stones were brought, and after he had been bound by the warriors, Smith's head was

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laid on the stones. Chief Powhatan gave the command, and his warriors were about to beat Smith's brains out, when suddenly Pocahontas, the Chief's beautiful young daughter. hindered the act by embracing the doomed captive and by laying her own head on his. Thus the Indians were unable to strike, and Smith's life was saved. This incident is said to have taken place in December .1607.

The following year Smith published his A True Relation, and, strange to say, he did not mention this romantic adventure until fifteen years later in A Ge.neral History of Virginia.

This discrepancy was not discovered until 1866, when it first attracted the attention of Dr. Charles Deane.

Until this time the story had been universally accepted as true, but now Deane's discovery caused people to investigate the matter. First of all, they searched for a plausible motive for Smith's writing such a story, and they found it.

Pocahontas at one time visited London, and her presence caused such a sensation -in the city that everyone came to see the Princess Pocahontas, "the nonpareil of Virginia," as Smith describes her. Such a vainglorious, egoistic person as Smith was could not fail to see the opportunity to make a name for himself by linking his name with hers.

The fictitious story which he invented served his purpose. and so it came into existence and was published a few years later. This explanation has been discredited and disproved by people who still place Smith on a pedestal and look upon him as their brave, honorable, fearless hero.

The followers of Deane base their rejection of the legend upon its absence from A True Relation; consequently their opponents set to work to find an argument to offset this discrepancy. Having found that 'the text is incomplete, they suggest the possibility that the legend is among the parts which are omitted. Such an argument, based on a mere possibility, is very weak indeed. Secondly, they assert that Smith probably omitted the story in order not to' discourage his readers in England from coming to America by mentioning the hazards and death perils at the hand of the Indians. Another groundless assertion, considering the fact that in countless other instances he rather boastfully tells of the extreme dangers and hardships he was constantly exposed to! Thirdly, Smith's companions maintain that the rescue achieved by Pocahontas is absolutely in harmony with a custom among the Indians of that time. It often happened that an Indian maiden or squaw interceded for a white captive and afterwards adopted him into her tribe. Nevertheless it seems incredible that those austere, bloodthirsty, gigantic, creatures, "the calves of whose legs (according to Smith's own words) were three-quarters of a yard about," could be so easily moved to cancel the death sentence of a man who

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had just murdered members of their tribe. Professor Arbes, a staunch believer of the legend, summarizes his reason for accepting it in the following words: "To deny the truth of the Pocahontas incident is to create more difficulties than are involved in accepting it." His words are a confession of his weak human reasoning, for man naturally rejects difficult things which require patient research and believes that which he had rather were true.

To accuse Smith of being a prevaricator and braggart solely on grounds of the Pocahontas story would be unfair.

I shall briefly state several more incidents which render him deserving of being called a liar. With much flourishing and ornamentation in describing Virginia, he says, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation."

At another occasion he dramatically speaks of "pearls found in mussels" and of "rocks interlaced with veins of glittering spangles." He even weaves a wreath of romance about the ugly, repulsivelooking, greasy Indians and their filthy camps. To his readers he artfully pictures a royal tribe of emperors, queens, courtiers, and princesses, with palaces as their homes. Smith had a two-fold purpose in mind when he set about fabricating these lies. One was to glorify his own adventures and thus make a name for himself; the other was to induce people in England to come to Virginia.

Again the hero-worshippers come to Smith's rescue and defend him against our accusation. They glorify and magnify all his brave deeds and praise him for enduring so many hardships just because Smith embellishes all accounts of his deeds with the inevitable phrase "with hazard of my life." Halleck even says that Smith understates rather than exaggerates.

Despite all his faults, Captain Smith, nevertheless, must be admired for his portion of the work of colonizing Virginia. He did brave many a hardship, and often did he expose himself to grave dangers in order to save his colony from starvation and death. As far as History is concerned, therefore, he remains an important figure in the colonization of America.

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We laugh at or we pity, as the case may be, the religious antics of some primitive aborigines as they bow down to wood or stone, to the sun, the moon, or the stars.

How antediluvian this all seems. We have progressed beyond all this. We realize that praying to and doing ho~~ age to an inanimate object, or to stellar wonders, WIlt

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never produce results, will never ans.wer our prayers, or bless us. In the past, persons, sometimes captives of war and often the most beautiful virgins, were sacrificed to satiate whatever object had been deified by the worshippers. Every imaginable thing that could possibly be of any use to cause the Divine Essence to pity mortals and consequently accept them into his abode was carried out to the finest detail. Some acts of worship were actually indecent" immoral. Some religions allow none of this, but most religions demand at least good works to placate some sort of Supreme Being.

Yes, we say, we're away past such ancient worship.

Such things are interesting as a study, but as a realitydon't try to "kid" us. But are we past all this idol worship? I think not. We have a very definite idol in our land of America. Our idol has his temples in every hamlet and village. In our large cities our idol has his cathedrals. Our idol is served by thousands of priests and priestesses.

His priests, male and female, are ruled over by high-priests and archbishops.

The ranks of his clergy are being constantly filled from his monasteries.

Our idol is worshipped by almost everyone. Our idol and his institutions are supported by the State and the National Government.

You are rising up in arms against me, ready to brand me as an imbecile, a moron, a pessimist, a chronic, longfaced, dissatisfied sort of person. Maybe you're right, but I still stick to my first assertion, that we have a National Idol, that he is worshipped by most of us, and that he is supported by the State.

Prove it! Here goes. Our National Idol is Ed ucation. His temples are the public schools located in practically everyone of our towns. His cathedrals are the colleges and universities in our large cities. His monasteries are the countless Normal Schools and Teacher Colleges.

The priests are the thousands of teachers in common and higher schools, the professors in the colleges and universities. So we see that our National Idol has a hierarchy as definite and complex as that of any church or religious organization.

Yet, what right have I to say that Education is our idol? An idol, in the past, was usually worshipped by his followers. Things were done by his especial cult to please him. In all the trials and happinesses of life, the idol was referred to as the giver. He was praised and thanked for all. If some calamity was hovering in the offing the idol was begged by his adherents to avert the coming tragedy.

All this IS true of the worship afforded our National Idol Education. '

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In the past decades, great and strange things have been happening. Bloody wars, immoralities, crime waves are becoming more prevalent. Everyone realizes it. To whom do the people appeal in this extremity?

Why they appeal to Education, our National Idol. We often hear and observe something like the following, "We must educate to make better citizens, to stop wars, to prevent crimes, immorality, and the like." Every remedy for our national ills contains at least a reference to the necessity of education to make us better people, to make this a "seventh heaven."

I think we are justified in designating Education as our Idol; for, our idol has a definite hierarchy; a definite ritual is used in his worship; he is called upon by his worshippers. to prevent evils, to save them from utter darkness, from completely sinking in the mire of present day troubles.

Pitiful, isn't it? It's surprising to what ends people will go for remedies and methods to improve the race and civilization, isn't it? It's surprising how they pass by the only thing that can save them from their difficulties: namely, faith in Christ Jesus, and in Him only.

Let us, as budding teachers, do our best to lead our' own following away from the dragnets of the National Idol, and instead, lead them to faith in our Savior.

God, preserve us from idol worship.

E. S. A. '32.

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The "D. M.路 L. C. Messenger" is published quarterly during the school year by the students of Dr. Martin Luther College. The subscription price is seventy-five cents per annum. Single copies twenty cents. Stamps not accepted. We request payment in advance.

"The Messenger"路 is continued after time of subscription has expired, unless we are notified to discontinue and all arrears are paid. All business communications should be addressed to Business Manager; all literary contributions to the Editor-in-chief.

Advertising rates will be furnished on request.

Contributions to our Literary Department are requested from all alumni, undergraduates and friends.

Entered as second class matter at Post Office of New Ulm, Minnesota

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ARTHUR MEIER, Editor-in-Chief A. LOBER, Business Manager G. BOOCK, Alumni Notes R. JACOBS, Asst. Bus. Mgr. ARDELLA DAHMS, Co-ed Notes A. GLEINDE, Asst. Bus. Mgr. F. BROKER, Locals VERA HAFENSTE!IN, Exchange C. RADL, Athletics ELEANOR LAHMAN, CoIl. Notes ADOLF WILBREOHT. Jokes

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* * * THE NEW STAFF The old staff's Senior members, who retired with the last issue of the Messenger, are Meilahn Zahn, Editor-inChief; Raymond Behmer, Business Manager; Frederic Manthey, Locals; and Gerald Becker, Athletics.

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ulty appointed Arthur Glende, Roland Jacobs, Floyd Broker, and Clarence Radl to fill the vacancies left by them. ~he ne.w staff wishes the retired members as much ~uccess m their fut~re work as they have had in publishmg the ~e;ssenger m the past. We beg to request the wholEl-he~rted co-operation of the student body, and earnestly desire the reader to be patient with our shortcomings. Supported by the student body and the reader, we shall through God's Grace continue to publish the Messenger successfully.

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VISITING

Why is Jt that a "visitor" usually walks into the room just when you are working at the most difficult part of an assignment. I In most cases the intruder has no particular mission; he merely wants to while away some time. Perhaps you do not look up from your work when he enters, and by ignoning him try to encourage him to leave. In such a case the visitor invariably asks some casual question as, "Have you all your work done for tomorrow?"

If you answer, negative or positive, he has won his point; he sits down bekide yon, and the "visit" is progressing won-

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. To say the least, an incident of this nature shows utter lack of I refinement on the part of the intruder.

But let us continue and view the practical side of the situation.

Not only is t~e person with whom the intruder, is visiting interrupted ip his ,,:ork .but also the other students who happen to be studymg m the room at the time, Thus there are four or five students in the room who, for the time being, dre visiting and accomplishing nothing. It is true, each should take care of the social side of his life, but why adtance that phase at the' expense of fellowstudents.

T~ overcome this evil condition, let us all, when approached b~ a lonely feeling' and tempted. to go visiting, seek the companionship of a good book, and the dormitory will certainly become a better place for study.

A. M. '33.

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* * * Congratulations are extended to Adelbert Backer, class of '23, and his fiancee, Miss Adelia Ebert, daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. H. H. Ebert.

Ever since September 15, Professor Janke has been showering his classes with pleasant smiles and good humor -why, we've nearly forgotten to tell you. The reason may be Called "little," for on that day Frederick Carl arrived to be presented henceforth as a member of the family.

On November 7, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rossow of. Amboy, Minnesota, became the proud parents of Eldred Elaine.

Mr. Rossow graduated with the class' of '27.

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Jacobs and family, who formerly resided at Frankfurt a. M., Germany, and at New York City, now live at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fond memories and old acquaintances lure Mildred Scharf back to New VIm quite frequently.

Before she reopened her school at Boyd after the Christmas holidays, she stopped to see whether Old 'Nick had remembered everyone in this part of the state. "Mil" also made use of the holiday on Washington's birthday by spending the week-end here.

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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION What with turmoil in the East, the depression, wage cuts, presidential campaign, and similar weighty matters to trouble our minds, it might easily happen that one or the other of us could forget that we have an Alumni Association of Dr. Martin Luther College. I feel sure that the reader will be indulgent with me if I use a bit of space to call attention to this organization.

At the last meeting of the Association held at New Ulm on June 11, 1931, a committee was appointed to begin preliminary work on the plans for the celebration of the Golden Anniversary of our institution.

This committee through its chairman, Theo. J. Pelzl, New Ulm, will submit its report at the next meeting in June, 1932. That seems a long way ahead, but with only one meeting a year such things must be planned ahead of time. This committee will be very glad to receive suggestions from any one in regard to the part the alumni can take in the coming celebration.

In the meantime, what can we do as loyal graduates of our school to strengthen it for further service to the Church of Christ?

First of all we can keep in touch with it and with the work the men on the faculty are attempting to carry out. A good medium for this is the college Messenger. Subscribe to it. Again, we can tell others about our Christian institution of learning. Where our funds are so limited, there is no money for an advertising campaign, and the institution is dependent upon the personal advertising its friends do for it. Then, of course, we would urge all graduates of the high school and normal departments to become members of the Alumni Association. The funds that the Association dues bring in are used exclusively for college purposes. The Association has been making a regular contribution to the College Library each year. The dues are $1.00 per year, or $1.50 including a year's subscription to the Messenger. E. T. Sperling, New VIm, Minnesota, is the treasurer.

H. A. Sitz, '16, President.

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ST. PAUL LUTHER TIES THE SCORE! "D. M. L. C. may have beaten us, but Luther can say that they pulled the prize play. It was a block play that left Gustafson under the basket unmolested. The shot tied the game into an overtime period."

"The boys from New Ulm invade our courts tonight.

Seems to me we've a little score to settle with them."From "Short Shots," Luther Echo, St. Paul Luther College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

It seemed that way l ! We did invade their courts, but as for the settled score-we outweigh them in the balance -two victories for us from them this year. However, the teams are apparently well-matched.

* * * * * BE A BOOSTER "When you are away from the school, whether you are among strangers or in your own community, let people know you are attending C. W. C. Tell them about the school; let them know what a good school it is. They would like to know and you will be rendering the school invaluable service.

"Furthermore you will help yourself.路 People will have greater respect for you if you are proud of the school vou are attending and proud of the work you do. Very seldom, indeed, do we respect the work a man is doing if he does not respect it himself. If we do some work just to I

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get through with it, without putting our whole heart and soul into it, we will not enjoy it, and no one else will respect it.

"Let us then give C. W. C. our whole-hearted support both in and away from school."-The Trumpet, Central Wisconsin College, Scandinavia, Wisconsin.

How well this article suits us as well" as the Central Wisconsin College. Reread this item, substituting D. M. L. C. for C. W. C.

* * * * * CHINA AND ARGENTINA "Reverend Schwarzkopf presented an interesting lecture about mission work in China. Along with this he illustrated typical scenes with slides. He has been missionary to China for six years. Some of his pictures showed the exceedingly crooked city streets.

'The natives believe,' the speaker said, 'that spirits always fly in a straight line. By having their streets wind about, they believe they have made it impossible for the much-feared spirits to enter them.' Chinese highways, too, are not at all like American roads. They are too narrow and rough for even a motorcycle or bicycle. In fact, they are but mere paths upon which one may walk, and even this path fades away sometimes into the adjacent meadow so that, if the traveler is not alert, he may find himself in the midst of a field, lost. . Ofttimes the missionary slept in the same chamber with ducks and pigs, and that in so-called hotels! The Chinese are very diligent in their prayers, and numerous small idols fill their homes. It is pathetic to see them place their trust in mere dolls, the work of men's hands."

"The Reverend Huebner of the Argentina missions gave a lecture on the progress of Christianity or, more restricted, Lutheranism in South America. Most of the work is carried on in German, since the major population is of German descent. There is some Spanish, Portuguese, and English work also being done. A college and seminary has been established at Porto Allegra, which is now preparing natives of Argentina and Brazil to preach the Gospel to their countrymen in their native tongue.

The civilization is as crude and undeveloped as that of China. If the missionary has a hut covered with wood, he considers himself lucky, while a floor of anything but earth is not even to be thought of. The people dwell, for the most part, in huts built of sod."-:-The. Concordia Courier, Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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In sauntering through the dormitory or while sitting at our study tables, we often hear s,:,ch exclamat~ons a,~ "Whenever will I get all. these assignments finished?

