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TABLE OF CONTENTS

十 Vern Baker t LITERARY— 2 Excerpta De Itinere Nostro 4 On Digressions....................

A Day Of Vacation At Northwestern 5 8 The Two Pillars Of Folly 9 How To Waste Time.......

12 America^ Newest Craze 13 Concerts.^.................... .

EDITORIALS— We Make Our Entrance...

A Suggestion.............. .

Sixty for Fifteen ?...........

New Books.............. .......

The Select Eight..............

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM SEMINARY NOTES.............

ALUMNI NOTES.................

ATHLETICS.........................

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rr THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI. March 3.

Watertown, Wis., April 1937

second class Published monthly. Subscriptio n. One Dollar.

Number 1 under

VERN BAKER On March 9, 1937 Vern Baker, student in the Sexta Class, abruptly yet peacefully passed from this life into the quiet sleep of death. Striken the preceding day with scarlet fever, all available medical aid was employed to check the disease but in vain. He died in the early morning of March 9 and was given Christian burial at his home in Colome, South Dakota, a few days later.

Vern was born on the third day of May, 1921.

He received his first schooling at Zion Lutheran School, Colome, where he was confirmed and from which he graduated in 1936. A constant Christian training both at home and at school instilled in him the desire to enter the Lord’s Ministry. With this intent he entered Northwestern College in the fall of 1936. His brief stay here, marked by a commendable diligence and zeal, indicated that he would have well carried out his determined career.

But the Lord in his infinite wisdom had other determinations. Before Vern had even finished his first year at Northwestern, his Heavenly Father called him from his earthly labors to a final reward.

His parents, relatives, friends at home and at Northwestern mourn the early death of Vern Baker.

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EXCERPTA DE 1TINERE NOSTRO Richard Junghunts

The following account is the only unofficial, inaccurate report to be published concerning the recent Spring Tour of the Male Chorus. Any conclusions drawn from remarks made herein are sure to be false.

Wed. 24th— Left Watertown 7:20 A.M. by the Greyhound “Bow-en-Arrow.”

Driver—John Coskran. Foghorn—Thierfelder. At exactly 8:47 A.M. the Monotonous Quintette rendered “A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea” and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” for the first time. No encore. Dinner at Chicago Union Bus Station.

A hitch-hiker managed to hang on to the rear part of the bus from Chicago into Gary, Very ungrateful character. Stubborn­ ly refused to wipe off the rear window. Arrived at South Haven about 4:14 P.M., E.S.T. After the concert Pagels and Lehninger began their intensive and exhaustive studies of the Modern Michigan Farm, which brought them not a little renown and acclaim before the end of the tour.

Thur. 25th一 Started for Owosso (Prof. Bolle’s old home town) about 10.00 A.M. Lunch at Ionia, where part of the State Prison is located.

No one detained. Breiling became subject to spasmodic fits of shouting and pounding on the rear window. Seemed to have been haunted by the specter of yesterday’s hitch-hiker.

Eddie was affected in this way on all the longer trips, during which he appeared to be under a very great strain.

Luckily, he always became his old self shortly after we had stopped. Gurgel maintains that he lost his ‘‘lid’’ at Owosso, but he should worry.

Fri. 26th— Big day ahead of us. Left for Saginaw at 8:00 A.M. Attended church there at 9:15. Sang two numbers at the Auditorium in the afternoon for the Good Friday Service. Concert as usual in the evening. It was here at Saginaw that Zimmerman^ past came up to meet him. It seems he never used to button his collar. After the concert your Inquiring Reporter elicited the following comment from one of the audience, ‘‘Incidentally, Ah’m still speechless.” Wonder what that “incidentally” im­ plies.

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Sat. 27th— Including this morning’s breakfast the Chorus had now con­ sumed approximately 360 eggs, mostly fried. Dinner at the church. Then a sight-seeing tour of the city in private cars.

Nice town. Nice people. Left for Plymouth about 2:30 P.M. Were followed for about twenty miles by a car full of Kappa Alpha Pi’s. Went through Flint by mistake, but managed to survive the ordeal. Pulled into Plymouth, the home town of a certain Oliver Goldsmith, at 4:30 P.M. R.F.D. Pagels and his sidekick Lehninger were quartered as usual. No concert. Re­ ceived a telegram from the Kappa Alpha Pi’s of dubious or rather ambiguous meaning, viz., “We can do eighty, how about you?”

Sun. 28th Up early for the Sunrise Service at 6:00 A.M. Breakfast at the church and off for Monroe. Concert there at 10:00 A.M. and dinner at a hotel. Zimmerman does not like shrimp cock­ tails. Set out for Toledo at 2:30 P.M. Arrived and some saw the Zoo. They have a giraffe among other beasts of the field.

Strange as it seems, the “Bow-en-arrow” ran out of gas in Toledo. The last sputter of the engine was so human it was almost symbolic. Everybody to bed early after the concert ex­ cept Schlenner. He can’t waste his time sleeping. Met Rev. Naumann, our former tutor.

Mon. 29th— Bade the “Coontang City” farewell at 1:30 P.M. Uneventful trip. Sturgis opened her gates at 4:00 P.M. After the concert Queen Anne died at the school hall, while Schmelzer watched the Fords go by. About fifteen of the lads were quartered at a Tourist’s Home for the night.

Tue. 30th— Wiedenmeyer arose early, and having unearthed an ancient “Stop and Go” sign (hand-manipulated), directed traffic in the middle of the street for some time. Sturgis, you know, is the ^Gate­ way to Michigan.” We finally pulled out of Sturgis at 10:00 A.M. Dinner at the Bus Terminal in Chicago. Elkhorn’s sky­ line was seen on the horizon at 3:53 P.M. Supper at the Sehool Hall. After the meal some of us whiled away the time playing a game, the nature of which points to E. Crayse Toepel as the author. Left for Watertown immediately after the concert, but 3

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the rear end of the bus broke down in Whitewater. Zimmerman was sitting in the rear seat. After an hour and a half wait, we transferred to a bus sent out from Madison, and that is the anticlimactic ending of another very successful and enjoyable Chorus Tour.

ON DIGRESSIONS Frederick Grunwald

Have you ever read a book or the like in which digressions were so numerous, prolix, and even clumsy that you were quite fatigued and believed that the writer’s thoughts were arranged about as neatly and logically as a scattered pack of cards? That failing is common; undoubtedly almost everyone has transgressed thus at some time or other, either in writing or speaking. Often one is able to forgive digressions; some are even welcomed, since they are occasionally more interesting than the bulk of the work. Frequently the students literally ask for them in class and listen with more or less rapt attention while the professor “shoots•” Such side paths are even more acceptable to the student who has not had time to prepare sufficient Greek or the like for the day’s recitation.

In books, especially in novels, digressions are almost in­ variably tedious. Besides being intolerably long and verbose, many novels contained hosts of such episodes, some of which contain color and setting, but others — merely words.

On first consideration one would be prone to condemn all digressions utterly. However, after having undergone the temptation of making such side trips, one realizes how strong the urge sometimes becomes and one is apt to be more tolerant.

If, of an afternoon while plugging away at Hebrew or Greek, one does not apply himself with an iron will, his mind may be­ take itself to the fresh forests (still somewhat soggy, but unmistakeably reawakening) — there to be entertained by the varied songs of the ever increasing number of returning birds.

Or if the student is compelled by circumstances to study on a moon-lit night of spring or early summer, his mind, provided it has-a light fantastic turn, may make a digression to the old cemetery on the hill, where it is supposed by some that Shelley，s spirit flits about nightly to the strains of Mendelsohn，s “Music to a Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

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These examples of digressions are, we admit, different from those generally indulged in by writers and have different causes. Thus they are akin to digressions in themselves — de­ gressions on digressions — and as such will probably illustrate that human failing more clearly and concretely than anything else we might have written on the subject.

No matter how commonly and easily digressions are made they are nearly all inexcusable. Swift had the right idea, when in his “Ta’e of a Tub” he very conveniently labelled all his lengthy digressions and left the matter to the reader to choose for himself.

A DAY OF VACATION AT NORTHWESTERN Milton Weishahn

“Hey, wake up there! Good morning,” my friend Eddie greets me as I am awakened by a tug at the toe. As I rub my eyes beholdinp： the sun shine brightly into the otherwise deserted and empty bedroom, I am again recalled to the fact that this is vacation time. The deserted beds are indeed a sad and lonely spectacle, but the pleasant sunshine drives away the gloom, and I jump out of bed. A casual glance at the watch assures me that I have ten more minutes before breakfast, so I rush to the washroom. There seems as yet to be no stirring in the empty dormitory, where every sound reverberates with a crashing： echo, but I am misled. There bent over the wash bowl is already someone who has arrived before me, blotting out the last evidences of sleep behind a slapping wash rag. It is not surprising to see that it is Ray, for he is always rather an early rustler. After a few minutes of hasty cleansing I am on my way to the bedroom.

Already from the first floor echoed the call ‘‘breakfast,’’ and I answer with a loud ‘‘yu-up.’’ Over my head I slip the accustomed old sweater and scamper down the steps. Almost all are waiting near the door. Joe is a bit slow this morning, so we tarry yet a minute, then run to breakfast. The large dining hall stares in its emptiness as we enter. But that is of little concern to us, for all interest is directed to the two tables where eleven places are set for us. A friendly smile and pleasant “good morning” from the mistress greets us from the kitchen, as we sit down to eat. Of course conversation is at first a bit 5

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forced, but when “Champ” Tiefel begins to boast about the billiard game he is to play after breakfast, he is immediately silenced with challenges from several different corners. The meal is soon finished and the dishes stacked on the counter. Today is Eckert’s turn to say grace, as we pause a moment in prayer.

There seems to be a decided rush from the hall, but we are soon to learn the wherefore, for already Schweppe shouts4'I ‘whack’ the sport’s page.” Down to the club room we scamper, the favorite haunt for these days of freedom and vacation. About the radio are still the many disarranged chairs and davenports of the night before, adjusted to the comforts of each concerned.

A new day is ushered in as yesterday’s scattered papers are removed for the new ones of today. The radio shudders in the corner as it blasts out the deep-voiced tones of the early morning announcers. The rustle of papers breaks up the blue lines of smoke that float smoothly on the beams of sunlight, while every­ one eagerly pages, seeking the news of the day. After a time, everyone begins to stir about, interested in his own work. I decide to write a letter, so move to one corner to escape the loud singing over the air. I hear that the mail has arrived, so I rush upstairs for that “expected” letter, but none has arrived.

Down to the basement I again go to finish that novel I began last night. We arelentertained by some jolly cowboys at present, so I seat myself nearer the radio, enjoying the music that happens to be appropiate; hill-billy music for a hill-billy story.

Several boys have decided that it is twelve o’clock, so we go to dinner. After the meal Jerry and I go for a little walk, but remember, no farther than the campus, for at this time we are isolated! No scarlet fever germs dare escape our realm, so we have been made outcasts, left to cohabit with them alone. Upon entering the smoking room again, we step to the tunes of some “real hot” jazz. Joe, "the Man o’ the Mountain” has tuned in to what he calls the ‘‘Heat Wave,” and seems delighted as he adds, “Well, I think I’ve got something here!” The heavy meal has made me feel drosy, so I stretch out on the davenport for a nap. Snores from behind me indicate that Kuehl already has fallen asleep. At three o’clock I am awakend by “the gang” who want me to go bowling with them. I stretch about for a bit, then accompany them to the gymnasium. My fingers are yet sore from yesterday’s playing, and I seem to be entirely off 6

today. “LeRoy” has very little action behind his ball, but he seems to be able to “steer” it down the ally for a fairly nice score. “Look fellows, I’ve rolled two strikes and a spare in three consecutive squares, am I getting good! But now what’s wrong, there goes a gutter ball, and the next one too. Oh, I’m going to quit, I’m rotten!”

Supper time is near so we hastily wash ourselves before leaving the building. Becker has been listening to the baseball game this afternoon, therefore we can expect some arguments at the table. Of course Wayne Ten Broek won’t permit all that conjecturing- to go undisputed, and sarcastically lets his opponent know that Minnesota doesn’t even have a chance in baseball.

After the meal interest is focused upon the evening papers for a short time. I am “sub-consciously” reminded that I have not yet practiced my music lesson for today, so I go up to the piano room. The music rings through the emptiness, and I almost shudder at the thought of the three dark floors that separate me from my companions. But I do my heartfelt duty “plunking” away at the keys for an hour and feel fully relieved, having： assured myself that I have fulfilled my best intentions.

I have the billiard table ‘‘whacked’’ next, sol also take pleasure in appreciating the skill that this great game of billiards de­ mands. The ‘‘swing’’ music of modern dance orchestras re­ sounds softly through the confines of the basement, sol draw my chair up closer to the light, where I enjoy several hours of peaceful reading. The shaking of the cookie box has spontane­ ously aroused my hunger, so I join in with the others in par­ taking of the choice sweets. Thoughtful mothers and many kind friends have generously supplied us with plenty of candy, cake and cookies, so we need not look long for that which satisfies even the daintiest of tastes. Conversation is lively now, and it seems that that fictitious telephone call that ^Alf^ re­ ceived today, has led to many an interesting guess.

One by one the little group of ‘‘unfortunates’’ diminishes, as heavy eyes call for sleep, so that the writer himself finally also ascends the creaking steps. There is a dark silence that pervades the bedroom, which even the light fails to illuminate.

After hastily undressing I crawl in bed, pondering the several incidents of the day. I grieve at the thought of having to live such an uneventful and secluded life, yet I am gladdened as I 7

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take thought of another day of vacation. With no care for the morrow, I turn my head and fall fast asleep.

THE TWO PILLARS OF FOLLY Edward Fredrich

The sight of the pillars that shadow the entrance of our dormitory has to us always been revolting. The effect these stubby stone pillars, set in front of the box-like building, create is as startling and unbeautiful as would be a spire jutting from the roof of a Grecian temple. The pillars just do not belong there. The building itself does not particularly offend; neither would the two pillars in the proper place. But together they disgust with the falsity and folly of their combination and make one wonder how any architect could ever create it. Whoever the architect was, he must have been of the poorest set and scarcely worthy of the name.

Perhaps we are being unjust to the man in making such statements and not looking upon his work with a just inter­ pretation. It might be better to say that the architect was un­ worthy of the name, if he was not a super-architect. This he may have been. If we objectively ponder his pillars, we will recognize this possibility. Perhaps the man was blessed with the piercing sight of the philosopher and saw through the pose of the Northwestern College student—saw how we are wont to falsely adorn what we call our education with a smattering： of culture. It is a fact that the average fellow here plays for years with Greek, Latin, will read books, will study history and all the rest and gain only the fact, the shell of the material never the meaning, the kernel. Our architect may have recog­ nized this and designed on this basis. Then the pillars would be symbols of our mockery of culture, no longer pillars of false­ hood and folly but of wisdom and truth — and the design super­ architecture, in which creation of beauty has been put aside for creation of truth.

Then we might justly be proud of our building and admire its beauty. For although it be unsightly and ugly, yet if it mirrored a truth, it would be beautiful in an objective beauty that transcends mere outward loveliness of line or symmetry and depends upon inward beauty of truth.

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be no disgust at the unbeautiful beauty of the building. But the truth of its beauty would awaken only disgust at ourselves and our falsity and we would be moved to obliterate it and better ourselves, thereby making of the pillars not only an apparent, architectural folly but a real one. Then in that grander day when the pillars would be truly ugly, we might justly correct this blot on our fair campus.

Yet we doubt exceedingly if the architect was this super­ architect and that the pillars symbolize a truth. More than likely this is not so. The idea is just as idealistic and improbable as the never-to-be Uptopian realm of perfect college life which it would eventually lead to. Although utterly soundless and groundless, please forgive us the thought. It was a pleasant fancy, that could have lightened the burden of a sad, college existence, had it not been quite so fanciful.

IIOW TO WASTE TIME Clayton Krug

In this world of inequalities and unfair distribution of goods, everybody seems to be dissatisfied with things as they are. The poor and unpriviledged keep on howling for their rights and for a better distribution of the good things of life; while their more fortunate brethren complain that they are already being bled to death.

This, however, is not to be a discourse on economics. What we want to say is that among all these inequalities there is at least one thing that is handed out in equal and just portions.

That is time. Everyone is given his twenty-four hours each day — rich and poor, just and unjust alike — regardless of what he chooses to do with them. Whether a man is ambitious, neutral, or just plain lazy makes no difference. But right there the equality stops, for time in its application to man is only relative; one person can make a little of it go a long way, while another person needs a lot more of it in order to even get started — in other words, he wastes time.

In the ideal state there would, of course, be no wasted time. Every day would have a division of time into periods of work, leisure, and sleep. Perhaps it is an encouraging indica­ tion that the present age is striving for that ideal, for we hear a lot about efficiency of labor, which calls for a full use of the 9

time allotted to work; and we are taught how to make the most of our leisure hours. In fact, we can go even farther and say that the sleep periods are being driven to higher efficiency， judging from the increased advertisement of perfect mattresses and potions that will put one to sleep just as surely and quickly as a good dose of carbolic acid.

We are not concerned with any of these divisions, nor with the perfect state. Our subject is wasted time — not supervised leisure, indulged in for the benefit of body and soul, but just plain ordinary wasted time, with which we all, sad to say, are so intimately familiar.

Now there are among all kinds of people, even among college students, a certain small minority whom we might call 100% efficient. They are the ones who have a perfect schedule divided into the (those) above mentioned classes; and what is more, they try hard to live up to it. Their time table includes a string of articles like the following: brush teeth, two minutes; wash face and hands, four and one-half minutes; study Latin, two hours and seven minutes; translate Greek, one hour and fifty-six minutes; and so forth. Apparently they don’t waste any time; and very likely it was a member of that group who invented the phrase “Wasting time is stealing.” Nine times out of ten it’s a downright lie. If it isn’t, every last one of us is a supercharged combination of Jesse James and the Forty Thieves.

After a careful study of the way in which people about me waste time, it seems that the favorite method is simply looking at a spot. I have often seen someone sit still for a long time, as motionless as a cat watching a mouse hole, his eyes fixed in a glassy, vacant stare on some object or space which is in itself not at all interesting or educational; often the object is a bare wall or a dusty, sunlit floor. Now such a person may be in deep thought, and not wasting time at all; but after watching a good many subjects in that attitude, I have decided that such is not the case. After half an hour of deep and concentrated thought, any normal person should come out of it bristling with wisdom or wit, but most of the time the opposite is the case. People come out of the state with a mind as black as a mirror in the dark. It is a clear case of wasted time.

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other ways of doing the same thing; some of them very subtle and hard to discern. We all like to look ambitious, both to our­ selves and to others; and this instinct, combined with a streak of natural laziness, can produce any number of complicated means to fulfill both desires at the same time. For instance, there is the example of combined sensations. In order to demonstrate this method draw up an easy chair before the fire, turn on the radio (swing music preferable), light a cigarette or pipe, place a bottle of beer nearby, and then open a not too interesting book. The result will be a perfect epitome of modern high-speed life, and will lead in a pleasingly deceptive way to just one thing—wasted time.

The little occupation called daydreaming ranks high as a time eater; and again it is hard to decide whether such dreaming is a waste of time or not. Any professor will naturally say that it is, but there is room for doubt. Unlike looking at a spot, one gets something out of daydreaming. If the subject of our reverie is a good one, it is a most pleasant and soul-satisfying occupation; for the imagination of man is unlimited by space and is able to bring its subject near, even though she is actually miles away.

Such dreaming is all right if indulged in only sparingly and at the proper time. If it crops up in the classroom it becomes a hindrance to instruction, and a waste of time. But there is another kind of daydreaming which may be entirely legitimate. Suppose a professor or other lecturer gets one started on an interesting line of thought and then turns from it again. The listener’s mind begins to function along the indica­ ted line and he follows it onward, neglecting the speaker. It is quite possible that in such a case the so-called dreamer will come to loftier thoughts than his instructor, and so get more benefit from his own course than he would have got from the other. And even though the dreaming may not always turn out in that way, it is a good defense for those who are inclined to do a little of it now and then.

But why should I go on telling you about something with which you are perhaps just as familiar as I am. My purpose has been accomplished, namely to point out a few of the main types of time-wasting, and to advise you to be on your guard, if you ever intend to become really wise or great. This whole 11

article should in fact be a warning to you, for all the while you have been reading it (if you have) you have been again wasting a few more of your precious minutes.

AMERICA’S NEWEST CRAZE James Vogt

Have you read the latest newspapers? If you have you have probably noticed the spread of America’s newest craze.

Yes, it is that one known as the “sit down” strike. One can today hardly pick up a newspaper without reading of strife and disorder affecting all types of business organizations from the giant motor corporations, employing thousands of men, down through a chain of hotels and utility companies to the nephew of Andrew Mellon, whose fox farm was shut down because of the strike of its dozen employees.

Late in December, 1936 the city of Flint, Michigan was thrown into disorder, when a few hundred men seized two branches of the Fisher Body Company. With the transporta­ tion system already at a standstill because of a bus strike, further confusion and unrest was caused by the stoppage of all other factory employment in the city. This drew the attention of Governor Murphy, who had just been installed into office.

He saw fit to order 4000 men of the National Guard to encamp within the city. But to avoid further trouble and possible bloodshed, he wisely forbade them to side with either the company or the strikers, but ordered them only to stand guard in case of violence and threatened property damage. But General Motor officials would not talk terms with the strikers until they had evacuated the factories. Thus after six weeks of idleness the strikers marched from the plants, claiming a victory, and 40,000 employees went back to work.

What did they strike for? Could it have been for higher wages? But all employes had just received a raise and a very generous “bonus” check for a Christmas present. Passing by those who do not know and touching lightly those who think they know, we finally learn that the United Automobile Workers, a union of factory laborers, was behind all the trouble. In what seemed to be a drive for more members, the union had ordered a few of its members to sit down with little or no reason.

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Whether in his own interests or those of the majority the non-union employees, Knudsen did not give in to such an agreement. He did, however, agree to recognize the union as the representative of its members. Thus both sides were agreed and everybody thought the trouble was over. But soon we be­ gan to hear of a two hour ‘‘sit down’’ here and a half day ‘‘sit down’’ there. The union claimed that the company had broken its agreement and the company officials reversed the accusations.

Knudsen now claims thirty such breaches of agreement.

This is the situation as we see it today. It is far from settled.

The union has gone a step farther and attacked the Chrysler Corporation. Various groups, including state and Federal governments, have taken the affair in hand searching for a so­ lution. But at present the people’s eye is on Henry Ford, who, it appears, will be the next victim of the union. All are con­ fident he will be able to solve the situation. Here is wishing him the best of luck.

CONCERTS The Seminary Male Chorus will give a concert in the College gymnasium Sunday evening, May 9th beginning at 8:00 P.M. Correction 一 The Spring Concert will not be given April 23, as pre­ viously announced, but on the following Friday, April 30.

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THE BLACK AND RED Published Monthly by the Students of Northwestern College

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Edward Fredrich....

Frederick Grunwald Ernst Wendland Clayton Krug

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jMturhtls We Make Our Entrance...............

INCE the next volume of our college paper has been con­ signed to our care, we feel constrained both by a time­ worn convention and more by some inner compulsion that is responsible for this convention to speak a few lines by way of an introduction.

In our hands the Black and Red shall undergo a few chanpres.

The staff positions at least in name have been altered. The Locals Column, Exchange, and Co-ed Notes have been dropped.

By dropping these columns we indicate whatever of creed or principle will guide our efforts. We deem the columns a hindrace to the final good of the Black and Red. We wish to enhance the importance of the literary and editorial sections at their expense. A college paper of this sort ought to “mirror the intellectual life of the student’’ 一 thus the phrase goes.

Our publication does not strive to, nor ever could, serve as a news sheet.

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scarcely deserve an existence in the Black and Red. A few columns still find place but only by a special virtue. The pages devotedEtorathletics have become as necessary a part of the paper as athletics are to our college life. The other columns also serve a special purpose.

In carrying out these changes we are striving to make the Black and Red a true student paper, not one devoted chiefly to the interest of a few columnists. Gentlemen, we give to all in general, to every one in particular a large number of empty Black and Red pages. Fill them !

Fredrich A Suggestion................ is not neglected at Northwestern; the various M USIC musical organizations enable the musically gifted student to acquire a slight musical education. There are even a few classes in music offered the student, but as for musical appre­ ciation —musical depreciation is more prevalent here. It is not our intention to decry the musical organizations. The band and orchestra master some classics each year and greatly benifit their members and a few of their hearers. Both choruses do good work also, and, from a purely technical point of view (if that be possible), are able to interpret Bach and other masters quite well. However, in the matter of musical appreciation, all these organizations benefit primarily their members, and not even all of them. There is a great number of students which belongs to none of the organizations. Furthermore the greatest symphonic and operatic works are rarely, if ever, attempted, since many of them are too difficult, and often, especially in the band, important instruments are lacking.

Another medium of musical education is the radio. The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts serve to give many an appreci­ ation for opera. However, the season is comparatively short.

Several good symphony concerts are broadcasted over the radio; still these too are rather sporadic. The reason many of us fail to appreciate Beethoven or Wagner is because we probably do not hear their works often enough; and when the opportunity to hear them is offered, we do not listen with an open mind.

Furthermore the vast quantities of jazz fed to the radio public have caused many to lose all sense for good music. We do not 15

if deprecate alljjazz; a little of it is bearable, and a very little of it is even melodic and enjoyable, but the mass of it is abomi­ nable.

To educate the students in music and the appreciation of it, a phonograph would be invaluable. It would enable the students to hear symphonic, operatic, and choral gems frequently enough to be of value to them. Perhaps some senior class would donate the necessary phonograph. Should that happen, there would yet remain the problem of acquiring a library of recordings. If there were sufficient interest in the matter, the literary societies might be prevailed upon to make an appropriation from their joint treasury, which contains enough of the glittering substance to purchase without embarrassment a sizable library of record­ ings, comprising the greatest music ever written, recorded by the world’s most accomplished musicians. If no phonograph is donated, money to buy one might also be appropriated from this source. It would be truly of great advantage to be able to hear often the chorals of Bach, the symphonies of Bethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tschaikowsky, and gems from the operas of Wagner, Verdi and others. The proposed scheme would be not at all impossible nor impractical if there were sufficient interest in it.

F. A. G. Sixty for Fifteen ?................

0 one with an investment of any amount would give up his due interest, if it were in any just way possible to procure the premium. Are we to be different ? There is on this very campus, in the form of two tennis courts, a dead investment.

Every game is played within certain bounds and with certain rules. At present it appears that at this college tennis will lose all such restrictions— for who can play within bounds if there are no such bounds, — viz. the painted lines of the court ? And a rule says that the ball must be hit over a net, and we now ask, ' Tray tell, what net Vf Surely the reason for these lacks cannot be a financial one, for everyone knows that our farseeing athletic chiefs would openly not spend money for a base­ ball team of twelve and at the most fifteen players, when just a fraction of that amount spent would give joy and exercise to over sixty other game-starved students.

May we soon be fishers to raise nets and floggers to lay stripes!

I. W. W. 16

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New Books VERY book is new to you, unless you have read it.”

This appeared on a "bulletin in a public library. Here is something that we ought to consider more than we do. It is not a new thought, but one that is seldom expressed. Those that are in any way connected with literature for the purpose of making a livelihood surely want it kept out of sight as much as possible. Writers, editors, publishers are all interested in getting the newest books before the eyes of the public. The public in turn has now been trained to be just as eager to receive the latest off the press. Some magazines even have reviews of books not yet published, so that many readers are trembling with impatience before the edition even leaves the printer’s office.

Whether the book is really worth reading is seldom con­ sidered. A hasty glance at some possibly prejudiced review, a thought about the popularity of the author and the length of the book — the longer the better being the current opinion; these are the prime considerations and often suffice. Whether the time spent reading this book could be spent more profitably on another older, standard work, or possibly none, is too seldom considered. The avid best-seller reader has a positive horror for any material that makes him think. As soon as he comes to such a paragraph, he judges it to be poor literature—stilted, cryptic, metaphysical. He would rather scrub floors than accu­ rately read the first two books of Paradise Lost. But then, we must not be too harsh with him on that account. Possibly others would also prefer the manual labor.

Whenever Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, or Wordsworth are mentioned, young people often perk up with that knowing look, as if to say: “At least you can’t fool me this time. I know all about him.” They undoubtedly have heard his name re­ peatedly; but all praise, none read. So it is with many great figures in the literary field. Everybody thinks everybody else has read the author, so why should he. He wants something new, different. Result: nobody reads the good classic literature.

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G. Hillmer 17

The Select Eight................

N the April number of Harpers Dumas Malone published his • list of the greatest Americans in' history. Thinking it to be of interest to many who will not look at the original we reprint his choice in the literary field. The ranking is based chiefly on the amount of space given to the persons in the Dictionary of American Biography, which Mr. Malone edited, with slight alterations for "fortuitous circumstances� and personal opinion.

Present popularity was not considered. The list follows: 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Mark Twain 4. Walt Whitman 5. Edgar Allan Poe 6. Henry David Thoreau 7. Henry James 8. James Fenimore Cooper Do you differ or agree ?

Fred rich

SPRING CONCERT FRIDAY, APRIL 30th 8:15 P. M.

FREEWILL OFFERING 18

Campus and Classroom Student activity as well as the majority of the students were ' more or less confined and restricted for the fortnight preceding =the Easter Recess. Perhaps that is an excuse as good as any ^ for the title under which this column is timidly making its first i appearance this month. 本本 本 Suggestion for last month’s Most Unwelcome Visitor: What Rex Koenig intimately refers to as the “shtriptokiekus.” 氺申

本本

Ernie, Ernie, I’ve been thinking What a grand place school can be, While those nasty streptococci Pick on you instead of me. 承

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Judging by the thoroughly business-like evacuation and dispersion that took place in the early A. M. of March 24, one would think that there were some students who were not sorry to get out of here. Thanks to the fact that about a dozen selfsacrificing souls stayed in the dormitory, our vacation was ex­ tended to April 6.氺 本本本 Siegler no longer needs the practice on his clarinet, so he bought a typewriter. Don’t fret, however; we got used to the clarinet in time, and then, Siegler should graduate in June.

Milton raised a mustache.

The mustache grew apace.

Weyland paid him spot cash.

Now look at Weyland^ face.

Some insist that Milton still has his labial adornment, but you can’t prove it by me. * * * * The characters have been chosen for Grillparzer’s German comedy, “Weh dem, der luegt,11 to be presented before the two literary societies sometime in May. Rehearsals are being directed by Dr. Kiessling.

Poem after the manner of Gertie Stein Floor, floor, butts on the floor, Long butts, short butts, mostly short butts, Floor, floor, ash trays on the floor, But butts on the floor, dirty floor, Smoking Room floor.

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I Musical Notes: Male Chorus Homecoming Concert was presented April 13，the Spring Concert of all organizations will be given on the 30th. * * * * Hallauer, the Walter Winchell of photography, will soon be ready with his unposed snapshots of Male Chorus members when off duty. Negatives are at a premium.

If a man can be mysterious Like Coleridge in his “Mariner,” Or describe a “Boy” delirious Like Wordsworth’s half-wit Paul Revere, He’s a poet!

Or is he ?

Prediction for next month: The Coeds will have a banquet at the Green Bowl. The tables will be beautifully decorated.

Someone will act as toastmaster. There will be speeches and other entertainment later in the evening.

Have a good time, girls! 本*

氺氺

Another literary Season has petered out. Do you remember what the first program was about ? Hardly; it was in German.

Of course, that is to be expected, since according to the insti­ tution the prime purpose of a Literary Society is to give practice in public speaking. But an instrumental solo is still accepted as one appearance. I wonder what the word ‘‘literary’’ really means.

Spring’s the time a young man’s fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of course Working in a canning factory isn’t very Romantic.

Contrary to malicious rumors, Pagels is still attending school — between week-ends.

The Sophomores received an immense box of candy from their Coeds during the isolation period, as did also the Seniors.

Worst wise-crack of the month : April showers bring May­ flowers. So does Hertler.

Victoria Quandt celebrated the return of her schoolmates after Easter Vacation by having a birthday April 5.

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Far be it from Traugott Bradtke to deprive anyone of the opportunity to perform his duty. Every morning he patiently lies in bed until both prep and collegiate monitors plus the in­ spector have had a chance to try their hand (in the literal sense) at arousing him. And there’s no hypocrisy about our Traugott.

If he isn’t awake, he won’t sit up in bed as some of our more unethical friends are wont to do.

The Juniors celebrated Arbor Day on Tuesday the 20th.

The Sophomores did some tree-planting and stuff.

oor Oftern tam e§ bei ung wteberum gut 圯apftraa讲. bem er fetneS Unites treulid) gemartet Ijatte, rourbe uniec uorige 泪apft, §err 9?ico(aitg, abgefetjt. Vln feinec ©telle tua^Iten roir bann Secrri ^SeQlanb mit bem 边orbe^jalt aber, bag er jofort eine SBarbierftuBe bejudje unb feinen ©djnurcbart I08 roecbe. tat ec au^. 6r blieb graei Sane 汜叫ft. ©3 luolUe aber burdjauS ni^jt ge^en. ©eine 51b* jetjung fofgte fogleic^. 5((3汩apft pro tem ectudljfte bet BoetuS bann ©errn ging fdjon ein menig beffer. 5lm 19. 9J2arj erltefe er feine 33uUe „5)iScebite, fcQtcegH, unb (d)idte bamit bie gauge ©ippjdjaft fiir bie Dfterferien nad)亡aufe. @tlid)e uon unS bradjten toieberum bie ffSengcit Ijier in unferm ©d)(afiaa( 311. Unt fid) su uergemiffern, bafj mit au由 a(le§ in Orb* nung taffen tniirben, blieb 沿apft S3uffett)i|j etfidje Sage bei unS. TO er fid) abec uid)t bereit erffcirte, un? bie ^artoffetn j^u fdjalen, ^aben tutr ifjn aud) nad)幻aufe gefdjirft. 2Bir ftnb au由 gans gut o^ne itjn fertig gewocbeu, unD unfere guttjergige SBirtin,这rau 5ianfiec, liefe eS unS iuieberum nidjt an SeBenSmitteln fetjlen. m 29. dMxi burften mieberum alle ©tubenten o^ne 5tuSna§me i^c ©tubium foctfefeen. 5)ie neuen Seamten fur bag lefete SEertiat unfereg ©djuIjaljrS raurben jofort gemci^tt: ©err Srefemann, $rafeg; §erc Diaabe, ^isepcafeS. giir ba§ fotnmenbe bient ^ecr Sart^etg ©djajjmeifter unb bie ©ercen ©innentljat unb §otjer wecben unfec miner mit 2e!ti\ren Decforgen. 5)amit fi由 teiner beletbigt fiil)(en moc^te, Fjaben roir bieienigen ©(ieber bet Oberttaffe, bie nod) feine ®etegenf)eit ge^abt unS morgens aufeutt)ec!en, al§ 53inmitec ecraaljlt. Unter bie[en befinben fi由 t)ie ©erren 93re§* mann,货oep丨eH,职.Semfe,职uenM, ©djroertfeger, ©iegter, X^ier* fetber unb SBeijianb.

2Ba§ fid) bod) nid)t aHeS in einer Jurgen gcriertgeit sutragen !ann! 於err ^mnentljal Be^auptet, er fei gang na由 ^loriba geroejen unb ()aBe fid) in bem atlantifd^en Ogean gebabet. SBir fontien brum ^tn unb miiffen iljm njo|t gtauben, benn bie ^otognufe, bie er jur @djau 21

f ^Math 咕 IRtH j tragt, rocid^ft Ijier tno^I ?aum unb bie 9?afe unbben 沉utfen uerBrcnnt man fid) in SBigconftn aud) nod) nidjt int 猶rg.

S)ie 3eit iljrer ^bioluierung riicft raieberum allma^ncfi fiir bie ©(ieber ber Dberflaffe tjeran. ©ie finb fdjon fleifjig mit ben 35riifungSfdjriften, bie fie t)or iljrer ^Ibfotuiecung aBjuIegen rjaben, be* fdjaFtigt. ^otgenbeS ift ba§ ^Refuttat unfere§ ”intramural baStetBaK tourna* ment : ©inters fiegten elfmat unb wurbcn einmalig Beftegt.

S)ie ©aSper? fiegten fiinfmat unb rourben fiebenmolig befiegt.

S)ie hooper? fiegten fed)«iiiat uitb tuurben fedjSmalig befiegt.

S)ie ©d)n)a 9RoBi(eS fiegten uiermal unb njurben aditmalig befiegt.

S)ie 职神 fiegten oiermal unb rourben adjtmatig befiegt.

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5Ubred)t, (Smmerfort—Ober ?)

Barling, (Snimerfort —Dber ?)

2Bi由marnt, (SBat^mann — Dber ?)

Xiefel, (SBadjmann — Ober ?).

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95i§ jefet Ijat ©err 9?uffotu nod) imuter einen guten 班ppetit! iii .

ALUNNI

H. C. Nitz, ’15, Rockford, Minnesota accepted the call to Waterloo, Wis. filling the vacancy left by the death of the Rev. G. Thurow. Rev. Nitz was installed on April 11th.

Rev. Hilton Oswald ’29 has accepted the call as professor at Northwestern Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, South Dakota.

A son of Rev. E. Prenzlow ’23 died recently as a result of injuries sustained when a stepladder on which his father was standing collapsed and crushed him. A subsequent operation was of no avail. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved parents.

We regret to announce that Theo. Ave-Lallemant ’00 died recently at the home of relatives in Milwaukee. Mr. AveLallemant had been a tutor here for several years and had been a member of the faculty of Marquette University until a few years ago.

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Rev. H. Schnitker ’23 formerly of Faith, South Dakota was installed as pastor of the congregation at Willow Lake, S. Dakota recently.

The marriage of Myrtle Dollase and Arnold Herrmann, both former students of Northwestern, took place at St. Mark’s church Watertown, Wis. on April 11th.

From cards recently received we see that Philipp v. Rohr Sauer ’29 has spent a month in reading in the British Museum * and since then has been visiting the Lake country. He expects i to take his degree at the University of Freiburg i. B. in the ' near future. i The marriage of Ethel Weihert ’ex 38 and Oscar Schultz was recently announced. The couple will make its home in f Janesville, Wis. where Mr. Schultz is employed.

Recently Rev. Arthur Sydow，03 of Tacoma, Wash, hap* pend upon a sonnet which had been sent to him several years ;ap：o on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his class.

We print it with his permission. * “Silver Anniversary Sonnet Class of 1903 I A quarter of a century has passed Since first we donned the academic gown, j What simple days in that bucolic town We spent — from rising bell till evening’s last Ablutions were performed; or when aghast Our naked foot touched slimy fish some clown Had hid in bed ! Our youthful brow no frown Nor shadow of religious doubt o’ercast.

Our lives in those sequestered walls were calm — Save for some childish prank at Hallowe’en.

Each morn we sang and listened to a psalm ; Then Greek and Latin ; then upon the green Or railroad track we loitered. May the balm Of auld lang syne from vanity us wean ! 一 Billy”

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BASKETBALL Bear with us, beseball fans! We realize that it’s spring and that with spring your thoughts are centered about baseballs and spikes, but there are still a few things about basketball that we have to get off our chest before we can rest.

Though tied with Milton in the number of games won and lost, final tabulations and computations according to a pointratio system gave Northwestern its first Tri-State Inter­ collegiate Basketball Championship since the organization of the conference. Our team is to be commended for the fine work that they did throughout the season. Next season should again be a successful one, for we are losing only one man by grad­ uation, Captain George Frey.

At a conference meeting held in Milwaukee on March 22, the following ten men were given all-conference recognition : Forwards : Nierenberg (Engineers) Hackbarth (Northwestern) J. Burris (Miners) Sunby (Milton) Centers : Nauman (Northwestern) Gutowski (Milton) Guards : Fowler (Aurora) Paschen (Mission House) Lambert (Northwestern) Loofboro (Milton) It was this department’s intention to list the final conference standings, but the all too ready waste basket of Coach Umnus has claimed them as its own.

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卜 INTRA-MURALS There still remain a couple of championships that must be touched upon. Though of only intra-mural nature, they deserve « more than ordinary consideration by virtue of the class that | gained them. Hail Juniors! But in all fairness it must be \ stated that neither of these championships came as free-will gifts, The Sophomores stood tied with the Juniors as contenders for both the volley ball and the basketball crown and it was only by dint of the greatest effort that the Juniors finally ! came through victorious.

The play-off game which was necessary to decide the basket；ball championship, both Sophs and Juniors having- tied with six i wins and three losses, attracted the attention of the entire dorm (as much as any regular varsity game would have. The entire game was close, exciting, and hard fought, and it was not until I Breiling and Zimmermann, of the hard pressed Junior team, came through in the final period with a pair of beautiful long shots, that the outcome of the game became obvious. The closeness of the game is attested to by the final score, 11—7.

Sophs Juniors , FG FT PF FG FT PF 0 Lehninger f.

1 0 0 1 1 Baganz f.

0 0 4 0 0 1 Tabbert f.

Schaller f.

0 0 1 0 3 3 Ten Broeck f.

Stuebs f.

2 0 1 0 1 Pagels c.

1 Breiling c.

0 0 2 1 0 Kuester g.

Zimmermann g. 1 0 Jungkuntz g 0 1 1 Wendland g.

0 0 3 r T 3 5 5 The play-off for the collegiate volleyball honors was as hotlycontested a struggle as one might ever hope to see in that division of intramural sports. After the Juniors had won the first game in fairly easy style, 15—6, the Sophs came back strong to take the next two, 8—15 and 7—15. Thanks to the presence of the rangy Becker, the Juniors were able to pull themselves out of the mire in which they had seemed erewhile so hopeless­ ly stuck, and cop the two final and deciding games, 15—8 and 18—16. The winning team was comprised of Becker, Stuebs, Wendland, Zimmermann, Birkholz, and Breiling.

Since the advent of Coach Umnus to Northwestern, the advance of intra-mural athletics and interest in them has gone on apace. Certainly every student, with the exception of the coeds! is ^iven plenty of opportunity to take all the exercise that is necessary for his physical well-being. Throughout the past fall and winter, tournaments have been held in touch-foot­ ball, basketball, volley-ball, bowling, ping-pong, and model air25

㈣ IRtll | planelflying. In addition to these activities regular weekly gym-classes were held. With spring there are still kitten ball一 and horseshoe tournaments to be participated in. If there re­ mains any student who is dissatisfied with Northwestern * sathletic program as it now stands, the fault lies in the studenthimself. Good work, Coach Umnus!

BASEBALL At the time of this writing only four practice sessions have been held, all of them indoors, thus making information as to prospects quite impossible. One thing, however, can be stated definitely—that the team will suffer markedly by the temporary loss of its catcher, Captain Wendland, whom the hereabouts much-hated scarlet fever streptococci hold fast in their grasp.

Twenty-five candidates have put in their bids for positions on the team. Of these aspirants, four letter men, Lambert, Kuester, Wiedenmeyer, anH George Frey, will serve as the nucleus about which Coach Umnus will build his team.

Lambert is certain to draw the mound duties. Besides having copped batting honors for the past two years, he has acquitted himself exceedingly well as a pitcher whenever called upon. We do venture to say that the success of the team for this season will hinge largely upon the manner in which Mr. Lambert will conduct himself, both on the slab and at the plate.

The representatives of the Tri-State Inter-collegiate Confer­ ence have decided that baseball be a conference sport this year, which fact gives the boys another trophy to work for. For the past several years Northwestern’s baseball teams have been most successful in upholding the honor of our school in the field of collegiate sports. Encouragement on the part of the student body plays a major roll in deciding the number of wins and losses which our team experince. Let's get out there and show some spirit!

The following baseball schedule has been arranged: April 24—Extension (here) “ 30—Seminary (here) May 3—Milton (there) “ 6—Extension (there) “ 8—Mission (there) May . 15—Engineers—double header (here) ‘‘ 17一Aurora (there) ‘‘ 19—Milton (there) ‘‘ 26—Mission (here) “ 28-Open June 5—Prison (there) 26

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— The Economic Responsibility of Government.............................

Ill Penseroso..................................

Home with Honeybees........ ..........

Student Rumors.................... .......

What This Country Needs______ John Wyclif...................................

Intimate Glimpse of a Columnist at Work|....................... ................

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EDITORIALS— Concerning Coed Notes Apology.......................

About Wordsworth.......

Comercialized College Athletics .

On the Use and Abuse of Poetry....

THE FORUM......................

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM SEMINARY NOTES.............

ALUMNI NOTES.................

ATHLETICS.........................

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•了 THE BLACK AND RED Volumk XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., May 1937

Number 2

THE ECONOMIC RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT Clayton Krug

The chief responsibility of any government, local or national, is to provide for the financial well-being of the citizens under its control: and any government that fulfills this responsibility is bound to prosper; while a government that fails in this duty, or extends its activities too far outside this obligation, sooner or later gets into trouble. The truth of this statement has been proven time and again in history, and yet there are many — governors and governed alike — who still do not realize its importance. It somehow seems to be a disgrace to mankind to admit that its greatest institution — government— has as its main purpose the duty of caring for the material needs of its subjects. Many believers in the goodness of human nature would repudiate such a statement. Yet even a small amount of observation establishes it as a fact.

Let us consider, for example, a few of the simpler functions of our own government: It maintains public schools, the chief aim of which is to train growing citizens to make a living, and 27

get on in the world; not, as some think, to teach morality. Any public school which does so is overstepping its bounds. True enough, it does teach pupils to obey laws and respect fellow — citizens, but only on the grounds of good citizenship; not for the sake of morality. The government has also established a system of law enforcement, which insures each citizen safety and protection in the pursuit of his business. The penal system is not, primarily, an establishment for the reform of fellow — creatures who have strayed from the right path, but its duty is to remove from society those who disturb us in our effort to make a living. The government builds roads in order that goods may be transported. It maintains an army and a navy to protect the citizens from foreign or internal disturbance. It makes laws to control men in their dealings with one another.

It levies tariffs and taxes on imports to protect home industries.

It carries on war in order that the financial interests of its citizens may be protected or extended. In all of these activities we see what an important economic responsibility our govern­ ment carries. Any government, whatever its form, carries this same obligation.

When in the year 1789, the Parisian mob crawled from its dark and filthy hovels and surged through the equally dark and filthy streets to storm the Bastille and thus begin a period of bloodshed that did not end until that same mob, and others like it, had gained control of an entire country, there were driving forces behind it. The people’s hatred of absolutism was great; they had a desire for liberty and equality, but surely these motives were not great enough to bring on the Reign of Terror, or give them the determination to gain their point, or die.

Those people were hungry, and cold, and wretched. They had been deprived of all opportunity to make a living, or even to satisfy their hunger. Their government had failed in its economic responsibility, and it was directly responsible for its own downfall. For a hundred years the French government had been absolute; at the same time it had been extravagant and in debt. The king and nobles demanded more money than the people were permitted to earn. For a long time the “common herd’’ had been patient, but finally it became desperate, and would endure no more. If the king and nobles were not able or willing to give them a chance to make a decent living, the 28

people decided, they would kill the king and his nobles, and set up a government of their own; with liberty that would allow them to go about without fear of oppression or confiscation of their goods; with equality that would enable them to live as well as the next man; and with fraternity that would level the difference between rich and poor.

The great majority of subjects under any government are not much concerned about the form of that government, or its methods of operation, so long as it keeps up the level of prosperity, and keeps its fingers out of religion and a few other personal matters. A people that has a full stomach and a jingling pocketbook usually is pretty well satisfied with its government. One Rood reason for our own love of democracy is that we have prospered — materially — under that system.

Other countries that did not fare so well under the same govern­ mental form soon gave it up.

When things began to go badly in the Roman Empire, and the farmers who could no longer make a living on the land bepran to flock to the cities, the emporors were wise enough to realize that something1 had to be done about it. They provided the people with bread and the circus, in order to fill their stomachs and keep them from thinking too much about their hard lot. In this way the Roman Empire was kept free from any major disturbances from within. At the same time, how­ ever, the Emperor’s financial policy was weak. The people were demoralized by their poverty and idle life, and were not fit material for an army. Because of this Rome’s boundaries were broken, and barbarian hordes swarmed in. Again the failure was at bottom brought on by the Empire’s poor econo­ mic policy.

But we may be going too far. Surely there have been revolutions and governmental troubles whose main motives were not financial. We think of our own country’s fight for freedom from Britian. Didn’t the colonial leaders have very honorable purposes? True, some of the leaders were idealists and men of understanding, who foresaw the effects of their work. But the people as a whole were not much worried about ideals.

They were worried about the new tax on tea which, piled on top of other economic grievances, had made it hard for them to get along. Of course, they talked about the right of represen29

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tation in government, but it was the new tax that got them to act. If their money had to be spent, they wanted to have a hand in the spending of it. If England had kept the Colonists in a better financial position, she wouldn’t have had so much trouble with them.

In our own times the economic responsibility of govern­ ment has been clearly demonstrated. In Germany, for instance, the democratic form of government was easily brushed aside because the people were dissatisfied with it. The country and people alike were practically bankrupt; and there was hope that with the change there would also be a betterment.

We have had a similar experience rij?ht at home. When the depression came in 1929, and something had to be done about it, the people without so much as thinking twice turned to the President for leadership. It was up to him to straighten things out.

There are at present two theories as to how far the governmerit’s economic responsibility should be exercised. The older of these theories holds that a government should merely establish and maintain the conditions under which its subjects arc able to care for themselves. It is the hands off policy that has recently been called “rugged individualism.” The other theory is more paternalistic, that is, it holds that government has the right and duty to control not only the conditions under which business and trade may be carried on, but is also to take an active part in the leadership and control of it. The present administration advo­ cates this last theory.

But whatever theory a government may follow in the matter, the fact remains that the chief governmental function has to do with economics. Failure to realize this fact, or be­ coming too much occupied with other matters that do not lie within its scope, has brought many governments to grief.

ILL PENSEROSO E. Wcmlland

There are times in seemingly blissful periods when every­ thing is pervaded with a gloomy atmosphere. Thus in the eyes of the casual observer it would perhaps seem that the victim of a six-weeks’ quarantine were enjoying a veritable Utopia. No bells, no assignments, no school — just a happy period of indo30

娜j lence and relaxation. Yet when in a retrospective mood, it is with a distinct sensation of relief that I remember one of the moments of a recent confinement.

It was the tenth hour of the third day of the fourth week.

An oppressive moment if there ever was one. Perhaps it was brought on by the elements, which were exceedingly somber on that morning. Then, too, it is not at all improbable that chance had something to do with it, since I had just lost my twentyseventh consecutive game of solitaire. Too scrupulous, I imagine.

Or it might have been caused by an inward feeling, so well expressed by Keats: ‘‘0 Solitude, if I must with thee dwell, let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings.” May it suffice to say that the moment contained all the melancholy expressed in Tschaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony.

In this mood I turned my attention to a heap of magazines which could be properly consumed with fire after the period of confinement was over. While scanning the pages of one of these lackadaisically, I ran across a rather clever bit of poetry, com­ posed by one of these polylinguists. The first line was written in English, the second Spanish, the third French, and so on.

The composer of this bit of verse conveyed an idea, an idea extremely apropos. At least it seemed at the moment that to express the oppressiveness of the situation in more than one language would afford some sort of an outlet. The modus operandi, if such it might be called, was quite simple. The second line of each stanza, the Greek line, was an expression of woe, an excerpt out of Euripedes’ Medea, which literally teems with such expressions. A little action brought an inevitable result: There once was a young streptococcus, lo moi moi, ego dustanos, Er flog in die Hoh, Et dicit mihi: *‘Let me park on your person my carcase.’

I scoffed at the young streptococcus, Aiai moi moi, ego talainos, Der winzige Schurke Cum agilitate Parked his carcase in my epiglottis.

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Ah, woe and alas and alacky, Io moi moi, io moi moi moi, 0 weh, 0 weh weh, Vae mihi, vae vae, 01 yoi yoi, oi yoi yoi yoi yoi yoi —.

As I survey this “poetry” a few weeks later, it seems a trifle indelicate and unethereal in spots. Especially the last line. However it seemed quite effective at the time.

HOME WITH HONEYBEES Willard Kehrbcrg

Most of you have had some contact with bees, often I suppose to your dismay. For bees are quite hot tempered in­ sects and have a fiery manner of venting their wrath. Many people when they hear the buzz of a bee, go the other way as swiftly as possible. They have a high respect for the stinger of the bee.

One rheumatic gentleman once tried to go the other way after disturbing a hive of bees but they caught up with him (bees can travel sixty miles an hour, — eighty when they take their flying seriously) and thoroughly avenged themselves of the disturbance.

But the punishment the man received was turned to blessing.

The poison which the bees injected into him caused his rheuma­ tism to disappear. Doctors have now found that 1000 bee stings will relieve a case of rheumatism. Of course the poison is not given directly — most people would prefer rheumatism 一 but it is taken from the bees and mixed with sugar or milk. If some hardy person should prefer the direct method, he should remem­ ber that 500 bee stings are equal to one rattlesnake bite. But now that we see that even the most undesirable feature of the bee, the stinger, has its advantages, perhaps we can conquer our fear and see how a swarm of bees is made up.

In a normal swarm you will find about 50,000 bees (if they are all at home). At the head of these is the queen bee. Truly a royal insect, she does not even feed herself but is fed by her attendants, she is absolute mistress and is cherished and protec­ ted by her subjects, for she is the only one who can lay eggs from which new brood will hatch for the swarm. If, however, she fails to keek up her quota of about 2000 eggs every twenty32

I啦划㈣ four hours, she is soon deposed and executed. As soon as the workers have noticed the deficiency of their queen, they select several eggs and by giving them special care and feeding them royal jelly, they raise new queens. These queens then fight for mastery of the hive. The victorious one leaves the hive and goes on her wedding flight. On her return she begins laying eggs in place of the dead queen. If all goes well she may live from three to five years; when she begins failing, a new queen is again raised. So the cycle of the queen is repeated. Among the 50,000 bees within the hive we find two distinct types, the drones and workers. The drones are big brown bees and look much like a fly. They are quite lazy and absolutely worthless and do nothing1 but eat honey. They have this advantage, as far as we are concerned, that despite their loud buzz, they are quite harmless, for they have no stinger. Their only purpose is to mate with the queen, and therefore their presence is tolera­ ted as long as there is enough honey coming in. As soon as the honey flow drops about the middle of August, the drones are killed off.

The worker bees, who make up the rest of the bees in the hive, are by far the most interesting of all. As their name in­ dicates they take care of all the work about the hive. They are divided into groups, each of which has its special work to do.

