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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Day-Dreaming.

Northern Lights........................ .

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The Story of the Rise and Fall of Collars and Cravats.......

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A “Comp”.

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Notes on a Concert.

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Echoes and Re-Echoes.

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EDITORIALS— And so, for the 40th (or thereabouts) time

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Bird Study

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ALUMNI NOTES.

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ATHLETICS

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXXIII

Watertown, Wis., April 1939

March 3, 1870. Published monthly. Sui

Number 1

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DAY-DREAMING W. Kehrberg

‘‘Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away ?”

There sits a person with a faraway look in his eyes, a sub­ lime expression of contentment on his face, and a general air of indolence and idleness about him. His name is William (or it may be John or George). But for the sake of clearness we shall call him William. William has been sitting there a long time, without moving and showing no signs of life in general. What is William doing? He is day-dreaming. Yes, we know that, but about what is he day-dreaming ? Why is he day-dreaming?

And there we have a field for speculation. There are many groups of possibilities.

First we could say that he has spring fever. He may be experiencing a lassitude that the change of weather from cold to warm brings about. But let’s disregard this possibilty. As 1

RED far as we，re concerned it is not spring and William is not affected by the weather. The term “spring-fever covers a multitude of sins and we shall not uncover them. We shall be brief.

William has not "spring fever.”

Together with spring fever we might dismiss all other possi­ bilities of a physical nature. William may have had a heavy meal and he is now dreamily allowing his stomach to digest it.

He may have been working hard and now is so tired that he cannot even go to sleep, but takes his rest in a dreamy state of half-sleep. No, let’s dismiss all these possibilities and consider what William is doing in perfectly normal circumstances.

There are three possibilities as to the mental state of Wil­ liam. We cannot discuss the physical state since he is perfectly at rest. No movement, no outward sign of life. But within him what is going on ? We said that there were three possibilities and here they are. He is either absorbing, or digesting, or — he is a vacuum.

William is in the first state. He is absorbing. He is hearing with his ears, seeing with his eyes, smelling with his nose, and feeling with his senses. The story that nature tells he is liste­ ning to. He is studying the world, looking at the details. With a fine eye he is observing the scene before him, impressing it in­ to himself. From out of the storehouse of the world and nature he is taking on mental food for himself, food for thought. He In such a state is “feeding his mind in a wise passiveness, we can say that William is a poet. He may not write poetry.

He may write only prose, or he may not write at all. At heart however, he is a poet. He is usefully applying himself behold­ ing the glories of God and the works of man.

If we put William into the second state we make of him a philosopher. For now William is working entirely within him­ self. He is digesting material that his senses have brought to him. He is taking the facts and impressions he has received and is trying them in the fire of his intellect. He is going through the process of changing what he has received into fit form to be given out again as something useful. It is like the process of the digestive system in the human body. He is trans­ forming food into energy, taking out valuable parts and dis­ posing of the waste. William is again performing a useful task. ^ 2

RED The third state of William is an unnatural state. He is in a state of vacuum, and nature abhors a vacum. He is thinking nothing, feeling nothing, seeing nothing. He is in a very un­ natural state, for The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where’er they be, Against or with our will.

Wordsworth wrote this verse and said by it that William could not be in this third state which I have just mentioned. But William is in this third state. It is 1939. A hundred years have passed since Wordsworth wrote his “Expostulation and Reply.”

Times have changed. William is now in a vacuum, unnaturally, we admit, but he is there. He is a WPA worker waiting for his Social Security to fall due.

NORTHERN LIGHTS. Did you ever hear why those brilliant, beautiful lights are shining up North ? Do you know their origin ? I never knew either until one time I was forced to stay in an old Indian’s cabin for a few days because of snow blindness. The old Indian told me the following story. That was a number of years ago but for my age my memory is remarkably good.

Now for the story.

In the old days before the white man or corned beef had invaded this land, the greatest tribe in all the North was the Tananas. The bravest and most skillful hunter of this tribe was Utika, the second chief. Utika was wont to run a deer or moose down by mere endurance and then kill it with his bare hand in Oder to save the ivory tipped arrows made from the tusks of the hairy mastodons.

One day a terrible famine settled over the Tanana Valley.

The moose, bear and caribou departed from the hills like mist.

The babies cried unceasingly for food and the gaunt, feverish mothers began to rave. When it had come to this, Utika decided to go hunting on the other side of the saw-tooth range which formed the edge of the world. His friends tried to dissuade him, saying it was certain death because a pack of monstrous white wolves, taller than the moose and swifter than an eagle, was known to range these mountains, running madly in chase.

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RED Many hunters had crossed this ridge, but no one had ever re­ turned. Nevertheless Utika began his journey.

He had marched all day and at dusk he was at the ridge.

He burrowed in a snow bank and tried to sleep. He must have slept for several hours when suddenly he was awakened by blazing lights. Peering out into the darkness, he saw the flash­ ing lights a thousand times brighter than ever before. Listening he heard the hiss and whine of dry snow under the feet of the pack, and a distant noise of rushing winds, although the air was deathly still. Presently, as the wolves came closer, the whole heavens were ablaze with shifting streams of light caused by the reflection and glancing of moonbeans from their hungry sides. Soon everything was quiet and dark again. Utika now knew the cause of the lights, and so do you. How he returned unharmed to his home again so that he could tell us of his dis­ covery, is another story.

Arthur Wadzinski THE STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF COLLARS AND CRAVATS Ardin D. Lapcr

Via the Adam’s apple, I would say, the distance from an average man’s collar bone to the level of his chin is about four inches. How man has clothed these four inches to make him­ self more handsome is a long and colorful story.

Among the very ancient peoples I have found no traces of special neck pieces. Because of the climate it could be expected that the Hebrews, Egyptians, and Persians would not give much thought to wrapping something unnesessary around their necks. The Greeks and Romans also did not worry about wear­ ing fancy neck drapery. The mild climate again has its in­ fluence here. And then too it might be said that anything like a necktie would spoil the classic simplicity of the Greek’s dress.

The barbarian tribes of central Eurape may have raised their furs around their ears when it turned chilly but they had no fancy neck wear. Among those people at that time a stiff arm made more of an impression on people than a stiff collar.

When knighthood was in flower, collars were at their stiffest in all history. Yet I suppose we ought not to take these collars into consideration since armor had more of a practical 4

RED than a decorative purpose. All those who weren’t in armor during this time, wore shirts that simply ended at the collar bone in a hem or simple band.

Finally in the middle of the sixteenth century, with Queen Elizabeth promoting them, collars began to rise ruffle by ruffle.

As many as eight wide starched ruffles were piled around a man’s neck. This type of collar was known as a ruff. I do not know, but I suppose that when wearing the ruff, it was not hard to imagine that your head was being served up on a platter.

But men would not tolerate these rasping ruffles around their necks for long. It was about 1630 when soldiers from the German provinces of Croatia (part of modern Yugoslavia) began to wrap about their necks a soft piece of linen or silk. This they tied at the front in a simple knot leaving only a short end hang down on each side. The necktie was born! From the name of the soldiers’ homeland, Croat, came its name—cravat.

A regiment of these soldiers visited Paris in 1660 wearing their newly invented “Croats” and soon cravats were the style in all Paris. A certain regiment of young dandies in the French army adopted the cravat officially, and until the French Revolu­ tion there existed the smart regiment called the Royal Cravattes.

Then in a strange manner the style of wearing the cravat changed. It was at the time of the war between William III of England and the French in 1692. The French were encamped at Steenkirk, Belgium, when they were surprised by an attack of the English during the night. The Royal Cravattes had no time to tie their ties and so instead they simply twisted the ends through the rings from their fingers. When they returned to Paris wearing their cravats pulled through the rings, the ‘‘Steenkirk’’ became the rage.

Yet not all the neat necks in the world were wearing ruffles or cravats after the time of Queen Elizabeth. One need only recall one of the numerous pictures of the Pilgrims settling in this country about 1620 and one sees many broad, flat, white collars that were almost a part of their religion.

During the eighteenth century, which includes the age of enlightenment with all its frills and fanciness, cravats too be­ came frilled and fancy. Now enters the tie known as the stock.

This was worn much as the first cravats except that it was not actually tied but simply wrapped around the neck up to the jaws 5

RED and there was a slit in the piece so that finally one end could be pulled through and left to hang down the front of the shirt.

This end was usually of lace. These were the most popular neckties of the men who wrote our constitution. The lacy stocks did not replace the knotted cravats immediately at the end of the eighteenth century for we find George Bryan (Beau) Brummell，the style setter of all England and the world, at the beginning of the ninteenth century deliberating for an hour as to which color of his knoted cravats to wear.

Not long after 1800 we see the top of the collar beginning to peek through above the neck wrappings. It rises higher and higher and sometimes tickles or scratches the ears. The wrappings are made a bit more narrow. They are made shorter.

The ends are tied in a simple bow. The bow tie is come!

The collar rose still higher. Some men bent it down over the wrappings. Others let it stand up and were satisfied to look only straight ahead.

Contrary to what I had always thought, the stock was by no means obsolete during the latter part of the nineteenth cen­ tury nor even at the beginning of the twentieth. The later stock was, however, not made with lace, but was a plain strip of cloth the end of which, when it hung down, just about filled completely the space above the vest. It was not uncommon to wear a large colored stone in the middle of this cravat.

About 1890 or shortly before came the four-in-hand cravat or our modern popular necktie. It is my theory that the fourin-hand is a direct descendant of the stock for I cannot see how it could have developed from the bow tie. Yet there is the possi­ bility that it may have originated as a form of the Windsor tie.

The Windsor is the kind of tie that is commonly worn by small children on sailor suits etc. For some reason artists and es­ pecially Ph. D.’s of Europe took to wearing the Windsor. The girls in our mixed chorus wear them too. It is not probable that it has connection with the royal house of England.

As far as I was able to determine, the name four-in-hand is derived from the fact that when tying the tie one takes the tie in hand four times. Tying from left to right, the four opera­ tions are as follows: 1. over to the right and down. 2. under to the left, up, and over to the right. 3. up in back of knot.

4. through the knot.

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HED By the last part of the nineteenth century collars stopped tickling or scratching the ears, although now and then a high one popped up. By 1900 most of them were folded down all around. Besides starched cloth men used celluloid and paper as material for stiff detachable collars. The advantage of the paper collar was that it cost only 2%c and it could be reversed for double wear and then discarded. (It costs 3c to laundry a cloth one-sided collar, so one really saved 3%c by using the paper one.) The celluloid collar was of course more durable and always ready and clean if one had a little soap and water handy. The disadvantage of the celluloid was that after a time it turned yellow and then too it was highly inflammable which made falling asleep while smoking almost sure suicide.

When everyone was wearing detachable collars, it was not uncommon for local stores to sell as many as seven or eight dozen collars on a single Saturday afternoon. Although many detachable collars are still used today, it is very evident that by far more attached collars are worn than any other because of the improved collars on modern shirts.

Coming back to cravats again—soon after the arrival of the four-in-hand people began to figure how they could wear a tie that looked like a four-in-hand but didn’t need to be tied by hand. On the knot of the tie was fastened a band which went around the neck and hooked in the other side of the knot.

This was known as a teck scarf. Ties similar to this can be bought today. Then there was a teck shield which had a stiff winp： attached to the back of the knot and by placing the ends of the wing under the stiff collar the tie was held in place.

Many people make their own timesaving ties by simply never untying the knot of an ordinary tie. The narrow end of the tie is simply pulled up or down through the knot when putting on or taking off the tie. Since bow ties first made their entrance they too have also been made ready-tied.

An ordinary four-in-hand tie is a little more than three and a half feet long. I have it from a reliable source that ladies do notice a man’s tie and that ladies perfer four-in-hands. Ob­ viously, the four-in-hand is the most commonly worn. In order to learn just why certain men consistantly wear bow ties, I approached several with the candid question of ‘‘Why the bow tie?” One said he just started wearing a bow tie and has con7

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tinued to do so for no special reason at all. Another said he had trouble tying a four-in-hand. Finally, one who was honest and frank said, **My grand-daughter gave me a tie for Christ­ mas a while back and I’ve just kept on wearing it.”

In formal society the bows probably have the edge on the four-in-hands. Speaking of formal dress, the difference in the change of scenes in the necks of men and women when they go out for a very formal evening strikes me as rather amusing.

A woman uncovers her neck completely, while a man must add an inch or two to his collar as if it were a vulgarity to leave bare any part of his body below his ears.

Man’s dress on the whole is rather drab and dull. At the neck is the one spot where color can be used almost fearlessly with certain possible exceptions—like, say, a red bow tie in a pulpit.

The most popular color for ties throughout the nation is blue.

Next comes red and then green. Favorite colors may vary with different sections of the country, but in Watertown espe­ cially blue is the best seller. It is an observed fact that metropoltan communities buy many more ties in the solid colors of red, orange, green, and yellow while the rural sections prefer designs in the calmer colors. Stripes are a favored design.

Until recently the best tie material was imported, but now we are finding that our own materials are as good as any in the world. Some of the latest developments in the four-in-hand tie world are that some are now made without the usual wool lining by simply folding the material of the tie itself so that it makes its own lining. This permits washing without the usual danger of the wool shrinking and twisting the tie out of shape Also cravats are on sale locally that are made from milk. They could be mistaken for wool.

In the United States four-in- hand cravats may be bought for from 10c to $12.50. The ten cent ones are often pretty and sometimes are good for at least one tying. The twelve-fifty ones are hand painted by an Italian artist and I suppose after they are worn, the wrinkles can hardly wait to jump out, It would of course be wrong to think that only four-in-hand and bow ties enjoy popular favor. Polo shirts worn under sport coats with the collars showing on the outside make a neat looking neck region. It must be said, however, that their use is restricted to more informal occasions.

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RED Probably the very latest development just below our Adam’s apple is the arrival of the Ascot. As you probably know, the Ascot is much like our silk winter scarfs except that it is shorter and narrower with broadened ends. It is tied just as a winter scarf and is worn with a sport coat with no shirt or collar.

In 1538 we saw collars clinging to the cellar bone as little hems. Along with the cravats they rose to great eeights. Now the collar tends to decline to its original level and with the Ascot’s coming it even disappears. And that is the story of how through four centuries collars and cravats have risen and fallen through four inches.

Author’s note: For the information used in this article I am indebted to the following sources: New York Neck Wear Manufacturers Men’s Wear Magazine Encyclopedia Britannica The Story of America in Pictures The clothiers of Watertown.

A “COMP”.

T. P. B.

“The man that hath no music in himself is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils.” Shakespeare at that time already passed his condemnation on the man who remained unaffected by melody and movement. Without any doubt music in its earliest state was mainly rhythm. Music has developed through many stages till finally we reached our modern music. In the first place, in modern music, men who take advantage of a cer­ tain outward condition and create an inward effect on the in­ dividual in the form of music known as “swing”，really can’t be called musicians. But still one can’t condemn this popular music just because it is called popular.

Usually the would-be music critics don’t even consider this popular music. Why ? Well, certain laws, as they might be called, are transgressed. Consecutive octaves and fifths weren’t used in the time of the masters, not because they considered them a sin, but the tonal effect that these chords produce were not desired. Each chord has its own effect. The spirit of the masters couldn’t make use of these chords; thus they never used them. But then, musicians formed a law: since Beethoven or Mozart didn’t do it, consequently it must be wrong to use it.

Before the so-called master period, the first and third in a chord were thought to be ill-soundihg; but now they are the foun9

RED dation of all our music. Usually criticism of modern music is not personal. One hears that the present music isn’t music, it is very immoral, and so on. In the years to come, the music that is popular or that is written now will determine the manner in which that music will be written. To be fair, is rhythm. “swing” in its elemental form isn’t music. It ..

“Swing” slightly speeds up the tempo of the music with the drum the pronounced instrument. ‘ ‘Swing’ ’ primarly only gives movement. It is only outward. At the present moment, swing is fading rapidly, but it has left a definite effect on all music to come.

When Wagner’s music was first presented, the world raised a howl; but the howl backfired. Now Wagner is considered the greatest music dramatist of all time. Wagner’s music definitely departs from the old form, but we’ve been taught to appreciate his music. His cymbal crash and drumbeat are considered powerful and effective, but let a modern band resort to a cymbal crash and the world howls. It’s disturbing. We want our music more or less quiet or rather sophisticated. Not too loud, not too soft, not too quick, not too slow; we want it right. Music of that type isn’t music. Nevertheless it doe弓n’t require any thought or effort on one’s part, so naturally it appeals to our mental laziness.

The masters were bound by one law: “Don’t write too difficult music.” Musicians at that time weren’t any too brill­ iant, at least their technique and tone quality weren’t anything to write home about. A famous orchestra recently played an overture with a trumpet solo. To be frank, it was “corny”.

Tone quality was poor and the tone was thin, but of course, music lovers all over the United States most likely thought it was “divine”. Modern music is difficult, to put it mildly. The technique of the cornet player has been advanced. The solo or first cornet chair in practically every good Symphony Orchestra in America is filled by former players of so-called popular music.

The greatest conductor of all time is supposed to have asked one of the “hot” players to fill the first chair in his picked orchestra. But somehow, the conductor was refused. All brass instruments have been greatly improved. Enough can be read about reed instruments and the artists that play them in any good magazine.

The modern critic usually has a biased opinion of a new piece of music, even before he hears it. The bad parts of the music are criticized, the good parts are passed over. The critic then gains the reputation of being good, since he doesn’t accept everything. After once having made his reputation, he must keep it up, and all music that comes into his hands is bad. Of course every once in a while the score obtains the critics’ favor, not because it is good, because they usually are a composer’s 10

RED worst, but in order that the critic escape being called a sour puss or an idealist. Bach’s music really wasn’t appreciated and performed until sixty years after his death. Music has always had this fate. And still we haven’t a tolerant attitude. Some of our popular music is trite, still some of the songs are beauti­ ful. At the turn of the century some music that today is con­ sidered not at all good will be the great favorite. But then, of course, what’s the use of appreciating it now? Our forefathers didn^ appreciate their masters; we might as well not appreci­ ate ours.

NOTES ON A CONCERT R. J. P.

Watertown recently heard an imported orchestra. As ex­ pected, The Black and Red was on the spot to give you complete coverage of the concert. On this occasion we noticed the presence of the typical concert-goer — Potts we shall call him, for the sake of clarity. Mr. Potts was a music lover, as was easily seen by the angelic calm which stole over him during the soft por­ tions. Perhaps too calm. Maybe it wasn’t just calm. All right, so he was sleeping! (Such a prodding conscience.)

Strange to write, Mr. Potts proved to be a greater object of interest than the orchestra. Mr. Potts came early, and since there were still quite a few empty places, he took the liberty of placing his overcoat on the adjacent seat. What if a lady did have to pick out just that seat ? He was a gentleman. He could hold his overcoat. As the one-hundred-fifty some pounds of feminine avoirdupois wedged into the seat, a slight sound, like the dying moan of an accordion, reminded Mr. Potts that it would have been better for the health of his hat to have re­ moved that also.

Now the orchestra was beginning to assemble. Soon Mr. Potts was being regaled with concert notes by the couple behind.

“Oh, look, they have some new players,” said a feminine voice, as its owner pointed out several veteran members. Following the standard practise, the male escort bore the burden of con­ versation, and, as he thought (What fools these etc.), entertain­ ment. Music being the theme, he told the story of the musician who shut his portfolio on an inquisitive fly. Next day, at practise, he played the smudge. After the musician had ex­ plained the mistake, the conductor said, “A fly ? Maybe it was 11

5MIED a bee flat” The orchestra, commencing, drowned out any gales of laughter.

So none of the music might be lost, the management had seen to it that all the windows and doors were tightly shut.

Naturally, the resulting situation reminded many present of a Turkish bath. But what were physical discomforts in compari­ son with spiritual ecstasy ?

Mr. Potts was not acquainted with all concert music. Conse­ quently, he burst into loud applause during one of the rests.

But he figured that he wasn’t as bad as that couple behind.

They were regulating the pitch of their conversation to that of that music. They too were surprised by those disconcertingly sudden rests, and a loud “What?” plunged into the stifling, still air. That case brings to mind that of the ill-timed belch.

When the intermission came the elite departed for smokes, conversation, and a stretch. Mr. Potts wanted to leave too.

You see, he was not a hearty trencherman, and as a result he was having a little difficulty with his hard oak seat. Now he bitterly regretted giving in to Mrs. Potts over the matter of bringing that cushion. Since he was the local representative of Casper Milquetoast, he did not dream of leaving his center section seat to work his way to the aisle. But this wasn’t the worst. The sickening manner in which the two matronly women who flanked him appropriated his armrests was a bit, he thought, daring. But what could you expect, he thought, after the Nineteenth Amendment ?

The clarion voice of the male behind him soon announced the return of the orchestra. When the orchestra swung into the second number, and the couple behind were telling the neighbors that this was part two of the first piece, Mr. Potts smiled an indulgent smile to himself. When the couple, how­ ever, began whistling airs with the orchestra, the smile, to coin the expression, froze on his lips. In other circumstances he would have been grateful for such draughts of air upon his hot neck. Not so now, though. Especially, since orchestra and soloists were performing in different keys.

It was a pleasant state of mind that the announcement of the finale brought for Mr. Potts. Soon he would be out of this dry welter of heat. After the number, one by J. Strauss, began, Mr. Potts became aware of a vibration. He noted mentally 12

RED that it was the act of a vindictive management to turn the ventilating machinery on at the end of the evening. It was only some minutes later that he discovered that the vibrations were caused by that female behind him, trying out a few waltz steps on the back legs of his seat.

The music over, Mr. Potts loyally joined in the appeal for an encore, knowing from his long experience that conductors are temperamental and want to be coaxed. He did, we say, though he was aching to get out.

Out in the hall Mr. Potts discovered the loss of a muffler.

Immediately his alter ego was conjuring up images of an angry wife together with an atmosphere of frowning brows. But he found the muffler, although in a bad state of having been step­ ped on. Then, assuredly aching in body, but no doubt elevated in spirit, he left.

The orchestra? Oh, yes! It was excellent. Likewise the conductor and his choice of music. In the future, continue to watch this publication for critical accounts of outstanding affairs in the locality’s social life.

ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES hep

Sixteen powerful cylinders purr contentedly ’neath their long streamlined roof; sixteen doughnutty wheels whirr swiftly round their glistening silvery hubs down the long, straight pavements comprising Wisconsin roads. Above the busy wheels reclines a long, low-slung cab, a veritable grey-hound.

Inside this palace on wheels, this most modern means of con­ veyance, sit forty musicians, immaculately attired in black and white. Many of these artists are poring over scores of Bach and Mozart. One is sketching Beethoven. In the rear seat sits a musical quartette skillfully portraying its thoughts in speedy arpeggios on silver flutes, its long artistic locks of hair flowing gracefully and forcefully about its faces.

That, more or less, with a few regular stops to eat and in­ cidentally to sing, is the chorus tour, (though the bus was by no means new and shiny, the musicians for the most part weren’t, they didn't wear black and white, they weren’t reading about Beethoven, and the quartette wasn’t good).

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RED of one because like all other diaries I’ve started, it’s being written so long after the events that the whole tour is just a pleasant memory, and it will be put down as thought of, a week after.

First of all, permit me to introduce the bus; last year known as the Poontang Special, this year it has taken on the significant name “Sea-food.” At the controls sits the driver, Herb; amidship sits Professor Bolle, and at the tail end sits Jap “Musicin-his-fingersM Jungkuntz, the boy with the “fidgety digits.”