Then a long enumeration of all the things to be accomplished. Then, in turn, like enumerations follow, and fifteen minutes, half an hour, and sometimes a whole hour passes just "hashing" over things. The Concordian offers some advice that is profitable.

"If wasted minutes were put to use in reading some worthwhile article or book, the reader would find that he derived much more enjoyment out of such use of his time, than in talking about how much he had to do and what little time he had to do it in. The literary world is full of fascinating material."-The Concordian, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. .

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"There is no investment that pays larger dividends, all things considered, than cheerful smiles and kind words."The Concordian, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.

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The following editorials from The Torch, a Valparaiso University production, are of unusual interest to us.

The first has a certain and great significance for us since it definitely mentions our college and one of our instructors.

We, from this editorial, should learn to realize and appreciate the value of our own school and instructors.

It makes us feel proud that a school such as Valparaiso University should recognize our earnest endeavors in accomplishing something great.

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"Work on the bulletins for summer school at Valparaiso university has begun, and four definite projects have been worked out for the summer's curriculum.

Professor Hardt of Concordia Teacher's Seminary at Seward, Nebraska, and Professor Backer of Luther college at New Ulm, Minn., have been considered for new instructors in religion and elementary school music. Prof. Backer of New Ulm has won national renown for his work in hymnology.

The curriculum also calls for lectures by a 0TOUP of prominent men in Christian education."-The Torch.

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The second is also of interest to us, as the underlying thoughts coincide with activities of our own school. Our choir members should bear these things in mind as they go out. on their tour as representatives of the type of people In our college and as representatives of our Christian principles of character and behavior.

When Loyalty

Is Significant

"Loyalty is a theme often thrashed to threads and hammered to a thin plate by writers, yet it is one characteristic which can never be over-emphasized.

On February 2, the Valparaiso University choir leaves on a two weeks' tour of the middle-west, giving concerts for the benefit of the institution.

While on this tour it will be up to each and every choir member to be loyal to his Alma Mater. The people supporting this university will make careful notations as to what type of men and women Valparaiso trains and educates. The university is due all fidelity anyone can give it, and the members of the choir will be given an opportunity to show the grain and grit of which they. are composed while on their tour.

These singers can be true to this institution, if they obey the rules. And if these regulations are followed, only the best impressions can be made. The rules of the trip ask the individuals to be polite, to act decent at all times, and to remain a unit rather than fifty individuals.

The athletic teams have university and have given prominence. If the choir will and demeanor, the donors to fied."-The Torch.

shown their loyalty to the the institution considerable maintain the proper decorum the university will be grati-

We wish to thank Armin E. Albrecht '30 for these contributions from The Torch. We are glad that Alumni members show their interest in our work, and we should welcome material from other alumni members to make our Messenger more interesting and worthwhile.

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After the successful tours of 1930 and 1931, our Small Choir hardly needs an introduction to our readers. Again this year Professor E. D. Backer has worked hard and diligently and has produced what we might call a "bigger and better" choir. And again. the rest of the D. M. L. C. student's extend their best wishes to their choir for a successful tour.

The list of the places this year's itinerary will take them to is given below: March 18, Zumbrota, Minn.; March 19, Winona, Minn.; March 20, La Crosse, Wis.; March 21, Jefferson, Wis.; March 22, Watertown, Wis.; March 23, Fond du Lac, Wis.; March 26 and 27, Milwaukee. Wis.; March 28, Tomah, Wis.; March 29, back to New Ulm. Following is the concert tour programme: PART I. 1. The Spirit Also Helpeth Us Bach (1685-1750) Chorales 2. Ah, Why in Such Distress Bach 3. Up, Up! My Heart! With Gladness Bach PART II. ~.

4. A Crown of Grace for Man Is Wrought .

Brahms (1833-1897) 5. Lord.I Cry to Thee Kalinnikoff (1866-1901) 6. In This Day, 0 Lord Kountz PART III. 7. Mache dich auf, werde Licht Reuter (1863-1924) 8. o ~eures Gotteswort Hauptmann 9. Weihnachts-r-Motette A. Mendelssohn PART IV. 10. He Is Blessed Soederman (1832-1876) 11. Chorale-Motet on, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Backer 12. Benediction Backer

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Upon the request of our faculty, the Literary Societies presented the following Washington programme in commemoration of the bicentennial: 1. Band 2. Opening Address Professor H. Klatt 3. Washington's Ancestry Vera Hafenstein 4. Piano Duet..

Clara Oswald, Ruth Lorenz 5. Washington's Biography Clara G. Mehlberg 6. Organ Selection Emanuel Arndt 7. Playlet-When Martha and George Returned Floyd Broker Wilma Genz Henry Hasse Elizabeth Wilson 8. When Washington Laughed and Cried .

Gilbert Timm 9. Washington's Farewell Address Edna Steinberg 10. The Star-Spangled Banner Audience Band Accompaniment

PARTIES And still the party ball keeps on rolling. The Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society longed for a taste of good old-fashioned home life, so they had a "family party."

The members of the Ford family including the butler and the mechanic proved to be successful hosts and hostesses to their many and various guests, the Hoovers, the Katzenjammers, the Jiggses, the Hayseeds, the von Brandenburgs, etc. It seems that when families are gathered for a sociable evening there are always some trying and embarrassing moments, and according to reports this gathering did not prove to be an exception to the rule.

The Juniors simply wouldn't be out done, so they very fittingly rolled into this time of depression a "hard-time party."

The idea of depression was carried out so well that a glance at the guests by any charity society would have produced a rush for First Aid. There's nothing at all backward about the II Normal class, for their appearance at a "backward party" was the most modernistic imaginable. And everyone seems to agree that it was lots of fun eating ice cream from cup I? with the handles of tablespoons, and drinking coffee from saucers.

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On February 3, citizens of New UIm as well as D. M. L. C. students had the opportunity to hear a lecture and observe a demonstration on liquid air given by the Mr. M. Hutchins. Among many other interesting things, he boiled liquid air on dry ice, and with liquid air he froze cranberries, carnations, carrots, steak, and even "hot dogs."

And when the balloons started flying, it almost seemed as though the circus had come to town.

We all regretted the fact that blizzards kept us from hearing the Mr. Maurice Dumesnil, a noted pianist.

Our college band, which has worked diligently during the winter months, will offer its annual concert in the very near future in our college auditorium.

Among the many interesting numbers are Victor Herbert's Favorites, an Overture, Cloth of Gold by Jewell, and a cornet solo, The Swiss Boy, by de Ville. Everyone is eagerly looking forward to this event. Do not miss it.

Both the Phi Delta Sigma and the Phi Gamma Rho Societies have committees busy at work selecting plays which will be presented some time after the Easter recess.

Yes, even exams bring something worthwhile along with them-a free day; and how it was appreciated by the D. M. L. C. students whose heads had just been emptied of all worthwhile knowledge!

Those who did not leave us for pleasant visits elsewhere had opportunity to "catch up" 'on all lost sleep on February 22, another free day.

Something always has to happen to cause some excitement on the campus or elsewhere; and the "flu" seems to want all the credit this year.

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The epidemic which invaded our school during February wrought radical changes in the girls' dormitory and gave some of the co-eds a chance to show their skill as practical nurses. Due to the inability of the stronger sex to withstand the illness, the sick rooms were given over entirely to their use. The girls who had been up there were removed to the girls' dorm. Rooms 5, 6, and 7 were declared the "hospital ward" and contained as many as 12 patients at one time. Under the able direction of Mrs. Goeglein, the amateur nurses succeeded in helping the "invalids" to recovery. The change was made on Sunday, February 14, and by the end of the week all had recuperated. Two girls stayed home each day to assist in the care of the sick. All declared that they liked the change, but that they would not like to be nurses all their lives.

Free days are always welcome to our students, and on January 30, a great number of our co-eds had received permits. Some were going to St. James, others to Nicollet, Amboy, and other places, but when they were ready to leave, a snowstorm arrived and ruined everyone's plans.

The day was then spent in doing various things, and at night everyone enjoyed the exciting Luther-Luther game.

On February 22, we were given another free day, and this time some of the girls visited friends and relatives in near-by towns.

Some of our co-eds had the misfortune of receiving injuries during the opening basketball season. Erna Wendt sprained both her wrists quite severely in accidentally falling backwards. Eldred Luehmann and "Babe" Baumann each sprained an ankle during their respective games. Other minor injuries were also general among our co-eds. Experience, however, has taught them to forget about these little troubles, and many such things pass unnoticed. .

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the inmates of the dormitory. As usual, everyone joyed the luncheon which the girls served during course of the evening.

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Several weeks after vacation a pleasant aroma issued from Room 3 of the girls' dormitory to let everyone know that the occupants were enjoying garlic sausage and onions.

The girls who were so unfortunate as to be "caught by the flu" enjoyed a visit from Professors Bliefernicht and Levorson. To our surprise, a few days later Prof. Levorson was unable to meet his classes. Yes, we all agree that the "flu" must be catching.

If you have never seen or heard of the height of absentmindedness, we advise you to ask Ruth Zabel for a demonstration.

One day when her roommate asked her whether she had one of last year's college catalogs, she answered, "Yes, there's one on the shelf over there."

Trudel was then dumfounded to see that Ruth had handed her an old Montgomery Ward catalog.

On Feb. 4, at 5 :30 o'clock,路 Ruth Seehusen was the congenial hostess at a three-course dinner for a number of friends who had come to help her and Esther Janzen celebrate their birthdays.

The evening was spent at various games.

Veleda.Kelm went to New Prague on Friday, Feb. 19, in order to spend the week end and Washington's birthday at her home.

A number of girls have been enjoying the snow that we are having this winter by going tobogganing. It was great fun, but sometimes a few girls came back rather "banged up," as we might say. "Dickie" Boernecke hurt her neck so severely that she was unable to turn her head for several days. "Shrimp" Birkholz must have been "laid out" one afternoon, for the others heard her frantically calling out, "Beck! Pump! Pump!" The hero, being an experienced basketball player, immediately came to the rescue and brought the victim back to life.

One of our co-eds, Margaret Stegemann, has left us and gone to Neenah, Wis., where she is taking the place of Miss Herwig, who taught the four lower grades. The II Normal girls gave "Muggie" a farewell by having a slumber party on Feb, 20, the evening before she left.

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* * * * * Old Man Flu seems to have stopped at our institution for quite a lengthy visit. At present there are about fifty students, who, because of the epidemic; are not attending classes.

Smokey and Jingles had a brief visit with Kutz on their return trip from Rochester.

Birthdays are still celebrated least so Diersen says.

in the usual way!

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Norbert Luehmann and Gerald Becker motored home for a brief visit on the sixth and seventh of February.

Ask Hallauer for the breakfast

menu!

Parties seem 'to be. the rage. The Juniors had a "Hardtime Party," and the Second Year Normals seemed to have had some sort of "Backward Party."

"Kreem," told that he would be "flopped," was not satisfied with the "C" he received in Vocal.

New Year resolutions seem to have done some goodHuhn has quit strumming the old refrain, E. Becker claims to have had some difficulty in obtaining a suit to fit. No.!???!

"Emma's" sore knee still bothers occupations! ?**!

Fuerstenau and Hallauer, report a flourishing business.

"Peewee" reports due to basketball.

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a slight

him in his various

as official college creasers, reduction

in avoirdupois,

This is leap year!

Frederic Manthey taught school for two weeks at Gaylord, Minnesota. Meilahn Zahn also tried his hand at the game.

As a special hobby, Fuerstenau of making picture frames.

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Things seldom seen or heard of: Shorty found studying at his desk; Jingles coming on time.

At last the kitchen has run out of. soap. The "japrose" pie has, or seems to have, become a thing of the past.

After the Christmas vacation the old grind was again resumed with the usual "gusto"!

Suggestions are in order as to how to alleviate the work of the "fuchses."

Frozen ears and noses seem to be the vogue nowadays.

Kessler paid good old D. M. L. College a short visit in the beginning of February.

Pennies are poor substitutes least so Robert Nolte thinks.

Erick's mumps things of the past.

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Why so many fries? ter 2 lbs. for 45c.

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Muenkel had his face lifted one day while skating?!!? on the Minnesota River.

The Greek division of the twelfth grade "partook of a sumptuous repast" on the evening of January 30, at the home of Professor Schaller.

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ATHLETICS

With a fairly successful basketball season drawing to a close, we must congratulate Coach Voecks upon putting out such an excellent group of cagers. Besides the veterans R. Sievert, Lehmann, Bremer, Behrens, Beck, Bartels, and Wacker, such new men as Wiechmann, Roeckle, Albrecht, and Riess appeared to join the ranks of the Maroon and Gray. Coach Voecks put forth every effort to put the boys in trim for a hard season. Our boys started out with flying colors, but developed the so-called "inferiority complex," which resulted in a losing streak. Nevertheless, considering the opposition encountered, the D. M. L. C. basketeers have showed themselves a superior team and are worthy of our support.

Trounce Bethany On Dec. 5, Luther encountered Bethany on our home floor and defeated them to the tune of 39-10. The boys made fast work of it and led the invaders 22-4 in the first half. After another rally by Luther, the opponents took the short end of the score, 39-10.

D. M. L. C. Roeekle, f Beck, f Behrens, c Lehmann, g Wacker, g Wiechmann, f Bartels, f E. Sievert, c Bremer, g Albrecht, g : Rausehke, f...

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'Kato Teachers Take Luther Into Camp The rangy Mankato team defeated Luther at Mankato on Dec. 12. A low and narrow gymnasium hampered our team considerably, and consequently many shots went wild and hit the ceiling. The Teachers garnered many points through the efforts of their tall center. The score at the end of the game was 42-15.

D. M. L. C. Roeckle, f Beck, f Behrens, c Wacker, g Lehmann, g Bartels, f..

Albrecht, 'g Sieved, c Bremer, g Wiechmann, f..

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Pennington, f Conover, f..

Kienholz, c Cramblit, g Wi1likson, g HOlen, f..

Bensehoter, c Deets, g Rice, f Meixner

2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0

5

5' 11

FG FT

P

5 6 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 1

2 0 1 0 1 () 0 0 0 0

(} 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 (} 0

19

4

7

Mankato Again Wins On January 11, the Teachers were again victorious over D. M. L. C. The Teachers had a serious tussle on their hands with Luther in the first half. which ended in Mankato's favor, 13-7. The game was very rough, and our boys furnished some mighty fine competition. During the last three minutes of the game the Teachers ran Luther off their feet and piled up enough points to attain an overwhelming majority.

The game was lost, 35-16.

D. M. L. C. Roeckle, f., Bartels, f..........

Wacker, c Lehmann, g Bremer, g Wiechmann, f Albrecht, g Behrens, c Beck, f..

R. Sievert, g

FG FT 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

7

2

P

MANKATO T. C.

0 2 2 0 0 3 0 0

Conover, f..

Pennington, f............