There is first the large group which gathers the nectar from the blossoms. Each of these bees makes about six or eight trips a day, travling many weary miles to gather the precious drops of nectar.

The swarm also has its police force. Stationed at the entrance of the hive are fifteen to twenty bees who guard the hive from its enemies. No bee may enter unless it has the smell peculiar to that individual hive. These guards are the ones that make the first attack on men and valiantly use their stingers.

And also near the front of the hive there is a group which has a rather unique task. Men may pride themselves on their modern air conditioning methods but the bees ever since Crea­ tion have had a perfect system. For this group at the entrance by fanning their wings circulate the air throughout the hive.

By fanning also they are able to keep the temperature within the hive quite constant no matter what the outside temperature may be.

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㈣ There are many bees who are “nurse” bees. They feed the young brood on honey and ‘‘bee bread’’ (pollen).

Then there are the many who take care of storing the honey. As the nectar comes in it is put into cells where it is evaporated by bees fanning across it until it becomes honey.

For nectar is seventy percent, water. Other bees make cells for the honey. They make their wax by eating honey and sweat­ ing wax. They must eat ten pounds of honey to produce one pound of wax.

There is also the group of worker bees which is attendant to the queen and provide her with every want. They escort her about and show her just where she is to lay her eggs.

The last group is the clean up group. These keep the inside of the hive spotless. They polish out the cells from which a brood has emerged and clean the old combs in which honey is to be stored. All the dirt is carried outside of the hive, and bodies of dead bees are deposited some distance from the hive, During the summer months the worker bees literally work themselves to death. When the honey flow is heavy, they live only a few weeks. Those bees that hatch in late fall live through the winter until the next spring.

These worker bees are the ones who have the barbed point with which they inject the venom. After they sting once they die; therefore they will not sting unless they are irritated.

Bees are of interest not only because of their usefulness to man in producing honey but are quite interesting in themselves.

Indeed, detailed study creates a greater interest in the hottempered insects, the honeybees.

STUDENT RUMORS Margin Volkmann

If a student rumor is afloat and you place any faith or con­ fidence in its validity, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you’re building yourself up to a good old-fashioned “let-down.” “I don’t think we shall be having Hebrew this morning. There’s a conference.” If you believe it you will breathe hard and grit your teeth when, a few hours later, the chalk slashes through forms you should have studied.

What produces these demons of deception? Where do they originate? Undoubtedly the student rumor is an offspring of 34

卜 the essential fickleness of human nature. Someone, perchance becoming aware of a number of facts that are in some abstruse manner capable of association, forms in his keenly perceptive brain a theory about these facts. In that peculiar way in which the human mind functions the theory gradually assumes a definite—yea, a convincing form. The person begins to feel certain that he has the right idea and after a little reflection on the matter, which inevitably will serve to make him feel more sure of his brain child, decides, with all beneficence, to impart his findings to the world at large. That’s when the fun begins!

No prairie fire runs its course of devastation more swiftly than does the fleeting student rumor. A professor once related that just for the sake of experiment he intentionally started a false rumor, just before classes were held. This particular rumor was dampered, for it was given only under promise that the auditor would be sure not to tell it to anyone else. Well, the proof of the pie is in the eating. By recess the originator had the ^lad news re-told to himself. Vain babblers and idle tongues, ever ready to help spread abroad any choice morsel of gossip, abound everywhere. Our own campus is no exception.

In themselves these rumors are usually quite harmless, but the results they effect may not always be the best. Depending, of course, upon the nature of the rumor, a student or group of students may be led to make all kinds of conjectures as to the outcome of whatever the rumor portends. One phase of human inconsistency here plays upon another. The student knows by previous experiences that the rumor (which is one manifesta­ tion of the aforsaid inconsistency) is not to be relied upon; yet he believes it, or at least places some faith in it.

Putting- aside whatever results student rumors may produce, by far the most annoying thing about them are the results they don’t, produce. Assuming that the rumor is a happy one, it first bursts forth, like a beautiful chord, stays a moment, then wavers, and finally fizzles out into nothing more than a mere sighing breath of wind, which soon dies out altogether. There’s the rub! You’re made to think that you are going to get some­ thing, your hopes and expectations are built up, and then by lack of foundation they all fall flat!

It’s all right to be disappointed once in a while, for then good fortune is more appreciated and enjoyed when it does 35

come, but continually frustrated expectations and ever-balked hopes finally means lack of trust in the source from whence they issue.

WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS ‘‘What this country needs is a----- Years ago we used to finish this sentence with “a good five cent cigar.” But now that the tobacco industry is flourishing, it seems that somebody’s slogan will have to be discarded. But they always say a good thought should not be wasted. Perhaps we can take a part of this sentence, add a different ending, and preserve for some­ body a bright idea. What then does our country need? Do I hear any suggestions? Let us look about and see if we can find any dire necessities.

Would we wander listlessly about the campus of our North­ western College, which is certainly a very important part of the country, we might hear a tennis fan bewailing the lack of lines and nets, meaning of course, tennis paraphernalia, or a certain editor is bewailing the fact that no one writes for his publication. But on second thought we decide that these are merely of local interest and cannot be taken as a need of the country as a whole.

Shall we proceed a step farther and examine the city of which our campus is but a small part. This is considered, by some at least, to be a worthy representative of our country. As we look down its main street we see three dime stores, two stop and go lights, and a bridge crossing the river which within a few miles enters the country’s famous Mississippi. What more could a city of this size ask for? Hearing no complaints here we will have to enlarge our scope.

We shall next try what in the eye of the great majority of its inhabitants seems to be very important part of the country as a whole, namely, the state of Wisconsin. We shall not here argue the point of its importance, but perhaps it can serve to solve our question. Although not being able to enjoy certain conveniences as elsewhere, as for example state highways and state police, yet what state can complain with a championship professional football team and with a city just across the border having two major league baseball teams? Or who could ask more than to have at his disposal several world famous univer36

sities, or to have the Mississippi, the father of waters, as the western boundary, and be washed by the great Lake Michigan on the east? Here certainly can be found no needs.

The only remaining solution is to look at the country itself.

Here we may find many petty grievances, but none that may be taken as a general complaint, unless we consider the rising jealousies because our country does not have a duke and a twicemarried woman to keep our newspaper headlines away from foreign competition. Or perhaps the people want somebody to make peace with the weather man, so that they may live with him on more pleasant terms. Perhaps our country needs a coronation so that a new era may be ushered in by the designers in the way of ladies’ hats and dresses. But since these are im­ possibilities, we can hardly take them as serious necessities.

Thus we must conclude that this country is well satisfied and no such slogan is needed. At least, this has been proven by our fruitless search for the contrary. Or has it?

Anon.

JOHN WYCLIF Ijijlc Ilallauer

In the year 1324, if not earlier — the exact date is not known — John Wyclif was born. Of his childhood days, we know very little, except that he began his school days when still very young. He attended Balliol College at Oxford, where he studied chiefly Greek classics and the New Testament in Latin translations. After completing his course, he was placed at the head of Canterbury Hall by the Archbishop of Canter­ bury. When this man died, his successor gave the leadership to a monk although Wyclif appealed to the pope to regain his position. It availed him nothing. However he still retained the right to lecture, for in the meantime he had gained the title of doctor of theology.

Wyclif was called upon to defend the king in the dispute that arose over England’s refusal to pay tribute to Pope Urban V. Thereby he gained the favor of the king and also the enmity of the pope. He had a seat in Parliament when the declaration was made that King John had no right to subject England to a foreign power.

When Gregory VI sent his delegates to the Netherlands to 37

settle some “ecclesiastical annoyances,” Wyclif served on the commission which was sent over from England. This conference came to no definite agreement, but it made of Wyclif a sterner opponent of papacy than he had been. Wyclif was disgusted with these papal delegates and sharply viewed their wordly character. At this time he declared, “The church does not need two heads; there is but one head, Christ, as scripture teaches.”

In 1381 he published twelve theses against the doctrine of transubstantiation. This brought more opposition from the priests and friars. They began to search his writings for heresies. Wyclif’s views as to the Lord’s supper were as follows: The elements remain bread and wine, but are concomitantly, in a figurative and sacramental sense, the body of Christ which believers receive spiritually.

From all his sermons and writings, nineteen heretical passages were found. The Archbishop of Canterbury was then ordered by the pope to try him. Because of public sentiment the trial came to naught. The king ordered him to refrain from preaching on the subjects in controversy. He then began writing and publishing in Latin and English and in time brought part of the nobility on his side.

Then the Archbishop proclaimed his works heretical. After this, Wyclif resigned as professor at Oxford and retired to Lutterworth where he wrote his chief work, the “Ti.ialogus.”

In 1384 Wyclif died at Lutterworth. His remains were dug up about fifty years later and burned.

One of the things for which posterity is indebted to him is his translation of the Vulgate into English. Many Englishmen of his time possessed the book. There are still about 150 manu­ scripts in existence. His translation had almost as much influence on the English language as Luther’s translation had on the German.

Though a zealous reformer, who wrought much good, Wyclif never obtained the understanding： of God’s word that Luther did. Many of Wyclif’s ideas were taken up by John Huss of Bohemia, another of the great forerunners of the Reformation.

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t ^31iath ^:HeZt j INTIMATE GLIMPSE OF A COLUMNIST AT WORK I cannot say whether pity has moved me to write this.

But it is a pity to watch a Black and Red columnist trying to write his column. I saw it in the last few days. Hairpulling, sleeping, and what-not are resorted to in order to awaken some inspiration. But all seem to be of no avail. I can plainly see one sitting in his seat trying to think of something to write. Our hero, a sophomore, had come to class late. Suddenly he grabs my pencil and starts. The clock in the square marks 10:30.

But wily Pegasus, whom he has after much difficulty succeeded in mounting, throws the would-be rider and leaves him groveling in the dust. Then the bell rings. On to the next class room. Ah, better success. We have a coed in our midst. Immediately he thinks of them. He starts to write. I slyly watch his manuscript and find that the coeds will not have a banquet but a picnic. Is depression here again? Or are they seeking the wide open spaces for greater freedom to romp. He finishes with the coeds. But that is not enough. Again I see hair falling over my clothes. He is thinking. What a surprise!

After a few minutes of intense fingerchewing he starts to write. But after two or three lines he stops. Now he uses the other end of my pencil. I say my pencil, because he seldom has one. I could say the same about books, for he never buys any books.

After another fruitless hour he moves on to another class room. No success here, for sleep overcomes him. Ah peaceful sleep, that overcometh the toiler, how thou dost refresh him!

He awakes to move on to another class. Still nothing to write about. I suggest that he try some poetry. So he starts: Shiny shoes you should take off, According to our Science Prof.

But he stops again and tears it up. What a sight he is.

His dark hair all mussed up. This is very unusual, for he combs his hair at least twice every fifteen minutes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what thinking does. Finally classes are over. Being a regular fellow, who never wastes his free-time in work, he interrupts his toils. But to-morrow he will start again!

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J^iturtals Concerning Coed Notes................ lHE information that the new staff of the Black and Red has discontinued the Coed Notes, caused not a little constern­ ation among the coeds. However, we might possibly have had little if anything to say concerning this slight change, if an editorial in the first issue had not made the reason so painfully blunt. “Our publication does not strive to, nor ever could, serve as a news sheet.’’ Well, granted then, perhaps the Coed column was a news sheet, but no more than the column entitled “Cam­ pus and Classroom.” Or is it perhaps the attempt of that particular column to “mirror the intellectual life of the student” by making those bits of news appear intellectual by shrouding the contents with an air of mystery so that unless it is read by a dormitory student it is rarely understood.

It seems that at present a coed at Northwestern is subject to all sorts of criticism. Upon asking several of the editors the reason for the discontinuation of the column, we received ans40

wers such as these: The staff feels that perhaps our discontin­ uing the Coed Notes would give the coeds more opportunity and encouragement to contribute to the Black and Red regularly.

Another answered : The coeds don’t show enough spirit to be given a column.

Our reply: We wonder just how many articles contributed by coeds would be accepted with good grace. Anything thus far contributed by a coed has been accepted with an air of contempt, and an expression that would make any writer feel unworthy to be called a student in the same institution of higher education. The students still observe so many fine little mannerisms in regard to coeds, which most schools have disregarded long ago. And yet here where these mannerisms are unwritten rules there is not enough regard for a small group of coeds as to give one page to them in the college paper. Why should any coed wish to show spirit (if she has any left) after experinces like this V Oh, you may deny this as you will, it is nevertheless true. Instead of encouraging coeds to write we find a statement like this boldly staring us in the face— “Gentlemen，we give to all in general a large number of Black and Red pages. Fill them !’’ Why didn’t the sentence read, “Coeds, we don’t want your contributions V1 Is it possibly true that the staff feels the coeds incapable to “mirror the intellectual life of the student?”

Ruth Pfaffenbach

Apology Written after reading the article printed above.

T is to be remembered that other columns suffered as grievous -wrong as the Coed Notes. Locals, Campus and Classroom, and Coed Notes have all been merged into one, losing their indi­ viduality and existing only as parts of one column, which is indispensable to a portion of our subscription list. No personal malice prompted the action, only our principle of dispensing with as many columns as possible.

The sentence referred to in the article “Concerning Coed Notes”，containing the word “Gentlemen” and omitting the ‘‘Ladies’’ is inexcusable, except that it arose from some sense —though perhaps faulty — of decent writing and even more from the reverence for the opposite sex inborn in every male, which is fine yet often misunderstood, which women rightly 41

demand yet often, when it is exercised, condemn.

To add “Ladies” to the term “Gentlemen” and make the phrase, “Ladies and Gentlemen”，in our article would have been too hackneyed, bad, even laughable compostion to permit its use. Hence we omitted the “Ladies” which might have been risked, had not we felt that the use of the word “student” a few lines previous clearly indicated that coeds form a part of our contributors.

Then too that sentence was in the nature of a command and the reverence, mentioned above, forbade us to include women in it. We have a right to command the boys to write for the Black and Red but not coeds. What Emerson said to the flower still holds in our mind!* This does not however mean that coeds may not submit articles. If they should be gracious enough to do so, it would be fine, much to our wish and more than could be expected. But it would not be right to demand this. We, however, give absolute assurance that any and every article the coeds submit will be received with due reverence.

Editor.

About Wordsworth ORDSWORTH has always seemed to come in for an ample share of rather vehement criticism. Already while he was living, his style, so unlike the accepted formalism of Pope and the conservative conventionalism of Dr. Johnson’s school, naturally encountered a great deal of antagonism. People at that time were not accustomed to think of poetry as an impulse or emotion of the heart, a product of inspiration, but as a very formal thing. Some of his narrative poems, written on homely subjects with little dramatic interest, were quite generally ridiculed.

Needless to say, he has survived his contemporary antago­ nists.

Yet his attackers seem to persist, but now the aggression is of an entirely different sort. His greatness is fairly well settled among literary connoisseurs. They no longer persecute him. The average person will read him for enjoyment, but if * cf. Emerson's The Rhodora 1. 11 and 12: .... if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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he does not like'him, he will not fgo into literary ttantrums because of his dislikes. The aggression rather lies among those taking： a course in the poetry of the Romantic movement, who consider themselves forced to spend tedious hours on Words­ worth because he happens to be an English Romanticist. Here it assumes vicious and sometimes rather blatant proportions.

Someone might opine that all the Romanticists, all poets for that matter, are attacked by students in a similar manner, but it does occassionally happen that Byron, Shelley, and Keats will find a few protagonists, while Wordsworth will almost invari­ able be dismissed with derogatory epithets.

No doubt Wordsworth was an egotist. Were he living to­ day, he would undoubtedly designate his attackers as proverbial dogs barking： at the moon, and consider them ‘‘of palsied ima­ ginations, in whose minds all healthy action is languid; who, therefore, feed as the many direct them, or. with the many are greedy after vicious provocatives.” But the fact remains, with­ out Roinj? into a lengthy dissertation about his relative merits and demerits— which has been done before — that Wordsworth is classed next to Shakespeare and Milton as one of the greatest poets of the English language. Yet the amazing unpopularity of the man ! Perhaps there is a slight discrepancy somewhere.

E. Wendland Commercializcd College Athletics................

• N recent years many colleges and universities seem to have lost sight of the original purpose of their athletic program.

Instead of permitting the greatest possible number of students to participate in athletics for the mere clean sport of it and for the exercise it provides, many schools have adopted the high pressure winning team system. The game, football or whatever it may be, is no longer a sport to them but a business. Their tactics totally defeat the original purpose of the sport. This •‘professionalism’’ (for such it may uneuphemistically be called) is most prevalent in football. Players are “bought” almost outright with scholarships and the like. Someone once stated authoritatively that the purchased athletes at some of the cruder, less hypocritical schools are bribed to stay there by “donations” of bills left under their pillows from time to time.

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an age of specialization. fThe alumni and students want a win­ ning team, which is rather hard to get without ‘‘buying’’ players who are particularly adept at the sport. A team which loses consistently is looked upon as a disgrace to the school. Further­ more a winning team is necessary to boost the gate receipts which are indispensable for the support of the athletic organi­ zation. One evil causes another, hence the high pressure team which limits athletic participation to a mere handful of players.

Some universities have specialized in football and other sports to such an extent, that the mere name of the school is synonymous with proficiency in sports. Scholastic ratings at such rah-rah schools are as a rule not at all of the highest.

Studies there seem to be of secondary importance. It seems rather absurd that although a college or university is primarily a place of learning, still its football team, or more generally, its athletes are considered representative. The prestige of such a college rises or falls with the reputation of its football team.

Unjust and untrue as that principle of judging a school’s worth is, it is the one most generally applied.

If such a warped policy in athletics were continued and carried to its logical and ultimate limit, we shudder to think of the result. In a few decades the institutions of higher learning would be changed into institutions of higher athletics. Academic courses, being of no interest, would be abolished. Only athletics would *be studied and practised. Perhaps a race of supermen, or at least of professional athletes would be produced. Out­ standing athletes would then be bought and sold openly by universities like so many prize cattle or like the professional base­ ball players in our day.

It may never come to such a pass, for there seems to be a reactionary tendency afoot even now. It was recently announced that John Hopkins university is abolishing commercialism. It no longer offers scholarships to athletes, nor does it offer guarantees to visiting teams. The gate receipt system has been abandoned; John Hopkins U. sanely refused to charge admission to any of its games. A sound and extensive program of inter­ collegiate and instramural athletics has been substituted for the winning team system. Perhaps more universities will follow this excample set by John Hopkins and a few other universities, where the high pressure commercialized system of athletics never even obtained.

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On the Use and Abuse of Poetry Tt is no sophomoric desire to be different that prompts us 1 to t …take this stand in regard to poetry in general, and English Romantic Poetry in particular. But rather, we feel that we are defending a very sensible and justifiable attitude. The only trouble is that we ourselves are a bit too vague and uncertain as to just what our attitude is. We only know this, that we have sincerely tried to appreciate so-called good poetry, especi­ ally that of the Romantic School, including the efforts of Words­ worth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley. And we shamelessly confess that at no time were our feelings moved or our emotions aroused, and unless poetic appreciation consists in unravelling involved constructions and understanding figurative speech, we must plead guilty to the charge of absolute Philistinism.

We said before that we were about to defend our position; possibly that statement was a little inexact since we have noth­ ing to be shamed of. It is more fitting that we hear a defense from that hypocritical ecstasy group which for the past year or so has been surfeiting us with rehashings of nearly all the im­ portant Critical Appreciations of Poetry and Poets that have ever been written.

But in the hope that possibly we may goad at least one member of the aforementioned group into an original comment on the merits of poetry we offer this explanation of our attitude.

Everyone admits that poetry is in the main merely a vehicle of expression; and it is effective primarily because of its me­ chanical make-up. The regular recurrance of stressed syllables, alliteration and a definite rime-scheme are bound to strike the ear. And whole phrases can and will be more easily retained in the mind simply by association of sounds and rhythm. This should make poetry an ideal means of conveying ideas which an author wishes to deliver with telling effect. But because one remembers a line of poetry, as we said above, by an association of sounds and rhythm and not ideas, the thought or sense in each line should be absolutely clear and obvious to make it truly effective. For instance, let us quote a couplet or two from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism: Some ne’er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading notion of the town; 45

I They reason and conclude by precedent And own stale nonsense which they ne’er invent.

Or to take a gross example from Byron’s Don Juan: .... Her stature tall — I hate a dumpy woman.

In the first instance Pope gives us a concise, critical com­ ment that might be very applicable at this moment, but we re­ frain from personalities. In the second case we have an expres­ sion of personal opinion, and without going into a discussion of the author’s taste in his choice of subject matter, we must admit that we realize very definitely the point he is trying to make.

Now neither of these two men ever disguised the fact that they were using artificial means, namely, poetry, to attain their ends. But a real poet presents his thoughts figuratively, and although he employs what is termed “poetic diction” his ad­ mirers say that often one is not even aware of the meter etc., and thus they supposedly refute the charge of artificiality. But whether we compare ‘‘poetic diction’’ to the melody or the harmony in a piece of music, one must be aware of both before he can truly appreciate it.

Of course, we readily agree that some thoughts can not be expressed in a well rounded couplet or simple Byronic stanza, but then, in order to avoid hypocrisy, artificially, and vagueness, a really great author willd eliver his thought in a clear, beautiful, and edifying prose style.

Anyway, I don’t like Romantic Poets and their Poetry.

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W(\t ^oxnm In colleges like ours with a relatively small enrollment, it often occurs that athletically-minded students participate in all three major sports,-football, basketball, and baseball. Such a student has little or no time for anything but routine prepara­ tion for classes and athletics. He has no leisure time for studying anything but assigned classwork. Do you think that such a student is spending too much time on athletics at the expense of his own education; or do you believe that it is the duty of a student with athletic ability to take part in all three sports if he believes the team needs him? Could he be accused of disloyalty for refusing to do so? * * * * Such an athletically-minded student would not be sacrificing too much of his education by participating in all sports. For his interest in athletics would naturally occupy his undivided atten­ tion for some time anyway, whether he actively participated or not. If, ho\vever, he is convinced that his school work deserves more attention, he is perfectly justified in not participating, whether the team needs him or not.

MW Since college life as a whole has educational values in itself, this would imply that students should take it as it comes. If a student is inclined towards athletics, he should follow this honorable inclination. There is very little danger that such a procedure will in the final analysis be harmful to more important pursuits. As long as a student has a sense of responsibility — without it no student can get anywhere, he will naturally accomplish something in his studies regardless of the amount of time he has. In fact, it is often harmful not to follow an honorable inclination. One should not be so much enslaved to his studies, so that he has no time left for any other beneficial inclination. For such a person the greater part of college life has been a profitless offering.

N. L. Although participation in sports is generally recognized as an asset to both student and college, an athletically-minded student who takes part in all the major sports is fully justified in withdrawing from them, if he finds that his studies suffer in consequence. The fact that his ability would bolster the team is of secondary importance to his primary interest, his educa­ tion, and accusations of disloyalty on this stand would neces­ sarily indicate an improper attitude towards good sportsman­ ship* G. P. E. 47

Campus and Classroom 0 joyful woe! our best friends tell us that we are the most pathetic excuse for a columnist that they have ever known.

They suspect that in some vague way we are trying to be funny.

Horror of horrors! that our sincerity should be thus doubted !

Nevertheless, we can now write more freely, since we have no reputation to uphold. 氺氺

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Sad experience has taught us that La Donna is still Mobile.

Our Coeds refuse to abide by tradition and precedent, — maybe, (this is no prediction); but we suspect that if they don’t banquet they will picnic. However, we must admit that our personal taste is rather more T-bone steakish than ham-sandwichy. On the other hand, one must always remember, “De gustibus non disputandum, minime de illis feminarum.”

Nonchalance (A Pantiomine in One Scene) Dramatis Personae: A Tutor, Several Students, 0. Siegler and C. Thurow.

Scene: Smoking Room of the Dorm.

Time: 10:45 P.M. The Tutor and Several Students are sitting in the dark by the radio, (it is not turned on). Siegler and Thurow enter silent­ ly from the left. They cautiously close the door behind them.

Then they begin what they think is their daily clandestine billiard game. A muffled snicker is heard issuing from the dark room at the right. Siegler stalks in to investigate. He recognizes * the Representative of Law and Order. Without the slightest trace of emotion visible on his face he gradually eases himself into a nearby chair, sets the cue on the floor between his knees, and lights a cigarette.

(Curtain) A Philistine’s Lament Part I Poetry is funny stuff Riming words that ain’t enough.

You gotta have a noble thought, Otherwise your trash ain’t bought.

But noble thoughts is hard to find In most the poets, or I’m blind.

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He smokes on Sundays only. That’s almost as good as eating a salted peanut.

Contributor’s Department: I sometimes see a bumble-bee Flying through the air, But I never care If he’s really there, Unless jhe comes and sits on me! ♦

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An Allegory A grandfather’s clock stands in the hall Almost as wide as it is tall Gabbij is the old thing’s name, (That’s his only claim to fame).

Every hour on the hour One can hear his chimes so sour.

But twice a day, without a doubt, At three o’clock he must strike out.

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0 Among the recent visitors to Northwestern were Rev. P, Naumann ’17，Rev. W. Fuhlbrigge ’16，and Eugene Toepel ex ，37. The Spring Concert on April 30 and the Seminary Chorus Concert on May 9th were attended by a great number of alumni.

Rev. Orval Kreie ’32 of Manitowoc, Wis. was recently married to Miss Smalley.

Gerhardt Zimmerman ex ’35 was also married a short while ago and now lives on a farm in northern Wisconsin.

Rev. Gerald Martin ’29 was appointed inspector at North­ western Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, S. Dak., where he had been serving as tutor for the past few years.

The chorus of the Michigan Lutheran Seminary accompanied by its director Rev. W. Schaller ’ll went on a tour from May 6th to 9th visiting Wayne, Adrian, South Monroe, Northfield. and Flint, Michigan.

Herman Sellerf ’20 of Morgan, Minn, is now recuperating at the home of his parents in Roscoe S. Dak. after a recent ill­ ness and operation.

ALUMNI MEETING The Alumni Society convened in the college gymnasium on Commencement Day, Thursday, June 18, 1936, at 2:15 P.M., for it annual meeting. The president, the Reverend E. B. Schlueter, presided. The minutes of the preceding meeting were approved as read. The roll call followed. There were present seventy-five members, representing classes from 1877 to 1932.

The graduating class, composed of twenty-two members, was admitted into membership.

The treasurer, Dr. J. H. Ott, submitted his annual report.

Report of Treasurer of Alumni Society for 1935—1936 Receipts $147.00 Annual dues..................... .

187.72 Cash on hand, June 13, 1935 334.72 Disbursements 2.75 500 notices ......................................

235.00 Dictionary of American Biography 5.50 Rent for box for two years.........— 8.45 241.70 Envelopes and Stamps..................

93.02 Cash on hand June 18, 1936....... ..

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Interest Account 103.27 Balance on hand....

47.13 Interest 1935—1936 150.40 Cash on hand June 18, 1936 An auditing committee, composed of the Pastors P. Bergmann, R. Ziesemer, and I. Frey, was appointed by the chairman.

The society honored the memory of the Reverend F. Weerts, ，86. The secretary was instructed to extend the sympathy of the society to the family of the deceased Pastor F. Weerts.

It was resolved to reconsider the motion of 1935 on the matter of the constitution of the society. According to the motion of a year ago the president of the society was to consti­ tute a committee of one to translate the constitution into English and to make the proper corrections and such additions as he deems necessary.

It was resolved that the officers of the society supply- a translation of the old constitution of 1879, and in a codicil add the various resolutions, with the respective dates, adopted since 1879.

The report of the treasurer, having been examined by the auditing committee and attested as correct, was adopted.

The resignation of Dr. J. H. Ott as treasurer of the society was not accepted. Professor T. Binhammer was appointed deputy treasurer of the society.

It was resolved to have a noontime Luncheon in 1937.

Adjournment followed at 3:00 P.M. Walter A. Schumann, Secretary.

NOTICE Meeling"of the Alumni Society.

On Commencement Day, Friday, June 11，following the noontime luncheon, there will be a business meeting of the Alumni Society in the gymnasium.

E. Benj. Schlueter, President.

NOTICE Reunion of the Class of 1912.

The class of 1912 will meet on Commencement Day, Friday, June 11, to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of its gradu­ ation. Following the noontime luncheon of the alumni society in the college refectory, there will be a preliminary meeting- and roll call of the class of 1912 under the class tree in the College park.

John Masch，’12，President.

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BASEBALL Milton 3 Northwestern 1 Watertown, Wis. May 3. — After being rained out of their first two games the Goslings finally opened their season, inauspiciousiy enough, by taking a 3—1 drubbing at the hands of their arch-rivals, Milton.

Milton counted its first tally in the second inning when Stephen, with a clean single to left field, drove in B. Smith, who had gained first after being struck by a pitched ball and, having quickly revived, had stolen second. Northwestern gestured to tie the score in the fourth inning when Lambert knocked out a two-bagger, but Schweppe, batting clean-up, popped out to Luebke, and went back to his job on first. Both teams scored in the fifth. Milton tallied when Kehrberg failed to catch Deland’s long： fly to left center, Mr. Deland taking advantage of the situation by rounding the sacks. Northwestern gained its sole marker in the seceond half of the inning when Wiedenmeyer, who had singled to right, came home while three Milton players were falling over Birkholz^ short hit to left field.

O’Brien, who pitched a good brand of ball all the way for the Miltonians, proved that he was really working when, in his half of the sixth inning, he whiffed four Northwesterners in a row.

Explanation: Sauer Rained first when Milton’s catcher let the third strike get past him.

The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings all brought threats by the Goslings which failed to materialize. In the seventh Schweppe reached third with only one man out, but the two following batters failed to connect. In the eighth inning North53

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Milton tallied its final counter in the eighth inning when Loofboro came home from third on a single by O’Brien.

It scarcely need be mentioned that Northwestern needs more batting1 power — a good deal more — and a little more added io that wouldn’t be too much. Some stress might be laid on fielding too. We only made five errors. M\ credit to Lambert though, who allowed but three hits while working the entire nine innings.

Milton Northwestern AB R H E AB R H E 2 0 0 0 R. Frey, 2b.

Speer, cf.

2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Tiefel, 2b.

Hull, cf.

2 0 0 0 4 0 10 Sauer, 3b.

2 0 0 2 O’Brien, p.

4 0 0 0 Lambert, p.

2 0 10 Yoss, 2b.

4 0 0 1 Schweppe, lb.

4 0 10 Luebke, lb.

110 0 Kehrberg, cf.

4 0 2 1 R. Smith, 3b.

3 0 0 0 Branch, 3b.

10 0 1 G. Frey, If. 0 0 0 0 Kuester, If. 10 0 0 Slinde, 3b.

Stephan, 3b.

3 0 10 Wiedenmeyer, ss. 4 110 2 0 10 Reese, rf.

1 0 0 0 Birkholz, rf.

0 0 0 1 Deland, If. 3 10 0 Stuebs, rf.

1 0 0 0 Schierenbeck,* 10 0 0 Suchanek, If. 3 0 0 1 F. Smith, c.

4 0 0 1 Hackbarth, c.

Loofboro, ss.

2 110 32 1 6 5 Lawton, ss.

10 0 1 Batted for Stuebs in ninth.

30 3 3 4 Statistics: Two-hase hit—Lambert. First on balls — off O’Brien, 2; off Lambert, 2. Struck out —by O’Brien, 16; by Lambert, 12. Left on bases—Milton 5; Northwestern 6. Double plays一 b’Brien to Smith to Luebke; Smith to Yoss. Hit by pitcher — Lambert, 1; O’Brien，1. Umpire — Maltz.

Northwestern 5 Extension 14 Milwaukee, Wis. May 6. — It looks bad and probably makes you feel sad, but it could have been worse, for it was only a non-conference game which Coach Umnus used for more or less experimental purposes. Nispel and Wantoch, newcomers.to the team, were given opportunity to display their wares in the matter of balls and strikes. Judging from the score, it may be safe to say that they wouldn’t make very good business men.

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Extension scored in all but the third and the fifth of the eight and a half innings played. Three men crossed the plate in the first inning after a volley of singles, the first two men coming home on a fielder’s choice. Morrissy scored Extension’s fourth run in the second frame on a single by D. Leitzke, and Moressete drove in D. Leitzke in the fourth for the fifth counter.

Northwestern’s men finally eradicated their five inning goose egg in their half of the sixth inning. Lambert doubled and Kehrberg singled, Lambert going to third. Kehrberg stole second and then Wiedenmeyer came through with his second hit of the day to drive in both men. Extension came right back to score four more runs in its half of the inning on three hits and errors by G. Frey and Sauer. Lest it become boring, we shall merely say that Extension scored five more pointers in the seventh inning, three of them coming when Rosenberg1 homered with two men aboard.

The Goslings closed the overture on a rising- note by scoring three runs, thus taking some of the lop-sidedness out of the score. Kehrberg, who had singled, crossed the plate on a fielder’s choice. Wantoch scored on a hit by Ray Frey and Kuester came home on an error by D. Leitzke.

Batting power — give us batting power —ten men died on bases for Northwestern!

Extension Northwestern AB R H E AB R H E W. Leitzke, ss.

4 4 3 0 R. Frey, 2b.

4 0 2 1 Morrissy, 2b.

5 3 10 G. Frey, If. 2 0 0 0 D. Leitzke, lb.

5 3 4 1 Birkholz, If. 2 10 0 Moressete, 3b.

5 2 3 0 Lambert, cf.

4 0 2 0 Cleary, cf.

3 0 0 0 Schweppe, lb.

4 2 2 0 Stachowiak, cf. & c. 2 0 0 0 Kehrberg,一 rf.

4 0 2 0 Rosenberg, p.

5 13 0 Wiedenmeyer, ss. 4 0 2 1 Paethig, c.

3 0 10 Sauer, 3b.

3 0 0 2 Pruchnewski, cf. 2 0 0 1 Hackbarth ，c.

4 0 0 0 Hahn, rf.

5 0 0 0 Nispel, p.

2 0 0 1 Lowe, If. 4 12 0 Wantoch, p.

0 10 0 0 10 0 43 14 17 2 Kuester * 33 5 10 5 * Batted for Sauer in eighth.

Statistics : Home run — Rosenberg. Doubles — Lambert; Schweppe. First on Balls —off Nispel 2; off Rosenberg 6.

Struck out — by Nispel 5; by Wantoch 4; by Rosenberg 7.

Left on bases — Extension 9; Northwestern 10. Wild Pitches— Rosenberg 1; Wantoch 1. Doubles plays — W. Leitzke to Mor­ rissy. Umpire — Schneeweis.

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Mission House 3 Northwestern 9 Plymouth, Wis. May 8.— The tables turned! Under excel­ lent hurling by Lambert and timely hitting (how gladly we say it!) by his teammates, especially G. Frey, who connected for a homer and two doubles, the Goslings came through joyously victorious in their second conference tilt of the season. Lambert struck out fourteen Muskies, bringing his strike-out total to twenty — six in the two games he has worked on the mound.

Schweppe scoredNorthwestern^ first run in the fourth inning when, after having singled, he crossed the plate under Kehrberg^ double. Mission House came back to tie the score in the sixth when C. Schultz scored on a double by Paschen. “Tis more than motal can bear,” thought our strong but silent George as he came to bat in the next inning, and whaled out a homer!

Both teams counted again in the eighth inning, three men crossing the plate to the glory of the boys from Watertown and two for Mission House. Wiecleenmeyer set off the fireworks with a clean single and scored on Lambert’s triple (just like old times!). Kehrberg, who has been the most consistent hitter for our team thus far this season, doubled, scoring Lambert.

G. Frey then doubled, scoring Kehrberg. On an error by Sauer, Zurbucken of Mission House was enabled to score, Paschen going to first. Traeger doubled, scoring Paschen. The Gos­ lings added four more runs to their score for good measure in the ninth on two hits and two errors and then went home, pleased with the day’s work.

Northwestern Mission House AB R H E AB R3H E 4 2 0 0 C. Schulz, 2b.

4 12 0 R. Frey, 2b.

4 111 Wiedenmeyer, ss. 5 2 2 0 Zurbucken, ss.

5 110 Paschen, c.

4 110 Lambert, p.

5 2 11 Traeger, If. 4 0 10 Schweppe, lb.

5 12 0 Saubert, lb.

Kehrberg, cf.

3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Arnhollter, rf.

3 0 0 0 Kuester, rf.

5 13 0 Edens, cf.

3 0 0 0 G. Frey, If. 4 0 0 2 Grau, 3b.

4 0 0 2 Sauer, 3b.

3 110 Wierwille, p.

4 0 0 0 Hackbarth, c.

2 0 0 0 Hoopman * 10 0 0 Stuebs, rf.

40 9 10 3 34 3 5 3 * Batted for Arnhollter in ninth.

Statistics : Home run — G. Frey. Triple—Labmert. Doubles —G. Frey—2; Traeger—1. Bases on balls —off Wierwille—2; off Lambert —2. Struck out —by Lambert 14; by Wierwille—8.

Hit by pitched ball — Hackbarth. Left on bases — N. W. C. 7; Mission House 7.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Be Thou Faithful............................. 58 Early Social and Cultural Influence of the Germans in Wisconsin......59 Sutlers S3rtefe an SKelandjtSon au8 62 bem S的re 1530 De Lingua Latina In Medio Aevo一 65 77 The Senior Swan Song 77 Mr. McDonald........... .

79 Babylonian Religion....

EDITORIALS— The Author Behind It____ Music, Good and Otherwise Panem et Circenses........ .

ALUMNI NOTES..................

SEMINARY NOTES..............

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM ATHLETICS.........................

83 85 86 87 88

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Ollass of 1937

THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., June 1937

P,E THOU FAITHFUL (Class Motto) Be thou faithful, says our Savior, Who has giv’n His life for thee And who loves thee ev’ry hour.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

Thou may’st have attained much learning, Hijrh thy aim in life may be, But forjret not Jesus5 yearning.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

0 receive the Lord’s salvation, Precious gift that makes thee free From all evil and perdition.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

All thy knowledge, all thy deeds, Let them serve humanity; Follow as thy Savior leads.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

Jesus is thy guide and stay In all things that will befall thee; He is with thee day by day.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

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E’en though heav’n and earth shall cease, Jesus with His victory Grants to thee eternal peace.

Be thou faithful, is His plea.

Be thou faithful unto death, Cling to Jesus in all strife, And the crown is thine, He saith, Heav’nly crown, eternal life.

Dedicated to the Class of 1937

By H. Geiger, ’07.

EARLY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCE OF THE GERMANS IN WISCONSIN English Oration—Oscur Sictjlcr

Of all the states in the Union perhaps none has been influenced so deeply and so extensively by German immi­ grants as the state of Wisconsin. In 1900 the population of German inhabitants, i. e., either born in Germany or having one or both parents born in Germany, mimbered 34.3 per­ cent of the entire population of Wisconsin. The causes for this large proportion of German inhabitants are varied and many. We know that the middle of the last century was a period of political, social, and religious unrest in Europe, when revolutions were rife, economic conditions wretched, religious persecution common. The future of the lower classes in Germany seemed hopeless. Such causes combined with the advertising of an almost inexhaustible, democratic country where land was cheap and man independent brought about a movement of peaceful migration almost unparaleled in history. But the question at hand is— — without going into the political side of the matter—just what were the general social and cultural effects exerted upon the mode and tenor of Wisconsin life by these German immigrants?

Agriculture was, of necessity, the basic occupation of Hie early settlers, and it was as fanners that most of the early German immigrants appeared in the harbor of Mil­ waukee the latter part of the thirties. But it was precisely in agriculture that the Germans presented Wisconsin with one of their most noticeable services. The Yankee, accustomed to buying land by the section for as little as fifty cents an acre, seemingly never developed an efficient land economy.

The German, on the other hand, coming from a country where land was of sentimental value and farms small, ex59

celled in agriculture, rotating his crops, practising inten­ sive dairy-raising, and taking meticulous care of his pro­ perty. One has only to observe the names of present-day Wisconsin farmers to realize the important role German immigrants have played in the development of Wisconsin agriculture.

Another characteristic distinguishing the German from the start was a spirit of cheerfulness and contentment en­ tirely novel to the more Puritan-minded Yankees. Perhaps the German could appreciate to a fuller extent the blessings of a country where each man was independent and where each (lay’s work was so much progress toward self-suffici­ ency. But more than likely it was an innate characteristic found in his religion and expressed in act and outlook. Not only was the German fond of beer, but he shocked the Yan­ kee by singing on the Sabbath in his religious devotion.

And though the Yankee with his blue laws and darkly sober temperament despised many of the “Dutchmen，” it was the German art of living with the saner balance between work and pleasure that gradually became dominant.

As for religion, it hardly seems necessary to mention the valuable, stabilizing effects occasioned through the Ger­ man churches except perhaps one important feature—the large number of parochial schools established. It is a wellknown fact and can be noticed today that the German lan­ guage, German custums, and German beliefs would never have been preserved to such a surprizing extent and the influence prolonged so many generations had it not been for these churches and schools.

However, it was not until the socalled “Hellenistic” period from 184S to 1S61, when at times over one thousand Germans were coming into Milwaukee every week, that German influence pervaded very phase of Wisconsin life.

Another series of revolutions had swept through Europe, and thousands of Germans were pouring into the United States of whom Wisconsin received men of every profes­ sion一doctors, statesmen, lawyers, professors, journalists, musicians, technical artisans. Men of every type and many of them very capable, driven out of their mother country by political, religious, and economic oppression, were seek­ ing refuge in the New World. And the effect in Wisconsin was remarkable. The bloody revolution that had failed in Europe was bringing about a peaceful revolution in Wis­ consin. Not in the usual political aspect of the word, but lying much deeper, affecting the very thoughts and ideals of the people.

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Before 1850 life in Wisconsin had consisted primarily of a struggle for existence with very little time for the finer sides of a properly-regulated society. Privileged classes were as yet unknown, and the so called right of equality was zealously guarded. To wear gloves on the street was to declare oneself a foe of democracy. To give a picture of the prevailing spirit existing throughout Wisconsin in 1848— a man in Milwaukee by the name of Wettstein attempted to give a ball for certain better-class families of the city.

The public balls had become rather boisterous, ami several of the families were avoiding them. But when the plans be­ came known to the public, Milwaukee rose in uproar. An attempt was being made to restore the old order of the pri­ vileged classes! Democracy was being threatened! Immedi­ ately, a free public ball was arranged to be held the same evening as the select one. Against such primitive conditions of social thought and action the new type of German immi­ grants worked with exceptional effect. But it was especially in the field of education that the Germans became active.

The old public schools had been sorry-looking institu­ tions of learning. Colleges and universities, of course, didn't exist, or were of little influence, elementary teachers were poorly trained, and uniformity entirely absent. The intel­ lectual welfare of each child was laid entirely into the hands of the individual teacher, who relied quite often upon life­ less, mechanical devices of pedagogy handed down from year to year. But with the arrival of the socalled “fortyeigliters” reform was immediately noticeable. Germany had for a long time been leading the various nations in her system of schools, and many valuable theories of education were soon put into practice in Wisconsin. One outstanding advance was the introduction of calisthenics, "which first took form in numerous Turnvoreins. Another innovation originated here at Watertown under the influence of the wife of Carl Schurz, often considered the greatest GermanAmerican of the last century. That was the kindergarten, which has since found favor throughout the nation.

And then there was music. The grim materialism of a growing nation had practically exterminated all expres­ sions of the finer arts, and only the courser nature was adaptable to pioneer life. But music with the Germans had become almost a necessity, and shortly after the arrival of the *<forty-eightersM male choruses, orchestras, and musical societies had sprung up in different sections of the state.

However, it is not our intention to trace the social and cultural influence of the German immigrants in every phase 61

『♦ ^3MaA ^ 沿 J of Wisconsin life. Suffice it to say that German influence 'vas not restricted to the few particular fields mentioned.

True, agriculture, religion, education, and music received perhaps the greatest of German contributions, but German influence is alive today and will leave its traces in the very temperament and nature of Wisconsin citizens long after the various nationalities have been amalgamated into one distinct American race.

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Sutler roar fd)on beg S?faflen§ unb _3nge⑽ ein bivdjcn iniibe. @c fdjrieb giemtid) [djarf, ban Welaudjtlion uon feiner ^rjilofopljie, ba3 {jeifet,加n feincm ^cr[ud), alleS uoraug su feljen unb 311 Begruuben, gepfagt tuitrbe, nidjt Don feiner ^^eologie. @r foUte bud) nidbt (0 furdjtfam fein. ©djeinbar tuollte er biefen 9iat uid)t anncljtnen, benn iminec mieber unb mieber muftte^utljec 311 biefcm^f)cma suriictfeOren.

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®e抑al& malinte er, man fjcitte gar !ein 9led)t {oldje 3)ingc, njefcfje nid)t bie 23ibe( 迈utoritfit anecfannten, fonbecn auf men丨由Udjer SBeiSfjeit fufeteu, a(2 nottoenbig in bie 货ir由e etngufuftren. ©o Tonnte man ja enMid) a((e 职i抑rfiu由e redjtfectigen unb bie ganse Q3ibet uerraerfen.

9Mcm柳on raollte abet nidjt brauf Iioren unb tcieB bie ganse Beit auf eigene Sauft Ijolje ^oliti!, unt feine 93ereini0ung gu tioll* briiiflen. ©eine aug抑urgif由e ©enoffcn uertiinbiflten bieS Sutler. 沿on 9?euem griff bee gut Seber, unt ju betueijen, bag ben ^apiften nidjt 311 trauen mare, ©ie fatten imnier uiefe? ueriprodjen, bo由 niemal^ e_8 b咖n peljaften. (SnMidj mitjjte ec tjertangen, bag 9)?eIand)t^on fid) felbft re由tfertige, bemt ec tonnte bie5Hagen uBer beffen 3：reibcn nidjt melic bcifeite Hen. Weljc brnud^te er nidjt ju fdjreiben, lueil bic @uange(ifd)en ellidje Xage fpater ben 沉ei由gtafl uerliefeen.

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60 meit (jabcit »uir nur bie @eite uoit Si utters Sriefe an Ian躺on ac^ciflt, wcldjc fid) auf bie po(itifd)e unb retigiofe ©adjlage benefit. Sricfe neben nCcr aud) ciucn (Sinbficf in ben Sljarafter eineg Wanned. 80 tuollcn luir mat in be§ Reformatory @ee(e Ijinein* fdjnueu. liberal!, and) in ben trauripften 5：aflcn, bridjt [ein .^umoc l)in= burd).況idjt吞 ift fo bunfet itod) fdnuierig, bnfe et e8 ni由t uerfteTjt, fcinc ©pafee an^unjenbeti. Oft finb fie berb, ja, biStueilen (onar ein wenig pfatt, bod) imnier autreffenb. SBer weife nidit, roie er bie 5)ol)(en unb 5lrdl)eu bei Coburn mit ben 氾npiften uergteidjt. (£r befof} abet and) eblere Gigentdjaften. Seiner tuirb, sum 53et* fpid, reuguen, bafj ev miitici mar. ^nmter unb immet toieber tro^te ec ben Seinben uitb uer丨iidjte, benfelben ©etft in 9Jie(and)tf)on su enueefen. $ud)fteu^ fomiteit bie ^einbe iljn toten, bod) „(iebec mit S^ifto unterge()en, a(3 mit ©atan teBen", icfjrieb er mat. ©id) jelbft gegenitber mufete er nidjt menigec rnutig fein. SBegen ber fremben Sloft unb ihift auf ber Coburg, feljrten feme alte Seiben )0 ftarf guriid, bafj cin fdjrandjerer 9Kenfd) an Seib unb ©eele baran gujanimengebrodjen ware. @c aber uersagte niemat?, fonbern wanbte e3 lieber in @(^ers 11111. ©0 fdEjrieb er Don feinen ^opffc^mcrgen, bie i巧11 tagetang Don afiec Arbeit abljieften: w9Kein 货aput ift ie|5t ein ^apitet; Mb tuirb^ mir ein 汜nr叩rn的 fein.4* 职dcmd)tr〕on [ollte seitweilig feine ©telle at§ ^ufirer ber (Suange* 64

lif由ert etnne^men, oBer nieniofg fomite ber geiftige ^elandjt^on o^nc ben geiftli由eit Sutler aufredjt fte^en. ©crate begroegen mufetc cc n}ieber!)oIt um 9iat frageit unb uou Siutljer ermarjnt mecben. SSBer n?ei&, mie meit 9Mcf雨t【jon nndjgegeljcn Ijattc, raaren biefe 93rtefe nidjt gejdjricBcn morben. SUS Sutljer nuf bee ^Bartburg mac, Iiefeen ftd) feine SloHegen Don ^nrlftabt unb ben Silbccfturmct betdren. 3e|jt ba ec auf bee 货oBurg raeilte,间lotterten U)nen bie 5lnie Dor ben Sijdjofen. 9iuc bie ©egenmnrt ober bn^ @djrciben Sutljer? [tellte bag SBerlorite wiebec Ijer. S33c(dj eiit flarer SciueiS, bafj er tuirflid) baS D^ucffirat bee 9?eforinpartei mar.

Unb burd) aQe biefe Sriefe guct't ber leudjtenbe ©tra^I [eineS ©laubeng. SBenn ec ben 汗reunb elma^ntc, tat er e8 im 況amen ©Ejrifti. SBolIte ec beroeifen, baji S^etandjt^oni? ©tcHuiifl uerfeljrt fei, fo bradjte er Sitate aug ber ^eiUgen ©djrift. 3n alien ©orflen unb TOten tcaute ec ni由t auf $^i(ofop^ie, fonbecn auf ©ott. Sro^tcn bie Seinbe nod) fo fe^r, ec befotflte irnmec ben 沉at, ben er SKafliftcr 艰时⑽ fo oft roiebec^oten mu|te: „3Berfe beine ©orgen auf (5Jott, beitn er tuicb fiic bid) focgen.M @o(d)e8 finbet man alleS in biefen ®riefen an ^etandjt^on.

S)aneben [tnb Diete !(einere 3)infle, bie man in eiiter 9iebc Qar nidit erwa^nen fann. 3n etner ^jinfieftt ift e8 fdiabe, baft fic nlie in (ateini* fd^ec ©pradje flefftcieben finb, tueil bie iiefer叫扒 baburd) fe^c be= fd^rcinft ift. SBec fie aber jemats gelefen 办at, tuirb fic o^ne ^roeifet bie Merten aHec SiufterBriefe neunen.

DE LINGUA LATINA IN MEDIO AKVO Latin Oration—George Frey

Cicero, Caesar, Virgil, Horace—these arc the names usually brought to mind when one thinks of Latin literature.

It is the literature of these men and a few other early writers which is most widely studied by a student of Latin language—and the opinion is general that the works of these men constituted the only really important Latin lit­ erature, and after them the importance of the language gradually died away.

However, the language itself did not become extinct.

The literature of later writers perhaps did not rival the literature of classical writers in importance, but the Latin language was widely used and played an important part in the middle ages.

Medieval Latin was not a corruption of classical La­ tin. However, there was a great change in the Latin lan­ guage after 600 A. D. The change from classical Latin was brought about to a great extent by the Latin of the church, and by the vernaculars. The Latin used by the church did 65

not bring a great change in form from classical use, for the church fathers adhered to the model set up by Cicero. However, ecclesiastical Latin, although not a separate and distinct type of medieval Latin, had many individual charac­ teristics which did much to shape the development of the language in general.

The church fathers belonged to the school which at­ tempted to preserve the pure form of Cicero. However, there was another school with liberal tendencies which influenced the development of medieval Latin. This school permitted the language to be molded by outside forces reflecting the spirit of the medieval age. Not all of Latin of the middle iigs, though, could l)e classed under one or the other of these types, nor could it be given a distinct type of its own.

Much of it was a mixture.

Medieval Latin derived most of its vocabulary from classical Latin. Many of the older words took on a new meaning in the medieval language, especially in ecclesias­ tical Latin, e. g. benedico, dominus, pontifex, pietas, etc.

Rare classical words became common and in some instances entirely new words were formed. Compound words were used with the force of the simple form and vice versa: consocious for socius, exoro for oro, servo for observo. Diminu­ tives lost their diniinutive meaning: avicula-avis, vasculum -vas. Abstract classical nouns took on concrete meanings in the medieval language. Greek words also came into use, for the most part through ecclesiastical Latin—such words as angelus, baptismus, catliolicus and many others. Even a few Hebrew words were found which entered medieval La­ tin via the Greek: cherubim and seraphim, etc.

The church was the one institution which used the La­ tin language most extensively during the middle ages. It was the common language of the monks. In liturgies, prayers, and sermons Latin was made use of. Nearly all hymns of the middle ages were written in that language and it was through them that Latin poetry took on a new mean­ ing.

Much of medieval Latin poetry copied the style of clas­ sical Latin poetry—i. e. rythmical prose. Examples of this are the hymns To Dcuin lamlanuis and Veni creator spiritus, Often one can notice that the medieval poet had a habit of borrowing phrases and metrical tags from Virgil or Ovid, and inserting them in his poems. This resulted in awkward­ ness and unnaturalness of expression and obscurity of thought. As a rule, however, the medieval poet was quite free and original in his expression.

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The fact that more than half of the better known me­ dieval Latin poetry was written by monks further shows the influence of the church on Latin of that time. Monks did not restrict themselves to hymns, but even wrote epics—e. g. AValtliariiivS, which narrates the exploits of Walter of Acquitaine. Long narratives like the De rebus gestis Iiiulo、ici were also found. This narrative contained a description of the siege of Barcelona.

By far most common, however, were the hymns, some of which are still sung in translation in our churches to­ day, as Media vita in inorte suinus.

An element not at all found in classical Latin poetry was introduced into medieval Latin poetry. This new element was that of rhyme, which seemed to fit. the language very well. Its use was common in hymns.

Stabat mater dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrimosa, Dum pendebat filius, Cuius animan gementem, Contristantem et dolentem Pertransivit gladius.

This hymn is mentioned as one of the seven great hymns. It is perhaps one of the most pathetic.

Distinctly opposite was some of the secular poetry, especially the drinking songs. The atmosphere was conveyed by the sound of the words: Bibit hera, bibit lierus, 13ibit miles, bibit clerus.

Bibit ille, bibit ilia, Bibit servus cum an cilia. or 0 quam felix in colore, 0 quam fragrans in odore 0 quam placens es in ore, Dulce linguae vinculum.