The tour started on April 2nd at 11:15, and continued in an uneventful way until we hit La Crosse. As usual we had to walk across the Mississippi bridge, and as usual Mickey (Dunnavitch) Bradtke had his troubles. (Mickey is the fellow who has such a fear of heights that even at his height he has trouble looking at the ground). With the sincere physical support of three or four fellows and the not so sincere moral support of the rest of us Mickey reached the other side without having lost anything except his self-respect. Since the Wisconsin fellows outnumbered the Minnesotans, it was almost unani­ mously decided that the weak part of the bridge was on the Minnesota side; the Minnesota weather was also at this time voted unconstitutional, the temperature having dropped quite noticeably on the other side of the bridge. . . Our concert at Winona was held minus “Cum Sancto” due to the lack of a piano. In place of it four fellows entertained the business district that night with square corners. The next morning these same “nature fiends” climbed the hitherto unclumb Garvin Heights from the front. Ernie and Otto (the pikers) climbed up the easy way,—possibly because of the dead weight each had on his left arm. . . We ate together at La Crosse, and Chick, Len, and Kuehl came in 1-2-3 in the race for eating honors.

A near casualty occurred as Otto, in moving the piano, by mis­ take rested it on his foot. He noticed it, however, before too much damage was done. Brick had an attack of tonsilitis and was forced to go home, his absence being mourned by both the chorus and the octette. . . After waiting quite some time for Len and Phil we left for Zumbrota, which town we hit at four.

We sang “Cum Sancto” again, and Mickey gave the audience a thrill (Prof. Bolle would probably call it a chill) by trilling a cadenza straight thru a rest. That night Korn received full14

RED of-meaning instructions before retiring: “It’s under the bed.” ..• Next stop, Jordan, and what a stop it was! The entire program was sung without a single solo. Next morning Professor Bolle, Jungkuntz, Wiechmann and myself sang at a funeral at the Belle Plaine Old Peoples Home. It was at this time that Eggert noticed the suitcase which he shared with Pingel was getting lighter and lighter. Upon investigation he soon found . the reason. Pingel always felt so much at home at every place that he tossed his dirty clothes down the clothes chutes. . . Jor­ dan being the home of Jordan beer (what a coincidence) the fellows, being of a more-or-less scientific nature, decided to study the why’s and how’s of beer making. 20 fellows made the tour of inspection. . . An interesting and touching scene was seen on the way to St. Paul. Dag (Call me Tuffy) Grams, sitting in the second-last seat, after having had his head not too gently shoved back and forth by the fellows behind him for some time, finally got sore. “One more poke and I’ll come back there!” “Wham!” Four.hands hit Dag simultaneously.

Shaking his head dazedly Dag murmured, “I take it back”. •.

We had a fairly good concert, except that in the song with the echo, the acoustics proved false, and you should have heard the echo! Some say it was the quartette backstage. Since I was on the scene, I must admit that this “Gould be.” Norm Berg had an evening of surprises. He was told that our evening’s lodging was in the country with two old maids and their invalid brother, an old car, and other chorus-tour nightmares, such as “It’s the second door to the right in the woodshed.”一(It was 15 above in Minnesota). We (4 of us) went out to the car.

Norm wondered at the big Buick. After 4 blocks we turned into a wooded estate. His eyes began to pop. Then came the climax. As we entered the mansion, 3 daughters (he later termed them ‘easy on the eyes’）came down the stairs.

Norm almost fainted. Boots Schumann also had his troubles.

Picking up his suitcase to take it up stairs, he hooked onto the phone, and was he embarrased when he suddenly lost said telephone half-way up the steps. Boots, by the way, is a most interesting fellow. We found him next morning sleeping on top of both sheets. We showed him the usual procedure of sleeping between sheets, and he seemed delighted. We ate at the YWCA and then sang two numbers at the St. Paul auditorium for the 15

RED Good Friday Services broadcast over WMIN. After waiting for Franzmann to finish a telephone call—probably to his folks, we left St. Paul. He was forcibly shaken from his reverie by rough hands of fellow sophs and frosh who pushed him into an aisle chair for his first attempt at the hard seats. .. Next con­ cert at Schofield. After walking- two miles to my host’s home, I was soon ready for bed. My host was something of a mind reader, for as, just before retiring, my friend and I turned in­ quiring glances from one to the other, his face lighted up, and he quickly got us a flash-light and escorted us to the rear door.

Wallie Wegner hit the home of an accomplished pianist and music teacher. When she stepped out of the room for an in­ stant our hero rushed to the piano and pounded out the first four measures of *'Rachmaninoff^ Prelude in C Sharp Minor.’’

Though she couldn’t figure out why he wouldn’t play more, she attributed it to modesty, and they entered a fervent discussion of piano playing and music. Little did she know that those four measures comprised his entire repertoire. After dinner, Jap being absent, Ray Wiechmann directed the boys in the usual “Sie leben hoch,” and was doing right well until Sledge 4'Bel Canto” Schlenner crossed him up with a bass solo in the inimitable Schlenner style, (one measure ahead of time).

Wiechmann also showed the results of listening to Jungkuntz’s speech, and gave it almost verbatim, from “In behalf of the chorus” to “show our appreciation with the usual ‘Sie leben hoch’，3 times, fellows’’！ The quartette which had been harping on the “Apple and the Worm” at every place on the tour, finally dug up a new number, and the chorus showed its thanks by joining in on the last measure of the other song...

Last stop, Manitowoc. Saturday night the fellows saw the docks and other interesting sites of the big little city. We sang to over a thousand people in the Easter service, and gave a concert Sunday night to a crowd almost as good. Having seen all of Manitowoc the night before, the boys watched the director for a change, and thus managed to get off a good concert.

After a lunch and the usual speech and “Sie leben hoch” we left for home. Having sung every song any one could dig up, we soon reached the NWC camping grounds, after a swell tour, successful both socially and financially, and, we hope, musically!

Bidding Herb and ol’ Seafood adieu, we soon found ourselves dreaming of record crowds, Cum Sanctu’s，flashlights, chicken dinners, and chorus tours in general...

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Jbiiartals And so, for the 40th (or thereabouts) time................

The Black and Red is starting a new volume.

In the past, remarks have been passed, rather on the derogatory side, about the appeal of the particular publication.

Criticisms have been as free as leaves on an autumn day. In spite of the sweat and fuming of staffs, no second, opposing school of thought of any dimensions has arisen.

Nevertheless, each coming issue of the Black and Red has always been anticipated with some degree of eagerness. If it didn’t appear by the 29th, public opinion seemed to become charged with some annoyance at the delay. Evidently, then, the issue is expected, is desired. Yet, in the minds of some, it has failed to click.

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the statement that the Black and Red is published by the stu­ dents of Northwestern College. While it is true that the main duties have been delegated to a few, there is also plainly printed the statement that articles are requested from the undergrad­ uates.

Instead of being merely destructive, be constructive. Take an interest that is not only of the receiving-end kind. Make the paper more truly representative.

If you are unable to do that, let your appraisal of the publi­ cation contain some helpful tips. Furthermore, don’t keep it to yourself.

R. J. P. Editor’s note: Since this so well expresses anything I might have written by way of introduction to the new issue, I shall add nothing to it except this little quotation —if you allow me to quote : ‘ The beginnings and endings of all human under­ takings are untidy.” ______________ BIRD STUDY Waller Schumann

There is today in the United States a very wide interest in the conservation of wild life, especially of birds. This is mani­ fested in the great interest which the public shows in proposed laws for bird-protection, in the propagation of various game birds on public and private properties, in the erection of boxes for the convenience of nesting birds, and in the financial support given Audubon Societies and local bird-protection clubs through­ out the country.

A lively curiosity has spread among all classes of thinking people as to the names of the birds they see, what they feed on, and facts concerning their migration periods. This widespread interest in birds both on the part of the government and private individuals has had beneficial results. Not only are our birds protected, but unusual opportunity has been given to study them.

Birds should be studied because of their importance to mankind. Birds occupy a fourfold relation to man: an economic, esthetic, mythological, and a scientific relation.

The native birds are one of our nation’s most valuable assets. Destroy them, and in a comparatively few years the insects will have multiplied to such an extent that trees will be denuded of their foliage, plants will cease to thrive, and crops cannot be raised. Birds are nature’s most potent check upon 18

RED the increase of insects and harmful rodents; they help maintain that fine balance of nature without which human life might be­ come very difficult, if not impossible. It has been found by ob­ servation and dissection that a cuckoo consumes daily from 50—400 caterpillars or their equivalent, while a chickadee will eat from 200—500 insects or up to 4,000 insect or worm eggs.

100 insects a day is a conservative estimate of the quantity con­ sumed dy each individual insectivorous bird. Every winter multitudes of tree sparrows and juncos flock over our snowcovered fields, spending their days eating weed-seeds. It has been estimated that the tree sparrows in the state of Iowa alone during their stay consume over 800 tons of weed seeds!

The more we learn of their food habits, the more we realize our indebtedness to them, and the importance of protecting this vast and aggressive army of birds fighting in the interest of man.

We should, however, be very unappreciative if we were onlyconcerned with birds from the standpoint of their economic value. Birds do not only make life upon the earth possible, but they may add immeasurably to our enjoyment of it. Where in nature could one find so wonderful a combination of beauty of form and color, of grace and power of motion, and of musical ability and intelligence ? What would a spring be without the robin and the bluebird ? Who does not love to hear the cheery whistle of the bob-white coming across the fields of early sum­ mer. The cry of the loon, the scream of the red-tailed hawk and the booming of the bittern appeal strongly to all but the most callous men.

The influence birds have exerted on the mind of man may perhaps be attributed to the birds’ mastery of the air, to the weird and beautiful character of their songs and to their mys­ terious appearances and disappearances caused by migration.

This is shown by the many supernatural powers attributed to birds in old myths and legends. The stork brings us into the world, and at the call of the owl we leave it. The dove is the mess­ enger of peace, and war is waged beneath the aegis of the eagle.

Things we are not supposed to know are always told us by “a little bird.” Thus, the bird is an omen and symbol from birth to death, in peace and war and in our relations with our fellow man.

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RED interest to such interesting creatures. It is, of course, desirable that we know what place a bird occupies in the scheme of nature and the relationship it bears to other forms of life. In all the realm of Nature Study there is no more fascinating story than the life-history of a bird. The distribution of birds in time and space, their migrations, their nesting habits, their relation­ ships, their form and color, and all the details of their structure and life which make up the science of ornithology, make a nar­ rative more interesting than fiction.

It is the duty, and should be the pleasure, of every citizen to do all in his or her power to protect these valuable creatures, and to encourage them to remain about our homes. The best means of protection is the spread of knowledge concerning them and the creating of an interest in their habits and modes of life.

To that end, Bird Study.

0 The invitation of “Come on Alumni! Let’s hear from you” in last month’s Black and Red brought some results. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the Alumni for their wholehearted cooperation. Yet there are many stories to uncover. In the final analysis, this is your column.

The Rev. George Barthels, ’35，has succumbed to scarlet fever. He has now reached the third week of his quarantine in his home at Mishicot.

The Rev. Fred Stern, ’07, of Detroit, Michigan, visited the campus on April 11. The Rev. Stern attended the General Board Meeting in Milwaukee to discuss his call as General Mis­ sionary in Arizona.

Prof. Charles F. Bolle, ’15, dismissed several classes during the week of April 9 because of the redecoration of the Collegiate Chapel.

The Rev. Hilbert Engel, ’23, of Chesaning, Michigan be­ came the father of a baby girl on April 1, (no fooling). Con­ gratulations.

Candidate Richard Gensmer, ’33，preached on Good Friday at Lewiston, Minnesota.

William Hahn, ex ’40, has been studying for the last two months at Dunwoody Institute at Minneapolis.

Prof. H. R. Plum of Lancaster, Ohio, died April 3. He taught science for four years in the nineties at Northwestern College.

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RED John Herbert Parisius, oldest son of the Rev. H.W.Parisius, ’13，of Barron, Wisconsin, died March 14，of a streptococcic infection of the throat. He was 16 years old. The Rev. Parisius was at one time a Professor at Northwestern College. At present he is County Relief and Pension Director, which position he received in February, 1935.

On April 1 Prof. E. Berg，’10，and Prof. E. Kowalke，’08, left for Saginaw, Michigan. On Palm Sunday Prof. Kowalke preached at the joint Lenten service at Saginaw.

During the easter recess, our professors assisted several pastors : Prof. Wendland, ’06, preached at Burlington.

Prof. Schumann,，12, at Columbus, Oshkosh and Burlington.

Prof. Berg, ’10, at Fort Atkinson on Maunday Thursday.

Prof. Kowalke, ’08, at Oshkosh on Good Friday.

Prof. Henry Schmeling, ’98, preached the Lenten and Sun­ day services during the illness of the Rev. O. Kuhlow, 799, Jefferson, Wisconsin.

The Rev. H. Nitz, ’15, conducted the noonday Lenten Ser­ vices at Parkway Theater in Madison on Good Friday.

Dr. and Mrs. Donald G. Culp of Robbinsdale, Minnesota, returned from their winter vacation in Florida recently.

The Rev. G. Fischer, ex J22, of Peshtigo left April 10 for St. Louis to spend the week with the committee working on the new joint synod Hymnal.

麵__PCS Greetings folks ! You’re looking through new eyes at the athletic events of the month at this college of the sable and 21

RED gules. Your new sports critic has taken advantage of the wellworn press pass bequeathed him by his predecessor and has managed to get the inside of the news of sports and the socalled lowdown. We have the news for you this month and we，11 manage to get it for you in months to come, Stick with us for the “inside dope.” Here it is for this month.

The end of the basketball season usually leaves us with a month of nothingness until the baseball season opens. But this year Coach Umnus arranged a series of intramural contests to keep the boys active. More boys were engaged in sports events this month than during those months when only the more or­ ganized sports, football, basketball, and baseball, are offered to them. Volleyball was the first of this month’s events. The finals of the class tournament found the Juniors and Seniors matched for first honors. But the Juniors, having reached the finals with a five-man team, rested on their laurels and only sent two regulars to meet the Seniors opposition. The Seniors quite easily took three games and made themselves College champions. On March 15 the Seniors as College champions met the Tertianers as Prep champions and fought it out for School championship. In spite of the difference in years the two teams were surprisingly well matched. Maybe the scores won’t show that, but they played some good games. The Seniors, carefully setting the ball up to “Spike-em” Toepel and "Shove-it-downtlieir-throats” Hempel, took the first two games 15—6 and 15— 12. The third game, however, Tertia grasped the idea of the Senior tactics and applied them themselves. They returned the ball across the net to win 15—8. There is another theory as to the reason for Tertia’s victory in the third game. It is simply this. The Seniors were tired and disorganized, and they had not yet gained their second wind. Far be it from me to pass judgment in favor of either of these two views. The fourth game was very closely fought but Senior stamina and experience won out, 15—12. For the second consecutive year the Class of ’39 annexed the volleyball title.

Ping-pong kept quite a few boys busy during the afternoons of the last month. After all the playing was over, Baganz, Graebner, Koeninger, and Grams had gained themselves posi­ tions on the ping-pong team. Baganz had gone through the tournament without losing a same. Nice going, Baggy (pro­ nounced Bah ‘-gee)!

While ping-pong was going on in the basement of the gym, the boys were also bouncing a rubber ball against the wall on the main floor. After a tournament among the eleven entries in handball, Berg, Weiss, H. Sauer, and Koeninger had attained the rank of the four highest.

Also last month in another part of the basement the Seniors were bowling quite earnestly. In the Handicap Tournament 22

RED Keibel took first honors without a handicap, winning eighteen games and losing six. Computing the averages for the season among the Senior followers of Rip Van Winkle it was found that KeibePs average of 153 was the highest. Wantoch followed with 139, Pagels with 138, Schweppe with 135, and Frey with 131. These five made up the bowling team. On March 23 this team together with Reim and Hertler engaged a seven-man team of the professors. The professors with a generosity they were later to regret gave the Seniors a handicap of 180 pins per game.

After the rumbling and rolling had ceased the final score was found to be Professors 3317, Seniors 3329. The Seniors won by twelve pins.

NORTHWESTERN—SEMINARY MEET With more good will and willingness to play than technique and ability the boys from the Seminary came to engage us in an indoor meet on March 25. The afternoon began with volleyball.

After carefully explaining the game to their opponents, the Seniors, School champions, took the floor to defend the honor of Northwestern. The Senior team was made up of Captain Tabbert, Toepel, Lehninger, Hempel, Naumann, and Ten Broek.

Naumann and Ten Broek replaced Schweppe and Pagels who were by this time busy bowling. Seminary sent out Zimmer­ man, Sydow, Cares, Birkholz, Koenig, and Becker. The first game looked fairly interesting until it became Lehninger’s serve with the score 7—1. Lehninger served until the score was 15—1.

The second game was like the first, except that Lehninger be­ gan serving with the score 2—1. After he served the ball across the net thirteen consecutive times the Seniors had the second victory of the afternoon. During the course of the game some of the Seniors were not as gentlemanly as they could have been.

On one spike they rather rudely shoved the ball down Zimmern^ann’s throat. Now boys, you know that was not nice! But Zimmermann good-naturedly coughed the ball back up and the game continued. The third game the Seniors added insult to injury by again defeating Seminary 15—1.

Almost before we were ready to watch the ping-pong matches, they were over ! Baganz took Zimmermann 21一8 and 21—12, Graebner defeated Sydow 21—14, 21—15, and Koeninger downed Koenig 21—8 and 21—11. Nothing for Seminary in this event.

Seminary was able to produce only two handball men, Sydow and Koenig. Berg defeated Sydow 21—15 and 21—14, and Sauer swamped Koenig 21—5 and 21—4. So far in the afternoon Semi­ nary was not able to win a game.

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RED less fell). The Senior Kegling Team took the first two games, but dropped the third and Seminary obtained its only point in the official matches. The Seniors, however, won the bowling match by 163 pins. Comments from the Seminary bowlers were “Next time we’ll bring our own pin setters.” And “We ought to practice!”

The scores: Seminary Northwestern Pagels___ ScKweppe.

Frey----Keibel...

Wantoch.

689 Grand Total

135 177 157 135 179

138 160 161 133 108

783 .2152

680

113 169 128 162 .137

Koehler----Ehlke..........

Roeckle___ Lambert ...

Frey......... ..

Grand Total

138 106 106 152 117

148 207 120 135 107

653 619 1989

717

.113 .135 168 166 91

In the recreation room of the dormitory there were also some unofficial matches being played. Tills, the generally acknowledged unofficial billiard champion of N W C, engaged Hallauer, who represented the same for Seminary. Tills showed no mercy and took two straight 35—31 and 35—29. Weiss, the boy that can’t quite beat Tills, took on Becker of Seminary in the second match on the green-covered table. He dropped the second game to give Seminary its second point of the afternoon, but he won the match 35—14, 31—35, 35—31.

Totaling up the points for the afternoon officially and unof­ ficially, we find that Northwestern gained 19 and left Seminary only 2. In spite of this a good time was had by all.

NORTHWESTERN-MILTON MEET On the afternoon of March 27 Northwestern sent its men to Milton to compete in an indoor meet. Northwestern took the volleyball event in two out of three games, 15—9, 10—15, 15—11. The Seniors showed the same teamwork that they showed in previous games and it was too much for Milton. It’s too bad we could not get some real competition for our volley­ ball team this year. They were plenty good, In handball our men proved vastly superior to Milton’s team. Berg defeated Schueller 21—6, 21—8, Weiss had it over Reese 21—3 and 21—6, Sauer took Deakman 21—6, 21—11, and Koeninger squashed DeLand 21—1 and 21—2. We lost ground in ping-pong though.

Stevens was too much for Baganz in two games out of three, 21—16, 18—21, 22—20. Carry carried away two straight from Graebner 21—16 and 21一18. Koeninger likewise lost his match in two out of three games to Walley, 21—19, 18—21, 18—21.

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RED Northwestern in ping-pong by defeating Nagler 21—14, 13 -21， 22—20. The ping-pongers then engaged in doubles matches.

Baganz and Graebner took on Stevens and Walley and lost two straight 21—19 and 21—16. Koeninger and Grams were de­ feated by Carry and Nagler in spite of the fact that they won the first game. Their scores were 21—13, 13—21, 21—18.

The Senior Bowlers lost two out of three games to the Milton men. At the end of the match they were: 93 pin s short of a tie. The scores: Northwestern Milton Pagels …

Scnweppe Frey Wantoch Keibel

155 .124 135 134 197

147 152 154 140 148

155 157 158 165 189

746 741 .2300

814

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Walley.

Luebke Hruska Wixom.

Bladorn.

Grand Total

161 162 .195 133 168

146 181 141 171 179

170 146 166 147 147

809 818 .2393

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On March 28 the Seniors engaged the faculty in another bowling match. Both teams had six men but in spite of their 120 pin handicap the Seniors could have used another man.

They lost to the professors by twenty-one pins. The final scores were: Seniors 2840, Faculty 2861.

And that closed sporting activities until the opening of base­ ball season and we went home for Easter vacation.

Returning from Easter vacation we found Coach Umnus ready to begin baseball. Contrary to common report North­ western will not send its baseball men south for Spring training.

This is perhaps due to the rumored reports of rain, snow and unsettled weather in Florida, Texas and California. Coach Umnus feels that his men will be able to limber up in Wisconsin weather. He made a call for candidates on April 12 and the first practice was held in the gym. About thirty men showed up with gloves and throwing arms. Seven of these men were back from our Championship team of last year, the team that lost no games throughout the season. Bill Klages is back for mound duty. Remember he tasted of a no-hit, no-run game last year and he is thirsty for more this year. Go get them, Bill!

He will be assisted by Behling, who did not see active service last year, but he gives promise of pitching ability this year.

The catching position was left open by the graduation of Wendland, but we have hopes that his shoes will be filled by Hackbarth, who filled them two years ago, or Koehler, who has come up from the preparatory department. The infield of last year 25

RED has remained quite intact. Schweppe is there at first, still stretching to save the other boys errors, Keibel is at second, Schumann at short, and Hempel at third, to round out the rest of the first line of defense. Peil, Hoffmann, and Kehrberg will be out there trying to keep the ball from going out of the park.

At the plate Hoffmann and Kehrberg will try to keep their last year* s averages of somewhere over .400, and Schweppe, Schumann and Hempel will be hitting when they are needed. From this sum­ mary of baseball prospects, or rather, of remnants from last year it would seem that all the positions are filled. But in the opinion of Coach Umnus no one has a position on the team until the end of the year. New blood will always be welcome. It’s a matter of the best man winning, no matter whether he is new or old.

Come on, you boys with baseball blood. Make the old-timers work for their positions. In addition to the schedule which follows, Coach Umnus is arranging for frequent practice games with teams of Watertown. Here is the list of scheduled games: Here Seminary April 29 *Milton Here 3 May ♦Extension Here 6 May Seminary Here 8 Univ. of Wis. “B” There 10 *Engineers Here (double-header) May 13 Carroll Here May 15 17 *Milton There * Extension May 19 There Whitewater Here May 22 Univ. of Wis. “B” There May 24 June 3 Wis. State Prison There * indicates conference games.

The day after baseball season opened, kittenball men started warming up. Kittenball season will officially open the last week of April. Which class will take the championship this year ?

We don’t know, but the class of ’40 took second place last year to the class of 738. It seems to be open for them but there is nothing sure. Mark Horn, all-star pitcher for the Junior team, comments, “We’ll win the championship, unless_•” Watch this column for results of the battle of the classes in kittenball.

There will be grudge matches, blood feuds, excitement, every­ thing in this class kittenball. Keep your shirts on and put your money on the winning team.