Rice, c Kienholz, g Hoerr, g Cramblit, g.: Benschoter, c Willikson, g

o

0

FG FT 3

P

2 1 5 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0

17

1

6

3

7

D. M. L. C. 20-Rocheste,r J. C. 25 The "Voecksonians" journeyed to Rochester on January 15, and were defeated by. the strong Rochester J. C. quint. Rochester held the lead in the half, 12-8. Luther's being held scoreless during the third quarter probably lost the game for them. A grand comeback was staged in the final quarter, but the gap left in the third quarter could not be filled.' The fact that our boys played on the opponent's floor may account for the difference of five points by which they lost.

THE

D. M. L. C.

FG FT' P

Roeckle, f

2

1

1

0

4

2 1 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 0

1 2 1 1 0

0

0

0

9

2

11

f.................... 4

Bartels,

Wacker, c

Lehmann, Bremer, g

g

Wiechmann,

Beck, f Behrens,

f

c

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ROCHESTER J. C. FG FT Gibbons, f......

1 1 Schock, f......

2 0 Ruddy, c 3 1 Hargesheimer, Eberts, g Mallanen, f

g

P

2 1 1

2 0 1

1 0 3 0 3 0

10

5

7

N. U. H. S. Defeats D. M. L. C. The local high school quint defeated Luther, 19-12, at the college gymnasium Jan. 19. The Maroon and Gray were jinxed, and consistent tries at the basket failed.

The half ended in a deadlock, 7-7. New VIm advanced their scoring column through long shots in the last half and won the game by a score of 19-12.

D. M. L. C. Roeekle, f Bartels, f..

Wacker, c Lehmann, g Bremer, g Beck, f.;. . R. Sievert, g Behrens, c......

FG FT

P

2

1

1

1 0 0

0 4 0

0 2 0

0

1

3

0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

o路

N. U. H. S. Reinhart, f..

Wagner, f..

Preuss, c Emmeri-ch, g Spaeth, g Huelskamp, g

FG FT. P 2

1

2

3 0 1路 2 0 0

2 3 0

2

0

3

0

0

2

8

3

11

366

The D. M. L. C. Reserves lost to the New VIm H. S. Reserves.

Swamped by Co. "A" Co. "A" handed us one of the worst defeats of the season on Jan. 23, on our own floor, when they smashed through for a 39-16 victory. The first half was played on even terms. However, the last half was a complete upset, and the Co. cagers netted basket after basket. Luther路 was unable to stop the attack of the invaders and had to yield to their stronger opponents.

D. M. L. C. Roeckle, f..

Bartels, f...

Wacker, c Lehmann, g Bremer, g Beck,

f..

Behrens, c R. Sievert, g

FG FT 2 1

P

CO. A.

1

Peuser, f..

Stelljes, f..

Marks, c Emmerich, g J. Emmerich, g Reglin, f

3 0 1

0 2 1

3 1 1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0 0

0 0

1 0

FG FT 0 0

P

0

4 8 2

3 1 2

3 2 2

0 2

0

1 2

16

1

7 10

648

D. M. L. C. Conquers St. Paul Luther .

One of the most exciting games this season was played on our college court Jan. 30.路 Our old 'rivals, St. Paul Luther, had to yield to the fast, darting attack of the

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Maroon and Gray. Both teams fought hard, but St. Paul threatened to overcome us when they tied the game, 24-24, in the last 45 seconds of the battle. For a moment it appeared as though we were headed for another defeat.

However, in the overtime period Luther forged its way through the opponents' defense and dropped in the winning basket. The waning minutes of the fray found St . .Paul trying in vain to tie the count again. The final score was 26-24.

D. M. L. C. Roeckle, f....................

Bartels, f...............

Wacker, c......

Lehmann, g Bremer, g Beck, f..

R. Sievert, g Behrens, c Albrecht, g Wiechmann, f

FG FT 1 0 4 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0

P 2 1 1 2 1 1

3

0

1

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

12

2

9

ST. PAUL LUTHER Cornils, f.......

Schlachty, f..

Ferne, c......

Gustafson, g Windemuth, g Bergquist, f..

Anderson, f......

FG FT 2 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 9

6

P 1 3 2 4 1 0 0 11

D. M. L. C. Noses Out N. U. H. S. On Feb. 2, Luther had a grand comeback and nosed out the strong high school quint, 20-15. The boys put on an exhibition of excellent passing and accurate shooting.

Quite a number of students turned out to give the team their support. The unexpected defeat for the "Harmanites" was the first one handed them this season. Luther led by a wide margin in the half, 11-5. New VIm tried to overcome our lead by long shots but was unsuccessful.

Our team staged a successful stalling game, and managed to retain possession of the ball and thus prevented New VIm from scoring.

D. M. L. C. Roeckle, f Bartels, f..

Wacker, c.

Lehmann, g R. Sievert, g..............

Beck, f Behrens, c

FG !<'T P 2 2 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 1

N. U. H. S. Eacker, f Reinhart, f..

Preuss, c...

Huelskamp, g Spaeth, g Wagner, f

FG FT 1 1 1 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 4

8

7

P 0 3 2 0 2 0 7

4 10

D. M. L. C. Again Conquers St. Paul Luther D. M. L. C. upset St. Paul Luther on their own floor on Feb. 12, by a score of 19-17. This was the first time in two years that St. Paul lost a game on their own court.

St. Paul was out to avenge the defeat they received earlier in the season, consequently, the game was rough. Our team was at a disadvantage with the loss of three firststringers in their lineup. The reserves stepped in to take

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THE

their place and did some hard score verifies.

FG FT D. M. L. C. 1 Roeckle, f .................... 5 2 Bar-tels, f .................... 0 c................... 1 2 Behrens, 0 g..................0 Bremer, 2 R. Sievert, g.............. 0 0 E. Sievert, c................ 0 0 f ............ 0 Wiechmann,

P 1 1 2 2 1 0 1

7

8

6

fighting

which the final

ST. PAUL LUTHER FG FT 0 f ............ 2 Windemuth, Sehlachty, f ................ 1 1 0 Meyer, c...................... 0 g.............. 0 0 Gustafson, 0 g.............. 1 Kapellush, 0 f ................ 1 Anderson, 0 Adams, g....................0 Fern-e, c...................... 1 0 f..................

2 0 Johnson,

8

1

P 1 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 2 10

D. M. L. C. Loses to Concordia The following evening Luther engaged in a battle with the Concordia basketeers.

Luther led their opponents, 6-2, in the first quarter, but the. second quarter turned out to be a different story. Concordia started a rally of accurate shooting and put the ball through the hoop from all angles of the floor. This put Concordia in a favorable position.

They led at the half, 21-11. Luther came back with de.termination and outscored their opponents in the last half; however, they could not overcome the lead held by Concordia. Hopes for winning were not shattered until the last few minutes of play, when the fast Concordians looped the ball through the basket several times in quick succession to make sure of a victory. The final score was 26-19.

FG FT D. M. L. C. 2 Roeckle, f .................... 2 0 f .................... 2 Bartels, 0 c.................. 2 Behrens, 0 'Bremer, g....................O R. Sievert, g..............1 1 0 E. Si-evert, c.............. 1 0 0 Riess, g........................

P 3 0 1 1 0 0 2

3

7

8

FG FT CONCORDIA 0 f.. ................1 Bertram, 3 Beltz, . f ........................ 4 0 'I'eyler, c...................... 2 1 2 g..................

Krueger, Steinhort, g................1 0 0 Ko-ch, f ......................... 0 0 Hafne-r, g....................1 11

4

l:' 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 ~J

Co. "A" Trips D. M. L. College- Quint The Luther floor-men again lost to Co. "A" at the armory Feb. 19. Co. "A" did not win by such an overwhelming majority as in the previous game, Luther, however, could not ring up a victory against their superior opponents. The score at the half was 16-11 in Co. "A's" favor. The Co. staged a rally in the last half, thus shattering all hopes for a Luther victory. The final score was 30-20.

THE

39

D. M. L. C. Wacker, f Bartels, f Behrens, c..

R. Sievert, g Lehman, g Rceckle, f Bremer, g Beck, f Ries, g Wiechmann, f E. Sievert, c......

D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

p

CO. "A"

0 0 1 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0

4 Regelin, f ....................

2 Stelljes, f ....................

Marks, c...................... 1 R. Emmerich, g ........ 2 J. Emmerich, g .......... 3 0 Steffel, f ......................

9

2

7

FG FT

FG FT

12

2 0 1 1 2 0

P 3 1 3 1 0 0

6

8

D. M. L. C. Loses to Concordia Cagers Concordia College won a hard-fought basketball game from D. M. L. College on February 27, on the Luther Court. This was the second of the two-game series played this year.

The lanky center of Concordia controlled practically every tip-off, and with a deliberate passing attack, the Concordia Comets worked the ball into scoring territory.

Luther held the Comets for a 5-3 score in the first quarter, but fell back and trailed in the half, 13-4. The Concordia quint was dead on their shots, sinking them from every possible angle of the floor. Luther was on the offensive most of the time trying to stop the scoring possibilities of the invaders. The Comets spurted late in the final period to bring the score up to a 29-14 mark.

D. M. L. C. Bartels, f Roeckle, f Behrens, c Lehmann, g R. Sievert, g Wacker, f.. : Beck, f...

E. Sievert, c Ries, g

FG FT

P

CONCORDIA

0 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0

Bertram, f Beltz, f 'I'eyler, c Krueger, g Steinhorst, g

0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

6

2 10

D. M. L. C. I6-Bethany

FG FT

P

1 3 1 6 1

1 1 1 2 0

2 3 0 1 2

12

5

8

15

A greatly improved Bethany College basketball team showed a complete reversal of earlier season form and held a stronger Dr. Martin Luther College quint to a one point victory. Playing a slow and deliberate game, the Luther boys took the lead from the very start.

Beck led off with 3 points, and Wacker and Lehmann added five more to Bethany's one. The score at the quarter was 8-1. It looked as though D. M. L. C. would duplicate its earlier

THE

40

D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

season victory. Bethany, however, score to a 11-9 count at half time.

rallied

to bring

the

Luther, using a fast break, opened the third quarter with two baskets and a free throw. From this point of the game the D. M. L. C. boys lost their shooting eye and failed to convert many attempts at the basket for the remaining part of the game. Bethany again was able to rally, and a basket and two free throws by Reetz and Meyer narrowed the scoring gap, and Bethany drew within three points of the Luther team.

With two minutes of play remaining, Meyer of Bethany sank a basket from the center of the floor to end the scoring for the evening.

The game was interrupted by frequent substitutions for both sides. Meyer, with 8 points, was the main cog of Bethany's scoring machine. Although the Bethany team put up a great game, V. Lehmann and R. and E. Sievert were able to close their D. M. L. C. basketball careers with a victory.

D. M. L. C. Beck, f E. Sievert, f-路c Behrens, c.

R. Sievert, g Lehmann, g : Wacker, c-f Roeckle, f Ries, g Bremer, g Bartels, f

FG FT 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 O 0 0 0 1 1 6

4

P 0 3 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 1

BETHANY Roeder, L Abrahamson, Meyer, c Schrupp, g Reetz, g Strom, g Teigen, f..

f..

FG FT 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 5

5

P 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 7

10

Basketball Among D. M. L. C. Co-Eds -The basketball season shows more girls participating in this sport this year than ever before in the history of our school. Each class has enough players to have a complete team. The respective classes have elected captains with results as follows: III Normal, Frances Redeker; II Normal, Edna Deibert; I Normal, Esther Bode; 12th Grade, Elizabeth Wilson; 10th Grade; Dorthea Birkholz; 11th Grade, Beata Moldenhauer; 9th Grade, Ruth Ries.

Professor Voecks has drawn up a schedule of intramural games. Thus far each team has played seven games in the league. The II Normal class heads the list with no defeats.

10th Grade has won all its games but one. More complete results will be published in the next issue of the Messenger. , (V; H.)路 .

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THE D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

Meilahn Zahn drove his car into a mud puddle to see whether it had floating power.

Follow Through Prof: "Everything that was through the governor of the feast."

served

had

to

go

One for Ripley Bliefernicht: "It may be an astonishing statement you, but Wilbrecht is a human being."

to

Schauer: "Are you going to the show?"

Fat: "Do you think I'm crazy?"

Schauer: "I am."

Fat has invented a new alibi:

"I missed a streetcar."

Stranger: "I am raising money for the unemployed.

Would you like to get in on it?"

Gruenhagen: "Yes indeed. How much can you let me have?"

Lucky Strike If you don't believe that a girl can be successful in getting her picture on an advertisement, just watch her smoke.

Scotch?

Sam: "Let's take some girls to the Blue Lantern."

Clarence Radl: "All right. Who is on a diet?"

The teacher says the pupil is a fool. the commas ad libitum.)

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Absence Makes the, Heart Grow Fonder Dalie: "Did you hear that the college will be improved?"

Vera: "Yeah? When are you leaving?"

Edna Steinberg Broadcasts a Basketball Game The arbitrator, vulgarly known as the referee, has taken the brown, cutaneous sphere to the geometrical center of the court. The participants are ready "ad bellum gerendum" for the sake of their respective Alma Mater.

"To win or not to win" seems to be the question. The whistle has been set into vibration-the contest has commenced. Wacker's phalangelical appendages speed into the ether and grasp the spheroid.' He hurls the innocent object of so much attention to his colleague, Roeckle.

What a paradigm of cooperation! Roeckle propels the globular body to the ferrous hoop. The sphere now becomes slightly oblate due to its impact with the backboard.

The whistle again blows and the idiotic procedure is repeated.

Editor's note: Use Webster's International.

With or Without Prof. :' "If you had a steak and divided it into two equal parts, what would you have?"

Beck: "Halves."

Prof.: "And if you divided the halves into equal parts again, what would you have then?"

Beck: "Quarters."

Prof.: ."And again ?"

Beck: "Eighths."

Prof.: "Again?"

Beck: "Sixteenths."

Prof.: "And once more?"

Beck: "Hamburger." . Coming Down toEarth " Timm: "What's the height of dumbness?" .

Les: "About five feet, eight, aren't you?"

In Germany people walk a mile for a "kummel."

(Wrappedin cellophane?)

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CONTENTS

'" '" '" '" '" '" LITERARY a.) Be Thou Our Guide b.)" Class Will ,: :.~ c.) Class Will d.) Americanism-What It Appears to Be and What It Ought to Be e.) The Gothic Element in Brown's Novels

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EDITORIAL Why Not? We Can ALUMNI . EXdHANGE NOTES COLLEGE NOTES CO-ED NOTES LOCALS ATHLETICS JOKES ,

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EMANUEL

ARNDT

GEROLD BECKER

"SONNY"

"GARY"

Litera-rll Soc:iety 4, Ooncert Choij' 3, Marlut S-ingers 3.

Literaru Society 4, Messengel' Staff 3, Class President. 1926-27, Football 2 L, Basketball Mctnager 1, Band 1.

I'm for the world, and the world's for me, but-I'm satisfied with only one person. Such seems to be the attitude of Emanuel-eone of the pioneers of the class of '32. I-Ie is one of the few who -have been members of the class 'since the Freshman year in high school. He is blessed with capabilities which carry him a far way in the intellectual line. His virtuosity in music and fluency in speaking well illustrate the result of his abilities when diligently applied..