A poem reflecting the spirit of studenl days runs as follows: Omittamus studia; Dulce est desipere, Et carpamus dulcia Iuventutis terrerae.

Thus we see that the Latin language did not die with classical times. It had a definite mission to fulfill and it wholly carried out its mission. Although later Latin did not reach the literary heights of classical times, the import­ ant part it played in the middle ages links it inseparably with medieval civilization and culture.

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Oscar Siegler Bangor, Wisconsin

Theodore Sauer Saginaw, Michigan

George Frey Saginaw, Michigan

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Gerhardt Cares Saginaw, Michigan

Roland Ehlke Appleton, Wisconsin

Henry Ellwein Bowdle, South Dakota

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Adalbert Geiger Morrisonvillo, Wisconsin

Karl Gurgel Wonewoc, Wisconsin

Robert Holtz Sturgis, Michigai

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Lyle Koenig Ableman, Wisconsin

Kurt Lederer Green Bay, Wisconsin

Nathanael Luetke Toledo, Ohio

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Norbert Reinke Chicago, Illinois

Herbert Scheifcel Elgin, Minnesota

Evelyn Schroeder Watertown, Wisconsin

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Armin Schuetze Litchfield, Minnesota

Lester Seifert Juneau, Wisconsin

Frederick Thierfelder Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Carl Thu row Menominee, Michigan

Eldor Toepel Mayville, Wisconsin

Anita Weihert Watertown, Wisconsin

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Edward Weisz Akaska, South Dakota

Frederick Werner Appleton, Wisconsin

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Helen Winkenwerder Watertown, Wisconsin

Elmer Zehms Green Bay, Wisconsin

Walter Zickuhr Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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THE SENIOR SWAN SONG (With all respects to Byron) Know ye the land where a college was founded In Hydropolis by Sinn，sippi，the fair, Where Platonic philosophy and such things are sounded, Old Phaedo and Criton and crosswords to spare?

Know ye the land where the cow and the mare, Where some chickens were placed on your room mate’s own chair: Where great Horace is king and logic is taught In spite of the pranks of th’ ungentlemanly lot; Where the hickory and walnut are fairest of fruit, And the boast of the senior class never is mute: Where the sophomores competed and planted an elm In height though stately, in worth just an elm, And a tree surely distined for Pluto’s dark realm: Where the Latin and Greek to most students seem fine, And all, save the spirit of Jews, is divine? ’Tis the the land of Wisconsin…’Tis a land on the run.

Will the world smile on the deeds we have done?

Regardless of that does the Rock still flow on; Unabashed by opinion we also move on.

N. G. L. mr.

McDonald James Vogt

“There she comes. Have ya got that mail i，(、a(ly, Joe? Don’t forget old lady Dirken’s package.”

It is shortly after S A. M. One can see an old greyheaded depot agent, Hank Marschal, excitedly giving orders to liis one and only helper, Joseph Connul. ITanlv has a right to be excited. For far down the track can be seen (he Northern Limited. The arrival of this train, wliich happens but once a day, is indeed a great moment in the daily life of the old depot agent.

As the Limited slowly grinds to a standstill a man ap­ pears in the doorway of the second last car. He is wearing a light grey suit, a panama hat, and carries a small black leather satchel. For a man to arrive in Dunderville by train is news. But the appearance of such a man means headlines for the local newspaper.

“Mornin’，stranger,stutters Hank as soon as he is near enough to speak.

“Good morning,” is the reply.

“Have a nice trip?” asks Hank, getting still nearer and hoping to start a conservation with the strimger.

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| QThe J^(a^anlt 3ge?l j “So so!” comes the curt answer.

“Staying in town long, mister?” asks Hank again.

“Perhaps.”

With this answer the stranger disappears around the corner of the depot and goes clown the road leading to town.

“Talkative chap, aint he?” says Hank disappointedly.

“Mornin，’ Abner. Got your hay cut yet?”

“Moriiiu，，Hank. I’m finishin, up this afternoon. Say, wlio was that feller that just came in?”

“I don’t, know. He sure was slicked up, wasn’t he? Must ’a been some city feller. Well, T got to go and sort the mail.”

“I guess I’ll go home and have a little lunch. I had kind of an early breakfast this morning.”

A little later Abner and his wife are sitting at the table.

They are having lunch.

“Say, those apples sure make good pies, Bess. That salesman certainly knew what he was talking about. Come to think of it, did you hear about a new man being in town?”

“No, who is lie?”

“I don't know, r saw him get off the train. He sure was prettiod up. lie had Oil one of them city suits. You know, one of tlioso light, colored ones. Hank thinks he’s some oi(y feller. Mavbo lie’s here on business, aimin’ to buy some land or soniethin,. It sure would help the----* * Oil my lands, I almost forgot. I’m supposed to call up Marie. I better do it right now.— —Hello, Mary. Give me Mario Conistocirs place, will you?—Hello, Marie?—This is Hessie. You know, I almost forgot to call you. —Oh Marie, did you hear nbout that rich city man being in town? I •mess lie’s lioDins; to buy some land for a factory or sonietliins. Won’t: tliat be nice?— Let us now go to the Comstock home where some min­ utes later wo see Marie hanging up the receiver and hurrying out to the garden where her husband is hoeing.

“O John, Bessie just called up and told me that there is a rich man in town looking for property to build a big factory on. You know, that land of Jordan’s would be just the place for a factory, with the railroad going right by it.

Why don’t you go over to Mr. Jordan ri^ht now and tell him about it? You know he wants to sell.”

“That’s right. I can do this hoeing later. Get me my coat.: Scarcely an hour later we see Mr. Jordan as he is scur­ rying along M-iin Gireet, heading for the only hotel in town.

Bursting in.^o the lobby, he runs up to the clerk shouting, “Where is lie?”

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“Where is who?” the surprised clerk asks.

“That stranger.M “What stranger? Do you mean the man that—’’ “Pardon me, but could I be the one you arc looking for? My name is McDonald. What can I do for you?”

“0 Mr. McDownuld, I got—” “Pardon me but McDonald is the name, Don— —aid.”

“Mr. McDonald, I got just what you want. It’s right next to the railroad track and everything. I’ll even leave the house and barn right there. You can have everything just the way it is for $5000.” “$5000—what—what are you talking about?” ‘‘My land, right next to a railroad track, house and barn and everything for only $5000.”

“What would I want with your property “Aren’t you the man that came in on the train this morning?”

“Yes.”

“Then aren’t you the ricn city man who is going to buy land for a factory?”

"No, I never intended to buy property. What made you think that?”

44Well, they said— “Oh, —haw! haw! I’m beginning to understand. These small town gossipers certainly work fast. Just because I happened to be dressed a little out of the ordinary for you, you mistook me for some rich executive. Haw! liaw! That is a good one. You see, I work in the city hauling ashes.

For months I have been looking for a good team of horses.

Yesterday I read in the newspaper that there was to be an auction sale on horses near here tomorrow. I thought I'd come down and see if I couldn’t pick up a team cheap.”

BABYLONIAN RELIGION F. Peterson

The instinct of religion, like the faculty of speech and the power to reason, sets man apart from the animal king­ dom. This instinct was put into man by God in creation.

Thus the Ancient Babylonians, though separated from in­ timate relationship with God by the dispersion, still realized there was a Supreme Power.

In the beginning of history, the Babylonians, like a】l other ancient heathen peoples, felt a divine influence in every manifestation of nature: the rising and setting of the 79

sun, rain, wind, lightning, thunder, and so on. Since these powers very often did them harm, they came to associate them with evil spirits or demons, such as the demon of the southwest wind, the demon of pestilence, and the demon of fire. Most of these natural phenomena are, however, usually beneficial to man. So later on the Babylonians came to look upon them as emanations or actions of good spirits. There­ fore when the rain, wind, or sun brought upon them disas­ ter or injury, it was not because these res naturae embodied evil spirits but because their good spirits had been angered 1)y man. Consequently these spirits must be appeased so they would bring no evil.

As time passed various versions of these beliefs became quite conventionalized. Every god had a particular sphere of action and peculiar powers. Then special people were trained to care for administering to the gods. These priests alone knew all the secrets and handed down by word of mouth the religious tales and myths from generation to gen­ eration. Likewise they dwelt in especially-built temples or ziggurats, structures similar to the Egyptian pyramids, but instead of having plane sides, consisted of staggered, vari­ colored stories, surmounted by a small tower which served, so to speak, as the inner sanctuary. It was also used for making astronomical observations in connection with the religion.

The Babylonian religion was essentially polytheistic, that is it was based upon many gods. The most important of these gods wei'e conceived of as existing in triads. The chief group was that consisting of Anu, god of heaven, Ea, the great Fish-god, or lord of the seas, and Bel, son of Ea, who transformed the earth from chaos into cosmos. Next came Sin, Shamasli, and Raman (or Mermer), the gods of moon, sun, and storm (or atmosphere), respectively. Final­ ly, there was a third group which represented the thenknown planets: Nindar, the god of Saturn; Meriduk, or Marduk (he is called Merodach in the Bible), god of the planet Jupiter: Nergah, the "warrior god, ruler of the planet we now call Mars; Nabu, or Nebo, messenger of the gods, patron of astronomy, and master of the planet Mercury; and Islitar, goddess of Venus, and embodiment of all life and fruitfulness. As you will see, this last group consists of twice three gods. In addition each god usually had a female counterpart, as Belit, wife of Bel. Besides these there were vast numbers of lesser gods, Statues and images of many of these gods have been found in excavations in modern Iraq.

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triad ruled in the upper heavens, or we might say, strato­ sphere ;the gods of sun, moon, storms, and stars in the low­ er heavens, or atmosphere; the largest and least important group, at least in later years, on the earth itself. The earth was compared to a vast overturned saucer about which flowed an endless river, as in Greek legends. Below the center of this saucer was the abyss where the goddess of the dead, corresponding to Proserpina, with lier attendant, the god of pestilence, held sway. Here all the departed spirits congregated, in an abode from which there was no escape.

But the Babylonians were, as I have hinted, great as­ tronomers, and they saw how well-ordered the lights in heaven are. As a result they were caused to believe that every star and planet could not possibly represent merely its own one god, but must also be dependent upon some one all-ruling Being. Thus their religion had a tinge of mono­ theism, also.

The religion of these Chaldeans, or Babylonians, as they are commonly called, manifested itself through astrology, incantation and divinations. Each of these branches of religion had many professional practitioners.

I have already stated that the Babylonians were as­ tronomers. But as they studied the stars they let tlieir ima­ gination have free rein, which they had plenty of time to do. In time they came to believe that the manifold and in­ tricate movements of the stars exerted certain influences on man and his actions. If a star fell, or there was an eclipse, this was a prediction of good or evil to come, de­ pending upon the time and circumstances of its occurence.

In other words they believed the stars influenced men’s lives.

Incantations were used first to ward off evil gods and their influences and then to invoke the favorable gods to dwell in the human body. Thus every human was thought lo have a god dwelling in him. In the course of years these incantations were written clown, in cuneiform on stone, and always carried with one, to protect the person of the bearer. Many of these talismans have also been found in excavations, especially about the wrists of buried people.

On sculpture and decorative work they look like wristwatches.

Divination, or the reading of omens, was also exten­ sively practised, and there was a very elaborate system worked out. Here are some of the omens which have been found: “If a grey dog enter the palace, the latter will be 81

consumed by flames. If a tawny dog enter the palace, peace will be concluded with the enemies. If the queen give birth to a child with a lion’s face, the king will have no rival. If a mare give birth to a foal with a lion’s mane, the lord of the land will annihilate his enemies.” The entrails of ani­ mals were also thought to predict events, and a stone has been found which shows how the liver was divided up for divination.

Many of the religious stories of the Babylonians, which have been found especially on twelve tables discovered in the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, compare al­ most exactly with some told in the Bible. For example, the story of creation is told and even the order of creation fol­ lows very closely that related in Genesis. The God Bel mixed his blood with the clay before breathing into it the breath of life. A slone has been found with a sketch thought to represent the fall of man. The story of the flood is told, but in the Chaldean version there were many people saved and the flood only lasted about seven days. Also a dove, a swal­ low, and a raven were sent forth after the flood rather than first a raven, then two doves. That the stories in the Chal­ dean religious writings differ from those in the Bible re­ sults from the fact that they were written without God’s inspiratioon.

To show that Babylonian religion with its accompany­ ing astrology, divination, and incantation has had an influ­ ence upon modern times we need only to point to our duo­ decimal chronological system, with its twelve-month year and day divided into two periods of twelve hours each, and our sundial, which were perfected by them. Many people also still believe in fortune-telling by the stars and by pigs’ livers, and thus carry on the ancient Babylonian heathen­ ism.

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THE AUTHOR BEHIND IT N. Luctke

When the early Germans came together in their as­ semblies, it is reported that they did so with the one inten­ tion of baring their heart and concealing nothing in matters of state and otherwise. “In vino veritas，” the old Roman put it, and his words would flow forth profusely to the tune of the lyre and the song of Balbiims. In the field of literature the writer is explained to us and his life is made understand­ able by the thought he has committed to his books and of­ fered to posterity.

Horace’s character can be discovered in tlie page upon which his thoughts have been written. A biography is not necessary so that we might arrive at an understanding of the man; his own works tell us enough about the workings of his mind. How else might the poet appear than one in­ clined to con fort and rest, when he himself says that he longs for only one thing yet, a two-acre plot and a little villa’s snug retreat? It is absolutely impossible to picture the satirist any other than continent and moderate, as he 83

ridicules the excesses of the aristocratic Roman and praises the frugality of the forefathers.

Horace himself realizes how a book can reveal the in­ nermost thoughts in man: Behold Lucillus to his book impart, As to a friend, the secrets of his heart.

Hence the old man. stands open to our view, As if a votive tablet he once drew.

Euripides was the rationalist, the skeptic, the bull in the chinashop; Aeschylus the vindicator of the law of fate.

Aristophanes did not make mortal enemies of these two poets, after they had arrived at Hades, merely for the sake of comedy. “If the gods do wrong, surely no gods there are,” said the rationalist, and one can easily picture the hard, cold expression on his face as he wrote this. It was his one aim to plead mail’s cause a.gai?ist the forces that destroyed liim. Even the inscription on his gravestone is written in the accent of the questioner and the questioning interpre­ ter: Omnipotent God, send light unto men, that they may know whence their evils come and how they may avoid them. What an effort was expended by the poet in teach­ ing this new doctrine in the streets of Athens, in the mar­ ket-place, before the very temples of the gods!

As one travels with Cervantes through interesting Spain in company with his creature and double, Don Quix­ ote, the author's entire life and the influence which it had upon his thought is laid bare before our eyes. The results of the hardships suffered during his service against the Turks, the poverty and suffering which resulted from his idealism and honorable zeal to reform the world are re­ vealed to us. Cardenio*s love for his fickle mistress only led him into despair and madness. All passion is sublime, but enthusiastic youili always ends in an ironical old age, es­ pecially if the enthusiasm consists in the passion for re­ forming the world. Cervantes’ philosophy, as it was pro­ duced by liis life experiences, is expressed in the conclu­ sions which are to be drawn from the experiences of his creature, Don Quixote. The author has truly imparted to his book the secrets of his heart.

There is only one elusive spirit, whom we never can grasp, a flitting bird, who is farthest from our possession even at that time when we suppose that we have captured it. This spirit is Shakespeare. His very greatness consists in the applicability of his thought to every age. But yet we can say that, as the style is the man, so is the spirit of man evinced in his thought.

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Music, Good and Otherwise OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON in one of his essays makes a rather interesting observation. Out of all the various arts he singles out music as the one most similar to literature.

“Music and literature,” says he, “the two temporal arts, con­ trive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words of sounds and pauses.” One quite frequently hears statements which bear out a striking similarity, even a distinct parallelism between the two arts. The ethereal beauty of Shelley’s poetry has been compared to Mendelsohn’s music to a Midsummer Night’s dream. The poetry of Milton is often described as having an organ-like quality. The Wagnerian opera is superb not only because of its music, but rather because the genius of Wagner matched the beautiful music with equally beautiful poetry.

But everything that appears in print is not necessarily called literature; neither is every sound that is produced by a musical instrument to be called music. One would hardly include the modern newspaper under literature; nor is it possible that any­ one would seriously consider jazz true music. Yet even here, where the two cease to exist as forms of art, we could almost consider jazz the counterpart of the newspaper. Both play an important role in the everyday life of most people. Both cap­ italize on catchy, popular themes, which amuse for a time but are discarded as soon as the novelty of the theme wears off.

And certainly both having their place, but they are tremen­ dously overplayed and overemphasized.

What about swing music, which, originating in America, has caused a similar stir in Europe so that “swing clubs are scattered from Oslo to Rome? First, what is swing? We quote from an article on the subject. “Swing is a manner of plaijivg music—you can “swing” Bach—your true swing musician will never play the same piece in exactly the same way twice in succession—melodies and rhythms are improvised around a given melody—jazz is mostly employed by swing players be­ cause the simple and definite melodies of jazz leave plenty of space to play in and around—•” If swing is music, we are at a loss to state its counterpart in the field of literature, unless the product of Gertrude Stein

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Just as we derive an inward pleasure out of a book or a poem, so music transcends the mere instilling of a desire to clap the hands or stamp the feet. “It is the art,” says Stokowsky, “that is almost pure spirit.”

E. W. Panem et Circenses................

N the days of the old Romans the mobs stuffed themselves with bread and rushed to the circuses, but our civilization has reached such heights that we are no longer so crude; in­ stead of coarse bread we have palate-tickling delicacies and in place of the circus we have the cinema, which is surely more refined than the old circus. We still have the circus, but it has degenerated into a mere satire on a circus. Nevertheless there are still enough pulls to make the circus business a rather lucra­ tive proposition as was recently apparent in this vicinity. At­ tending the cinema is now the most popular and effective way of wasting time. The ghosts of the old Romans would be quite envious if they saw what they are missing. The Roman form of slapstick was mere innocent child's play compared to its modern counterpart. The modern movie is far more versatile and effective. For a mere pittance as it were, one may see a fistic “drama” of battling two-gun men, some excellent senti­ mental slush, and the good old favorite slapstick. And how the people devour such trash. The mobs of Roman circus-goers are dwarfed in comparison to the hordes of moderns who rush to the local palace of cinema and drool over the silver screen.

Give the American a full dinner pail and a slapstick movie (or Jack Benny) and he is the paragon of wordly bliss.

The amount of money Americans dissipate annually on the cinema reaches a stupendous total. If you crave statistics we can furnish a few general ones. If all the money ever spent on movies were piled on one heap, its weight would undoubtedly be great enough to throw our planet off its course. The same amount of money would suffice to pave a road of gold to Hades,

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Perhaps not all of this money is an absolute waste, for film producers do get off a good film occasionally. It stands to reason that out of a few thousand a year a few really worth while films are inevitable. It is exceedingly doubtful from any point of view whether or not the few films that have any ex­ cuse for being justify and compensate for the myraids of poor ones. Perhaps if one is an eclectic he might possibly derive some good from films, but eclectics are rather rare. The ave­ rage American devours the films as they are flung at him with­ out reason, merely because they are films. All this rantingleads us to but one conclusion, which is--cinemam esse delendam.

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We regret to announce the death of Mr. Theodore Fatliauer at Chicago on May the eighth. Mr. Fatliauer attend­ ed the preparatory department during the years 1880-1S83.

He was one of the founders of the National Hardwood Lum­ ber Association. He was known for his splendid business ethics, popular with the trade and well liked by his em­ ployers. He showed great interest in church and education­ al affairs, he having given moneys to equip the gymnasium and to buy the college telescope. He leaves liis wife and three sons and two daughters. One son, Arthur, attended our school for four years.

Mr. Arnold Reuschel, ’35，was married to Miss I-Iildegarde Kleemann of Watertown on May sixteenth. They will live in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where Mr. Reuscliel is Llie manager of a department store.

Definite word has been received by Dr. Ott of the death of his classmate Otto Brandt, ’S5, formerly of Waconia, Min­ nesota. For some time all trace of Mr. Brandt had been lost, until word came that he died several years ago.

Prof. Karl Schweppe, Director of Dr. Martin Luther College, will attend the twenty-fifth anniversary reunion of his class, ’12, here on graduation day.

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Prof. Walter A. Schumann, ’12, will deliver the com­ mencement address at Dr. Martin Luther College on June 10th.

The Rev. Mr. Edward Krueger, ’31, Mandan, North Da­ kota, visited the college recently.

The Rev. Mr. L. C. Bernthal, ’18，pastor of St. John’s Church in Township Trenton celebrated his tenth anniver­ sary as pastor of that church on May ninth. The congrega­ tion will celebrate its own thirty-fifth anniversary in the near future.

Paul “Moses” Sievert，ex ’37 of the Ag. department, is now working in a local ice establishment.

Walter Werwath, ex ’37, and Elmer Luetke, commercial ’34, were recent visitors.

The Rev. Mr. Rudolph Otto, missionary at White River, Arizona, and his wife were blessed with the birth of a daughter in May. A son was born to the Rev. Mr. Gerhard Struck, ’30, and his wife recently. Rev. Struck is now living in Maribel, Wis. Ernst Wendland Jr. reports that his nephew Walter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bunge, ex ’33, has cut his second tootli.

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In our defense may it be said that, as far as we know, in­ tellects differ, even in our select student body, and there­ fore, our various intellectual lives will of necessity be re­ flected in different ways. So, if upon looking in our column, you don’t find your image blankly staring back at you, you are free to seek elsewhere in our publication for a reflector capable of showing you your own distinctive intellectual peculiarities.

Song of the Student Proletariat Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, The time has come for us to go, We’re canning peas to earn some dough, Eeny, meeny, miiiy, 1110.

Topic of the month: What does Schlenner mean when lie says he has a country (manor or manner) ? We would hold with that school of philologists which inclines toward the latter acceptance of the phrase, except for the fact that it becomes a great psychological mystery that lie should en­ deavor to publish the fact.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star_ How I wonder what you are!

If you’re a planet, little pest, I bet I flopped my Science test. 氺

111 the two following items we are trying to show you the two important methods that may be used by a newsliound in reporting two similar incidents: Flash ! —Roy Reede recklessly ruined his right wrist leaning too hard on the crutch which was one of a pair of such instruments that supported him while his sprained ankle was healing itself. Incidentally, his ankle had been hurt as he was playing at kittenball with a few of his class­ mates.

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I’ve travelled near, And I’ve travelled far, And I hope to travel more, But. I never saw a cabbage head That had two ears before. 氺

Do you remember Keats’ line: I stood tip-toe upon a little hill? I never understood that expression until I saw Red Lambert on the pitcher’s mound trying to get his sign from Ernie Wendland, who was doing a good job of hiding it behind that pillow he wears on his left hand. The only thing that bothers me is that one cannot be sure whether Keats played baseball or not.

Hunipty Du nipt y Poetry There was an old lady named I-Iubbard, She had no grub in the cupboard, But that’s not. as bad As the trouble I had To find a good rime for Hubbard.

Little Jack Horner sat on a tuffet Eating his curds and pie Along came a spider Hul lie never shied her, He just said, “Keep out of my 'vliey!” 一Contributed.

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Lambert was a little shaky in the first frame and allowed three men to cross the plate for Extension, two of them scoring when Pruchnewski, Extension right fielder, tapped out a triple.

To make things right, two of the three pitchers that the Mil­ waukeeans were obliged to use during the game allowed eight of Northwestern’s men to score in their half of the first inning.

Not one of the runs was earned, only one man getting a hit out of the twelve who came to bat during the spree.

After the first inning Lambert pitched steady ball all the way, Extension scoring its last two pointers on errors by Wiedenmeyer, and R. Frey. With the game on ice the Hydropolisians coasted along during the rest of the fray, scoring in all but the fourth and the fifth innings. Ten more strikcuts for Lambert brought his total for three games to thirty-six.

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FIRST GAME Engineers Northwestern AB R H E AB R H E 4 110 Kaiser, 3b.

Sauer, 3b.

4 2 4 0 1110 Weigert, rf.

Hempel, 3b.

4 13 0 4 10 0 Turgens, cf.

Kuester, rf.

4 0 0 0 3 110 Lambert, p.

Pamazal, c.

4 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 Schweppe, lb.

Schultz, ss.

4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Kehrberg, cf.

2 110 Peck, If. Birkholz, cf.

4 10 0 2 2 10 Ryan, 2b.

G. Frey, If. 3 0 0 0 Schumann, 2b.

4 10 0 Webb, lb.

3 2 10 3 0 10 Wendland, c.

2 2 0 0 Wiedenmeyer, ss. 2 12_0 Nirenberg, p.

Sl~9~10~0 32 8 8 0 Two base hits — Kaiser, Weigert, Webb, Schweppe, Ryan.

Three base hits — Sauer. First on balls — off Nirenberg 6; off Lambert 2.

Struck out — by Nirenberg 8; by Lambert 10.

Left on bases — Engineers 5; Northwestern 11. Sacrifice hit — Wiedenmeyer. Hit by pitcher 一 Webb by Lambert. Stolen base — Kuester. Umpire — Maltz.

SECOND GAME Northwestern Engineers AB R H AB R H Frey, 2b.

4 0 2 Kaiser, 3b.

4 11 Kuester, rf.

10 0 Holmes, rf.

3 2 1 Wantoch, rf.

2 0 0 Jurgens, p.

3 11 Lambert, cf” p.

3 1 2 Pamazal, c.

3 12 Schweppe, lb.

4 2 1 3 11 Peck, 2b.

4 0 0 Hempel, 3b.

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4 0 1 Schultz, cf.

4 10 Wiedenmeyer, ss.

4 1 1 Swan, ss.

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by Nispel 4; Lambert 2. Left on bases — Engineers 4; North­ western 11. Double play —Wiedenmeyer to Schweppe. Wild pitch — Nispel. Sacrifice hit — Wantoch. Hit by pitcher — Wantoch by Jurgens. Stolen bases — Schweppe, Lambert.

Umpire — Maltz.

Milton 4 Northwestern 3 Milton, Wis” May 19. —This game was a pitching duel be­ tween O’Brien and Lambert. Though Lambert showed himself just about as good as his adversary he was the victim of cirumstances beyond his control—i. e. poor support on the part of his teammates. The diamond was the worst one that the Goslings was well have played on this year. The shortstop一 position _ covered by a lightpost and the pitchers had to throw up-hill.

Milton scored first (the run being unearned) in the third inn ing but the “men of swat” from Watertown came back to tie the score, Kehrberg coming home after Hempel had doubled and Sweeney, Milton third-sacker, had muffed the throw-in from the fielder. By a smattering of hits and aided by an error Milton was enabled to score three more runs in the next bracket.

The best the Goslings could do thereafter was score two runs in the sixth frame and call it a day. After one man was out Lambert singled and went to second on a sacrifice hit by Schweppe. Kehrberg, the next man up, hit for the circuit, scor­ ing Lambert ahead of himself.

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Wiedenmeyer, ss.

4 0 1 3 0 0 Yoss, 2b.

Kuester, rf.

1 0 0 E. Deland, If. 4 0 1 Birkholz, rf.

4 12 4 11 Luebke, lb.

Lambert, p.

4 10 3 0 1 Sweeney, 3b.

Schweppe, lb.

2 0 0 4 2 2 Stephan, rf.

Kehrberg, cf.

2 0 1 3 0 2 Hull, rf.

Hempel, 3b.

4 0 1 4 0 0 Loofboro, ss.

G. Frey, If. 4 11 4 0 1 Smith, c.

Schumann, 2b.

3 1 2 4 0 0 O’Brien, p_ Wendland, c.

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Seminary 0 Northwestern 1 Watertown, Wis.，May 22.—It was expected long before this game was ever played that if Lambert and Koehler would be slated to match their skill a pitchers’ duel would be the result Well, they did face each other and it was a pitchers’ duel for ten good tight innings until finally Northwestern manag to squeeze a runner over the plate. However, it wasn’t a good game only because the pitching was good. Both teams were well aware that the outcome of the game was a toss-up. As a result, the support behind both hurlers were on their toes throughout the contest and almost errorless ball was playeda pleasant spectacle indeed, after some of the sloppy play we’ve witnessed this season.

In effectiveness Lambert had the edge on Koehler. Only three men of the Sem team were left on bases, but eleven were stranded there for the Goslings. Lambert struck out twelve men while Koehler breezed the last strike past nine of our players.

Schweppe, who has been playing a very good brand of baseball around the first base position, scored the run which brought home the bacon for our side. After singling he stole second and came home on Hempel’s timely hit.

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4 0 0 Wiedenmeyer, ss.

5 0 0 Siegler, If. 4 0 2 Kuester, rf.

4 0 0 4 0 2 Roeckle, lb.

Lambert, p.

5 11 Schwartz, cf.

4 0 2 Schweppe, lb.

Kehrberg, cf.

4 0 0 4 0 0 Nommenson, ss.

Hempel, 3b.

4 0 0 5 0 1 Toepel, c.

4 0 1 Frey, 2b.

3 0 1 Schumann, 2b.

2 0 0 Tiefel, rf.

3 0 0 R. Frey, If. G. Frey, If. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Koehler, p.

Wendland, c.

3 0 1 33—OB 39 1 9 Statistics: Double play—Hempel to Schumann to Schweppe.

Bases on balls—off Lambert none; off Koehler 1. Struck out —

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Ray Frey scored Northwestern’s first pointer. After taking a walk he stole second and came home on Wiedenmeyer’s single.

Wendland scored the second run on an error by Grau and Kehrberg- crossed the platter for the final tally on another error.

Northwestern Mission House AB R H E AB R H E 2 0 0 0 C. Schultz, cf., 3b. 4 1 1 0 G. Frey, If. 3 10 0 Wierwille, lb.

R. Frey, If. 3 10 0 Wiedenmeyer, ss. 4 0 2 1 Paschen, c.

3 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 Zurbrucken, ss.

3 0 11 Lambert, cf. p.

Schweppe, lb.

3 0 0 0 Hoopmann, rf.

3 0 0 0 Kuester, rf.

0 0 0 0 Arnhoelter, If. 2 0 0 0 Kehrberg, rf.

3 0 10 2 10 0 Saubert, p., cf.

Schumann, 2b.

3 0 11 DeMotts, 2b.

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2 0 0 1 Hempel, 3b.

10 0 0 2 10 0 W. Schultz, p.

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27 2 3 3 3 0 0 1 Nispel, p.

Hackbarth, c.

0 0 0 0 26 3 3 4 Statistics: Bases on balls — off W. Schultz 1; off Saubert none; off Nispel 1; off Lambert none. Struck out — by W. Schultz 2; by Saubert 7; by Nispel 6; by Lambert 2. Left on bases 一 Northwestern 8; Mission House 5. Passed ball — Wendland (Jr.). Umpire —Wendland (Sr.) GOLF On May 21st the first annual Tri-State Conference golf tournament was held at Milwaukee at the Westmoor Country Club. Four schools competed, with Milton’s team finishing as champions. They toured the course in 748 strokes to win the title. Northwestern’s team, comprised of Bill Beckmann, Allan Hills, Albert Lorenz, and Jack Usher placed second with a score of 767. Milwaukee School of Engineering was third with 7t3 and Aurora College fourth with 374. Aurora did not compete in the last 18 holes.

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anh Beckmann of Northwestern was medalist of the tournament with a score of 173.

On May 17th Milton defeated our team in match play, 11-1.

Thanks to A1 Lorenz for the one point! On the following day the team was defeated by Whitewater SV2-SV2.

Return matches with Whitewater and Milton and one with the Engineers still remain to be played.

INTKA-MUKALS The softball tournament has been progressing steadily, and at the time of this writing is being paced by the Sophs who, headed by Bernard Kuschel, have won seven games while having lost two. The Juniors, as a surprise package, rank second with five wins and two losses. The Frosh occupy the third bracket with four games won and three lost. The Seniors, who decided to go undefeated or not compete at all, dropped their first game and then forfeited the remainder of them.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— A Poem.................................

The Chase.............................

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Misguided Creatures.........

101 104

Ilmenau, 1783—1831 ...........

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The Best Vacation in Years

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Calypso.................................

107

I Wander..............................

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EDITORIALS— Schopenhauer On Noise...

110

Concerning Coed Notes...

If This Be Treason...........

111

Attention Alumni............

112 114

A Parting Thought...........

114

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

115

SEMINARY NOTES...............

LUMNI NOTES.....................

116 116

ATHLETICS...........................

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., Sept. 1937

Number 4

Entered at the Postoflico at Watertown.

March 3. 1870. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

A POEM We are reprinting Keat’s Ode to Autumn, which he wrote one September Day over a hundred years ago. It was the last and finest of that series of odes that are his greatest work and still stands as one of the best pieces of pure poetry ever written in the English language.

To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run ; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

3.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music soo,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying- day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

THE CHASE A short story

In the darkness and drizzling rain of the late fall night the outlines of an ancient tenement building were but dimly visible through the mist. To a casual observer from the street before it, its indistinct hulk would scarcely have suggested that the building had once been the pride of its owner and occupants.

In years past it had been a center of life and activity in the swiftly growing city, and the street before it had been filled with cheerful, ambitious people. All this was now gone, for the eager life of the city had swept onward to newer districts, leaving in its wake only the wrecks and refuse that had been unable to keep pace with it. Such was this building, and the people who now walked past it. Neither were any more cheer­ ful nor alive, for the dark, damp atmosphere of the almost deserted district had rotted buildings and inhabitants alike.

The tenement building, deserted for years, had felt the wearing effects of its environment, and it now stood, or rather 101

leaned heavily on its crumbling foundation, trying to ward off from day to day the utter collapse which every storm made more imminent.

The interior of the building was filled with the same gloomy atmosphere, but here it was even more perceptible, for because of the boarded windows and padlocked doors sunlight never entered its dusty old rooms. It was only now and then that a breath of fresh air entered the ancient pile through an opening in the rear wall, where the bricks had crumbled away. And it was through this hole that the two occupants who crept stealthi­ ly through its halls had entered.

The interior, dark even at midday, was now completely black. Not a glimmer of light and scarcely a sound penetrated from the outside. Even the movements of the two occupants, through the deserted halls and chambers failed to ruffle the pall of silence and darkness that overhung every room. Neither carried a light, yet the two prowlers, still unaware of each other’s presence, were able to move with some swiftness through the tomblike chambers, for long training and acquaintanceship with dark and desolate places had developed a kind of instinct which guided them.

The two prowlers were entirely different from each other in nature and character, as could be seen by their actions and method of procedure. The first, though he moved cautiously, was confident and unafraid. As he walked along, turning his head from side to side in order to catch even the faintest sounds, he had the air of one who is accustomed to supremacy — one who is habitually the pursuer, not the pursued. He was still unaware of the other occupant of the building, who just at that moment had in his own wandering entered the chamber occu­ pied by his fellow being.

This prowler too was accustomed to midnight wanderings, but he lacked the confident air of the first. His whole appearance and movements showed a series of fears and tremblings that were augmented by every new rustle of sound. Smaller than the other, he was decidedly weak in comparison, for his whole appearance gave evidence of the hardships he suffered trying to eke out a living in his bleak surroundings. Barely had he entered the pitch black, musty champer when he heard a sound that set all his hair on edge and started a chattering in his teeth 102

that was almost audible. He had heard a footstep that he at once recognized to be that of his worst enemy. Not that there was any personal grudge between them, for although they had met before, the weak one had always been able to elude his enemy. Their rivalry went far deeper than mere personal feeling, for it had the weight of tradition behind it. The entire history of their respective families made these two prowlers natural enemies, between whom there never could be any hope of compromise. That was what made the weak one so afraid.

He knew that if he should be discovered a struggle would be inevitable, and he also know what such a combat held in store for him. He was hopelessly outclassed. And therefore he once again made up his mind that his only chance was to slink away unnoticed. Accordingly he turned around, all chattering and trembling as he was, and made for the door. But just at that moment the first prowler resumed his search, and his first step, unexpected as it was, so unnerved the weak one that he uttered a cry of terror that was scarcely more than a choking squeak, and made a dash for the corridor.

His enemy became alert with a start, sensed what the noise had been, and immediatly started in pursuit. The chase was on. Still it was not a test of mere speed, for the darkness was puzzling and it forced both to use all the stealth and cunning at their command. It did not take the weak one long to decide on a plan of escape. He was well acquainted with the old building, and he knew of a place where the wall had given way enough to leave a crevice that would admit his body swiftly and easily, but at the same time might be small enough to stop his pursuer.

The crevice was in a chamber at the opposite end of the corri­ dor, and the pursued one, encouraged by his hope of escape, abandoned all caution and rushed down the corridor in full flight. His pursuer, also familiar with the building, at once sensed the otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan. For the next few seconds the lonely old halls resounded with the noise of the chase. First the corridor, then the chamber fairly trembled with the unusual sound.

Then suddenly there was quiet again, for the mouse had reached his goal, and the lonely alley-cat sat looking at the place where his prospective meal had disappeared, licking his hungry chops in disgusted contemplation.

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MISGUIDED CREATURES The restless sailor strives for peace In the tempest’s turmoil; The weary wanderer seeks surcease In journey’s trouble and toil.

Tired of striving man looks in vain To death for endless rest.

So my sick heart its peace would gain In Love’s tumultuous breast.

E. F. ILMENAU, 1783-1831 E, Fredrich

The young- poet wandered through the peace of the quiet evening. Peace was all around him, but he could find none.

The wooded hilltop was at rest, complete rest. But sick at heart, the man wandered on, vainly striving to ease his burning forehead. Longing and yearning filled his breast. Fever, the burning fever of self-expression, flushed his soul and robbed it of its peace. Ambition fired him—ambition to write his masterpiece, the seed of which was already soon in his brain.

All his unrest was intensified by the utter quiet of the world about him. The whole hilltop slumbered peacefully, undisturbed be even the slightest breath of air. But though he wished for a rest as this, he knew it was not for him. Not now — perhaps some day. That was his hope! Some day he would find peace.

Back at his lonely cottage on the hill, he sought some measure of relief in an expression of his mood and wrote on the wall of his room, iiber alien GJipfeln

3ft 獅,

§n alien SBipfeln ©pi'ireft bu 货cuim eiiten §aud)： SMe ^6ge(etn fdjraeigen im SBalbe.

SBarte nur, balbe 況的eft bu aud).

But the relief was small. Restlessly he tossed the long night through. ______________ In 1831, almost fifty years later, the poet revisited the little cottage at Ilmenau. Much had changed in the world during these years — a revolution had sprung up, run its bloody 104

course, and died; a conquerer had terrified the nations, had jumbled the maps, and wasted away on a lonely island—and much was also altered in him. Work and achievement and wisdom and experience had done much to settle the restless man. His ambition had been fulfilled. That same year his masterpiece, Faust, had finally been completed. The poet felt its power and knew it as the wonder-work of the century. With its completion he had hoped to spend his last, few day in a rest and quiet he should have earned. But none was to be found. The old long­ ing and yearning still dwelt in his soul — no longer so intense, yet ever present—making of life a burden and turning his mind to a final rest that was not far off.

The years, that were marked by upheavals and changes, had passed the cottage by. It stood as it had stood a half century before, unaltered in any respect. As the poet walked through the familiar rooms, recollection pained him. Pity for the young man, who had been so overburdened, filled the heart of the old man, who still carried the same old burdens. With weary heart and tear-dimmed eye, he read on the wall the lines he had written long ago and murmured, ,,Ja, warte nur, balde ruhest du auch.”

And in the following year Goethe died.

THE BEST VACATION IN YEARS Louis E. Pingcl

Summer days are gone like a scent wafted away with the zephyrs, and a wonderful vacation is nothing more than a memory. New acquaintances, new friendships and varied experiences made weeks seem like days, and many future hours will be brightened through retrospection. Now, as I recall these vacation days, certain experiences stand out brightly in my memory and I hope this attempt to draw them together to form an article will not prove unsuccessful.

I had never worked in a canning factory before, or spent any length of time away from home, so when the opportunity to work in Clyman presented itself with a chance to spend a summer there I looked forward to a delighful two months and now after they have passed I am not in the least disappointed.

I believe I can say that I spent more time in a tavern during the summer than any one I know. I frankly confess I began to enjoy being there, and any one looking for me could have found 105

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me there at almost any hour. One Sunday I even went to church from the tavern and after services directly back to it.

This situation may no doubt require some explanation lest there be a misunderstanding, but it is easily explained. We boarded in a bar room during the summer and I enjoyed the time spent there very much. We slept upstairs, and fortunately were tired enough not to be disturbed to a great extend by the phonograph downstairs. Occasionally, however, I would be awakened by it and half asleep, believe myself to be in the jungles of deepest Africa, but the weird beating of tom-toms was nothing more than the bass accompaniment of certain records. If we had an evening off, I enjoyed sitting in the tavern and watching the different types of humanity who frequented this place of amber fluid and fine liquors. I don’t believe I was the only one of our group who decided that the saddest, most unfortunate people were those who lost control of themselves and did not heed the old Greek saying, “nothing too much.” Other evenings we spent walking around* town, but usually we retired at once when we had a chance to sleep.

Mostly on our account, I guess, the tavern became a restaurant on the side. Our hostess served us meals which as far as I am concerned very well did away with that hungry feeling. Best of all were those boiled cabbage dinners and the stew prepared according to their own recipe.

Working in a canning factory really gives one good exper­ ience. The canning industry is growing by leaps and bounds and in a few years there will be very few foods which one can­ not obtain in tin. Even now you can enter a restaurant or hotel, order a meal that would take hours to prepare at home, and in a very short time have it set before you. Corn on the cob for your Christmas dinner is no impossibility now, and that is only one of the many respects in which the Clyman Canning Company is well able to satisfy your needs.

During the pea pack I strapped cans, that is, I removed them from a table on to which they came from the closing machine, and placed them into crates to be rolled into the cooking room. Of the four weeks between the pea pack and the corn pack we spent the first two weeding carrots and beets.

Mornings at seven we boarded a truck and sallied forth to change a hay field into a beet or carrot field by removing grass 106

and weeds which grew around the plants. These weeks were followed by two during which we worked in and around the factory. Once we almost wrecked the differential on a Pierce Arrow truck when we moved a gooseneck conveyor from the factory to the barn. On another occasion we lay down on the job while putting a substance known as heat-tight on the under side of a beet blancher.

Long hours and work which tended to make a person part of the machine made the work somewhat difficult especially it it lasted weeks at a time. It was something new to walk into the factory after supper with the sun shining into the west windows and to go out in the morning when the sun was just rising in the east. Don’t ever believe, though, that you can’t have fun in a canning factory. During the corn pack we occasionally waited for corn at the end of the line and some of our number even found time to successfully dramatize a well known scene from a tragedy by the Bard of the Avon. Those free moments were the brightest of the season for me, too, at least those which I spent engaged in conversation with an acquaintance I made at the factory.

What job I liked the best of all? That’s easily answered; strapping cans on the number two machine during- the corn pack.

CALYPSO Divine Calypso loved a mortal And offered him immortal love.

He found her fair but could not woo her.

His fate was ruled by powers above.

He left her cave and sea-girt island To venture on the trackless main.

Her heart now lasting love possesses And with it lasting grief and pain.

E. F. I WANDER — W. Kehrberg

The restless eye of the student wanders about the classroom. It roves about, over the heads of fellow students, over the professor, through the windows and back again, over the blackboard with its meaningless white lines, up the walls, and 107

<xnlt finally it pauses. The eye has found something upon which to settle. It rests upon a map of Europe. One image of the map transferred to the brain and the mind of the student is lost to further classroom discussion. The map holds an irresistible power. It fascinates; it transports; it stimulates the imagi­ nation. The spell is cast, the mind is captured and its thoughts are prompted by names on the map. The student lapses into semi-consciousness and is carried away on the ship of Imagi­ nation. He arrives at London, the world’s largest city and capitol of the British Empire. It is a city in which over eight million people have their homes and upon which the destiny of some five hundred million of the world’s inhabitants depends.

But there is no radical difference between it and an American metropolis except for one thing. There are no skyskrapers.

All the buildings are only five or six stories high. It almost seems as if the architects were afraid to build higher lest they pierce through the blanket of fog that covers the city, a fog that is as characteristic of London as the smell is of limburger cheese (or isn’t it ?) But the mists of London clear and the mind’s eye wanders to Geneva, the home of peace. Nestled between the mountains on the edge of Lake Geneva it is truly a peaceful city. The deep blue of the lake contrasts with the white snow on the mountains to give a feeling of serenity. Yet across the lake is Chillon, where Byron’s Prisoner once lan­ guished in gloomy solitude. But the mind must move and it passes over to Vienna. Here is music, life, gaiety, romance.

Waltzes are played with feeling in gardens where conviviality reigns. Vienna is the music center of Europe. Fine music is felt and appreciated here. The Blue Danube attracts attention and by following it our wanderer enters into the Black Sea and travels downward to Constantinople. It is an Asiatic city in Continental Europe. The minarets above the housetops plainly tell of what religion the present inhabitants are. However it was not always so. The church of Sancta Sophia, a masterpiece of architecture, bespeaks an earlier Christian era. On the bridge between two continents Constantinople has felt the in­ fluence of both. But now Asia predominates. But onward!

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There is a faint rumble, several cannon-like reports, objects tumble into motion and the classroom is emptied, and one won­ ders whether Vesuvius erupted again.

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THE BLACK AND RED Published Monthly by the Students of Northwestern College

EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief

Edward Fredrich.._.

Frederick Grunwald Ernst Wendland Clayton Krug R. Jungkuntz.......

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Contributing Editors Department Editors Campus and Classroom ......................Athletics Business Managers .... Business Manager Advertising Managers

Contributions to the Literary Department are requested from Alumni and undergraduates. All literary matter should be addressed to the Editor in Chief and all business communications to the Business Manager.

The terms of subscription are One Dollar per annum, payable in advance. Sin^le —"copies, 15 cents. Stamps not accepted in payment. Notify us ifi you wish your address changed or your paper discontinued, Aavertisin g rates furnished upon application.

Th« Black and Red is forwarded to all subscribers until order for its discontinuance is received or the subscriber is more than one year in arrears.

Jbitartais Schopenhauer on noise 0 GET back to a noisy dormitory — where little boys romp and biR boys romp in hall and room, where bellowing some­ one^ name through the building is no breach of proper conduct, where so many budding band members practise daily, where quartets and trios harmonize most unharmoniously— is a decided shock to nerves that have become accustomed to the peace and quiet of a sleepy village. And these tender nerves become fairly frazzled, when one attempts any intellectual efforts.

Undoubtedly most of us are able to endure this terrific din.

At least the great majority, who, it is hoped all adhere to the Golden Rule, contribute their share to it. They perhaps live in large cities and spend their leisure time in leisure and thereby are not troubled by any noises. Or they may be entirely im­ mune to them. Schopenhauer once wrote, “I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise which anyone can bear un­ disturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

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Fredrich.

Concerning Coed Notes...............

HE opening of the school year again brings the issue of the Black and Red, and with it, may we add, a continuation of the fight for the Coed Notes. We had hoped that the summer vacation would set our editorial staff to thinking, and that as a consequence the coeds would again enjoy having their column in the Black and Red. However, we were not so fortunate.

We remember that in a former issue an apology and ex­ planation was given as to why the Coed Notes were dropped.

It was stated that Locals and Campus and Classroom suffered similarly. This is not the case. Those two columns always did pertain more or less to things happening in the dormitory and to the majority of students. Since these two columns were practically identical, there was no need in having two columns, but just how the Coed Notes fit into this column, we cannot understand. We would also thank the editor of the Campus and Classroom column to omit any mention of the coeds in his column, since, at best, his information can only be second hand hearsay. As far as predictions offered by that column — we would rather not suffer hearing them.

Now concerning the fear of commanding coeds to contribute to the Black and Red, we see a further point for argument.

Does the staff succeed in commanding boys to write ? They are requested to write, are they not? Anyone knows that it is quite proper to request a coed to write. This bosh about reverence to a coed is laughable. The reverence to a coed is most always superficial or perhaps merely a matter of traditional form. It certainly is an odd way to show reverence to the coeds by dropping the one recognition she had (namely the Coed Column) out of the college paper. One can’t just get around an offense like that by referring to a pretty line from Emerson’s poetry, (cf. May issue). Did it occur to anyone that perhaps this line didn’t apply to everyone — and even if it could, that it is a trite way of putting things ? No, most honorable staff, if you cannot

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It would have been so much more convenient to introduce our new coeds by means of our column rather than answering so many questions, however, since this is not possible, we must hope and work for the best.

R. P. If this be treason................

DUCATIONAL institutions are veritable breeding-grounds for all sorts of customs and traditions, some fine, others not so fine, and many very silly. No matter to which of these classes a tradition belongs, it is nevertheless zealously guarded and carefully preserved from year to year by the peculiar arch­ conservatism that can only be found in a group of college students, who will tolerate no tampering with even their worst customs and readily brand such tampering as high treason.

Witness the lengthy existance of fraternity initiations, green caps for freshmen, and the like. So long have many such conventions been preserved, that their faults and follies are entirely overlooked and they finally are regarded as a necessity and a law.

As old a tradition as graces American educational institu­ tions is the cheerleader at the athletic contests and the u一rah— rahing and sis—boom—ahing that accompany the efforts of the football or baseball teams. So accustomned have we be­ come to this tradition that a college football game without the antics of the man in white (not the referee) is for us a thing impossible and unthinkable. We have come to regard the cheerleader and the cheers he leads as the quintessence of the schoool’s athletic well-being. At pep meetings the word is passed that every one must religiously learn the yells and bellow them loudly when called upon, even at the risk of sore throat, laryngitis and worse, or he will not be doing his duty to the team, student body, and school.

Such statements are upheld by so universal a belief that their verity can scarcely be doubted. Yet since we are here dealing with nothing more than a college tradition, the possi­ bility may exist that they have arisen from our overfondness for the traditional and are founded on folly. Although every­ one believed in the value and virtue of cheerleaders and organ­ ized yelling, we might still be fooling ourselves. Perhaps they 112

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The cheerleader and his elaborate acrobatics, which often center attention on himself instead of on the action and the standardized, wholly-artificial cheering he calls forth with much arm-waving and somersaulting should have no place at our games. The spontaneous burst of applause that greets a clever run or hard tackle is fine and should be encouraged. Such an honest overflow of enthusiasm is undoubtedly a good thing both for spectator and player. But the hackneyed method of chant­ ing meaningless sound to the accompaniment of a wildly ges­ ticulating cheerleader and that often when one would much rather inveigh against than applaud the efforts of the players is far too artificial and silly to be employed. The yell is meaning­ less, just like the yell of every other college, and the feeling behind it more often than not totally negligible.

The only apparent reason for the existence of the cheer­ leader is that very doubtful one which surmises that his efforts are vital in instilling life and strength into the gridiron heroes.

One wonders about that, especially if one has seen a group of professionals play almost perfect football without cheers and in the face of constant booing or has heard player after player assert, he is totally oblivious to all noises while engaged in the game. And even though cheering would inspire players, who supposedly are at all times playing their best game, to super­ efforts, would it be a good thing? That would be changing the game from a mere physical contest into one in which the emotions play the chief role — a decidely unhealth sort of game that will bring much fretting, grief, even at times mental derangement, to its participants.

The age-old, timeless tradition that has for so long given us the cheerleader ought to be abandoned. Combining a min­ imum of utility with a maximum of absurdity, one marvels that it should have so long endured and marvels more that it will endure even again as long. But so it will. For custom and the traditional are very dear to the heart of the conservative college student, far dearer than reason or self-respect.

Edward Fredrich.

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Attention Alumni lyTORTHWESTERN College will celebrate its homecoming 丄、Oct. 16. All alumni, alumnae, and friends of the school are invited.

The football game, in which Northwestern’s eleven will play the team from Aurora College, and the banquet, to be held in the gymnasium that evening, make up the homecoming festivities.

A parting thought • • • • ONTRIBUTIONS to this month’s Black and Red were few, very few. Three articles were submitted, the three contri­ buting editors contributed one more. It is unnessary to remark that such little material is not enough to fill a decent number.

We know that this paper is keenly read and arouses much interest. We know this from the great amount of criticism and debasement hurled at our heads at the end of every month. We greatly appreciate this passive interest and cherish every bit of criticism.

But mere interest never filled a single page of the Black and Red. Far better would it be, if students would occasionly write — once a month would be frequent enough. Do not wait for a personal invitation. Submit whatever you have and it will be accepted with the best grace.

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Campus and Classroom We have returned.

The removal of the barracks has caused the site on which they had heretofore been situated to become unoccupied or rather sans signs and indications of human presence in said location. For the benefit of newcomers to our institution may we say that the aforementioned edifice may now be viewed in the immediate neighborhood of the Agricultural Building.

Perhaps you have also noticed the disappearance of another landmark, so to speak. With all due regard for poetic justice, it was decreed that Ernie Wendland be responsible for the transference of the Old Black and Red Joke Box to places else­ where. Of course, everyone must recall that it was under his brilliant editorship that the 0. B. and R. J. B. for a time enjoyed a second Periclean Age, as it were, and flourished wondrously as a receptacle for bits of humor and stuff.

It’s the Nuts Actual Axioms of the new Pecan School of Philosophy: If one hour goes fast, two hours go twice as fast.

We never go to bed the same day we go to work, but we always go to work the same day we go to bed.

Alvin (Weissmueller) Schabow, a fisher of men, has re­ turned to school with a beautiful tan, and, so it is rumored, a Carnegie Medal.

After three years of intensive training under E. Fredrich, our tyrannus intellegentiae, Jumbo Volkmann finally feels him­ self capable of carrying on singlehandedly. At least, he and Fredrich have come to the parting of ways, Fredrich retainingcustody of the room. _____________ According to E. Crayse Toepel, the dreaded revenue officer of the Kentucky hillbilly had his proto-type in the medieval alchemist, who was also primarily engaged in a search for alky.

For those of you who regret the literary decadence of this column we have brought to light a little-known but very in­ teresting allusions to Willie Wordsworth of Romantic notoriety.

George Meredith an English man of letters of no mean repute speaks of him in words to this effect: ''Wordsworth, I believe, may well be compared to a donkey, of course, we should say, a very superior donkey.”

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JUmtutt Jfotes Rev. F. Meyer，’87, Detroit, Mich., the only graduate of fifty years ago, spoke at the alumni lunchen on Commencement Day. Dr. Paul Peters, former professor at Northwestern, now of Zehlendorf, Germany, Dr. Henry Koch, professor at Concordia Institute of Bronxville, N. Y., and Rev. Henry Schmitt, Glen­ dale, Calif., all members of the class of ’09, visited friends in Wisconsin this summer. They were entertained by classmates and friends at an informal gathering held in Manitowoc on June 12. Those present were Pastors Geyer, Petermann, G. Pieper, Hartwig, P. Koehler, C. Toepel, and Prof. Sitz. Rev. Koehler and Prof. Sitz also recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anni­ versaries in the ministry.