And in closing this month’s activities we might mention that the tennis nets have been put out since March 21, although cold weather kept our men off the courts for a while. We don’t know what this year’s tennis team will look like, but Schaller, Weiss and Koeninger are here to form a nucleus. The following matches have been arranged for our tennis team : 26

RED May 4 Whitewater There Here May 9 Milton Here 12 Seminary There 17 Milton Here 18 Whitewater May 24 Conference Meet Here There June 1 Seminary And that covers what has happened this month. I’ll be back next month with more news. So long.

Campus and Classroom I guess everybody has his own special way of deciding when spring has arrived. Norm Sauer has his own private way and a rather unique one at that. On one of those premature balmy days in March, he counted 64 baby buggies on his way downtown and back. Well, Honroy, everyone is entitled to his own opinion.

Another harbinger of the vernal season was the appearance of a rabbit in the triangle one recess. The poor little fellow was so-o-o-o scared, he didn’t know what to do, almost. But then you would be scared too if you were surrounded by a dozen screaming coeds.

Literary Programs Realism — what is it ? If you don’t know, it must be Mr. Scheitel’s fault, for he it was who attempted to enlighten us on that topic in a program presented by the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society. The M. C. (not member of congress ^ as your teacher may have taught you, but master of ceremonies) got at his subject by three media: speeches, music, and drama. James Vogt tried to explain why Anton Chekov is a realist. Ralph Gehrke told us something about Claude De Bussey and impres­ sionism in music and demonstrated by playing some of Claude:s stuff on the piano. Mr. Krause’s speech dealt with Sinclair Lewis.

The Collegians played some “realistic” music, the brightest of which was a new song “I Want to be a Lover”，written by Heine Paustian.

Irv Weiss and Wally Wegner, together with Miss Dorothy (yo were jist wonderful) Jaeger, put on a one-act play entitled “Earthworm Tractors”. Nice acting, chilluns.

The last program of the season, put on by Irvin W. Weiss and Otto Pagels was designed to be "strictly for your entertain­ ment.” Miss Grace “ho hum” Kowalke gave a speech on her 27

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favorite pastime, sleep. Louis Pin gel “gummed” up the works with his little dissertation on chewing gun. Two plays wei:e on the program. ‘‘Phoebe Louise” with W. Scheitel and the Misses Hardiman, Fred rich, and Wendland was so-so. “Bank Robbery” with G. Franzmann, D. "Brockhaus” Ten Broek, Fritz Tabbert, J. Kohl, Ernie Lehninger, and R. Korn was slightly melodramatic. All in all, Irv and Otto, nicht so iibel.

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To a fellow from Minnesota The one with the jacket so “rota” The lady she spake "Young- man, have some cake” To this he replied With a feeling of pride, ‘‘No thanks, just give me ‘Zumbrota’.’’

A leather medal to Grams. In a discussion in German class of the word “schnurren”，someone asked if “Schnun:bm，t” was derived from it. Where叩on Dagwood remarked, “Well, if a vacuum cleaner hums, why scouldn’t a cookie-duster ?”

This popped up in Prof. Eickmann’s science class. The exam paper read: ‘‘a kick produces osculations which are sent out in the form of waves.” The Prof, suggested that the first three words be rearranged to make more sense. You couldn’t prove it by me, but maybe osculation does produce a kick.

We’d like to dedicate a few popular songs. It’s an old gag, but then, “What’s good fer my dear father is good enough for me.”

Hold Tight............ ___ Male Chorus (to the bus) Litte Sir Echo....... •.......Ray Wiechmann (chief echo) Masquerade is Over ....... Howey “Wondebar” Ambelang Deep Purple........ . ___ Everybody, the day after vacation We’ll Never Know. ___ About Otto Pagels at Zumbrota It’s Never Too Late ....... Black and Red Boys Chopsticks............ .......Ernie Lehninger Spring Concert Three student directors showed what they could do at the Spring Concert held March 29th in the gymnasium. Surprising results were achieved by all four organizations. The orchestra, under the direction of Walter “Arturo” Wegner got its first encore in a decade. Perhaps it was the maestro’s handsome bearing that drew the claps. Could be. Maybe you didn’t realize it, but the chanting of the Male Chorus with “In a Monastery Garden’’ was directed by a three-way hookup of Wegner to Jungkuntz to Wiechmann to Chorus.

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The Mixed Chorus under R. P. Jungkuntz’s direction turned in a creditable performance.

Gerhard Hillmer, student director of the band attempted some difficult music, but the organization handled it quite well.

The Second Movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and “The Song of the Bayou” were outstanding. No doubt Ernie Lehninger's cymbal swinging helped put the latter over with a bang.

A girls’ trio composed of the Misses Grace Kowalke, Lois Fredrick and Helen Wendland sang1 two numbers which were well received. The clarinet trio of T. Bradtke, G. Hillmer and W. Wegner did some mighty fine “sliver luching”.

To you, Prof. Bolle, to you, Jungkuntz, to you, Mr. Hillmer, to you, Mr. Wegner, and you, all you participants — bouquets for a tough job well handled.

And on the same day that Hitler moved into Czechoslo­ vakia, Prof. Berg, Mr. Gensmer and Mr. Raabe moved into the newly renovated office. It’s quite the place now, the office is, with its new varnish and furniture. The improvement that ap­ peals especially to certain students is the new arrangement for the telephone whereby calls can be made from out in the hall.

This means that Jack De Ruiter and Karlheinz Neumann can talk for hours and hours without being molested. It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if these boys would put on a little endurance contest or give us a course in the fine points of telephone tech­ nique.

Five N.Y.A. boys stayed here at school during the Easter vacation to dig holes for the new trees to be planted east of the gridiron.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Nancy Goes to the Laundry

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Lim-rix

35

They Howl!

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Our Hero

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Grand Central

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Snatches

40

Say It Isn’t So

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EDITORIALS— Basic?

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The Future in America

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ALUMNI NOTES

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ATHLETICS

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., May 1939

Number 2

is,, as second class matter under Act of •iption. One Dollar.

NANCY GOES TO THE LAUNDRY from “The Adventures of O’Dussy” (Most likchj svrittcn by Laper during the Spring of 1939 A. D.)

Give me now a fluss, 0 Muse, So the editor thinks this fit to use. .......... .And being long tossed about in his Model T, O’Dussy was weary and did much desire sleep. Many miles had he rolled on in his faithful car since he had last checked the oil. Then the most awful sound of a knock struck his ears. The connecting rod being truly indeed thoroughly burned out, he did come to a stop on the side of the road near the Rolling Lawn golf course in the outskirts of Shorewood. Already it was near midnight and so the much-enduring O’Dussy curled up in the back seat and there slept soundly.

Now in ages past Mr. Juneau came to Wisconsin and finally built his home on one of the Great Lakes. This place is called 30

today Milwaukee. As the city grew and became crowded and noisy, some people began to build their homes more north along the lake. This place is called today Shorewood.

Now at this time the Mayor of Shorewood was by name AI Schleines. One daughter fair of face and form the Mayor had.

Nancy was her name and eighteen summers she had seen with her dreamy blue eyes.

This night Nancy could not sleep for theMayBall was only a few days away and she yet had not a date. Being tired of lying awake she arose, turned on the light, put on her kimono, and began to look at the newspaper. There she did read in letters bold and black: COME NOW, GIRLS,

WHY ARE YOU SO NEGLECTFUL OF YOUR APPEARANCE? To Be Popular You Needs Must Always Have Clothes Fresh and Clean!

Bring your soiled clothes to the Eagle Laundry Co. early tomorrow morning and with the Eagle Laundry’s Super-service they will be cleaned while you wait.

You Cannot Afford To Be Unpopular!

You Can Afford Clean Clothes!

Nancy returned to her bed and pondered in her mind the advertisement.

When the morning came she rose up and went downstairs.

There in the kitchen she found her mother eating breakfast, and her father was just going out the door on his way to the city hall to confer with the aldermen. Nancy rushed to him and said, “Papa, dear, can I use the white-tired Oldsmobile this morning? I want to take our soiled clothes to the laundry. You know how important it is that you have clean clothes when you meet with the council and you know how my brothers like clean clothes when they go out.”

Too shy was she to tell her real reason for the desire of clean clothes, but her kind father suspected it and answered, 31

RED “Nothing would I withold from you, Nancy. Take the whitetired Oldsmobile and use it.” Then he told one of the butlers to back the car out of the garage and to see that it was well in­ deed filled with gasoline.

Then Nancy collected the soiled clothes and placed them in the white-tired car. Thereupon she herself got in and her mother gave her some money to take along. Having stepped on the starter the eight cylinders began to purr and then, stepping on the accelerator, the car rolled smoothly down the street.

Nancy did not go alone, but a house maid went with her.

The girls parked the white-tired car and carried the clothes into the laundry. When they were told that it would be a few hours before the clothes would be clean and dry, Nancy and the maid did decide to play a round of golf at the Rolling Lawn course.

Very gracefully did Nancy swing the clubs as she drove and putted over the soft greens. Hole number eight was near the artificial lake. Number seven was very near the road where a silent high-wheeled Ford was parked. She did tee off for num­ ber eight and her ball went into the lake with a splash. When they saw the splash, both Nancy and the maid gave a piercing cry after the manner of women.

Now O’Dussy was awakened by the sounds and he rose up and rubbed his eyes and said, ‘‘What noises were those? Are the cops coming to give me a ticket for parking? Whither am I come?”

Then he stepped out of his car and the girls saw O’Dussy as one unshaven and with hair unkempt and greasy in respect to the skin and with eyes blood-shot from much driving. The maid began to run away but Nancy, daughter of A1 Schleines, feared not.

O’Dussy did not know if it was proper to walk over and shake hands lest he might annoy the lovely lotus bud. So he kept his distance and began with pleasant words of soft soap. ‘‘Whether you’re Miss America, I do not know, but you are indeed more beautiful than all the Garbos and La Marrs in the world. Never have I seen anything more beautiful unless it was the Trylon and Perisphere at the World’s Fair in New York, for there too have I traveled after fighting long years with Franco in Spain. Yesterday, after being on the road a 32

RED week, I did burn out a connecting rod and being without money, I cannot go on and I am hungry, having last eaten at Cleveland.

Have pity on me. Do you know where I might be given some clean clothes? Please direct me about your city. And for these favors I would wish that you might have whatever your little heart desires.”

Then the beautiful Nancy answered. "You seem to me in­ deed not to be such a bad fellow. We all have a bit of hard luck at times and so now I shall be glad to help you in whatever way I can. —This is the city of Shorewood and it is inhabited mostly

by Germans. I am the daughter of A1 Schleines the mayor.”

Then she called to the maid and said, “Why are you so shy? He won’t hurt you. Come, take this man to the barber shop and a dress shop and then we will have dinner together at the club.”

But O’Dussy said, “It does indeed go against my grain to go to the barber shop and to go shopping with a woman!”

And so Nancy gave him the car and some money (so much did she trust him). And then O’Dussy proceeded alone down­ town. First he did get a shave and a hair-cut. Thereupon he did buy a light-gray suit, a white shirt, a pair of white shoes, and a red and blue necktie. In these O’Dussy dressed himself and he looked indeed like a new man.

Now he returned to the Rolling Lawn club. The mayor’s daughter and the maid saw him approaching and Nancy said, “Listen Hilda, and I’ll tell you something. — It is fate that has brought that stranger to our city. Before he seemed to me as a hick but see how handsome he is now! Oh Hilda, I wish that he would be a fiance to me and that he would decide to stay here!” Then came O’Dussy, and Nancy said, “Come now let us have dinner.” And O’Dussy indeed ate heartily having not eaten since Cleveland.

And now it was time to call for the clothes at the laundry, and so Nancy thought fast what she should do with the hand­ some O’Dussy. She said, "If you would like to meet the big shots of Shorewood, come with me to the home of my father.

“You can ride with us in the white-tired Oldsmobile until we are within a few blocks of home. Then it would be better for you to walk the rest of the way since some nosey neighbor might see me bringing a stranger home. Then people would 33

RED talk saying, ‘What a flirt is the mayor’s daughter!”

Thus O’Dussy rode with Nancy and the maid until they neared the home of A1 Schleines. Then Nancy directed him to her home and left him on the corner of Capital Drive and N. Maryland St. About supper time O’Dussy reached the mansion and Nancy told her father how that O’Dussy was a regular fellow. Then A1 Schleines did invite him in to supper and after supper O’Dussy began to relate his adventures. Many and long they were. He told how that he lived through the revolu­ tion in Russia 一 how he was a member of the Royal Air Corps during the Great War —how he was long imprisoned by Herr Hitler in a concentration camp — how he fought with Haile Selassie in Ethiopia一 how he fought with General Franco in Spain—how he regretted that he was missing the war in China.

Nancy did listen, with her pretty red lips and dreamy blue eyes wide open. Would that she could make him decide to stay, she thought.

Then the kind A1 Schleines was pleased with the stories of O’Dussy and said, “I would like to do something for you, my boy. What can I give you, Mr. O’Dussy, that would make you most happy?” The mayor glanced at his pretty blushing daughter.

For a time O’Dussy did look upon Nancy and smile and then he looked afar through space and answered saying, “Give me, if you will, enough money so I can fix the connecting rod in my Model T. I indeed wish to be on my way to Minneapolis for there for many years have I been awaited by my faithful wife and children.

Nancy silently went to her room and there she softly sobbed herself to sleep.

Having then spent a restful night in the home of A1 Schleines, O’Dussy rose up the next morning. And soon he did proceed on his way to Minneapolis, the connecting rod being already truly now indeed fixed..........

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PRED LIM-RIX R. J. P.

There was a young man in a barque Who had hooked on his line a big sharque, Twas done, goes the tale, As he sat on the rail.

There was a young man in a barque.

This crab only measured one in.

But he sure had a heck of a pin.

Till he nipped a small turtle Which made his blood curdle, He had counted the thing as a cin.

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“It is plain,” said a man, “that I must Of this statesman make a big bust.”

But the one that he chiselled Had hair so dishevelled That the statesman grew red and he cust.

Alsburg once had a dog lb.

Which in curs and mutts did abb.

But apart stood a setter With no one to pet her.

She was a pure bred hb.

There once was a nation of Czechs, Which Slovakia did worry and vechs.

Till one day the Fuehrer Decided to cuehr her, And did that nation annechs.

THEY HOWL! A deserted valley for many years, many years ago. Why? Because the Indians who wandered into the valley would remain there only a short time for the simple reason that they couldn’t sleep there. Several tribes tried it, but all of them finally gave up, for they became so weak from lack of sleep, they feared what would become of them if another tribe made war on them.

So until the time came when the cause of their sleepless nights should be destroyed or they found something with which to stop up their ears, for cotton was not known at that time, they re35

RED mained out of the valley at night, only entering during the day for hunting purposes.

But what kept the Indians from getting their nightly slumbers? This may become evident in tracing back to its original meaning the name of the village, viz. Wonewoc, situa­ ted in that formerly deserted valley.

But let me first describe the setting and situation of this village, after which you will see clearly enough how the place received its name and why the Indians couldn’t sleep.

A valley must needs be enclosed by hills, but hills such as surround this particular valley can not be seen anywhere else in Wisconsin, or any other state for all of that. They are long, high and well-wooded hills from which protrude many large and solid cliffs. Many of these cliffs stand out some two hundred feet and a castle could easily be built on them, in fact, many of these cliffs are known as castle rocks. Between these hills and rocks winds a river, not much of an addition to the natural beauty of the valley now, I admit, but then, that is at the time of the Indian possession, a beautiful stream, watering the valley and making of it a paradise for animals and for Indians. The valley, at first sight, seemed to the Indians a second Happy Hunting Grounds. But after the first night, their opinion of the place changed, for they were bothered by far too many evil spirits to continue in their hopes that it was another Happy Hunting Ground.

The Indians recognized these evil spirits and called them by the same name by which they are known today, namely wolves and foxes. How can they be classified as evil spirits?

Easily enough explained. In the late evening and through the night all the wolves from far and near would gather on these rocks or wander through the hills and when the moon rose in the sky, they began to howl at it. When there was no moon, they howled because they had nothing to howl at. So when this horde once began yelping and the rocks threw the echoes back and forth it created an awful din. If you don’t think that it would hinder sleep, you have never heard only a few dogs yelp in your back yard at night.

When an Indian tribe had moved into the valley and set up their tents and had prepared themselves for a peaceful night's sleep along the banks of the quiet stream, they remained with 36

RED that hope only a few short hours before the horde began its nightly vocalizing. For at the first sound of the wolves they awoke, rolled over, then sat up, soon added to the cries of the pack their own and finally in despair packed up and moved away. When questioned by another tribe as to why they had not remained, the reply was in typically Indian style, short and to the point, “wonewoc”，which in the king’s English means simply, “They Howl”.

N. B.: These many years later the rocks and hills remain and the population of the valley is considerable. The inhabitants now can sleep in peace for cotton is cheap.

R. A. G. OUR HERO Before the game starts he sits in the stand with hat to one side and his coat opened and talks an incessant stream of base­ ball technique and strategy to his neighbor who is inattentive and unconcerned.

When the Umpire yells “play ball,” he is ready to begin play from the sidelines. After the first eight innings the score is tied 2-2. Then our hero becomes excited and rises in his seat, but quickly sits down at the command of a husky in back of him. His team is at bat and it is the last of the ninth. Di Dunvoni, his favorite player, comes to bat, swings hard and misses. Our Hero swings too and hurls his salty peanuts far and wide over the crowd! He swings a second and third time, then walks back to the dugout. Our Hero then yells to the manager to put in Smack-it-out-of-the-park Johnson for Neverhit-em Czinzowski. Never-hit-em swings hard for strike one.

Never-hit-em swings hard for strike two. And after having swung for the third time, walks back to the dugout, havinglived up to his name very well. At this point of the game Our Hero has already crumpled his straw hat so that it resembles the one on the lady next to him. As a result of his hard swingingin the seat, both of his neighbors have very sore ribs.

Out of the dugout comes Shoestring Koch, swinging a mighty forty ounce bludgeon. He hits the first pitch for a foul down the sidelines. As the fielder gallops to make a onehanded stab, Our Hero does the same only to get his hands tangled in the next lady’s veil. While he is apologizing for 37

RED the mishap, strike two sails by the batter. He hits the next ball far out, it is good for a triple, but the throw to third is wild and he starts for home plate. And as he slides home safely, Our Hero slides too, jamming his feet through the seat ahead of him and giving the lady in the seat a hasty send off.

It was a tough game but his Bushwaekers won. As he leaves, his tie is loose about his neck, his coat is doubled over his arm, and his hair is flowing1 freely in the wind.

During the process of making the victory he has thoroughly masticated his nails. What a happy but worn-out man is he.

His boys came through with flying colors and he played a most scientific and intelligent game too, — for the sidelines.

Dagwood GRAND CENTRAL R. J. P.

Train whistles. Porters. Trainmen. Newshawkers.

Taxicabs. Passengers going to and fro.

Two passengers, evidently in a hurry, entered, threw down their luggage, and raced to the ticket window, only to find a line ahead of them. The younger one seemed rather nervous, always peering anxiously about. His companion appeared to be a little more dazed. Besides, he was panting and gasping, for he was appearently not in training. In fact, judging from the manner with which he managed to stretch his already ample suit, one formed the opinion that he had a particular aversion for training. Here was a man who was at his best with his feet under the table, the rest of his body moved up as close to the table as his frontage would permit, tying into some of the tastiest and solidest.

Having somewhat recovered, the portly gentleman tapped his companion on the shoulder and began questioning him.

‘•I say,” he gasped, “what’s the rush? You said we would take the 9:23, and here it is only eight o’clock.”

Just then a small salesboy, with a large smudge under the right eye and only one suspender, a la Huckleberry Finn, barged in between the two and began working on the sales resistance of J. Mortimer Canby, the Fat. “Peanuts, candy bars, potato-chips?” he sang out in an inquiring tone.

“No, no! And beat it!” J. Mortimer was normally not 38

RED the man to refuse refreshment. But in this instance he would have to foot his own bill. Besides, he wanted an explanation from his friend, who continued glancing fearfully at the entrance.

“Jim,” he continued to his friend, “Why go so early? It’s only eight.’’

Eight, :four,” corrected the helpful candy man.

"Will you amscray!’’ said J. Mortimer, dropping his dignity.

He wished he had something for the insistent lad’s mouth, something large and smothering he had in mind.

“You don’t happen to have any gags, do you?” he inquired, thinking to combine business and pleasure.

"Sure,” returned the lad, ‘‘Hear the one about the Irishman—?’’

“Go peddle your papers.M J. Mortimer Canby was peeved.

He was about to return to his old theme, when his friend’s turn came at the window.

“Where to?” ask the clerk, glaring as if he had something personal against the buyer.

Rockford.”

“How many’’ “Two” “Okay. Thafll be $4.72°, How soon does the train leave?’’

“In half a minute.”

“What! Hey, Canby, grab your grip, and come along.”

J. Mortimer did as commanded. But he was being sorely tried. Why, he didn’t even have his second wind. Now, he thought, he knew how Eliza felt half way across the ice.

The two plunged out onto the platform just in time to see the observation car leaving the station.

“I’m lost,” groaned Jim. 44What do you mean ‘lost’ ？’’ asked J. Mortimer. He felt like a twentieth century Dr. Watson. The underlying reason for. all this secret commotion was, no doubt, all very elementary, but he didn’t get it.

“I’ll never be able to endure that merger meeting today,” returned Jim. Just then, catching sight of a feminine figure carrying a small bundle who had just come on the platform, he sank down on a bench, his face assuming the resigned air i i

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“I hope you have a pleasant trip,” she said, as she left. ‘‘Who was that?” said the stupefied Canby.

“My wife,” “But what is in the package?’’

“My winter underwear,” explained Jim, in a hollow tone.

“Aha,” said J. Mortimer, the light dawning. Laying an affectionate hand upon his oesophagous, he gazed happily at the new May sun, and whistled. His figure, after all, needed no accentuation from thick, prickly underclothing. Besides, he was still free, white, and single.

SNATCHES April 12. Dumhill College: It seems very probable that once again the campus of Dumhill College will resound with the name of Potts. This year, Elmer Potts, son of Harry Potts, star Dumhill pitcher of ‘14 and ‘15, has announced his in­ tention of trying out for the mound position of the Dumhill nine. It appears that he can “lay them in there” with all the speed and precision of his famous sire.

April 29. Dumhill College: The inferior Mudville College ball club was virtually snowed under in their game here today, 12-3. Elmer Potts, son of the renowned Harry Potts, pitched three sparkling innings of ball before the coach re­ moved him from play. Potts allowed six hits, and Pete Glup, the finishing pitcher, seven.

May 4. Dumhill College: The Dumhill nine turned in another victory today at Coonstown. Although the score was uncomfortably close at times, our team eventually came through with a 10-7 victory. The game was featured by the brilliant fielding activities of Finkelstein and the air­ tight game played by Hill and Dale at short and third.

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May 11. Dumhill College: The Dumhillers came through again today and chalked up another victory to the glory of their old alma mater. The game was a thriller from start to finish, and not until the ninth inning was our team able to push in the winning run. The final score: 8-7. Secondstring pitcher Potts found the going difficult; the assisting and finishing pitcher was Pete Glup.

May 25. Dumhill College: With a record of ten victories and two defeats, the Dumhill nine left for State this morning.

The team is in fine form and spirit, and hopes to bring back a victory over one of the finest teams in the district.

Pitchers accompanying the squad were Watkins, Glup Klotz.

June 6. Dumhill College: E. Potts has been appointed chairman of the refreshment committee of the Sophomore Shindig, which will take place Saturday Night.