Those who are quite intimate with him realize that his private hobby is the raising of, gladioli.

Possibly some day he may develop into' a second Burbank. Be that as it may, we leave the future to him.

Emanuel's carefree man n e r s have often been taken amiss by his associates. In spite of that fact he is a friend worth having. He is an ardent advocate of dress reform for men. His motto in this particular field is "the less the better." Let's hope he is not a second Ghandi in the making. We shall see what we shall see!

"You, Dizzy Yap."

.Gar~ . is frank, having a happy dIspOSItIOnand a straightforward ~anner. \Vhen discussing certain matters at class meetings, he will express his opinion.

If you're searching for someone with whom to argue, come around and meet this chap. If you can defeat him, you ought to become a lawyer.

Argumentation may be a hobby' sleeping, 'however, is a habit with him. It is a rare occurrence if Gary ever makes his appearance for breakfast on time. .

Although he leaves us quite frequently to go home, his faithful Ford always brings him back. He says, "Even though the Ford is old, it'll take me wherever I desire to go:" Not only his Ford, but also his pipe is his faithful f'riend..

Lately we have seen him roll cigarettes. New fad! Nevertheless Gary, we enjoy seeing you with your old stand-by-the pipe.

His only ambition besides being a teacher is to show the world how to farm.

"Shucks, Ich. hab 'nix' gebockt. tu auch. 'l1,ix.' n

HAYMOND

EDITH BODE

BEHMER

"HAY"

Lite1"C!1'ySociety 4, President. I, Concert Choir 1, Jlfessenger Staff 3, Class President. 1930-32.

Meet the president of our class.

Perhaps he can inform you how to conduct class meetings. Not only has Ray had experience as president of our class, but. he has also guided the destinies of the Phi Delta Sigma Literary Society as well. 111en, too, his successful work as business manager of the D. M. L. C. Jll[ossenge1' cannot he left unmentioned. .

Ray hails from the great open West, and possibly the Nebraska climate has made him so goodnatured. He has been a diligent student and believes in making the most of every opportunity.

Perhaps tha t is the secret of h is success.

There is really no particular sport that he majors in, but Ray tried his hand at baseball, class basketball, and during the last few weeks he has taken a great interest in horseshoe. Ray has proved himself a success both in and out of the classroom, and we can rest assured he will continue to do so in the future, "Tr11 a new one; that one hns zohiskors alreads),"

"MICKEY"

Literary Choir 2.

Society

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Concert

Mickey happens to be one of the three girls who attended college from her Freshman year.

Her friendly disposition has won her many friends.

Edith diligently applies herself to her work. Although she was rather quiet in the classroom, nevertheless we all know that "StilI waters rURdeep!"

Edith has been a member of the concert choir for two years. Her alto voice will be missed very much in the coming year. She is also a member of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society. Her favorite sports are tennis and basketball.

She also enjoys hikes.

Patience should be her middle name. Her work at the practice school showed that she possessed this quality, so essential in the teaching profession.. Moody at times, she nevertheless is worth knowing. When advice is needed, one needs only to turn to her.

Yes, Edith has a smile for every one, even when things don't seem so pleasant. Just keep it up, and it may bring you success in the future.

MATHILDA

FAHJE

"TILLY"

WILMA GENZ "WILLIE"

LitM路,zry Society 4.

No, 'tis not "Tilly the Toiler," nor Tilly, the great general, but Tilly of Chokio. She is a woman of few words, and we of our senior class know that she was a member of the "Stille Eeke."

Tilly, as another pioneer of the class; has shown her faithfulness to dear D. M. L. C. during these past seven years. Her modesty in the classroom would be a detriment to 'her if her capabilities had not been proved in her work. She may appear to be a quiet and shy person; but Tilly enjoys nothing more than a long chat and a hearty laugh. Those who have known her these seven years agree that she is a patient, conscientious, and hard worker. Her patience will be of great value to her in her future work.

Tilly is a fine companion and very easy to get along with. She is on the, spot with her assistance when she sees that help is needed.

She is also one who can hardly wait for her name to appear upon the chapel list, for those mornings are the happiest moments of her life.

"Paszauf,"

If she will, she will, and you may depend on't; if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.

Don't become frightened; it's only Willie. Although she may look sedate, there is a ray of sunshine and a friendly heart concealed in her. A quiet girl she is indeed, but choose enough paces if anything ever goes contrary to her wish. "I'm broad-minded until you criticize me or mine" describes her to perfection.

Wilma, qulte different from most girls, has that element within her reach to be frank with each and everyone" whether blond' or brunette. Once her decision is made, like a strong foundation it unmoved remains.

Her sarcasm and pert remarks result in many an interesting argument and enliven many a weary day.

Willie is a voluminous reader, but her love for books has not made a recluse out of her. She is seen regularly on the kitten ball diamond, the tennis court, and the basketball floor. Her ability to "roll them in" has' made her the pride of the team and the joy of the class.

"That C1'azyhalf-wit."

HENRY

GRUENHAGEN

MARGUERITE

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Lite?路ary Society 4, President. 1, Concert Choir 8, College Monitor, Football 1, Baseball :2; Basketball 3 L, Band 1, Marlut S'ingers 3.

Literary Choir 1.

HAMISCH

"MARGE"

Society

4,

Concert

Not only have we representatives in our class from the neighboring states, but also from a farwestern state. Our class would not be complete without Marge; a Washingtonian.

Meet our college monitor, Mr. Gruenhagen. You can see that his position has caused him little wor-, ry. Hailing from the capital city, he has imbibed the natural instinct of governing his fellow men. He She came to New Ulm in her rules with an iron hand made of Senior year, never realizing that lead. Ably assisted, Henry can this city was more German than boast of his success. As an elo- her home town-Puyallup.

Her quent speaker. a straightforward .main ambition is to be a great character, and one able to enjoy German scholar. Don't give up, a good time, Henry has won the Marge; it's never too late to learn. admiration of the students. His abilities have been recognized in She believes that physical trainformer years, having served as ing is just as essential as mental class treasurer and as president of training and is especially fond of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary So- basketball and tennis. ciety.

"A friend in need is a friend At the beginning of the year indeed." Those who have assostrains of sweet music issued forth ciated with Marge know that she from Henry's room. He had be- lives according to this statement. come the proud owner of a saxo- She is very sociable. To say that phone. Whenever he wishes to she is sympathetic would only be while away his troubles he picks touching the surface, for she seems up his beloved saxophone and to be able to put herself into the starts wailing away, not realizing next one's position. She always that he is putting his roommates has a bright smile for all who and other innocent students into come her way. misery. 'His musical ability has not as yet inspired him to comIn short-active, pleasant, talkapose the harmony to a favorite ex- tive, dependable-e-that's our Marpression: "You Hungarian Jew." guerite.

"I guess I told him."

"Now I know you'?路e lying."

FREDERICK

HORMANN

"FRED"

Liierars) Society f!.

Fred, f-Ilowing the example of all grea t men, hails from a small village: namely, West Salem, Wisc-nsin. For all we know, he is the "big shot" of j hat town. Like all great men, he has his favorite hobbies, expressions, and pastimes.

His favorite expression, when a questionable subject arises, is a philosophical or the more boisterous expression cf doubt, "Aw, go on." As his hobby he seems to enjoy excursioning in his fourwheel dromedary, or as the creatu re is otherwise called, a model T. His favorite pastime is the producing of substitutes for sweets: namely, cigarettes. At this he is as unconcerned as a child playing with his toys. His cigarette machine is a gift to the boys at the dormitory. It affords pastime for Fred, and cigarettes for the smokers in the dormitory.

In times to come, we shall always remember Fred as an athletic enthusiast whose lusty voice cheered the team on many of its past engagements. May he prosper in his future undertakings.

ARMIN HUHN "CH1CK1E"

Lite1'a1'y Society 4, Concert Choir 2, Football 1 L, 1I1a1路I1,.t S路in.qers 1.

A rather good-natured member of our class, also a hard worker, one who is bound to make headway. He has the personal initiative necessary.

He is what is known as a plugger, usually sitt.ng in the front of the classroom so he can be nearer the sources of all knowledge.

Music is one of his many ambitions. Although he maintains "Ich gebrauch j a das Prakticen mehr wie du," he is an accomplished organ player.

"Chickie" is one of the foremost exponents of "New Ulmer Deutch" in j he class of '32. Possibly that accounts for his "Eifer" when he reads. VI' ere it possible for him to articulate as fast as he desires. it would be almost an imposslbillty to follow him in his '''linguistic travels."

His fiery temperament seems to follow him in all his endeavors.

Do not become frightened because he looks so angrily at you.

It's only his way, for here a cloud is hiding a smiling interior. His lusty laugh easily locates him for anyone that is attempting to find him.

"Bog pardon."

ERVIN

HUMANN "ERV"

Literary Socief:y 4.

Many a rose is known to blush unseen, but this one is to be seen.

He comes from the sandy plains of the Sunshine State. Erv had to work hard in order to obtain a schooling.

Ervin has the job of going down to the past office and shag the letters up to the lonesome and homesick students of D. M. L. C. He has had this position for several years, Ervin is a diligent worker and hates to shirk his duty. He has one characteristic all his own-his peculiar manner of speaking. He is too busy practicing his organ lesson or studying his daily lessons and therefore does not find enough spare time to become interested in athletics.

All men must play, and even Erv enjoys a game of horseshoe.

One day the play spirit got the best of him, and he played only 13 games.

Erv is also a nature lover and is often seen going on hikes with other students. In spite of all, Erv is a good fellow at all times and is easy to get along with.

"Dag Nabit."

GERHARD

KOEPSELL

"RED"

Literary Soc'iety 3, Concert Choi1' 1, Football 2 L, Band 2. "lch bin wieder reingeflopped."

This is a favorite phrase of classmate "Red." . He seems to possess what psychologists so "knowingly" term an inferiority complex. Regardless of that fact, Koepsell .believes that it is well worth trying.

If at first' you don't succeed, try and try again.

Gerhard has shown this In- his class work and in his participation in athletics. All who understand him find him a sociahle fellow, willing at all times to do his part.

"Red" at times exhibits that type of temperament so characteristic of the "auburn fold."

His sturdy build and his plucky spirit enabled him to fill the position on the football team satisf'actorily. Similarly so, in basketball he was a valuable player, doing his bit on the class team.

As drum major of the college band he worked diligently to get the boys in trim for marching.

Gerhard has his faults like the rest of us; nevertheless it is well worth shaking the hand of friendship he extends, "Icb. bin wieder reingejlopped."

VICTOR

LEHMANN

FREDEHIC

MANTHEY

"FA'!'"

"FRITZ"

Litemry Societs) 8, Concert Choir 8, Football 2 L, Basketball 3 L, Baseball 2 L, Ma1'Zut Singers 3.

Literar:1J Society 8, Concert Ohoi1' 2, Meeeenaer Staff 1, Football 1, Band 8, Ma1'lut Singers 2.

Here's our good friend Victor, who hails from Wisconsin. He is known to all of our students as "Fat." He is an able athlete. His strong voice accounts for his being in the choir. His ability to sing has brought him many worthy friends.

His favorite hobby is scaring the next man. This accounts partly for his vinegar look.

He may seem harsh, but he won't hurt you. Barking dogs don't bite.

During his stay at' our institution, many have looked forward to athletic games just to see "Fat" perform.

Stop! Here comes Fritz down the corridor; he is bubbling over with joy. He is the comedian of the class.

If you observe this man more closely, you will notice that he possesses two extreme natures.

Some days you will find him in a friendly, humorous mood, but if things don't come his way. or if he by mistake went to breakfast before the third bell, he will be grouchy. Between these two you will always see him fluctuating.

He believes that when lessons get a little tough, just run a little bluff.

"You talk as if you don't know anyt11!ing."

Fritz tries his utmost to convince us that he is a staid and serious person, but his jovial conduct and happy disposition too often tell us differently. His spontaneity and wit have made him popular in any gathering.

Nevertheless Fritz can be serious. He never shirks from honest work; he is studious and industrious. He is active in class and other college activities, whether they be athletic, literary or purely social. His love for argument has made him an excellent debater.

Music also has found fertile soil in his curly head to which his ability on the organ and in the choir and band testifies.

'Of a friendly disposition, he is well liked by everyone, and often is the time that he has kept a whole bunch of "fellows" laughing.

"Hey; pst!

Hello, yO~t!"

CLARA

MEHLBERG "CLARA"

LitM'a1'Y SoC'iety 4.

Can anyone picture Clara not laughing? It's like trying to imagine the world without sunshine.

There is a smile on her face from morning until night. Clara is an amiable, willing person, and she is friendly and pleasant toward every one. There was one time when Clara was not always smiling, however, and that was when she was expounding rules of pedagogy at the practice school. Rumor has it that she was so stern her own friends didn't recognize her.

Be that as it may, we all know Clara will some day "make them toe the mark."

When speaking of weaknesses, we must confess Clara has very few, but one is quite apparent, and that is she likes the dark. Strange but true! And she doesn't want this darkness illumined by any flashlight either!

Clara is very musically inclined, being skillful as producing plaintive wails from her saxophone.

Keeping time seems to be her shortcoming in organ playing, but it really doesn't hinder her from being quite accomplished in that field.

"Kid, I know I'm going to fiop !"

LESTER

RAABE

"LES"

Literm'Y Society 4, Concert.

Choir 1, Football 2 L, Band 7, President 2.

Small in stature, but great in personality.

These words introduce to you one of the most illustrious members of the class of 1932. "Good things certainly corne in small packages."

Les has shown his ability in several activities. As a student, his records are to be envied. Although he is very quiet during recitation hours, he saves his energy for examinations.

As quarterback of the football team, his shouts for encouragement inspired his teammates to fight hard for their Alma Mater.

Last, but not least, Les is known among us as a musician of some consequence. He has served the band faithfully for seven years.

Outside of classes Les also has his favorite hobbies. He finds great _ delight in arguing, be the question ever so small and trivial. Les is gifted with the knack of making witty remarks. His humor and . sarcasm have been a source of pleasure to us all on many occasions.

"Oh no, my dea-r!"

FRANCES

REDEKER

ROLAND SCHAUER "CH1EF"

"TOPSY"

Concert Choir 8.

The most dignified girl in III Normal! Wait a minute-she only looks that way! She frankly admits herself that she is not dignified. And who would want her to be? We would all miss those coquettish glances she sends and those sparkling brown eyes she rolls when reproved or teased in class. Just seeing her do those things brings joy into the other-wise dull life of the students.

"Rolling her own" is not Frances' only accomplishment. She is quite an expert on the organ, and at singing it is hard to find her superior.

Away from school life and its cares, Frances is a jolly, happygo-lucky girl brimming over with clever expressions and original ideas. If you don't believe it, get into an argument with her.

To complete the picture of a typical co-ed we must mention her name among the athletes in our college. Frances nobly and conscientiously fulfilled the office of captain of her class basketball team for the past two years. "eVil! you ever .grow up?"

Literars} Choir 12.

Society

3,

Concert

His nickname fits him perfectly.