Herbert Jenny, ex '05, took his degree as Dr. of Music at Innsbruck, Austria.

Those alumni taking advantage of the courses held at New Ulm this summer were: H. Lau, C. Lawrenz, C. Kuske, P. Kuske, C. Albrecht, R. Palmer, H. Rutz, A. Mackdanz, H. Scherf, E. 116

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Schaller, J. Raabe, Ernst Birkholz, M. Wehausen, W. Frank, H. Mutterer, and H. Fritze. Classes were conducted by Pro­ fessors Kowalke and Westerhaus of Watertown, Prof. Meyer of Thiensville, and Dr. Fritz of St. Louis.

Matrimonially the summer reveals: Rev. Marcus Fleischer, ，30, Red Granite, Wis” to Miss Irma Engel; Rev. A. Maas, *33, Brighton, Minn., to Miss Lucille Streich, former Northwestern coed; Rev. Herbert Buch, ’33，Southshore，S. D” Mr. Norbert Vallesky,，35，Manitowoc, Wis” Rev. Marcus Liesener，’33, Brillion, Wis” Gerhard Gilbert, ex ’36, and Mr. Arnold Bolle, ，34, Basin, Montana to Miss Helen Swan of Missoula, Mont.

After Mr. Bolle completed his studies at the university of Mon­ tana, he took a position as Asst. Ranger in the Deerlodge National Forest, Basin, Montana. Mrs. Bolle also attended Montana University.

Mr. Edmund Sauer, ex ’36, recently set up his office as a dentist in Milwaukee after having received his degree at Mar­ quette University. Mr. Walter Schultz, ’34，will reenter Mar­ quette.

The following have (excepted calls as pastors or teachers: Rev. Degner to Plymouth； Nebr.; Rev. Martin to Kekoskee, Wis.; Rev. G. Martin to Lutheran High, Milwaukee, Wis.; Erwin Froehlich to Morrison, Wis.; Roman Biesmann to Brodhead, Wis.; William Wichmann to Kimberly-Little Chute: Oscar Lemke to Flint, Mich.; Roland Bretzmann to Mobridge, S. D.; Reginald Siegler to Saginaw, Mich.; Carleton Toppe to Manito­ woc, Wis.; Erwin Schewe to Racine, Wis.; and Harold Wicke to Hortonville, Wis.; Richard Stiemke and Paul Schliesser are employed at Bethesda, Watertown, Wis.; William Thierfelder ex ’35, is conducting the Lutheran radio services over W. T. M. J. Milwaukee. He has replaced Adelbert Maas, who was called to Brighton, Minn. John Raabe will act as tutor at N. W. C. during the absence of Inspector Kremer.

Mr. Arthur Schumann, ex ’38, has recently been appointed one of the chief instructors at a flying school in Lincoln, Nebr.

A baby girl, Elisabeth Ann, was born to Prof, and Mrs. Heinrich Vogel of Fond du Lac, Wis., on September the fourth.

Mrs. Vogel is the former Hilda Zahn who taught at St. Mark’s Lutheran School in Watertown previous to her marriage. Rev. John Dahlke, *31, Milwaukee, Wis., and his wife were also blessed with the birth of a daughter.

Alvin Reich，’29, Marshfield, Wis., visited us recently.

Miss Eva Taras, ex ’37, is teaching at Neenah, Wis.. Miss Ruby Holzhueter, is teaching at Cottage Grove, Wis. Both are New Ulm graduates. Miss Ruth Fredrich，ex ’38, is teach117

ing at Neshkoro, Wis. Miss Fredrich, completed her teaching course at Whitewater State Teachers College.

We wish to remind the alumni of the Homecoming game which will be played against Aurora College on October 16.

Walter Beck, ’18, received the degree of Doctor of Educa­ tion from Temple university. In June he got the gold medal awarded by Phi Dalta Kappa chapter for the best piece of re­ search done in the graduate school of the university during the academic year 1936-37. The title of his dissertation is ^Devel­ opment of Lutheran Elementary Schools since 1835.”

Norman W. Kemp, Com. ’18，Michigan City, called on Sept, twelfth. At present he has a position under the W. P. A. He says there are still more than 300 families on the relief list in his home town.

Ralph Hagedorn, ’35，Austin, Texas, is librarian at the University of Texas.

Gilbert Tietz，’36，and Miss Hazel Borchardt of Watertown were married on June 19. Armin Roekle and Samuel Kugler, classmates of the 戸room, were in the bridal party. Frederich Borchardt and Miss Cora Borkenhagen, Commercial ’28，both of Watertown, were married on Sept. 4.

删Mimes FOOTBALL Come within a half mile of the athletic field any one of these autumnal afternoons and if the wind and your hearing is 118

right you should be able to hear Coach Umnus trying, with his own unique vociferations, to impress upon his perspiring crew how the game of football should be played. With less than two weeks time to round this year’s squad of twenty-nine men into shape for the opening game with the Seminary, no time was lost in getting under way with practice sessions 一 and, according to all reports, they were real workouts!

The first three days were given over to the usual limbering up exercises, fundamentals, and passing and punting practice.

Active scrimmaging was engaged in already on the fourth day.

As to prospects — fifteen letter men are available this year. Baganz, R. Frey, Hempel, Pagels, Sauer, Stuebs and Wendland. will labor in the back field while Habben, Jungkuntz, Krug, Naumann, Schlenner, Ten Broeck, Toepel, and Wiechman will bear the brunt of the dirty work in the line. Other men who saw action last year but did not make the “N” grade are Bradkte and Hillmer, backs, and Hertler and Tabbert, ends.

Most promising among the newcomers to the squad are Danner and Horn, ends, and Wegner, tackle.

As regards a starting team, there seems to be no doubt that Coach Umnus can put a pretty fair outfit on the field. Hempel and Pagels are both oldtimers at the fullback post and with a little exertion they should be able to hold down their end of the game in good form. If Sauer carries the mail the way he car­ ried it last year, and if Stuebs blocks the way he did last year, our opponents will have to do some mighty tall stepping to keep the smooth and speedy sophomore from crossing their goal lines.

Back again at quaterback for his final year on Northwestern’s turf, Ernie Wendland may be counted upon to turn in the same good job that he always has. Watch him return the punts! In the line Jungkuntz and Wiechman will undoubtedly alternate at the pivot position left open by the graduation of Capt. Koenig.

Krug is slated for one of the guard jobs; the other will probably be filled by Schlenner. The heavy Habben and the lofty Naumann as tackles should prove something of an impediment to opposing ball carriers and it’s a cinch that Toepel won’t be a disappoint­ ment on his end of the line. Fifteen men for the first team is well enough, but reserve material, which is too often forgotten or underrated, is direly needed.

The two games which the squad is being especially pointed for are those against Lawrence and Aurora this years home­ coming game. A victory over Lawrence might be a big help in boosting the waning interest in Northwestern football, which has been only too perceptible hereabouts for the past several years, The “N” club has intentions of making the year’s homecoming celebration a better and more satisfying one than those of previous years. Victory for this day is the first essential.

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Last but not least, there’s a Tri-State championship to be taken into consideration. For the past couple of years the elusive title has managed to just slip through our fingers.

There’s ample reason to hope that we shall be able to prevent it from slipping away again this season. Come on student body!

A little more pep and a little more spirit! They will help in attaining the trophy.

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The gymnasium gives evidence that Coach Umnus has been on the job during the vacation period. The locker room has been rebuilt and much as was possible, reconditioned and im­ proved. So also the shower room. A new floor has been laid and a fresh coating of paint has contributed a great deal to taking the dinginess out of the place and making it much more wholesome and airy.

Gym classes are being held as per schedule. Touch football and soccer will be the order of the day during the autumnal season. A change has been made in so far that the Juniors will be assigned to various classes for instruction work for practice coaching and teaching.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Memoriam

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LITERARY— The Penitent Plowman...........

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Why Football ?...........................

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Lorna ..........................................

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On the Kill.................................

Scott’s “Ivanhoe” vs. Reade’s “The Cloister and the Hearth,,..128

EDITORIALSWhither Our Democracy ?

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Our Poor Editor................

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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ALUMNI NOTES..................

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IN MEMORIAM Prof. Roland H. Kremer, Inspector at Northwestern College, died Oct. 16 and was buried the following Wednesday. Ser足 vices were held at Bethesda Church, Milwaukee, Pastors K. Timmel, H. Knuth and Prof. Kowalke officiating. He is sur足 vived by his wife, a brother, and two sisters.

Last August Prof. Kremer became ill and was unable to take his post when school opened in September. An opperation, performed Oct. 9 at Milwaukee Hospital, was of no avail in bringing him back to health. Saturday, Oct. 16, at noon he passed away.

Prof. Kremer was born Jan. 15, 1899, in Milwaukee, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kremer. He entered Northwestern as a freshman, after spending his preparatory school years at Con足 cordia, and graduating in 1920. When he had completed his theological training at the Seminary, he became tutor at his alma matter, and remained until 1925. Then he was called as pastor to Witten, S. Dak. After three years there, he served at Herrick, also in S. Dak., which position he was forced to resign after one year because of ill health. In 1931 he returned to Northwestern as tutor, became Inspector three years later.

This position he filled until his death.

For those who worked with him or were under his care in the dormitory, praise of his work is unnecessary. His accom足 plishments are fitting records of the tireless zeal, the unflagging diligence, with which he fulfilled his task.

The church and Northwestern College were deprived of a faithful servant, when Prof. Kremer was called from this life.

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., Oct. 1937

Number 5

Entered at the Postoflice at Watertown, Wis”. as second class matter under Act of March 3, x879« Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

THE PENITENT PLOWMAN A Short Story Clayton Krug

Yorick had an uncontrollable fondness for fresh roast meat; and a fondness for fresh meat was fatal to an ordinary plow­ man in the days of good king Henry. Yorick should have learned that by this time, for he was, on the whole, much more clever than any of the other yokels on his master’s estate; but since intelligence was not in general a notable characteristic of the people of Yorick’s time, this simple fact had escaped him.

As he walked sadly up the hill from his little, smoke-black­ ened hut to the master’s house, Yorick tried to think the whole thing out. He was, to be sure, a yokel, but he had not always been one. Time was when he had herded a drove of luscious swine in his master’s acorn forest, but the unexplainable dis­ appearance of a whole litter of delectable young farrows had convinced the master that Yorick would make a better plowman then swineherd. And there he had been, with a finely deve­ loped appetite for delectable roasts, and he, Yorick, on a vege122

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tarian diet! Who could blame him then—poor Yorick reasoned 一who could blame him for having become intimately acquaint­ ed with one of the master’s hens that had insisted on following his plow to pick up worms.

Still, the facts remained. The master had, by the purest chance—by the most cursed, unfortunate chance—come to visti him just as he had his booty on the table before him, and his whole hut fairly bursting1 with the oder of roast hen. Yorick, engrossed in the lovely prospects before him, had not seen the master enter. With all his cleverness he had been caught redhanded. The master stared and turned blue with rage, but strangely enough had not begun to shout, but instead had choked down his rage and in a quiet but cutting voice invited his servant to come to see him in the morning.

Yorick was clever. As he now approached the big house he had his plan of defense well laid out. Inwardly he had little fear, for although the master had the power of life and death over him, Yorick knew that he was dealing with a man who was at bottom kind hearted and on the whole none too intelli­ gent. Yorick decided to work on these weaknesses. Accordingly he had dressed himself in a cloak of humility—an ancient flowing garment full of rips and unnecessary openings, so long and ill-fitting that it dragged on the ground, hoping to impress the master with his poverty and contriteness.

For a time everything went well. Yorick crawled into the house to his master’s feet, and there fell flat on his belly, all the while giving whining assurances of his sorrow, contrition, and poverty, interrupting himself now and then to weep and howl profusely. He had got to that part of his act where he vowed by the beards of all the saints to amend his ways—yes, even pay for the hen, when he was rudely cut off by a whole flock of squealing young swine, barely six weeks old and of a build and fatness that always set Yorick’s mouth to watering.

The frightened pork came scurrying in at the door, closely pur­ sued by a young1 hound whose duty it was to keep such crea­ tures as these out of the house, not in it. For a time there was an uproar as the swine rushed through the room and out an opposite door, passing in their haste over, under, and around poor Yorick, who was in the path of their headlong flight, and who had to make a number of lively motions in order to ward the creatures off.

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Finally it became quiet again, and Yorick renewed his de­ fense even more humbly than before. When he had finished his groveling and whining the master was silent for a time, eyeing the penitent dog before him. Apparently his heart was touched, for he spoke kindly to the yokel, not neglecting to add, however, that another offense would lead to severe measures.

Finally he offered to shake Yorick’s hand and forget about it, but at this the humble servant began to whine again, mumbling something about not being worthy of so great an honor, and ended by hurrying from the room, still bent very low and con­ cealing both hands in the folds of his flowing cloak.

Yorick hurried home, well satisfied with himself. Surely he was the most clever man on the estate, and his master the most ignorant. After all, he thought, that was the main trouble with the world. The ignorant rich get all the benefits of the poor but wise man’s labor. Well, he would show them a thing or two. Laughing he entered his hut, bolted the door with one hand, and with the other pulled a choice pig from the folds of his cloak. Yorick regretted that he had been forced to strangle it, but since it was still warm it would roast beautifully any­ way.

Meanwhile the master sat in deep thought, considering the ways of fools. Finally he called two of his guards and said to them, ‘‘This evening, when it has become dark, go ye to the hut of my plowman Yorick, and keep hidden until the odor of roast pig doth assail your nostrils. Then enter ye the hut and knock him in the head ere he can take a mouthful, and bring both Yorick and the pig to me.”

WHY FOOTBALL? He was a student at a small college, and went out for foot­ ball, mostly because it was a thing quite generally done by students at a college. He had been going out for some years now. Really why, he didn’t know. Nor did he care much. It was expected of him. Only lately the question seemed to bother him. He sometimes wondered.

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of all-Americans and quit as a bunch of very mediocre fellows.

“Punks” they called it. Wednesday meant work, hard work.

The coach was right, of course. One didn’t learn football by just thinking about it.

After such a practice he would join the dismal trek into the locker room and proceed somewhat painfully to rid himself of ten or fifteen pounds of sweaty pads. Sweat; dirt; soreness; stiff muscles. What for ? For the dear old alma mater ? That sort of thing just wasn’t done. For exercise ? He could think of milder, more effective methods. For the sake of spectators who might watch him on Saturday ? His vanity didn’t soar to such heights. The work was too hard. He was in football for the personal pleasure he could get out of it. Was he deriving that pleasure ? He didn’t seem to know. Maybe his character was being built. Right now, after quite a number of years on the gridiron, his character felt like kicking somebody in the stomach. Maybe he was just a capital sucker.

Then, too, at night when he should have been poring over textbooks, but when instead he’d be wondering why this or that play wouldn’t work, he’d find himself occasionally trying to figure out football logically. He’d consider the football situ­ ation at the universities. There, too, men played football, but seemingly with a different motive. Football was vastly more important there, since it was a source of income to be reckoned with. The participants there were undoubtedly solicited ath­ letes, who got their degrees in penmanship and continued their careers on the professional gridiron. The highly specialized type of play required the work of specialists. Surely, they worked there, too, but not purely out of sheer zest for the sport or love for the game. It was becoming common knowledge that they received ample compensation for their efforts in the form of something or another. Something they could grasp. "Maybe they had the right idea,” he’d muse.

And then Saturday would come — this time a certain Satur­ day in particular. The game was played and his team won.

He was tired, and covered with sweat and dirt as he walked off of the field, but he felt pretty good just the same. Why? He didn’t know. The victory contributed to it, naturally, but he could remember other victories by larger scores which had left him glum. Maybe it was the way the end winced every time 125

he threw a block at him. Or maybe it was the time he hit that half back so hard that the fellow didn’t get up under his own power. That seemed to please him most. He hadn’t had so much fun in a long time. Run them in the ground — hit them so hard that they didn’t want to play any more. Had anyone had the audacity just at that moment to ask him why he was out for football — well, he would may be have pushed the in­ quisitor^ face in.

One can state with a reasonable amount of certainty that this feeling prevailed in him until the following Wednesday.

That was football. He gave up trying to figure it out. The next year would most likely again find him wheezing under those calisthenics on the first day of practice.

LORNA Louis E. Pingel

These lines describe her better than I could if I would try: '‘Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.”

The light that plays within her eyes Gave me a certain joy And left a memory behind Which time cannot destroy.

Her smile has held me from the start; There’s nothing quite as bright; And often, just to hear her speak Has cheered a dreary night.

Rememb’ring her in days to come When life declines and ends, I’ll still rejoice if I may say, “We were the best of friends/1 ON THE KILL M. Volkmann

Place of smells — sickening, stifling _ everywhere the odor of blood, of crushed bones and cartilage, of roasting fat and curing hides.

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shouting, bones grinding, gears clashing — all mingling into one sodden, ceaseless throb.

Place of blood — blood everywhere — streams of flowing blood, trails of coagulating blood, heaps of dried blood.

As a finale to the day’s work at a packing plant several hundred caves are slaughtered and dressed. Working ‘‘on the kill” is an experience not to be forgotten.

The runway and passage to the killing-room were jammed with the bawling, liquid-eyed creatures. Plowing through the surging mass was a matter of yelling your head off and slapping away any part of the dumb domestics that came in your way.

Behind a high tin wall which separated the killing- and dressing-rooms the “kill man” went about his gory business with a nonchalance that seemed almost brutal. The nearest calf was siezed by a hind leg and hung head downward on a conveyer hook. A quick, sure movement of the wrist and the dripping knife plunged home. The calf, bellowing its last, with blood streaming from its protruding tongue, was pushed down the line.

The “dressing room” was a confusion of spraying hoses, flashing blades, and coagulating gore. After being slaughtered the calves hung for a moment under a shower. Then their hides were scraped clean and they were sent forward.

“Shove down some more caives!” How could they dress those calves so fast ? I jumped down from the platform on which I was working and proceeded to push ahead about fifteen of the animals. Their bodies were wet and still warm. Trying to keep my footing and push at the same time was a hard job.

I slipped, almost fell, but managed to stay upright by throwing my arms around the calf I was pushing. Not very pleasant company but the blood which flowed half an inch deep about my feet would have been even less pleasant. Did ever a battle­ field run more red? I had no time for speculation on the thought.

Swiftness and efficiency marked the entire dressing process.

The hide came off, each man cut away a part the viscera, the flesh was washed clean, the calf was ready for transformation into steaks and chops.

Soon — it seemed very soon, for the rapidity with which the work was done had given no opportunity to notice passage of time — the job was finished. Even sooner were blood-stained clothes discarded and the reeking building vacated. Blood and stench and noise are pleasant things to get away from.

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SCOTT，S “IVANHOE” vs. READE’S “THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH，’ Fritz Peterson

Scott and Reade both lived during the nineteenth century, although the former belonged essentially to the age of Roman­ ticism while the latter was one of the lesser lights of the Vic­ torian Age. In both the novels under consideration we see the interest in the past, one of the earmarks of nineteenth century litera­ ture. But Scott chose to write about the more remote in time and nearer in location, namely his own England about the latter part of the twelfth century, while Reade took the more remote in location and nearer in point of time, that is Germany and Italy of the latter half of the fifteenth century. In “Ivanhoe” we see the old Angles and Saxons struggling under the oppress­ ive overbearance and tyranny of the Norman conquerors, who, though they nominally ruled England, could nevertheless not force their more urbane customs and styles upon the rude, rustic peoples whom they had politically conquered. In “The Cloister and the Hearth” is seen the church of the Middle Ages just beginning to win its contest against papal rule, and the lethargy of that period being shaken off by the forerunners in the Re­ naissance.

Though Scott’s novel contains more than twice as many words as Reade’s one can hardly say that it embraces a longer period of time. Thus the movement in "Ivanhoe” is very slow and stately, taking one gradually from one step of the plot to another, while in “The Cloister and the Hearth” the action is generally swift and one is taken rapidly from one scene to an­ other. This effect is produced in various ways. Scott as a rule employs longer paragraphs with very few short snatches of conversation. His sentences are usually long and he chooses larger and often more obsolete words, the latter of course in keeping with the time of which he writes. Reade makes use of the shorter paragraph, the shorter and snappier sentence, and the simpler and more modern words, though he too employs numerous archaisms to lend his work the flavor of times past.

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“The Cloister of the Hearth,” In Scott’s story many of the characters are considerably idealized and pictured as having almost superhuman abilities. Most of them belong to the higher classes of society. In Reade’s story, on the contrary, the characters are more human, acting as ordinary people would under extraordinary conditions. Reade’s few characters belong generally to the lower class of people, those whose thoughts are devoted rather to obtaining the needs of life in a Christian-like manner than to enjoying the luxuries of a carnal world.

Although Scott has a more intricate and finely-woven plot what with his larger number of characters, his story does not work up to such a definite climax nor does the climax show itself so outstandingly. Reade has his story so arranged that the general trend of thought is not complicated, but practically all the revealing of his purpose and unraveling of the plot is contained in the last few pages, where in a few words he dis­ plays in a panoramic view suddenly the whole intent and mean­ ing behind his composition.

In conclusion, I would say that Scott is the better master of language, the better builder of a varied and well-developed plot, the more intelligent writer, while Reade is able to portray his characters more true to life and has the ability to bring his story to a definite and interesting climax.

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THE BLACK AND RED Published Monthly by the Students of Northwestern College

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J&itartals WHITHER OUR DEMOCRACY? During the past years our national debt has grown to such proportions that it seems to be impossible to restore the treasury to its normal state. It would take a financial wizard greater than the famous Necker to effect a financial recovery.

Until recently no apparent efforts to economize were even made by our administration. The feeble, half-hearted attempts at economy made recently are really very insignificant. Perhaps the opinion of the present administration is the same as that so frankly expressed by Madame Pompadour shortly before the French Revolution—“And after us the deluge.” The French truly had a ‘‘deluge’’，but of course it can’t happen here; con­ ditions are not quite so bad yet — the Americans, at least very many of them, are too well satisfied with their benevolent and lavish Uncle.

Nevertheless some people shudder for fear that our easy­ going democracy shall be displaced by a fascistic-dictatorship, or by that worst of all monsters—communism. Such a fear is as yet groundless, for the number of fascists and communists is negligibly few compared to the conservatives. Some Ameri130

I cans point with trepidation to the increasing number of Nazi youth camps in our country, where "Storm Troops” are trained in German uniforms, but these cannot yet be called a menace to our democracy. In the event of an extreme crisis—war necessitating extreme measures matters would probably crystallized, and our form of government would probably be changed even more than it has been in the past few years, but that is pure speculation. However, it is very likely that a crisis ot some sort will occur in our government, for the popularity of labor strikes proves not only that there is something radically wrong with our internal economic organization as well as with our government, which connives at such things, but also that there are some classes which are quite violently dissatisfied with these existing conditions.

Many of these disastrous and foolish labor strikes could be prevented if the government subsidized or at least supervised our greater industries, especially those working the natural resources of our country (viz. coal, oil, metals, etc.). If we could incorporate some of the advantages of communism and fascism into our democracy without the concomitant evils, we might possibly attain a more ideal and even more practical form of government, but we would hardly call it a democracy. Un­ fortunately such opposites do not mix. There is so much coer­ cion involved in the establishment and maintenance of a com­ munistic or fascistic government that even if its benefits were worth while, its establishment here would be absolutely unprac­ tical. Undoubtedly that liberty which we prize most highly— our religious liberty—would be the first to be curtailed.

At all events the next decade or two shall undoubtedly witness a re-evaluation of the standards of government. As yet, in spite of its many evils, our form is without doubt the most felicitous form possible for the majority of the governed. ______________ F. A. G. Our poor editor UR poor editor! He really has good intentions. Who are we to discourage such a budding young artist ?

Away back in 1897 our Alma Mater, then known as North­ western University, edited its first Black and Red. For forty years now the printing presses have issued their annual amount of black and white pages. Forty editors have occupied the 131

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But when our editor says, “Fill the pages,” who is there to carry out his orders but himself and one or two of his sympa­ thetic friends.

While plans were being laid for the first issue of the Black and Red, a staff was chosen from the student body to take charge. But this did not mean the staff members were to be the sole historians, poets, authors, etc. No, every member of the collegiate body was a potential Emil Ludwig, Gertrude Stein et al. And as far as we know great interest was shown.

Not every day did one have a chance to express his view and his version of the matter.

But, how times have changed ! This is not insinuating that the students of our day are not interested in the Sable and Gules. No, as our editor himself recently stated, interest must be present. But it seems to be more a passive interest than an active one. Instead of a student enlightening the world with his wisdom, he seems to be more content with sitting in the • background, perusing the Black and Red, and uttering his verdict. Doesn’t he know that the pen is mightier than the sword, or perhaps we should say mouth? Who has time amid the hurry-scurry of the clubroom and the like to listen to a lengthy dissertation on the terrible faults of this or that column? If one of these critical readers would put his criticism on paper, maybe the columnist would be able to defend himself.

But the way it is, he can only rely on hearsay, which he is often led to doubt.

What might be the reason for the apparent lowering of the Black and Red in the eye of the student? Could it be that the modern trend in writing has degraded the tastes of the college student from the interest in literature of a decently high stand­ ard to that on the level with common newspapers ? For it seems to me that a greater part of the student body would rather find the Black and Red in the form of a scandal sheet.

Why not make use of the opportunity offered by a college edu­ cation to elevate your literary tastes? Above all, give the out­ sider an estimate of our standard of taste.

Coming back to our editor, why make him feel he has failed because he has no student body to help him. Don’t wait to be begged. Write something!

(N. B. This was not written by the editor.)

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Ernst (Mach’s gut) Lehninger has moulded together a very fine, little Deutsche Blasinstrumententruppe des Schwunges, as all who attended the Homecoming Banquet will testify (for a price) • ______________ For those of you who fail to discern the cryptic meaning behind the locally popular phrase, "Nice eye, ki3,” we should like to explain that it is, or rather originated as, an involuntary expression of awe and admiration which invariably arises from those few who are privileged to sit at the same dining table with Daisy Ten Broek whenever he with unbelievable deftness and dexterity secures the largest piece of meat with no more then the most casual glance at the platter.

And now that you realize the situation you will pardon us if we dedicate the next few lines To Daisy T. Bescheidenheit, Besclieidenheit, Verlass mich nicht beim Tische, So dass ich nicht zu jeder Zeit Das grosste Stuck erwische!

For the first time in several years the two literary societies have jointly accomplished something which can be considered a justification of their continued existence. They have appropri­ ated a part of their relatively large fund for the purchase of an electrical transcriber and the beginning of a fairly representa­ tive library of classical and semi-classical recordings. The Senior Class has decided to redecorate and furnish a room in which the machine is to be installed.

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砂I tioned by Shakespeare, is the sight of the Sophomore who looks a good deal sillier in his frenzied vociferations, than the Fresh­ man who does not respond immediately to the imperious, “But­ ton, 女rosh!” _______________ Otto Pagels, colleague and associate of E. C. Toepel in Historical Research, (cf. alchemy and Toepel in last month’s B and R), recently made an astounding assertion in response to an innocent question put to the Junior History Class. I quote, "The modern inhabitants of Italy are known als Italics.”

Now that the football season is practically over we should like to set down in writing what we have learned by way of the Sport of Kings. Of course, what we have gained is more or less impressionistic, so we resort to meter etc. to express our­ selves : Rub their noses in the dirt, The harder you hit, You don’t get hurt! and Look cheerful now, my scrubby lads. * The more you start, You don’t wear pads!

•This line is very subtly ironic.

Monthly Report of the Committee on Interpretation of Dark Passages in Shakespeare Shakespeare: Hold you the watch tonight ?

Schweppe: What time is it ?

Sh.: Buz, buz!

Pagels: There goes the doorbell!

Sh•: Makes reference to “fencing” as an exercise.

Toepel: No doubt pole-vaulting on a small scale.

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^hxmnx JJotc s Rev. Ernst Birkholz, ,09, St. James, Minnesota, Rev. Ed. Birkholz, ’09，Redwood Falls, Minn., and Rev. Schierenbeck, Sanborn, Minn., were recently honored by their respective con­ gregations on their twenty-fifth anniversary as partor. All three pastors were present at each celebration.

Rev. C. Toepel, ,09, of Algoma, Wis., also celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary recently.

Rev. Otto Kock, ’09, of Lowell, Wis., celebrated his twentyfifth anniversary in the ministry on Oct. 5, and his twentyfifth wedding anniversary on October 15.

Carlton Toppe, ’34, was recently called to Manitowoc, where he is now serving as assistant pastor and teacher of the seventh grade.

John Martin, ’33, was recently called to Eldorado, Wis. G. Geiger, ’34, received a call to St. Mark’s congregation of Mil­ waukee, where he will serve as teacher.

Rev. A. Schewe, ’31，and wife were blessed with a son on Sept. 24.

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Prof. Hilmar C. Krueger, ’25, Ph. D.，taught summer school at the University of Michigan last summer. He has been promoted to associate professor in history at the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin, Extension Division.

Elizabeth Faber, ’33, teaches history at the Froebel-Pestalozzi School at Chicago and does part-time work in the library.

EveretZimplemann, ’34, and Walter Schultz，’34, were visit­ or at Northwestern recently.

The homecoming celebration at Northwestern was attended by a great number of Alumni. Many Seminary students and former coeds were in attendance. Representative of Minnesota was Rev. Prof. Edwin Sauer, ’09, of Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minn. From Saginaw, Michigan came Prof. E. J. Berg, ’10, of Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Rev. Oscar G. Frey, Mr. Henry Zessin, Mr. Norman Hoffmann，and Armin Schultz, ’32, who is filling the position of tutor at the Seminary. Es­ pecially pleased were to have as our guest Rev. William Bodamer of Lodz, Poland, who is at present sojourning in America.

Grateful acknowledgement is hereby made to the class of 1937 for a donation of $24.31 to the science department. This sum is to be used for the purchase of lantern slides for one of the science courses.

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細 wmcs FOOTBALL Northwestern 33 Seminary 0 Watertown, Wis. Perhaps the “terror inspiring” epistle which the Semin ary Publicity Dept, (alias Sydow) sent to us a few days before the game was supposed to be psychological; and perhaps it was psychological, but for the benefit of the wrong team. Our Black and Red gridders swept through the Seminarians just as though they weren’t there — gone with the wind, so to speak.

Northwestern scored its first counter early in the first period. After Hempel had intercepted a Seminary pass on the opponents’ thirty yard stripe running plays by Sauer and Pagels, and a lateral from Stuebs to Pagels brought the ball to Northwestern’s three-yard line from where Sauer carried it over on an off-tackle play. Pagers try by placement was good. A few minutes later Sauer went over from the one-yard line for his second and final touchdown of the day after a thirty-five yard run by the shifty sophomore had brought the oval into scoring territory. Hempel converted.

Northwestern’s third tally came in the second period.

After a poor punt by the Seminary, the Umnus men took the ball on their own forty-one. A series of running plays by Hempel, Pagels and Wendland transferred the ball to the fiveyard line, from where Pagels scored on a line buck. Hempel’s try for point was again successful.

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ter when, after opening up with a barrage of passes, it success­ fully stopped two goal threatening advances by the North.western second team, which had started the second half of the game. All to no avail however, for after an unfortunate three yard punt by Sydow had left the ball on the Seminary twentyyard line, Umnus, discerning the strategy of the situation, sent his regulars into the game, who immediately took all advantage of their position and on a perfectly executed forward-lateral play, Pagels to Toepel to Hempel, added six more points to their score. The try for extra point failed.

Hempel scored Northwestern’s final touchdown when he intercepted a Seminary pass and carried it twenty-five yards to a touchdown. The kick from placement was wide of the uprights.

Taking into consideration the brevity of time in which the team had to prepare for this tilt the boys showed fairly well.

Although the performance wasn’t one of finished calibre and blocking was light, power was there. -Upon this factor may hope for future victories be firmly founded.

Sydow, Witt, and M. Toepel were standouts for the Sem­ inary team.

Northwestern Seminary LE E. Toepel M. Toepel Habben LT Witt Schlenner LG Bradtke Jungkuntz Koenig C Weiss Krug RG Naumann RT Sydow RE Horn G. Frey Hempel QB C. Frey Sauer HB I. Frey Stuebs HB Schultz Pagels FB Zarling Substitutions — Northwestern: Wendland, Wiechmann, Danner, Baganz, R. Frey, Hertler, Schmelzer, Bradtke, TenBroeck, Hanke, Hillmer, Peil, Ambelang, Tabbert, Franzmann.

Seminary: Ellwein, Cares. Referee—Wendland. Linesman— Eickmann.

Lawrence 21 Northwestern 0 Appleton, Wis. Sept. 24. Though it was the sincerest hope of each Northwestern fan that this game would terminate in victory for the Goslings, and though our team tried its utmost to fulfill that hope, the superiority of the Viking eleven was not to be denied. Be assured of this however, that the Gosling eleven played a good, spirited game which, though not sufficient to win, was good enough to be impressive in spite of defeat.

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Lawrence made its first tally in the opening period of play when Novakofski, who played a good game for the Vikings, returned a punt 42 yards to a touchdown. From then until the final quarter, when they tired and weakened, the Goslings played a good defensive game.

The two final Lawrence touchdowns came in the closing minutes of play. An aerial attack carried the ball to the threeyard line, from where Wiedemann, Lawrence fullback, carried the oval into pay dirt. Two minutes before the final gun Novakofski plunged over from the four-yard line to score the last Lawrence marker.

The lineups : Lawrence Northwestern LE Burton Toepel Bodily LT Habben Schlenner Hatten LG Garvey C Wiechmann Gerlock RG Krug Grode RT Naumann RE Crawford Horn QB Maertxweiler Hempel LI-I Buesing Sauer RH Vande Walle Stuebs Novakofski FB Pagels First downs: Lawrence, 8. Northwestern, 2.

Substitutions: Lawrence — Masterson, Galke, Zwergel, Skow, Wiedemann, Laird. Northwestern — Wantoch, Wendland, Jungkuntz, Danner, Ten Broeck, Hertler, Bradtke, Hillmer, Baganz, Hanke.

Northwestern 20 Mission House 0 Sheboygan, Wis. Oct. 2. Auspicious enough was Northwestern’s bid for supremacy in the Tri-State loop this year.

Although the Huskies played a brand of ball which evinced marked improvement over their play of former years, the Goslings had the power and experince necessary to give them the edge of victory.

It didn’t take long for the Black and Red combination to get started. Hempel intercepted a Mission House pass on the first play of the game, and without further ado the team marched forty yards to score. Pagels and Sauer, running alternately on off tackles smashes, carried the ball to the Muskie five yard line, from where Pagels powered over for the touch down. The kick from placement was wide. Although Mission House settled down to a defensive game after the first tally which proved effectual in thrice stopping the visiting marauders within the 139

ten-yard line, it was not good enough to prevent Ernie Wendland from slipping away for the Gosling’s second marker in the second period of play. Taking a Muskie punt on the far side of the field, Ernie ran diagonally to draw over the defense, then reversed his field and skirted the sidelines forty yards to score.

The extra point was made on a kick.

• Northwestern made its final touchdown in the third quarter when Emil Toepel took a well-aimed pass from Pagels and sprinted thirty yards to the goal.

Play during the game was rather ragged. Although Mission House did not seriously threaten at any time, they advanced forty yards on passes just before the final whistle. The mani­ fold injuries which the Muskiemen incurred necessitated so many times-out as to make the game a rather slow one.

Lineups : Northwestern Mission House LE Barten Toepel Habben LT Stalder Wantoch Rodel LG Ramminger Jungkuntz C Rammler RG Krug Schumacher RT Naumann RE Hodge Horn Hempel QB R. Ley Sauer LH De Motts RH Solkowitz Stuebs Pagels FB Grau Substitutions: Northwestern — Danner, Ten Broeck, Schlenner, Fuerstenau, Hertler, Wendland, Bradtke, Hillmer, Baganz, Frey. Mission House — Harold, Ley, Klandt, Heyl, Hessert, Belgum, Schmidt, Kaiser, Bredeweg, Dix, Zurbuchen. *• Northwestern 13 Platteville 0 Watertown, Wis. Oct. 10. Any clouds that might have been darkening Northwestern’s football horizon were formally dispersed and the blue of victory broke through when the Goslings, giving one of the finest exhibitions of the game that has been seen on the home gridiron for years, turned back the Platteville Miners, erstwhile Tri-State champions by a score of 13 to 0. It was a game which was a genuine pleasure to see, and no Northwestern fan went away who hadn’t received a full share of satisfaction as regards every department of the team’s performance. Smooth, powerful, driving, blocking and tackling hard, the Umnus men moved with such precision that only victory could be their meed.

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and by virtue of two completed passes and a reverse advanced to the Black and Red eight-yard stripe. There Northwestern’s defense tightened up and Platteville surrendered the ball on downs. Their only other serious threat came in the third quarter when Schroeder, carrying the ball around left end on a triple cut-back, was good for a gain of thirty-five yards to North­ western^ thirty. Thanks to the presence of Sauer, playing safety, who was the only man who remained between the run­ ner and the goal posts, a touchdown was prevented.

Northwestern scored its first pointer in the second quarter.

After gaining the ball on the forty-five-yard line, Pagels carried it to the thirty. “Shoot the works” was good for nine more yards and Pagels made it first down on the nineteen. A Miner penalty and two more smashes by the blond Teuton were good for another first down on the eight-yard line. Sauer went through tackle to the one foot line and then Pagels drove over for the score. His try by placement was wide of the uprights.

A thirty yard drive in the final quarter, which again featured the running abilities of Pagels and Sauer, brought the ball to the Miner seven-yard line. There three plays moved the ball to within two yards of the goal.

At this juncture Baganz entered the game to try his powers.

Running off tackle on his first try he crossed the line standing up. Hempel’s kick was good and so was the game.

Lineups: Northwestern Platteville Horn LE Kobidisch LT Hadgsen Habben Anderson Krug LG Jungkuntz Peschke C Wantoch Wischoff RG Ovitz Naumann RT RE Schroeder Toepel QB Burris Hempel LH Brueling Sauer RH Wilsey Stuebs FB Wolters Pagels Substitutions: Northwestern—Wendland, Baganz, Hillmer, Ten Broeck, Tabbert, Fuerstenau, Schlenner, Danner, Wiechmann, Hanke, Bradtke. Platteville — Bemo, Ch. Dewitt, J. Dewitt.

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Aurora 0 Northwestern 28 Watertown Wis., Oct. 16. Homecoming—and the homecomers surely weren’t disappointed! If superlatives were necessary for the Platteville game, super-superlatives are neces­ sary for this one. Nothing that this column can say could add to the fine showing which the squad made. Aurora was fairly strong and possessesd a fine assortment of offensive plays, but the score itself is testimonial as to what it availed against the Northwestern team. Individuals cannot here be cited as out­ standing. It was the entire group of players functioning as one that was outstanding, and that in every phase of the game.

Receiving the kickoff, the Goslings, advancing with every play, moved straight down the field from their own twenty and 3idn，t stop until the goal line had been crossed. Employingthe same off tackle smashes and center plunges which proved successful in previous contests, Sauer and Pagels lugged the leather to the one-foot line, from where Sauer scored. Pagels* kick was successful.

The spectators had scarcely ceased cheering for the first score, when Sauer, on a sixty-yard sprint which left every fan wide-eyed with excitement, made the second one. Theoretically, every play is a potential touchdown, being potential insofar that perfect execution is necessary for complete results. Upon this ocassion did the Goslings demonstrate theory made prac­ tical. Every man blocked perfectly and Sauer, coming through the secondary and breaking into the clear, was away to a touch­ down. Pagels’ kick added another point to the score.

Both teams played on equal terms during the second quarter. Aurora, employing a wide variety of plays, especially flankers, kept the Northwestern defense on its toes most of the period until the closing minutes, when the home team progressed to the twelve-yard line. There the ball was lost on downs.

An Aurora fumble, recovered by Naumann on the Northwestern twenty-yard marker, paved the way for the home team’s third touchdown. Pagels’ and Baganz carried the oval to the eleven-yard line, from where Baganz, running beautifully around right end, went over for the score.

Duplicating the play which had brought Northwestern* 8 second touchdown, but exceeding it in distance by five yards, was the sixty-five yard gallop of “Chick” Hempel, which pro­ duced Northwestern’s final score. Running fast and skillfully, Hempel cleared the entire opposing defence and about eight seconds later put the ball down in the end zone. His kick sailed between the uprights and the day’s work was done.

The victory assured Northwestern of no less than a tie in the conference standings. One conference game remains to be played. Northwestern made seventeen first downs against nine by Aurora.

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TENNIS Sweeping through all opposition in straight sets, Walter Haase, Two Rivers freshman, copped the laurel wreath for the fall tennis tournament. He defeated Irvin Weiss in the final bracket, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3, to take the top honors.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— The Magic Cloth..... immer Unfraut.

Preacher’s Sons.......

John Maynard........

Twenty Years After Sielogipeb...........

144 146 150 153 154 156

EDITORIALS— Fewer Hours, More Pay.......

Concerning Matutinal Rising.

Intolerance........................... .

Addendum...........................

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM SEMINARY NOTES..............

ALUMNI NOTES.................

ATHLETICS.........................

158 159 161 162 165 166 167 167

r了 THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI. March

Watertown, Wis., Nov. 1937

Number 6

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THE MAGIC CLOTH Clayton Krug

An ancient story-teller, whose name I have forgotten, has left us the following well-known tale: A certain king called on all the best tailors in his country to bring him samples of their work, in order that he might choose one of them to make him a fine cloak for a festival day on which he was to lead a great procession.

After a great number of tailors had visited the king, two goldsmiths came to him with an offer to spin for him a magic cloth of pure gold. They claimed that their cloth, besides being the finest ever made, would have a special virtue, for it would be invisible to every man who was not worthy of the office he held. The king was well pleased with this offer, for he thought to himself “With this cloak I shall be able to judge my servants and officers, and remove those to whom it is invisible. So shall I have only good servants.’’

He then gave the goldsmiths a supply of gold and com­ manded them to begin their work. The two craftsmen shut 144

themselves up in their shop and appeared to be very busy. The day of the procession was approaching, and the king sent the keeper of his wardrobe to inspect their work. When he arrived the goldsmiths carefully displayed the mysterious fabric, and the king’s servant was instantly terrified for he could not see it! Still, he didn’t want to lose his job, so he praised the beauty and fineness of the cloth and returned to the king, to whom he reported that the cloak was nearly finished.

The day of the procession arrived and a great throng of people lined the streets to see the king and his magic cloak; for the story of its mysterious quality had been spread abroad.

With a mighty blast of trumpets the king rode from his palace, outwardly glowing and splendid, but inwardly full of gloom and dejection. For the cloak that had been so carefully fastened around his shoulders was invisible to him too! He called him­ self a wretch and a fool to have accepted the goldsmiths’ offer only to have his own failings revealed. As he rode along the people all craned their necks to get a good look at the king, but each man at the same time kept one eye on his neighbor, for each felt confident that many unworthy people would be re­ vealed.

Indeed, so it did happen, but the thing went too far; for as the king proceeded not only the neighbor, but even Mr. Citizen himself found his cheeks glowing with shame and em­ barrassment, for he could see the king well enough, but where was the cloak ? Nevertheless everyone pretended to admire the beautiful garment.

But in the crowd there was a little child in his mother’s arms. As the procession rode past he exclaimed, “Mother, why does not the king wear a cloak?” Thereupon the king and all the people knew that they had been deceived, and they punished the two lying goldsmiths.

Of course the above is just a story — perhaps not even a true one — that illustrates the simplicity and gullibility of certain ancient people. It couldn’t happen in our day, because we moderns are too clever to fall for anything like that.

On November eleventh in this year of enlightenment, 1937, another king took part in a festival — a festival in which he 145

and the people he represented commemorated the end of a great war. Great Britain, with its fingers strained by meddling in every mess in the world, with its battleships lying in wait in every ocean, and with its people burdened by preparing for another war before the last one had been paid for, was cele­ brating the Armistice. There had been great procession, and many fine speeches were made about the evils of war and the glories of peace. Wreaths had been placed and the bugles blown, and now the entire gathering stood in silence.

It had all been very nice, but there was something wrong somewhere. It seemed as if someone were trying to weave another magic cloth, called peace, with which to cover up the ugly spectre of the next war. But, just as in the first story, every-one was either deceived or afraid to say anything. Any­ way it was a good show, very cleverly done. So the people all stood in silence.

Suddenly a man rushed from the crowd with the cry, “All this is hypocrisy; you are delibrately preparing for war!”

Before he could say more he was beaten down and silenced by guards. The kinj? ignored him; and he was carried off to an insane asylum, followed by the boos and angry shouts of the crowd.

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Immanuel Bade

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Ijatte fdion oft biefe 9iei[e gemadjt; aber biefeS et, miitbe etraaS BefonbereS ge 间ef)en.

9iun fat) er and) fdjon bie erften ©ebdube ber ©tabt. ®(etd) tpiirbe ei: angelangt iein. 5)a tourben fdjneH bie Sremfen aitg⑽t, unb bee 3叫 frei^te unb nitfdjte, bi§ er anfjiett. ©eorg war einer bee erften, bie au§ftiecien. @c braudEjte au由 ni由t (anpe gu forjdjen, um au^ufinben, roarum fo ftfjnett ange^alten marb. 9?id]t weit Don bem Satjniibergang lag iua3 nod) iibrig roar Don etnem neuen SBagen unb einenx ©efpann 1•由roar古ec ^ferbe. ©in roenig 細 btefen entfernt lag ein 9^ann. 5)er 3«flfiU)rec unb etlidje anbre banner ftanben f由on neben i^m. ©eorg eifte aud) tjin. ©tfjeinbar mar e§ aud) mit i細oorbei, bod) nad) turner Unter^udjung fteUte e§ fid) baB 146

尽 _ math ^ er nod) am Siebeit war. ©djneH janbte man nad) einem ^ranten* ttingen.

职it_eite Bemut)ten fid) bie 3ugbeamteit iljn nug ber ©ewufet* tofigfeit gu ermeden. ©eorg ftanb gerabe gu feinen giifeen unb f的 in. 92a由 einer turjen 3cit offneten fidE) bie ^lugen beS Cannes, ©ie raanbten fid) Don einem gum anberen bee ©erumfte^enben. S)ann ru^ten fie auf @eorgf oB er adein tcauenSwert fei. „©agt — meincr 职eta—，fagte er (eife. S)ann oertor er roieber [ein Sewilgtfein.

Sin feme 汗ran I)atte man biSlier ni由t gebadjt. SBer polite ijr nun bag trainee SreigniS mitteifen?货einer moKte eg tun. (Sinct fagte, ©eorg fottte eS tun, aber er ent^ulbigte fid). (Sr war i^r ia ganj un(e!annt unb rougte ja garni由t, rao fie woljnte. 5)ie anberen after fagten: „(SS ware fur ©iebodjam leidjteften, weit ©ie bie Samiltc nidjt !ennen. ®ec 93erungtudte l)Qt eS ja bn由 SFjnen gefagt. 5luf ©ie roaren feme 51 ugen gerid)tet.H Sa, fo roar e3 bod) au由.SBetdje SBitte [)atte nidjt in feinen 贝ugen geftanben. S)ennod) mar e3 nid)t lei机 fo mas auf fid) gu ne^meit. „@agt —meiner 职eta," Ijatte et gefagt. „5Bag foil id) il)r [agen? S33ie foil ic^ e§ il)c fagen V badjte er. „5Ba§ fiir eine 汨 erf on bte(e 职 eta roo!)( fein modjte? S)em iCRonne mujjte fie bod) feljr (ieb fein. 92a, eg mufjte i^r gefagt roerben. !onnte fid) bie bogu ne^men. 5)a§ ©efdjcift mu fete bteSmal wartert." ©eorg gab nad). @c miirbe eS i^r fagen, menn nur einer iljrn ben SBoIjnoct jeigte. ©in 況a由bar, bee baS UnglM gefe^en, geigte i^nt baS ©au8 gecabe aufeertjalb ber 6tabt, ungefd^r eine uiertel 9^ei(e quer iiBer gelb entfernt. 5)ie[er erjaf)(te iljnt aud), mie baS Uugluct' gef由el)en fei. S)er SWann, Martin Srotfmaug, r)atte in letter Beit fid) etn $aar fdjone Srontfog angef由afft, auf njeldje er fefjr fto^ war. 3n jenen Sagen f(%d|jte man ein gute§, fdjnedeS 屯aar ^feebe felje ^od) ein.

S0?an bilbete fid) utel barauf ein, raenn man an jeben uoebeifa^ren fonnte. Sange Ijatte Martin gefpart, bamit er fid) aud) etn fdjoneS ^aar 汩ferbe faufen fonnte. 9?un ba er jte ^atte, mufete er fie aud) in bie ©tabt nefjmen, um fie in geigen. Sue felben _eit moUte er an由 einen neuen SBagen faufen. SMefeS Jjatte er getan unb roar auf bem ©eimroege geroefen, a(S bie s43ferbe, bie ifjrec Slrt na由 mitb unb furdjtfam finb, toot bem SBa^rnunggpfeifen beS 3uQe8 ecfdjrarfen unb Io§Iiefen. tnar bag Ung(uc! gefdje^en. Sn einem 92u mar 汧ofe unb SBagen ba^in, unb bee gute Martin beina^e aud). Safe ©eorg biefeS tougte, madjte i^m bie ^flidjt geraife nid)t fei由ter; bennod) ging er (oS. 147

㈣ IRtu I mat ein f由finer 9?adjmittag im Sunt. Me3 war fcif由 unb gciin. ®ie toitben 93(umen btu^ten in att i^tec ©errl丨由feit. 3n bie[e [d^bne 28ett Jjinein ging ber UngtiicfgBote. 2Barum rnufete e8 gerabe i§n BefoQen, ber grau bie 9?adjric^t gu Bringen? SSarutn mufete bie* fem jungen 9Jlann biefeS Ungtiid paifiecen ? SBacurn gerabe gu biefer 3eit, mo auf etner garm bet 9Kann bod) am notigften ift. @o tt)iirbe too§( ein jeber geba由t §aBen untec foldjen Umftdnben. ©S ift bo由 nur natiirH由，trnfe ein 9Wenfd) bie UtJadjen eineS UngliidS 〖u由t. 懸nti由 fiefjt er e2 ai^ eine ©trofe obec 职的mutg cm. 5113 eine SKa^nung faf) @corg e8 aud) an; aber nidjt fo oiel eine SBa^nung fuc Martin als fur fid) JelBft. SCBec [】atte jemats uon fold) einem eigen* tfim⑽en @reign话 ge^ort, bag einem 9iei]'enben bet 饥uftrag gegeBen rourbe jemanbem ein Ungfuc! 511 uerfiinbigen. SDod) ©eocg foflte nod) etraaS gang anbere3 erfatjren.

92un ba er ni由t me^r roeit 00m Saufe entfernt mar, ba由te er roieber an bie grau. SBaS fodte cr i^r fagen? SBie follte er eS iljr (ei由ter ma由en? SBie foflte man fie oorbercitcn? 51(3 er fo nadjbad)te, merlte er, wie gtuei ^inbec, ein Sunge Don ungear ad)t Sateen unb ein SOWbdjen, bie etraa graei Sa^re junQer ju fein Sutterbtumen in einem na^eUegenben gelbe pfliidten. @0 eifrtg maren fie baBei, bag fte ©eorg garnid)t bemerften. 3)iefer mujjte eine SBeile an^aUen unb fie beobaditen, roie fie immec bie beften au3fu由ten. Sefonbecg bad 9}姐&由en mar immec Jeljr focgfdttig, bafe e§ immec bie fdjonften unb gro^ten pfliictte. @0 (tefen fie ba(b ^ter ^inf batb ba^tn, wo* immer fie eine bejonber^ frfjone untec ben oiefen [a^en. ©eorg mufete fie betDunbecn, bafe [ie fo Uiel auf fo(d) Unfcaut F)ie(ten. S)od) mufete ec ficE) au由 mit i^nen feeuen. 2Bie etf〕t finb(id) [ie nod) loaren. SEBenn fie erft alter fein mitrben, bann tuurben fie bie jc^onen ©lumen Qt§ UnCcQut QuSrotten unb ueradjten. Sefet ^ietten fic Sutterbtumen nod) fiirfo {d)on, bafe fie tuoljl einen ©traufe bauon pfliictten fiir i^re Gutter.

51(3 er enblidj roeiteeging, badjte er aud) baran, toie (ie fo frol) fpietten unb jdjeinbar garnid)t§ uon bent gef由e^enen ar)nten. ©ie patten in biefe SBeU, er nidjt. 92un war er auf ben ®of gelommen.

Sr monte eben anffopfen, a!8 bie grau fdjnetl au§ bem ©arten !am. ©ie grufeten einanber, aber gu bet ©ad)e fonnte ©eorg nidjt fommen. ©0 wie er fie fid) DorgefteOt I】atte, war fie gang unb gar nidjt, benn fte roar jung unb fdjon, oBroo^t bie 5tr6eit fdjon iJjce ©puren an getaffen §Qtte. @te fdiien Martin eine gute ^auSfrau ju fein, roie aud) ber fd)on georbnete ⑽ unb ©arten geigten. „?Benn fie meinen SKann fuc^en, ber ift in bie ©tabt gefa扣en,M 148

fagtc fie, at§ fie Bemec!te, bag ©eocg nidjt wujjte, was er fagen fottte.