Walter Schumann SAY IT ISN’T SO Once upon a time in a land far away there lived a young man whose name was Ed. Now that land was fair and delight­ ful to dwell in and Ed spent a very pleasant fifteen years of his life in sucking the nectarean delights of childhood. But un­ fortunately there were curious institutions of torture in that land known as ‘‘colleges’’ and Ed was sent to one of these. It seems that one out of every ten or twenty lads were chosen by fate to be sent to these places.

The first part of his life at the college wasn’t nearly as bad as Ed had thought it might be from the gruesome tales he had heard told by those lads who had been there. You see, Fame was a fleet and growing evil even in this land of long ago. But because of something he had done or at least the ‘‘faculty’，(this is what those who were in charge of the administration of tor­ ment were called) had thought he had done, he was chosen editor of the college paper.

Ed didn’t know just what his new punishment was to be, but the retiring editor conducted him into the torture chamber and introduced him to his co-sufferers. According to the half41

RED obliterated and almost indecipherable account that has remained to the present day, his punishment was about as follows.

Every time he came to his new room and opened the door he was fairly snowed under by neatly folded and carefully written heaps of paper. He had to read all of these and pick out the most hair-raising and blood-curdling of the accounts, because he couldn’t possibly print them all. When he had finished with the heap at 2:30 in the morning, eight or ten other inmates came in with articles on their day’s experience and Ed had to start all over again. Finally, he would fall asleep from sheer exhaustion. And no sooner had he one issue published than material would be pouring in for the next. He was so busy reading over other writer’s work that he seldom got a chance to write anything himself, tho’ he would have liked verymuch to do so.

And that’s not all. There were so many subscribers that the business manager had trouble in keeping his records com­ plete. Every one paid his subscription so far in advance that it entailed a great deal of book-keeping to keep it all straight.

Of course this brought in so much money that it was impossible to dispose of it all. The banks refused to accept such large amounts because their tills were already running over and efforts to loan or give the money to other inmates of the insti­ tution were hopelessly fruitless. It was enough to drive any plain-souled person to distraction.

Then the post office department had a curious rule. This department was the organization of peripatetic philosophers who came to the institution and got the copies of the paper to rush them to the subscribers. The rule was that if the paper was completed before the tenth of the month they refused to carry it because it interfered with the business of the month before. The first few months the paper wasn’t finished until about the twelfth, but after that, try as he would, Ed couldn’t get his contributors and co-workers to ease up and get the paper out at the proper time. So for two months he was obliged to deliver them himself.

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This interesting bit of information was scrawled on a piece of parchment discovered on top of one of the Andes mountains and but recently offered to the public. Archaeologists are at a loss to determine where this curious country was located, altho’ they would like very much to find out. But perhaps it would be better if they didn’t.

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Jiitlortals BASIC? Can the English language be spoken intelligently with less than 1000 words? Dr. C. K. Ogden, an English psychologist has said that 850 words are sufficient for all ordinary purposes. In fact, he has even devised a form of simplified English he calls Basic. 600 of his words are nouns, 100 are adjectives, 100 are “adjectival opposites,’’ 30 are verbs and the rest are particles.

Two hundred of the nouns are names of common subjects e. g. boat, log, potato, umbrella: the other 400 are the names of familiar groups and concepts e. g. people，music, crime, loss and weather. The list of 30 verbs seems very small, but it makes use of a prime characteristic of English — its capacity for get­ ting a multitude of meanings out of a single verb by combining it with simple modifiers. Notice the difference between to take wp, take in, take off, take in, take over, take out, to take to heart or to task, to take time, and to take to something. Why should we say that a fighter challenges all comers? Why not just say that he takes on all comers? Why are we taught to say that 44

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marry a wife, when we could take any one of them? The fun­ damental verbs of Basic are ten in number — come, go, putt take, give, get，make，keep, let and do. “Every time,” Dr. Ogden writes, "you put together the name of one of these ten simple acts (all of which are free to go in almost any direction) with the name of one of the twenty directions or positions in space, Besides its 850 words, however, you are making a verb.

Basic is free to take in international words, e. g. coffee, tobacco, police, and to add words necessary for the matter at hand, e. g. electron and chloride in a scientific treatise.

Basic is intended to help the foreigner who is confronted with the huge English vocabulary, nine-tenths of which is not commonly used. It has, however, a serious drawback, in that its dependence upon verb phrases would confuse rather then help the foreigner, who is usually very much bothered by preposi­ tions. In comparison with its rivals, Esperanto and Novial, Basic seems to have an advantage in that, unlike these would-be "neutral, synthetic, international” languages, it springs not from scholarly erudition but from the living speech. People do not desire a “universal” language; they only want a language through which then can communicate with other people. That all or even a part of the English-speaking1 people will restrict themselves to the use of Basic seems inconceivable; neverthe­ less the facts it emphasizes concerning the interesting language we commonly use are noteworthy.

B. A. S. THE FUTURE IN AMERICA Soapless soaps and iceless ice! Electric eyes opening doors for us and guarding us from danger! This is an age of wonders.

But what of the future? Have we reached a point where human desires are all fulfilled? For example, we think that the people who lived by candlelight were old fashioned. Yet what will the future generation probably think of us who live in houses that are not air-conditioned, who breathe air full of pollen and dust?

We also think that people were quite primitive if they couldn’t protect their food from decay through the use of ice boxes and refrigerators. However, since we utterly fail to control the climate within our homes by mechanical humidization, the future generation will have one over on us.

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RED We have certainly not reached the end of ingenuity; our future is just beginning. Scientists and inventors are ever alert to find new improvements. Millions of dollars go into research laboratories and industries every year to improve the future of man’s life.

It is true that the American standard of living is higher than the standard of any people on the face of the earth. But the task of modernizing the life of our population is certainly not finished. Our progress has been great, but much remains to be done.

At present there are about 22,400,000 American homes wired for electricity. Yet there are thousands of farms and urban homes still to receive this blessing. We find many electric radios, washers, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners in electri­ fied homes. Yet there is vast room for development in the electrical appliance field. According to statistical tables, it is estimated that tne potential market for electrical appliances is about sixteen billion dollars. To satisfy this demand alone would keep approximately 1,000,000 people at work four and a half years. Through increased skill in manufacturing and better research, we find that much is being done to open up the market by lowering the price of commodities to a point where all people are able to purchase them.

I shall list a few developments that will raise the standard of living, create vast markets, and make millions of jobs: 1.

Electrification of all homes in the United States. 2. The in­ creased use of electrical appliances in the home. 3. Improved housing; increased use of both old and new materials in home buildings. 4. Central heating in all homes. 5. Air-conditioning in all homes and factories. 6. Road improvement for greater safety and speed in improved automobiles. 7. Stabilization and improvement of aircraft. 8. More progress in the railroad and food industries.

The foregoing items will represent billions of dollars inves­ ted in the improvement of life. They will represent vast in­ vestments by private enterprise in the future of this country and in the raising of the standard of living for the American people. However, let us not forget that it is the laboratory which will make new things for us and make life in general better. Industry hopes that the millions of dollars it spends in 46

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Let us see what scientists and chemists are even now accomplishing. In a Detroit machine shop an engineer is working on a gasoline motor. Put in a car and supplied with a new kind of gasoline, which is now being worked on, this motor may one day drive a car 300 miles on a gallon. In Georgia, the director of a laboratory has discovered fat to be eight per cent of the content of one grade of southern pine. By removing the fat, this scientist has opened up valuable natural resourses to the newsprint and rayon industries. Everywhere industrial frontiers are changing. The farmer’s soybeans be­ come automobile steering wheels; his sour milk, airplane pro­ pellers. Waste gases escaping from a factory are converted into ethyl alcohol. Plants can be grown without soil. These are actualities of today, products of the test tubes of chemistry, the wheels of industry.

What of the future? This is a world of labor-saving de­ vices. Men and women are getting away from hand work and are becoming masters of machinery. Working in safety in en­ vironments of .controlled light and climate, they will manu­ facture thousands of new products unheard and unthought of today, each one making life more comfortable and more enjoy­ able. The future in America is bewildering not because there are no frontiers but because there are so many.

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Miss Gertrude Luebke, younger daughter of William F. Luebke, ’03, died on March 18, 1939 after an illness of four weeks. She received her A. B. with highest honors from the University of Denver in 1935, and was a senior in the School of Medicine of the University of Colorado.

Carl Thurow and Roland Ehlke, both of the Class of ’37, will teach summer school at Cleveland, Wisconsin.

Doctor E. Sauer, ex ’36, visited the college on May 7.

Winifred, daughter of Rev. Zimmerman, ’00, was recently married to Fred Bowman. They will live in Milwaukee.

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ALUMNI SOCIETY The Alumni Society convened in the college gymnasium on Commencement Day, Wednesday, June 15, 1938, at 2:10 P. M., for its annual meeting. The president, the Reverend E. Benj.

Schlaeter, presided. The roll call was taken. There were present seventy members, representing classes from 1876 to 1936. The minutes of the preceding meeting were approved as read. At request of the class through its pre sident, Edward Fredrich, and upon recommendation by Prof. Ernst Wendland, the graduating class of 1938, composed of twenty-six members, was admitted into membership. The Reverend William Wadzinski of the class of 1909 was admitted as a member. The treasurer, Prof. T. Binhammer, submitted his annual report.

Report of Income and Expenses Income : Dues $142.00 Interest 34.10 $176.00 Total Income Expenses: 3.00 Notices.........................

6.37 Postage and Envelopes •$ 9.37 Total Expenses…$166.73 Net Income...........

Cash Account $756.08 Balance, June 10, 1937 142.00 From dues...............

34.10 From interest.......... $932.18 Total cash to be accounted for Disbursements: $ 9.37 Expenses............................

799.83 Investment (U. S. Bond)— $ 809.20 Total cash disbursed $ 122.98 Balance in bank Investment Account $6154.04 Total Investments at cost Theodore P. Binhammer, Treasurer.

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5IRED An auditing committee, composed of Pastors A. Tacke, C. Nitz, and P. Froehlke, was appointed by the chairman.

The society honored the memory of: Prof. Ole Felland, ’76; the Reverend Arthur Halfmann, ’97; the Reverend Adolph Hoyer, ’77; Prof. William Herrmann, ’95; the Reverend Paul Froehlke, ’12; Prof. Roland Kremer, ’20. The secretary was instructed to extend the sympathy of the society to the respect­ ive families.

It was resolved to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Alumni Society in 1939. All arrangements for this observation were put into the hands of the society. The officers were in­ structed to inform the alumni as to the arrangements pertain­ ing to the celebration.

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

Adjournment followed at 3:15 P. M. Walter T. Schumann, Secretary.

Notice Meeting of (lie Aluiiiiii Sociciy On Commencement Day, Thursday, June 15, following the noontime luncheon, there will be a business meeting of the Alumni Society in the gymnasium.

E. Benj. Schlueter, President.

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__rat：s BASEBALL Baseball weather finally came to Wisconsin after several weeks’ delay. Northwestern held its first spring training game on April 22, a sunny Saturday after a gloomy week of rain and cold weather. Our opponents were the Watertown American Legion team and the game was played at Northwestern Field.

The Northwestern men garnered six hits and with the help of a few errors on the part of their opponents made them count for nine runs. The Legion team came off at the short end of the score, tallying only four runs. Coach Urnnus substituted freely and was able to get a line on his men. At least he found out that he need have no sinking feeling in his stomach every time a ground ball is hit. The infield made only three errors in the first practice game of the season!

On April 26 the Northwestern nine again engaged the Watertown American Legion in a short practice game. The weather conditions were perfect. Behling pitched for the Watertown team and held the Goslings down to one run in the five innings played that afternoon. However Northwestern men showed themselves in mid-season form and ready to take on all comers. They did not allow their opponents to cross the plate. Spring training is over and the team is ready to begin its regular season.

A Two-Hitter Seminary 2 Northwestern 6 April 29—The first official clash of the season and the Goslings came off with a victory, in spite of the fact that Coach 50

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It was errors that decided the game in favor of Northwestern, eleven misplays being made by the Seminary. If there had been no errors the game would have been one of the prettiest mound duels witnessed in a long time. Northwestern then might have come off with a 1-0 victory. One of the runs was earned.

Northwestern began scoring in their half of the first inning with the gracious help of the Seminary. Koehler, first up, be­ came a runner on Sydow’s error. Klages followed on Wiedenmeyer’s bobble. Kehrberg then struck out for the first out of the inning. Hoffman took first on D. Frey’s error and two runs scored. Each of the infielders except the first baseman had made an error in the first inning. Schumann struck out, Schweppe came up with a double to right center, the first hit of the game, and the third run crossed the plate. That was all the scoring until the third inning. Kehrberg, first up, put a fly ball into the centerfielder’s glove, but stayed on base when the ball was dropped. Hoffman struck out, Schumann fouled to the catcher, and Schweppe again came to bat. For the second time he hit a double, this time down the left field line, and the fourth run scored. Captain Schweppe showed his men what to do with men on bases. The first two times up and he had hit two doubles, both times with men on bases. Koch followed with a single and drove in Schweppe with run number five, the first and only earned run of the afternoon.

What was the Seminary doing during this time? The first four innings they were retired in order. No one reached first base in these innings on the pitching of Klages. In the Seminary half of the fifth Lambert opened up with a towering fly to center field, which netted him a triple. George Frey received a base on balls. Wiedenmeyer bounded to second but took first on a fielder’s choice when Schumann cut off Lambert at the plate.

George Frey was at third and Wiedenmeyer at second so Klages intentionally passed D. Frey to load the bases. Then a slow roller by R. Frey down to second caught Schumann unawares and he tossed over Schweppe’s head and allowed two runs to score. Klages then took care of further scoring threats in that inning by striking out the next two men. The next two innings Klages again put Seminary men down in order and then retired in favor of Behling. Behling kept up the good work for the eighth and ninth innings. Only three men reached base in the two innings, two of them got as far as second. Behling issued one base on balls, hit one man and was nicked by Wiedenmeyer for a Texas league single, the second hit of the game for Sem­ inary. Behling, however, added four strike-outs to his record in the two innings he pitched.

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It again showed th^t Northwestern men are always ready to cash in on errors by their opponents.

The box score: Seminary Northwestern P. Koehler c Hackbarth c Klages p Behling p Kehrberg rf Barnes rf Hoffmann cf Schumann ss, 2b Schweppe lb Koch If Peil If Staffeil 3b Keibel 2b Hempel ss

AB 3 1 4 1 3 1 4 2 4 3 1 4 1 2 34

R H PO A E 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1110 0 0 0 2 1 1 12 9 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 6 6 27 11 2

AB R H PO A E Schwartz cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 Sydow 3b 4 0 0 3 1 4 Umnus c 3 0 0 15 2 0 Lambert rf, p 4 0 1 0 0 0 G. Frey lb, rf 2 1 0 3 0 0 Wiede: nme’ r ss 4 110 3 2 D. Frejy 2b 3 0 0 1 0 2 R. Frey lb 0 1 2 2 00 H. Koehler p 2 00 0 2 0 Zimmermann lb l 0 0 2 00 Geiger* 1 0 0 0 0 0 30 2 2 24 9 11 ♦batted for Umnus in the ninth

Summary: Three base hits—Lambert, P. Koehler. Two base hits— Schweppe, 2, Kehrberg. Base on balls—off Klages 2, off Behling 1; off Koehler 3, off Lambert 2. Strike outs—by Klages 9, by Behling 4, by Koehler 8, by Lambert 6. Hit by pitcher—Behling 1. Hits off Kl a ges 1^ in 7 innings, off Behling 1 in 2 innings, off Koehler 5 in 4 innings, off Lambert 1 in 6 innings. Umpires—Lehninger, Kuehl, Kuschel.

A Slugfcst Milton 4 Northwestern 16 May 3—Again it was ideal baseball weather and the Miltonites came to Northwestern Field to engage us in a baseball game. They must have forseen what was coming for they asked for a seven inning game and placed their outfielders near the fences. Nor were they kept in suspense long. The last half of the first inning saw five Northwestern men cross the plate by reason of two bases on balls, an error by the third baseman, Koehler’s single and Schumann’s home run with the sacks loaded. In the second inning the first run came in on Hempel’s round-the-bases’ drive and was followed by two more through errors and Koehler’s second hit of the day. The third frame added two more runs with an error, Staffeil’s triple and Behling’s single. The fourth inning saw four more runs added to the ten already gained, when Behling tripled with all bases filled. The fifth inning saw our men weakening when they scored only two runs, this time on a base on balls, Kehrberg7s triple and Schumann’s single. The last time at bat for North­ western was the first inning that saw no one cross the home plate.

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by Hull who singled and then did some fast and clever base running to score.

Northwestern men were tired after six and one half innings.

A little note on the game: Northwestern made only one error, and that was made in trying to catch a runner at third.

The box score: Milton Northwestern Hempel ss Hoffmann cf Klages cf Koenler c Schweppe lb Kehrberg rf Schumann 2b Koch If Peil If Staffeil 3b Behling p

AB R H 4 2 2 3 10 1 0 0 4 3 2 3 1 0 4 3 1 4 1 2 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 4 1 2 34 16 11

PO 1 1 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 18

A E 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 81

Hull 2b Loofboro ss E. DeLand If Bladorn 3b L. DeLand cf Miller lb Polan c Jones rf Kaufmann rf Forrestal p

AB R H PO 3 2 2 1 3 0 0 2 3 11 3 3 110 3 0 1 5 3 0 0 6 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0

A 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0

E 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 0 0 0

24 4 6 18 8 9 * Bahr batted for Jones in 6th.

Summary; Home runs—Hempel, Schumann, E. DeLand. Three base hits—Staffeil, Behling, Kehrberg, Bladorn. Base on balls—off Behling, none; off Forrestal, 6. Strike outs—by Behling, 9, by Forrestal, 3. Umpire— Maltz.

Another University Extension 5 Northwestern 23 May 6—It was another day of good weather, although there was a strong wind blowing- into the outfield. Our opponents were the University Extension nine from Milwaukee. We had it on good authority that this was the best team they had in years. Nothing daunted, Northwestern took the field against them.

The first inning our men scored four runs, the third inning one run, the fourth (the high spot of the game) nine runs, the fifth inning again only one run, the sixth inning three runs, the seventh inning four runs, and they closed off in the eighth inning with one run Twenty-three runs were scored on nine­ teen hits and six errors.

Extension gained five runs by three hits for extra bases.

They scored one run in the fourth, two in the sixth and two in the seventh. Behling retired them in order in the last two innings except for one free pass.

After the game we realized that Northwestern had met a bette^1 than last year. Last year we made twenty-two runs in five innings.

Hempel showed some neat stick work in getting three hits 0U-L°xL0ur times at bat. Schweppe and Koch followed each with three out of six.

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R H PO A 112 2 0 1 10 0 0 0 2 1 116 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 10 24 5

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Summary: .Home run—Osusky. Three base hits—Hoffmann, Koehler, Schweppe. Two base hits—Hempel, Hoffmann, Kehrberg, Mundinger, Faas. Bases on balls—off Klages，1, off Behling, 1,—off Henze, 2, off Rosenberg, 6. Strike outs—by Klages 5, by Benling 3, by Henze 4, by Rosenberg 6. Hits off Klages 10 m 7 innings; off Behling none in two innings. Hits off Henze 12 in 5 innings; off Rosenberg 7 in 3 innings.

Umpire—Maltz.

A Draw Northwestern 12 Wisconsin “B” 12 May—The Big Ten second team of Madison scared the Goslings out of a victory. The game ended with the score tied at the end of the ninth inning and was then called because of darkness, but had Northwestern men not gotten over the in­ feriority complex that afflicted them in the first two innings the game might not have ended in a draw. Wisconsin stepped off to a one run lead in their half of the first and followed with two runs in the second inning. Three hits by Wisconsin and three errors by timid Goslings put Northwestern with its back to the wall for the first time this season. But they regained their courage in the third inning when Koch got to third on an error by the centerfielder and was then driven home by Klages’ single to score the first run. The third inning found Northwestern ready to turn on its new found energy. Schweppe singled, Kehrberg doubled, Schumann, Koch and Staffeil singled in turn, Klages doubled and Hoffman singled to bring in a total of seven runs in one inning. This barrage was enough to drive the first Wisconsin pitcher to the showers. Wisconsin came back in their half of the fourth to score three runs on four hits and followed with one run in each of the next three frames. The score at the end of the seventh inning was ten to seven in favor of the Badgers. The Goslings muffed an opportunity to score in their half of the seventh when after two out and the bases loaded by three successive walks, Schumann pulled his “skull play” out of the bag and had himself trapped off first so that Schweppe had to try for home and was out to end the inning.

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PRED But the eighth inning Northwestern again applied preasure to score. Staffeil began by singling after one out, Lambert fol• lowed on an error and then Chick Hempel came up. “Chick” had been playing a grand defensive game, making several hard stops and ploughing the ground with his nose in the fifth inning to catch a pop-up bunt and double a man off third, and now he turned to offense and placed one of Stier’s pitches in right center to round the sacks after Staffeil and Lambert. Hoff­ mann became a base runner on the first baseman’s error and then Koehler won himself a custard pie by a long drive into deep center for a jog around the bases. Koehler for his first year of varsity has been doing some hard pounding of the horsehide pellet. This eighth inning splurge netted Northwestern five more runs and brought the total to twelve runs and a two run lead. Wisconsin took one run off this lead in the eighth on two successive doubles. Then in the ninth after two out, Deno got hold of one of koehler’s pitches and put it into centerfield and, sad to say, “Augie” Hoffmann started too fast, slipped and fell.

The ball sailed over his head and an easy out became a home run, tying the game. The last man was then retired by the strike­ out route and the game called because of darkness. North­ western was still undefeated.

The box score: Northwestern Univ. of Wise. “B” Hempel ss Hoffmann cf Koehler c Schweppe lb Kehrberg rf Schumann 2b Keibel 2b Koch If Peil If Staffeil 3b Klages p Lambert p Behling p Koehler p

AB R H PO A E 6 113 4 1 4 113 0 1 6 114 2 0 4 119 0 0 4 12 2 0 0 3 11111 10 0 10 0 3 2 4 2 2 1 0

2 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 10 0 0 0 0

0 1 3 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 2 0 0 0

Ferris 2b Fletcher 2b Johnson 3b Forman 3b Palmer rf Zabel If Van Sickle c Larson c Snite cf Deno ss Calabusa p ♦Schneider Baker p Stier p

41 12 12 27 10 5

AB 3 1 5 4 6 5 3 1 3 6 1 1 2 1

R H PO A E 3 32 1 1 0 02 1 1 1 20 0 0 12 5 11 1 23 0 1 0 12 0 0 2 18 0 0 0 04 0 0 10 10 2 3 50 2 0 0 00 1 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 1 0 0 00 0 0

40 12 16 27 7

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♦batted for Calabusa in the fourth Summary: Home runs-Hempel, Koehler, Ferris, Deno. Two base hits-Kehrberg, Klages, Johnson, Palmer Zabel. Bases on balls—off Lambert 1，off Baker 4, off Stier 1. Strike outs— by Klages：1, by Lambert 2,

by Koehler 2, by Calabusa 6, by Baker 3, by Stier— 3. Double I plays—Deno to Fletcher to Forman. Hempel to Staffeil.

A Mound Duel

Northwestern 3 Seminary 0 May 11—After being rained out on May 8 the game with 55

RED Seminary was postponed to the following Thursday. The game again developed itself into a mound duel but again errors deci­ ded the game in favor of Northwestern. One-half of the outs on each side were gained by strike outs, Behling striking out ten Seminary men and Lambert and Koehler together striking out ten Goslings. In the matter of hits the two teams were also on an equal footing, Seminary getting five and North­ western four safe raps. The game was played only for seven innings.