Were it not for the paternal care which he exerts upon his fellow students, the dormitory life would undoubtedly be in constant turmoil. His melodious voice is heard not only in the choir, but also in the halls of the dormitory when be is paging some student to answer a telephone call.

Although he has been with us for a period of only three years, he is known to every student, and judging from the -number of letters he receives, he must also be acquainted with quite a few other people. He will do almost anything for a classmate; in fact he has a kind heart for everybody.

His devastating, death-dealing words are the long drawn out expression of "Oh Yeah!" In a discussion his opponent, whoever it may be, very seldom has an answer for such an unexpected attack. He makes an honest effort in all his work May his plucky spirit enable him to succeed regardless of obstacles.

"011.Yeah!"

ERICH

SIEVERT

RICHARD SIEVERT

"EX"

"RICK"

Literaru Society 4, Football Manager 2, Basketball 1 L, Band 1.

Liieraru Society 4, Football :3 L, Basketball 3 L, Marlut Singers 1.

With Erich we introduce to you the first of the. Sievert twins. To judge by appearances, one would never think Erich and his brother, Richard, are twins. But miracles do happen.

Make way for "Little Sievert."

Here we have the other half of our Sievert twins.

Erich finds his greatest delight in studying, riding the organ bench, and arguing with his teachers. His scholastic achievements are, indeed, commendable.

Erich is versatile. His interests are many. As manager of the football team he displayed remarkable ability, especially when strutting about with the tackling dummy on his shoulder. On the basketball floor he was known as "dead shot Sievert." His tall stature made it possible for him to tip many a ball through the net, and as center-well, "nuf sed."

As a musician, Ex is not confined to the organ bench. The military sound of drums awakened his interests in the band.

"Oh No!!"

In Rick we have the practical athlete of the twins. While Eric spends his time as manager and reader of the sports page, Rick devotes his time to playing. Rick will be remembered as the plunging back and end on Our football team. On the basketball team he upheld the guard position. He also delights in arising early to practice with the discus, shot put. and at tennis.

Rick can always be found by turning in the direction of the worst noise. There you -will find him engaged in some friendly debate with his friends. His favorite topic is "Is sawdust wood?"

He npholds the negative and hasn't won yet.

Rick is a cheerful, happy-golucky fellow, never letting studies interfere with pleasure. His sunny smile has won him many friends; it also has carried him through many a cloudy day, and we believe it will continue to win victories for him in the future.

"Gimme a cigarette /"

GILBERT

TIMM

"GIB"

Literary Society 3, President 1, Concert Choir 2, Basketball Manager 1, ],{arl1~tSingers 2.

"If you come down to my. room and find me studying, wake me."

This exclamation, directly or indirectly, seems to be one of his favorites. Even though he does create an impression of listlessness by such a remark, nevertheless Timm frequently proves to be an alert and ready student. So busy and ambitious is he at times that when questioned about preparing some particular subject he hastily remarks, "I'll do it in the morning," and off he is againbusy as ever.

His lusty bass voice has won much admiration for him, both as a speaker and as a singer. His efficiency as a leader has been shown i"iJ.his successful piloting of the Phi Gamma Rho literary society.

Gib, with his happy-go-lucky d.isposition, has proved himself to be a man of his own judgment; once he has made a decision, never will 'it be changed.

'I'imm's chief athletic endeavors center around basketball and tennis. As a baseball fan Timm's interests center around his hometown Milwaukee "Brewers."

"I'll do it in the mornin.q."

'MEILAHN

ZAHN

"PAUL"

Literaru Society 4, Fres'ident 1, Concert Choir 3, Messenger Staff 3, Editor-in-Chief 2; Class President 1928-30, Football 1 L, Band 5, Director 3, Marlut Singers 3, Director 2.

Paul has a personality that is desired' by many. He is always friendly to everyone, and he has a good word for all whom he meets and with whom he associates.

Of the various activities in which Paul participated,' music occupied the most prominent place. Under his able direction both the band and the Marlut Singers have accomplished much. His virtuosity in piano and organ playing has been shown by his successful appearances in concerts.

In football Paul proved that a little man is often more valuable than a larger one. For never having played football before, he did remarkably well.

Paul entered our class as a Junior in high school and since then his diligent work has placed him high in scholastic standing ..

Paul is also oratorically inclined; he has twice been chosen as a member of debating teams.

Because of his reliability and straightforwardness he was chosen as inspector of the music hall.

"What do you know about it?"

MARLUT

SINGERS

Front row: M. Zahn, director; A. Lober, E. Wiechman, E. Arndt, R. Jacobs, H. Gruenhagen, V. Lehmann, F. Manthey. Second row: A.. Huhn, G. Timm, F. Beck, A. Meier, E. Behrens, C. Wacker, R. Sievert, F. Broker.

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'l'HE D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

BE THOU OUR GUIDE!

0 LORD, WITH US ABIDE

Be Thou our Guide in future days, Inspire our hearts, direct our ways; Thy bounteous grace on us bestow, Throughout our sojourn here below.

Be Thou the Shepherd of Thy fold, Protect the young, console the old, Continue ever at our side, o Lord, be ever Thou our Guide.

Our Father, who in heaven art, Create in us a contrite heart; So that in thought and deed and word, We ever honor Thee, 0 Lord!

Thou fount of love, with us abide, Through death's dark vale, be Thou our Guide; In all dis.ress, whate'er befall, Be Thou a Friend to one and all.

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Shepherd, Father, Guide, and Friend, OIl all our ways do Thou attend; So that our work alone may be An exaltation, Lord, to Thee.

And when we leave this world of care, Then this shall be our fervent prayer, "Remain Thou ever at our side, Be Thou our Guide! with us abide!"

F. M. '32.

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D. M. L. C. MESSENGER

CLASS WILL

We, the class of 1932, in full possession of our mental faculties, do hereby solemnly declare this to be our last will and testament: To the present freshman class we will the privilege of taking care of our class tree.路 Our love for controversy we will to the succeeding III Normal class.

To the I Normal class we bequeath our decorum in the library.

To each library book we leave several distinct finger prints and turned down corners.

And individually I, Emanuel Arndt, do solemnly bequeath my ability as organist to Fred Beck, and my love for books to Edwin Sorgatz.

I, Gerold Becker, do hereby solemnly will my interest in mathematics to William Bartels and my pipe to Gerald Jaster.

I, Edith Bode, do will my privilege of going home over the week-end to Roland Guenther; my ability to write essays I leave to La Verne Berg.

I, Raymond Behmer, do will my serious disposition to Athniel Birkholz. My pencil sharpener to my frequent customers in the dormitory.

I, Mathilda Fahje, will my height to Elisabeth Robisch and my slenderness to Ruth Zabel. My ability to keep sober I leave to Gertrude Boock.

I, Wilma Genz, do will my "it" to Erna Wendt. May "it" bring forth as many results as it did for me. To Irma Bartz, I will my often heard, much-dreaded, and well-aimed sarcasm. May she utilize it to its fullest capacity.

I, Henry Gruenhagen, herewith solemnly bequeath my ability to whistle and to play the mouth-organ to Carl Wacker. My ability to play the saxophone I bestow upon Herman Gurgel. May his success be a lasting one.

I, Marguerite Harnisch, do will my serious moments to Doris Sauer; my German vocabulary I leave to Shorty Roekle.

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I, Frederick Hormann, bequeath with all solemnity my task of furnishing cigarette "butts" to Walter Goeglein.

My innate ability to play my portable phonograph I will to Gretchen Kelpe.

I, Armin Huhn, do hereby most solemnly bequeath my ability and dexterity to strum the "uke" to my contemporaries, August Ehrreich and Julies Dallmann. May they with better success further the course of music "depreciation" started in the dormitory.

I, Ervin Humann, hereby bequeath my mail shagging position to Katie Kent; may she thereby learn the difference between going fishing and shagging mail. My great organ ability I leave to Arthur Glende.

I, Gerhard Koepsell, do proclaim Fred Beck the sole inheritor of my ambition always to remain a loyal Wisconsinite; my success as drum major I do bequeath to my successor.

I, Victor Lehmann, bequeath my prowess on the gridiron to Harold Hemple; my gift of gab to Emanuel Bade.

I, Frederic Manthey, do hereby will my partially ruined clarinet reeds to the future band. My sense of humor I leave to Roland Jacobs. My vivid imagination I leave to Herbert Birner and Ralph Schwanz. To the girls of my Alma Mater I leave my curly hair.

I, Clara Mehlberg, do will my practice periods on organ 23 to "Willie" Arras, provided he uses them in the most advantageous manner, (as I always did). All my empty vaseline jars I will to "Elex" Lahmann, and my great height to Art Meier; may he appreciate it.

I, Lester Raabe, do solemnly bequeath my excess height to Art Meier. My ability to pester people I will to Herman Gurgel. May he make better use of it than I did.

I, Frances Redeker, hereby bequeath my habitual reticence and modest class-demeanor to "Dickey" Boernecke.

I, Roland Schauer, do hereby bequeath all the hash that they can eat to the Greek class of 1932. The odor of my pipe I leave to Roland Guenther and 'Edwin Eggert.

I,. Erich Sievert, do will my interest for baseball to Arnold Tiefel. May he furnish the boys the daily baseball scores, especially those of the "Athletics."

I, Richard Sievert, do hereby bequeath to Julius Wantoch my ability as a vocalizer. May he successfully continue in the work which I have so nobly begun.

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I, Gilbert Timm, do hereby solemnly decree that two and one-half months after my departure from this college, Elmer Behrens shall receive all my "prof-given" powers of sleep.

I, Meilahn Zahn, do hereby bequeath my broken batons and my ability to roll German "r's" to William Arras.

In conclusion, we appoint Gerald Jaster trator of this our last Will and Testament.

as adminis-

Witnesses: Class Tree Emma's Saxophone Frances Redeker's Penny Photo

CLASS WILL Be it hereby known that we, the Tertia of '32, the last to have its crania satiated with the knowledge of Greek, do declare this to be our last will and testament.

To the college kitchen we bequeath our superfluous supply of acute and grave accents. These may be whitewashed and served as rice. Furthermore we leave the alpha privativa and circumflexes to the college to be stuffed and placed on exhibition in the library for the general benefit of the public.

And personally I, Philip Albrecht, do hand down my ability of "stalling" to Harold Riess; my gift of persuasion I leave to Homer Schweppe.

I, Raymond Duehlmeier, do hereby solemnly bequeath my loose-leaf vocal book and all the practicing that goes with it to Wm. Arras. May he become as efficient as I have been! To Arnold Tiefel I leave my long-saved "Banker's Special."

I, Immanuel Frey, bequeath my position as monitor at my table in the dining-room to "Buttercup" Niemeier.

May he receive the magnificent co-operation which I have received in making our table a beauty spot and an example of perfect order. My collection of doughnut holes I leave to Caesar's descendants.

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I, Roy Fuerstenau, do hereby bequeath my knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages to Harold Hempel; may his health remain uninjured under the tremendous pressure. Furthermore, I bequeath my "Little Bass Tuba" to "Schimmel" Nolte and my great singing ability to "Shorty" Roekle.

I, Kurt Hinnenthal, bequeath to Norman Sauer my invigorating morning "ambulatio" and to Henry Raabe my job as college chauffeur.

I, Leo Hinz, do hereby solemnly bequeath my position on the football team to Athaniel Birkholz. Myoid hat I bestow upon Orville Schlenner. May his "bean" be stuffed with knowledge until it fits the hat.

I, Herbert Muenkel, do hereby bequeath my ability to make the rafters ring to Vera Lawrenz. My ability to rattle the keys of a typewriter I bestow upon. "Walt" Goeglein.. May he thereby acquire an efficient and quick means of writing his daily billet doux.

I, Melvin Schwanz, bequeath my knowledge of the irregular Greek verbs to Prof. Victor Voecks.

We, the Tertia of '32, solemnly call to witness the fol. lowing: Die Sieben Bucher der Vern age lung Lena Genstya 255 (b)

Woolley's Handbook of English Composition

As executors of this our last will and testament,

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appoint "Max" Schaller and "Teddy" Bliefernicht.

AMERICANISM-WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE AND WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE Americanism-a marvelous word. It covers, so to speak, a multitude of sins. It is perhaps among the most widely abused words in our language. It is the protection of the scoundrel; it covers the misdeeds of the pharisaic patriot.

How brazenly that word is abused is perhaps at no time more evident than during some national strife, particularly war. The celebration of July Fourth, however, is by-no means to be forgotten.

Our would-be patriots forget the prime requisites for Americanism and put on false airs of pride and patriotism.

Let us just consider conditions as they existed during the recent war.

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I am acquainted with a man who particularly delighted in being considered a true American. Truly, we should be proud to be Americans, but this person-and there were thousands like him-became almost fanatic-like in his endeavor to become known as an American of true blood. He was one of those noble citizens who considered it his duty to sell Liberty Bonds in his community. In his zeal for his country-perhaps due primarily to propaganda-he felt that he who did not purchase bonds was a traitor to the cause.

Upon a certain man's refusal to buy, this true patriot gathered large group of like-minded people and went to this man. A sort of riot followed. Fist-fighting was engaged in. And all this was in the name of Americanism.

And this affair was by no means local. Similar occurrences were reported from various parts of the country. The true American, standing for liberty, seemingly had to say, "I stand for liberty, but others will have to see liberty as I see it, or they cannot be tolerated."

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Another type of Americanism presented during the war was seen in the profiteer. He invariably was also a bond salesman. His name topped the list in his community. He was the real American, and yet, upon investigation, it has been found that it was just this man who, owning some factory, was manufacturing supplies for the government.

He made huge contracts involving millions of dollars. In these contracts he often received exorbitant prices for his goods. Hence millions of dollars squeezed from the poorer classes in the form of Liberty Bonds were flowing directly into the pockets of this war-lord. He was, nevertheless, the true patriot. It was he who urged people on to fight in order to "make the world safe for democracy." At heart he said, "Fight,' you ignorant fools, I'm making millions because of this war. And it only takes a meager part of these millions to keep my son out of actual service." .

Of course, during a war we may expect anything.

Such absurd things, however, continued after the war ceased. A condition equally astonishing arose. In this land of the free we found thousands parading the streets in masks, seemingly ashamed to show themselves. By burning crosses at night they hoped to scare those who differed from them. In this land of the tolerant they were the most intolerant of all. Every citizen who loved freedom was ridiculed and harassed unless his freedom was of the kind preached by the Ku Klux Klan. Yet this Klan organization, garbed in the robes of self-righteousness and one hundred per cent Americanism, exalted itself above all' who reasoned differently from it. And all this was called Americanism.

The ever-present abuse of Americanism, however, is that false notion that i~ order to be a patriot one has to

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display flags and banners of all sorts. This custom is not to be discouraged if properly followed. But how often is not the whole affair hypocritical?

Displaying a flag is good when it is the fruit of Americanism, but it is degrading to the morale of our country when it is to be a proof of Americanism. It is true, we often accept it as a proof, but when we really give the affair due consideration, we look deeper for proofs. Nor is the thinking person led astray by patriotic speeches. On all sides we hear patriotism and Americanism preached to us. But these too are often mere speeches.