M©einetroillen eBen Bin id) gefommen," fagte ec nun, „aber id) te, id) brauc^te (Sud) biejeS nidjt gu fagen.M ©ie war ftitt unb wartete. S3ielleid)t a^nte fie and) Jdjon, bag etraaS ni由t ridjtig fei. ©ie fiatte Martin bodj gewacnt, bte ^fecbc feien gu wUb, unt mit i^nen in bte ©tabt ju faliren."別r 奴ann l)at mid) su Sfjnen gefanbt, bag idj |5nen fage—w er ftoct'te — ,fer Ijat ©ie notiQ." ©ie rourbe Meid). 由 fagte il)m er foilte nidEjt—. Sft er —?4' „©r ift im fiofpital. ©ie aber fetjen fid) beffer, elje id)別lien ersa()(e, was gef由e[)en.M „5)a3 farm roacten. SBenn mein Martin im ^oipitat ift, bamt braud^t er mid). finb nod) eiit paar ^Sferbe im ©tad. SBoHen @ie btefe Bitte an ben 93uggt) fpannen, rociljrenb id) mid) ein menig fertig ma由e?M ©o jdq§ Tjatte ©eorg nid)t ecmnrtet. ©o einen ftacfen S33illen! ©ie ging jur 2iir. SBaljrfdjeinHd) badjte fie, bie 职erbe feieii raeg= gdaufen unb babei (ei Martin uerletjt raorben. ©ie manbte [id) unb fragte: „Unb bie 33condoS?<, „5)ie finb unter ben @ifenbal)nguG ge* fommen/' antmortete Oeorg fcEjneH. 9?un ba e§ i()r flat rourbe, roaS gefdje^en mac, ranr e§ bod) beinalje su Diet. SDod) nt3 fie tnteber an Martin badite, mie notig er fie _( (jabe, naljm fie [idj sufammen unb ma由te fi由 Bereit gum ©e^en.

51©eorg bie $ferbc Beinafje angefpannt (jatte, mar fie fdfjon fertig. 9?un !amen aber bte 兑inber angelaufen.肌it benen (jatte er garni由t geredjnet. ©§ ware bo由[djabe U)nen i^ren ©pajj 311 tier** berben. „©ie§ mal,职ama, i由 Fjabe einen ®Cumenftrau6 gepftudt.

Xu i^n auf ben 泊间 im ©feimmer/' rief baS ffeine 9)ixabdjen. ,,3由 巧abe aud) einen, SOiama/' rief bee Sunge. ©ie 这rau uerjagte Setb. ©ie na^nt bie SBIumen unb atmete iljrcn 5)uft ein. 3)ann gab fie jebent 贷inbe einen 货ufe gum S)an!. Srgenbeiner, ber nid)t uon bent Ungfiicf mujjte, ^atte je^t nid)t eefa^ren fonnen, bail ein Ungtud gefdjcjen war; fo feftc feeute jte fid) mit ben ^intern.①cmn aber fagte fie ifjnen, biefe? mufeten fie bie 93lumen adein in bie Safe tun unb fie auf ben Stifd) fe^en, nur foHten fie {e^r tiorfidjtig fetn.

Gutter muffe je^t eine Heine Seitlang jut ©tabt fo^ren.宏ami fiifete fie bie Winter nodi einmol unb bie betben fuljren bauon.

5lKe§ ging fo f由neH unb fonberbac.輯tS foQten bie Winter oon bem Unglud eefa^ten, bi§ bie Gutter erft gefe[】en Ijatte, roie WIimm e2 mar. 92a, ie^r 间limm raar e§ nid)t. 9Jad) einer SBodje murbe ber Skter wieber orbeiten !5nnen.

SBaS ©eorg aBer nidjt auS bem ©inne tooate, a(S er fpater auf 149

feinem Simmer biefe§ nod) mat in ©ebanfen burdjQing, max, bafe man fid) fo iiber ein paar atte S3utterb(umen freuen !onnte. SUlma^ (id) fam er bann %\x berUBergeugung: (,©ic finb nidjt immerUnfraut!"

PREACHERS’ SONS Milton TTeishahn

One of the most striking paradoxes in human life is a preacher’s son. A more misinterpreted and misjudged in­ dividual there is not in all society. As childern of pious parents, fostered in a pure Christian atmosphere, a perfect example of piety is expected, but what a miscalculation this is! The exact opposite is far nearer the truth, as the statement, “preachers’ sons are usually the worst ones,” verifies. In a college such as ours, where the actions of these men are daily observed, some striking characteristics can be noted.

The preacher’s son has left home for college with the greatest expectations of getting an education and with it a generous supply of good times. From the time of early youth father has impressed upon him the fact that he will later go to college, so this occasion comes to him as a very ordinary step in life. He goes to college because most boys of the city and cultured people do so, and not so much because of his own inclinations thereto. He merely does what dad expects. How he smiles as he boards the train with his suitcases filled with neat clothes, and as he thinks of the fine times he is about to have! Diligent study and hard work are of course a secondary matter. Remember how dad often tells how they “pulled the good ones” on the profs, how many classes they “bummed”， and how many nights they went out! Son thinks of all this now, and is Roing to be his dad’s equal in putting some real 44rah rah” spirit into his college days.

When he enters the college he has little fear, for he has caught its spirit and atmosphere from the many descriptions he has heard in many times past and rests confident that he will well be able to hold his own among so many others. Since his parents have only employed the best influences in his childhood training he soon becomes aware of his superiority and assumes a self-reserved kind of dignity. He stands above his friend, who has come to college handicapped with a lack of this early training. This boy’s parents undoubtedly belong to that class 150

^ ：3R^l j of people to whom the many social opportunities and advantages are not offered, so he is intellectually inferior to his more fortunate schoolmate. Since his entrance into college is associated with a great sacrifice on the part of his parents, he is bent on obtaining as much knowledge in these four years as possible. He studiously applies himself to his work, only too willing to exert every effort to that sole end. The wearing of creased trousers and white shirts, and being able to write nice letters to the friends at home is all the pleasure he asks. He is self-satisfied to the highest degree, and associates very little with others.

This is just the fellow the “smart” preacher’s son is looking for, and what a time he does have. "Birds of a feather flock together’’ as two factions develop in the school; that more cultured and clever one, and their more serious minded scape­ goats. Since the preacher’s son is intellectually one step ahead of his unfortunately blessed friend, he takes the upper hand in the classroom and heartily enjoys the glimpses of ignorance that now and then crop out. Seldom do such nauseating unproprietes as, ‘‘disheveled roads, lunat’ic influences, offenses against his consciousness”，interspersed with many “haints” and “gots”，glide from his tongue. When asked about my­ thological characters, fairy tales and bed time stories, he can answer intelligently, for all this remains a priceless heritage from the time when mother and father told him about them as he sat on their knee. He fails to see why his friend is so ignorant, little considering that this boy’s parents may not have had such opportunities and time for the careful training of their son, as did his own father and mother. So all through college this preacher’s son marches on, just one step abead of his more unfortunate friend. But when the question is asked, who derives the most benefit from his college life, it is not for the ‘‘wise guy’’ preacher’s son to say ‘‘I do". Our coarse farmertype of student, although overwhelmed by the great changes about him, after a few years will eventually ‘‘catch on’’ to what everything means and will in the end have learned the most during his four years of college. As a sponge he absorbs the vast amount of strange influences about him so that, although beginning as an underdeveloped and intellectually backward student, he will have attained a maximum in character 151

building and intellectual achievement. We cannot expect him to be turned out: as finely a polished gentleman as his more fortunate classmate, but he has received an education in the fullest sense of the word.

Besides this often very insolent nature, preacher’s sons are usually broke. The chief reason I can see is this, that dad knows very well from past experiences just about how much spending money son needs, so keeps extraordinary check on him. Son must spend according to his measured allowance, and that is almost always found inadequate. His going to college is what has been expected of him for a long time, so he thinks dad must naturally take expenses for granted. As long as dad furnishes the “cush”，son is a happy boy. But un­ furtunately working- one’s way through college on the “old man’s dough” often becomes inconvenient, and some means must be found to meet the demands of special occasions. Since a preacher’s son’s credit is always good, he is readily known for the debts he contracts. The continuous borrowing and paying back, as letters from home are expected and received, comprises his new economic policy. Week in, week out, he sinks, re­ covers, squanders,, denies, enjoys and is bored, as he seeks to keep square with the world.

Another characteristic by which preacher’s sons are noted is their good jam. Of all the beautiful colors and rare flavors, these boys can surely exhibit the choicest.. So much do they tempt others that the ‘‘smart preacher’s kid’’ becomes envied, if for no other reason than for the jam he brings. Preacher’s sons usually all smoke; cigarettes for style, but pipes for pastime, ease, and comfort. Card playing is a habit, and as for coarse speaking and pulling devilish pranks, they rank with the best. So pronounced does this all appear in them that their true nature is revealed; the traits of outward piety are only of a second nature, exposed on special occasions. Perhaps it is because of this that they are so misunderstood; so much is expected, yet after all they are but very ordinary individuals.

Try as you may, you never can really learn to know a preacher’s son. He cleverly meets all obstacles, swinging from one extreme to the other, so that you never can quite under­ stand how he stands. On one occasion offer him a cigarette, when he has none, and he “whacks” the whole package, at 152

l~WJ^lagU another time (very rare) he will cunningly reveal his second nature by politely refusing, even assuring you that he has some of his own. Thus I suppose this queer class of society will ever remain a mystery, so long perhaps until the day when as fathers of such a son, we may see him in a different light.

JOHN MAYNARD John Maynard! **Wer ist John Waynard?”

John Maynard ist unser Klassgenoss, Aushielt er, bis die Belle rang; Er hat uns gesaved, er traegt die Kron’， Er antwortef fiir uns, unsre Liebe sein Lohn.

John Maynard!

Mit offnem Buch sitzt er dahinten, D’rum kann der Teacher nicht ausfinden, Warum er so brilliant sei, Und wir alle sitzen so dumb dabei.

Von der Farm kam er to Watertown Und brachte sein Pony along down.

Unsere Herzen alle waren frei and froh, Denn jetzt brauchten wir nicht “bucken" so.

Und nun sitzen wir im Klassenzimmer, Und John Maynard antwortet noch wie immer.

Alle Herzen sind froh, alle Herzen sind frei, WeiFs run，zehn Minuten bis Recess sei.

Da klingt’s aus dem Prof’s Stuhl her wie Schrei: “Ein Greek Form” war es, was da klang, So grosz, ungeheuer und ach! — so lang, Dasz die ganze Klasse war stuck dabei.

Und noch sieben Minutes bis Recess es sei.

Und jeder Schuler, — mit Angst im Gesicht, Guckt nach John Maynard, unser gliinzendem Licht.

Dabei sitzt er, Augen fest zu.

Unser John, er schlaft! Was nu, Was nu?

Jetzt stiirmt der Prof. —stuhlauf, stuhlab, Und alle Stirne werden nun matt; Und ein Jammern wird laut, “Wer weisz es, 0 wer?”

Und in funf Minuten Recess her.

Der Fury des Prof’s wachst groszer und groszer, Und beinahe weckt er den klugen Schlafer.

Er nennt uns alle Dummkopfe nun Und sagt, wir wissen nicht zwolf Uhr von Noon.

Und nun zum Hinten der Klasse er spaht, Und sieht nicht mehr unser braven Classmate — Der snoret so laut wie tausend Mann.

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Und jetzt durch “die Ruhe” der Prof fragt an: ，‘Noch da, John Maynard? —Da poket ihn sein Neighbor Und schreibt die Frage auf sein Paper.

Er sparrt nur fiir Time und antwortet hin: “Ja，lieber Professor, ich bin, Herr, ich bin.”

Und meanwhile da paget er durcli’s Buch so geschwind, Es machte ein Larm wie sausender Wind.

Wir hielten our Breath, gab’n Moral Support, Und valiant John Maynard paget fort und fort.

Sein Nachbarn: Mach schnell, John, mach schnell!” 一 Und noch drei Minuten bis die Bell.

“Hast’s gefunden, John Maynard?” Und Ant wort schallt Mit bebender Stimme, “Ja，Prof, ich hab’s.”

Soil Rettung kommen, so komm sie sofort.

Rettung: das einzige, richtige Wort.

Die Antwort gegeben, die Glocke getont.

Gerettet alle— aber John ist nun faint.

Der Lehrer hat ihn mit dem Pony geketched Und fragt nun donnernd, "John, bist du geteched ?’’

Alle Glocken gehen; ihre Tone schwell’n， Aber John, er hort nicht mehr die Bellen; Denn er hat gecheated und er war gecaught.

Das Cheaten, das seht ihr, das half ihm nought.

Jetzt ist er zu Hause, ein C.A.* in Hand, Sein Pony im Stall, und John tillt das Land.

Und wir auf dem College, in sein Desk hinein, Schreiben fur John unser Dankspruch ein: ‘‘Hier sasz mal John Maynard, unser Klassgenosz.

Aushielt er bis die Belle ranir.

Er hat uns gesaved, er tragt die Kron’， Er antwortet fur uns, uns’re Liebe sein Lohn.

John Maynard *C.A.: Consilium Abeundi. Nicht zu verwechseln mit ‘‘Come Again.’’

W. Wegner TWENTY YEARS AFTER It was hot the summer of *32. The perpendicular rays of the sun burned down very fiercely that afternoon. They seemed to be greedily searching for one last drop of water from that scorching, barren platter-shaped expanse of sand nestled be­ tween the buttes in the Bad Lands. Long since the sun had licked up the last vestige of surface moisture furnished by the 154

thawing of the winter’s scanty snowfall. It seldom rains here.

Not one tree, not even a mesquite bush, broke the monotony of the heat waves that made the surrounding hills dance. Not a stir of wind raised the slightest particle of dust. The only sign of life was an occasional jack rabbit, that kicked up a spurt of sand at each bounding hop. Down the center of this sere depression ran a narrow partially graded road straight as a shot, disappearing over the low hills on the north and south.

All is hot; still and hot.

Then a cloud of dust becomes visible on the northern rim of the platter. This is raised by a dust-covered auto, not of the latest make, trundling down the road. In it are three persons, the father at the wheel, the mother and little daughter in the rear seat to escape as much as possible the heat of the sun and motor.

Our scene changes to the auto itself and we hear the father speaking. ‘‘Emma, did I ever tell you about the Indian who was attacked by coyotes when I was a cowboy here in Dakota?”

“No August, I don’t believe you did.”

'4Well, that was the second time I was out here; the year after my parents moved to Milwaukee. Hum -m,m> nineteentwelve, thirteen, the winter of thirteen and fourteen. Almost twenty years ago. I was riding the range one day looking for strayed cattle. Heading for home late in the afternoon, I heard shouts coming from beyond a ridge on my right. I stopped. I heard barking and snarling. I rode in the direction of the sounds and found an Indian surrounded by a pack of hungry coyotes, snapping at his horse’s throat and flanks, as well as at the Indian’s booted legs. Drawing my pistol I shot down several of the coyotes, and the rest fled. The Indian, very much frightened, told me in his best English that he had been hunting and had used all his ammunition. When the coyotes attacked, he had no means of warding them off. Though I had never seen him before, he thanked me profusely, and would have given me the very clothes from his back in his gratitude.— Whew, it’s surely hot!”

While the father had been thus speaking, interrupted at times by questions from his wife and daughter, the automobile had reached the south end of the gulch’s floor, and was be­ ginning to climb. Because of this climb on the loose road, the 155

motor began under the heat of the sun to become very hot, and the water in the radiator was boiling out. Finally the vehicle would go no further. Having no water with him. Mr. Bowman was obliged to let the motor cool off for about forty-five minutes, after which he resumed his journey.

The motor was getting very hot again, when the auto topped a rise, beyond which in a little ravine backed by an even steeper hill lay a tiny Indian village of perhaps twenty-five tents. Mr. Bowman said, ‘‘we’ll have to stop here and 只et some water or we’ll never make that hill.’’

Added his wife, 4 4Yes, and we are getting very thirsty, too. ” Whereupon Mr. Bowman stopped the car and walked toward the small group of tents. An old squaw saw him coming, and going to meet him, said, “How! What you want?” Tourists seldom stopped here Mr. Bowman explained his difficulty as well as he could to her and asked whether he might have some water. The squaw said, “No!” and explained, “Much heat.

Make um well not much water, you no can have.”

By this time a considerable number of Indians, old and young, male and female, had congregated about him, staring with their cold, expressionless faces. “What, can’t I have even a gallon of water?” Bowman said in surprise and almost in despair. And he looked about with hope and misgiving for a sign of relenting in those stolid faces. Every head shook a slow but unmistakable negative. He asked again and even offered money, still no sign of giving in.

But as he was about to turn away, a man of middle age stepped forward and looked at Mr. Bowman more closely. The latter thought that he saw the frozen expression begin to melt.

At last here was one man, who had pity on him. The Indian looked at him again, searchingly, then his face lighted up and he said, “You good man. You have all my water, Squaw and papoose go without. Long, long time ago you save me from coyotes.”

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THE BLACK AND RED Published Monthly by the Students of Northwestern College

EDITORIAL STAFF Edward Fredrich....

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Jhttnrtctls FEWER HOURS, MORE PAY The following statements are taken from a recent article on labor conditions. “A generation or two ago, when workers were under much longer and heavier strains, everybody at fifty was pretty well used up . . . Now more persons live longer than formerly, and our older men are younger than they used to be . . . Anyone who compares to-day with thirty or forty years ago will agree that we don’t work so hard, although we produce and earn more . . . This has been brought about by lifting the burden off men and putting it on machines; by creating health­ ful working conditions; by reducing the workday a third and the work-week fourty-four per cent.; by doubling and trebling wages and refining the standard living ...” And so on.

The man who wrote that is an optimist. He thinks that labor conditions are getting better and better. To a certain extent he is also an idealist. He believes that the ideal of modern labor (fewer working hours with more pay) is being approached. There might be something to that. “Lifting the burden off men and putting it on machines”，‘‘reducing the 158

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Yet there still are such things as canning factories. Some­ how or other they don’t fit into the scheme of things. Here fifteen to twenty hours of work a day, seven days a week, with thirty and thirty-five cents an hour are the rule rather than the exception. Not to go into detail at all concerning workingconditions. Under such circumstances in extreme cases one rather becomes inclined to denounce this machine age in no un­ certain terms, to consider anybody in a white collar driving a black sedan a “capitalist”，and to begin seriously to believe that “Sixty families own the United States.’’

It seems that students are being employed more and more in this type of work. They would just as soon knock off a few years at the end of their span, if necessary, for the sake of a few extra dollars at the moment. But since it is in many instances their only association with labor it is well for them to read such articles. It rids them of that warped attitude they might have acquired during the summer. And since they aren’t necessarily excluded from becoming laborers in a factory some day, such words will perhaps be comforting. For with labor taking such rapid strides, the laborer of the future will present a happy picture. He will perhaps be an octagenarian sitting in a rocking chair, whose duty will be to press a button now and then. His “work-rooms”, of course, will be air-conditioned.

E. W. CONCERNING MATUTINAL RISING There is yet to be found a student who will say it is a very easy thing to get up mornings, but, on the other hand, there are certain individuals, even on this very campus, who will contend that they are so peculiarly gifted that they always greet the hour of awakening with something more than commonplace pleasure.

So as not to appear narrow-minded and void of all apprecia­ tion for the natural beauties of the matutinal periods, we must concede that we do rise with exuberant hearts each day from Spring until Fall that the sun ushers in the rosy-fingered dawn.

But since the curriculum extends almost throughout the entire frigid period and since they also share this curriculum with us, we must restrict them to this period.

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already half dressed. But since we are all reasoning and meditative beings who follow the golden rule, weigh the matter before you act, we must first carefully ponder and discuss the matter of rising. We must first of all assure our­ selves, our minds slowly being transported from the subconscious to the conscious, that it actually is time to rise. After having convinced ourselves of this fact, we must then try to find a method which will make the act of rising most pleasurable for our awakening bodies.

Having hit upon a method, we are now ready to begin the arduous process. To preserve our health and encourage our longevity we must not leap up, as timid quadrupeds terrified by their enemies, immediately upon awakening. No, we should rather, in tortoise fashion, take the slow but sure way, so that when, upon opening our eyes, we behold the window all frozen over and the radiator covered with a blanket of snow, we snugly pull our heads under our protective woolen shell. That we should not immediately leap up upon awakening is not a mere superficial fabrication of the writer’s mind, but rather the advice of medical sages.

Furthermore, since the greatest agony consists in suddenly being transported from tepid to frigid temperature, we must expose only a portion of our warm-blooded bodies at a time.

This is most aptly accomplished by an attempt at stretching, for in so doing our "pedes” are certain to mingle with such areas of the sheets as are exposed to the air of the room. The nerve cells located in these affected areas will immediately transmit a message to the brain, and the latter in turn will almost simul­ taneously make the remainder of the corpus aware of the frigid temperatures to which it is about to be exposed. Thus, with the body prepared for the abrupt transition, rising is made much more pleasant.

But, nevertheless, in spite of our preparedness, we leap into our slippers and bound with quivering bodies and frozen towels into the heated study room. After thawing out sufficiently to enable us to perform our matutinal ablutions, we dash to the wash room and quickly splash a bit of iced water over our faces. Lastly, a thirty-mile gale ushers us to the dining hall and leaves us quivering over our morning meal.

Thus, the mere thought of rising — “how totally opposed it every sensation of the bed!” Little wonder that there is yet to be found the individual who will rise at daybreak, if he has no motive in getting up. We can imagine the good of risi ng; but then we can also imagine the good of lying still. “A mo neygetter may be drawn out of his bed by three or four pence; but this will not suffice for a student.” His appetite for sleep is not so easily satisfied.

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INTOLERANCE In recent months an intolerant attitude has manifested itself among us with increasing frequency. This peculiar mental out­ look might be expressed thus: “I am the measure of all things, what I experience, that others can possibly also experience, but what I do not experience, cannot be experienced by anyone else.” Such a mental state is as common as it is narrow.

Not long ago one within these walls said very sophomorically, Let poetry be anathema, especially romantic poetry.” We grant his right to hold that opinion, much as we might disagree with it. Nevertheless, some few expected these ancient gray walls to collapse at the mere thought, but that is beside the point just now. If this modern Lucian had let it go at that and refrained from indulging in personalities his position might have been tenable, for the opinion naturally is a free thing; however, “Lucian” went a bit too far in saying that anyone who professed an appreciation for Romantic poetry was a hypocrite, a blackguard, and a liar. A very liberal minded person this “Lucian”. He has since recanted — we think. But that attitude is still typical of most sophomores who are subjec­ ted to Romantic poetry.

Another example of this intolerance became evident in a recent joint meeting of the literary societies and in later discussions precipitated by it. Some students preferred classical music to popular, others were indifferent, but some few, who apparently have consecrated their lives to jazz, became very rabid in their denunciations of classical music, composers, and appreciators. They failed to understand how anyone could appreciate ‘‘that stuff’’. Since it does not appeal to their taste, they assume that it does not really appeal to anyone, but that there are some who hypocritically feign an appreciation for classical music merely to be different and to assume a superior attitude.

If we who are supposedly receiving an education in liberal arts are narrow minded and unable to distinguish between arguments and personalities, the world in general must be rather intolerant. Those who would be liberal are themselves intolerant ot intolerance, hence virtually everyone is incriminated.

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Addendum AD the author of the anonymous editorial, “Our Poor Editor” (Oct. Issue), been a little bit more exact, had his article been a trifle more complete, I should never have had the unenviable task of writing this editorial. For that author did full justice to the presentation of the unhappy condition of the Black and Red. He very ably reprimanded the student body for the deplorable support that they have given the editor. Did you know that except for one short poem all the literary con­ tributions of the last publication held either the signature of a staff member, or else held no signature at all ? There were two anonymous articles, of which it is of course easily possible that one or both were also written by some staff member.

So far the author did very well. But then he proceeded al­ most naively to look for the reasons causing this condition. He said that the interests of the students were becoming more pas­ sive than active; that the student is more content to read and criticize than to put something down on black an white. He suggested that possibly “the modern trend in writing has de­ graded the tastes of the college student from the interest in literature of a decently high standard to that on the level with common newspapers.” Then he said that it appeared to him “that a greater part of the student body would rather find the Black and Red in the form of a scandal sheet.” Read the article as often as I would, I could find nothing else that the author said which might suggest another cause of the situation.

When you read the article, you probably noticed, that every explanation presented laid the fault at the feet of the student body.

Does the author of that article, does the staff really believe such nonsense ? Does anyone really seriously believe that the ideas, the interests, the characteristics of the student body could have changed so completely in one year ? Does anyone believe that the students, who formerly contributed enough articles to allow the editor to pick only the best, that those students should now no longer desire to write ?

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The one additional cause that I see, is that a great share of the fault lies in the attidudes, the actions, and the statements of various members of the staff. These attitudes and actions, though they may not be objectionable to some students, never­ theless to many, especially the lower classmen, are repulsive enough to dampen any ardor or desire to work along as far as the Black and Red is concerned. A superior attitude, uninten­ tional as it may be, and I firmly believe is, in a few cases, nevertheless is keenly felt by many.

Perhaps the first unhappy act of the staff, was that one by which it obliterated the old system of the Black and Red, dropping most of the columns, and creating the position of contributing editors. After all, with three contributing editors, it hardly looked as if the staff would find it necessary to lean heavily on the student body for material.

Many students, if asked for a concrete example of the policies and actions by which these gentlemen drew upon them­ selves this criticism, would perhaps point to the incident which has been the source of so much disgust lately, namely the ac­ quisition of the Literary Society recorder, in which maneuver these same people played such a major role.

This much seemed to me ought to be added to the few explanations already given in the previous issue for the fact that the title “The Black and Red — Published monthly by the students of Northwestern College” has become a rather strained, if not obsolete expression.

N. Reim

The principles and policies of the Black and Red Staff as outlined in the initial and subsequent numbers of this volume have for some time now been made the object of criticism, satire, and ridicule on the part of certain self-appointed, selfsufficient, and self-satisfied defenders of the down-trodden students, who have no voice (so they say) in determining the general nature of the Black and Red. All such criticism of our 163

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Now, in regard to the tirade printed above we should like to point out that there is absolutely no reason for its publication, nor, for that matter, of its conception. It is directed entirely against the members of the staff and so is of no interest or worth to the subscribers. And even if we give its author credit for trying to be constructive, to us it still seems to be a matter which could have been ironed out in private especially because of the personal nature of the criticism. In short, it appears that the person responsible for the existence of that piece of literary hack-work anticipated a certain amount of praise and applause from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pee-pulâ&#x20AC;? of whose worthy cause he has be­ come the chief supporter.

However, for future reference, we should like to state here that we humbly beg pardon for any errors in tact that we may commit, and for any trait in our character that you may happen to dislike.

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Campus and Classroom On Tuesday, Nov. 9, Albrecht Habben declared his indepen­ dence! He upped and wore a tie to class without so much as a ‘•By your leave” to M. Horn. We can well imagine Mr. Horn’s mortification at this evidence of a rebellious spirit in his satellite.

In order to settle the furious controversy that has been raging here ever since the close of the football season concern­ ing the comparative swiftness of foot of 0. L. (Fairy-foot) Schlenner and Daisy (Zephyr) Ten Broek, we hereby state with firm conviction that no one can predict the winner of a race between the two, unless he knows beforehand who will start first. _____________ Hopp, hopp, Reiterlein!

Wenn die Kinder kleiner sein, Reiten sie auf Stock und Stein, Wenn sie grosser werden, Reiten sie auf Pferden.

Folgt das Pferdchen schon dem Text, Heia! hat man bald ein Ex! Items of interest in respect to this month’s birthdays: Zimmerman still can’t vote. Schlenner’s and Schabow’s natal anniversaries fell on Thanksgiving Day, (which proves the irony of Fate). And Sophomore Bradtke also celebrated.

The Junior Nature Study Group had its annual outing recently. Our Wisconsin woods are just too too in Autum 一 don’t you think ?

Memoirs of a Hall — monitor: In general, we might say that the average student is at his owliest at 6:13 A.M. with the passible exception of Klinx Koepsell, who is always cheerful, unless by some mischance his hair has become mussed during the night.

In particular, we should like to put the following on record.

Becker is literally the longest sleeper in the dormitory, and N. (Tall, Dark, and Henry) Sauer has an inexhaustible stock of opprobrious epithets with which he greets the poor unfortunate who is detailed to wake him.

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Ode to a Hall — monitor or The Worm T’was a minute till breakfast And all through the dorm Not a creature was stirring Except the Worm.

Around stalked the tutor Heh, He’h ! Heh, He，h !

All the collegiates were up...

Oh yeah! Oh yeah!

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Cornelius Trapp, *31, a teacher at the Milwaukee Lutheran High School.

The Rev. Mr. J. E. Bade, *12, formerly paster at Balaton, Minn., received and accepted a call to Zeeland N. D., where he was recently installed.

The Rev. Mr. Ernst Birkholz, *09, St. James, Minn., visited his son and a number of former classmates in Watertown rGC6ntly* Prof. Erwin Scharf, ‘28, who has been teaching at the Win­ nebago Lutheran Academy in Fond du Lac, has accepted a call to serve as pastor in congregations at Slinger and Cedar Lake, Wis. Other recent calls were Gerhard Geiger, *34, to Witten, S. Dak; and Richard Stiemke, ‘34，to Mission, S. Dak. Herbert Nommensen, *33, and Victor Tiefel, *34, have been appointed to serve at the Bethesda Children’s Home in Watertown.

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the field against a fast and powerful Concordia eleven, and after four quarters of hard play emerged on the short end of a seven to nothing count.

Things looked rather blue for the Goslings from the very outset and it was only in the second half, when they twice penetrated into Concordia territory, that they displayed any­ thing that matched the class of the River Forest eleven. Be­ sides a Northwestern defense which managed to stiffen and hold just in time, bad breaks in the form of fumbles and the timer’s whistle proved effective in preventing several potential Concor­ dia touchdowns.

Concordia scored its only actual touchdown in the second quarter. Gersemehl, Concordia quarterback, set the stage when he carried the ball thirty-five yards to the Northwestern fifteen. A clipping penalty removed play to the thirty-yard stripe. Several thrusts through the line were good for a first down and then C. Zeddies, playing fullback for River Forest, broke off tackle to score. V. Krause made the extra point on an end run.

Northwestern Concordia Danner L. E Schmidtke Habben L. T F. Zeddies Krug L. G Gefelse Leitz Wiechmann C. Wantoch Schmidt R. G Naumann R. T R. Krause Hopper Horn R. E Frey Gersemehl Q. B Sauer L. H Socha Kahling Stuebs R. H F. B C. Zeddies Hempel Substitutions: Northwestern—Toepel, Jungkuntz, Pagels, Wendland, Hertler, Schlenner, Hanke. Concordia—V. Krause.

Milton 6 Championship !

Milton, Wis. Nov. 6. Accompanied by a large representa­ tion of loyal Northwestern fans the Gosling squad traveled to Milton. With championship thoughts seething in their brains they gained the necessary victory and returned home with their first undisputed Tri-State title since the organization of the league.

To all appearances it seemed that the Milton team was the victim of a premature case of inferiority complex. Apparently determined to be beaten by not more than seventy-five points (and also apparently joined in this feeling by a very silent and gloomy Milton homecoming crowd) it came as a distinct shock 168 Northwestern 14

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when the Milton outfit, late in the last period of play, suddenly found itself clicking and actually gaining ground against the Northwestern team. The Black and Red men, on the other hand, were the very apotheosis of enthusiam—so much so in fact, that by the time the final quarter rolled around they were a pretty exhausted group of football players; but the champion­ ship was theirs and all fatigue and bruises were well compen­ sated for by the warm glow that attended the victory.

Though the score indicated that Northwestern made only two touchdowns it by no means tells the entire story. The statistics show that we made more than double the number of first downs of the opposing team. Four times the Goslings drove Milton back against their own goal posts but for some reason that seemed almost unfair the ball just wouldn’t move any farther. The whistle for half time stopped play, with Northwestern in possession, on Milton’s one yard line.

Ernie Wendland, who handled the punt returns for the evening (it was a night game) in about as well a manner as punt returns can be handled, paved the way for Northwestern’s first touchdown when he returned one to the Milton thirty-five.

Sauer and Pagels carried the ball to the one-foot line from where Sauer scored. Incidentally it was an off-tackle play.

Pagels kicked for the point. It was Habben, mainstay of the Northwestern forward wall, who made short the way for the second touchdown. After he had blocked a punt on Milton’s own twenty-five, running plays advanced the ball to the three.

At this point it seemed that the bad breaks would again thwart the scoring thrust. Two fumbles put the ball on the elevenyard stripe. Then Toepel, on an end around play, advanced to the five and on the final down Sauer, running like a gazelle, went around end to score. ^ In the last four minutes of play Milton suddenly found itself and after a ninety-five yard march which featured end sweeps and long passes scored the only touchdown made against the Goslings this season by a conference team. Sherman plunged from the three-yard line to tally.

Playing their last game for Northwestern were Wendland, Stuebs, Baganz, Frey, and Krug. No regrets, for the season was indeed a merry one.

Lineups: Milton Northwestern L. Hull Toepel L. C. Radtke L. T. Habben DeLand L. G. Krug Schuler Jungkuntz C. Graper Wantoch R. G. Suchanck Naumann R. T. 170

Luebke R. E. Horn Hune Q. B. Wendland Loofboro L. H. Stuebs Pelan R. H. Sauer Bladorn F. B. Pagels First downs: Northwestern 17—Milton 8.

Substitutions: Northwestern—Bapranz, Hempel, Schlenner, Wiechmann, Frey. Milton—Luther, Scherman.

Thus terminated one of the most successful football seasons that Northwestern has experienced in recent years. Congratu­ lations to the entire personnel of the squad! Revived interest here also deserves honorable mention. IVs much easier to laud a team when it’s winning than when it is a loser, but even through defeat our team this year received fine support.

Letters were awarded to the following players: Toepel (Capt.), Wendland, Stuebs, Krug, Baganz, Pagels, Hempel, Wantoch, Jungkuntz, Hillmer, Schlenner, Ten Broeck, Sauer, Habben, Horn, Naumann, Wiechmann, Danner, Hanke, Frey, and Manager Breiling (the boy with the little blue hat).

Final conference standings are as follows : Pts. Opp. Pet. Won Lost 75 6 Northwestern 4 1.000 0 56 .750 25 Wisconsin Miners 3 Milton .250 29 36 3 Mission House .250 19 58 3 Aurora 72 3 • 250 18 N. B. This department, being activated by receipt of an invective concerning the account of the Seminary game (cf.

October issue), said invective bearing the signature Sydow, does hereby offer humblest apologies as regards gross calumiations made in reference to the punting abilities of the afore­ mentioned Mr. Sydow. The punt in question was described as having gained three yards. Ah, but we are sorry, for it carried five yards!

Intramurals For the second consecutive year ‘‘Red’’ Lambert and his Senior team took the intramural touch-football championship.

Strongest competition came from the strong Freshman team which inflicted a decisive defeat on the Seniors in the final game of the tournament.

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BASKETBALL Basketball hereabouts is looking up for the newly inaugu­ rated season, for Coach Umnus has at his call six of the eight men who comprised the championship team of last year. A host of newcomers has put in its appearance as contenders for po­ sitions on the team but practise sessions at the time of this writing have not been numerous enough to justify any remarks that might be made concerning the aspirants. The veterans are Lambert, Hackbarth, Toepel, Horn, Naumann, andSchweppe.

Certain it is that all of these men will see plenty of action in the coming games. Three of them, Hackbarth, Naumann, and Lambert, received all-conference recognition last year. That’s enough to make almost any coach clap his hands. Hackbarth’s all-around play marks him as the man to depend upon when the going1 gets tough. Lambert will be taking his final bow as a Northwestern player. Defensively, he is about as good a guard as can be found. Best luck then, to Northwestern’s basketball specialists!

Following is the schedule: Seminary (here) Dec. 4 Lawrence (there) Dec. 9 University Extension (there) tentative Dec. 11 Whitewater (here) tentative Dec. 18 Platteville Miners (there) Jan. 8 Jan. 15 Mission House (here) Jan. 19 School of Engineering (here) Jan. 22 Seminary (there) Feb. 2 Aurora (there) School of Engineering (there) Feb. 5 Feb. 9 Milton (here) Mission House (there) Feb. 12 Feb. 17 Platteville Miners (here) Feb. 19 Concordia Teachers (there) Feb. 22 Milton (there) Feb. 25 Aurora (here) 172

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LITERARY— The Prospector What is Art?..

SBon bee Xanne.

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The Effects of the Norman Conquest 178 upon the English Language 181 Bach........................................

EDITORIALS— 184 Life is — Appreciating our Transcriber____ 185 186 Preacher’s Son’s...............

187 The Son of a Clergyman 189 Iustitia! Iustitia!..........

190 Obituary............... .......

But the Greatest of these is Music 192 192 Gods on the Nile___ ___ 197 A Proposal for Defence...

198 Symphony of the Night....

How the Literary Societies Acquired the Electric Recorder.. 198 200 Samson Agonistes..........

Boosting the Home State 201 Why?.............................

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., Dec. 1937

Number 7

Entered at the Postofticc Watertown, as second class matter under Act of March 3. 187^ Published moiuhly. Subscription, One Dollar.

THE PROSPECTOR Prospectors always were considered a queer sort. They still are, only more so, since the manner in which they search after the precious metal has become so outmoded that their oddity is almost proverbial. Yet they still roam about the hills of the West, relics, as it were, of a different age. Their trust that they’ll “strike it rich soon” is implicit. In fact it’s a foregone conclusion with them. And they are almost invariably connect­ ed with some eccentricity, which accounts for the many fantas­ tic tales that are spun about them. We recall one in particular, and since it was in this instance a personal experience of the narrator, we shall attempt as much as possible to repeat the story as he narrated it.

In my somewhat intermittent trips to a certain section of Montana (he began), I heard quite a bit about a certain old prospector. The natives called him Gust. According to their reports he was a queer fellow in more than one respect. His outward appearance was nothing uncommon as far as prospec173

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tors go —all dried up and all beard. But he read Wordsworth.

On his aimless wanderings about the hills, where he would sleep whenever night might overtake him, he would mutter quota­ tions to himself out of his one and only book, which happened to be of the aforementioned author. He knew it from cover to cover, and next to his quest for gold it was the big obsession in his rather self-centered life. Another odd thing about Gust was his original idea of finding the precious metal. Instead of pursu­ ing the orthodox methods of placering or hard-rock mining, he would just wander around willy-nilly, digging huge ditches with the hope of uncovering a nugget.

He had been ‘‘gophering’’ about in this manner for forty years with little or no success. One day a villager who was considered a pretty clever fellow told Gust that the government had passed a law to the effect that every prospector had to fill in all the holes that he’d ever dug. And Gust believed it. He must have been the very personification of gullibility. The in­ formation had a peculiar, almost tremendous effect upon him.

First he broke down and wept, then rising with a fixed stare slunk off into the brush as though something had snapped with­ in him. He wasn’t seen since in the vicinity.

This disappearance from the scene of things on the part of the old fellow didn’t cause any appreciable stir among the in­ habitants of that section, most of whom lived in a small mining town where the mine hadn’t been running for the past nine years. They were content with having a hard Saturday night and recuperating the rest of the week, while waiting for the mine to resume operations. I confess I almost forgot him my­ self, and undoubtedly would have, had it not been for a little incident that I experienced some time later.

I was following an old mining trail one day, which hadn’t been in use for many years, when I stumbled quite accidentally upon an old ghost town. And opportunely, too, since a storm was approaching. Selecting a shack which seemed to me the most secure of the dilapidated lot, I decided to wait out the storm there. I found that the shack showed signs of being oc­ cupied, but wasn’t particularily aroused since this is nothing so very unusual. But I did become more than curious about some­ thing that I saw on a table in the room, something that wasn’t at all likely to be found in a place like this. It was a book, 174

a tattered volume, and it was open. As I glanced at the pages lying before me, I was somehow or other attracted by the lines: “Why, William, on that old gray stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away?”

Unmistakably the work of Wordsworth. I noticed another passage on the opposite page, heavily smudged, as if in answer to the first: “Six feet in earth my Emma lay; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, that till that day I e’er had loved before.”

Certainly this could mean only one thing.

The storm came, and with it the sounds of an approaching visitor. Perhaps not a visitor; rather the occupant of this place.

A figure entered, all dried up and all beard. He glared at me wildly, almost antagonistically, then gazed abstractedly off into space for a moment mumbling inarticulately. He again fixed his attention on me. Although I was quite certain of his ident­ ity, I had never had occasion to meet him personally before this. Perhaps it was his erratic expression that prompted me to ask somewhat naively, “Who are you V1 Wordsworth Vy shrieked the oldster in reply and ran out in the storm.

It was all pretty fantastic, almost to the point of absurdity.

Yet paradoxically real and logical, after some consideration.

The man had two ideals, which in his sort of life had become obsessions with him. The one was exploded, and the other then reigned supreme.

Some years after this I was informed that Gust was found dead. I am not ordinarily given to sentimentalities, but have often thought what a fine epitaph the following would be : “Here lie the bones of Flathbush Gust, Or Wordsworth Bill, if so you must; It won’t be wrong for one to say : ‘Six feet in earth my William lay.’ ’’ E. W. (i

WHAT IS ART? It was Sunday afternoon and hundreds of people made their way through the art gallery. Among those crowds there were very likely hundreds of divergent opinions on art. One opinion 175

they seemed to have in common — almost all apparently took for granted that painting is an art. Among the throngs of visitors there were several persons who especially attracted our attention as they entered the art gallery almost simultaneously.

They were persons of different creeds, races, ages, professions and classes of society and presented a rather motly assembly.

Among them was a preoccupied gentleman with a furrowed brow, who walked with eyes fixed on the ground. His whole manner proclaimed him to be a scholar. There was also a group of ladies, obviously not of the ordinary type. One might have called them precieuses or bluestockings, after hearing them chatter with dignity and honeyed reverence as they condescendingly ascended the steps to the hall, referring often and af­ fectionately to Da Vinci and other friends of theirs. A man, very likely a laborer and his wife followed. Then came an aged sage, who must have been a philosopher, and after him a fiery individual whose odd dress suggested that he might be an artist. Also among the persons under consideration was one who might have been a business man; at least judging from his dress and the shrewd Semitic lines of his face he had every appearance of being an economic royalist or some such monstro­ sity. Completing this incongruous mixture was one whose identity was unmistakable — without a doubt he was a student.

His eyes were still young and searching; occasionally a smirk twisted his lips suggesting something of a cynic.

The scholar was the first of the group to enter the hall in which the paintings were exhibited. Strangely enough he was absolutely oblivious to all the beautiful paintings and reproduc­ tions but stalked through the hall in profund meditation and entered a small annex at the rear of the building where he soon immersed himself in the old manuscripts and ancient volumes housed therein. Evidently the plastic arts meant nothing to him. Was he missing something or not?

The precieuses seemed to think there was something wrong： with him, for they looked on the departing scholar with mingled pity, scorn, and doubt. His attitude toward the paintings disturbed them, but they tried hard to pity him. They had come to the gallery with a purpose and were not to be thus distraught, so they proceeded to admire the paintings and replicas. Occassionally their words were audible: “What a beautifully puzz­ ling smile on the Mona Lisa; no woman could ever show such an expression, and it is incomprehensible, but I dote upon it. ” --------- ‘ ‘And that triangular ideas in the Sistine Madonna 一 what a wonderful conception.”----- —Just look at the stern power in this replica of “Moses”； Michaelangelo, dear old ‘Mike’ certainly could chisel the marble, or was it limestone V* And so on through the hall until they reached the modern impression­ istic section. There they were baffled, but they were sure there 176

must be something in it, something deep and incomprehensible, so they drooled over the corruption for a long while.

The laborer and his wife also proceeded through the hall. It was obviously their first visit to an art gallery. The man thought that the paintings showed fine technique, were rather colorful, and quite beautiful. Perhaps he would return some day, if he had time and look the paintings over again. His wife, however, remarked naively, that she would much rather see the original subjects than paintings of them.

And so we pass on to the philosopher who had all this while been standing before a picture of a tree, “watching” it intently.

To him it was not merely a tree, but the picture portrayed some­ thing far deeper than that — it depicted the essence of all trees, the general conception of tree. Finally the sage departed glow­ ing with ecstasy, already looking forward to his next visit when he could again commune with the conception of tree and with the mind of the artist who had depicted it.

The artist disturbed the atmosphere of awe and reverence which pervaded the gallery with frequent outbursts such as this, “What terrible perspective!’’ or “What harsh color com­ binations; the people must be blind to adore this Van Gogh person; but take this Roskolinkoff 一 there’s a man. Who but he or I could conceive of something like this “Twilight at the Centre of the Earth”？ What a noble theme. I’ll bet he and I are the only ones who understand it.”

The capitalist barely glanced at the pictures; what seemed to attract his attention was the estimated value of the pictures which was indicated on little tags affixed to them. He was en­ joying himself no end; each time he saw an astounding sum his eyes gleamed and he emitted a low whistle.

Meanwhile the college student on his thirst for knowledge (N. B. an idealized type) had been scrutinizing all the paintings exhibited. Some rather interesting thoughts passed through his mind. He remembered that ever since his early youth it had been impressed upon his mind what a great and awe in­ spiring thing art is. One could hardly expect too much of it, but he was disappointed — painting did not have the effect on him that he had expected. There must be something wrong with him, some incongruity in his nature, for music, and liter­ ature appealed to him — why not painting ? Surely the millions of people who raved about it could not be wrong. Or were they merely dominated by a tyrannous tradition ? He realized that the paintings were rather beautiful and almost perfect in tech­ nique一 possibly that was all there was in the “art” of painting.

Then he remembered the subtle distinctions his teachers had drawn between art and virtuosity. It had seemed as clear then, but now it rather baffled him. Gradually the cynical smirk re­ turned to his face and he muttered, “What is art and released 177

a Mephistophelian laugh, but suddenly the sneer faded and he smiled somewhat more tolerantly. We cannot be sure but it seemed that as he wandered out into the street there was still a puzzled contraction of his brows.

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THE EFFECTS OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST UPON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE In our history courses we hear much about the political benefits of the Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror is said to have created and established in turbulent England the most efficient central government that had been seen in Europe since the days of the Romans. However, the good results of the Conquest were by no means limited to governmental affairs.

It brought with it a new blood, a new spirit, a new outlook on life，and a new and higher degree of civilization, especially among the ruling classes. But probably more vital and more 178

important to us than all these is the influence which the Con­ quest had upon our English language.

For approximately three hundred years after the Conquest three languages were in use in England. The Normans intro­ duced French, which was the language of the court and the aristocracy. The Norman priests used Latin exclusively in the conducting of church services. If we bear in mind the great power of the Medieval Church, we will more readily be ^ble to appreciate the great influence of this ‘‘Church Latin’’ upon the people. In addition to the Latin and French there was the original Anglo-Saxon language to which the lower and middle classes of England wilfully and stubbornly adhered.

Now before we can see what the effects of this potpourri of languages were, we shall have to get an idea of the character of each. We are all well acquainted with Latin, so we will not have to enter into any discussion about that language. We are also more or less familiar with French, since it is itself princi­ pally of Latin origin. This leaves then the Anglo-Saxon.

The old Anglo-Saxon was a language with inflectional end­ ings, very similar to modern German. If, for instance, a Saxon wished to say “good gifts”，he had to have the proper case ending for both the noun and the adjective, and his expression was “gode giefa”. For “the good gifts” he said “the godan giefa'\ inflecting the article and at the same time changing the case ending of the adjective. The Norman Conquest helped to eliminate these troublesome endings, which German has never lost. We no longer decline articles and adjectives, and the sole inflection of our nouns consists in the addition of an s or es to form possessives and plurals, with only a few exceptions, like mouse, mice， or ox, oxen. Thus instead of having to think before each word just which ending to attach, we are left free to give our attention wholly to the thought we wish to convey, rather than to its vehicle of expression. Modern German, as we all know, occasionally to our sorrow and regret, still retains these irksome inflectional endings. How did English have the good fortune to lose them ? This question is easily answered.

When people speaking different languages are daily closely associated, as happened after the Conquest, there is generally a tendency to drop all endings, and use only ‘‘root-words f 7 or stems of words. If, for instance, an English-speaking person 179

贫，遍办㈣:Hen j who knew only a little German were to travel in Germany, he could get along quite well by employing only.one form of a noun or adjective. If he were to go into a restaurant and order two glasses of hot milk, he could readily make himself understood by using the incorrect expression * {zioei gross Glass heiss Milch*}.

He would get his milk as quickly as if he had used the correct expression “zwei grosze Glaeser heisze Milch”. His neglect of case endings might bring a smile to the face of the German waiter, but the average person would prefer that to starvation.

It has also been estimated that if an equal number of German and English-speaking persons were isolated on a desert island or some other secluded spot, the German language in that terri­ tory would undergo the same metamorphosis which the old Anglo-Saxon did, namely the dropping of case endings and in­ flectional terminations.

Besides losing its inflections the Anglo-Saxon language was changed in other ways. There was also a change in the gender of many nouns. Before the Conquest, if anyone wanted to learn to speak Anglo-Saxon correctly, he first had to learn the fanciful genders which were attached to the nouns. “ Trousers”， for instance, was feminine; “childhood,” masculine; “child,” neuter. But during the three hundred years after the Conquest the English gradually lost these fantastic genders, which the German has to this day. A. certain critic writes the following, to point out the odd use of genders in the German language: “A German gentleman writes a masculine letter of feminine love to a neuter young lady with a feminine pen and feminine ink on masculine sheets of neuter paper, and incloses it in a masculine envelope with a feminine address to his darling, though neuter, Gretchen. He has a masculine head, a feminine hand, and a neuter heart.’’ 1* Not only did the Anglo-Saxon change, but it also added new words to its rather commonplace and limited vocabulary.

Since the Frenchmen occupied the higher positions in England after the Conquest, a great number of French words pertaining to rank, power, luxury, and fashions were introduced into English. Many titles were derived from the French, many terms of government, and many law terms. Many words per­ taining to war, architecture, and medicine are of French origin, in fact we have words from the French in almost every field.

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Often these French words displaced Anglo-Saxon ones. The Saxon Hoelend, for instance, was, displaced by the French Savior; wonstead gave way to residence; wanhope to despair.

But in many cases the original Saxon words held their place alongside the new French words. This is one reason why Eng­ lish is especially rich in synonyms, or rather, words with slightly differentiated meanings, to express exact shades of thought and meaning.

Thus we see that after the Norman Conquest English was not only simplified, but also enriched by the many words and expressions gained from the French and Latin. Lounsbury, as quoted in Halleck^ English Literature says: “There result, in­ deed, from the union of the foreign and native elements, a wealth of phraseology and a many-sidedness in English, which give it in these respects a superiority over any other modern cultivated tongue. German is strictly a Teutonic speech, but no native speaker of it claims for it any superiority over the English as an instrument of expression, while many are willing to concede its inferiority.”

W. W. 1* cf. R. P. Hal leek, English Literature, p. 59.

BACH Hilbert Schaller

Since the name Bach has become almost a household word for excellence in music, both secular and sacred, we feel that it might be of interest to give a brief outline of the life of this unique figure in the history of music and mention a few points of interest in connection with him.

Johann Sabastian Bach was born at Eisenach, Germany, in the year 1685 and died at Leipzig in 1750 at the age of 65. That a musical genius should be born in the Bach family was not surprising, for the Bachs had become so famous for their musical ability that town musicians came to be called “Bachs” even though there was no one of that name among them. His parents both died before he was ten, leaving him in the care of his brother Johann Christoph who appearently was jealous of his brother’s ability and denied him access to a valuable collec­ tion of organ music which he possessed.

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secretly gained access to the music and began to copy it by moonlight until caught by Christoph and forced to destroy his copies. During the next few years he spared no effort to in­ crease his musical knowledge or his ability as a player of the organ, the harpsichord, the clavichord (the pianos of the day) and the violin. He several times walked twenty-five miles to hear the organist Reinken at Hamburg and in 1703 went to hear the celebrated organist Buxtehude at Luebeck, also mak­ ing the journey on foot, a distance of some 200 miles. He ob­ tained his first salaried position in 1703 at Weimar as violinist.

But he soon received offers to become organist, first at Arnstadt, where he remained several years until he secured a position at Muehlhausen. In 1708 a still better opportunity was offered him at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst at Weimar who was greatly interested in the religion of the German Protestant Church. Here Bach wrote many of his works for organ and church choir. In 1717 he became Kapellmeister at Koethen where his duty was to write and rehearse works for orchestra.

In 1723, being by this time very famous as an organist, he was called to Leipzig to become cantor of the St. Thomasschule and director of music in the two principal churches. This position he held for twenty-seven years till his death in 1750.

This is a very brief outline of a life crowded with activity.

The catalogue of his works contains 1110 instrumental and 1936 instrumental numbers, a truly gigantic amount of work for one man, so that it would not be surprising if sometime it were said of Bach as of Homer: This was not the work of one man, but of several. Even then many of his manuscripts have been lost.

It is said that for several years after his death, the boys of the St. Thomas Schule were wont to wrap up their bread and butter with manuscripts which they found lying in a closet used by Bach for his compositions. We know not how many priceless works were lost in this manner.

However, it is not the quantity of Bach’s works that is the most striking, but their uniform excellence. Although written at such an early date, they reach far out into the future, and, as it were, anticipate everything that is to follow them, as with a prophetic eye, so that there is not a great musician who has not been able to draw from Bach as from a fountain head.

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be his name.” When Mozart first heard a selection of Bach in 1788 he exclaimed: “Thank heaven here at last is something new that I can learn from.” Medelssohn did perhaps the most to revive interest in Bach. Schumann urged students to make him their daily bread. Wagner played Bach more and more as he grew older and agreed that his vocal compositions were the finest ever written and that their proper interpretation was the noblest task of contemporary musicians.

But although the chorus of praise for Bach has been grow­ ing ever louder since his death, there was nothing he sought or expected less during his life, and indeed as far as his work as a composer goes, he received very little recognition. For his organ technique he achieved great fame and was admittedly unrivalled, but his works were not greatly appreciated by most of his countrymen. One reason for this was the humility of the man. He never sought to have his works published, nor to capitalize on his fame as an organist by making tours as other organist of his time did, but lived quietly at Leipzig, doing his duty and truly working for art and art alone. Bach’s own words best express his attitude: “The sole object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant recreation.”

This brings us to the most important element in Bach’s life.

He was a devout Christian, adhering staunchly to the orthodox Lutheran Church in a time disturbed by repeated waves of rationalism. He labored unceasingly to beautify the Church services with appropriate music, both vocal and instrumental.

We all know what he has done with the chorale. He has taken the pearl and polished it to its greatest brilliance, using it as the basis for about 350 church cantatas, of which about 200 have been preserved. His vocal works comprise more than thirty volumes, and it is for this rich heritage that the Lutheran Church should be especially grateful and make use of it as often as possible, for we have nothing finer.

H. H. S.

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Jhitortals Life is

LIFE is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

Shakespeare Life is the reading of an ever-changingtale.

Keats What is our life but a succession of pre­ ludes to that unkown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Lamartine Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal.

Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Shakespear Then, what is life?