It was not until the fifth inning that Northwestern managed to get a run. Staffeil, first up, singled to right and reached second on an error by the right fielder. Behling also singled to right and drove in Staffeil to score the first run. The next three men in that inning were retired in order. The sixth inning saw our other two runs come in. Schweppe took first on Sydow’s third error, stole second and was then driven in by Schumann’s single. Koch singled to advance Schumann, who then scored the third and last run on an error by the left fielder.

Seminary made its most serious scoring threat in the second inning. Koehler singled and I. Frey received a base on balls.

Cares then flied to second and Sydow struck out. Behling then intentionally passed Lambert to load the bases. The situation was then too much for Umnus to handle and he succumbed to three of Behling’s pitches.

The game was closed in the last half of the seventh by Northwestern’s first orthodox double play. The ball travelled from Schweppe to Hempel to Keibel to nip two runners and end the game.

The box score: Northwestern Seminary AB R H PO A E AB R H PO A E Hempel ss 4 0 0 3 1 0 I. Frey ss 3 0 10 10 3 0 0 1 0 0 Cares If Hoffmann cf 2 0 110 1 3b Klages cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sydow 5 3 0 0 1 04 2 0 0 1 2 1 P. Koehler c 3 0 0 7 0 1 Lamber t p, rf Keibel 2b 0 0 0 1 2 0 Umnus c 3 0 0 11 21 Schw eppe lb 4 1 0 3 2 0 G. Frey lb 2 0 0 4 0 0 KehrrfGrg rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 Stuebs cf 3 0 0 1 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 R. Fre Peil r 3 0 12 10 rf,p 3 0 2 0 01 Schumann 2b, c 2 1 1 5 3 1 H.Koe Koch If 3 0 1 0 0 1 24 0 6 21 4 8 Staffeil 3b 3 110 0 0 Behling p 3 0 10 10 27~3 4 21~8 3 Summary: Bases on balls—off Behling 3, off Lambert 2, off Koehler 1.

Strike outs—by Behling 10, by Lambert 9, by Koehler 1. Double play— Schweppe to Hempel to Keibel. Umpires—Lehninger, Kuehl.

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Northwesterns also received only four hits but the breaks of the game gave them six runs on them. Our first run was made in the second inning when Schumann received a walk, stole second and continued on to third on the catcher’s bad throw, and then scored on Hempel’s single. The third inning added another run after a free pass had been issued. Hoffmann made the rounds of the sacks by a base on balls, stolen base, advance after the catch of a fly, and a wild pitch. The fourth inning Staffeil took first on a single and advanced to second on a passed ball. He then scored on Hempel’s second single.

Klages bounded to the shortstop who played Hempel at third for the out. Hoffmann drove Klages home by a drive over a slow left fielder’s head and also scored himself with run number five.

The fifth inning Carroll changed pitchers and the next two innings Northwestern was stopped cold. The seventh inning the sixth run of the game and the third run after a base on balls, was scored for the Goslings. Peil walked, stole second, and made the last two laps to score on wild pitches.

Carroll made both its runs in the sixth inning. Riopelle took first when Schumann missed the third strike and he was followed be Deming who became a base runner on Staffeil’s bad throw. They were both driven in by Hook’s timely single after two men were out.

The box score: Northwestern Carroll AB R H PO A E

AB R H PO A E Hoffmann cf Keibel 2b Koch If Peil If Schweppe lb Kehrberg rf Schumann c Staffeil 3b Hempel ss Klages p

3 3 3 0 2 4 3 3 3 3

2 110 1 0 0 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 9 11 110 11 0 2 3 4 0 10 0 11

Deming ss Normile c Laughton 3b Hook 2b, p Kolberg If, 2b Haas rf Norvick cf Albright lb Riopelle p, If

3 112 11 4 0 1 10 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 110 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 6 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 0

28 2 4 21 3 4 27 6 4 24 11 5 Summary: Home run—Hoffmann. Two base hit—Kohlberg. Bases on balls—off Riopelle 4, off Hook 2. Strike outs—by Klages 10; by Riopelle 3,

by Hook 7. Double plays—Hempel to Keibel to Schweppe; Keibel to Hem­ pel to Schweppe. Umpires—Lehninger and Horn.

TENNIS Whitewater 3 Northwestern 3 The tennis team after filling out its ranks by an elimination tournament was ready to meet Whitewater for the first match of the season. The full team consists of Number 1 man, Koeninger, Number 2, Captain Weiss, Number 3, Schaller, 58

RED Number 4, T.Frey, Number 5，E. Frey and Number 6, Otto Pagels, who has returned to tennis after a year’s layoff due to sickness. On May 4 Northwestern sent a four man team to Whitewater State Teacher，s College and came off with a draw.

Whitewater’s well-balanced team took two singles and one double match from our men to make the score even up, 3—3.

The statistics: Boutelle (W) over Koeninger (N) 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Weiss (N) over Luckow (W) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

Schaller (N) over Gau (W) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Hartel (W) over T. Frey (N) 6-4, 6-3.

Weiss-Koeninger (N) over Luckow-Gau (W) 6-3, 6-1.

Ransom-Tyvand (W) over Schaller-T. Frey (N) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

Milton 0 Northwestern 6 On May 9 Northwestern played host to the Milton tennis team. Our team was a rather ungracious host and took all singles and doubles matches, dropping only one set the whole afternoon. Our tennis team is also out for blood.

The statistics: Koeninger (N) over W. Hull (M) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.

Weiss (N) over Nagler (M) 6-2, 6-3.

Schaller (N) over Loofboro (M) 6-0, 6-1.

T. Frey (N) over Matayoshi (M) 6-0, 6-0.

Weiss-Koeninger (N) over W. Hull-Nagler (M) 6-1, 8-6.

Schaller-Pagels (N) over Matayoshi-C. Hull (M) 6-0, 6-0.

Seminary 0 Northwestern 6 On Thursday, May 12, Seminary sent its tennis team to meet Northwestern men on our courts. The Northwestern team rather greedily again took all the matches of the after­ noon. The — -Pagels-Schaller doubles combination dropped the only set that Northwestern lost that afternoon.

The statistics: Koeninger (N) over Schwartz (S) 6-2, 6-1.

Weiss (N) over Siegler (S) 6-1, 13-11.

R. Schaller (N) over H. Schaller (S) 6-3, 6-4.

T. Frey (N) over Schuetze (S) 6-1, 6-3.

Weiss-Koeninger (N) over H. Schaller-Siegler (S) 6-2, 6-1.

Pagels-R. Schaller (N) overSchwartz-Hinnenthal (S) 6-2,4-6,6-1.

KITTENBALL Since April 25 the two kittenball diamonds have seen daily contests with the exception of those days on which varasity base­ ball occupied the field. The class teams going through a regular 59

RED schedule are fighting for that top position in the school tourna­ ment. Tertia and Quarta were allowed to enter teams because their teams were believed to be strong enough to compete with the teams of the collegiate department. And at least one of the teams was strong enough. Tertia has kept the top position through the first round. For shame, Collegiates! On May 10 the half-way mark had heen reached and the teams are now going into the final stretch. Here are some of the statistics gathered at the end of the first round.

The standing of the teams were as follows: Won Team Lost Pet. 4 Tertia •800 2 Juniors 3 .600 3 2 Sophomores .600 2 freshmen 3 .600 2 Seniors 3 •400 Quarta 0 5 •000 The race is close and all the teams are close behind the leader ready to take its place on the least slip. Hold your breath and watch to the end!

Some of the batting averages taken at the end of the first round show some unusual hitting abilities. Here are the ten high men: AB H Pet. Player 14 9 .643 P. Hanke (Q) 9 .529 Hillmer (S) 17 8 .500 Kuschel (S) 16 Naumann (J) 7 .500 14 12 .500 Grabner (F) 6 •500 J. Schaefer (So) 10 5 •471 D. Kuehl (J) 17 8 R. Schaller (J) 13 6 •461 •421 Baganz (F) 19 8 6 •400 Reuschel (Q) 15 The entire kittenball situation is still in the balances of fate.

We will not commit ourselves until next month when we know for sure. Until then they will all be out there fighting, hitting and pitching, in attempts to carry off first honors. Until next month then, watch out!

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Campus and Classroom Anything can happen in May And a lot of things do, so they say, But I wouldn’t know I just come and go And let things go on as they may.

But the other day while I was a[shavin, I heard of a few who were cravin’ To go out on a hike, Sort of a wiener roast-like.

Pronto I suspects misbehavin’.

So I gets every lurid detail Which they was a hatchin’ wholesale And I learns with delight That this infamous night Would come off at the river locale.

Now bein* a most curious creature I decided to study the nature Of this little gathering (While I was lathering) And report to the state legislature.

So I sneaked up to their evening- rendezvous And got right up close---- entendez—vous?

What I saw was replete in Things not worth repeatin’ So let this be a lesson to you.

The following was “schmeared” from the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Booklet: ‘‘Wer aber gerade am Arbor Day hier ankaeme, der wuerde die Geschaeftigkeit unserer Schueler bewundern, die ueberall das Laub zusammenharken oder unter Anleitung Dr. Otts neue Straucher and junge' Baume anpflanzen.”一That was written quite a while ago, but those same words probably could have been applied to the Arbor Day held here April 24. We really weren’t prepared for it on a Monday, but we got used to the idea and things were soon pretty well in control. The preps as usual raked the campus, under the supervision of the juniors.

The frosh worked quite hard (so they tell me; you’d have to show me, though) getting the baseball diamond into shape.

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RED The sophs, of course, added the color to the occasion.

Under taper’s supervision, a unique ceremony in connection with the planting of the class blue spruce tree took place.

Looking like Mystic Knights of something or other the sophs, garbed in bathrobes, lent a bizarre appearance to the crowd.

Speakers for the occasion were Mayor Lueck of Watertown, Prof. Wendland, and “others”. A parade headed by the Mayor and Professor Wendland carrying pails of water for the tree and including the German band made its way from the Old Elms to the tree site in front of the main campus. Despite the heat and the “humidity” the speakers carried on. Ruby Hardiman put in the first shovelful of dirt, and Prof. Fleischer assis­ ted in the planting of the tree. With all that fuss that tree ought to grow—or should it?

Besides loafing and one thing and another the seniors didn’t do much but have a tree-extracting ceremony. Wait till the conservationists get you-----you’ll be sorry.

So that was Arbor Day. Come again sometime.

On Sunday evening April 23, the male chorus gave its Homecoming Concert. A fine crowd was on hand to hear the warblers and not to hear the echo in the echo song. The engi­ neer of the train whose whistle spoiled the echo’s attempt must have been equipped with mental telepathy or something to know just when his part was supposed to come in. A little boy summed up the situation quite completely: “What did you stop singing for—to let the train whistle?

To date only a few hardy souls have attemted to brave the chilly water of the Sinissippi (Rock to you). Irv * Tunny boy” Ploetz as usual had a putrid pun ready when he sank to the bottom. Said he, “I dived in and hit Rock bottom.” Then he wonders why nobody laughs at ’em. Live and Learn.

The seniors have come to that stage in their career when they refuse to bother themselves with such prosaic things as classes, but are all in a dither about announcements, caps and gowns, diploma predicates, banquets, graduation presents and other pressing matters. Meanwhile they all have so much extra money that they manage to add considerable amounts to their bank accounts.

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Man of the month is Dietrich Kuehl, His face told his story So we won’t squeal.

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What a funny guy the Soph are.

When he go to school, he sleep almost, When he don’t buck, he flop almost, He ain’t got no sense hardly, He go out every night, almost; He got a lot of fun, I betcha.

The male chorus will sing its sacred concert at Jefferson on Friday evening, June 2.

The departing Seniors of the Black and Red staff got to­ gether with the new staff on Thursday evening, May 11, at an informal banquet downtown. Judging from the spirit manifes­ ted by the new members and the well-wishings and advice of the old-timers, the new volume should be something worthy of the institution it represents. Although there are conflicting ideas as to what the ideal type of article should contain, one thing is certain—as long as the staff takes its duty seriously the publication will not fall short of the standard set by preceding staffs.

All four musical organizations are concentrating on getting ready for the final concert to be held the night before gradua­ tion, June 14. The male chorus, besides its two regular practice periods, meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings after supper.

Tentative program numbers for the chorus are: Der Blaue Donau Walzer, Echo Song (tricky thing), and Gypsy Love Song.

Ernie Lehninger has had the band out for marching practice several times. Everything went fine until they started a square corner. Leyrer, obviously preoccupied, kept right on going when the rest of the band turned. Rather conspicuous, Carl.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Roster of 1939

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LITERARY— English Oration — Catherine Winkworth.........................

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German Oration—SBie beraecten tuir bag ®rie由ifdje?...............

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EDITORIAL— A Note of Explanation

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ALUMNI NOTES

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ATHLETICS

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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Bernard Kuschel, Vice-Pres.

Pound, Wii,

Emil Toepel, Sec'y-Treasurer Algoma, Wis.

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Jefferson, Wis.

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Immanuel Bade Zeeland, N. Dak.

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Gustav Frank Ceddrburg, Wis,

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Alfred Herfcler La Crescent, Minn.

Harold Hempel Minneapolis, Minn.

Victor Hackbarth Watertown, Wis.

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Gerhardt Hillmer Kenosha, Wis,

Eldor Keibel West Allis, Wis.

Ernst Lehninger Thiensville, Wis.

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Otto Pagels Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Albert Lorenz Milwaukee, Wis,

Karl Molkentin Milwaukee, Wis.

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Norman Sauer New Ulm, Minn.

Louis Pinge!

Watertown, Wis.

Norbert Reim Neenah, Wis.

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Orville Schlenner Wood Lake, Minn.

Homer Schweppe New Ulm, Minn.

Walter Scheitel Elgin, Minn.

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Frederick Tabberfc Two Rivers# Wi*.

Wayne Ten Broek McIntosh, S. Dak,

Ralph Unke Milwaukee, Wi».

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James Vogt Flint, Mich.

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Walter Wegner Milwaukee, Wis,

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Arthur Wantoch Stanton, Nebr.

Irwin Weiss Milwaukee, Wis,

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., June 1939

Number 3

Entered at the Postollice at Watertown March 3. 1870* Published monilily. Subscription. Oni? Dollar,

ENGLISH ORATION Irwin W. Weiss

Catherine Winkwortli: The Author of “Lyra Germanica” Translation is the one medium by which the literature of one nation tends to become common property of another nation.

Yet the ability to impart to a literary work in its new language all the feeling, expression and characteristics of the original is a gift still practically undiscovered in the world of writing. To that anyone who has ever dealt with various languages will readily attest.

Now and then, however, there arises a person who has, coupled with his interest in other tongues, the innate ability to draw as near as possible to the stage of perfection that lies be­ yond the mere adequacy of usual translation. However rare such people are in the realm of prose, in poetry the scarcity is even greater.

With affairs at such a state the English speaking churches, especially the Lutheran ones with their German background, 74

RED are most fortunate that there appeared a talented person to translate the hymns of Dr. Martin Luther, Paul Gerhardt and many other hymnists.

Just a bit past the middle of the nineteenth century, in 1855 to be exact, a young woman of twenty-eight years, Catherine Winkworth, had published her first series of “Lyra Germanica”.

Catherine Winkworth’s education, as indeed her entire training and environment, make it seem as if her course was planned with the foreknowledge that some day she was to translate Christian works.

From childhood on Catherine was always under religious influences, for her grandfather had been a minister in the Church of England. She and her sisters, Susanna and Emily, were tutored for a few years bv governesses in her home. Then her teachers were two British divines, the Rev. William Gaskell and Dr. James Martineau. Apart from the religious in­ fluence, which developed in her an interest in the affairs of the church, she received at the hands of her tutors a thorough and comprehensive classical education, which included courses in Greek, German, Latin, Music, Mathematics and an extensive acquaintance with English literature.

At one time Catherine declared that it was to the Rev. Gaskell that she owed her knowledge of English literature and her appreciation of style. True as that statement might be, a just as great or perhaps even greater effect was produced on her by the personal contacts she made with the literary people of her day.

Most of these persons Miss Wink worth met through Mrs. Gaskell, the wife of her tutor and a foremost English novelist.

Included in the list of notables are Dickens, Thackeray and the Bronte sisters, writers whose works have stood the test of time and are now called classical.

In 1845, at the age of eighteen, Catherine made her first prolonged European visit. She lived for a year at Dresden, Germany, where she developed her sense of appreciation for the German language and literature. After her return to England she kept in contact with this newly found language by daily study.

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赛RED also acquired a knowledge of German and had decided, with a view of earning some money through its publication, to make a translation of “Niebuhr’s Life”.

She mentioned her desire to Mrs. Gaskell, who happened to have been invited to Baron Bunsen’s home to spend the evening.

Mrs. Gaskell in turn relayed her friend’s desire to Bunsen, who himself had wanted the book to be put into the English, but since his translator was at that time unavailable, he gave the work to Susanna. This introduction to Bunsen and through him to literary work formed an important epoch in the lives of of Susanna and Catherine.

The “Life of Niebuhr” was a long one, and it must have been doubly difficult when it is remembered that the translation was to be done by a beginner. So Catherine suggested that she aid her sister. This occupied her time until the end of 1851, for since she was constantly afflicted with bodily ailments a few hours’ work in a day left her exhausted.

After the publication Bunsen wanted Susanna to translate a series of sermons arranged according to the Ecclesiastical Year. She suggested that Catherine do the same with German sacred poetry.

Catherine thought that such work was quite beyond her powers; nevertheless by 1854 she was toying with the idea, and a letter from Bunsen encouraging her brought her floating ideas to the crystallizing point.

Then began a search for a book of hymns to translate. At Catherine’s first personal meeting with Bunsen, he gave her a copy of his collection of German hymns. She set about at once, whenever her health would permit, to complete the first series of “Lyra Germanica’’.

The 103 hymns selected for this series were exact and faithful translations, and they were completed in about six months. The volume was published, without music and primari­ ly for use in private worship, under the title ‘‘Songs for the Household, Hymns for the Sundays and Chief Festivals of the Christian Year”.

In the preface Miss Winkworth says that “these hymns have been translated not so much as specimens of German hymn-writing, as in the hope that these utterances of Christian piety, which have strengthened and comforted the hearts of 76

RED many true Christians in their native country, may speak to the hearts of some among us, to help and cheer those who must strive and suffer, and to make us feel afresh what a deep and true Communion of Saints exists among all the children of God in different churches and lands.”

It has been mentioned that these translations were poetical as well as exact, and this is based on nothing less than the favorable opinions of the reviews found in various newspapers and literary journals.

A short proof of her ability and why her work was well re­ ceived can be found in the comparison of a few stanzas. First the original German verse: Nichts ist, dass mich von Jesu scheide, nichts es sei Leben oder Tod. Ich leg die Hand in seine Seite und sage: Mein Herr und mein Gott!

Mein Gott ich bitt durch Christi Blut, mach’s nur mit meinen Ende gut.

Then Miss Winkworth’s translation: From Him can naught my soul divide, Nor life nor death can part us now; I thrust my hand into his side, And say, My Lord and God art Thou!

My God, for Jesus sake I pray Thy peace may bless my dying day.

One more verse is sufficient, for in it the translation is a bit more liberal than the first but yet extremely well expressed.

Macht hoch die Tuer, die Tor macht weit, eu’r Herz zum Tempel zubereit’t; die Zweiglein der Gottseligkeit steckt an mit Andacht, Lust und Freud.

So kommt der Koenig auch zu euch, ja Heil und Leben mit zugleich.

Gelobet sei mein Gott, voll Rat, voll Tat, voll Gnad.

This was then put into poetical verse: Fling wide the portals of your heart; Make it a temple set apart From earthly use for heaven’s employ, 77

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RED Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy; So shall your Sovereign enter in, And new and nobler life begin; To Thee, 0 God, be praise, For word, and deed, and grace!

The first series of ‘‘Lyra Germanica” met with great success, and within a year it was necessary to prepare the third edition of three thousand copies.

Gladdened by the reception of her work, Catherine Winkworth began the second series, entitled “The Christian Life’’.

This volume, containing 123 new translations from the German, was published in 1858.

Thereupon came requests for a volume of these hymns with their original tunes. So in collaboration with two musical editors Miss Winkworth published “The Chorale Book for England”，which appeared in 1862 and was composed of two hundred hymns, of which two thirds were taken from “LyraGermanica” and one third were new translations.

These three books did more to influence the modern use of German hymns in England than any other version, and in 1866 a great portion of the “Chorale Book” was adopted by the “American Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania”.

Even at present the Wisconsin Synod hymnal contains more than thirty of Miss Winkworth’s translations, or approximately one tenth of all the hymns in the book.

This then excludes any doubt that Catherine Winkworth not only familiarized the English speaking people with the German hymns of the Reformation and post-Reformation period, but even that she accomplished as much in hymnology as any other hymnist that used the English language.

GERMAN ORATION Immanuel Dade

28ie dciucrtcu luir bad QJricdjifrfjc ? @3 finb nod) nur raenige ©djuten in unfecem Sanbe, bie a由t ©emefteeftunben im ©riedjiitfjen Don bem ^biturienten bertangen. ^riiljec eg： „3Beuiger ©ciecftifd)!4* Setjt jdjeeien uiete: „2Bic kooHen gar lein ©rie由⑽•" U靡re ©d&ute ift bie[er ^ettben^ nidit gefolgt. SBielc molten raoljl wiffen, raarum mir bas fogenannte alte 78

RED ®rie由⑽ nod) BeiBe^atten. S)ie Seantmortung biefer grage foH tie 5Iufgabe bie[ec 沉ebe fein.

Sunadjft ift jebod) no由 eiite an here Stage gu beantroorten, nams (id) biefe: ift ba» ,Biet be§ Unterri^tS in biefer 3(nffdt?" Ob man bent ©djitler etraa§ ^raftifdjeS BeiBringen rail【ober 06 man i^m eine griinb(id)e ^Borbereitunfl auf bag iieBen geben will, roirb fdjon meljc a(w ^a(6 bie 5(ntmort gu bee grage, oB man ifjn ©riedjif由(eEjren foil ober nid)t, beftimmen. Unfere ©djufe roitl ben @d^u(er fur baS gange SeBen uorberciten, barum fteCft fie fi由 aud) alS pdjfteS 3^1 bie Silbung eine? fitt(id)=re(igi6Jen GFjarafterS auf ©cunb ber ©eiliflen @d)rift. S)Qnad) wifi fie in i^m bo§ Sntereffe fiir 贷unft unb Stiffen* jdjaft erroecten unb i^n 卿g madjen ber SSelt SSei约eit gu begreifen unb gu fdjciljeii. Urn nun ben ©djiUec su biefem tejjtercn i]\eU ju ge(eiten, benu|jt bicic 8dju(e ba» ©tubium be? ©riecEjif^en. ®a fommt nun bie^raQe: 5i>annu )o ctma§ gerabc ba§©ried)i[d)e gebraudjen? ©prndiiiuterrifljt fjat uon je^er gu ber griinbHdjen 5luebi(bung beg 浙enfdjen geljiht, benn ber gebilbete SJienfd) mufj im Stanbe fein, [eine ©ebanfeu in Karen, linmiguerftanbtidjen SBorten ben anberen mitsuteilen, banu nud) njieberum bie SCBorte anberec genau ju oecfte* Sen. 5)a bcc ^onnenreidjtum unb bie ©rfinblidjteit ber grie由if由en ©pradje c§ crmoQtidjt, aud) bie feinften ©djattierungen eineS ©eban* !en$ !(ac unb ^uQleidi fdjbn auje^ubrurfen, fo eignet fid) ba§ ©tubium biefer ©pracfje oov^iigUd) baju, einen ©inn gu entroidetn fiir !(are unb cble Sprnrije iiberljaupt.迟iefe 3B6rtec in unferen mobernen ©pradjeu ftauunen au§ bem ©riedjifdjen. S)ie§ ift bee SaH in ber beutfdjen Sprndie, nod) mefjc in ber fronsofife^en unb bee englifdjen.