Thus would-be Americanism confronts us. In these forms it is like a veneer. It shines and glows and often is accepted as real. Yet when it encounters the test we find inside the cheap material of cowardice and hypocrisy. Let us, therefore, not be misled. There is a type of true Americanism prevalent. But it is seldom called to our attention.

True Americanism is represented by loveof, and loyalty to, government, neighbor, and self. And this love is not of necessity displayed in those manners mentioned above. It rather shines forth in truth, honesty, and devotion. The true American loves his country and is subject to its government. The true American honors and protects his fellowmen. The true American; no matter what walk in life he pursues, is faithful in doing his duty. And if, furthermore, all this is done out of love for Christ, the Savior, the doer may be called the greatest of all Americans. His name may never be known. History may not record his works. Yet it is because of him that America, yea, it is because of him that the very world exists.

M. Z. '32.

THE GOTHIC ELEMENT IN BROWN'S NOVELS Gothic romance, the purpose of which is to terrify, had been a decided success in England; therefore it was not odd that Charles Brockden Brown, an American contemporary of Walpole, should also devote his pen to this popular vogue in literature.

But in America he was a pioneer in this field, for no other American author had ever before endeavored to bring the Gothic element into his writings. Having a wonderful imagination, he did not find it difficult to write of fantastic adventures with wild beasts and Indians, of narrow escapes from horrible deaths,' or of one's desolate isolation in the wilderness, surrounded by unknown dangers. Although his works do lack the highest qualities of good literature, yet he did know how to paint vivid scenes of horror against a native American background, and his books

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did attain immediate popularity. In all of his novels are found, contrary to the prevailing vogue of Gothic romance in England, marvelous situations and horrible events which ultimately receive a natural explanation and could occur in every-day life, instead' of impossible ghosts, sliding panels, and Gothic castles. It might be said that Brown Americanized the Gothic romance of England or that his novels marked the beginning of "a change from the preceding American fiction, being no longer didactic and sentimental but Gothic and romantic."

Thus America received its first novels containing the Gothic element of terror.

Brown's first Gothic novel, Wieland, published in 1798 and often assumed to be his masterpiece, with its direful events, secret murders, and dark conspiracies, may be called his most powerful novel except for the fact that in using ventriloquism as an explanation for the mysterious voices, he seemed to be giving a somewhat inadequate solution to the mystery. In this novel there is pictured a man living in the midst of earthly happiness when an apparently supernatural voice commands him to murder his wife and children; this request arouses a kind of insane 'frenzy in Wieland's nature, and he complies with ferocious cruelty.

Or think of the horror Clara experienced when she enters her seemingly untenanted dwelling and suddenly hears a ghostly voice commanding her to stop and not ascend the stairs!

Various other mysteries are here pictured with utmost vividness, but the entire solution is rather disappointing-it is merely a wicked ventriloquist, who causes all this havoc; yet throughout the book there is unparalleled dramatic power and vivid description of horrible happenings.

Despite its unsatisfactory ending, this novel is the earliest American novel of distinction.

Brown's best novel, however, is, without doubt, Edgar Huntly, a truly Gothic romance of many horrors, weird adventures, and blood-curdling escapes from death in various forms. For example, what could be more horrible than the sensations of the hero upon awaking in a dark, damp, and tomb-like pit after having fallen asleep hours before securely in his own home! Gross darkness surrounded him, and he began to imagine that he had been buried alive, but this could hardly be true since his body was severely bruised. After having expended great effort in the endeavor to escape from his prison of darkness, he finally succeeded, only to be confronted with a ravenously hungry panther.

Surely, it seemed to him that he was doomed to perish in a most horrible death. But no, he escaped from this peril, as well as from many 'equally terrifying situations. This novel may really be ranked as the first of its kind, the scenes of which are truly American and could not

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have taken place in any other country. The Indians are portrayed with the greatest accuracy, and their actions appear to be perfectly natural, lacking all the glamor which Cooper later attributes to them; with the Indians he introduced a new element of strangeness into Gothic romance.

What a mysterious person was old Queen Mab! Although she never once appeared in person throughout the entire story, her presence often influenced the other characters: With what feverish horror are the nightly aimless wanderings of Huntly and Clithero described! But, of course, this story likewise comes to a rather unsatisfactory ending, that of somnambulism and insanity.

In 1799 there. appeared another of Brown's novels, Ormond, also containing its element of terror, although not so vividly portrayed as in his former two novels. In this book, however, the victim is a woman named Constantia Dudley, who, after being pursued by the villain Ormond for a long period of time, finally finds it necessary to kill him in self-defense. Danger and terror are here interwoven with a dramatic and picturesque force. Arthur Mervyn, written in the same year as Ormond and decidedly the better of the two novels, is especially noteworthy for its vivid and horrible pictures of the disastrous epidemic in Philadelphia.

This story describes a helpless and innocent young man who is under the malign influence of a wicked patron. Having accidentally discovered the secret of a hideous murder, he is cruelly persecuted by the perpetrator of this crime; this affords the Gothic element of the novel.

Clara Howard and Jane Talbot, the last two of Brown's novels, are by far inferior' to his former novels, thus showing his power and old vigor over romance and terror to be to a great degree lost.

All of Brown's novels contain a certain element of weird horror, which is so characteristic of Gothic literature. As an American author Brown is highly important, for he wrote the first novels in America which could have taken place only in this country and because he was first to recognize that the American Indian was "a valuable literary asset" in the writing of Gothic romances. He also had the power to devise remarkable and horrible incidents and to relate them in a fascinating, yet terrifying, manner, thus holding the reader's interest and attention to the very end.

His novels have many points in common; they are all tragic stories, full of the mysterious and the horrible.

E. G. S. '33.

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_---_ --The "D. M. L. C. Messenger" is published quarterly during the school year by the students of Dr. Martin Luther College. The subscription price is seventy-five cents per annum. Single copies twenty cents. Stamps not accepted. We request payment in advance.

"The Messenger" is continued after time of subscription has expired, unless we are notified to discontinue and all arrears are paid. All business communicaticns should be addressed to Business Manager; all literary contributions to the Editor-in-chief. Advertising rates will be furnished on request. Contributions to 'our Literary Department are requested from all alumni, undergraduates and friends.

Entered as second class matter at Pest Officeof New Ulm, Minnesota

Voulme XXII

June 1932

No.4

ARTHUR MEIER, Editor-in-Chief A. LOBER, Business Manager G. BOOCK, Alumni Notes R. JACOBS, Asst. Bus. Mgr. ARDELLA DAHMS, Co-ed Notes A. GLENDE, Asst. Bus. Mgr. F. BROKER, Locals VERA HAl<'ENSTE'IN,Exchange C. RADL, Athletics ELEANOR LAHMAN, ColI. Notes ADOLF WILBRECHT, Jokes

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EDITORIAL

â&#x20AC;˘ WHY NOT?

WE CAN

A stranger, hearing the collegeband in one of its twilight musicales, asks a student what band was playing.

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,"Why, that's our college band," replies the student.

What a reply it is, especially if the correct word is emphasized. Cannot we all attempt to make the sentiment of this particular student the sentiment of each and every student?

What sentiment you ask? I am referring to the "our band" attitude.

During the past school year the active members of the band have served you faithfully, have entertained you time and again. Some of you have shown that you appreciate. the efforts of the organization by becoming associate members. Others, however, seem to feel that they have done their part by passing several complimentary remarks (or otherwise) ; possibly in this manner, "Fine band, swell band we have here at college, but we have one at home too." â&#x20AC;˘ Now such support, no matter how.small, is also appreciated by the band, but can't we show our enthusiasm in a more direct way? Can't we all work together, year by year, for a "bigger and better" band? I'm positive all of us can do more in the future.

Next year our band will have a new director. Most of us realize the hardships for both band and director to get accustomed to working with each other.

Let's not make things harder for our band. No! let's make things easier.

How? By co-operation!

Join the band, play an instrument and become an active member. Some one will no doubt say, "I'm not able to play an instrument." . Certainly, but that does not hinder you from giving your support as an associate member. Your associate membership will. help buy an instrument or music for another who is able to play.

What have you thereby done? You have made it possible that one, two or possibly more new members have been added to the band. Attend the concerts and bring your friends. Do your bit wherever YQU can. Your efforts are a pprecia ted.

Fellow students! let's all work together for our band.

Let's show our band that we are behind them by giving it our moral and financial support, by attending concerts, or by helping along in some other fashion. Let's all co-operate to make the band season of 1932-33 a greater success than this year. Let us help our college band, so that we can boast of a "Bigger and Better" Band from year to year.

F. M. '32.

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ALUMNI

Extra! Extra! Two men and two women are fatally hit by darts, the ammunition of Mr. Dan Cupid. No one is expected to recover. Latest reports announce the engagement of Edgar Backer, '26, to Ethel Hoeneke and of Fred Hagedorn to Ada Werner, both of '29. Friends express best wishes. .

Little Barbara arrived on April 10 to becomethe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wilbrecht of Brownsville, Wisconsin.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mueller of Saginaw, Michigan, have been made happy with the arrival of a baby girl. Carl graduated in '27.

Walter and Martin Albrecht, teaching at La Crosse and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, respectively, motored to New VIm to enjoy the week-end following Ascension Day with their parents, Professor and Mrs. R. Albrecht.

Attention, Alumni! The following resolution was passed at the last Alumni meeting: A committee consisting of Theodore Pelzl, Edwin Nolte, Ernst Sperling, Waldemar Retzlaff and Professor Stindt was chosen to take care of a social gathering which will be held late in the afternoon before the commencement concert. Members intending to come are requested to send.a card stating whether they plan to take part in the social gathering. Be sure to send a card, and remember June 9!

How about some co-operation between the Alumni and the Messenger?' When people say that this is a time of depression, one might be inclined to believe that they refer to the scarcity of news on the Alumni page, for although some graduates have merited our thanks for their consideration in announcing events such as engagements, marriages, births, deaths, or anything that ex-students will be eager to hear about their friends, still there never has been a sufficiency of news. Since to many subscribers to the Messenger the Alumni items are of especial interest, I appeal to you, one and all, to aid in making it a bigger, better, and more interesting quarterly by submitting your news to the staff.

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MEET CONCORDIA'S AUTHOR-G. L. WIND From The Spectator, River Forest, Illinois

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We have heard much of G. L. Wind's books, but not of Mr. Wind himself. It is interesting for us to note that he is a graduate of Concordia College at River Forest, Illinois, a teacher's college of the Missouri Synod.

G. L. Wind was born thirty-five years ago in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, where his father was a missionary.

His mother was a daughter of Pastor John Frederick Buenger of St. Louis, one of the founders of the Missouri Synod. . Gerhard grew up and attended school in Chicago. Having finished his studies in the Lutheran School, such positions as office boy, "hell-hop," and clerk claimed his attentiori.

Then Mr. Wind became interested in art, and he followed his inclination at the Chicago Art Institute. .

The next years form the episode of Mr. Wind's life which he himself terms "from perfume salesman to pedagogue." At twenty he enrolled at Concordia, being forced to discontinue the Art Institute because of financial difficulties. The money which was needed for bare necessities at college and for payment of board he earned through selling flavoring extracts, perfumes, soaps, and pictures which he painted in his spare moments. In 1920 he graduated from Concordia. His first call took him to Louisville, Kentucky. In 1922 he married Miss Hertha Praetarius.

In 1928 they were in New York, and at present Mr. Wind is teaching in the Lutheran Orphan Home near that metropolis.

Mr. Wind is successfully engaged in writing. It was not until 1924, "upon being actuated by a desire to characterize 'our own people'" that Mr. Wind put his literary ability 路to work in earnest. To date, six .novels, numerous plays, nearly a hundred short stories in various periodicals, and a book of poems for primary children have flowed from 路l).ispen.

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Mr. Wind is known outside Lutheran circles, chiefly through his plays. One of his plays, THINK IT OVER, won a silver loving cup for the Walther League Society of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in a city-wide play contest. The novel, REX AMORIS, was listed as one of the ten best religious books of 1928, and was furthermore chosen by a sectarian book club as the "book of the month" in May of the same year.

DR. O. F. HATTSTAEDT NEARS HALF CENTURY MARK AT CONCORDIA Dr. O. F. Hattstaedt is another of the well known authors of our Lutheran church. He was born at Monroe, Michigan, in 1862. He received his education at Concordia at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and at the Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Upon graduation in 1884, he was called to Concordia College,Milwaukee,as Professor of German, and still is that today. He is the author of our German Literature text, "Handbuch der. deutschen Nationalliterature." In 1926 he. wrote a German grammar to meet the needs of present-day German students whose knowledge of German is more limited than that of those in former decades. Besides his work along these lines, his exceptional gifts were put to work. We find him serving on the committee for the publication of text-books; he was a member of the committee which revised and enlarged our German hymnal; he wrote the history of the South Wisconsin District. He was assistant pastor of Immanuel Church in Milwaukee. Above all he has earned the gratitude of all those who love to .sing the good old German folk songs through his editorship of the "Liederschatz."-Concordia Courier, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

WHAT CAN WE DO? "Crime, Its Causes and Remedy" You are all undoubtedly acquainted with the great amount of crime our country witnesses. A Concordian of St. Paul tells us in the Concordia Comet that the lack of education in our country is not the cause since we boast of a very low rate of illiteracy. Ignorance of the law, the climate, and location of our country are not the causes.

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to as the cause? Statistics' show that ninety-six per cent of the criminals of our country have never been influenced by any religion. I think we can well understand why so much crime exists. But the United States boasts of so many churches.

True, but the Word of God, pure and simple, is not preached in most of them; the people do not go to those that have this true Word. Here is where we can help. We, as teachers and ministers, must stress the importance of 路citizenship upon our people. Besides this, a vast mission field lies open before us, though there are many obstacles. May the Lord bless our efforts.

On Wednesday, May 11, a number of our students were presented in a piano recital. They were assisted by the college choir.

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~ Paderewski Veleda Kelm Walther's Prizesong from "The Mastersingers of Nueremberg" Wagner-Schuett Prelude in c sharp minor Rachmaninofl' Waldemar Nolte German Folksongs: a) Jaegerlied b) Kimmt a Vogerl gefiogen Chorus Kammenoi-Ostrow Rubinstein Thelma Boerneke Scherzo a Capriccio Mendelssohn Meilahn Zahn Sonata in c sharp minor. First and second movements Beethoven Roland Jacobs Rigoletto Paraphrase Verdi-Liszt Emanuel Arndt

CONCORDIA vs. D. M. L. C. IN INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE D. M. L. C. in the first interscholastic debate of its history met the St. Paul Concordia debating team on May 14 -in the college auditorium.

Resolved: "That Congress Should Enact Legislation Providing for the Centralized Control of Industries."

(Constitutionality waived.) The affirmative was upheld by the team of D. M. L. C., consisting of Meilahn Zahn, Vera Hafenstein, and Frederic Manthey, while Concordia's team, Mr. Pollatz, Mr. Belsheim, and Mr. Graebner took the negative side of the question. The judges were the Messrs. Walter Muesing, Herbert Sitz, and Carl Aufderheide.