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APPRECIATING OUR TRANSCRIBER Marvin Volkmann

Human beings are queer creatures. They have always been a problem to themselves — always will be. They pride themselves in being rational and logical and make fools of themselves by doing the unreasonable. Often the best things in life, the things which make life more enjoyable and more full in the living, are casually passed by or entirely neglected while the things light and superficial, things which are perhaps enjoyable only in their ability to prevent exercise of the same mind about which man is so proud, or are at best pleasant for the sake of variety, are literally swallowed in bulk and made the means of sustenance for enjoyment.

With the Renaissance there was effected in Europe a revival of almost all the great forms of art —literature, sculpture, painting, architecture, in the hands of a mass of geniuses such as the world had never seen before, were again raised to the glorious heights of the Greek era. It was a wonderful reawakening, but there yet remained a field to be broken that was to reveal to humanity beauty in a form never before seriously considered as potent. That was the field of music.

Productivity in the arts seems to occur only in cycles. Thus it wasn’t until slightly over a century and a half ago that there suddenly sprang up in Europe another group of geniuses, this time men who wrote music. In their powerful imaginations swirled thoughts of beauty and life and from their ever-active pens flowed the expressions of their thoughts and feelings — thoughts expressed in music so beautiful, so vivid, and so soul­ stirring that their creations were to live as long as time. The names of those masters — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Tschaikowsky, Wagner, Verdi, — will never die or be forgotten.

Recently it was the good fortune of the literary societies to acquire an electrical transcriber. To this purchase was added a selection of records, all of them containing transcriptions of masterpieces in the repertoire of classical music. Furthermore, the music was interpreted by some of the world’s finest musical performers. It was hoped that with the acquisition of the machine an interest in hearing and appreciating classical music would be aroused. There were those who had anticipated having the record player and who, with its purchase, have been making good use of it. There were also those who wanted to learn to enjoy good music. They too have been making^ full and beneficial use of the machine, and judging by their reactions, it is safe to say that they have not been disappointed in getting something well worth while out of listening. But the number of students who have been thus taking advantage of the record 185

player are all too few. They constitute a very small minority of the student body. Almost invariably it is the same persons, 4'the old familiar faces’’，which are to be found in the room which has been especially set aside and furnished as a home for the transcriber. .

For what reason does this apathetic attitude exist? Princi­ pally, because the majority of our students do not care for classical music and believe that they could never learn to care for it. However, it is possible to learn to enjoy the higher types of music. The experience of many who were formerly zealots to the cause of jazz has proven this fact. The transition, of course, requires time, and if the subject is a hardened one it may even demand some effort.

The prime requisite for learning- to appreciate classical music is merely to listen to it. Following that, one must listen, as far as is possible, with an open mind. No one who utterly closes his mind to a thing will ever be able to derive any good from it. Those who stubbornly persist in refusing to admit that there is any pleasure or benefit to be obtained in listening to a symphony or any concert piece are to be pitied rather than praised. They are definitely missing something. The thrill and satisfaction that anyone who has learned to enjoy concert music experiences when he hears good music more than com­ pensates for all the time and effort (if it be an effort) that he has expended in learning to appreciate it.

The men who composed that music were men who had felt and lived all the sorrows and joys of life that all other men are destined to live. With all the genius that had been bestowed upon them they poured out, from their very souls, harmonies to delight the gay spirit and soothe the sad. Listen then, while Tschaikowsky, haunted by Fate, casts from his heavy bosom the passing of a soul; listen, while the romantic spirit of Debussy sheds soft moonlight upon quiet waters; listen, while Wag­ ner’s Rhine maidens sing their plaintive melodies and the mighty Wotan, with majestic stride, leads his gods to their home in Valhalla.

Theirs was the expression of beauty; ours is the apprecia­ tion of it.

PREACHERS’ SONS The article in last months Black and Red entitled "Preach­ er’s Sons” aroused a storm in our little circle. Opinion was almost equally divided as to whether the article was just or unjust. The great interest which was evoked justifies the printing of the three following compositions written in reply一 one by a member of the class condemmed, another by an unbiased non-preacher’s son, and a third, a satire on Mr. Weishahn’s satire.

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The Son of a Clergyman................ modern allegory places the Temple of Truth at the Outer Edge of Things. The gentleman who unburdened him­ self of the article “Preachers’ Sons” found in the last issue of the school publication is unfortunally separated from that de­ sirable goal by divers pitfalls, quagmires, detours, and possibly a desert or two. The good gentleman on commenting at some length on the thesis: “preachers’ sons are usually the worst ones,” charged them with a reprehensible betrayal of certain advantages of background, and of an economic nature, of an insolent attitude, and of being paragons of those excesses in­ digenous to a student-body. In contradistinction our more rustic brethern are praised for a greater assiduity in the pursuit of the phantom of knowledge.

Class prejudice may be honored by calling it an emotion, but it is not an argument. Our more or less honorable inquisitor transfers us from specific and isolated instances to the generic conclusion in a manner that is little short of the marvelous.

(Exampla illustrant, non probant.) The sons of clergymen have been endowed with the same qualities of human nature as other individuals. As a class they have never indicated that they are any better than other mortals—and even now I only claim that they are no worse.

• The gentleman is laboring under the delusion that the clergy are a subdivision of the economic royalists. The ministry of the Gospel rarely provides more than a livelihood and often not even that. From a purely materialistic point of view there is many a clergyman stuck in some out-of-the-way place on an insufficient salary. Our correspondent attributes to the young clergyman ‘‘suitcases filled with neat clothes, 11 How true!—as a modicum of respectability is all that the majority of clergy­ men can hope to provide for their offspring. It would seem that someone has hallucinations about entering the ‘‘white-collarM class. (At any rate, he mentions white shirts—which should have white collars.) Examination does not reveal that quite as many of the young clergy as of any other class are on student relief rolls.

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appearing only at specific and favorable moments of time. We excel in such things as coarse language and devilish pranks— or so he says. We have, after all, no proof of such accusations except the gentleman’s word, which in other places was wofully inaccurate. Possibly his ideal is some sort of a mollycoddle.

“Birds of a feather flock together.” This is the primeval principle of all harmonious society and when it is followed we are accused of what, to all extents and purposes, is narrow mindedness. On the other hand we are greeted with various statements of a broadminded and magnanimous nature as: “Preachers’ sons usually all smoke’’一“Card playing is a habit.”

The statements are rather inclusive. They may be true of some. So what? Wherein does the evil consist? Unfortun­ ately, puritan principles are not as far removed from our con­ siderations as the date 1937 A. D. would indicate.

Our writer regrets that his original education did not include a course in the fables and mythology, which is very well, but his father’s and mother’s knee-hypothesis will not bear too much scrutiny. Such knowledge, where possessed, was usually obtained elsewhere. The sorrows and joys of the inhabitants of the various pantheons are, quite probably, not even known to clergymen’s sons as well as they should be.

Our attention is called to the individual who “will in the end have learned the*most during his four years of college.”

Of him we hear, “he studiously applies himself to his work, only too willing to exert every effort to that sole end.” Well, well and humbug! The words taken literally connot in honesty be applied to a single resident of these venerable halls. Ex­ amination would reveal that the cares of this life so uniformly affect all that the statement, ‘‘Diligent study and hard work are of course a secondary matter，” should be applied without discrimination.

And so I find neither foundation nor necessity for the anathemas directed at me and my fellow reprobates. Neither does the institution have necessity for the preacher-farmer dis­ tinction the gentleman imposed, and I wonder that some of the gentleman^ colleagues are not insulted by the limitations he attributed to them. Within our relatively narrow sphere of activities, there is equality of opportunity for all. And if you are cruel enough to be honest, you may agree that, after all, all priests were originally butchers, and a correspondingly complimentary remark can be made of the origin of the agrarian class.

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t ^Matk ^ IUSTITIA! IUSTITIA! The author of “Preachers’ Sons” (Nov. issue) created quite a disturbance among us, excited the sense of justice of this “ignorant yokel” (because he does not happen to be a *'preach­ er^ son’’），and we called forth this response.

It is an old story to hear the clergy criticised thus, because they do not conform to certain rules and regulations that the critic has unjustly set up in his mind by which the clergy, in his opinion, should live; so we are not altogether surprised at the above-mentioned article, but reply to it because in this writer’s opinion the arguments used seem utterly ridiculous.

“He (the "preacher’s son”）goes to college because most boys of the city and cultured people do so, and not so much because of his own inclinations thereto.” We can’t be too sure about that! We can’t read their minds! Let’s “be square” with ourselves; how many of us go to school because we are that way inclined ? Bravo! Well and good, if we are such men, but why must we condemn another because in our opinion, he goes to college because his parents sent him ?

“When he enters college he has little fear, for he has caught its spirit and atmosphere from the many descriptions he has heard in times past, and rests assured that he will be able to hold his own among so many others.” Yes, he comes to college not with a superior air, but with more acquaintance with it than some of us who have never seen or heard of it before, but does he really strut up and down the campus with a “scram, insect!” air ? ‘‘He stands above his friend (does he ?), who has come to college handicapped with a lack of early training.” Are we not all of Christian parents. Have we not all had very much the same training and the same educational advantages ? As far as being able to answer the professors’ queries intelligently that can hardly be attributed to the ministers’ sons alone, for the affinity for knowledge of any individual depends on his mental capacity and not on the fact that he is a minister’s son or not.

The pleasures and benefits one derives from education depend on the individual’s manner of applying himself to his work.

“So much is expected (of the “Preachers’ Sons,” namely), yet after all they are but very ordinary individuals”. And why shouldn’t they be! By what rules, norms, laws or statutes should 189

they be more than just “ordinary individuals?’’. They too, are human and mere mortals with the same human weaknesses and failings, and given to the same temptations as we of the nonpreachers* sons class.

In general it might be said that these and other arguments the author of the article in discussion uses against the * preach­ ers' sons” can be applied just as easily to us. We are all guilty of the same faults. On certain points and in the case of a select few individuals of the ‘‘preachers’ sons” class I would readily agree with the author, but why must these few exceptions serve as a means in judging the whole genus! It is unjust to pick out a few exceptions, show their faults, and label the rest of that class with those faults and short-comings.

The author could have been more just by saying “a few,, several, or some preachers’ sons”，but not just “preachers’ sons.

E. A. B.

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AM a “preacher’s son.”

At long last I have come to the realization that despite this fact, I am a very ordinary mortal. The Great Emancipator has dispelled once and for all any delusions of granduer I might have had. I have written this article with the hope that by retracing my steps and picking out just a few of the reasons for my sorry condition I may save others of “the queer class of society” from the same fate that I have suffered.

Very few people can truthfully say, "Here is the definite beginning of my downfall.” After reading the November issue of the ‘‘Slack and Red’’ I can point to the very day that started me on the road to perdition. One sunny afternoon as I was peacefully indulging in my bottle—at the time I was only one year, two months, and six days old—my father lifted me out of my crib and perched me on his knee. I waited, every muscle tense in eager anticipation. I was soon rewarded; for at this time I was told the first of many thought-provoking and highly involved Greek myths. They all were very simple for me though, for after all I was a “preacher’s son.” My father abjected only on one point; he did not approve of the questions I asked. But soon I became tired of such a boring subject, with the result that at the age of five I induced my father to reveal his second self to me—to tell me of his escapades at college.

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must become a “chip off th? old block.” The years from seven to thirteen were spent making small talk about Plato, Aristotle, and other of the lesser lights.

I had always planned to go to college, because everyone else did. At times I rebelled at the thought, but nine whippings, administered with a book on Greek mythology (the irony of it all,) soon convinced me that I would have to sleep through a few years of college. I looked forward to making a glorious entrance amid fanfare, flowers, and trumpets, carrying in my left hand my key to a friendly college life—jam.* However, dear reader, never imagine that this was ordinary jam. Since I was one of the elect I had not only six delicious flavors of jam, but also six distinctive colors!

Because I was a “preacher’s son” I soon took up smoking.

I must confess that at first I was rather artless and amateurish.

Despite my superior intelligence I could never see the advant­ age of taking more than one cigarette when I happened to have one offered to me. Soon, however, my true character began to unfold, and I began taking two or three cigarettes. I became a perfect smoker when I began demanding a whole package.

Almost everyone, especially those of lay descent, realizing my weighty position, readily assented to my demands, and I soon began to gather pack upon pack of cigarettes. I still have in my possession approximately 142 assorted packages of cigarettes, which I acquired before I was exposed. I expect to make restitution.

As a student I must confess I failed to be a sponge. This can be traced back to the fact that I had my father’s reputation to uphold. I soon discovered that the task left little or no time for studying. However, I never had any desire to learn any­ thing, but I was rather satisfied to pull “devilish pranks” and to let my cultural background help me in the class-room. My diversion was found in playing rook in some hidden corner. I realize that this should not be mentioned, but I am only using it as an object lesson for the future preacher’s sons of America.

I have mentioned only a few of my faults. For further particulars I suggest the reader see the author, or if you are unable to have this honor, write to the tutor of Northwestern College, enclosing one box top of your favorite cereal, or a reasonable facsimile.

Would that I could regain my former position in college life, but I am afraid that I shall no longer be able to overawe the laity by my superior intellegence or my distinctive jam. Thus the death of a “preacher’s son.” Who can deny that “the pen is mightier than the sword.”

“Black and Red” Nov. 1937. * Cf. ‘‘Preachers’ Sons.

A powerful treatise on how to win friends with jam and a few other minor points.

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But The Greatest Of These Is Music *0 THE average layman the term “the Arts” holds a rather vague connotation. It conjures up ideas associated in general with literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, but as a rule any attempt at a definition results in a one-sided view (and therefore a misconception) of the term, due to the involuntary but inevitable stress laid on the phase uppermost in the definer’s mind. As we see it —strictly not ex cathedra一 an acceptation of Music as the Art would eliminate this hazy understanding.

Our reasons for this contention are simple. Music is uni­ versally appreciated for it innate aesthetic value. Music can be and is appreciated by the uninitiated. Music’s appeal is to the emotions or the “soul,” not to the intellect or the senses. And our final argument, although not in logical sequence, still bears weight, namely, that all great musicians were so filled with Music that they were incapable of good work in any other fields, whereas a Michelangelo or a da Vinci could excel in three. In our estimation, therefore, all these attributes combined justify the application of the term Art to Music.

If now we analyse the other four popular divisions of Art, we find that they lack something of the intangible quality that is peculiar to Music and which puts it in a class by itself.

Literature, a means of communicating thought, at its socalled best, namely, poetry, only approximates Music, as far as that is possible for mere words. Painting, for most of us, is a portrayal of a person or a scene, not of a thought or a feeling.

Sculpture is an attempt to attain perfect symmetry of form, and if accomplished, indicates only a ‘‘knack’’ or facility on the part of the sculptor, but no genius. And finally, consider archi­ tecture, which is only sculpture in a different field, with differ­ ent working materials, and with a possible practical use.

Briefly and simply outlined, these are the reasons which induce us to hold the opinion that Music is either the Art, or else, Art in its highest form.

R. P. J. GODS ON THE NILE F. E. Peterson

Milton says the only person who has no religion is the fool.

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In this respect the Egyptians were no fools, though we perhaps consider their religion foolish.

A glance into the Egyptian pantheon reveals an amazing sight, a very hodge-podge of gods; yes, the Egyptians them­ selves admit that they had “a thousand gods.” There are Ammon, Horus, Ra, and Osiris as sun gods, there are Nut, Nun, Hathor as gods of the sky. Horns is now son of Osiris, now father of Osiris and now creator of all life (gods, men, animals, and plants). How are we going to resolve any order out of this confusion?

First let us consider how Egyptian religion originated alter their ancestors had been confused at Babel. As in early Greece, as in early Rome, as in the early periods of all nations we now know, the first religion in Egypt was a nature-worship, animism.

Men saw the sun rise, and not understanding how it came about, attributed the phenomenen to a god incorporated in the helial sphere. The mystery of the blossoming of a flower was explicable to a mind unfamiliar with the laws of nature only by the assumption that the plant contained a god. Thus every natural object was conceived of as embodying a divine some­ thing which made it move, live, and reproduce.

But this still doesn’t throw any light on the proposition put above: How are we to explain the confusion in the Egyption pantheon? This will become clearer when we consider it under the classifications of local religion, national religion, and religion of the priests.

Each little community had from the first its one god, which was the embodiment of the ideas and spirit of those particular people who lived in that community. When Egypt was divided into nomes, each local god assumed a more significant aspect as the official god of that nome, a sort of tutelary divinity repre­ senting the government of the nome. Such were Horus of Hieraconpolis, Ammon of Thebes, Ptah of Memphis, Thoth of Hermopolis, and Osiris of Busiris.

Besides these local deities there were the national (or cosmic) gods who for obvious reasons were worshipped through­ out the empire. Among these were Re (or Ra) the sun-god (who, it is interesting to note, crossed the heavens in a boat, not in a chariot as in the myths of other nations), Chons, the moon-god; Keb, the god of the earth; Maat, goddess of Truth and Right, and Hapi (Apis), god of the Nile. Now when any nome or city in a nome rose to national prominence, the gods of the nome naturally also gained nation-wide significance.

Since there was no place in a crowded pantheon to stick a new god, the situation was remedied by making the risen god a coRod. In this way Ammon and Horus became associated with Ra, and Thoth with Chons. Oftentimes the new names gained precedence over the old.

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As the nation developed, rich people introduced the practice of hiring special men to perform their obligations to the gods at festivals, as well as in the daily worship, for the gods were considered to be in the need of as much material care as humans.

These people in time developed a distinct pricestly class who owned large areas of land, were independent of the law, and became so strong at times as to threaten and even overthrow the central government. This shows what an influence religion was in ancient Egypt. These well-educated priests saw the folly of polytheism and secretly believed in one god. All the manifold gods recognized by hoi polloi were merely manifesta­ tions and different forms of the one god. The temples in which these priests ministered consisted of a central most-holy place, containing the sacred images and articles, surrounded by covered colonnades for the worshippers. About the temple was a large enclosed court. Only the priests were permitted to enter the inner sanctuary. Unfortunately remains of these temples have come down to us in a very poor state of preserva­ tion.

The Egyptians had a considerable body of mythology, mostly concocted by the priest to give the common people an explanation for the questions which arose in their minds and to make their religion plausible. These myths may be roughly divided into the Osiris cycle and the Ra cycle.

There were three distinct myths of creation. One ran as follows: Ra sprang as a naked babe from a lotus-flowers on the primeval ocean Nun. From his spittle arose Shaw and Tefrut, who in turn engendered Keb and Nut (comparable to the Greek Gaea and Uranus, respectively, though oddly enough with sexes interchanged). From these latter two sprang Osiris and Seth, the evil god, and Isis and Nephthys. The latter two are often considered to be the same goddess. This myth deals only with the creation of the gods. But the other two seek to explain the creation of the earth and its creatures. In one Seb (unidentified) becomes a goose and lays an egg which hatches into the world. The third myth assumes Ptah, once a local god of Memphis, to be the origin of all life. From him sprang Horus, the heart or mind, and Thoth, the tongue in this case, who together created all other gods and men as well. Associated with Ptah was the scarabaeus beetle, which laid an egg, rolled it in mud, and left it to hatch in the sun. When the egg split open the earth emerged whole as it is. Interesting is the myth of Thothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book of Knowledge which he enclosed in seven boxes and. cast into the Nile. When found by a priest the book brought him many dire calamities. There is also a flood myth.

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was allowed to float in a metal coffin out into the sea. When Isis, his wife, who had hunted long for Osiris’ body, was bringing it back to Memphis for burial, Seth took it away from her, cut it into fourteen pieces, and scattered the pieces over Egypt. Horus, her son, helped her find the pieces, but when the body had been duly buried, Isis pardoned Seth. This so angered Horus that he cut off his mother’s head. In its place Thosth gave her the head of a cow, with which capitation she is usually represented. Then Horus slew Seth. These myths are coarse and dull, meager and uninteresting, not at all to be compared with those of the Greeks or Norsemen.

The most characteristic phase of Egyptian religion is worship of the dead. This worship gives rise to about the only remains which we have of ancient Egyptian civilization, the great pyramids and rock-tombs. According to Egyptian theology every man had besides the soul Ba, which was considered as something semi-material, also a "double”，or Ka, which had to be nourished just as well after as before death. That is why relatives and descendants of the deceased brought daily offerings of food and drink into the tomb. The family worship centered about the tomb. But the departed soul could not receive of this nourishment unless its corporal tabernacle were preserved; when that decayed the Ka died. That’s why embalming was developed to such a high degree and why death-fearing monarchs reared stupendous piles in which to have their bodies laid away. That’s why warnings such as were found in TutAnkh-Amen’s tomb were inscribed on the walls of the tomb and on the coffins themselves. A portion of the “Book of the Dead” was usually also buried with the body.

The true soul, Ba, was weighed, as soon as it left the body, in the scales of Anubis against the feather of Maat in the presence of Osiris, and the verdict recorded by Thoth. If the soul passed the ordeal unscathed, it was conducted by Thoth to Amenti (the Egyptian Hesperides) or to the sun-boat of Ra, which it would leave after 3000 years to reenter the body from which it had departed. But it is a cardinal point that the body must be preserved if reincorporation was to occur. If the soul were weighed and found wanting, it would not enter into bliss, but be obliged to spend a period of lustration in the body of some of the lower animals. The number of animals into which it must enter varied with the degree to which the soul was weighted with evil. If the soul was too wicked to be cleansed after long periods of residence in animals it was completely destroyed by being exposed to the sun on the steps of Heaven.

That there were many sinful souls is testified by the number of animals worshipped as the abodes of the soul.

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condescended to dwell in the higher animals. This is not clear.

At any rate snakes, hawks, ibises, cats, goats, cattle, and the fictitious cynocephalous apes, one of which is often depicted reposing over the fulcrum of Anubis’s scales, were reverenced for these reasons. Individual communities had an animal that was sacred to each (embodying their local god), and wars often arose when a person of a different nome killed or injured one of these animals. Originally all cats or all bulls (at least in a restricted area) were worshipped (animism), but later the cult was simplified by keeping one immaculate specimen of the type under meticulous care in a central temple where it could be adored by all. These animals were often embalmed after their death and tendered splendid funerals. Examples of these sacred animals were the Apis bull at Memphis, the incarnation of Ptah, and the white cow at Memphis, incarnate Athor.

A last phase of the Egyptian religion was a firm belief in magic. It was believed that by chanting weird formulae over images, they could be rendered capable of exerting good or evil influences over persons or objects near and far. Thus if one wanted to punish his neighbor, it was possible to do so by stealing some image of his, or making one, and gashing or otherwise desecrating it. Certain numbers, amulets, and charms were thought to influence man’s life. How little have we advanced!

This complex and morbid religion was accompanied by a certain moral code, the chief tenets of which were love of god, love of virtue (in its earlier and literal sense), and love of man.

But it lacked humility and decency. Phallism, incest, and other licentiousness were common in the rites.

But that the Egyptians clung to this religion with bull-dog tenacity is seen from two examples. Though the Hyksos in the interim between the twelfth and eighteenth dynasties succeeded in outwardly subordinating the Egyptian pantheon to the worship of Baal for about 300 years, yet as soon as these shepherd kings were expelled the old religion was revived in full force. Again the disk-worship of Aton imposed upon his subjects by Amenhotep IV failed shortly after his death.

The facts about this ancient religion have been gathered in small bits and pieced together to make the picture which we now can obtain of it. The chief sources are fragments of such writings as the pyramid texts, the “Book of the Dead” and the Ritual Texts, inscriptions in tombs and pyramids, and classic works like Plutarch’s ‘‘Concerning Isis and 6siris”.

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A PROPOSAL FOR DEFENCE It seems to be an almost universally accepted axiom among people interested in preserving national peace that any nation, in order to secure such peace, must have an elaborate system of defence. Much of our recent pacifist legislation has been based on that idea, and just at present a national war veteran’s organization is conducting a campaign by which it hopes to secure the signature of millions of citizens to a petition which urges that the Congress take steps to keep America out of war, and at the same time increase our defensive armaments.

The idea that adequate preparation for war is the best in­ surance of peace is certainly not a new one, for centuries ago Demosthenes was already preaching it to the citizens of Athens.

And for the Athenians of that time it was a sensible policy, threatened as they were by the rising power of Macedon. Even in our own day such preparation is no doubt a necessity for many countries, especially those in Europe, where nations fairly evenly balanced in strength seem only to be waiting for a chance to catch some neighbor napping before they jump on him. If any of the powers of Europe were to lag behind in de­ fensive strength they would be openly inviting trouble.

In our own country, however, the situation is entirely different. We need not fear an immediate attack or invasion of our territory, for in our own hemisphere there is an over­ balance of power in our favor, in addition to a tradition of peace among us and our neighbors. At the same time we are sufficently isolated from the Old World to provide safety.

Our problem is not so much that of keeping our neighbors frightened enough to stay away as it is to control our emotions and keep our own temperature down; for every foreign war in which we have taken part since we became a major world power has been undertaken willingly, not forced on us. Certainly, then, our methods of preserving peace should differ also. I do not believe that a well-organized and powerful military machine, offensive or defensive, would help us at all; for it would serve only to instill in us a dangerous militaristic attitude, which we should rather try to subdue and control.

At present most Americans are not war-minded, and there is a definite desire for peace among us. But if we were to build up a powerful army and navy and have its might demonstrated to us in pictures, reviews, parades, and by the amount of money that it would cost us, we would soon be touched by a longing for the glory of war and a chance to show our superiority. Take, for example, a college football team. So long as the team is weak and unable to win there isn’t much enthusiasm for the sport; but as soon as it becomes powerful and flashy everybody be­ comes excited and wants a bigger and tougher schedule. Such 197

an attitude may be commendable in the field of sport, but in a nation like ours it can lead only to trouble.

The problem for our politicians and statesmen is then, I be­ lieve, very simple. If they can only forget about war and get the people to forget about it too, we should be quite safe.

C. K. SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT Ardin Doherty Lapcr

The air is mild and gently moving Through the leaves of the trees above.

In the distance flies a lone killdeer As he plaintively calls to his love.

II The fragrant air moves over the field Perfumed with fresh cut hay.

And on this medium is also borne The classless singing of crickets gay.

Ill From a near pond come woodwind tones From out of hollow logs.

The notes are clear and mellow and true As played by the flutter-tongued frogs.

IV The moon slowly drifts through the star-speckled sky, Perhaps this music he hears.

But his face is half turned as if with one ear He listens to that of the spheres.

How the Literary Societies Acquired the Electric Recorder................ n order that all who have not seen this electric recording machine may get a picture of it, I shall describe it as it was first described to me. I quote, “It’s one of those music ma­ chines just like you see in Taverns, only into this one you don’t put a nickel, and you have to put on the record yourself.” I might add that it is about the size of a portable phonograph.

Theoretically the purpose of it is to acquaint one with the best works of the classical artist and by repeated playings engender a love for these selections. Maybe the Literary Societies “got something there,” only time will tell. But prac198

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tically it is at present the thumping noise disturbing those try­ ing to study in the reference room on Saturday nights. The merits and demerits are not to be discussed here, but how the machine was acquired now comes into consideration.

The whole idea, I believe, was conceived by the Black and Red staff and a few intimate associates. Perhaps the word, clique, would best suit the originators of the idea. Since every one is entitled to ideas, only how they were carried out for per­ sonal interests will be destructively criticized.

Why wasn’t the customary procedure followed by first presenting the idea to the societies, a committee selected, and authorized by the Societies to speak to the faculty supervisors and to deal with the local business men in the name of the societies? This was entirely ignored in this case.

The meeting was called to order by the president of the Phi Gamma Rho Society, but the president of the Philomathean Society also acted as chairman. Since when do rules of order for business meetings permit more than one chairman to preside?

We grant it was a joint meeting. If it was necessary for two presidents to be represented, to be consistant, the Phi Gamma Rho president should have waited for his secretary to arrive or appointed a secretary pro tempore for his society.

Through the zealous efforts of the clique, the machine was exhibited at the meeting and also played for the benefit of the societies. The plea for time for consideration by the opposition was disregarded by the chairman as not holding water. Spend­ ing over two hundred dollars of the seven hundred in the treasury, is in my estimation, worthy of time for consideration.

Lastly, but of most importance, is the sore mistake of the chairman. One chairman opened the meeting, presented, and explained the new business entirely. Both openly took, sides in favor of purchasing the machine. (The last privilege is never allowed any chairman. ) Thus with their influence and that of clique and by using a little mob psychology, the chairman sold the whole idea, a recorder and about two hundred dollars worth of records to the majority of the societies in less than thirty minutes. There ought to be a Nobel Prize for salesmanship.^ This, I am sure, is the main cause for the prevaling dissatisfaction and disgust and encourage all the more the slurring remarks about classical music and the recording machine. In order to secure more harmonius results, I think our chairman should be expected to preside neutrally and conduct business meetings according to rules of order.

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SAMSON AGONISTES W. Kehrberg

“A little onward lend thy guiding hand to these dark steps, a little further on.” Thus John Milton begins his tragedy •‘Samson Agonistes，，. Samson speaks these words but they come as a prayer from Milton himself. Milton was already sixty-three years old when he wrote “Samson Agonistes”. The tragedy comes as the last of Milton’s works. “A little further on” he says. Milton has already written L’Allegro, II Penseroso, Lycidas, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. He wishes yet to go a little further and write “Samson”. And as typical of Milton he asks help of God to complete his work and there­ fore writes “lend thy guiding hand to these dark steps”. “Dark steps” indeed, for Milton like Samson is totally blind. Milton had been blind since 1653, when he was forty-five years old.

Thus in the very first lines we can see already the great paral­ lelism between Milton and Samson. Samson, blind, asks to be led on to another great work. In like manner Samson through­ out the drama compares in character with Milton. In fact the character Samson seems an almost autobiographical represen­ tation of Milton’s life, especially of his last years.

Samson lies in prison in the Philistine country, Milton lies in seclusion in England during the Restoration. Charles II had returned to England, bringing in a free and loose court life.

The work of Cromwell, in which Milton had played such a large part, was entirely destroyed. The followers of Cromwell were all killed or imprisoned or in disgrace. Milton alone escaped persecution but remained an outcast within England. His friends deserted him and he was left under the “scorn and gaze” of his enemies. He lives a "life in captivity, among inhuman foes”. Samson lives under the jeers of his Philistine captors, Milton under the jeers of the Philistines of the Restoration.

Broken in body, broken in spirit, Milton lives like Samson. He is tormented “with maladies innumerable in heart, head, breast, and veins”. Milton’s health during the last years of his life, when he suffered from gout, was especially poor.

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Samson, ordained by God to free Israel from the Philistines, laments the fact that he has not accomplished his purpose.

Milton, believing that he too was ordained by God to accomplish a purpose, sees his work under Cromwell destroyed by the Restoration.

Both men now feel that their end is near — ‘‘And I shall shortly be with them that rest.” Samson died the same day that he spoke these words; Milton died a short three years after he wrote them. On November 8, 1674, Milton died like Samson "with calm of mind all passion spent”. Both had been pas­ sionate men in their youth, Samson fighting for Israel, Milton fighting with Cromwell. It is said that Milton died so quietly, that those in the room did not even notice it.

Thus the close of the drama marks the death of Samson on the one hand, while on the other it closes the literary career of Milton and gives a picture of his death.

BOOSTING THK HOME STATE James Vogt

Which of the states represented in this institution may be counted the foremost? This problem has become as difficult to solve as any trigonometrical calculus. Study-time is wasted on it. Sleep is lost over it. The dining： hall becomes a “Judenschule’’ because of it. Anywhere, anytime, one can enter upon a discussion. Merely mention an especially good quality of the home state and you are immediately confronted with numerous arguments proving either that the quality mentioned is a curse to the nation or that much superior qualities can be found elsewhere.

Every angle of the problem has been attacked. In Autumn it might be the question of superiority in the field of football.

Is the Minnesota eleven better than the Wisconsin team? Are the Green Bay Packers really superior to the Detroit Lions, or did the Packers just have another lucky day?

Winter might seem to bring with its lack of major sport interest a lull in the striving for a suitable solution of the problem. But then there is basketball. But because it is a newcomer as a nationwide sport there are usually but a few of the most loyal home state supporters who will insist their home 201

t ^matk ^ team can beat any other. But with sports removed from the stage, except for an occasional excursion into last fall’s foot­ ball results to emphasize or belittle a certain quality, the long and dreary winter nights are spent in more general discussion.

Now we learn of physical and non-physical qualities of the state as a whole. Do you know that Michigan has the best road system of any state around? This can be proved by maps, books, World Almanacs, reports of tourists, and many, manyother equally substantial arguments. This statement usually brings forth the protest that Wisconsin and not Michigan has the most improved road system. This can be proved with an equal number of facts. As the argument becomes more heated each side demands that the other produces but one such fact.

Each may even return with his positive proof. But little have they noticed that during the heat of the argument the point at issue is not the same. One proves that Michigan has the best network in its road system while the other proves that Wiscon­ sin has the roads most improved over what they had formerly been. Even then they do not see which is the better and the struggle may go on indefinitely.

Spring brings baseball. Here the interest is chiefly among the professionals. Even though each state may not have a contestant in the individual leagues, yet sides must be taken and any other team may be chosen except that of a loyal home state supporter. Thus after every game one can guess at the results merely by noting who has the most to say about it.

Then can be heard why one player should be chosen the most valuable player of the league, and then again why another deserves that honor more than he.

So on and so forth, day in, day out. And what does it lead to? After a whole year of debating the problem is still un­ solved, and with the approach of the seasons the problem is again attacked from the same angles with perhaps a few more conclusive arp^iments. And so the discussions may start all over again. No matter how convincing： the arguments may bet a true home state booster will never give in. He has lived in and long become proud of the old surroundings. As he leaves the old home state and moves to what seems to be almost a foreign country to him he finds his pride must daily suffer.

His beloved fatherland is also viewed by those about him as a foreign country. He no longer can hear of and see the things familiar to him. Newspapers must be searched for the minutest information. When he does find this information he must keep it to himself. Who can share his joy with him? If he but mentions it to these foreigners he will meet with a deaf ear or a long soliloquy how once in the past history of his adopted state something m uch more important than this occurred. He thus is led to believe that this state is inhabited by nothing but 202

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Hidden behind all this is the inner nature of man. Do you remember the time when your dad had two more piles of money than any other dad in the neighborhood? And remember how he could lick any other kid’s dad, or together with your big brother could lick any whole family in town? This same feeling, no doubt, induces us to consider any home state contestant our elder brother or father thus importing to him the ability to defeat anybody in anything. As our house was always the best in the block with the biggest rooms and the best fruit in the basement, so also does the state which we consider home possess the largest cities and the best products.

Thus it is man’s nature to stir up competition. One claims a quality and another contests it. So unless the inner nature of man is to be changed, the problem of who holds the superiority of qualities in his field may never be solved. There will always be the factions of the claimant and the contestant. Each will have his own views. So you can say what you will to no avail.

I come from Michigan and I am of the opinion that “Michigan can’t be beat”. So let’s talk about the weather.

WHY? The reader may know from the outset that nothing new is to be presented in this article. But perhaps the questions bothering the author may awaken some serious thought in the reader. Perhaps he may even be able to help the author find a happy solution to the perplexing problems which are now once again rearing their ugly heads.

Why greed ? Stop and think. Why is everyone so greedy.

After all, the ill-gotten gains of this world are by no means lasting. They may help us to live a more comfortable or a more influential life. But how can we be sure that this betterment of position will not bring more evils, greater than the former discomforts? Do the wealthy or the powerful experience a greater or purer joy than those not so fortunate? Does not wealth and power bring with it a multitude of temptations?

Nevertheless, I am greedy, you are greedy, in fact we all are greedy. You may deny it all you can, you may outwardly dis­ prove the statement, but inwardly you are still human. The ultimate end of all fruitless greed is envy. If you are a politi­ cian, you lust after power, a power higher than that which you have attained. Your advancement along such lines cannot keep 203

pace with your desires. Naturally, you envy the man who has reached a higher level than you have. Relief from such envy comes only when old age sets in, and you become a trifle eccen­ tric, turning your former efforts into channels which appear quite childish to the world, but with which you have made peace with the world. Foolish statements, you say!

Why worry? Doubtless you also have heard and thought much about this ever-present function. We all worry一some more, others less. Worry is really nothing else than the doubt of the outcome of an irrevocable action. We know the result will be the same, no matter how much we pace the floor or roll in our beds. We know it is very foolish, but our imagination overpowers our logic. We immediately begin to figure out all the possible solutions. Of these we pick the darkest solution and give our imagination further sway by showing to our­ selves the evil consequences that could follow. We forget that, 4‘What once is said or done Its rocky course must run. ” Why sudden anger? Is it to satisfy the animal in us? I I am afraid I am too much in opposition to evolution to accept that theory. I suppose in reality anger dates back to the fall of man. But why does it well up in us at the slighest pro­ vocation and at times even without any provocation. We can be serene and happy people at one moment, raging maniacs the next. The word maniac was deliberately chosen; for the only explanation I can find, and that is a very weak one, is that a momentary paralysis of the power of thought sets in after anger has arisen. But what sets off this ruinous passion? If I could answer this, I am sure I would be on the other side of the desk. It may be an inborn antipathy to something, but that seems very unlikely. Or it may be the release of our pent-up emotions, caused by the constant suppression of our real self, and exhibiting of our “Sunday” self. Perhaps anger is a safety valve which causes a minor explosion, thus averting some more serious mishap. Will we ever know?

Have you ever tried to find the solution to the problem of human behavior? That is what I have attempted in this article and, as may be readily seen, "perhaps” is as near as I have come to any pausible solution.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Symphonie Path4tique

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German Genius

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The Battle

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A Father on Fire.

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Art in the Making

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Cupid by Correspondence

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EDITORIALS— Vicissitudes

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Dreams, past and present

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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SEMINARY NOTES.

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ALUMNI NOTES

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ATHLETICS

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1•了 THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., Jan. 1938

Number 8

Entered at the Postoftico at Watertown, VVis., as second class matter under Act of March 187^ Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

SYMPHONIE PATHETIQUE Walter Haase

I had known Desiree. I knew the whole story of Madame von Meek. I knew of that unfortunate, fantastic marriage.

And I knew Tschaikowsky — Tschaikowsky, the musician, and, —yes, above all, Tschaikowsky, the man. And knowing these things, I found myself in a fine sweat of suspense.

My visit to M. Kashkin two weeks previous had been particularly fruitful. Kashkin, closest friend of Tschaikowsky, most trusted confidant, had told me the composer’s entire lifestory —the strange rises and falls so exaggerated by the sensi­ tive temperament of the musician. I remember having been impressed beyond warrant.

Then, only last Sunday night (tonight it is Thursday — a Thursday which will be long remembered — Oct. 28, 1893)— only Sunday night I met the man myself. Peter IIjitch Tschai­ kowsky, already recognized so highly in America and England, whose work, long not accepted — like a prophet — in his own country, was gradually being acclaimed here in Russia. I re205

member that I, man of the world though I pride myself on being, sensed a feeling of awe — almost of fearful worship, for this man whose music has so stirred the world.

That Sunday night, after the other guests had left, Tschaikowsky, mellowed by some wonderful old vintage of ’80, had conversed very freely with me. Although we discussed for the most trivial matters, still the strange melancholy of the man was all too apparent. Eventually our talk spread to music, and his latest work, — his sixth symyhony. Suddenly becoming almost melodramatic, M. Tschaikowsky impressively informed me, in strict confidence, that the sixth was his own auto­ biography一his life-story, written in the language he knew best. The announcement seemed to him of the utmost im­ portance, and I could not help being suitably impressed.

There is a short pause now, between the third and the fourth movements. Tschaikowsky himself in conducting his sixth symphony, the Symplionie PatMtique (he told me how his brother Modest had given this most recent work that name:一).

We are in the Civic Hall, in St. Petersburg. My companions comment on the music, some deeply stirred, others cold, un­ appreciative. For my part, it has moved me as perhaps no music —and I am not strange to the better composers —as no music has ever before influenced me. But, as I say, I am in agonizing suspense, for I cannot help remembering- Tschaikowsky’s dramatic “It is my musical autobiography.”

Thus far I had followed the symphony with ease in the depicting of the various crises of its composer’s life. The first movement, beginning with almost gruesome bassoon phrases, succeeded by the impatient violins, tell of the unrest, the un­ certainty, the emptiness of his youth and early manhood. His hypocritical life as a dandy—“the darling of Petrograd drawing rooms，’’ his living made as an absent-minded, rather unsatisfactory law official — this life is taken up next by the masking flute with its determined but pathetic efforts to cover up the undertow of despair and emptiness. Then a sad, sweet, soothing melody is drawn from the violins and ’cellos — the death of his mother, whom, Kashkin told me, he had loved with such passionate intensity. Sadder grows the music, with less strength, courage, moving finally to the mournful bas­ soon again..........

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Suddenly a fierce discord, crash upon crash, violent, fero­ cious, passionate, succeeds. How deeply, thought I, must he have loved Desiree, the expressive, the exotic — Mme. Desiree Artot, the magnetic, the fascinating, — the leading artist in a visiting Italian opera company. I had heard how Tschaikowsky had loved her with all his heart, I had heard of their engage­ ment, subsequently to be so abruptly ended.

But now the violent passion is passing. Sad little themes are interspersed here and there -- memories, words of a departed loved one. The memories pass, and a lovely, mournful, ever sadder, ever deeper, ever softer melody by the strings depict the end of the composer’s love — the lovely Desiree, unwilling to leave the stag：e for her lover, finally cuts the ‘‘Gordian knot，’ by marrying another man, without a word of explanation.

I knew, I say, of his fiasco of a marriage to Mme. Antonina Milyukova, a woman who so aroused Tschaikowsky^ chivalry and sympathy through her touching declarations of love, that, though he did not love her, he finally asked her to become his wife. Kashkin had told me of the utter failure of the union ― a failure so traffic that Tschaikowsky one night walked to the Moskva and stood in the i \v water up to his arm-pits, in the hope that he would catch a death-chill. And now I heard that tragedy retold in music in the second movement — a smooth and prracious melody soaring over the despair of the basic rhythm — an elusive, ghostly rhythm, a waltz and still not a waltz. The beginning theme moves into the second melody, still with elusive happiness, with tragedy in the persistent beat of the drums. And that marriage, jrav and light and happy on the surface, moves toward its termination (the couple were divorced in October; the wedding had been in April) in the sadder, ever more pensive, pathetic phrases which conclude the movement.

The brasses blare forth triumphant song throughout the next, the third, movement. Quick, nervous rhythm, surging power, a bold, clashing melody bursts from the orchestra—it is the revival, the new energy, of Tschaikowsky. And here his odd friendship with Madame Nadejda von Meek reached its height—that friendship that, as Kashkin had related to me, had been entirely one of correspondence. Madame von Meek, —Tschaikowsky^ benefactress, companion soul, lover of his music, to whom he dedicated his cheerful, joyful Fourth 207

Symphony. — And as the blazing power of this third movement crashes to its end, I saw a definite, through brief, triumph of Tschaikowsky over the despair, the lamentations, the sadness that seemed to hold the man so firmly.

Tschaikowsky is raising his hand to begin the fourth move­ ment—the finale that I await with such dire forebodings. For I know he is again plunged into despondency. Madame von Meek’s sudden, abrupt cessation of the correspondence that had meant so much to him .in confidence and comfort — that unexplained cessation of the valued friendship had been a crushing blow. He worried, Kashkin had confided to me, constantly over the estrangement. And Anton Rubinstein — Rubinstein, his idol, his advisor, teacher — Rubinstein had just recently passed him on the street without speaking. And so, I fear. How will this temperamental, this dramatic Tschaikowsky picture his end, his finale?

The movement begins. And these despairing, these grue­ some, these supremely melancholy measures would stir me even did I not know their grim portent. The plaints of hopelessness from the strings, from the bassoon, are unmistakeable. I find myself hoping that a more cheerful, courageous theme will soon succeed to end the movement.

There is no such change. The phrases grow sadder, more hopeless. Vague rises of sound merely sink down to grief again. Finally there comes a prolonged, fierce, passionate rise to a vehement climax; thence the music crashes downward, falling, tumbling, with more and more violence, with weird, terrible wail upon wail, at last to descend into dark depths of gloom and despair. Frozen, I hear a single stroke upon the cymbal. Again the significance is unavoidable. It is the end.

It is the passing of his soul.

For a long moment I sit quietly —in the spell of those last, despairing, pianissimo measures. Then I rouse myself. Some applause is starting. I do not wait to see how the audience accepts the work. The meaning, of that finale was all too apparent. Certain words always returned to my trembling mind. “It is my musical autobiography.” And Tschaikowsky was such an extreme lover of the dramatic.

The delay in getting out of the auditorium nearly turns me mad. I dash backstage. Tschaikowsky has already left. The 208

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I hurry out to the theater, proceed by hack to Tschaikowsky’s apartment on Nicholas Square. I rush to his rooms; the door is open, I enter. Tschaikowsky is sitting near the fire.

I speak. He answers. And fear — fear for this great composer, this musician who must not die until he has given the world his full ability in his own stirring language, a fear for him whom I alone, his confidant, could save —this fear, flickering at my heart like leaping tongues of flame, subsides. Peter IIjitch Tschaikowsky still lives.

I did not tell him the true reason for my frantic, hurried visit. I praised his symphony, and we sat down comfortably to our vodka to chat before the fire. My misgivings passed, for the dramatic in him would certainly have required Tschaikowsky to fulfill the plan of ending his life —if and in whatever form that plan existed — immediately after conducting the fatal fare­ well symphony. And he still lived!

He discussed the symphony, disappointed as usual witn its rather cool acceptance. His talk did not appear especially mor­ bid or moody, but when I looked into that temperamental face, and saw some of the despair that continually haunted it, I wondered. However, I left an hour or thereabouts later cheer­ fully and with full belief that my fears would not be realized.

It is now over a week ago that Tschaikowsky conducted his Symphonie Pathetique. It is November 7th today. And I am in the depths of gloom. For Tschaikowsky is dead. I saw the newspapers this morning. It is not a rumor, not a hideous dream. He is really dead.

It seems he attended a banquet last night — a banquet where I 一 oh, would that I had been — where I should have been present, would have been were it not for the sudden sick­ ness of my wife. Against the wishes of his friends (how much stronger than wishing would my actions have been) he drank from a pitcher of unfiltered water. The inevitable — what with this severe plague of cholera on us at the present — happened.

The doctor ordered the usual “remedy”，a hot bath. And here the strange part of the story lies, for Tschaikowsky, who had 209

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How to reconcile that drinking of death water and now this fear of death! I earnestly tried to avoid the thought — the really unavoidable thought-- that the refusal of the bath was only to make his death certain, but the idea (I cannot forget “It is my musical autobiography”) 一the idea persisted. Nevertheless, the bath was administered, to no avail, as usual. Peter IIjitch Tschaikowsky died before the night was spent.

Kashkin denied suicide. The newspapers did not even express a theory of self-killing. But the tragedy was admittedly puzzling. As for me, me -- the sole (by Tschaikowsky’s own statement) confidant of the symphony’s portent ― what could I think? I had no choice, much as I might turn the events this way and that. I had but one conclusion, one answer. And I hated that all too apparent ending of Tschaikowsky.

I suppose that Tschaikowsky had, in those despairing* rises and falls before the lowest depths were reached in that last movement of the death symphony, —had there contemplated a week of living before the dramatic end — a week of despair, of gloom, of mournfulness, —a week depicted in music agonizingly melancholy, abjectly despairing.

I suppose — but what is the use? All that matters is that he is dead, — he, who stirred the hearts of men with the “melancholy beauty, the gorgeous colors, the volcanic passion’’ of his music, — whose work will soothe, will calm, will trouble, will passionately move men in the years to come, he — Tschaikowsky.

GERMAN GENIUS Frederick Grunwald

Among the great names of the nineteenth century there is one that by its prominence and significance commands the admiration and attention of almost all music-loving people of the western hemisphere. The name of this genius is always inseparably associated with the opera, or more specifically the music drama, but he was also quite an architect, as the opera house at Bayreuth testifies, and he might also have become a great poet, had not his ambition been the music drama. This artistic Titan who expressed the culmination of German operatic ideals is Wagner.

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reason that he became a great operatic composer and not a symphonist. He conceived of a superior form of art, the music drama—a wedding of music and poetry. If he had not been able to write his own libretti, this intimate relation between the music and the poetry of his operas would not have been possible. Wagner was the first composer to make extensive use of the leitmotif; he really developed it, using it to characterize a person, principle, or situation in his music. This use of the characterizing leitmotif or simple motif has in a way an effect similar to but far greater than Homer’s use of the characteristic epithet. Wagner was also the first to give the orchestra an important part in the opera; he gave it a function greater than it had enjoyed among composers of the operatic school which preceded him. Formerly the orchestra had merely furnished accompaniment to the florid arpeggios of the Italian tenors. Wagner on the other hand entrusted the orchestra with his leitmotifs and wrote beautiful overtures to his operas.

These overtures, which in reality are musical synopses of his operas, are favorite concert pieces to-day.

Wagner’s ideal of the opera with its innovations and im­ provements was not accepted immediately with the reverence it deserved. Although Wagner’s intentions respecting his fellowGermans were the very best, he was looked upon by many with mingled scorn and contempt. He had tried to educate his countrymen to higher artistic standards especially in music and the opera, but he found many of the Germans of his day to be quite unpliable, stubborn, conservative, and intolerant of innova­ tions, even if they were improvements. Wagner wrote a book, “Kunstwerk der Zukunft,” which brought even more abuse on his head. When his first ‘‘reformed’’ opera appeared, not only the Germans but others as well revolted; they missed the florid melodies of the customary rococo type of opera, were fatigued by his long recitatives, and perplexed by his use of the leit­ motif. Opposition to Wagner was so intense in some circles that vocabularies were exhausted in heaping him with opprobrium. Some time after his death an intire dictionary was compiled, containing the derogatory phrases that had been applied to Wagner and his operas, which were called among other things一 “lyrico-epico dramatic gelatine.’’

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the scores of Wagner’s operas, On one occasion the orchestra of the Vienna opera house attempted Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” which Wagner considered one of his lighter, more practical operas, but the score proved to be so difficult for these musicians that after more than fifty rehearsals they abandoned the work in disgust and pronounced it unplayable.

Even as late as the early part of this century after Wagner had been dead for several decades, the opposition to his music and operas was still so intense in some circles that when one of his overtures or the like was included in a concert somewhere, it was usually played at the very end of the program, preceded by an announcement or warning to the audience, so that all who could not bear to hear Wagner, might leave beforehand.

In our day Wagner is generally conceded to be the greatest of operatic composers. His great trilogy, “Dei，Ring des Nibelungen” is considered to be a masterpiece of musical drama. His most rabid opponents have either disappeared or changed their minds. It is a significant fact that in spite of the scathing criticism Wagner and his music have been subjected to, his name and his works have not only remained alive but have emerged triumphant. The reason for this is not so easily explained in words; to understand it fully one must hear his works—in them his spirit lives on — and in them one will find the answer.

THE BATTLE Clayton King

It was a cold winter day, darkened by a heavy gray veil of clouds, from which desultory flakes of snow listlessly glided.

Too cold for fighting, grumbled the weaker ones as they crouch­ ed behind their embankment, entirely too frightened to peer over and take occasional shot unless forced to do so. But this lack of enthusiasm was not shared by the more hardy combatants, although the battle had been raging for almost four hours with­ out any definite sign of weakness shown by either side. On the other hand, they seemed to enjoy the struggle, and because of their eager exertions they did not suffer from the cold.

On the whole, it had been a good battle, for few had been seriously hurt in spite of the vigorous action. This was due, perhaps, more to the poor marksmanship and ineffectual weap212

ons of the fighters than to any lack of zeal on their part. For both sides, led by clever and energetic captains, desired the glory of victory more than anything else.

The two companies, which because of the smallness of their numbers could not be called armies, had met, as if by agree­ ment, soon after midday in a small clearing next to a grove of trees, where they took their positions behind the previously mentioned embankments. The firing had begun immediately, and as the conflict became more fierce, the usual division of tasks had been arranged, according to which the recruits and poor marksmen were employed to prepare ammunition for the more accurate shots.

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Now, as evening approached and it was known that the rebels would soon withdraw to their night quarters, Captain John of the loyal forces planned a desperate move. He decided to divide his small band into two parts, one of which, with the aid of the oncoming darkness and the steadily falling snow, should try to circle about and attack the enemy from the rear before they would have a chance to retreat. Accordingly, Captain John selected a group of his best men for the venture, and they immediately set off through the shadows of the grove of trees at the right of the clearing.

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Finally a sentinel who had been stationed in a tree to watch the movements of the flanking party announced that they were ready to attack. Captain John, immensely relieved, was just ahout to give the signal for renewed and more fierce firing when the kitchen door opened and his mother called out, "Boys, I want you to quit your eternal snow-fighting and come into the house this minute!â&#x20AC;?

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A FATHER ON FIRE Ardin D. Laper

The long rows of lamps on the Thirty-fifth Street viaduct shone clearly and coldly at 11:15 one December Sunday night.

For miles around could be seen the lights of the half slumbering Milwaukee. Below the viaduct stretched the tracks of the electric railway. Beside the tracks stood a small station.

Inside, a man holding an electric lantern sat on one end of a bench. His broad heavy-set body wore blue overalls and a jacket of the same material. The wide shield of his black Scotch cap half shaded his ruddy bearded face.

On the middle of the bench sat another man, younger than the first. He wore a Homburg hat and between the lapels of his tight-fitting overcoat bulged a white silk scarf. Below the coat projected sharp-creased trousers and his polished shoes were half hid by grey spats. It was plainly written on his face that he had just said good night to Her. He slouched comfort­ ably against the back of the bench and half smiling said within himself, “How good it is to be alive in this kind old world.”

Henry Grey, the man in overalls on the end of the bench, had only thoughts of disgust and anger. First he placed the left leg over the right,—then the right leg over the left,—then he placed his left foot on his right knee, and drummed on his hard shoe with his thick fingers. He put his hand to his overall bib and quickly glanced at his watch. In two quick strides he reached the door. He opened it and looked east up the tracks.

He slammed it shut again and moving his lips silently sat down on the hard bench. By 11:30 he had repeated the whole precedure three times and now the bench was fifteen minutes harder.

The young man, whose thoughts soared even higher than the viaduct above, hardly noticed the anxiety of his companionin-waiting. But finally, coming down to earth, he chanced to say a cheery word to his neighbor: “It ought to be along pretty soon now. —Been waiting long?”

At this Henry Grey said in words that almost boiled out, "Waiting long! I’ve been sittin’ in this here shack since tenthirty—and all on account of that fool son of mine.”