Saturn ift aud) teidit erfennbar, bajj eine Slenntnis jener ©pratfte sum SBerfte^en unb sum ridjtigen ©ebraud) bee eigenen ©prac^e niiljlid) fei.

Unfere Spradien finb nidjt nur ber ©riedjifdjen uecraanbt, fon* bern unfere getn^e ^ultur ift me^c ober toeniger auf ber ^uttur beg atten ©ciedieiilanbeS aufgebaut. 9J?an fonnte fogar jagen, man tierftelje ben ©runb ber eigenen Slultur ni由t, roenn man bie griedjifdje nidjt !ennt. ®iefe Shi It m: ift uollficinbig unb oollenbet. 3Bir !ennen i^ren §(nfang unb bie Beit i^re§ 2Bnd)[en§. SSir bemunbern bie Seit iljrer Ijodjfien 58(ute. 35>ir 袖alien mU ®ebauern auf ifjr aJImd^IigeS SBelfen unb feljen idjliefjtid) ben ooHigen Untergung ber S?uttur im 3的re 1453 nod) Srjctfto, bie Xurfen ^onftantinopel eroberten.

3)o由丨ft bie 5tu(tur nidjt tot, tuie oiele befjaupten; benn bet ©ame toon ber S8(utenseit niurbe ber 9Jnd)roeIt er^alten. S)iefer ©ame ift bie 79

RED Siteratur unb tie SniterMieBenen 5?unftmer!e beg SSoIfeS. 3n biefen teBt tie 5%ttur toeiter.

S)arauf murbe nid)t nur bie mob erne ^uttur tetlwetje geBaut, fonbern e8 ift au由 barau? gu ertennen, wet由 erne 石o由fte[】ent)e 货ultur bie ©riec^en fatten. 9?uc roenige Slulturen Jaben iljre ©oljen erceidjt.

Sa, aufeer^alb bee SO^u^it (inb fie ouf feinem ©ebiet iibertroffen ttpot* ben. S)a8 Sbeat, ba§ fie fid) fctjtcn, war ba8 bee einfadtjen, warren ©(^on^eit. bem fo war, farm man am (eidjteften au3 t^ren ^unftweefen begreifen. S)o由 roar bteg cm由 ber 这ail in iljrer Sitera= tur. ©otdje epif由e 5)idjtungen mie bie beg Corner !ein 95otf. in bee iQcif^en 5)id)tung ^aBen banner, toie gum Seifpiet ^inbar, un8 Uiel ©djoneg rjinterlaffen. ?Iuf bent ©ebiet ber 2)ramntif Brouc^t man nur bie 況amen Slef邮IuS, ©o的oHe2, (SuripibeS unb ^Iriftop^oneS %u nennen. 3)em ©ebilbeten finb fie 93emei8 genug, boB bie ^un[t ber ©riec^en etroaS ©rofeeS war. S)aitn fann man nod) ^uhjbibeS, ben Qrojjen ®ef由i由ts油reiBen, nennen, bem man ben 況amen, SWeifter ber ©efd)id)te, gegeBen fiat;职ato m丨t> ?(rifto* teles, bie berii^mten ^ilofop^ien, bie §eute nod) Don uielen a(8 5lutoritaten oner!annt merben; unb (SufUb, ber auf bem ©ebiet bet ©coraetric ein SBert gefcEirieBen Ijat, baS nod)為eute grofeen SBert Jat. bie ©rtec^en bereitS U)ren 妇邱epunft erreidjt fatten unb an* fingen potitifd} %n ©runbe ju ge^en, fain ^(ejanber ber Orofie, eroBerte betnotje bie gauge giuilifierte SBett unb uerbreitete baburd) bic 资ultur in atle 趋immelsd由tungen. S)ie gried)i丨由e ©pradjc rourbe SBcrle^cSfpracfte ber (jangen SBett. ©o murbe an由 bie r)eIIenUd】e KOINE bie Xragerin ber ^ei!gbot[djaft Don ©tjcifio unb bie Uripradje be§ neuen ^eftamentS. ©o冲 eine Mtur follte man bod) !ennen (ecnen unb mnu fann jte !ennen (ecnen qu8 i^rer Siteratur. S)od) man mu6 biefe in ber UrfpracEje Icfen, fonft Uerliert man t^ren ©eift.职an fagt 办eute nod), man eefenne ben SKenfdjen an feiner ©pradje. 9hir burd) ba8 ©ric* 制由e [elbft tann man bie ©riedjen rairHi由 tennen lernen. Unb intern man nun barnit befdjaftigt ift, nimmt man o^ne SBeitereS eine jlcnntniS bee OueHen unb ^eime, ber ©runblagen unb Sbeen unfrer eificncn 货uttur SIu由 fommt oft bie ©elegeu^eit feuefttbare SSecgleidje unb plnmenbungen auf bie moberne <8eU gu ma由en. 5tHeS ties ift fiic bie adgemeine Silbung ㈣r wertuoll.

S)a8 Stubium beg ®de由if由en bient abec nod) einern metteren 3wed. 3)a !ein ^remb[prad)enftubium (eidjt ift, bietet aud) ba§ Ser= nen biefet ©pcadje bem ©djiilet eine gute geiftige S)i句iplm. Slud) !

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SUfo bereitet baS <Stubium be3 ©riedjifdjen einen fiir bag SeBen, intern e§ einem bie^runbfagen ber3Se(troei^eit unb 货ultur beibringt unb iljn 卿g niadjt, bieie gu Begreifen unb gu [c^a|jen.迸uS ber grie* 制djen Siterntur lernt man, roie Ijod), mie rceit ber natiirlidje 2J2enftf) mit all feinerSBei^eit unb^Bernunft fontmen !ann. 5(ug ber^eifigen ©djrift lernt man, bnfj ber 职en[由 tcofe alter SSei的eit au由 tro^ ber SBeisrjeit bcc ©riedjen untec bent 阳ud) fte^t unb bafe er nuc burd) baS Suangelium uon CH)rifto ccreltet merben Fami. SBir finb nun in bie SBei^Iieit ber SOett eingefii^rt roorben, after w\x fjafien aud) bie rettenbe SeilSbo丨丨ct)aft uon GEjrifto fennen geternt.

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^bxtaxuxis A NOTE OF EXPLANATION Perhaps our readers are wondering- why there are no regular articles in this month’s issue. It is because this num­ ber is given over almost entirely to matters that have to do with the senior class. Another reason (and undoubtedly this is the chief one) is that good material is hard to pick up in the short time that there was for preparing this issue, especially in the dash and dither preceding exams. However, we have pre­ served the regular columns.

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s Erich Arnold Schultz, *30, and Ellen C. Larson of Chicago, Illinois, were married May 27,1939, in Chicago. They will make their home in Madison, Wisconsin.

Reginald Siegler, ’34, tutor at Saginaw, has accepted a call to St. Paul’s congregation at Whitehall, Wisconsin.

Gilbert Sydow, *36, will take Siegler’s place as tutor at Saginaw, beginning next term.

Professor Schumann, ’12, delivered a sermon at the youth rally at Waterloo, Wisconsin, on May 28.

A son, Paul John, was born to Rev. Hugo Fritze, *30, of Valentine, Nebraska, on May 18.

Rev. Adelbert Voges, ’28, will wed Dorothy Zeile of Sagi­ naw on June 18.

John Nieghorn, ’07, has moved from Milwaukee to Detroit.

Professors Ott, ’85，and Fleischer, ’97, have temporarily dropped classes because of illness.

THE CLASS OF 78 On June 19th sixty-one years ago were held the seventh commencement exercises of Northwestern^ history. On that day seven boys received their Bachelor of Arts degrees. They were A. Baebenroth, A. Bendler, 0. Griebling, F. Huth* L. Lampert, A. Pieper, and H. Schultz.

With the death of Rev. Schultz in 1937 this class of ^8 be­ came the first class of our school to have all its members de­ ceased. In honor of this class a brief story of each of the seven members has been written.

Pastor Adolph Baebenroth Rev. Adolph Baebenroth was born De c. 9, 1858 at Centerville near Two Rivers, Wisconsin. He was5 the youngest son of Frederick Baebenroth and his wife Wilhelmine nee Vahldiek.

About the time when Adolph was ready for high school his father moved to Watertown and there became the proprietor of the well-known Baebenroth Book Store. Adolph began his studies at Northwestern in 1871 and on commencement day it was he who gave the latin oration—"Laborem non esse onus sed beneficium.

Following his graduation at Watertown he continued study­ ing at our seminary then located at 13th and Vine streets in Milwaukee. While at the seminary he occasionally visited Fort Atkinson where he met the church organist Margaret Gise, who later became his wife. They were married on July 13, 1881.

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RED Later in that same year Rev. Baebenroth assumed a charge at Wilson, Minn. For nine years he remained there and then he came to Salem Church in Milwaukee. In 1895 he was called to St. Peter’s Church in the same city and there he was pastor for twenty-seven years. Because of failing health Rev. Baeben­ roth resigned his ministry at St. Peter’s Church in 1922, and the remaining years of his life were spent in Milwaukee in re­ tirement. .

Pastor Baebenroth was much interested in music and at times gave lessons on the piano. Also he was fond of fine horses and later took great pleasure in driving his car. As a traveler he saw much of the United States during his life. He enjoyed moments of relaxation with young people and his con­ gregations found him a most agreeable pastor. Together with his son Adolph Jr. he made the commendable offer of annually contributing twenty-five dollars to our library here at North­ western.

Pneumonia was the final cause of his death on May 8, 1933.

His body now lies in the Valhalla Burial Park in Milwaukee.

After his death his wife continued to make her home in Milwau­ kee until she died suddenly Feb. 25, 1938, while visiting her daughter in Watertown. His brothers Fred and Will and a sister Lydia preceded him in death. His living children are Mrs. Elsa Hoermann of Watertown and Edwin and Gerhard both of Milwaukee. Dr. Adolph Baebenroth, another son, died in 1929. This son finished his schooling at Harvard after study­ ing at Northwestern and then became a professor of English, first at Syracuse, and finally at Columbia University.

Pastor August Kcncllcr August Christoff Bendler was born on the last day of Octo­ ber 1858 at Town Rhine near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His father Friederick and his mother Friedericka landed in this country on October 12, 1852. His father was a stone cutter and came from Saxony, Germany. His mother was a pious Christian who early set aside her boy August for the ministry.

He attended parochial school under Rev. Sprengling and was confirmed in Watertown by Rev. Adelberg. He then entered the prep department of Northwestern. After completing his college years in 1878 he went to the Concordia Semi­ nary at St. Louis for a year. Here he learned to know Dr. Walther whom he always greatly admired. The last two years of his seminary work were taken at Milwaukee.

On Dec. 13, 1881 he married Miss Anna Allermann whom he had met as a young student in Watertown. In that same year he was installed as pastor at Galesburg, Illinois. In 1883 he was called to St. John’s Church at Burlington, Wis., where he served as pastor for seven years. In 1890 he was installed in 86

RED St. Matthew’s Church at Milwaukee and here he remained as pastor for the rest of his life.

On March 11，1892 his wife died leaving him with one child, Martin, who later died in 1897. Olga, another child from this marriage, died in 1888. In May of the year 1893 he married Miss Wilman Kees of Burlington, Wisconsin.

At one time Pastor Bendler was the whole mission board of our Synod. Later through him pastors Dornfeld, Eickmann, Hoyer, and Spiering were added to the board. It was largely through his efforts as president of the Northwestern Club of Milwaukee that our gymnasium was built in 1912, and it was his congregation of St. Matthew’s Church in Milwaukee that pre­ sented the well known sprinster statue to the college.

In his leisure time Rev. Bendler enjoyed bicycling and base­ ball. Also he was a very good swimmer and on one occasion saved a man from drowning. One time during1 his early years he was to make a speech in honor of Dr. Ernst but when it was time for August Bendler to speak fright overcame the timid young man and August was nowhere to be found. To those that knew him Rev. Bendler was a congenial man and a gifted personality.

Early in 1929 he left on a trip through Palestine, Germany, France, and England. This trip was made possible through friends and members of the congregation. While returning from this tour he was stricken at Buffalo, New York and there he died on June 2, 1929. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Watertown, Wisconsin.

He is survived by his wife who lives in Milwaukee and three children, August of Los Angeles, Eric of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Rev. A. Halboth of Milwaukee. He had no living brothers or sisters although he came from a large family.

Mr. Oscar GrieMin总 From the diary ot' Oscar Griebling: “Freitag, den 5. October 1877. Nach der Abendandacht (Dormerstag, den 4. Oct.) hatten wir Coetus and es sollte beschlossen werden, dass wir eine Turnhalle bauen. Da war es die Abgefeimtheit einiger Schuler aus den Oberklassen ,die d en ganzen Plan vereitelten.

“Samstag den 13. October 1877. Mittwoch (10. Oct.) war Coetus. Abends nach 9 Uhr wurde dann noch ein neuer Verein, der 4'Verein gymnastischer Uebungen’’ gegrtindet, der den Bau einer Halle beschloss, und ich wurde zum Prasidenten gewahlt. August Bendler wurde Schatzmeister. Donnerstag hatten wir nochmals Versammlunpr. Es wird jetzt iiberhaupt sehr eifrig getrieben und es soil Mon tag mit dem Bau begonnen werden. Heute hat das Komitee mit den Professoren den Platz bestimmt, wohin die Turnhalle gebaut werden soil.

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RED “Samstag，den 17. Nov. 1877. Heute fullten wir die Turnhalle mit Erde an. Die Prima arbeitete von 1^9 bis 12. Nachmittags arbeiteten andere. Es war eine harte Arbeit und wir sind alle recht kaput.’’ ， And thirty-five years later Oscar Griebling and August Bendler were together on another committee thatx promoited the building of another “Halle” for Northwestern,• What,these two boys began in 1877 they had the pleasure of seeing finished when our present large and attractive gymnasium was dedicated on October 12, 1912. nee Oscar Griebling was the son of Anton and Anna ， Toenjes Griebling and was born March 18, 1858 at Milwaukee, Wis. His father was a cobbler and came to this country about 1851 from Nassau, Germany. His parents were among the first members of Grace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.

As a boy Oscar attended the Grace Ev. Lutheran School and then came to Northwestern. He was a conscientious worker in school and the younger boys looked upon him as a model student.

On commencement day he gave the English oration (( The Mastery of the English Language—A justifiable claim of our country on its children.”

He then attended the Seminary at Milwaukee and after the completion of his studies, he served a congregation at Winneconne for two years. Following this Mr. Griebling entered the employ of the Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Company where two of his brothers were already employed. In this company he advanced step by step until he became Secretary.

He was always greatly interested in music and played the piano and organ. Also he sang in the Milwaukee A Capella Chorus which was at that time considered a very fine organiza­ tion. It was at the rehearsals of the A Capella Chorus that he became acquainted with Louise Damann whom he married on May 12, 1897. Later he became an officer of the Chorus and he was also a member of the Mannerchor Arminia at Grace Lutheran Church. He was a church elder there for over twentyfive years and at one time was president of the Northwestern Club. Also he served a term of years as board member of the Lutheran Seminary. As a mark of gratitude he donated to his alma mater—Northwestern— the Weimer edition of Luther’s entire works.

Mr. Griebling lived in Milwaukee until his death on Jan. 4, 1928. He is buried in the Graceland Cemetery in that city.

His wife followed him in death on Dec. 12, 1934. His brothers Gustave and Gottfried and a sister Katie are also deceased. His one daughter Doris is dead but he is survived by three sons Robert, industrial jouralist at Philadelphia, Arthur, organist and choirmaster at Milwaukee, and Winfred, in the service of the department of State of Wisconsin.

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RED Rev. Prof. Karl Hutli, PIi. D. Karl Huth was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on Nov. 30, 1857. As a boy he came to Chicago with his parents and there attended a parochial school. For his high school and college years he came to Northwestern. Here he was known as a good sport and a likeable fellow. As a student he was very gifted and took a special interest in the study of Greek.

After graduating at Watertown, he continued his studies in the Seminary at St. Louis. On Dec. 6, 1881 he married Ida Hilgendorf whose home was also in Chicago. Rev. Huth was first called to assume a charge in Australia but he did not accept and soon after he was called to be the first professor and founder of Concordia College in Milwaukee. And it was always in the interest of Concordia that he worked during his whole life. At the same time, however, he also served as an assistant pastor at Cross Church, then Bethlehem Church and finally at Stephen Church in Milwaukee. Also for a time he helped serve a congregation at Racine.

Rev. Prof. Huth was to his family a stern but kind father.

His whole life was spent in study. His interest in Greek con­ tinued and he mastered the language even to the extent that he used it in his prayers. Prof. Huth was active in his work as president of Concordia until he suddenly died on April 23, 1926.

His wife followed him in death in September 1938. He had no brothers and only one sister, who died as a young girl.

Surviving- him are his eight children, Prof. Karl Huth, Ph. D., Dean of History at the University of Chicago, Mrs. R. Buerger (Elsa) of Milwaukee, Miss Hilda Huth of Milwaukee, Walter of St. Paul, Minn., Godfrey, of Milwaukee, Mrs. Probst (Gertrude) of Chicago, Mrs. E. Schoenheiter (Dorothy) of Baltimore, Md.. Edward of Milwaukee and Robert of the same city.

Mr. Leonard Laiupert Leonard Lampert was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lampert and was born on the fourth day of June 1849 in Switzerland. His father was a mason contractor and he came to this country about 1870.

After completing his studies at Northwestern and the Seminary he became a pastor for a short time. Soon, however, on account of troubles which he encountered, he left the ministry and became interested in the retail lumber business in Minnesota. It is he who became the head of the present large Lampert Lumber Co. of Minneapolis.

In October 1883 he married Miss Emma Schwartz the daughter of a merchant in Watertown. During the course of his life he lived at Winona, Mankato, Minneapolis and finally St. Paul where he died in May 1926. A generous donation was 89

RED made by Mr. Lampert for the building of our new gymnasium in 1912.

His children surviving him are Mrs. B. B. Walling of Minneapolis, and Mr. A. J. Lampert, Mr. J. Lampert, and Leonard Lampert Jr. all of St. Paul.

Mr. Anton Pi«per cc Brother Anton” as he was sometimes known to friends came to this country along with his mother and brothers in the year of 1870. He was born in Karvvitz, Pomerania, Germany on Jan. 16, 1860. His father was a farmer and died in Germany.

Anton went to the village school in Karwitz and then continued his early years of study in St. Mark’s parochial school in Watertown, Wisconsin where the family made its new home. His mother for a time had charge of the refectory of our college.

In 1872 he began studying at Northwestern and after graduating in ’78 he attended the Seminary at St. Louis. As a pastor his first charge was at Sugar Bush, Peshtigo, Wis. Following this he went to Newton in Manitowoc Co. After his stay in Newton he took no other charge but became interested in a chicken ranch. He later lived at Newport, Minn., and finally died at Big Lake, Polk Co” Wis. Of the class of ’78 Anton was the leader in sports. He was of a quiet nature and fine horses held a special interest for him.

His wife was Miss Ida Schuette of Menomonie, Wis. It is there that he lies buried with her. His well known brothers are Prof. Aug. Pieper who lives at Thiensville and the de­ ceased Dr. Franz Pieper and Reinhold Pieper. His surviving children are Edmund, Waldemar, Carl, and Flora.

Pastor H. Schultz Albert Heinrich August Schultz was born on Eighth Street here in Watertown and was the first son and second child of Gottlieb Schultz and his wife nee Wilhelmine Heise. His father was well known by the students of his time as the drayman who carried their trunks to and from the depot and who drove a team of mules.

The day of Henry’s birth was April 1, 1858. His early years were spent at St. John’s Parochial School then conducted

by Mr. Wm. Fuerstenau. Following this he took up his studies at Northwestern, and being a brilliant student, he graduated with a Cum Laude. He it was who gave the German oration on June 19, 1878--“Luther als ein Bild eines echten Deutschen”.

For further study Henry Schultz went to the Seminary at St. Louis. After finishing his studies there he was married on Sept. 1, 1881 to Miss Renata Fuerstenau who was a schoolmate and the daughter of his early school teacher. His first call was to Faribault, Minn., and there he remained a pastor for over 90

RED fifty years. When Rev. Schultz assumed this charge there was simply a mission station at Faribault, but during his stay the congregation grew greatly and a fine new church was built.

Besides having the charge at Faribault he also served six other smaller congregations at the same time. From 1909-1913 Rev. Schultz served a term as president of the Minnesota-DakotaAlberta district of the Missouri Synod. Prior to this he had been circuit visitor and Vice-President.

Pastor Schultz was a very diligent worker and was always interested in a Christian Day-School. For moments of relaxa­ tion he enjoyed hunting and fishing on the fields and lakes of Minnesota. He took pride in his fine guns which were imported from the renowned Krupp Co. of Germany. Also he found much pleasure in playing the violin and piano.

On July 24, 1932, Rev. Schultz resigned from his office. In his later years he approached blindness, and finally death came in early August, 1937. His wife died on Feb. 5, 1928. His brothers and sisters, now deceased, were John, Annie, Lena, and Frank. One sister, Martha, is still living. One of his children died in infancy and the remaining eight survive him.

They are Gottfried, Dorothea, Mrs. Breihahn (Frieda), Agnes, Mrs. Hildemann (Elizabeth) Mrs. Kelm (Hilda), Fritz, and Ernst.

And with his death there passed from among us the last survivor of the boys who graduated in 78.

The School That They Knew That school life in the seventies differed from ours today need hardly be said. Edison was to give the world the electric light the year after these boys graduated. Bell was just intro­ ducing the thing called a telephone. Henry Ford was still in his teens. Cinema was an unknown word.

Each student supplied his own desk, chair, and book rack.

In one corner of the study room was a wash stand. In another part stood the little cast iron stove. The students took turns sawing and chopping their own wood for fuel.

German was the common language of the campus. Compo­ sitions in Latin were common assignments. Professors could converse in the dead language fluently. The total student en­ rollment was not much smaller than today. Six men made up the faculty. Dr. Ernst was the president and the others were Prof. Joel Smith, Prof. Dr. F. W. Notz, Prof. Theodore Brohm, Prof. August Notz, and Prof. Amos Easterday.

During the Christmas vacation of }74 the dormitory burned and in 1875 the building which we know as the old dorm was built. The original recitation building dedicated in 1865 was used. That structure stood until ’94 when it also was destroyed 91

RED by fire. Their Gym was the old “Turnhalle” mentioned above in the diary of Oscar Griebling.

And that is what it was like during the seventies at our school, which to the boys of ’78 was known as Northwestern University.

By Ardin D. Laper

Gosling Success Northwestern 8 Milton 1 May 17—It was a holiday at Milton but the Goslings dimmed the festivities by defeating the home team. Northwestern stepped off to a two run lead in the first inning when Schweppe doubled to drive home both Staffeil and Hempel who had received passes. Milton made its only run in the first inning when Hull singled, stole second, and scored on Bladorn’s single.

Northwestern added another run in the second inn ing on Hempel’s double with Staffeil aboard. In the third inning Kehrberg doubled to bring in Schumann and Hoffmann, and then also scored on a wild pitch and Koch’s sacrifice fly. North­ western added its last two runs in the seventh inning on two bases on balls and an error by the right fielder.