Their decision was unanimously in favor of the affirmative team. The weakness of the Concordians lay in the fact that they failed to present arguments relating to the question as presented by the affirmative team.

They interpreted the words "government control" to mean government dictatorship in spite of the definition of the affirmative, which stated that government control, in this case, meant government regulation by rule or restriction.

Since Concordia's team had debated the question several times during the school year, D. M. L. C. did not hope for the victory it realized .. We hope that this will be an incentive in years to come to establish interscholastic debating and forensic work among the extra-curricular activities of D. M. L. C.

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Our "party ball" which started to roll at the beginning of the school year has, with the aid of the lovely spring weather, turned into a "picnic ball." Two places, Green Meadows and Hunters' Rest, seem to be the favorite spots for this ball to rest in. The I Normals, in their eagerness to be the "first ones," forgot themselves and picked a rainy day. The Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors found to their great astonishment that wieners tasted "like more" when eaten out in the great open spaces. Even our dignified III Normals like to romp and play and-eat.

They enj oyed doing' all three things at a picnic sponsored for them by the II Normals. And then, of course, we mustn't forget the Seniors. They thought it best to be different, so they all had a very enjoyable time at a banquet which was given for the Tertia of their class. Not to forget, the III Normals are agreed that our professors are not only our teachers but also excellent hosts. This was proved at the banquet given for the graduating class by the professors on May 28.

ORGAN RECITAL On May 18, the members of the graduating class were presented in an organ. recital. This was the first time that D. M. L. C. students were ever presented in an organ recital.

In both this recital and the piano recital some very unusual talent was displayed. It showed diligent work on the part of both "the students and the instructors ..

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Marguerite Hamisch Fugue in f minor : , Clara Mehlberg Consolation .

Armin Huhn Mache dich auf, werde Licht..

Choir Nocturne Henry Gruenhagen Grand Chorus' Frederic Manthey .

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MAKING THE WORLD "SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY" Attorney Victor Reim of New Ulm delivered-a very interesting lecture at our auditorium on May 16. The theme of his discussion was "Making the world 'safe for democracy'."

He pointed out that great dangers beset our democratic path: Among the political problems we find the present primary elections, sectionalism, legislative, and judicial abridgments of rights.. and the centralization of power to be seriously dangerous to our democracy. The social problems endangering our democratic progress are the labor problem, the luxury-loving nation that we are, and the modern press with its influence.

Finally, the only means of remedy is the education Of our youth in terms of citizenship. This is indeed a very difficult problem, but the world can only be made "safe for democracy" through the intense efforts of the far-sighted and sincere citizens of our American nation.

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,I THE ANNUAL BAND CONCERT' The college band held its annual concert in the college auditorium on the evening of April 21. . The fruits of the combined labor of the organization and its路 very able director, Meilahn Zahn, throughout the past year were evident in the following program.

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PART 1

W.

1.

March Militaire

2.

Cloth of Gold

3.

The Swiss Boy--Air varie Cornet solo--Arnold

:

M. Talbott

Fred Jewell P. de Ville Lober

4.

"Wiener Blut" Waltz

Johann Strauss

5.

Royal Decree March.

W. P. English PART 2

1.

Organ:

Scherzo (from Fourth

2.

Chorus of'Girls' Voices a.

Trees

b.

On the Road to Mandalay

Sonata)

Guilmant Rasbach Oley Speaks

'PART3 1.

Sunapee

E. F. Goldman

2.

Victor Herbert Favorites

3.

Hungarian

Dances Nos. 7 and 8

4. Overture "Premier" 5.

Washington

Post March

J. Brahms F. H. Losey J. P. Sousa

.The band has rendered "request" programs at various intervals during the Spring. On May 18, Mr. Gleride, newly elected director, led the band publicly for the first time. We extend our sincere wishes to Mr. Glende for as successful a career as Mr. Zahn has experienced during hi's years of leadership.

THE BIRDS ARE BACK Mr. Janzen addressed the student body on May 9 concerning especially the migration of birds. He succeeded in furthering the already deep interest our. students have in nature.

He showed that the migration of birds takes place during every month of the year from January until December unless an intense winter eliminates January.

Mr. Janzen showed various specimens of birds and imitated the song of every bird discussed. At the end of his discussion the audience was given the opportunity to ask questions concerning the topic under discussion.

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MARLUT SINGERS The work of the Marlut Singers has come to a close for the season of 1931-32. They. have enjoyed a successful year, featuring the following numbers=-t'Goin Home" by Grieg, "The Old Refrain" by Kreisler, "Wenn's will Abend Werden by Reuter, "Song of Death"-Bach, and "Deep River," a Negro Spiritual.

Among the numerous programs rendered are listed the graduation exercises of the nurses completing their courses at the New Ulm Union Hospital, held at Turner Hall, on May 12, Fairfax on May 22, Nicollet on May 27, College Auditorium on May 31, and the commencement concert at D. M. L. C. June 9.

Our literary societies have given their annual plays.

Both plays were very successful.

The Phi Gamma Rho presented The Tumult, and everyone is still wondering whether John Bremer always has such a time when he proposes. Why he was actually frightened about the act!

The Mystery of the Third Gabie, presented by the Phi Delta Sigma turned out to be a real mystery, and some of the students still haven't stopped dreaming of the hideous face which peeked in at the window!

Our Commencement Exercises will be held on June 10, 10 :00 A. M. The following is the program.

L Hymn: 2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

0 that the Lord would guide my ways

Organ: Frederic Manthey Scripture lesson and prayer Organ: Prelude in b minor Bach Meilahn Zahn .

Address: Prof. Carl Schweppe Choir: Be Thou our Guide Reuter Organ: Carl Wacker .

Distribution of Diplomas: Prof. E. R. Bliefernicht Hymn: One Thing's Needful Organ: Lester Raabe Valedictory: Emanuel Arndt Hymn: Therefore, Jesus, My Salvation Organ: Armin Huhn The Lord's Prayer (in unison) Benediction (the choir)

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Although we haven't seen Henrietta Grieger for a long time, she has not forgotten her old D. M. L. C. friends as 路yet. "Heinie" came to call on Ruth Zabel, Gertrude Boock, and Ardella Dahms one Wednesday afternoon.

Elizabeth Wilson, Hilda Bartels, Vera Lawrenz, and Ida Clements helped Erna Janzen celebrate her birthday on April 22 at a supper served in her honor.

Hurray!

The co-eds can again enjoy their favorite sport of tennis. The woodpeckers are very faithful to the girls this year and wake them up early, so that they will get up in time for their games before breakfast.

Dorothy Augustine and Margaret John came to see their Alma Mater in May. They felt quite at home with their friends in the girls' dormitory and declared that it seemed just like "old titnes."

Elizabeth Wilson and Elizabeth von Stein were two of the guests present at a 6 :30 dinner party at the home of Prof. Klatt.

Ruth Larson spent the first week end in May at the home of Florence Raddatz at Clements, Minnesota, Warning to all the co-eds! Be very careful as to where you stand while watching a baseball game which the boys play, for they sometimes become rather dangerous: This was the case on May 14, when one of the players lost his equilibrium and almost knocked Gretchen Kelpe out with a bat which flew from his hands and landed on Grete's head.

Many of the girls enjoyed the free day on Whit Monday by spending the Pentecost holidays visiting relatives and friends at near-by places.

On April 14 Veleda Kelm was pleasantly surprised by a visit from her parents, the occasion being her birthday.

Her mother brought a supper along, and the "Albrecht Gang" had a real feast.

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Some of the dormitory girls have found excitement to pass the time between 6 :15 and 7 P. M. They play kittenball, and they informed us that they always have a very appreciative audience of young men a short distance away.

They even gave Eleanor Lahmann credit for the home run which Adelia Schumacher made. Careful! Maybe they really are twins.

Thelma Boernecke, Ada Nantke, Dorothy Birkholz, Kathryn Kent, Gretchen Kelpe, and Beata Moldenhauer en:" joyed a wiener roast near Camel's Back on May 12..

Speaking of operations, the schoolyear of 1931-1932 at D. M. L. C. would not have been complete without them.

Kathryn Kent decided to not let the tradition die out and had her appendix removed shortly before Christmas.

After' the holidays, Erna Wendt thought that she also needed a little vacation, so she followed suit. Last but not least, Eldred Luehmann ended the custom this year by having an operation, also for appendicitis, in May. Birthdays and feasts seem to go hand in hand. At least Doris Sauer thinks so. She was the guest of honor at a dinner party given by her friend, Oliva Stindt.

Extra!

Extra!

Gretchen Kelpe is asking for co-operation on the part of the student body to help her find out why she falls so often. Although this statement is rather ambiguous, we ask you to please take it in its correct meaning.

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D~~~~~~~~~D Arthur Glende, our newly-elected band director for the coming year, has already obtained a small amount of practice in the fine art of conducting, due to the absence of our present director, Meilahn Zahn, who has been teaching during the. past week.

Gerhard Koepsell, one of our this year's stage managers of the literary societies, bequeaths his position to anyone who thinks he has energy enough to carry him through the coming literary year.

Contrary to the predictions of Professor Voecks, our coach, that the window' in the boiler room would not be broken, "Hank" Haase proved otherwise. .

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Since "The Birdman's" lecture everyone is running down to Professor Schaller's house, in the hope of being able to borrow his well-worn binoculars! We also have a number of rare songsters in the dormitory, whose hidden abilities were awakened by this interesting and educational lecture. .

On the night of April 14 the graduating class, with great dignity and profuse ceremony, planted a small tree in memory of their days spent at this institution.

The tree, a weeping 'willow, weepeth still, regretting that the day' must come when this worthy class shall leave us.

On April 23 the teacher division of the twelfth grade gave a banquet in honor of the classical division. Meilahn Zahn was guest of honor.

In true class spirit the girls of the First Normal Class provided the boys of that class with a "Picparquet" on May 8. This "Picparquet" was given as a reward for having won the inter-class basketball championship this year.

During the time that "Emma" Gruenhagen was at home, due to the illness and subsequent death of his father, Raymond Behmer acted as college monitor.

Huhn's and "Emma's" birthdays were celebrated with the usual "wim, wigor, and witality."

"Emma" is even minus a package of cigarettes because of the ceremony.

Arthur Meier, present editor-in-chief of the Messenger, has been elected college buck for the coming year. Here's wishing you lots of success, Art! .

A number of students motored to St. James on Friday, April 15, to attend a concert rendered by the Concordia College Choir under the able direction of Mr. Munson.

These boys undertook the trip in "Paul" Zahn's Lincoln!!

All speak in superlatives of the majesty with which the choir rendered the beautiful selections.

Now that the fishing season have little or no chance of living ing enthusiasts in the dormitory the morning in order to have pleasurable pastime.

is open, the poor little fish in peace and quiet! Fishleave in the wee hours of ample time to enjoy this

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BASEBALL Coach Voecks' call for- baseball recruits was well answered by an enthusiastic group of young men, which made it possible to have a first and second team. After a few weeks of hard practice the team was ready to furnish our fans with the thrills and spills included in the baseball games. D. M. L. C. is now represented in the Southern Minnesota Junior College Conference, and we hope to get our share of the honors. Bremer was the main hurler for the Maroon and Gray. The team had a fairly hard schedule this year, including Concordia, St. Paul Luther, and Bethany as strong opponents. Here again is a chance for the student body to turn out and give its support.

Let's go!

D. M. L. C. vs, St. Paul Luther The opening game in the Southern Minnesota Junior College Conference was played at St. Paul, April 30. Although the team didn't bring home the bacon, they made a fair showing in their first attempt.

Bremer hurled well, allowing eight hits, issued four passes, and struck out four men .. Krempin, the opponents' pitcher, limited our boys to five well scattered hits and issued but two passes. During the third inning Kullman of St. Paul drove the pill out of the park for a home run, which resulted in two runs. Both teams had many errors; D. M. L. C. had six and St. Paul five. Riess, Bartels, Wacker, and Roekle each scored a run.

The game ended in St. Paul's favor, 8-4.

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Box score:

R

D. M. L. C." AB Riess .................. 5 Lehmann .......... 4 Lober ................ 3 Bremer ............ 4 Bartels .............. 2 Wacker ............. 4 Roekle .............. 4 Hasse ................ 4 Frey .................. 1 Beck .................. 3

0 0 0

Totals ............35

4

1 0 0 0 1

1 1

H 0 2 0" 0 0 2 0 0 0

R

St. Paul Luther AB Kullmann ~......... 5 Windemuth ...... 4 Anderson .......... 4 Gustafson 4 Kappellusch ...... 3 Schlachty .......... 3 Tietz .................. 3 Johnson ............. 2 Krempin . ......... 4

0 0 0 1

0 0

Totals ............32

8

8

1 3 2 0

1

H 1 1 2 1

0 2

1

1 5

D. M. L. C. vs. Madelia The D. M. L. C. nine encountered Madelia High School in their second game at Madelia, May 4. It was an easy victory for our team with Behrens and Schulz on the mound for the locals, and good support from their teammates.

The opponents received but six hits; Behrens and Schulz struck out nine and walked two men. The opponents' hurler struck out four men, walked five, and allowed three hits. Errors for D. M. L. C. were three in number, and for" Madelia twelve. Clouting the ball into every' nook and corner of the field, the D. M. L. C. sluggers emerged with the first home run of the season in a 9-7 victory.

Box score:

D. M. L. C. Riess ................

Lehmann ..........

Roekle ..............

Lober ................

Bremer ..............

Bartels ..............

Wacker ............

Beck ..................

Hasse ................

Behrens ............

AB 4 3 3

1 4 4 2 3 3 3

Totals ............30

R H 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0

1

1

0

0

9

3

Madelia AB Cunderson ........ 4 Larson .............. 4 Driggles ............ 4 Mosser .............. 4 Sandberg .......... 4 Riiide ................ 4 Helgeson" .......... 4 James ................ 3 Strom ................ 1 Buckley ............ 1 I'adman ............ 0 Totals ............33

R H 1 1 0 1

1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0

:t

1 1 0 0

1

1

0 0 0

7

6

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D. M. L. C 1-Madelia

0

D. M. L. C. added the second victory to its list by defeating the Madelia nine in a return game on the local diamond. Both teams showed major improvements since the last game. A run made by Bartels in the second inning proved to be the winning and only one of the entire game.

Bremer again held the mound and pitched a good game, allowing no hits for the opponents. Madelia never threatened at any time to tie the score but played a rather airtight game, their pitcher allowing four hits.

Box score: AB R H Madella D. M. L. C. AB R H 0 3 Gunderson Riess 2 0 0 0 Larson . 3 Roekle 3 0 0 Driggers . 3 0 Lehmann .

2 0 1 0 Moser . 3 Bremer 2 0 0 o 0 Hewett . 2 Bartels 3 1 2 o 0 Rinde .. 2 Wacker 3 0 1 Sandburg .. 2 o 0 Beck 2 0 0 Lames . 2, o 0 Lober 2 0 0 o 0 Strom .. 2 Hasse 2 0 0

o o o o

Totals

21

1

4

Totals

D. M. L. C. 9-Bethany

22

0

0

1

The D. M. L. C. nine encountered Bethany on the local grounds, defeating them 9-1. This was the second of the series of conference games to be played this year, but had to be called off because of rain, in the beginning of the seventh inning. Both Bremer and Schulz did some fine pitching and received excellent support. Reetz was on the mound for Bethany, allowing seven hits; Bremer allowed five hits.