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i so mole-hilling his friend’s mountain, he hastened to add “That’s tough,—but what has your son to do with it?”

Now Mr. Grey, like most men, believed that there is much satisfaction in generously sharing one’s anger and disgust with another. At first he began disconnectedly, *1 might have been sleeping an hour already!—I knew he was itching to get hold of that car!—When they get between the ages of fourteen and twenty they ought to be knocked out and kept in cold storage until they get some sense! You work your hardest to give them a good home and a schooling and, if they can’t have some little thing, they’re ready to fight! But I’ll show him what’s what in the morning!”

His indifferent listener showed just enough interest and sympathy to fan Mr. Grey’s hot disgust into further fiery but now more orderly words. He continued, “You see I live in Rocky Knoll—about fifteen miles out—and I work in the rail­ road yards a few blocks from here. Well, my kid said he was coming down town this afternoon on the interurban and I said if he wanted to, he could come out to the yards tonight and ride home in my car with me. Now I could just as well use the interurban myself to go and come from work—it would be cheaper—but I use the car so I can leave for home right after I get through. Tonight ’specially I wanted to get home early ’cause I’ve got to be back at work by eight o’clock in the morn­ ing. I generally get through about eleven o’clock, but I told Bud to be out at the yards by ten if he was riding home with me. Well, I got through about quarter after ten tonight and so I thought I’ll drive right home and get in a good night’s sleep. But the little underhanded rat—instead of asking for the car—had come and took it and figured I wouldn’t be done until eleven. He’s going to be mighty surprised and worried when he comes back and finds me gone—and it’ll serve him right.! It’s goin, pretty far when a man can’t drive his own car when he wants to anymore. ... It wouldn’t be so bad, but I give it to him often enough so that he aint got no reason for sneaking it off like this.! But you just can’t tell him any­ thing—he's seventeen—just at that age when they think they know it all. But I’ll show him by hand in the morning who’s boss. And whafs more,—the only time that car’ll goouta’ the shed with him at the wheel will be to take his mother to church!”

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A light from the east flashed on the depot windows. MrGrey held down the lever that signaled the interurban to stop, only to find it was one of the local cars making a short run a mile or two to the west. And with an inexpressible bitterness he sat down again to await the car that would finally take him home to his warm and comfortable bed.

But despite his tiredness, he raved on, “That’s the way with this younger generation—no respect for the old folks and no sense of what’s decent. And then again maybe it’s my fault. I had a grandmother once that said, ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child.’ But, by George, you can be sure that I won’t be so very sparing in the morning! Even if he is seventeen, he's still nothing but a kid, and he’s my son.”

In a few minutes another headlight shone from the east and Grey again held the signal lever down. At last it had come. The train bound for Watertown snarled to a stop and purred quietly while the two passengers went aboard. The young man took a seat in the smoking compartment and Grey walked to the rear of the second car and sat down alone with his bitter anger and disgust. After a few monotonous stops the car arrived at Rocky Knoll at about 12:10. Mr. Grey returned into a cold night and after a five minute walk reached his suburban home. He looked in the garage. Yes, it was still empty, but he wouldn’t wait for Bud now. He’d see him in the morning.

--------------Mrs. Grey half trembled as she sat the steaming bowl of oatmeal on her husbands plate. Below in the cellar Mr. Grey was violently shaking the grates of the furnace. Then his heavy steps could be heard as he approached the top of the stairs. He entered and said not a little sternly. “Did you call Bud yet?”

Mrs. Grey said she had and added, “But, Henry, don’t be too hard on him. Remember, he’s only a boy and he’ll learn.”

“You bet he’ll learn,” roared her husband, “And I aim to give him his first lesson this morning, He threw the towel on the sink and jerked his chair up to the table.

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Bud stepped into the kitchen with a cheerful, “Good morn­ ing, Dad.” And he quickly said, “Did you want to see me about something?—Say, by the way, you must have come home early last night.”

His father’s spoon clanged in his now empty bowl and with flashing eyes Mr. Grey began, “So you’ve got the nerve to stand there and tell me that I came home early when I had to sit around over an hour waiting to ride home on an interurban Bud, come here!’’ Mrs. Grey sought to intervene, but her husband roard, “You stay out of this,—I’ll show you how to bring up a child.” And so shuddering to think of how her son would spend the next few minutes, she left the kitchen to get the morning paper from the front porch.

Bud pleaded, “But dad, what do you mean? I一I...”

“Just keep still, and I’ll show you what I mean.” His father opened a drawer and took out a razor strap. “So you thought you could just sneak off with the car and tear around with it when I didn’t know anything about it, huh? Well, I’ll teach you to do things behind your father’s back!”

Bud shrunk back and said, ‘‘But dad, you don’t underst” “0, I can’t understand, eh?! So I don't understand why I shouldn’t let my son chase around the streets with my car and let me find my own way home from work at midnight?”

“But dad, I didn’t use the car last night. When I came to the yard at 9:30 your car was gone and so I came home on the ten o’clock car. I thought you were home already. Weren’tyou?”

“You . . . what?!”

His strong fingers released their grip on Bud’s shoulder and his wife pointing to a column pushed the morning paper in his hand and said, “Read this, Henry, and then you’d better hurry for I guess you’ll be taking the seven-thirty interurban to work this morning. ” Mr. Grey read: Last night two thieves were caught breaking into a jewlery store on Sixth St. They pleaded guilty and almost immediately confessed that the car they were using had been stolen earlier in the evening from the railroad yards near the Thirtyfifth Street viaduct.

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ART IN THE MAKING James Vogt

‘‘Good Evening! The Ford Sunday Evening Hour brings to you tonight a new voice,—Miss Beverly Lane.” Thus Truman Bradley announces the beginning of another of the most interesting and most educational hours of radio. It is the 135th weekly broadcast being heard from the massive Masonic Temple in Detroit. Although it is not essential for enjoying the music, yet it might be interesting to note how and under what condi­ tions the broadcast is produced.

To insure entrance to such a broadcast tickets should be sent for. There is no charge, merely a request to the Ford Motor Company is necessary. A warning might be issued that requests should be made far in anvance of the intended visit.

There are only 5000 seats and these tickets are very much in demand.

The concert begins promptly at nine o’clock. All ticketholders must be in the auditorium at 8:45. At this time the doors are opened to those who have no tickets and are patiently waiting for a chance to enter. They are permitted to occupy the seats of the ticket-holders failing to appear.

At approximately 8:50 the lights are lowered, a hush comes over the audience, the curtain rises, and the 133rd program, the last of the year 1937, begins. Before us we see the huge stage occupied by the 75 piece Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

To the left of the orchestra, partially filling the large platform, we see the chorus, a possible twenty in number, oddly bedecked in maroon gowns. To the right, as we see the stage, is the Columbia Broadcasting System’s control booth. Through the large windows may be seen men already watching indicators and tuning knobs. They are to be held responsible for the suc­ cess of the broadcast to be spread over the wide-spread C. B. S. network.

On second observation we notice that the orchestra is not seated in the same manner in which we are accustomed to see it at concerts. The violins still hold the left of the conductor’s rostrum. To the right, however, instead of the second violins we find the ’cellos. The second violin section has been moved over next to the first violins. Closely arrayed behind these string sections are the wind sections, behind the ’cellos the 218

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Mr. Bradley, as he appears before the microphone on the right of the stage, clarifies this arrangement. This is primarily a radio broadcast, we are told, and the musicians are arranged to produce the best tone quality to be picked up by the micro­ phone hanging from the ceiling before the stage. As part of this short address, given by the announcer, the audience is re­ quested to refrain from whispering and coughing as much as possible. There is perhaps little need for such a request, for the audience is soon to be overcome by the splendor of the forthcoming concert and can express itself only in rounds of applause. In case of too p：reat extent of applause the audience is to heed the uplifted hand of Mr. Bradley and cease.

Two introductions are made, first, the conductor for the evening, the grey-haired, world-famous Eugene Ormandy, who enters from the right amid gracious applause and takes his place on the rostrum. Secondly we meet the soloist of the evening, the equally famous baritone Richard Bonelli. He crosses the stage to take his chair behind the microphone on the left.

And now for a last minute rehearsal. With but a few minutes until concert time we take the sheet of paper given with our programs containing words and music of the last verse of “Hark the Herald Angles Sing”，the hymn for the evening. The orchestra having played the first strain, the audience is requested to sing. The attempt is weak, but lack of time permits only the repetition of one line with special directions from the con­ ductor to insure needed emphasis.

Promptly at nine o’clock with the playing of “The Prayer” from Humperdinck’s “Haensel and Gretel” the Ford Sunday Evening Hour begins. Now in a most enjoyable hour we hear and see the playing and singing of a selection from the re­ pertoire of the worlds finest music. We hear music as it should be played, interpreted by a world-famous conductor. Who can­ not enjoy a Dvorak “Carnival Overture” or a Sibelius “Fin219

landia”？ Who would not sacrifice to see and hear Bonelli sing Handers "Dank sei Dir Herr” or Hutchenson’s “Old Mother Hubbard”？ Even Mi，. Cameron’s address, this time “A Bad Mixture”，which to most of the radio audience serves as a recess and period of discussion, is especially interesting. It is in­ teresting to actually see this short, white-haired man whom we have so often heard over the air.

Before we know it the strains of “The Prayer” tell us that the 133rd “hour” is at an end. As for me, and I am sure others feel as I do, not one minute of it was misspent.

CUPID BY CORRESPONDENCE Walter Schumann

(With full acknowledgment to the Pacific Coast Borax Co.’s Radio Hour.)

Windy Bill, an elderly lumberjack in the Wisconsin north woods, was notoriously shy of women and fond of eating. In all the years that he’d been eating at the little restaurant in Zabriskie, nobody had ever heard him hold any conversertion with Biscuit-Shootin, Susie, except to give her his order. Yet when he dropped in one day and found a strange hasher in Susie’s place, you’d have thought the light of his life had gone out. Porphycy Lane, another Lumberjack, explained that Susie had found a better job up the line at Beatty. Windy looked so woebegone that Porphycy couldn’t resist razzing him. “I’ll bet you’re sweet on Susie,” he remarked.

“Me?” bristled Windy all indignation, “I’m not sweet on nobody.’’

“What are you sighing for, then T' “I was just wishin’ I’d found out from Susie before she left how she makes her mulligan,” explained Windy. “She had a special recipe.”

“Write and ask her for it,” advised Porphycy, reaching for a toothpick.

Embarrassed, Windy stammered，‘‘I，— I don’t know how to write.”

Porphycy was so surprised he bit his toothpick clear in two.

“Can’t you read neither ?’’ he asked.

“Not a word,” admitted Windy.

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what, you let me know what you want to say to Susie, an’ I’ll write the letter for you.”

Windy hesitated. “I wouldn’t want the lady to think I was makin’ advances,” he mumbled. “Anyhow it’s putting you to a heap of trouble.”

It’d be a pleasure. Jest tell me what you want to say.”

“Say, ‘Dear Madam : How do you make your mulligan V 11 dictated Windy, after some reflection.

“Sounds kinda short,” objected Porphycy.

“Maybe if you write it real big, it’ll look longer，” suggested Windy.

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Leave out the ‘Yours’，’’ ordered Windy.

If Porphycy hadn’t run across Buck Shelton as he was look­ ing for some ink, Windy’s letter to Susie would most likely have been written as dictated. But Buck, like all lumberjacks, loved a practical joke. He also had literary talents which he itched Let’s write Susie a real nice billy-doo,’’ he to exercise. grinned. “Give the old girl a thrill.”

The temptation was to great for Porphycy. "All right,” he chuckled, picking up his pen, “Shoot.” 一 i 4

Buck dictated the following letter: Zabriskie, Wisconsin Dear Madam, it was a great blow to me to find you had went. Why don’t you let a feller know when you’re goin’ to pull up stakes ? No one else can fill the hole in my heart you made. I never know how much I missed you until now.

I am lost without you.

Affectionately yours, Windy Bill.

P. S. How do you make your mulligan ?

Susie’s reply came by return mail. ‘‘She answers letters the same way she dishes up ham an’ eggs,” remarked Porphycy, "with speed and warmth.”

Windy’s emotions were mixed. ‘‘I don’t know where she got the idea I was missin’ her,” he snorted.

“She must’ve read between the lines.”

“But my letter was only one line long.”

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‘‘Susie writes a nice hand,” observed Porphycy, changing the subject.

Windy cleared his throat. ‘‘I wonder if you’d mind, Porphycy, sendin，Susie an acknowledgment.’’ Porphycy grinned.

Jest a short note like the first one was，” explained Windy hastily.

“Sure，” said Porphycy.

"I’ll say, 4Dear Susie: Yours of the tenth instructions re­ ceived and contents noted. Yours, Windy Bill.’ Or words to that effect,” he added, and went out to find Buck. That was the beginning of the famous courtship between Windy Bill and Biscuit Shootin* Susie. A courtship carried on entirely by cor­ respondence. Buck supplied the ideas, Porphycy the penman­ ship, and Windy the postage stamps.

Susie’s letters accepting Windy’s proposal of marriage came as no shock to the two social secretaries. They had spent a whole day composing that proposal. But poor old Windy was flabbergasted. He vowed he’d never asked Susie to marry him, and wouldn’t go through with it. Buck and Porphycy told him she’d sue him for breach of promise and produce his letters as evidence.

“I’ll tell the court I never wrote ’em.”

“An’ make a bum outa yourself ?M asked Porphycy. * ‘Admit to her that you’re a —a illiterate ?’’

That was enough for Windy. "I reckon I’d rather marry her than do that.’’

“Susie’s a mighty nice woman, Windy,” said Buck consol­ ingly. "There aint a better cook in Wisconsin. I think you’re lucky to be hooked by her.’’

“I aint been hooked,” Windy flared up. “I — I was goin’ to propose to her, anyhow, when I got good and ready,” he added shyly.

Having seen Windy off to Beatty and his bride, Buck and Porphycy busied themselves with preparations to welcome the happy pair home. The sign over the front door of Windy’s shade was Porphycy’s inspiration — “MY WIFE IS BOSS’’一 in letters a foot high. But as train time drew near, he grew nervous. “You don’t think we went too far, do you, Buck，’’ he asked anxiously, "in printin’ that sign ?”

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“Susie’11 read it to him.”

“Well, it’s too late to do anything about it now. Here comes the train.’’

Windy bore a wide grin on his face as he stepped onto the depot platform with his bride on his arm. "Meet my wife, boys,’’ he said proudly.

“I guess we don’t need no introduction,” giggled Susie.

After the usual compliments were paid back and forth, Susie’s gaze traveled up the street. “I see the restaurant is still in the same old place/1 she remarked. “Ah’ the store, an’ your house, Windy.” ‘‘Our house,” said Windy beaming.

Susie stared. “What’s the sign painted across the front of it?’’ she inquired.

Windy stared too. “Why, er —I dunno. It wasn’t there when I left.”

•‘Some of the folks must have put it up to welcome us Aint that right, Porphycy?” home,” surmised the bride.

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Windy blinked. “The sun’s in my eyes,” he stammered.

“I can’t see a thing.”

“Here, this newspaper will shade ’em.” Susie was nothing if not helpful.

Windy ran his finger around his collar as if it was choking him. “I still can’t see it,” he mumbled. "I —my eyesight aint so good as it used to be.” “ But the letters is most a foot high.”

“Then suppose you read it，” suggested Windy desperately.

Susie’s eyes dropped. “I — I can’t.” ‘‘You mean... ?” ‘‘I never told you before, Windy,” she said miserably. ‘‘I was ashamed to. But,” she swallowed hard, “I don’t know how to read.”

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She wrote all the answeres too.”

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“Thanks,” choked Windy.

Susie looked up at him anxiously. “You aint mad at me, are you honey,” she asked, “for deceiving you ? Nor— nor sorry you married me ?”

“No,” said Windy magnanimously. ‘‘You should’ve told me, of course. But, after all, so long as you’re a good cook don’t make much difference whether you can read or not.”

Susie gave a sigh of relief. They walked on. “We，re almost up to the house, Windy,” she said. “Can you read what the sign says now V1 Windy drew himself up confidently. “Sure I can,” he an­ nounced, **it says ‘God Bless Our Home!’ ”

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Jbitartal s Vicissitudes............

NE occasionally hears of the “vicissitudes of life’’. Perhaps Shakespeare referred to them when he wrote : “But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.”

He was young and intelligent, yet his features reflected a puzzled expression, cynical, almost implying morbidity. Turn­ ing to me he gave vent to his emotions “I’ve often wondered about this thing they call character, ” he said in a tone that was totally devoid of any trace of optimism. “They talk about character development. I seriously doubt the possibility. What course scould one follow ? Take the person who is inclined to be easy going, who is easy to get along with, whom -nothing perturbs. As a rule this type lacks purpose and a certain necessary decision in doing things. And what if one has decision, that is to say, if one has definite opinions ? Every­ thing is judged by personal opinion, but since there are no two

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The thought of the whole thing sort of overwhelms me. It is at times like this that I can sympathize with the one who said, 4'How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world. ’Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.’ ” Apparently the fellow was in the very depths of despondency.

“To be weak is miserable.”

While he was thus brooding over the futility of it all, he was invited to fill in as a fourth in bridge. He accepted reluc­ tantly, but did so as a sort of last resort. Maybe it was the cards, perhaps just one of the “vicissitudes of life”. Five minutes later the despondency was totally forgotten in a clever finesse.

E. W. Dreams, past and present for navigating... without rowers, so that “MACHINES great ships suited to river or ocean, guided by one man, may be borne with greater speed than if they were full of men. Likewise cars may be made so that without a draught animal they may be moved cum impetu inestwiabili, as we deem the scythed chariots to have been from which antiquity fought.

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beat the air in a manner of a flying bird.”

Thus Roger Bacon of the 13th century, living nearly five hundred years before Robert Fulton, six hundred years before George B. Selden, the first to receive an American patent on the automobile, and seven hundred years prior to the Wright brothers, conceived the possibility of the travel conveniences of today. What a fantastic mind this philosopher must have had not only to dream of such machines but even to go as far as to visualize and almost describe how they would at come time appear. How, like Joseph, he must have been called a dreamer by the learned men of his day can certainly be imagined.

Perhaps even Bacon himself never really believed that his dreams would ever materialize. But there can be no doubt that even his most fantastic nightmares could never have conceived the extent to which his primitive visions have developed.

We can’t help wondering, could Mr. Bacon have again roamed the world, especially that part of it which he had for­ gotten to include in his dreams, and could have had as his colleagues the Messrs. Fulton, Selden, and Wright, what an ecstatic life he might have lived. Perhaps from his superior mind and the inventor’s experience the world might have been astounded by inventions far surpassing the simple steamboat, the chassis mounted motor, and the frame glider.

Then again, could he visit the world of the twentieth century, he might still find some who would have nothing of his long established dreams and would still believe them un­ reliable. Perhaps he would wish he had never expressed him­ self. Or perhaps he would hope for another visit at a time when the world has fully roused itself from the period of intellectual stagnation and realizes what is before it.

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Campus and Classroom An unusual and in a way unfortunate succession of autovehicular mishaps caused our Dakota delegation to return five days late after the Christmas recess. . , Too bad! Many a “fifty minutes” irretrievably lost.

0. Loquacious Schlenner sprained an ankle (his own) at the annual business meeting of the Junior N. S. G. The “Orioles” have come home to roost, so to speak. But in all seriousness we can say, “They done right well.”

For your enlightenment we might add that “The Orioles” is the nom de plume, cognomen, or trade-name of the Freshman Quartette which competed in the Barber Shop Contest over WTMJ. ______________ F. A. Grunwald, basso profundo mirabilo, has recently added "Mephisto^ Serenade” from Faust to his operatic reper­ toire. His novel interpretation and rendition of the same are most effective, and if he continues his endeavors in that line, away. he ought to go far, in fact, very far Most of the lads brought back cough-drops, mouth wash, and the like as effective cold remedies. Toepel also brought something back.

No, you’d be too late; it’s all gone.

A Gem, We Think Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle and so forth, 0 what fun et cetera, In a sled.

The first literary program of the current season was pre­ sented by the Phi Gamma Rho Society on December 13. F. Zimmermann and R. Reim collaborated in its arrangement.

The American Negro was more or less thoroughly discussed in general, in particular, and by the way.

Messrs. Schabow and Weishahn were responsible for the program presented by the Philomathean Society on January 14.

As the topic for discussion they chose the American Indian.

The outstanding feature of the program was the comparatively good presentations given by the speakers, and by the performers in the concluding skit, considering the material with which they had to work.

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Dr. Ott reports that the following alumni were present at a meeting of the Modern Language Association which he attended: Prof. G. W. H. Shield, J00, Los Angeles, Calfornia, Dr. W. Luebke，’03, Denver, Colorado, and Waldemar Groth, ’22，Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin. The association met at Chicago in the latter part of December.

Rev. and Mrs. G. Fischer of Peshtigo, Wis.，announce the birth of a daughter, Barbara, on January the seventh. Mrs. Fischer is the former Margaret Schmeling, who graduated from Northwestern in ’29. Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Schmidt, ’24, Faulkton, S. D., are also the parents of a daughter, born on January eleventh. A baby boy, John William, was born to Prof, and Mrs. Martin Franzmann of Watertown, Wis., on January the ninth.

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Although somewhat belated, it was reported that Richarn Loga, ex.，38, was married to Miss Ruth Sagen of Fort Atkin­ son, Wis., sometime this fall. They are.living in Janesville, Wis. Miss Bernice Kieck, ex. ’37, became the bride of Harold Olsen of Watertown, Wis” in December, It was also reported that Jonathan Mahnke，’34，was recently married. Another marriage which escaped our attention until now was that of Rev. Otto Engel of Bruce, Wis., to Miss Dorothy Hamm of Ladysmith, Wis., which took place on June 27, 1937.

Rev. Martin Ketura kat, Mazeppa，S. D.，died on November the tenth. Rev. Paul Froehlke, '12, Winona, Minn., died on December the twenty-fifth.

Martin Toepel, ’35，has been called to the Winnebago Lu­ theran Academy of Fond du Lac as professor of history. He will take the place of Re v. Erwin Scharf，’28, who was recently installed at Slinger, Wis. Mr. Eiselmeier of Milwaukee, who was to take this positiora temporarily, was unable to do so be­ cause of an unfortunate accident.

ATHLETICS Conference Honor Team Five men of North ■western’s 1937 championship football ^eam received as reward for their efforts positions on the TriState honor team, and fou r others were given honorable mention.

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Q. Backs: Tackles: Wendland (Northwestern) Habben (Northwestern) Stalder (Mission) Elliot (Aurora) Radtke (Milton) Hodgson (Miners) H, Backs: Sauer (Northwestern) Wilsey (Miners) Guards: Anderson (Miners) Crimi (Aurora) Bemel (Miners) Rodel (Mission) Watson (Milton) F. Backs: Rammler (Mission) Walters (Miners) Pagels (Northwestern) Centers : Paschke (Miners) Harding (Aurora) Ends: Luebke (Milton) Toepel (Northwestern) Hodge (Mission) Hull (Milton) BASKETBALL Northwestern 40 Seminary 37 Watertown, Wis., Dec. 4. Opening the current basketball season against their traditional first game rivals, Seminary of Thiensville, the Northwestern cagers scored a hard-fought but rather shabby victory. Play during the contest was typical of early season games, having been somewhat ragged and rough, but the Black and Red quintet evinced enough strength to show that it is not to be lightly regarded in making its defense of the Tri-State title which it at present helds.

Several times during the first half the lead changed hands but a barrage of baskets just before the close of the period left Northwestern ahead, 16—15. Matched shooting and scoring kept the point margin close during the second period and toward the end of the tilt Seminary managed to tie the score at 33—all.

Hard play again gave the collegians the lead, which was not thereafter relinquished.

Homer Schweppe paced Northwestern's scoring with eleven points, followed by Emil Toepel with eight. Armin Roeckle, who played the game like a professional, took top honors for Seminary with ten points, seconded by rangy Herb Koehler with nine.

In a preliminary game the Northwestern Reserves topped the Sem “Bs”，30—26.

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Schwartz 1 2 5 1 4 0 f. Toepel 3 f. C. Frey 1 0 2 2 1 f. Hackbarth 3 f. G. Frey 1 0 0 c. Schweppe 5 1 2 c. Koehler 4 2 2 c. Naumann 4 2 2 g. Roeckle 1 0 g. Horn 0 2 g. Sydow 3 2 g. Kuehl 1 2 g. M. Toepel 2 0_ 3 1 2 g. Lambert 14 9 n 16 8 15 Northwestern 18 Lawrence 33 Appleton, Wis.，Dec. 9. It seems that Northwestern’s basketeers will have to do quite a bit of maturing before they will be able to cope with the Vikings’ strong team. Not to be outdone all the way, the Black and Red cagers kept things in­ teresting until the last seven minutes of play when the Vikes succeeded in fathoming our defense and with a scoring splurge that featured, for the most part, tip-in shots by Burton and Kapp, gave themselves a comfortable lead that was held to the • final whistle.

Burton headed the Lawrence scoring with nine points， while Emil Toepel was high for Northwestern with five.

Northwestern Lawrence FG FT P FG FT P f. Hackbarth 1 2 3 f. Burton 4 f. Toepel 2 1 3 f. Jackson 2 0 0 f.c. Schweppe 0 0 0 f. Caps 2 f. Keibel 0 0 0 f. Novakofski 0 0 2 c. Naumann 1 1 4 1 c. Kapp 0 0 g. Lambert 1 2 3 c. Herzog 1 0 0 g. Pagels 0 0 0 c. Masterson 0 0 g. Horn 0 g. Faliede 0 1 0 g. Kuehl 0 0 0 0 0 0 g. Schuss g. Buessing 1 1 0 6 10 g. Crawford 6 0 0 0 14 5 8 Northwestern 42 Extension 18 Watertown, Wis.，Dec. 17. First half — a runaway. Second half — a comedy of errors. That about sums up the North­ western-Extension game. Just about all that Extension could do during the first period was watch the Northwestern regulars drop them in 一 and drop them in they did, from all angles.

The half ended with the Black and Red men out in front, 24—8.

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The Gosling B team played the major part of the second period. Then it was fun. With Extension determined to revive its almost hopeless cause and the second team determined not to let them do it, there was action aplenty. Ernie Lehninger, who dropped in a pair of beauties from the side court, was the bright spot of the fracas.

Again it was Naumann and Toepel who took scoring honors for the evening. Naumann connected for twelve points; Toepel for eleven.

Northwestern Extension FG ET P FG FT P 5 1 f. Toepel 2 f. Drischler 1 1 1 f. Keibel 1 0 1 f. Becker 0 0 0 0 0 f. Frey 0 f. Schoegren 0 0 0 f. Brick 0 0 0 f. C. Thurber 0 0 0 f. Hackbarth 0 2 2 f. J. Thurber 0 0 0 f. Schweppe 0 0 1 c. Hennings 2 3 2 f. Peil 0 0 0 c. Albert 0 0 0 2 0 f. Lehninger 1 g. Anderson 2 0 1 f. Naumann 6 0 0 g. Washecheck 1 1 3 c.g. Pagels 0 10 g. Nelke 110 g. Kehrberg 0 0 0 6 T g. Lambert 1 0 4 g. Habbens 0 0 1 g. Kuehl 2 2 2 g. Horn 0 0 0 g. Hoffmann 10 0 18 6 14 Northwestern 35 Platteville 36 Platteville, Wis., Jan. 8. Largely through the efforts of one Mr. Schroeder, who plays forward on the Platteville Minersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; basketball team, the Northwestern quintet experienced defeat in its first conference tilt of the season. Schroeder totaled seventeen points during the game and is to be thanked for making the winning basket in the last minute and a half of play.

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Mission House 31 Northwester 37 Watertown, Wis., Jan. 15. More happy was the outcome of Northwestern’s second conference engagement. Homer Schweppe commanded the spotlight during the first half of the game while contacting the hoop six times. Though Mission House had just about as many shots at the basket as the Goslings had, they just wouldn’t go in and the half saw the visitors trailing, 20—9.

Coming back in the second period with a game that clicked in all departments, the Muskies tied the score at 24—all. Under impetus provided by reliable Emil Toepel, who shared scoring honors with Schweppe, the Northwestern team again forged into the lead and kept it until the game ended.

Vic Wierwille led the Mission House scoring with eleven points. Intentional fouling and bickering among players and referee served to diminish interest in the game.

Mission House Northwestesn FG FT P FG FT P f. Toepel 5 2 1 f. V. Wierwille 5 1 1 10 1 f. Schweppe 6 0 1 f. C. Stuebe f. Hackbarth 0 0 0 f. Zurbrucken 2 0 3 0 0 0 c. Naumann 3 1 2 f. Nichoff 2 g. Lambert 4 1 2 2 c. Hodge g. Pagels 1 0 0 0 0 g. N. Wi(erwille 1 g. Horn 0 0 2 Schumacher 0 1、 0 0 0 g. Paschen 1 16 5 8 14 3 7 HOCKEY Again this year Northwestern has a hockey team bearing its colors. Thirteen men, of whom Captain Schabow, Hempel, Sauer, Pagels, and Hornickle are experienced players, compose squad. Two games have been played to date, one against Troop K of Watertown, which resulted in a 5—1 defeat, and ope against the Gondolier Juniors which terminated in a 3—2 victory for the college team. Games remaining to be played are those against Madison East, Madison West, St. Johns Military Academy, Seminary, and Wauwatosa.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Epitome of Futility

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God of the Poets

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The Land of Promise

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We Saved a Buck

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EDITORIALSSwing Music.

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Watertown, Wis., Feb. 1938

Number 9

THE EPITOME OF FUTILITY Clayton Krug

The game of bowling is very simple. All it amounts to is an endless round of knocking down a few wooden pins with a heavy ball. That is all there is to it, and yet the game has a certain fascination which, like an opiate, enslaves a man, so that he cheerfully spends long hours always in the same way— knocking pins down again and again. This fascination is no doubt due to the circumstances under which the game was invented.

Mr. R. V. Winkle, as he languidly climbed the eastern slope of the biggest Catskill he could find, considered with disgust the whole world that he was leaving behind. A pack of fools whose minds were so small that they did not extend beyond the affairs of the hour; who were unable to see any virtue in a life of thought and contemplation such as he had always tried to lead. Instead, they were always worried about such trifles as work and money. And to crown all, his own wife was a ring­ leader of this whole band of super-industrious termites. Al­ 235

ways harped about her lazy husband and his ability never to do a good day’s work. Work, forsooth!

Because he was a wise man, Rip had theories about every­ thing. He had worked up his favorite idea one day under the very lash cf his wife’s tongue, and he called it the Theory of Futility. He had been expounding it for a long time, but some­ how couldn’t get it across, because so far he hadn’t really got the details all worked out, even for himself. Anyway, the sum and substance of it all, as he often explained before small gatherings of fellow-philosophers at the village barber-shop, was that it didn’t do anybody much good to do physical work, because after a while it would have to be done over again any­ way. Of course, there was more to it than that, but it was a little hard to put into exact words. The theory, however, had not been generally accepted, especially by that scolding wife of his, who laughed him and all his theories to scorn.

Rip knew that he had been as patient as anyone could ex­ pect a philosopher to be, but at last it had been too much. At times he almost felt himself in danger of abandoning his pet idea and descending to the level of the common ignorant mass.

In short, he almost accepted a job one day; but he had caught himself just in time, and the realization of what he had done so shocked him that he decided to wander off to think by himself for a while.

As he climbed, Rip kept thinking of these things, and by the time he had reached a sheltered cave high up toward the peak he was thoroughly angry. Immediately he sat down and began just about the longest period of thought on record. Rip was angry, and he was stubborn, so he just stayed up there until he had everything figured out. Just how long it took him is Quite hard to say. Some claim it was twenty years, but that would have been quite a stretch, even for a philosopher. But he did have a problem on his hands, for he wanted to invent a clear proof for his Theory. So he just thought and thought.

Finally one day when he was knocking about in the woods looking for berries, he happened to kick loose a stone, and it rolled down the mountainside. As it crashed through the brush he noticed that the twigs in its path would be bent over and then pop up again as soon as the stone was past. Then suddenly his long-sought idea came to him in a flash.

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Triumphantly Mr. Rip V. Winkle started down the eastern slope of the biggest Catskill in the country, and when he came to the village he had his cunning idea completely worked out.

He told the now famous story of his long sleep and his awaken­ ing at the sound of splintering wood, which he found to be proceeding from a group of dwarfs who were rolling a ball at a number of upright sticks. This time the villagers were in­ terested in what he had to say, and Rip at once got them to set up the first bowling alley under his direction. The game took hold, and the ignorant people were delighted, for they were too dense to realize that the old philosopher had induced them took provide an everlasting proof of his theory. And so they kept at it—knocking- them over, setting them up, and knocking- them over again—The epitome of futility.

GOD OF THE POETS Paul Bafjanz

Te the Greeks the term nature meant Everything, to the poets it signifies the Creator, but to us nature is merely the Created. To uphold our contention from the Scriptural view point, we don’t have to go beyond the first sentence of the first page of our Bible. But even in regarding this god of the poets from a purely worldly point of view, we find it a monstrous piece of superficiality.

Most poets pride themselves in being worshippers of Nature, and establish themselves as her prophets and her priests. ‘ ‘Thou nature art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound.”

But this worship is frequently wanting in distinction and discernment, and consequently is not above water. For example, Wordsworth writes: “The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when the will.’’ ‘‘With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.”

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These two verses, as examples, are literally saturated with false sentiments. Truly the individual who cannot find beauty in the song of the blackbird must be a vermin. And what heart is not touched by notes of the golden-voiced lark, except it be of adamant. But it is most disheartening to attempt to see, logically or otherwise, that this pleasure in the songs of these birds has anything to do with their “waging strife with Nature,” or with their ‘‘old age that is beautiful and free, ” For us the beauty of the song of the blackbird lies in the fact that it is a song of love, and of the lark that it is so inspirational. But they do not “loose their carols when they please,” nor are they ‘‘quiet when they will”. On the contrary, the songs of these birds are only heard for a very limited period of two seasons of the year. Even as they cannot force themselves to sing at any other time, so are they unable to refrain from singing during this period. And what strife could a hapless little bird wage with Nature ? The only sad part about the "happy youth’’ and ‘*beautiful and free old age’’ is that the former is darkened by the cat family and the latter is seldom reached because of the same family.

Thus, the poet is attempting to mislead us by presenting only one side of nature — the beautiful side. To force upon his mind Nature as a Deity, he must see only the other side of it.

To him Nature is blameless and undefiled, when, in reality, it is the antithesis of perfection. It is very often cruel and base.

But we are readily misled, for we are prone to see its beauty rather than its baseness. And we are very apt to accept the blatant errors of the poets which we would have scorned, were the thoughts put down in prose.

Wordsworth is by no means a separatist in this misconceived idea of Nature’s Deity. No, on the contrary, it would be very difficult to find a poet who does not regard himself Nature’s prophet. But these prophets deceive themselves when they divine themselves prophets of Elysian fields; for virtually they are harbingers of blood and strife. What is Nature but a battle­ field where “law and liberty” are in perpetual strife! Even as Lord Bacon points out, ‘‘it is not surprising that Pan is set forth as the god of hunters, for every natural action, every motion and process of Nature, is nothing else than a hunt:’’— — 238

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“After the wolf the lion steals; The wolf the kid doth follows; The kid pursues the cytisus O’er hillock and thro’ hollow.”

The Predatory System of modern science gives us our final realistic view of Nature. What! A “free old age” for the blackbird and the lark in the midst of perpetual plundering. A "happy youth” in Nature’s bloody battlefield, where might is right and every living creature the prey for some other living thing. Exaggerations ? We have all seen the inhuman cruelty of our little domestic cat when preying on a helpless mouse.

No, we were not moved by the horrible fate of the poor victim.

But, enlarge the picture and set up the tiger in the place of the cat and someone whom we hold very dear in the place of the mouse. What is this kind and benevolent god of the poets now?

Wherein does its kindness and benevolence consist? Is not Nature here a grim reality, — the Created Thing?

THE LAND OF PROMISE Fritz Peterson

Two Scandinavians sat in the kitchen-parlor-dining-room before a glowing, old-fashioned, hard coal stove, as the twilight deepened about the weathered farm-house in its isolated setting on the bleak, snow-mantled central Dakota landscape. John Anderson, the Norwegian, was addressing his host, Nils Gun­ derson, the Swede, while the two wives were conversing in an adjacent room. ^Then you're really leaving North Dakota after so many years, and admitting you’re defeated?” he queried, with a hint of both surprise and annoyance.

“I’m afraid that’s it,” the latter returned drily.

He was now fifty-five years old, Nils was, beyond his time of having an “immediate prospect of something turning up,” indeed, at an age when men cease to look forward to life and begin looking backward at it. Of his four children, one was engaged in honorable business in an adjoining county, the other son was working his way through college in the east, and the two girls, “the babies,” were attending high school in the local town of Prairie Dog. During the short winter afternoon the men had been re239

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miniscing over times past and in the course of the conversation, Nils had related the history of his life, about as follows: Thirty-five years earlier he was living with his parents on a small farm in southern Sweden. Being an only child, he had remained at home to help his parents wring a living from their rocky clearing in the mountains. But now, being at that period of his life when the future is all spangles and aurorae boreales, he was infected by the tales spun by travelers and friends of that rich and boundless land of promise beyond the Atlantic with a desire to see and dwell in that mythical place. For a year he had begged his parents to let him go, as many of his boyhood friends had already done, and now that he was twentyone his parents agreed that he was man enough to choose for himself. So bidding his parents a tearful farewell and promis­ ing to come back when he had made his fortune, he set out with a neighbor boy for the illimitable expanses that were America.

Arriving in Minneapolis, the mecca of all Scandinavians in those days, he had found it difficult to make himself fit into the new ways and language of the great country, nor was it the paradise which he had foreseen. But in time he became some­ what used to it all and finally took a job with a logging company in the north woods. It was there that he first heard of the great Dakota prairies, where the mastery of the coyote and the cowboy was waning, and where the soil was so rich that one needed but to plow to turn its flat, treeless reaches into waving fields of bountiful flax and wheat. Here was at last his chance.

He would go out to Dakota, take a homestead, and when he was rich enough, return home to his waiting parents. The friend who had accompanied him from Sweden had taken to liking the city so well that he refused to go along to Dakota.

But that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop Nils, when once he had made up his mind.

He proved his claim, threw up a sod house, and with the money he had frugally saved by his work in the woods, bought machinery and horses to break his land. After five years he had a tidy sum in the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Prairie Dog, but he thought he still ought to make a little more before he went back to Sweden. Besides, he had fallen in love with the handsome daughter of a homesteader who had taken land near his and he did not want to leave her.

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had married Olga, built up a modest farmstead, and was quite well-to-do. “In a few more years,” he thought, “I can sell out and go back home with my family” 一 he now had two sons.

At this time Wilson threw our country into war, wheat prices went up, bumper crop succeeded bumper crop, and Nils forgot about selling out.

Then followed the post-war relapse, prices fell, crops on the wheat-starved soil became smaller and smaller, and Nils was forced to mortgage his land to build a huge barn, which he was going to use in an attempt to diversify his farming with stock-raising. Average crops and fair prices enabled him to repay nearly the whole mortgage with interest, to keep up his taxes, and send his four children to school. The oldest was now in high school.

When, near the end of the ’twenties, it looked as though he might yet be able to sell his farm and return, not to the old country, for his parents were now dead and he couldn’t bear to go back and see the empty cottage, but to Minneapolis, where he could give his children better opportunities and himself live a quiet life — when, I say, this began to look possible, the terrible depression came. Together with it came year upon year of drought, grasshoppers, and family sickness, which brought Nils to such straits that he had been obliged to relin­ quish his farm to the State Bank, from which he had borrowed more money. He also had to sell most of the cattle which had not died of thirst or starvation during the drought period.

The foreclosure had occurred only last fall, the first of October, in fact. The bank’s agents had given him six months in which to find another place to move to and that time would be up April first. In the meantime he had negotiated for a small farm near Bemidji, Minnesota, where he would be in his own element, the woods, and might be able to live again untrammel­ led by mortgages and unburdened by oppressive debts. By selling what little property he still had, he was able to pay half of the purchase price of the farm and he hoped to be able to make the rest in small annual payments. To be sure, his wife and daughters did not like the idea of leaving the relatives and acquaintances near whom they had lived for so long. But at last they saw that this was their only chance. What honest 241

man wanted to stay out in this half-desert country and live on relief ?

The neighbors soon went home. Nils, his few chores done and supper eaten, sat with the Prairie Dog Weekly Courier in hand and mused, ‘‘So this was the land of promise ? This is what I got out of all my struggles ? Return home after I get rich! Hah!!”

His thoughts automatically turned to the new life which he would soon enter upon. How would they manage it in Minne­ sota? Would they be able to pay for their little farm ? How uncertain the future seemed. — In a few minutes his hands relaxed their grip on the paper, it slipped down between his knees, his head fell back. Nils had fallen asleep and was dreaming that once more he was a happy youth back in Sweden.

WE SAVED A BUCK Louis E. Pimjel

No doubt most of us enjoy listening to people tell of inter­ esting experiences. I always enjoyed listening to Uncle Herb tell of life in the north woods, where he used to run a summer resort on Cedar Island in northern Wisconsin. Many people learned to know Uncle Herb, and I believe he also had a large number of friends among the animals and birds up there in the woods, because he helped them whenever he could. Once he and his sons saved the life of a deer in an interesting way, and I’ll relate the incident as I remember Uncle Herb telling it.

“One winter day, while busied on the shore of a lake, we heard a wolf or a dog chasing a deer through the woods. The animal drove the deer onto the ice and then abandoned the chase. The lake was not frozen all the way across, and the deer soon got onto thin ice. My wife and I stopped to watch the deer, and I judged it was about three or four hundred yards out from shore when it broke through the ice. I remember saying that I thought it would get back to shore again and we resumed our work. About an hour later, however, my wife called me and said that the deer could not get out of the water.

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My sons, who were on the other shore line, had seen the deer, too, and climbing into another boat, came to the rescue.

They broke a channel through the thin ice up to where it was frozen thick enough to support considerable weight, but this was still some distance from shore. When the channel was finished, I was to drive the deer into it and towards shore.

This I set out to do, but the deer was so tired out from swimm­ ing about, that when I approached it, it tried to climb into the boat. Had it succeeded in doing this, it undoubtedly would have upset the boat. I had to place both hands on its nose and push it back into the water. Finally I succeeded in getting it turned about and into the channel. It swlam up to the solid ice but hadn’t enough strength left to climb out. When it tried a second time, my son stepped back and seizing its tail helped it onto the ice. We let it lie there a while and rest. Presently it rose and walked to the shore. Here it turned and looked back at us with a look that said, Thank you’; then it disappeared into the woods.’’

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Jhttortal s Swing Music ECENTLY a newspaper quoted a certain blind English • pianist as saying that if Bach or Mozart were living today, they would be wildly enthusiastic about the modern swing music. As proof this pianist pointed to the fact that Bach took many of the existing choral tunes and made his own harmoniza­ tions for them, in other words he “swung” them. Such a foolish statement almost makes one believe that this musician is deaf as well as blind. 4'He even changed the melody, at times.*J Yes, it is true Bach at times made very minor changes in the melody, but the man who made these changes was Bach, a master in his art, one who could take an existing masterpiece and make changes which would really enhance its beauty. Can the same be said of the modern swingsters? We think not.

All the modern composers who might be able to take a classical composition and rearrange it without disrupting it refrain from it. They may do it in private as a pastime, but a Toscanini certainly would not publish or publicly play any such travesty on a masterpiece. If a composer considers himself greater than a Mozart or a Beethoven, let him go at his improvisation, but first let him be very sure of his ground.

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Campus and Classroom Examination week has again come and gone just as it always does. Possibly the best excuse for the retention of this ancient formality is that for a short time at least it provides a somewhat wholesome variation from our intellect-numbing routine.

The Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society with Paul Baganz as master of ceremonies recently presented a program which showed a marked improvement over preceding efforts of both societies in the selection as well as in * arrangement of the material. The theme was "The American Drama”.

G. Hillmer’s analysis of realism in the modern drama evoked considerable discussion due to his subjective treatment of the topic.

We might also add the one act play which concluded the program was surprisingly well performed.

Merely to avoid any criticism which could accuse us of partiality in reporting eventful incidents on our campus, we herewith record that Leland Grams sustained a more or less major or minor injury to his ankle.

L. Grams is a Freshman.

After three unbelievable weeks of ice and treacherously slippery sidewalks, one could still find a Hans Guckindieluft (possibly even a Gretel or two) who persistently tried to execute a simple ninety degree turn by merely sending one foot off in the desired direction, which invariably resulted in a highly in­ tricate maneuver and a rather shocking climax.

To F. A. Grunwald of the Philomathean Society must go the palm for the best Literary Program presented to date; possibly because he chose speakers whose viewpoints and attitude on the subject coincided with his own. And then, too, there was the strategic choice of E. Fredrich as lead-off man. The latter’s well-known ability as a spellbinder had a wonderful double effect. On those few whose intellectual aspirations are nil it acted as a powerful anaesthetic, and the rest it practically hypnotized by euphonic word-patterns and a calculated礙 im­ pressive delivery.

“Romanticism in Music and Poetry” was the theme which was explained, defined, and characterized.

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Late Flash!!! Fritz Grunwald has just been appointed Game Warden.

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JUumitt JJntes The Rev. Prof. E. Berg ’10，of Michigan Lutheran Semi­ nary at Saginaw, has been called as inspector at Northwestern College, but at this writing it is still unknown whether or not he will accept.

Victor Tiefel ’34, who had been serving at Bethesda Child­ ren^ Home, has accepted a call as pastor of the congregation in Platteville, Colorado.

Rev. E. Kasischke ’28，formerly of Yale, Mich., is now pastor of the congregation at Bay City, Michigan.

Rev. Paul Hein ’31，started a mission in the outskirts of Detroit, Mich., some time ago. Later he built his own church and was recently installed as pastor.

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Among the recent visitors to the college were Hans Lutz ex ’38, and Robert Toepel ex ’38. The latter stopped in Watertown for a day with the choir from Valparaiso University, where he is now taking a pre-med. course.

Eleanore Reuschel ex ’38, is now teaching in the school maintained by the congregation of Rev. 0. Eckert ’20, at Saginaw, Michigan.

H. von Haden ’29, is now teaching at Horlick High School in Racine, Wis., at the same time he is working for a Ph. D.

BASKETBALL Northwestern 31 Engineers 33 Watertown, Wis. Jan. 14. In one of the fastest, most ex­ citing, and roughest games that has been played on the North­ western floor this season the sharp-shooting Milwaukee Engi­ neers defeated the Goslings by a margin of two points, 33—31.

The long shots of Otto Pagels deprived the Engineers of an early lead and matched shooting kept the count close during the first period. The score at the half-way mark was 21—20, in favor of Northwestern. Play during the second half continued fast and furious. Though the Black and Red cagers tried gamely, they worked under the handicap of a basket with a cover on it, while the Engineers, in fine fettle all the way, went on to win a well-earned victory.

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Engineers f. Webb f. Rees f. c. Bissel c. Nirenberg g. Gutowski g. Sharp g. Wolf

FG FT 2 3 3 1 3 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 —0 14 "5

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Northwestern FG FT P Toepel 3 2 Schweppe 2 0 0 Hackbarth 0 3 0 Naumann 3 12 Kuehl 0 0 Horn 0 0 Pagels 3 1 1 Lambert 1^0 12 T 8

Northwestern 30 Seminary 37 Thiensville, Wis. Jan. 22. It was “Hep” Koehler Night when the Northwestern cagers engaged the Sem team on its own floor. Mr. Koehler provided his own celebration by drop­ ping in twenty-one points against the Goslings. It would appear that he has lost absolutely none of his skill since he left us.

Emil Toepel was high man for Northwestern with eleven points.

Seminary f. f f. c. g. g. g.

Schwartz C Frev Hallemeyer Koehler Roekle G. Frey Schuetze

FG FT 1 1 1 1 0 0 9 3 2 2 1 1 0 1 14 9

Northwestern FG FT P 4 f. Toepel 5 0 0 2 f. Schweppe 3 0 1 f. Hackbarth 2 0 c. Naumann 0 0 g. Lambert 3 0 3 g. Pagels 0 0 0 g. Kuehl g. Horn 0 1 10 12 4

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Aurora 46 Northwestern 43 Aurora, 111. Feb. 2. The hypothetical if has been a thorn in the side of mankind since time began. If Northwestern’s basketeers had been able to make their free throws they would have won the game. In scoring from the field the Goslings outshot their opponents, making twenty goals to seventeen for Aurora. From the free throw mark they made good three of the thirteen chances allotted to them while Aurora connected on twelve of their fourteen gift tosses.

• B. Hulbert and J. Hulbert led the victors’ scoring with eighteen and seventeen points respectively. Reliable Emil Toepel was again high man for the vanquished with thirteen points.

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Aurora f. B. Hulbert f. J. Hulbert c. Brethauer g. Lockwood g. Steffens

FG FT 8 2 4 9 2

10 2 0 17 12

Northwestern P FG FT P 1 f. Toepel 6 12 1 f. Hackbarth 110 2 f. Schweppe 5 0 1 ? c. Naumann 5 0 2 0 g. Kuehl 0 1 4 0 g. Lambert 2_ 1 3 20

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Engineers 38 Northwestern 32 Milwaukee, Wis. Feb. 5. Again the all-round class of the Engineers was too much for the Goslings. Play during the first half was close, but the Engineers never relinquished their lead and at the end of the period the score read 20—15, in favor of the home-towners. Dominating the play during the remainder of the game the Engineers went on to win in handy fashion.

Northwestern’s chances suffered a setback when Emil Toepel left the game on fouls midway in the first half.

Northwestern Engineers FG FT P PG FT P 5 1 2 f. Schweppe 5 0 1 f. Nirenberg 0 1 4 f. Keibel f. Webb 10 0 2 f. Toepel 2 0 4 c. Bissel 1 1 0 0 1 f. Hackbarth c. Rees 0 0 3 5 2 0 0 0 g. Wolf 1 f. Lehninger 2 g. Gutowski 3 5 2 c. Naumann 3 g. Horn 0 3 3 14 10 12 g. Pagels 0 0 0 2 2 g. Lambert 13 6 14 Northwestern 29 Milton 32 Watertown, Wis. Feb. 8. The Goslings looked good enough during the first half to make the spectators think that they were going to be treated to a victory, but for some reason the spirit went out of our team in the closing stanza and Milton came back to take away what had seemed a certain victory.

The feature of the first half was Lambert’s long one-handed shot from the corner court, which went through without touch­ ing the hoop. At the end of the half Northwestern held a six point advantage over their opponents, 17—11, but three minutes after the second period began Milton knotted the count. Horn’s free throw and Lambert’s long shot again put the Goslings out in front, but Milton immediately retaliated with two baskets and was not thereafter headed.

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Luebke paced the Milton scoring with thirteen points and again it was Toepel high for Northwestern with twelve points.

Milton Northwestern FG FT P FG FT P 6 12 f. Toepel f. Luebke 5 2 0 0 f. Boyce 0 f. Keibel 0 0 0 3 4 f. Polan 2 f.c. Schweppe 0 1 1 c. L. Loofboro 1 1 2 f. Hackbarth 0 0 0 0 0 g. L. Hull 4 3 c. Naumann 4 0 1 g. R. Smith 2 g. Horn 3 2 g. Baxter 1 g. Kuehl 0 0 0 ~~ g. Lambert 2 0 2 12 8 12 g. Pagels 0

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Northwestern 27 Mission House 35 Plymouth, Wis. Feb. 12. It was generally conceded that if the Mission House team had been “on” when they played on Northwestern^ floor they would have taken home a victory.

The Muskies proved the notion when, on their own floor, they took the Goslings to camp.

The Black and Red cagers put on a good show — nineteen fouls! Once during the first half they tied the score at 17—17, but beyond that point Mission House was never in danger. The score at the halftime was 22—17.

Fritz Naumann took scoring honors for the evening with twelve points. “Red” Lambert set a new season record for Northwestern by making five free throws.

Mission House * Northwestern FG FT P FG FT P 1 f. E. Toepel 2 0 4 f. V. Wierwille 4 0 10 4 0 1 f. Schweppe f. Zurbrucken 3 6 0 2 1 2 c. Naumann c. Hodige 1 0 0 2 3 2 M. Toepel g. N. Wierwille 1 1 g. Lambert 0 5 1 g. Paschen 3 2 2 f. Keibel 0 0 2 f. C. Stuebbe 0 0 2 0 g. Horn 0 f. Nierhof 2 a f.

Lehninger 0 0 0 12 8 f. Hackbarth 0 1 1 * Accurate statistics not availableg.

Pagels 0 1 0 10 7 19

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Bird Interest............... .

Retrospection...............

Over a Glass of Beer....

The Chinese Drama— The Perfect Philosophy The Skylark........ ....... .

Disillusionments........

The Expensive Trowel..

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Long Live the Staff............ .

Posdnychev On Music..........

Thank You.......................... .

What is the Black and Red?

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXI.

Watertown, Wis., March 1938

Number 10

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertown, as second class matter under Act of March 3. 1870. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

BIRD- INTEREST E. Wcndland

Occasionally one succumbs to a desire to classify humanity in general in a superficial sort of way. Thus where birds are concerned, people can generally be? put into three classes; namely, those intensely interested (“fanatically” interested would perhaps be more adequate); those who are more or less in between, who have a certain knowledge about whatever might be concerned and do not despise it, yet their interest is of an indifferent nature, rather passive and apathetic; and finally those rugged individuals who simply don’t know and just don’t care.

Since we are concerning ourselves here with “bird-interest” and not merely “where birds are concerned,” this generality limps. It seems to be an interest that has a great tendency to go to extremes. In fact so much so, that the enthusiast in this field would call the middle class (or those in between) practically nonexistent. We are inclined to agree. One can hardly con­ ceive of a bird-fancier with a passive interest, just as little as any 251

interest for that matter is to an enthusiast a passive thing.

Which will leave our sad humanity, if anything is left after all this generalizing, dissecting, and classifying has taken place, in two very distinct groups — those who are, and those who are not interested — a rather remarkable deduction considering the effort spent in reaching it. Yet we hope something has been passed along in this evident prolixity.