After the first inning Behling pitched to only three men besides the three needed in each inning to retire the side. De­ fensively the Goslings were close to perfection for not a single roisplay was made, excluding of course the **bonehead play’’ in the fifth inning when the entire Northwestern team left the 92

RED field after only two men were out. The score book gave an ominous warning after the game. It showed that nine men had died on bases, all of them in scoring positions. Northwestern drive was failing.

The box score: Northwestern Milton AB R H PO A E AB R H PO A E 3 2 0 1 3 0 Hull 2b 3 11 3 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 Loofboro ss 2 0 10 10 1 0 0 2 0 0 Bladorn rf 3 01 00 1 3 11110 F. DeLand If 3 00 21 0 2 0 2 13 0 0 Gilbert c 3 01 60 0 3 11 0 3 0 Palan 3b 3 01 04 0 3 00 00 0 3 2 1 2 0 0 L. DeLand cf 3 11 10 0 Miller lb 3 00 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Carpenter p 2 01 03 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 24 1 6 21 13 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 11 0 6 0 30 8 8 21 13 0 Summary: Two base hits—Schweppe, Hempel, Kehrberg. Base on balls— off Behling, none; ofT Carpenter 9. Strikeouts—by Behling4; by Carpenter 4. Double plays—R. Hull to Miller; Schumann to Staffeil to Schweppe.

Umpire—Gunness.

Staffeil 3b Keibel 2b Koehler c Hempel ss Schwepp'e lb Schuman n c, 2b Hoffmann cf Kehrberg rf Klages rf Kocn If Peil If Behling p

Defeat University Extension 2 Northwestern 1 May 19—Ths Goslings flying high for the last two years finally had their wings clipped by meeting their first defeat. It was the University Extension team of Milwaukee that did what had not been done in the last sixteen games. It put Northwes­ tern at the short end of the score. In each of the three former games with Extension, Northwestern scored over twenty runs but this time Extension stopped NWC with only one tally, and gained for themselves a tie with us for top position in con­ ference standing. It was the superior pitching of Rosenberg that gained the upper hand for Extension. He allowed five hits in the six innings that he pitched but he managed to keep them scattered so that the Goslings could not score. Klages pitched equally good ball, allowing only four hits and issuing three passes the whole game, but Extension managed to bunch their hits with two Gosling errors to win the game.

Northwestern made its first and only run when Hempel tripled on the first ball pitched in the first inning by Henze and then scored on Schweppe’s single. After that it seemed that the Gosling’s hitting power failed, due chiefly to Rosenberg who began pitching in the second inning. Northwestern allowed six men to die on base, lacking the drive sufficient to bring them home.

Extension scored a run in the fifth inning to tie the score 93

RED by a combination of a base on balls, a passed ball, and a single.

The game then went into the last half of the seventh with the score even up. Rosenberg singled after one out and then stole second and continued to third on Schumann’s overthrow.

Klages promptly struck out the next man and intentionally passed Vogt (he had two hits out of two times at bat). Exten­ sion putin Foss to bat for Denmark and he rolled to second, but the ball took a bad bounce off Keibel’s glove and the winning run scored. The game was over and we had lost.

The Goslings consoled themselves with the words of that unknown pseudo-philosopher who said, ‘‘It may never happen again.”

The box score: Extension Northwestern Hempel ss, Keibel 2b Staffeil 3b Schweppe lb Schumann c Hoffmann cf Kehrberg rf Koch If Klages p

AB R H PO A E A E 0 0 Mihalerich 2b 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 Gunderson 3b 2 0 0 4 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 Osusky cf 3 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 Loke lb 3 0 0 0 0 0 11 Hennings If 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 Henze p 0 0 Rosenbergp 3 110 11 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 Mundigler ss 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 Vogt rf 2 0 0 9 1 0 * Denmark c 7 20 6 2 23 2 ‘1 21 9 2 *Foss batted for Denmark in seventh

AB R H PO 4 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 3 0 17 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 2 3 26 1

Summary: Three base hit—Hempel. Two base hit—Vogt. Base on balls— off Klapes 3, off Rosenberg 1. Strike outs—by Klages 7, by Rosenberg 9.

Double play—Mundigler to Gunderson to Loke.

Defeat No. 2

Northwestern 4 University of Wise. “B” 6 May 24—The University of Wisconsin managed to pull out a victory this time although the game was very close all the way. sconsin started off by scoring two runs in the first inning on two hits and a base on balls. Northwestern followed in the third by scoring three runs on three hits and a base on balls. In the fourth inning Wisconsin scored a run on a hit and two errors to tie the score. Northwestern pulled out ahead in the sixth by scoring their fourth run on a base on balls, a stolen base and an error. Wisconsin in the last half of the eighth bunched three hits to score three runs and give them a two run lead. It was enough to win the game.

Gosling offense was again decidedly weak. It was especially noticeable in the eighth inning when with the bases loaded and no one out, we failed to score. In all Northwestern allowed eleven men to die on bases.

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RED The box score: Northwestern Staffeil 3b Hoffmann cf Schumann 2b Schweppe lb Koch If Kehrberg rf Hempel ss Koehler c Klages p

Univ. of Wise. “B”

AB 4 2 4 6 5 5 4 ‘1 5

R H PO A 0 0 0 3 2 1 2 0 10 11 1 2 11 0 0 1 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 4

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AB 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 1 2 1 1 1

Sweet 3b, rf Ferris 2b Deno ss,; 3b Palmer If Forman lb Larson c Nelson cf H.VanSickle rf Morrisey ss Felstadt p *Baker p R. VanSickle p

R H PO 110 1 0 5 0 1 0 110 1 2 10 2 2 8 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

A 0 3 4 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 1

E 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1

34 6 10 27 13 4 *Schneider batted for Baker in sixth Summary: Two baso bit Nelson. Base on balls - off K'lages 3, off Felstadt 2, ofT Baker 4, oil' Van Sickle 1. Strike outs—by Klages;I，by Felstadt 3,

by Baker 2, by Van Sickle 3.

Dofcal No. 3

Northwestern 3 Carroll 6 May 26—Carroll practically reversed the score of our former p：ame with them and gave us our third consecutive defeat.

Northwestern liittinp： power was again somewhat weak although they managed to ^ret seven hits. However Carroll slammed Behlinp： for thirteen hits, enough to score six runs. Carroll held the lead all the way, scoring one run in the first，one in the third, two in the fourth and two in the sixth. The Goslings scored one run in the fourth inning when Schumann singled and made the rounds on an error and a wild pitch. Northwestern began a rally in the seventh when they loaded the bases by two walks and a single, and Schweppe, after two outs, hit a timely single, to score two runs. The rally was stopped when Kehr­ berg grounded to second for the third out.

The box score: Carroll Northwestern AB R HPO A E Staffeil 3b 3 113 0 0 3 12 0 0 0 Hoffmann cf Koch If 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 ♦Peil If Schweppe lb 3 0 1 5 0 0 •10 0 110 Kehrberg rf Schumann 2b, ss 3 1113 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 Hempel ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 Keibel 2b 3 0 1 8 0 0 Koehler c 3 0 1 0 5 1 Behling p

Laughton ss Marks If Kolberg 2b Binder c Riopelle cf Barry 3b Kindebel rf Albright lb Calahan p

26 3 7 21 10 3 •Klages batted for Peil in seventh

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RED Summary: Home run-Riopelle. Three base hit—Hoffmann. Base on balls —off Behling 2, off Calahan 4. Strike outs—by Behling 6, by Calahan 7.

Double plays—Hempel to Schumann to Schweppe, Kohlberg to Albright.

The last game

Prison 5 Northwestern 2 June 3—Prison wiles were too much for the North­ western boys, so they lost the game. Northwestern stepped off to a two run lead in the second inning when Schweppe beat out a roller down the first base line for a hit. Schuman took first on the third baseman’s error and he was followed

by Hempel who had received a free pass. The bases were loaded and Koehler grounded to the shortstop who threw 1.o the catcher to force Schweppe. But the catcher dropped the ball and a run scored for Northwestern. Schumann crossed the plate with the second run when Klages grounded to second. In their half of the second the Prison came back to score one run on a hit and a wild pitch. Northwestern still had a one run lead and this looked very good until the sixth inning. Then the Prison turned to strategy. A series of balls around, between and in front of the pitcher, first baseman and second baseman threw our men off balance.

Drag bunts and slow rollers brought three runs in for the Prison and put them into the lead. It was a lead t hat North­ western could not overcome. The Prisoners added another run in the seventh on two singles and that closed the scoring for the day. According to tradition the “inside” will be eat­ ing chicken on Wednesday. The victory was theirs.

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33 5 7 27 12 4 Summary: Two base hit—Koch. Base on b'alls—off Klages 1, off Westover 3. Strike -outs—by Klages 4, by Westover 10. Double plays―Westover to Greencrow, Monczyncki to Kyle to Taylor.

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RED In retrospect The baseball season closed with the NorthwesternWaupun game. With the closing of anything, from the clos­ ing of life to the closing of a school year, it is customary to look back and reminisce. And who is there who will deny this privilege to a sports writer?

In looking back over the baseball season, we find that of the twelve games played Northwestern was victorious in seven, lost four and tied one. In the conference our team tied with Extension for the first place. Here are the games and the scores: The losses: ♦Extension 1-2 Wisconsin B 4-6 Carroll 3-6 Prison 2-5 The tie: Wisconsin 12-12 vindicates conference games.

The victories: Seminary 6-2 •Milton 16-4 ^Extension 23-5 Seminary 3-0 ^Engineers 24-5. ♦Milton 8-1

Individually our team this year looked something like this: Batting Averages Behling Schweppe Klages Koch Hoffmann Staffeil Hempel Kehrberg Schumann Koehler Keibel Peil Ziesemer

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RED That’s what the score book says about our team. The best way to get a picture of it is to see it in action!

There were three Seniors on the team this year, Sclnveppe, Ilempel and Keibel. Schweppe seems to be going after the record of Lou Gehrig (who also plays first base) for during the three years that lie has attended Northwes­ tern he has played in every inning in every game. Besides that, he has a very enviable fielding average, committing only two errors in three years of play. This year the fans were all shocked when Schweppe dropped a throw at first.

No one had ever seen Schweppe err on the home field. Few could remember that once he had bobbled a ball in a game out of town two years ago. At bat Schweppe liked to hit with men on bases and he often did.

Hempel didn’t start in the first game of the year but after he entered in the fifth inning of the first game Coach TJmnus never saw fit to remove him. I-Ienipel stayed in there for the rest of the year, playing a colorful game at the shortstop position and swinging a strong club at the plate.

Keibel was the third Senior. He was a substitute in fielder but he did see quite a bit of action this year, and came through in fine form. And remember this, “A team is as strong as its substitutes.”

So, goodbye, boys. Thanks for playing with us and helping our team towards the top. So long ami c：ood luck!

TENNIS Milton 0 Northwestern 6 On May 17 the tennis team accompanied the baseball team to Milton to compete on a Milton holiday. The tennis team showed a great deal of superiority in that they did not lose a single set the entire afternoon. In six matches they lost only eleven games.

The statistics: Koeninger (N) over Nagler (M) 6-2, 0-2.

Weiss (N) over Matayoshi (M) 6-0, 6-2.

Schaller (N) over Hull (M) 6-0, 6-3.

T. Frey (N) over Chapman (M) 6-0, 6-0.

Koeninger-Weiss (N) over Nagler-Matayoshi (M) 6-0, 6-2.

Pagels-Schaller (N) over Chapman-Hilton 6-0, 6-0.

Northwestern 6 Whitewater 0 On May 18 the tennis team played host to the Whitewater team. Whitewater was the only team which managed to gain any points from our men, tying them 3-3 in an earlier contest.

However this time Northwestern went straight through the 98

或RED singles and doubles matches without even losing a set.

The statistics: Koeninger (N) over Luckow (W) 6-3, 6-0.

Weiss (N) over Hartel (W) 6-1, 6-2.

Schaller (N) over Kammer (W) 6-1, 6-1.

T. Frey (N) over Wilson (W) 6-4, 6-3.

Koeninger-Weiss (N) over Hartel-Henderson (W) 6-2, 6-3.

Pagels-Schaller (N) over Luckow-Wilson (W) 6-1, 6-2.

As was the case last year Northwestern was again chosen to be the scene for the tournament to decide the 739 conference tennis champions. The tournament took place on May 24 and matches were played both at the city and the college courts.

The University of Wisconsin Extension Division of Milwau­ kee won the meet in both the singles and doubles events. Bob Whitney of Extension took the singles title by defeating Koen­ inger of Northwestern 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. Whitney-Ledak of Exten­ sion took the doubles title by defeating- their teammates GratzLand 10-8, 1-6, 6-4. . .

Final results of the tournament on the basis of one point for each match won showed that Extension had nine, North­ western four, Mission House one and Milton none.

Here are the pairings and results of the tournament: (Note: E-Extension. N-Northwestern. MH-Mission House.

M-Milton.)

Singles Tournament.

Weiss (N) Weiss (N) W. Hull (M) 6-1, 6-1 Whitney (E) 8-6, 6-4 Whitney (E) Whitney (E) Friedel (MH) 6-2, 6-0 Whitney (E) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 Lepak (E) Lepak (E) Nagler (M) 6-0, 6-3 Koeninger (N) 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 Koeninger (N) Koeninger (N) Backus (MH) 6-2, 6-0 99

RED Doubles â&#x20AC;˘Tournament Lepak-Whitney (E) Lepak-Whitney (E) Lindow-Backus (MH) 6-2, 6-2 Lepak-Whitney 6-4, 6-4 Weiss-Koeninger (N) Weiss-Koeninger (N) 6-4, 6-2 Hull-Hull (M) Lepak.Whitney (E) 10-8, 1-6, 6-4 Gratz-Land (E) Gratz-Land (E) Pagels-Schaller (N) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 Gratz-Land (E) 8-6, 7-5 Friedle-Lindow (MH) Friedle-Lindow (MH) Nagler-Matayoshi (M) 8-6, 7-5 Seminary 4 Northwestern 2 On June 5 the tennis team closed the year with its only loss. In their previous engagement with Seminary, they showed themselves far superior, but revenge is sweet and the Seminarians took the match 4-2.

The statistics: Koeninger (N) over E. Frey (S) 6-0, 6-0.

Weiss (N) over Neubauer (S) 8-6, 1-6, 6-2.

Siegler (S) over Sclialler (N) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Hinnenthal (S) over T. Frey (N) 6-4, 6-0.

Nen?bauer-H. Sclialler (S) over Koeninger-Weiss (N) 6-4, 3-6, 9-7.

Schwartz-Siegler (S) over Schaller-Pagels (N) 6-4, 6-2.

KITTENBALL The kittenball situation developed into quite a flurry at the end. Tertia was barely nosed out of the lead and Fresh­ men and Sophomores began battling for top position. In the the last few days there were two games which had to be called and then just as this edition was going to press, Quarta defeated the Sophomores 7-6 in an overtime game.

The score was 2-2 at the end of the seventh and then in the 100

RED eighth inning the Sophomores added four runs to their score and then graciously retired themselves so that Quarta might have their inning before supper. Quarta then put on a sud­ den splurge to net them five runs in the last inning. This defeat dropped the Sophomores from first place and put the Freshmen in the lead. The Freshmen took the champion­ ship.

Note: Due to the fact that this edition was going to press while the deciding games were being played, no stand­ ings or statistics could be printed.

Campus and Classroom "The Big Weekend”，the loving appellation pinned onto the four days May 27-30, turned out to be a mass exodus from the campus. Practically the entire student body took to the road by some means or other, leaving only a handful of twenty faithful to keep the home fires burning. Some sought their homesteads, others visited relatives, and still others have as yet furnished no valid excuse for their absence. T. (Tyrone) Stern and W. [Whattaman] Schumann report good going to Detroit and return, having had the good fortune to ride with a gentle­ man who told them a few things about Florida, sand, and stars.

Bradtke stayed here.

Twenty-eight Seniors will graduate on the fifteenth. These gentlemen have all decided it would be a noble gesture to leave behind some small personal item as a token of their affection for N. W. C. and its students. So they have taken the trouble to draw up this their last will and testament: ， Immanuel Bade leaves his toothpick to anyone who likes toothpicks.

Gus Frank leaves the hair on his chest to Del Brick. (He needs it too, poor fellow.) .

Ed Frey refuses to leave his camera, the old tightwad.

Vic Hackbarth leaves as always, on the run.

“Chic” Hempel leaves a few of his “N” letters around.

He couldn’t carry them all.

Hickney Hertler bequeathes his classroom technique to John Kohl.

Gerry Hillmer reluctantly leaves his cornet to Heinie Paustian.

Jap Jungkuntz leaves his baton to ?.

“Scatter” Keibel leaves in a daze.

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RED Barney Kushel leaves his knickers to Liermann.

Ernie Lehninger leaves his band major’s uniform to some poor sucker. .

A1 Lorenz leaves Hebrew class with a sigh of relief.

Molkentin leaves his lisp to Mark Horn.

Ott Pagels leaves his avoirdupois to Delton Tills.

Louis Pingel leaves early — he has a long walk.

Nubby Reim leaves his French ability to Willy K. Norm Sauer leaves the candy room key where nobody can get at it.

"Laertes” Scheitel leaves lecturing loquaciously ad infiniturn.

"Orny” Schlenner leaves for Hollywood to understudy for Ralph Bellamy.

“Honus” Schweppe doesn’t have to leave—he already has got to first base.

Fritz Tabbert leaves his jazz records to Ralph Gehrke.

“Daisy” Ten Broek leaves his silver tongue to George Boldt.

“T” Toepel hates to leave.

Ralph Unke leaves his bow ties to “Mickey” Bradtke.

Jimmy Vogt leaves his favorite chair in the Black and Red room.

Art Wantoch leaves his many feminine admirers broken­ hearted.

“Arturo” Wegner leaves his splendid physique to Shorty Schroeder.

Irv Weiss leaves his unprinted short stories, poems, comps etc., in the waste basket.

So long fellows! Thanks for everything.

Having marched and drilled faithfully many hours under Major Lehninger’s stern command, the band was finally ready to perform at the various functions for which it has been prac­ ticing. On Sunday, June 4, the organization packed up and motored to Juneau where they played and played all afternoon until their lips resembled those of Ubangi savages and their “Sitzfjeisch” begged for mercy. Riverside Park was the scene of their next activity, where they played an evening concert for the enjoyment of the townsfolk. St. Mark’s school picnic at Riverside Park also found the band present to enliven the occasion. It can honestly be said that the band functioned beautifully at each occasion, thanks to Hillmer, Lehninger, and each band member.

Rain and threatening weather interfered slightly with the Male Chorus’ concert at Jefferson on Friday evening, June 2, but a goodly number were present to hear the Chorus present a reasonably good performance.

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RED If there’s anyone I’d like to fix, It’s the guy who writes those limerix His faint attempts to wax poetical Seem to me to smell synthetical.

His meter limps as does his rhyme, I’m telling you, it is a crime.

Ode to a Bed Dumper How often at night When I turn out the light Do I hear a loud thump.

And the prodigious big bump Of a bed turning- o’er And hitting the floor.

Then know I at once That some nincompoop dunce Is dumping a “sexie” For him too vexie.

Such silly shenanigans Belong to the Flanigans And not in the repertoire Of a staid college Sophomore, So when you’re out seeking blood Remember this, Bud, Someone might want to sleep more.

Among other things, June brings with it — Final Exams And what tears one’s hair as those days in June?

Then, as ever, come final exams And teacher tries student if he be in tune And over him always his stern eye plays.

And whether we look or whether we listen We see a guy bucking that book or this’n, Every Frosh feels a pang of fright An instinct within him that tells of tomorrows, When, hoping that papa will take it all right, He turns to fond pleasures to dim all his sorrows.

The fickle Soph croons to his babe in the rumble But she, cruel thing, never gives him a tumble.

The jitterbug catches his fun at the Palace.

And there never should be professor so mean To stop all this fun with his malice.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— But a Pipe, ah!

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Late Date

106

Noise

108

War is a Blessing

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EDITORIALS— The Violin

113

Obituary

114

ALUMNI NOTES

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ATHLETICS

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII. March 5, 1870.

Watertown, Wis., September 1939 Number 4

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BUT A PIPE, AH! Glancing- thru the weekly periodicals one is impressed by the great number of smiling movie actresses and shapley swim­ ming champions who attribute their stamina and health to the respective cigarettes which they endorse. These endorsements, however, appeal to me not in the slightest degree. Instead of a flimsy, effeminate cigarette, I rummage in the drawer of my desk for my favorite pipe. At the last counting there were seven pipes in the drawer, so you can see the selection of the favorite one is by no means an easy matter. Sometimes it takes so long that by the time I do find the favorite, the mood has passed. Then I gently lift it from its resting place and caress the bowl fondly with my thumb, think “my good old pipe” for a moment or two, and deposit it again in the drawer.

Every one of my pipes has at some time or other been the favorite. There is the thick-stemmed briar, now seldom used because of a leaky drainage canal. There is the good old corn­ cob, without whose help I yet undoubtedly would be trying to 104

RED solve intriguing math problems. Then there is the one with the built-in plumbing, guaranteed to eliminate enough nicotine to save the life of a frog; and the remains of an ornate clay that was good till the last drop. Each has enjoyed its little hour of glory when I said to myself, “This is the pipe for me.

This will be my inseparable companion wherever I go.”

Then I would light it up and settle down to read some good, solid classic, like Xenophon’s Memorabilia or Horace’s Satires.

But I wouldn’t stay settled long. Before I ferreted out the predicate in the dependent clause of the second sentence, the pipe would be whistling coldly and sounding like the end of a chocolate soda. A match is needed, and yet another. Pipe en­ thusiasts rise to ethereal heights in describing the aroma and ‘‘touch’’ of their favorite blend, yet never a word for the fragrant sulphur fumes of the matchheads.

Each lighting： up would produce a prodigious amount of smoke, and Xenophon or Horace would be lost in the fog tem­ porarily, but only temporarily. At length the clouds would clear away and I again would be on the trail of that tricky predicate. For the space of about a minute and a half I and my good old pipe would be on excellent terms, and then, with a sink-like gurgle it would go out and leave me with a mouthful of fluid resembling, in color only, root beer.

As a class, pipe smokers have a reputation for being deep thinkers. The pipe is the emblem of the philosopher. When you ask a pipe smoker a question, he does not toss back a hasty answer. He pauses before he imparts his seemingly valuable opinion. Actually, however, this pause has little to do with his reflections; it is merely to get the tobacco thoroughly kindled so that it won’t go out while he is talking.

But somehow, this picture of perfect comfort seems inade­ quate. To make the thing complete the member of the noble brotherhood of pipe-smokers should be supplied with at least three full boxes of matches, an asbestos vest, a large cuspidor and a couple of windows for cross-ventilation. And it might be a good idea to add a package of cigarettes in case he gets tired of clinkers on the tongue.

W. S.

105

RED LATE DATE Ardin D. Laper

Benny lived in a small town and so did Gertrude and Emmeline and Stinky Bloom. Benny was almost Gertrude’s best fellow, Benny thought. He wasn’t quite sure because on Friday evening Gertrude said she couldn’t see him the next night. She vaguely said she was doing something else and this made Benny wonder.

Then on Saturday afternoon Benny thought of Emmeline.

“Now Emmeline is sort of interesting to talk to,” Benny said to himself. “I think for a change I’ll spend an evening with her.”