Box score: Bethany AB R H AB R H D.M.L. C. 1 Roeder .............. 3 1 0 Riess ................... 4 3 Abrahamson .... 3 2 1 0 '0 Lober ................ 2 Meyer ................. 3 2 1 Lehmann 0 1 3 Solli . ................. 3 1 1 0 2 Bremer .............. 4 Heller ................ 3 1 0 0 1 Bartels .............. 3 Strom ................. 2 0 1 0 0 Wacker ......... ... 3 Reetz ................. 3 "Beck ................... 2 0 2 0 0 Sandberg .......... 2 0 Hasse ................ 3 0 0 0 0 Odergard .......... 2 Schulz ............... 3 0 0 0 _"

,

Totals ............ 27

9

7

Totals ............ 29

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Trounced by Concordia The D. M. L. C. nine received their worst defeat of the season at the hands of Concordia in St. Paul. During the first three innings the game progressed on even ground; but through many errors Concordia succeeded in running six scores across the plate in the fourth inning, eight in the fifth, and five in the seventh. D. M.: L. C. chalked up a three base hit and Concordia three two base hits. Most of the hurling was done by Bremer, who was then replaced by Schulz. The Concordia hurler allowed six hits, Bremer sixteen, with nine errors for D. M. L. C. and seven for Concordia. The final score was 22-4.

Box score:

D. M. L. C.

I

Riess ................

Roekle ..............

Lehmann ..........

Bremer ............

Bartels ..............

Wacker ..............

Beck ..................

Lober ................

Hasse ................

Schulz ..............

Frey ..................

AB 5 3

3

4 4 4 4 4 4 1 1

Totals ............38

R 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0

H 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0

4

6

AB Concordia 2chwanke 5 Mueller . ........... 7 Krueger ............ 5 Markgraf .......... 6 E. Koch ............ 6 Hill .................... 6 R. Koch ............ 0 vVahlers ............ 4 Hafner .............. 6 Thorn . ............... 3 Hesse ................ 1 Steinhorst ........ 1 Totals ............50

D. M. L. C. 5-St.

R 2 3 4 2 1 1 0 2 2 3 1 1

H 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0

22

16

Paul Luther 7

A thrilling but disappointing game was played on the local diamond with our old rival, St. Faul Luther.

For a time it seemed as though the boys had revenge, but a few bad errors in the final inning turned the tide in another direction. Loth aggregations put up a good fight, Bremer doing the mound work for our team and Hasseley for St. Paul Luther.

There was an exciting moment in the beginning of the seventh frame. With three men on bases the D. M. L. C. nine made three runs on four consecutive errors by the Luther infield. Bad errors in the final inning account for the resulting score; St. Faul Luther, in a serious attack, chalked up seven scores. A rally by the D. M. L. C. nine in the last frame fell short of making up the difference of two scores.

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Box score:

4 3 4 4 3 4 3 1

R 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0

H 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0

Totals ............36

5

6

D. M. L. C. Riess ................

Roekle ..............

Lehmann ..........

Wacker ............

Bartels ..............

Bremer ..............

Beck ..................

Lober ................

Frey ..................

Behrens ............

AB 5

5

s-. Paul

Luther AB Anderson .......... 4 Windemuth ...... 4 Kanellusch ........ 5 Gustafson ........ 4 Maahs .............. 4 Kullman ............ 5 Aalbue .............. 4 Tietz .................. 4 Hasseley .......... 3 Krempin ............ 1

R 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1

H 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1

Totals ............38

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TRACK AND TENNIS Both the high school and normal department were given a trial to represent themselves in an interclass track meet. In spite of the fact that this is the first attempt made to introduce this sport as one of our activities, the classes turned out with enthusiasm to enter such events as discus, shot put, high jump, running broad jump, standing broad jump, 50 yard dash, 100 yard dash, and the 220 yard dash. The interest shewn by the students may result in the introduction of track as one of the major sports for our institution in a few years.

Tennis also played an important role in student activities. The sun "tans" and sunburns were quite noticeable.

The courts were in good 'condition and were used practically during all hours of the day. To settle the question of a tennis champion, the boys arranged a tournament.

The silver cup must have been the reason for such excitement.

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"What is so rare as a joke at D. M. L. C.?"

"Two jokes."

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Which reminds us of the Scotchman who maintained that he was releasing frozen assets when he found a nickel in a piece of ice.

Do Tell First co-ed: "Laugh and get fat."

Second moron: "Is that how Edith got him?"

Are You Telling Me? Bum (begging from a student): "Could you spare a hungry man a dollar for a cup of coffee?"

Student: "Five cents is plenty for a cup of coffee."

Bum: "Are you trying to tell me how to run my business ?"

Smellophines?

Schauer: rope."

Student: the tour."

"I knew a man who killed himself with a "I bet it was the same kind you smoked on

There's Many a Slip-¡ Schuetze (reading): banana handkerchief.

He wiped his face on a red

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Eleanor Lahman wishes to announce that she is not a peroxideblond.

Proofs?-Ask her.

Student: "You have a beautiful face."

Co-ed: "Thanks, I made it myself."

We find that we have a budding author in our midst.

Adelia Schumacher is the author of the "Leathercotton Tails."

Kurt Hinnenthal (swinging a "You're right; I am left."

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TO THE CLASS OF 1932 Lives of students all remind us' That we all must graduate And departing leave behind us Records of times when we came too late, "Bummed" the classes, and "flopped" the tests.

And our dear professors' vests Are stuffed with notes which we would pass When we thought no one was looking.

As a class, of course, we say We are all a Class should be, And we'll bet that when we are away You will miss us all from "A" to "Z." First there is Arndt, who's tall and airy, Loved and honored by-who knows?

Then a guy whom they call GerryAt least, so the story goes.

Also Behmer, Bode, Fahje, "Emma" Gruenhagen and GenzNext is Harnisch, so they say.

These we may credit with some sense.

Horman and Huhn are present too, "Chick" for short, you'll find will serve.

He'll crow his delight as a rooster would do.

Likewise we have a Humann called Erv. Here's a red-haired guy named Koepsell.

Lehman considers himself no hoax!

And, of course, we'll deign to dwell On Frederic Manthey with his jokes.

Next comes Mehlberg from the dusty state, ' And Lester Raabe, who, we fear, Like all New Ulmers refuses to wait When some one's handing out some beer.

Frances Redeker and our friend- Schauer .

Are followed by the Sievert brothers.

These may soon with books so dour Threaten the pupils with notes to their mothers.

Timm and Zahn are last in line.

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NEW ULM, MINNESOTA

NEW

ULM

DAIRY

THE HOME OF

Pure Dairy Products -

PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM and BUTTER

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PHONE 104 Route a~d Cc.unter Service

FREEMAN $5.00 MEN'S OXFORDS Athletic Footwear and Sox

LADIES' FOOTWEAR Smart Styles-Attractively . Priced.

E. Wicherski

A. C. OCHS BRICK & TILE COMPANY General Sales Office 204 So. Ninth St. Minneapolis

Executive Office and Plant Springfield, Minn.

Manufacture

Artistic Face Brick Various Colors -

Also-

Load Bearing Tile and complete line of

Building Tile and Common Brick Our Material stands every Test, and was used in hundreds of Govern' ment, State, Public and Private jobs in every state of the great Northwest and Canada. Some of them being-The last ten new buildings on the University of Minnesota Campus, numerous large. business blocks in the City of Minneapolis, two Lutheran churches of Springfield, Immanuel Lutheran Church of Mankato, Lutheran Churches in Brewster, Lake Benton, Blue Earth and Wanamingo, Westbrook, Wood Lake, Alden, Ceylon, Clara City, Jackson, Delano; Devils Lake, Arnegard in North Dakota; Dimock, Roscoe, etc" in South Dakota, the Dr. Martin Luther College and the Union Hospital of New Ulm, the Lutheran School at Sleepy Eye, together with others built prior and since the above men' tioned. Veterans buildings at St. Cloud, Minnesota and Rapid City, South Dakota, the new seven story First National Bank at Fargo, North Dakota, also large public and private buildings at Brookings, Watertown, Lennox, Lyons, Huron, South Dakota; Willmar, Hendricks, St. Paul, Marshall, Tracy, Rochester, Winona, Minnesota"and many others all over the four States.

We Appreciate Your Patronage and Invite Your Inquiries

Buy Where rou See This Sign We are a Ho-ne Trade Store.

Owned and Operated here in this Community. We pool our buying with 500 other hard, ware stores. You buy better because we buy better.

F. H. RETZLAFF HARDWARE

COMPANY

We Turn a House Into a Home

BUENGER FURNITURE

CO.

Stores: New VIm, Sleepy Eye and Gibbon

SPAULDING ATHLETIC GOODS -at-

ROBERT FESENMAIER, INC. Special discount given to students-

DUTCH OVEN CAFE "G 0 0 D

EAT S FOR L E SSM Next To Lyric Theater

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THE MODEL BAKERY We carry a complete line of fine BREADS, FINE ROLLS AND PASTRIES Phone 232 "Taste The Difference" Phone 232 Residence Phone 150

Office Phone 60

DR. F. H. DUBBE PHYSICIAN ANO SURGEON NE\V ULM,

MINNESOTA

RED FRONT GROCERY FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES GLASSW ARE-NOVELTIES-DINNERW

ARE

Phone 43 and 44

BANK WITH

FARMERS ~ MERCHANTS STATE BANK New Ulm, Minnesota

FRIENDLY HELPFUL SERVICE AT YOUR COMMAND

路路The BLUE LANTERN CAFE The Place Where You Get Good Meals, Lunches and Ice Cream REAL HOME COOKING

DR. H. C. EDMISTON OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN

New Vim, Minn.

SPECIALTIES:

Foot and Rectal Troubles

Piles, Warts, Moles, Skin Cancers, etc., removed without the knife, at Office. .

Special rates to Students.

TAILORED TO MEASURE SUITS

$22.75 No Deposits-No

$25.00 C. O. D.'s

AND UP

All kinds of Repairing

CLEANING AND PRESSING

SCHUCK'S TAILOR SHOP 215 N. MINN. ST.

Students!

This is your store!

Corne In!

REIM & CHURCH "The Leading Jewelers" SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $1.00 PLAIN DRESSES AND COATS - $1.00 ~

PATS DRY CLEANERS Phone 115

Patronize Messenger Advertisers

WHEN IN NEED OF FOOTWEAR. Be Sure and Call on-Us We carry a complete line of men's, ladies'. and children's shoes We appreciate your business. Our prices are always the lowest, Qualit; considered

ATHLETIC SHOES OVR SPECIALTY TRY OUR REPAIR DEPARTMENT FOR GOOD WORK

P~J. EICHTEN SHOE STORE New Ulm, Minnesota

"It's not what you earn that makes you rich-but what you SAVEH WE PAY 3% INTEREST ON SAVINGS Compounded Semi-Annually

DEPOSITS .

CITIZENS STATE BANK NEW VLM, MINN. If It's PRINTING CalIOn The

R. R. KEMSKI PRINTING COMPANY

Dodge

Plymouth

RETZLAFF MOTOR COMPANY Reconstruction, Installation, Additions, Blowers, . Chimes, Harps

Modernizing, .Maintaining, Tuning, Repairs, Service, Sales

PIPE ORGANS

E. C. VOGELPOHL ORGAN CO. ORGAN ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS 405-409 North Broadway

New VIm, Minn.

Eugene Koehler Barber Shop HAIR CUTS 30e Efficient Service and Courteous Treatment 20 N. Minn. St.

New Vim

Willliam J. Von Bank,

D. D. s.

DENTIST Office Phone 237 Residence Phone 797

FRED A. MEINE -of--

FRED MEINE CLOTHING CO. See Us for Snappy Clothes

CHAS.

New Ulm

EMMERICH Plumbing

Steam and Hot Water Heating ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICA TION BOTH PHONES 281 CORNER CENTER AND MINNESOTA STREETS

Minn.

George D. Erickson

Alfred W. Mueller LAW OFFICES

MUELLER & ERICKSON NEW ULM, MINNESOTA

BROADWAY

EAT SHOP

The place where you get those large Hamburger, Egg or Ham Sandwiches for only 5ÂŁ. Meals and Lunches, Candy Malted Milks, Pop, Beer, Cigarettes and Coffee WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE

JOHN M. ROGKVAM, Prop.

J.

M.

105 No. Broadway

MEYER'

I Make a Specialty of Fine W'atch Repairing

LEADING JEWELER Honest and Competent Work Guaranteed

Somsen, Dempsey ~ Flor ATTORNEYS AT LAW Minnesota

New UIm,

THE NATIONAL

CAFE

MEALS, LUNCHES, ICE CREAM AND CANDIES

Ready-to-Wear and Millinery

THE BURG CO.

Hosiery, Lingerieand

Shirts - Ties - Underwear

Toilet

We are here to Serve You

Necessities

YOUR PATRONAGE IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED Try some of our "Taylor Made" Ice Cream The Richest and best sold in town

NEW ULM CAND,Y KITCHEN

The Unriv(lled Beauty of Brick Brick, when new, is beautiful. Years later the. softened colors are even more attracive. The natural beauty of burned clay has no equal. It defies time.

Common Brick, with colored mortar, varied bonds, or straight bond decorated with a soldier course at the base, has the unrivaled beauty of burned clay yet is low in cost.

We also manufacture Cement Drain Tile and Culverts All kinds of Faced Blocks,Window Sills and Caps Artstone of Every Description Flower Vases, Bird Baths, etc.

SHIPPERS OF ALL GRADES OF SAND AND GRAVEL

New DIm Brick ~ Tile Yards NEW ULM, MINNESOTA "OVER FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE"

SALET'S DEPARTMENT STORE-NEW

ULM, MINN.

EVERYTHING TO WEAR FOR HIM OR HER Highest Quality and of Course "YOU ALWAYS SAVE AT SALET'S"

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Best

Attention

Everything of a banking nature entrusted to our care receives our best attention.

We shall be glad to have a share of your business.

State Bank of New Ulm

THE WENEEDA BAKERY F.

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EIBNER, Proprietor

ICE CREAM PARLOR, CONFECTIONERY AND CAFE 209 North Minnesota Street

Telephone 71

QUICK LUNCHES - ICE CREAM - CANDIES TOBACCOS - SOFT DRINKS

, CENTRAL LUNCH ROOM Robert A. Fimeyer

UNION

HOSPITAL

NEW ULM, MINN.

A Fireproof Hospital Supervised by Graduate Nurses Giving the Best of Service Phone 404

Drs. Hammermeister

~ Saffert

Physicians and Surgeons

NEW ULM,

MINNESOTA

When in need of Electrical Service or Supplies

. Call 148 ELECTRIC SERVICE AT ITS BEST

Ulrich Electric Company

NATIONAL TEA CO. QUALITY Cigarettes

GROCERS

Tobaccos

Candies