A total lack of bird-interest is, of course, the first and original state of every person. Before an interest is aroused, one under­ goes a somewhat primitive period, which everyone undoubtedly experiences at one time or another, and from which the vast majority never recover. To describe this period simply and bluntly —it is characterized by a certain animal desire, an in­ herent longing to grab any available weapon and to ‘ 'blow the bird to bits•” When we say that one belonging in this class has a total lack of interest in birds, we take into consideration the fact that he is acquainted with a certain number of species in a haphazard manner. He would, of course, be familiar to a certain extent with the English sparrow. Yet it is surprising- how many varieties of birds are classified by him under the general heading of “sparrow” and indiscriminately massacred as such. It is reasonably safe to assume that he could possibly identify a certain red-breasted bird in this vicinity nine times out of ten, although one couldn’t be too sure of it. He is remarkably adept at identifying a host of species under one sweeping nomen­ clature. Thus all the various kinds of hawks to him are “chicken-hawks”，the owls “hoot-owls” ； all birds predominantly black (and there are quite a few) are typed ‘‘black-birds’’一 and so on. This sort of classification realizes its acme among those living in the vicinity of a body of water, who have a tendency, one should say a mania, of calling- every long-legged water bird a “shypoke”. His somewhat limited “repertoire” would alse include a few other varieties which at one time or another will have been noticed by even the most casual observer.

A portrayal of this sort of ignorance is somewhat beside the point. Ignorance isn’t to be condemned. Nor would one be quite so absurd as to call anyone a Philistine because he doesn’t happen to be interested in bird life. On the other hand, to consider anyone slightly unbalanced who happens to run 252

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Why observe birds in the first place? Why become acquain­ ted with them, with their peculiar habits and characteristics?

These are questions one doesn’t care to answer at all with any flat, definite statement, since those who care about such things wouldn’t bother themselves in the least for an answer, nor could it be explained in so many words. Just as little as one cares to go into any tedious explanations about why we listen to a symphony, or the relative merits of reading good books. Why, for that matter, eat herring, or why drink beer, to use a crass example? Certainly not to keep body and soul together. Be­ hind it all there might be a downright selfish reason, a certain desire to gratify one’s own personal pleasure, without a thought whatsoever of why it is done or what value is derived.

More tangibly speaking, the practical manner in which any­ one thus inclined can cultivate such an interest would be to procure a bird guide, a pair of binoculars if possible, and with the aid of these observe and attempt to identify any of the several hundred species in the vicinity. It’s a good idea to be­ gin in spring and to keep a list of the migratory birds in the order of their return from the south. ‘‘New and untold vistas of aetherial beauty’’ definitely won’t unfold themselves at the first attempt; nor will one become positively “entranced by melodious carols that issue forth from the throats of these feathered harbingers of spring.” The first attempt is rather apt to be bewildering if one is at all observant, but at the same time stimulating.

Once an interest has been stimulated, the endless striving after knowledge and succeeding pleasure will never be satiated.

Bird lore is inexhaustible. Some of its mysteries will never be solved — such, as the fate of the passenger pigeon, which once swarmed over America in inestimable flocks, now completely extinct. Experiences are unforgetable. The bewildering maze of warblers on a rather chill morning in early May; the lonely song of the hermit thrush at sunset in late summer, with its strange, ventriloquial effect; the deep, pumplike booming of the bittern from a distant swamp; the eerie screetch of the barred owl over a camp fire on a cold night in winter; the wierd laughing of a loon from the distant shores of a northern lake; 253

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A RETROSPECTION Louis E. Pingcl

The rays of the afternoon sun fell through the study windows, gently touching the silvered hair of a man seated at a little table in a corner of the room. He was about fifty years of age, and through an interval of twenty years the sun had often found him thus, busied with his books or with his manuscripts.

He had often said that they had become his best friends. To­ day a little volume lay opened before him and one glance at the yellowed pages revealed the book to be a diary. The hand­ writing had faded somewhat through the years for the date showed that it had been written almost thirty years ago. The writing brought back a memory of the man’s youth, for he rested his head in his hands, lost in thought. He remained thus for perhaps ten minutes, then turning the page, he read what he had written there years ago. ‘‘Sunday evening, March 6. This was another day I’ll always remember because of Audrey. How sweet she looked when we met her this morning, and walked to church with her! And when she went skating with us this afternoon. I could have kept on skating that way forever, I guess. It seems when I’m with her, time passes much too swiftly. When we went home the distance seemed so much shorter than when I walk alone. When I returned I retraced the steps we had taken together, and re­ called what she said at almost any point. I regret very much that I didn’t always know her, but I hope we may spend many happy hours together in the future before our ways through life lead us far apart.” There were other pages in the little volume that would convince anyone that there had been more happy hours, and again the man rested his head in his hands, reliving them in spirit.

The sun had long ago sent its last beams into the room.

The shadows crept from the corners and gave the room a gloomy aspect. The man aroused himself from his reveries and putting on his coat and hat, went out into the evening air. After a few moments he returned and partook of an evening repast.

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The man was also interested in music and sometimes spent hours at the piano. He had a collection of compositions popular in days gone by in addition to classical numbers, which are always popular. He still played “Country Gardens” from memory. On this particular evening he picked up a book of German songs and seated himself before the instrument. “I’ll always remember her singing this song,” he said to himself.

“It seems I can still hear that voice of hers, though many years have passed since I had the pleasure.” By and by his fingers began to wander over the keys. “Where could she be today?” he said; “through all these years I was never able to forget her, but then, how could I? There was a time when I believed we could be happy together, and I still think we could have been, but it seems it was never supposed to be that way.”

Some time later the man happened to pass through the town in which he had lived as a boy. He entered the library and looked through the copies of the local newspaper which were kept on file. There were many things in the papers concerning persons and places he had known. Some death notices caught his eye, but what especially attracted him was an account of a marriage ceremony. He didn’t know the groom, but then, that didn’t make any difference. The bride was the girl about whom he had written in his diary. He sighed and handed the papers back to the librarian. He walked along the streets he had known, and also past the house where she had lived years ago.

The memory of those days made him decide never to return to the town again. He halted a moment before the house and a poem of Lowell’s passed through his mind. Half aloud he re­ peated the last verse: “Sweet piece of bashful maiden art!

The English words had seemed too fain, But these — they drew us heart to heart, Yet held us tenderly apart.

She said, — ‘Auf wiedersehn’.’’

OVER A GLASS OF BEER E. Fredrick

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The young man was dressed in all the finery of the age 一 stiff collar, derby, and the rest —and looked with it all very un­ comfortable. Occasionally he pulled at his large watch in the manner of one who is anxiously waiting for the time to pass, and this was John’s only excuse for being in the saloon. He was trying with much fretting and sweating to pass a half-hour.

The beer held no attraction for him and the smutty saloon less.

Its atmosphere was oppressive to his soul, that was soaring far above the saloon and its inhabitants. For a quarter of an hour he had stood over his glass without touching its contests. Beer is tasteless to him who has drunk the drink divine and is still under its spell.

John was in love. His gaze, unbound by the shiny mirror that reflected his stupid stare, was seeing visions of sunset, stars, a fair face, flowers, and other bright and beautiful pictures that come unbidden to the young-man-in-love and lift him far above his surroundings into Love’s fairyland. With these dis­ connected visions trooping through his brain, John was having trouble formulating a little speech he intended to make on bended knee later in the evening. How could one put into mere words these visions, these ecstasies, this power that gripped the soul and bound it by chains that were no chains to the soul of the girl one loved? How could one make himself clear when proposing marriage to the loved one? Love was such a wonder­ ful feeling, a thing of the soul...

His reveries were brought to a sudden stop. Mike was speaking. “Drink up. Fritz over there” 一 a careless poke of the elbow indicated the general direction, where the seedylooking stranger was standing—“wants to buy a drink.”

John for the first time took notice of the people about him and with reluctance and repugnance gave his attention to the stranger, who by now had decently lowered the level of the liquid in his bottle and was speaking with a heavy but loose tongue. ‘‘Sure go ahead, drink — Give everybody a drink — I’ll pay 256

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Fritz had that afternoon played a role unusual and strange even to him, who had played many roles in his struggle for existence. A father-confessor, a j ack-of-all-trades, people would come to him to have odd and unpleasant tasks performed and he would do them. Today a woman had offered him ten dollars to find her a husband and Fritz had without hesitation donned his bow and quiver and done it. This woman, whose life had been checkered and careers many — bar-maid, sutler in the Franco-Prussian War, entertainer in a Weinstube一no longer possessed the beauty and charm, by which she had sup­ ported herself. She could still earn a few coins by singing and dancing in the saloons. But the coins the patrons tossed her were getting fewer and fewer and she was getting older and older. Deciding that marriage, if not exactly to her liking, was better for her than anything else, she went to Fritz and enlisted his aid in finding a victim.

Fritz immediately thought of an old acquaintance of his, a widower, who had been keeping a weather-eye open for a suitable helpmeet. He hitched up his horse, loaded the woman’s possessions all tied up in one blanket on the wagon, gave her a hand up and drove the few miles to the widower’s home.

Our heroine’s realistic approach to marriage seems strange and shocking but excusable. She had in her adventurous days tasted the sweets of life to the full together with the bitters and now no longer bothered with its flavors. People of her stamp or the stamp of Fritz and the simple widower knew too much reality to still retain any fairy-dreams they might once have had.

There was no glamor in the proposal scene they played, as when a knight rides on a white horse to his fair lady. Fritz and the woman came riding in a tattered old buggy. He called his friend and explained the proposition. The bride-to-be spoke first. Flashing a smile that revealed one jutting tooth in an otherwise barren mouth, she said, 4'Well, are you going to marry me?”

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As he finished his tale, Fritz ordered another drink for him­ self and John. But the latters’s hour had come. The quarter hour had passed and he could now go to call on the girl-friend.

Hastily he left the saloon and walked out into the night. .The night —a night in mid-spring — was fine. The streets were bathed in moonlight. Yes, a very romantic evening, especially for a lover. John walked down the street with head high and eyes turned to the stars. A perplexing thought kept running through his brain. How could one put in mere words this wonderful feeling! How could he ever tell her how he really felt! How did one manage to propose!

THE CHINESE DRAMA Fritz Peterson

As in Greece and England, the drama in China sprang from religion. On occasions of religious festivals pantomimic dances were staged to the accompaniment of the wierd five-toned Chinese music. As time passed chants and antiphonal speeches were added. But these spectacles soon became too profane for the exacting Confucian priests, with the result that already in the Chou dynasty of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they were divorced from religous sanction, They, however, con­ tinued to be steeped in religous symbolism.

Simultaneous with this development there was another. In the Lang dynasty, during the eighth century, we first hear of an emperor hiring actors and chorus girls, as it were, to give private entertainments in the palace. This pleasing practice was copied and developed by succeeding emperors.

But it was not until the thirteenth-century Mongol dynasty of Yuan that the true Chinese drama was born. Then first were subject and character separated and the foundation laid for establishing a peculiarly Chinese drama.

From that time to the present, however, little advancement has actually been made, since the drama was under the stigma cif an all-powerful religion’s ban. The plots, if there were any, were as shallow as those of many present-day American shortstory ists. Interpretive music, introduced already in the tenth century, accompanies nearly every drama and must be taken 258

into consideration, if one is to properly understand the drama.

Chinese history records eighty-five dramatists during the last seven centuries, of whom none were tragedians. The typical Chinese drama is a comedy or farce.

There are three recognized types of dramas: the emotional Vun Pan Shi, depicting patriotism and filial devotion; the Jiu Pan Shi, dealing with matters civil and military; and the light, modern Vun Min Shi, treating more common-place matters.

The first two types are written in the Peking brand of the Mandarin tongue, which is the Chinese latina lingua. The last type is written in local and colloquial dialects, as one would expect.

The theatrical profession itself is in China highly despised, although nearly every one attends the performances of the dramas. In other words it is quite all right to see an actor on the stage, but to take him into one’s home would be a decided faux pas. It is significant that as a result of a taboo early placed on actresses, most female parts are played by young men, although since 1911 the feeling against women players has eased enough to allow many to take up the profession of acting.

The name “actress” is still synonymous with “courtesan,” though, and in fact, a society of women playwrights and actresses have dubbed themselves courtesans.

Actors may be divided into five distinct and quite exclusive classes. The larger cities have permanent theatrical societies.

Temporary troupes play in temples in whatever cities and villages hire them. The Grass Stage Players set up their mat and bamboo stages and pits, the materials for which they carry with them, on public greens within or near villages. The River and Canal Actors sail up and down the numerous canals and rivers in picturesque and reeking junks, entertaining audiences which gather on the banks. The hoi polloi among actors are the itinerant singers and tale-spinners, equivalent to our monkey-and-grind-box artists, who euphemistically call themselves Speaking Books and who put on their acts on street corners for the few coins which passersby toss them.

Only the larger cities, and especially Peking, have perma­ nent theaters, and these are very simple. The stage is raised, but has no curtain, no lighting effects, no scenery, and only the most meager stage furnishings. There is an entrance on each 259

side of the stage while the orchestra is situated at the back of the stage. Behind the stage is the “green room”，which serves as dressing and property room. Admission charges are small and spectators sit in a crowded, poorly-ventilated room.

Performances are very conventionalized and wooden.

Usually six or eight short plays, or acts chosen without regard for order, are played in one evening. These follow each other in close succession with very little change in scenery. The theatre-goer must imagine at one time that a table or two and a few chairs represent a temple or home and during the next play that the addition of a few poles wrapped with leaves indicates a forest. On the contrary, costumes are as elaborate as the stage is simple. The type of costume always denotes the character that is being portrayed. The face is painted to indi­ cate temperament. Actions difficult to show on the stage are depicted in conventional ways. The dropping of a whip means that one of the actors is dismounting, and the picking up of the whip means that one is mounting his horse.

When an actor appears on the stage, he turns first to the audience, tells who he is and what part he will play, and then addresses himself to the action. Conversation is very polite and correct and the actors think aloud. The property men are ever present, setting chairs for the actors, catching them if they are to faint or be killed, and even serving them tea if the scene becomes very long or tedious. But the attention of the audience is not distracted by these things. Moods are inter­ preted by the music and a clash of cymbals heralds the end of longer speeches and of the individual plays.

For the Chinese the interest in the drama is not in the plot nor even in the character, but in the actor. It is the symbolism and tradition represented by the actor’s costume and action and by the musical strains that draws his attention. For this reason and because the Chinaman is so passive and oddly humorous, he has produced no real tragic dramas. Finally, his drama is hardly more, even now, than a musical pantomime with explana­ tory words and has no literary value. It is interesting to us only because it shows us something of the traditional past of this age-old nation.

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“So you are going to college, are you?” the accommodating young salesman asked me, as we were fast learning to know each other. We had just met, for this stranger was but one of the many who were giving me a lift, as I proceeded homeward via the “hitchhike method.” ‘‘Yes，’’ was the reply, “only one more year of college left.” “What are you going to be?” he asked with an inquisitive mood. “Just working for a degree, and not definitely decided yet.” And here the conversation continued, with a discussion of the present position held by him, his many experiences and how he as a boy might have made a better choice. As the long ribbon of highway rolled under us, conversation delved deeper and deeper into the mysteries of life. What really was the best philosophy to which man could conform? How about religion? Government? And marriage? And so on, ideas were compared, problems discussed and plans made for a future Utopia, “Kid, if you want to be a success, you’ve got to be a big bluff!” This was the cement salesman’s bit of philosophy which he had to offer me as sound advice. ‘‘The world nowadays is a mighty tough place, and you’ve got to keep kicking to get ahead. Competition is keen everywhere, and you must outclass your competitor by far before you can at all hope to be successful. Put on a bold front, even if you know you aren’t of much significance; you at least will make a favorable impression. The first impression of a man is the final impression, so make it good! In my many years of experience, I’ve found that it doesn’t pay to act timidly, for he who does so, appears in­ competent, will not make a sale, and will eventually be disgraced besides. Only he who puts confidence in himself can hope to succeed.” Already we were in the busy section of another city, and my ride and interesting conversation came to an end.

As I stood “thumbing” alone along the side of the high­ way, my thoughts were still concerned with what I had just heard. Indeed there might be much truth in his philosophy, but I left time for further consideration later. What might be good policy for a cement salesman might not be good advice for me. Along came a new car, offered me a ride, and I was soon interested in a dignitary of note from a large university. “So 261

you，re:from college are you ? — Oh yes — what are you studying?

—Lots of unemployment isn’t there? — Future for young people not so good, is it?” With the loquacious speech of a great orator, and addressing me as gentleman, he proceeded to give the content of the speech he had just delivered before a graduating class at their commencement excercises. “The ultimate end of all learning is that higher goal which all mankind must seek to attain. We are all members of a great brotherhood, working together to make this a perfect nation.

If only everyone could be properly educated, war, poverty, and crime would be wiped out from the face of the earth. Treat your neighbor as yourself, foster education, and together we shall redeem the world.” Indeed such philosophy seemed quite plausible, but whether morally correct, remained a question.

And we parted, left to draw our own conclusions.

The next acquaintance was to be made with a young missionary from Borneo, Dutch East Indies, who was home after seven years abroad. Religion obviously was his field of interest, so we sought to penetrate the hidden philosophy with which he concerned itself. As one who belonged to the United Missionary Alliance, I found him unusually liberal in his views, and it seemed as though we had difficulty ascertaining： just how we two differed in our religious views. Finally “point blank” he directed the question at me, do you believe in Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour? After stating that he did, he remarked that if one agreed in this point, there was no real difference, for we agreed on the touchstone of all religions. Then he began to unfold the history of his life. Here was a rich man’s son gone astray, come to repentance, and in his new zeal become a foreign missionary. He was firmly convinced that God had ‘‘predestined’’ us in the matters of life and death. Aware of Jesus’ guidance and aid, he was satisfied with his life, and had no fear for the future. As everything would eventually end as Providence had planned, he was glad to experience whatever life might have to offer.

Again I stood alone on the highway, struck with the argu­ ments of this last stranger. How this philosophy differed from that which the former had offered. Yet it mattered little just now, whose advice I might choose to favor, for I was enjoying their suggestions and company to the utmost. I ‘‘thumbed’’ for 262

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A Quaker by religious conviction, a building contractor by pro­ fession, and childless as a husband, he also had something to offer. Here was a man who had found the secret of a happy life. As a lord of a little world which he with his wife had formed, he was living in perfect peace and contentment.

Agreeing with the philosophy of the great Latin poet, Horace 一 *Carpe Diem’ 一 he believed in enjoying the day. To be provided with some daily work, a ticket to the theatre at night, and a nice home and friends was all he asked. Church was for him but a social institution from whose pulpit literary and social topics were weekly disseminated. Associated with it were also delightful evenings of entertainment, charity drives and the source of many pleasant friendships. With a little wealth, he enjoyed the day, worked, played and was satisfied. To such a man prayers were useless for he had no worries and cares; for him there was no future.

As I sat quietly that night under the moonlit sky, I was alone and wondered. In the short period of but a day I had again and again been given the key to the perfect way of living. Each man had professed what he believed to be the correct philosophy, yet all were different. Indeed there was confusion, and one might well have concluded with the poet Milton—“Vain Wisdom all and false Philosophy.” Is life so mysterious that man cannot find the one correct philosophy? if so, what then is truth? I just sat there and wondered.

THE SKYLARK M. Volkmann

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then—as I am listening now.

From Shelley’s To A Skylark.

America has no skylark just like the one about which Shelley wrote his beautiful lines, but there is a bird, common in this country, known as the prairie horned lark, which closely ap­ proaches the European skylark, especially as to habits. To hear and see the "skylark” for the first time is, if you are one who appreciates birds, an experience which will not be soon for­ gotten.

Three of us went for a hike on one of those days which comes as a tantalizing forerunner of spring — too soon to allow you to cherish any hope that that the wind will continue to blow warm and soft and that the sun will always shine so brightly and the sky remain so purely blue. However, the more hardy of the birds had begun to return northward.

Only one of us knew how the song of a skylark sounded.

We were walking along the road, just a little way into the country, when suddenly the bong came pouring out of the sky.

Our knowing friend told us that it was a skylark. We paused and listened while the song continued to issue from a somewhere that seemed quite far above us. It was only a simple melody, repeated at intervals without noticeable variation (the song of Shelley’s skylark is more beautiful and complex than that of the American bird) but it was the pure note of joy that held our attention. We searched the span of blue for a glimpse of the music-maker while we listened. In all that azure expanse there was no thing visible; yet all the while the song went on, remote but undiminished. Perhaps we couldn’t see the bird because its flight was in the face of the sun, but greater was the possibility that the lark had soared to such a height as to make itself invisible to the eye. A moment more of the happy music and then it suddenly ceased.

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Then suddenly we heard the song again and this time our efforts to locate its source, after intense searching, were re­ warded.

The horned lark flies for the fun of flying. It describes great circles that gradually carry it far aloft. Then it hangs in the air for a time, all the while singing that melody of un­ adulterated joy, until, tiring of one place it dives almost to the earth and immediately proceeds to repeat its aesthetic journey.

Now we watched while the songster, almost a spot to the naked eye, soared in irrepressible exuberance far above us.

One marvelled that the song carred with such bell-like clarity over so long a distance. A few strokes of the wings, which seemed never to tire, served to hold the bird suspended in one position. Binoculars revealed a flash of gold against the blue whenever the wings were extended. A skylark leaving a lark in the sky! Nota very clever thought, but it was like that.

Suddenly the lark drew in its wings and plunged swiftly downward. It disappeared in the haze of distance. The bird was gone but its song and its joyous flight lingered long in our minds.

DISILLUSIONMENTS J. Vogt

All of George’s life had been spent in the small town of Millville. Its population of one thousand inhabitants had been the only real world of his fourteen years. He knew just about every one of the thousand, if not personally, at least by their faces. His life as a paper carrier had brought him in contact with everything the small town had to offer. His newspapers had given him his only contact with an imaginative world.

Every day while folding his papers he stopped to scan the front page and read of wars, floods, and especially the exciting accounts of robberies, kidnappings, and murders. The entire country, it seemed, was infested with the latter. Why was it that Millville, but two hundred miles from the haven of crime, Chicago, had to be satisfied with second-hand accounts in the newspapers? Why did nothing ever happen here?

Being a carrier and in the employ of the newspaper, there­ fore a newspaperman at heart, George had always kept his eyes open for possible headline news. He had always dreamed of seeing himself seated behind a large office desk, plucking away in two-finger fashion at his typewriter. But what could be done in a hick town like this? Who was interested in who 265

visited whom and what happened to nobody of importance?

Why couldn’t he have been born in a city like Chicago? He could have been a good reporter, he knew that. It took tough­ ness to make a reporter. Wasn’t he the toughest fellow in town? Who was there to try to disprove it but a few sissies across the tracks? The last fellow who proved it had come from the city. But that was years ago before he had started to eat his spinach and Wheaties. Of course it couldn’t happen again. Anyway he was tough enough to become a reporter.

If only he had been born in Chicago! That was a thought.

Why couldn’t he go to the city? He had enough money saved.

There would be a little trouble, of course, trying to convince his mother, but that could be managed. He could take the train in. He would keep his experienced eyes open. No doubt he would run into a bank robbery or gang war the minute he stepped off the train. It was a snap. No doubt he would hold down a cub reporter’s position in no time. It was worth a try anyway.

On second thought, perhaps he shouldn’t take the train after all. There was no adventure in a train ride. Besides, his papers told him that hitch-hiking was the modern mode of travel. With any luck at all he should get there nearly as quickly as with the train. This would give him a chance to start at the bottom.

A few days later George found himself at the village limits, satchel in hand, ready to start out in the world. Could he take a prophecy from the weather, he was headed for the brighter part of his life.

As he waited for the first passing car, he nervously jingled the few coins in his pocket. Having as his goal a den of thieves, he applied the lesson learned from the reports of the less fortunate hundreds printed daily in his paper. Chicago was in­ fested with pickpockets. They could take a watch off the wrist as easily as he had long snatched cookies from his mother’s pantry. Therefore he had carefully deposited his watch in his shirt pocket, covered by vest and coat. The extra supply of bills had been safely stowed in his shoes.

His patient watch for a prospective chauffeur was soon rewarded by the appearance of a car around the bend. It was a sedan, a ‘37 model at that. The prospects seemed very bright.

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Putting on his brightest smile, and stepping boldly into full view, George bravely lifted his right arm, extended his thumb and hoped for the best. Wow! Where could he be going in such a hurry? Tough luck! With him he could have been in Chicago in no time. Oh well! There would be another. The next car was loaded down with children. No chance!

After half an hour’s wait there appeared around the bend a shiny black Packard sedan. As it approached nearer George saw that the driver was alone. He would want a companion.

He had an Illinois license too. Whether it was the want of a companion or the result of George’s pleasant smile, at any rate the Packard came to a hurried stop. Say, that fellow really looked tough. He surely was a gangster himself.

Great was George’s surprise and disappointment when he learned that his patron was no man of the underworld but merely an agent for the Packard Motor Company who was re­ turning to the branch office in Chicago. After the conversation had begun, George was still more disheartened when he learned that his friend wasn’t so tough after all. Why, he didn’t even curse! George soon realized that the agent must have spent nearly all his time away from his native city. He had never in his life seen a gang war or bank robbery. He remembered a big fire. But what was that? He recalled that on his last trip to the city he had met the riot squad going the opposite direction.

Why, this man had never lived. His education bad been neg­ lected.

After a very uninteresting trip George finally arrived in the big city. His friend immediately went to his headquarters in the heart of the city and George rode along.

A short time later in the heart of the “loop”，standing on a corner, was a very bewildered small-town boy. His oppor­ tunity had at last come. He was in the midst of the den. Where was everybody rushing to? He was scarcely able to hold his own against the onrushing mob. Had he dropped into a riot or was everybody rushing to get a ring-side seat at some private gang war? Just at that moment he heard, scarcely audible over the din of horns, police whistles, and just plain jabbering, a blasting roar just around the corner. It must have been the sound of machine guns. A gang war! But the people weren’t all going the same way. What was the panic all about? He 267

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Down the street he saw the same rushing of people, but no flying bullets. Then for the second time he heard the sound of a volley of bullets. As he raised his eyes, hoping that perhaps the skyscrapers were the battle fields, he experienced the greatest disappointment of his escapade. Instead of machine gun barrels he saw only—only the elevated train flashing be­ fore his eyes.

Then all these people weren’t rushing to see a show any­ way. They were only leading a part of their ordinary nervous city life. They were only in a hurry to get to their apartments for supper. What a disillusionment!

And this was not the only disillusionment. Before the next day was over George knew that the city was not so lively after all. Most of the people he met knew no more than the daily newspapers told them. Not only had they not seen a crime but nobody had ever known or seen a real gangster.

The prospects of a position as reporter were still duller. No editor wanted an imaginative country boy on his staff. George couldn’t even get a position as carrier. He was not only un­ acquainted with the city but there were already too many ambitious youths and future cub reporters anxiously waiting their chance.

It is not with too much surprise that we see the next morning one disillusioned, discouraged boy of fourteen boarding the earliest train to Millville, watch on wrist, pockets empty, anxiously awaiting the time when he would be back home with the good home-cooking of his mother, and when he could visit that five cent hamburger stand.

HEBREW AND THE EXPENSIVE TROWEL Irvin W. f^ciss

When it comes to business the Jews are thick-hided. Kick them around; step on them; do anything to them when it comes to business, and they’ll be tough and bound back and invariably emerge on the long end of the bargain. Anyhow, that’s the way I like to think they were, when I lost the chance for immor­ tality that I could have gained through the spirit of *39.

Only just now have I come to realize what an immense and irreparable loss I suffered — that is if the story my grandfather told me is true.

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It was somewhere in the ’80s of the last century when this event had its beginning and also what turned out to be its tragic end. It seems that my grandfather, a florist by occupa­ tion, was in dire need of a trowel of some sort which was used in the transplanting of certain kinds of flowers. So, naturally enough, he went to the neighborhood hardware store to purchase the implement that best suited both his purse and purpose.

This store was owned and operated by a Jew of no mean business acumen and Yiddish accent. On this eventful day, however, the store was quite empty and the proprietor was sitting near the window reading a book.

On my grandfather’s entrance the book was laid aside and with his best business manners the storekeeper (I cant recall his name) started the conversation with, “Good mornink! and vot can I do for you? Receiving the required answer he con­ tinued, “I have just the right one and cheap too. In fact almost it is wholesale price.”

While the man from Palestine was bringing the trowel from one of the shelves my grandpop wandered about and took a look at this and that. As his casual glance flitted hither and yon he espied the book the little Jew had been reading and with a hereditary thirst for knowledge he picked it up, looked at it, turned it rightside up (or perhaps upside down) and inquired of its owner what the name and language of the book might be.

Abandoning for the moment his business in order to show his mental superiority the little Jew raid, “Eu, you don’t know vot dis is? Why everyone knows vot it is; it’s a Hebrew Bible.”

Astonished, “No!” • “Coitanly!”

To himself my grandfather said he would like to learn that language. Yet he wondered what kind of a bargain he could strike, so that in some manner he might learn this Hebrew without too great an expense. Perhaps most men after all have a bit of that famous Jewish business trait. Almost at once he struck upon a plan and turning to the little man he said, “If you teach me that language, do you know what I’ll do for you? i’ll teach you the Latin names of all the plants and flowers that you’ll ever run across. Imagine yourself telling a customer how your Syringa shrub, meaning lilac bush, is already blooming or how the roots of your brassicaecous plants, meaning turnips, 269

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However, still a business man at heart the man went about his work of bringing the trowel and explaining all its good qualities. When the price was announced my grandfather gasped, stood still for a moment; then shouted, “What! for that little piece of metal?” < < Vhy should you be yellink so. I am almost givink it away at wholesale price.’’

“Wholesale robbery is what you mean. If if weren’t that I needed it so badly I’d never buy it. Here, take your filthy lucre. But remember, I’ll never even tell you one Latin name; and as for your Hebrew —Muzzeltuff.”

With those last words my chance for greatness vanished because, years later, my grandfather clotted my brain with prodigious amounts of botaninology, when it might have been Hebrew. And who, coming to school with a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, doesn’t deserve to be called great and have a niche in the hall of fame?

THIS SLANG W. Kehrbcrg

We all use slang; some more, some less. But we do use it.

Sextaners may use slang as the past tense of “sling” but most people use slang in their common, everyday language to express themselves quickly and more easily. Slang expressions develop everywhere in a language. How these expressions come into being is always somewhat of a mystery, and often by the time one has traced an expression to its origin, the phrase is already out of use, for slang is as short-lived as it is picturesque. Ask your parents sometime how they mutilated the English language in their youth. You will seldom find a phrase that has lasted for a generation. It perhaps is a blessing. Slang phrases are used so much that they soon become trite and commonplace and one sickens of them after a time if not immediately. Some small part occasionally remains and becomes a part of the language.

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house appropriations committee passed on a bill in which “white collar projects” was used. This seemed to be the only fit phrase to express the idea. But when the bill came to the Senate, a Senator conscious of correct English objected and suggested that “educational, professional, and clerical projects” be subsituted.

Obviously “white collar subjects” expressed the idea more vividly but it is not English.

Probably the only reason, or rather excuse for the existence of slang is its vivid expressiveness. “She fell for him, but when she found out that he was going to the dogs, she ditched him” makes quite a clear picture to one who understands it.

Aye, there’s the rub with slang. One must understand it. To take a slang sentence and read and understand it as pure English would create a foolish and most absurd picture. An English­ man encountering American slang is generally “thrown for a I may be ‘‘going to the dogs，’’ but my ‘‘dogs’’ hurt and loss.

I don’t feel like “putting on the dog”. If you get “catty” about it, I’ll "hound” you until I get even. Doggone right!

Surely you understand what I mean but doubt whether the idea could be put any more expressively for the American in correct English. When things “get your goat” or give you a “pain in the neck’’ and ‘‘get under your skin’’，you’d probably feel better if you’d “blow off” at the first "guy” that “burns you up’ Slang of this type is quite generally understood in these our United States.

But slang develops in smaller circles such as colleges. Here it becomes slangier and harder for the outsider to understand.

Anyone that knows anything about colleges knows what a “bull session” is. It is simply a group of students ‘‘shooting the bull” or to say it in English, “discussing more or less sense and nonsense’’. But to the common man a definition is usually necessary. Then there are phrases that are not so well known and would require more explanation. The word “shag” is used in a variety of phrases. To go for a “shag” is to go for a walk; to “shag out” is to leave the classroom before the end of a period; to “shag up” something is to take it to one’s room; to “shag” someone home is to escort a woman home; if one has a poor “shag”，he has a poor carriage in walking. To a collegiate “shag” is a word; to others it’s impossible slang.

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word “whack”. In the clubroom someone may “whack” the billiard table. He wants the next "whack” on it. In English he should say, “May I have the honor of the next game?” But this is Northwestern and so he says “I whack the next game”.

Thus “whack” goes through a variety of meanings from “whacking” the extra cake at dinner to “putting in your whack’’ for next yearns room.

That is slang, always used, sometimes understood, pictur­ esque and short-lived. “Ain’t it the nert’s” but it isn’t English.

The saying of the Greeks, “Nothing to excess” is very applicable to slang. Sometime someone may not “get the drift” and fail to understand you. “Will your face be red!”

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Posdnychev on Music................ one of his little-known novels, “The Kreutzer Sonata,” 1 Tolstoy unburdens himself of many striking, thought-pro­ voking ideas. He puts them into the mouth of Posdnychev, an odd character, who seems to have put Johnson to shame by drinking vast quantities of tee as viscous as oil and potent as wine. This Posdnychev, a man of a morbid, melancholy dis­ position expresses some things which are positively revolting, but his opinion of music, one of his milder hates, is quite unique and really provides food for thought.

Posdnychev blamed Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata for almost all the evil that came into his life, which we need not discuss here. He calls this Sonata a dreadful thing and then begins a depreciation and deprecation of music in general. “What is music ? What is its effect? and why must it have that effect ?

It is generally said that music elevates the soul, but that is a falsehood. It really has an effect, a terrible effect, — it rends and degrades the soul___ Music causes me to forget myself , and my real situation and carries me into a different and unnatural state. Under the influence of music I seem to feel and to grasp things which I actually do not; I feel myself capable of that of which I am incapable.”

On the first analysis one would be inclined to sneer and to reject utterly these words of Tolstoy’s Posdnychev. Since Posdnychev was in a rather abnormal state of mind when he uttered those words and when he experienced those feelings, he was very likely incapable of self-analysis. His ideas then can­ not be altogether true, nor can they fit all cases. Nevertheless there is a grain of truth to his statements and a great deal of thought behind them.

Music appeals primarily to the emotions and also to the aesthetic sense. It seems to have a greater power over people who are somewhat schwaermerisch. It can transport them through their imagination or fantasy into another situation.

But even if it is admitted that music can cause one to forget one’s self and carry one into another world, as it were, it does not follow that music debases the soul. We speak of so-called classical music, not pupular. For it seems to us that if Posdnychev or rather Tolstoy had heard some of our modern “swing” tunes, he would have been convinced of his stand. We like to consider 274

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It is quite a general fact that musicians, great musicians, lived rather dissolute lives. There may be some power or quality inherent in music which explains this. Music is possibly a bad influence, a distraction, a soul-rending thing. From our own observations we have come to the conclusion that music affects some people in such a way that they seem to become more scliwaermerisch and incapable of concentration or clear thinking for a period of time. Under the influence of some music, particularly the more sensual, obvious types of music, some persons become fools. Too much music is indisputably nerve-racking. We wonder, whether there would be less fa­ natical war fever or not, if there were no military marches or bands. Surely a war would appear in truer color with less of the halo about it, and young Schwaermgeister would be less ready to cover themselves with glory.

We could follow through Posnychev’s thoughts more clearly and completely; he expresses many other ideas on this subject, but this may suffice to illustrate some of the ill effects of music — especially excessive music. Tolstoy carried his thoughts rather far, for after all music is one of the arts and possibly even the greatest among them. Nevertheless Tolstoy had something there, one can at least question music’s right to this vast power which it seems to exert.

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Mr. Schroeder, for the Seminary Notes.

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A word of appreciation must be awarded the Advisory Staff， composed of Messrs. Hallauer, Zimmermann, Baganz, Reim, and Schaller, those merry men, who, unbidden, graced the Black and Red with their own peculiar latent talents and served the paper in the manner they saw fit. They too merit a draught from the cup that is the laborer’s reward, after he has fulfilled E. F. his task.

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What is the Black and Red?................ “ HAT is the Black and Red ?” remarked the jesting editor, as he gathered up his books and pencils, prepar­ ing to make his final farewells to the staff room. He would not stay for some one else’s answer but gave his own in lieu of apology, justification, and swan-song.

He had spent the past year harvesting articles from an un­ fruitful student-body, correcting and rejecting contributions, running innumerable miles to and from the printer’s shop, correcting proofs, and doing all those petty tasks that must be done if the Black and Reds are to appear. Under his distin­ guished editorship the paper had not flourished. There had been a notable decrease in the quantity of its pages, not a noticeable increase in their quality.

The retiring editor owed the student-body an explanation, an apology. Much of the criticism hurled at his head in the past year was a just reward. He had tampered with the form of the Black and Red, dropped from its pages a number of columns and lo! — Convention raised its ugly head and hissed its worst. Horror of horrors ! Tamper with the form ! The sin of sins, unforgiveable.

But there was some justification for the action. We know that the Black and Red has in the past years been going the way of all college papers, moving steadily down the paved path that leads to a noisy news-sheet. Local Columns, Coed Notes, athletics Columns, and the like under ideal conditions have no place in a magazine of the Black and Red’s type. If some columns are absolutely necessary, they can be given a small corner. But they should not play whole-hog. What is important to our paper is its Literary Section.

The statement stands undoubted ideally but not really.

Often have the Literary Sections been unimportant and worthless — but only because they have been unworthy of the name. We have been led to look to the Black and Red for scores of our athletic contests and news and little else, and the articles we write get a minimum of attention.

It is agreed that the average college student or the average Northwestern College student is not going to startle the literary world with his productions, is not going to stamp his work with true greatness. But he can give it character and individuality.

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If we cannot touch the heights of our betters, we can touch our own ; the best we can do is good enough, but anything not so good is unsatisfactory. (The last few lines are to be read largamente e maestoso.)

But in all this moralizing the editor has rambled far from the point. “What is the Black and Red?” The sneering question, delivered in the best manner of a haughty Roman procurator, is its own asswer. It is nothing. "What should the Black and Red be?” It should be a mirror of the intellectual life of the college.

You have read that before. Ten months ago a young editor said it in his opening speech as a promise of better things to come. Now it still remains a promise, an ideal. It has not been brought to fulfillment. “It is evident that you have failed,” is what you are thinking. Of course! But has the failure been absolute and complete ? Is there no mark of success —no accomplishment ?

Perhaps. If the spirit that he tried to introduce or to awake and for which he dropped a column or two, aroused animosity, risked failure takes root and bears fruit, the editor will justly be able to take pride in accomplishment. The conclusion to the conclusion of this volume of the Black and Red is another question. "What will the Black and Red be ?” This last is said not jestingly or with a sneer but uttered fondly — as violins play softly off-stage, let us say, the strains of “The Pilgrims Chorus’’一 with wonderment and hope in the voice, with eyes questing far in the future.

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Campus and Classroom Although there is, of course, no special honor or credit due a class whose members excel to an unusual degree in all manners and forms of athletic endeavor, to say nothing of their in­ tellectual accomplishment, nevertheless, merely in view of a possible oversight on the part of our sports columnist we mention the fact that the volleyball tournament was actually only a series of warm-ups for the two Junior teams who were to meet each other later on in the finals.

Ever since he first missed a meal several years ago, Fritz Grunwald has found it impossible to catch up with his appetite.

No doubt that is why he has given up trying to get to the dining hall before the second or third course.

The Amateurs had freshman night again, or something to that effect. At least, it was of recent occurrence. So now you know as much about it as we do. One hears talk of hidden talent and of extraordinary clevernesses simply exuding from undreamed of sources, but then again one thinks of bushel baskets and the extremely disadvantageous location of candles placed under the same. 一 Well, it keeps them out of mischief at any rate. ______________ Now I lay me down to sleep, The prof is i dry, the subject deep; If he should stop before I wake Give me a poke, for goodness’ sake!

An age-old question has finally been answered. On Friday, March 11th we had chicken. On Saturday, March 12th, eggs.

Figure it out for yourself.

It may have seemed surprising at first that Germany did not immediately bite off that luscious-looking piece of Czecho­ slovakia after having so neatly disposed of Austria as an appe­ tizer, but the fact of the matter, according to a report which leaked out of diplomatic circles here late today, is that the Fuehrer is still waiting for Kamerad Dietrich Kuehl to report for duty.

There was a little confusion for a while, since for some in­ explicable reason the Fatherland worded the invitation which it sent to Herr Kuehl in the mother-tongue.

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The speakers, or more properly, speakerettes, evidently had been more concerned with trying to attain 汉fine style, a pleasant delivery, and an impeccable enunciation, than with the presen­ tation of original thought, ideas, or even a pragmatic analysis of the subject. On the whole, therefore, the audience was treated to an excellent display of female efficiency. Just by the way, we fully realize our presumption in thus commenting on some­ thing which we cannot possibly look at from the proper view­ point, namely, that of “la femme’’.

The literary program presented by the Philomathean Society Fredrich and M. Volkon February 28th was arranged by E.— mann. Noteworthy features were the length of the program and its rather novel purpose, namely, to render an evening’s entertainment with subject matter taken from the field of literature and literary personalities. As a result the two colla­ borators hoped to effect a certain freedom from the didactism which tends to characterize the average student-speaker’s ap­ proach to his audience. If this wish was not at all or. only partly fulfilled, the fault must lie with the speakers, who possibly did not fully realize what was expected of them, or who could not refrain from delivering themselves of basically factual and encyclopedic information.

Frederick II of Prussia was the victim of the only German program presented by a literary society this season. The Phi Gamma Rho Society supplied the facilities and some henchmen for Hilbert Schaller, who was the brains behind the whole plot.

The Male Chorus has completed arrangements for another Spring Tour during the Easter recess. The following cities are included in the itinerary; Bangor, Rochester, Lake City, Minne­ apolis, Schofield, Algoma, Neenah, Appleton, New London, and Forest. Concerts will also be given at Fort Atkinson on April 3rd, and here at Watertown on the 24th.

Schmelzer is seriously considering publication of a little booklet, which, we feel, may in time supplant Baedecker in the libraries of the well-read. A suitable title would be, “How to see the World in Ten Short Week-ends’’• That involuntary sigh of relief which you feel yourself breathing is due to the realization which has just dawned on you that before you lies the last column which this writer will be able to inflict on you. .

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BASKETBALL Northwestern 28 Platteville 30 Watertown, Wis. Feb. 17. Did you ever hear of a hoodoo ?

It is something that brings or causes bad luck. The Platteville Miners are good basketball players but just the same they have continued to be a hoodoo to Northwestern’s capers. Early in the season they turned back the Goslings on the Platteville floor by one point; then they came to Watertown and defeated them by two points.

The Miners took an early lead in the first half but after a while, with Hackbarth’s excellent play as the motivating force, the Northwestern team began to function smoothly, and at the end of the period they had tied the score 15 —all. The second half of the prame was a real thriller from beginning to end.

Three times during the period the score was tied and at no time was either team ahead by more than three points. With three minutes of play left, Lambert sank a free throw and a lonj? shot to give the Goslings a 28 — 27 lead, but Wilsey, of the Miners s?or\/?-oun^ere(^.w^^ a. free throw and a long shot which gave the Miners their winning margin.

It was Platteville^ accurracy on free throws that decided gan^e. They made good fourteen out of eighteen chances, rirlc e Blyk and Red men outscored their opponents from the field, making eleven baskets to the Miner’s eight.

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Northwestern FG FT P FG FT P 2 3 1 f. Burris 1 0 1 f. Toepel 2 0 2 f. De Witt 0 2 0 f. Hackbarth 4 0 2 f. Wilsey 4 1 0 c. Naumann 0 0 1 c. H. Schroeder 0 0 Of. Schweppe 0 0 4 c. W. Schroeder 3 6 2 g. Pagels 110 g. Parish 0 5 2 g. Horn 2 2 3 g. Kobdisch 0 0 1 g. Lambert g. Kitelinger 0 0 3 11 6 13 8 14 9 Northwestern 26 Concordia 30 River Forest, 111. Feb. 19. It was reported that Concordia’s coach marvelled at the manner in which his team made their free throws during- this game. The Concordia team certainly did well enough on them, for again it was free throws that cost Northwestern’s basketeers the victory. Of course it is no argument to say that Northwestern had tough luck because it was always defeated on free throws. In that case then our basketball players shouldn’t make so many fouls. But it’s human nature to excuse itself.

Weldschmidt, Concordia forward, took top honors in the scoring during the game with ten points.

Concordia Northwestern FG FT P FG FT P 3 0 2 f. Weldschmidt 3 4 2 f. Hackbarth f. Doerer 2 1 2 2 1 f. Schweppe 2 c. Kahling 0 0 2 0 0 1 f. Keibel 2 c. Gersemehl 0 0 1 f. Toepel 3 4 g. Krause 2 2 2 c. Naumann 0 0 2 2 g. Demske 1 1 5 0 g. Lambert 0 0 0 n ff.

Kuehl 8 14 4 1 1 1 g. Pagels 0 0 0 g. Horn 10 5 17 Milton 40 Northwestern 23 Milton, Wis. Feb. 22. Milton College possesses a fairly well-balanced quintet and the high spirit of rivalry which exists between the Northwestern and Milton teams usually causes contests between them to be close and exciting. However, this was one Milton-Northwestern game which was all one way and that was Milton’s way. Against the accuracy of Miltons flashy forwards, Polan and Luebke, the Goslings never stood a chance, and the denouement was that the Goslings lost by a greater margin than they had in any other game of the season.

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if 2 T3 Aurora 24 Northwestern 44 Watertown, Wis., Feb. 25. The final game of the season and — at long last — victory for the ill-starred Northwestern team. The Goslings poured in long shots from all over the floor throughout the contest. By virtue of some nifty shooting on the part of Hulbert, Aurora forward, the visiting team took the lead in the opening minutes of the game, but the Aurora basketeers were quite generous in the number of shots which they allowed the Goslings to take, and the half ended with the score 22—9, in favor of Northwestern. The final period of the game continued much as the first half had. Because of the seventeen fouls which our team committed and the one-sidedness of the affair, the game went rather slowly. Scoring honors went to Lambert and Schweppe, who had ten points each.

It was the final game, and one of his best games, which Lloyd “|led” Lambert played for Northwestern. For four consecutive years he has been a regular guard on the Gosling team, and at all times has played a good consistent game, both as a defensive and offensive man.

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As a reward for their efforts during the basketball season the Athletic Board awarded varsity letters to Lloyd Lambert, Victor Hackbarth, Otto Pagels, Homer Schweppe, Emil Toepel, Marcus Horn, Fritz Naumann, Paul Kuehl, and Manager Ray Frey.

All Conference Team At a Tri-State conference meeting on March 7 the following all conference team was chosen. Each coach selected an all足 opponent team.

Forwards: Polan (Milton) Hulbert (Aurora) Nirenberg (School of Engineering) Wierwille (Mission House) Centers: Luebke (Milton) Schroeder (Miners) Guards : Wilsey (Miners) Wolf (School of Engineering) Paschen (Mission House) Gutowski (School of Engineering) ' Intra-Murals Ever since Christmas recess the intra-mural program of Coach Leonard Umnus has been moving along steadily. The co-eds too, upon petition, have had gym classes under the direc足 tion of the coach. The intra-mural program was certainly so complete and varied as to give every student opportunity to participate in some form of athletics. Inter-class basketball and volleyball, handball, ping-pong, bowling, boxing, and wrest足 ling were included in the list. Tournaments were held in each sport except handball. The bowling, boxing, and wrestling tournaments have not at the time of this writing been com足 pleted. The basketball team which this year represents the Senior class, the personnel of which is Wendland, Breiling, Baganz, Birkholz, Becker, Stuebs, Schaller, and Zimmermann, took the interclass tournament for the third consecutive year, winning five games and losing one. The Juniors had to beat the Juniors in order to take volleyball honors. Junior team No. 1, comprised of Toepel, Lehninger, Schweppe, Pagels, Tabbert and Hempel, defeated the Junior No. 2 team in the final tourna283

I ment match to take the college championship. Klages copped first place in the collegiate ping-pong tournament and then went on to defeat Leonard Koeninger and take the school champion­ ship. Paul Baganz had first high average of 156 in the twenty games necessary in qualifying for the Senior bowling tourna­ ment. The highest individual score of 221 for the year thus far is held by Lloyd Lambert.

The intra-mural season was climaxed by an inter-collegiate meet with Milton College on March 11. The match was some­ thing of an innovation and should serve as a stimulus to student participation in the intra-murals.

The meet which took place in Northwestern’s gymnasium included matches in table tennis, volleyball, handball, and bowling. Northwestern’s forces were victorious in all except the table tennis matches. Table tennis players for Milton were Nagler, Stephens, Cone, Carry, and Schuler. Koeninger, Klages, Paustian, and Grains represented Northwestern. Milton won three out of four singles matches and both doubles matches.

Paustian was the only winner for Northwestern, taking two out of three sets against Cone. Junior volleyball teams Nos. 1 and 2 were both victorious, both taking two straight games apiece. All four handball matches went to Northwestern.

Berg defeated Cunningham, Pagels defeated Robert Van Horn, Lorenz was victorious over Schuler, and Weiss won his match against Reese. The Senior bowling team, members of which were Baganz, Lambert, Schierenbeck, Birkholz, and Breiling, scored an easy victory over the Milton team of Beebe, Mortenson, Deland, Jones, and Walley, taking two out of three matches, and winning by a margin of 132 points.

Modesty on the part of our athletic mentor at first left it unknown that he had been appointed the new president of the Tri-State Conference, but the announcement in the newspapers a few days later revealed the fact. Mr. Umnus succeeds George Crandall, director of athletics and coach of Milton College, who has served in the position since the organization of the league seven years ago. Congratulations to Coach Umnus ! Paul Bodeman，Director of Athletics at Mission House College, Plymouth, Wisconsin, was elected secretary of the conference to succeed Prof. E. A. Wendland, Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics at Northwestern College.

•ii also announced that Aurora College, of Aurora, 111. 义11 withdraw from the conference for financial reasons after the expiration of the 1939 football season.

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INDEX OF VOLUME XLI About Wordsworth — E. Wendland —42 Addendum一N. Reim—162 Addendum Ad Addendum—R..Jungkuntz—163 America’s Newest Craze—J. Vogt—12 Announcements : Alumni Society—51 Attention Alumni—114 Class Reunion of 1912 — 52 Concerts—13 Final Concert— 82 Apology—E. Fredrich —41 Appreciating Our Transcriber—M. Volkmann—186 Art in the Making—J. Vogt—218 Author Behind it, The—N. Luetke—83 Babylonian Religion—F. Peterson—79 Bach—H. Schaller—181 Battle, The—C. Krug—212 Best Vacation in Years, The—L. Pingel—106 Be Thou Faithful -H. Geiger, ’07—58 Bird Interest—E. Wen dland-251 Boosting the Home State—J. Vogt—201 But the Greatest of These is Music一R. Jungkuntz—192 Calypso-E. Fredrich—107 Chase, The—C. Krug—101 Chinese Drama, The—F. Peterson—258 Commercialized College Athletics—F. Grunwald—43 Columns: Alumni Notes - 22, 51, 87, 116, 135, 167, 229. 246 Athletics-24, 53, 93, 118, 137, 167, 230, 247, 280 Campus and Classroom—19, 48, 91, 115, 133, 165, 228, 246, 278 Seminary Notes—21, 50, 88, 116, 135, 166, 229, 246 Concerning Coed Notes I—R. Pfaffenbach—40 Concerning Coed Notes II—R. Pfaffenbach—111 Concerning Matutinal Rising—P. Baganz—159 Cupid By Correspondence—W. Schumann—220 Day of Vacation At Northwestern—M. Weishahn—5 De Lingua Latina in Medio Aevo—G. Frey—66 Dreams, Past and Present—J. Vogt—226 Disillusionments—J. Vogt—265 Early Social and Cultural Influences of the Germans in Wisconsin— O. Siegler—50 Economic Responsibility of Government, The一C. Klug一27 Effects of the Norman Conquest upon the English Language — w. Wegner—178 Epitome of Futility, The—C. Krug—235 Excerpta,De ~ Itinere Nostro—R. … " Jungkuntz—2 xpensive Trowel, The—I. Weiss—268 ExDensiv Father on Fire, A一A..Lapier-214 Fewer Hours, More P:ay—E!. Wendland—158 Forum, The—47

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German Genius—F. Grunwald-210 God of the Poets—P. Baganz—237 Gods of the Nile—F. Peterson—192 Home with Honeybees—W. Kehrberg—32 How the Literary Scocieties Aquired the Electric RecorderM. Birkholz—198 How to Waste Time-C. Krug—9 If This Be Treason—E. Fredrich—112 111 Penseroso— E. Wendland—30 Ilmen an, 1783-1831—E. Fredrich-104 In Memoriam : Prof. Kremer- 121 Intimate Glimpses of a Columnist at Work—0. Pagels—39 intolerance—F. Grunwald—161 Iustitia! lustitia!- E. Breiling—189 1 Wander—W. Kehrberg—107 John Maynard—W. Wegner—163 John Wyclif—L. Hallauer—37 Land of Promise—F. Peterson—289 Life Is—E. Fredrich—184 Long Live the Staff—E. Fredrich—273 Lorna—L. Pingel—126 Luthers Briefe an Melanchthon aus dem Jahre 1630—li. Seifert-(52 Magic Cloth, The—C. •一144 Misguided Creatures— redrich—104 Mr. McDonald—J. Vogt- 77 Music, Good and Otherwise—E. Wendland-S5 New Books-G. Hillmer—17 Nicht Immer Unkraut—J. Bade—14(5 Obituary: V. Baker—1 Obituary—L. Schierenbeck -190 On Digressions - F. Grunwald—4 On the Kill—M. Volkmann -126 On the Use and Abuse of Poetry—R. Jungkuntz—‘15 Our Poor Editor—J. Vogt—131 Over a Glass of Beer -E. Fredrich—255 Panem et Circenses—F. Grunwald—86 Parting Throught, A— E. Fredrich—114 Penitent Plowman, The — C. Krug-122 Perfect Philosophy, The—M. Weishahn—2til Pictures : Basketball Team~54 Football Team—169 Organizations—89 Prof. Kremer- 121 Seniors—68 Staff-273

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