But Benny couldn’t run the risk of calling her for a regular date. She might refuse and with two refusals he’d be in the depths of gloom for the whole week end. No, he’d just sort of dress up a little and kind of walk over toward her house and if she was in, all right, and if not, it would be all right too. He’d go late enough so she’d be either in or out.

And so he sort of put a little white on his shoes, combed his hair, and straightened his tie a bit and then kind of wandered over toward Emmeline’s house. It was 8:15. There was a light in Emmeline’s room. Benny knocked and quick, light footsteps were heard on the stairway.

Emmeline opened the door with a warm, ‘‘good evening’’ and then, "Oh, ifs you, Benny. Come in, won’t you?”

Benny said he guessed he had a few minutes time and walked in. “Emmeline sure is looking sort of pretty just to be sitting around home,” he thought. “But she seems sort of glad to see me; so why shouldn’t I stay?” Benny was thinking these things while he was telling Emmeline about what he’d been doing lately and while Emmeline was telling him how she’d been spending- her days. Sometimes Emmeline looked at her little wrist to see the time but still she seemed glad to keep on visiting with Benny. They were just laughing at some little bit of conversation when there came a knock at the door.

Emmeline smiled and said, “That’s my date — glad you stopped in Benny,’’ And then she went to the door only to let in her father.

She told Benny to sit down again. It was 8:30. Then Emmeline told Benny how that she was waiting for some people that were supposed to call for her and hadn’t come yet. Benny 106

RED relaxed. It sounded almost as if it relatives she were waiting for. And soon Emmeline’s little wrist showed quarter of nine.

Benny asked her if she had to wait and if she wouldn’t like to walk to the library with him. Emmeline looked at Benny’s tie, his combed hair and thought “Why should I wait for some­ one who is so impolitely late when I can go for a walk with Benny?” Sure she’d go.

Benny made believe there was some special book he wanted at the library. It wasn’t in. While he searched the shelves for the book he didn’t want to find, Emmeline walked over to the display of new books and paged through one about etiquette.

She stopped at the chapter: “How a Young Lady Makes Dates and Keeps Them”. At the top of one page it said, "The girl ought to find out from the boy about what time he will call for her. However, if for some reason he must leave it indefinite, the girl ought to keep patience until nine o’clock or a little later.

Then it would not be improper for her to leave or go to bed.”

They walked down the street out toward the depot. It was not an unromantic night. They passed the hang-out of the town’s young folks. Emmeline slowed her walk a bit to see if she could see who was inside. She couldn’t. Emmeline chattered interestingly at times and then for minutes she was silent.

“Those people didn’t say definitely when they were calling for me, Benny.”

“They didnt?” ‘‘Maybe I should have waited longer for them.”

“Was it an important affair?” ‘‘Well, not exactly — you see my cousin from Yale has his room mates here for the week end and I was to have a blind date with one of them.”

Benny said, “Oh…” And then after a space of quietness, “Do you know where you could find them?”

“They might be at the hang-out_but I shouldn’t leave you now, Benny yet it does seem as if I’ve run out on someone.

“But that Yale fellow must be feeling pretty much down in the dumps sitting by himself all evening when he was promised a date . *n, after all I just happened in on my way up to the library. ... So if you wan’t to, we’ll see if they’re there.”

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RED “I’d feel better about it,” Said Emmeline.

The tables in the large room were almost all taken. Emme­ line looked from the doorway for her cousin. He was there.

There was an extra boy in the party. She pointed the table out to Benny. And there Benny saw Gertrude and with a man from Yale! Together Emmeline and Benny walked to the table.

Emmeline’s cousin was glad to see her. Benny nodded hello to Gertrude. He turned to Emmeline, "I’m glad to have been with you as lonp as I have.” And then alone he left.

In what depths of j?loom was Benny! Gertrude with a man from Yale. Emmeline with a man from Yale. And then, "Hey Benny,” yelled Stinky Bloom from across the street, "Ya wanna go fishing up north for a week with me and my uncle. We’re starting out first thing in the morning. I been looking all over for you.”

“Ya betcha boots I'll go” Benny said.

It was while he was sorting out his flies for fishing that he thought how foolish some fellows were to bother about such silly things as girls—and he thought this for about a week.

NOISE Webster defines this word as ‘‘sound without agreeable musical quality.” and “meaningless, confused, or discordant sound.”

By far the majority of sounds must be classified under noise. In fact, it’s only occasionally that a succession of sounds get together in such a combination that they do not result in noise. When this does occur we have music, natural or artificial.

It seems that noise is one of those necessary evils which accompany the rise of civilization. It hangs over it and be­ clouds its brilliance like a Pittsburgh sky. To be sure the primitive savage and the rugged pioneer knew their noises, too, but they were associated with nature and hence more pleasant.

If either Neanderthal or Boone were set down in the midst of a large modern city, I think he would soon be driven noise-happy.

Noise reveals itself, on closer scrutiny, to be a relative thing.

That is, what is noise to me may be music to you and vice versa. “Thats music to my ears” we frequently hear someone say, even if he is referring to the staccato rapping of a pneuma108

RED tic hammer on steel. If the regular recurrence of like or similar sounds may be called music then I can understand why the steady click of metal upon metal heard in a moving train, and especially a freight, may seem music to a railroad man.

But to me it’s noise.

Then again what is foisted upon the public over the airlanes as music often can hardly be called that. Some of it is certainly meaningless, confused, and discordant and hence upon Webster’s incontrovertible authority must be dubbed noise. The finale of many classical selections, with its outburst of confused sounds, when every artist in the orchestra seems to be striving to out­ do his confreres in torturing his instrument, may to the educa­ ted ear be music, but in the immortal words of someone or other, it’s still noise to me.

In recent years scientists and manufacturers have been pooling their abilities in an effort to develop noise-eliminating apparatus and devices. Partial success has been achieved by the muffling of motors, by putting machinery and vehicles on air or rubber, by making noiseless typewriters, by doing away with static and by carpeting floors. However, there is still room for improvement. Until we all become geniuses or are deafened by the noisy progress of civilization, keep up the good work, boys.

Before dropping the subject I must admit that noise is occasionally beneficial. There are cases on record of a sudden loud noise opening the ears of a deaf person. Perhaps the patient was sorry afterwards. Noises may warn us of approahing danger or assist us in the search for this or that. And then a loud noise, if it gives one a good scare, is an almost sure cure for hiccoughs.

In conclusion, I must say that I have heard the noise of a big city, of a trainload of bawling livestock, of a dog-cat melee, but never have I heard a noise so tumultuous as that produced by 160 boys and young men engaged in dispatching a simple meal, or so disturbing as the noise of the same group during an evening study period.

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RED WAR IS A BLESSING R. J. P.

In retrospect, Maxim Maltoff thought the whole affair was a nightmare. It was incredible, the swift sequence of events.

Most unbelievable of all was the duplicity of Niskanya, head of the secret police. But a scant week ago, Maxim had, with intense satisfaction, gazed at the shining interior of his new office — that of the new official radio station. Now he was staring at these blank prison walls.

He had been roused out of bed at a late hour, rushed to this place, then charged with various fantastic crimes. He had resisted, of course, but escape was vain.

Another day passed. Then Commissar Niskanya had inter­ viewed him: "Comrade Maxim, it is unfortunate that one so learned should come to be such a traitor.”

Maxim stiffened. "In what respect am I a traiter 一 more so than you or the rest?”

Maxim frowened, “Then you still persist in your denial?

Let me tell you it will avail you nothing. We have the proofs if not the confession•” “Proofs?” Maxim started. What sort of deviltry was this! (« Yes proofs,” continued the commissar. “We have tran­ scripts which, if necessary, can be used to show you have used the new station for political advantage.”

At these words Maxim had broken away from his guards in order to confront his accuser more closely. But he was only seized and pinioned more tightly.

“You lie!” he shouted, “You know it is only a plot to get me out of the way in order to be able to broadcast this new change of policy. You know the old party members won’t stand for it. You know, too, that I have been censoring these changes.”

The force of this accusation was not lost upon Niskanya.

He turned livid and ordered the prisoner removed.

Maxim brooded another day in his cell. The next day he was again led before Niskanya. But upon this occasion, there was a marked change in the commissar’s demeanor. He was positively fraternal.

"Comrade Maxim,” he began, “we members of the Politbureau, after discussing the matter, are inclined to take a more 110

lenient course in regard to you, in view of your past service, and possible future service. For, you know, Comrade, you are a wonderful technician when it comes to radio, the best one we have. And radio means publicity.”

“Yes, yes. What are you hinting at?”

4 *Just this. The government desires to save you. However, it must also save its face and substantiate its charges.”

44You won’t make me confess.”

"Ah, ah, wait. The power of pardon has recently been granted the president. See here a copy of the order. Does it look genuine?’’

“It goes have all the seals and signatures,” Maxim had to admit. ‘‘All right,’’ continued Niskanya, “you have merely to con­ fess to the charges in open court. Naturally, you will be sentenced to be shot. So far, the government is satisfied. So are the people. Now here is where your part comes in. You appeal to the president for clemency, and it will be granted to you in view of your past services. Isn’t that clear and reasonable?’’

It was a tantalizing offer. Maxim was suspicious at first, but he eventually was won over by the commissar.

He did confess to treason and other various “high and horrible crimes against the state. He was “naturally sentenced to be shot.” Of course, he hadn’t the slightest doubt that this part of the agreement would be fulfilled. Immediately after the trial, Maxim appealed to the President for a pardon. In a few days he would be a free man again. He would even have a job again. Niskanya had promised him this. It wouldn’t be such an important position, but it would be something.

This very day had come the answer from the president, all the more staggering in its bareness, its terseness, “Appeal rejected.” Maxim felt frozen in every limb. In a flash he saw the whole trick. That the Politbureau had been genuinely con­ cerned over his own charges there could be no douht. He burned now to confront Niskanya and the whole body.

But he was powerless. In a few hours, when dawn would streak his cell with the shadows of the bars, he would be led out to the courtyard and be summarily executed.

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RED He was almost right. In two hours he was marching out into the fresh morning air between two files of soldiers, Out in the courtyard the sergeant asked, “Do you wish to be blindfolded?”

Maxim considered this, "Yes,” he said, “I want pleasant thoughts in my mind, not the sight of these leering men.”

"Very well, blindfold him. As for the rest, one of the rifles contains a blank. This knowledge may help to soothe your conscience.”

This must have been an excellent joke, for the soldiers relished it.

"Attention. Present arms. Take aim, and fire at the count of three.”

Maxim’s ears caught the swift clatter of boots upon the pavement, then a messenger’s voice; “One moment, sergeant, a telegram!”

“What is it”？ inquired the sergeant irritably. “It is im­ portant?”

“I think it’s a pardon.”

“What’s that?” cried Maxim, ripping off his blindfold. He rushed to the sergeant’s side. The latter read the telegram, handed it to Maxim together with his right hand, then turned to the soldiers.

“Squad’s dismissed.”

Meanwhile Maxim eagerly read the contents; Undeclared war on western front stop new station bombed stop Transmission wrecked stop need Maltoff stop Pardon granted.

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y^itartal s THE VIOLIN Instruments of the violin kind have been in use from un­ known antiquity. The first violin, a crude affair, is believed to have been the invention of Ravana, King of Ceylon, about 5,000 B. C. The Buddhist monks, according to legend, were the first to play on this invention, a half-gourd, covered with but one taut string. This instrument was called the ravanastrom. China also had an instrument similar to the ravanastrom. It consisted of two strings stretched over a cocoanut shell.

The next reference we find to this forefather of the violin is in Arabia, where they played a one-string affair called a rehab. Probably pleasing to the Arabs — but to no one else.

But the most important step in the evolution of the violin was taken by the Italians. In Italy, Gasparo da Salso made the first instrument of wood, called a viol, which closely resembled our present day models. This was soon displaced by the model which we know today, for it was discovered that the viol had 113

RED too short a range and too mute a tone; and so our present day violin was evolved.

The next period of the violin is its most glorious, for it was at this time that our priceless violins of today were produced.

The violin makers of this period have printed their names indelibly on the annals of violin history, but most indelible of all is the name of Antonio Stradivari. As apprentice of Nicola Amati, he was able, at the age of seventeen, to make violins superior to those of his master. By lowering and flattening the curve and by strengthening the framework he was able to pro­ duce violins which as yet have never been duplicated in tone quality and exactness of structure. During the eighty odd years of his life he made over three thousand violins, which were sold during his lifetime for twenty dollars. Today there are only five hundred priceless ones remaining. Whether it was the varnish he used, or the length of seasoning of the wood, or the exactness to the minutest detail which produced these priceless instruments we do not know, for the secret of his violins died with him. It is generally accepted that the length of time his violins were played, coupled with the varnish, the secret of which has never been discovered, makes the difference between these old violins and later ones. It is believed that the continued vibrations, caused by playing, permeates the fibres of the wood with the result that the tones become more sonorous.

It is truly remarkable that from a piece of wood nine ounces in weight and with the thickness of a half dollar a sound can be produced so truly beautiful, or that the very musical soul of the violinist can be transmitted to this fragile piece of wood. The violin is truly the king of instruments.

OBITUARY A catastrophe recently occurred that cast a shadow over Northwesternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faculty, student body and alumni; for a faithful standby, long associated with our institution, is no longer stand­ ing by.

The beloved old landmark, the historic elm, has been cut down. After repeated attacks of apoplexy, it finally succumbed at the hands of the tree surgeon.

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kED About one hundred fifty years ago, when Indians abounded in Wisconsin and white men began to settle here, a tiny elm seed left its home with nothing but an overcoat. That Saturn­ shaped seedlet blew away from its parent tree and settled down permanently half a mile west of the Sinnissippi (Rock River.)

Satisfied with its healthful environment, the small seed took a drink of water, threw off its overcoat and began a career of growing up. Sensing that every business enterprise must rest upon a firm foundation, the little seed sent a root into the ground before stepping out into the world. Then it thrust its head out of the earth and took a long sun bath.

The proud seedling grew rapidly and at the mere age of seventy-five was a robust figure with a chest measurement approximating one hundred inches.

About this time, buildings began to appear in the vicinity.

With amazement the elm must have viewed the erection of several imposing structures to its east. Northwestern College was born—just as the elm had established itself seventy-five years previously.

From that time on, much sentiment became attached to our sturdy neighbor. Some alumni will recall how they escaped detection on late evenings by hiding behind the elm when in­ spectors passed nearby. Many a gentlemen courted his lady beneath the historic elm’s branches; and many a couple sat gazing upwards, as if awaiting a blessing from the elm’s out­ stretched limbs.

In order that the blessing might not fall too hard upon young lovers and perhaps break a romance, the college decided to cable the main trunk for security.

At one time lightning struck the elm and inflicted a gaping wound which was tenderly nursed and covered with pitch.

The weakened tree was then chained to a neighboring elm.

Following a recent storm, the old elm listed a trifle. Be­ cause its trunk was hollow and much of the tree dead already, the leaning giant was considered a public hazard. It was doomed to die.

The execution took place on Wednesday, September 6.

Woodsmen, who could not spare the elm, hewed at its base all day. The final hour was at hand. So was a tense, murmuring 115

RED crowd of 2000—no, only 20—students and Watertown citizens, clinging to the rope on the sidelines.

At 5 P. M. the mighty monarch of the campus wavered, desperately tried to keep upright—then toppled with a thunder­ ous crunch to the earth. The ponderous elm shuddered for a A. Keibel moment—then lay silently inert. % On July 23 Professor Armin Schultz ’32 of Saginaw, Mich. and Eleanor Reuschel ex ’38 of Kaukauna were married.

Professor Schultz is at present teaching in the Lutheran Seminary at Saginaw.

Rev. Oscar Naumann，31 of Toledo, Ohio, spent a few days visiting in Watertown early this September.

Rev. Ristow *30, who has been serving as assistant pastor at New London, has accepted a call as pastor to New Ulm. Rev. Walter Iloepner ’34 has taken Rev. Ristow’s place at New London. Rev. Iloepner comes from Fond du Lac where he has been teaching in the Winnebago Academy.

Rev. Waldemar Sauer ’21 has accepted a call to West Bend.

Rev. R. Biesmann *33 has accepted a call to Rib Falls following the resignation of Rev. G. Neumanri ’ll.

This last June Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Vertz became the parents of a baby boy. He has been named Carl John. Rev. Vertz ’31 lately moved from Hale, Mich., to Detroit.

Rev. A. Voges ’28 of Vassal，，Mich., was married to Dorothy Zeile on June 18.

Rev. Prof. E. Ko'valke ’08 received but did not accept a call to serve in our Seminary at Thiensville in place of Prof.

Zich ’90, who died during this last summer.

Rev. Engel，23 has accepted a call to Saline, Mich, where Rev. Lederer，00 recently resigned. Rev. Engel was formerly of Chesaningr.

Gilbert Sydow ’36 has taken up his work as tutor in the Seminary at Saginaw.

Rev. Wm. Thierfelder of Madison was married on July 8.

Rev. Palechek ’86 of Chaseburg has resigned and Rev. R. Mueller ’28 has been called in his place.

The members of the class of ’39 have all taken up their studies at the Seminary in Thiensville with the exception of Gerhardt Hillmer, Richard Jungkuntz, and Walter Wegner, 116

RED who are attending the Seminary in St. Louis. Another exception is Homer Schweppe who is attending the University at Madison.

Rev. and Mrs. Walter Reinemann of Hartford recently celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. On the same occasion Rev. Reinemann }11 celebrated his twenty-fifth year in the ministry.

On June 19 a baby girl, Judith Myrtle, was born to Rev. and Mrs. H. Grunwald of Kiel, Wis. (Rev. Grunwald was in class of ’24.)

Rev. Otto Medenwald ’15 of Amery recently visited relatives in Watertown.

During this last summer Rev. R. Siegler ’34 was married to Virginia de Gaily. Conrad Frey ’35 was best man at the ceremony.

Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Hanke ’ll of Rolling Stone, Minn” celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on July 16.

Rev. R .Fenske ’14 has accepted a call to serve as director of the Lutheran Academy at Mobridge, S. D. He is taking the place left vacant by Prof. H. Oswald ’29 who is now serving at our college. Rev. Fenske was formerly at the Lutheran High School in Milwaukee.

Rev. Harold Wicke ’34 has accepted a call to Hortonville taking the place of Rev. Boettcher f91 who has resigned.

Rev. Director and Mrs. 0. J. Hoenicke ’90 were on a vaca­ tion trip out to the Pacific States during the last summer.

Waldemar Hoyer ’36 has taken a position as substitute teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Neenah, Wis. Rev. A. Schwerin who formerly taught in Neenah has moved to Hale, Mich, On July 10 Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Werner ’ll of Appleton celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Rev. Boettcher J91 was the guest pastor for the occasion.

Henry Meyer ’32 is serving as tutor at Mobridge, S. D. Rev. Mehlberg ’36 has taken up his work in a Mission congregation at West Mankato, Minn.

Rev. Marcus Liesener’33 has moved from Brillion to Wausau.

Rev. Erwin Schroeder ’35 has accepted a call to Woodville, Minn.

Delmar Hallemeyer ’36 has taken a position as teacher at West Allis.

During the last summer Rev. and Mrs. Jonathon Mahnke ’34 became the parents of a baby girl.

Paul Baganz ’38 is located at B rod head, Wis., where he is teaching Latin and German in the local High School.

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RED Rev. H. Koehler ’36 is assisting his father Rev. Philip Koehler in Milwaukee.

Rev. Walter Schumann ’12 formerly of our college faculty has taken up his work as pastor at La Crosse. Orvin Sommer ’36 is serving temporarily as a professor at Northwestern be­ cause of the vacancy left by Prof. Schumann.

Rev. John Martin ’33 who has been teaching at Eldorado is now serving as a pastor in that vicinity.

Rev. Richard Gensmer ’33 received and accepted a call to serve a new mission congregation at Findlay, Ohio. Mr. R. Bretzmann ’33 will take over the teaching duties left by Rev. Gensmer at Northwestern.

Miss Grace Kowalke ex *41 has enrolled at our teachers college in New Ulm. Miss Dorothy Jaeger and Miss Ruby Hardimann also formerly of the class of *41 are attending the University at Madison. Robert Korn ex ’41 has enrolled at Whitewater.

Margaret Davy ex ’42 has entered the nursing school at Mercy Hospital in Janesville. Edward Koch ex ’42 is enrolled in the Commerce school at the State University. Wm. Klages ex ’42 has enrolled at the Teachers College of Whitewater.

Miss Ruth Pfaffenbach ’38 is teaching History and Latin in the public High School at Verona, Wis. Dr. Ott ’85 has been relieved of his classroom duties with the exception of his French class. However, he still takes active charge of our library.

Prof. Fleischer r97, confined to his home because of illness the early part of the month, has now resumed his classroom duties.

We are sorry to announce the death of John Fuhremann Jr. ex ’44. He died June 9 at the age of 17.

Ernest Wendland ’38 has returned to continue his studies at the Theological Seminary in Thiensville after spending a year studying in Germany.

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FOOTBALL This is the most inglorious month of the football season.

For the football candidates it is nothing but work. Sweating every day to get into shape for the opening- game. But cheer up boys, the football heroism will come yet.

The season opened here on the seventh of September.

Although it was 85 degrees in the shade, it was football on the campus.

We were suspicious as to where Coach Umnus went fishing this summer, but now we have found some pretty good clues.

Seven husky fellows from Minnesota reported for football practice the first day.

Just to keep our opponentsďź&#x152;knees shaking we will publish the fact that we have ten letter-men back from last year. To these Coach Umnus will have to add only one man, an end, to fill out the first string team.

Then there is a list of reserves which equals the lettermen in size and weight if not in experience. Confidentially, we have it from Coach Umnus that he expects to produce one of the toughest teams in his career. If any of you alumni and friends want to see this team in action, make a note of the following dates and be there to boost the moral support.

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RED September 23 September 30 October 7 October 14 October 21 October 28 November 4

Extension Here Seminary Here Platteville Miners There Open Milton There (night game) Mission House There Concordia of Forest River Here (Homecoming) Alumni! Be sure to come to Homecoming. Mail your reservations to the Homecoming Committee. Give your team all the support you can.

Lest anyone should feel that the column is unduly short this month, I would like to have him keep in mind, “My gran’father’s rule was safer’n’t is to crow: Don’t never prophesy—onless ye know.

What our football team is like we will know definitely on November 4 at six o’clock. Until next month when we’ll have a few hints and facts—So long.

Campus and Classroom Overture Mr. Dale Carnegie no doubt could sell many copies of his book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”，about now to the Sextaners and other new students. New faces are evi­ dent everywhere. New faces which will gradually become familiar faces. Familiar faces connected with new names.

New names will be attached to new acquaintances. Acquaintan­ ces will become friends and once more the process of natural­ ization will have been carried out.

Over thirty Sextaners and almost as many new college Freshmen, together with most of the old-timers, were on hand opening day to hear President Kowalke give his opening address and take part in the opening exercises on Wednesday, Septem­ ber sixth in the gymnasium.

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All students and former students and just about anyone who has ever seen our beautiful campus will immediately recognize the above cut as “the old elm”. It has been called ‘‘old’’ for years and years. Perhaps no one knows just exactly how old it really is. But, now, alas! Due to old age and increasing infirimity the old elm has gone thes way of all good trees—it has been cut down. All we can say is, "stoo bad.

The band was the first musical organization to get into the swing of regular practices. Student director Bradtke reports that a goodly number of new students have turned out and that the accent seems to be on brass. Well, you know, Bradtke, it takes brass to get get anywhere nowadays.

All the old students are deeply aware of the gap left by Prof. Schumann’s departure. Everyone who knew him as his teacher realizes his ability and incomparable classroom manner.

At the same time they are learning to know the new members of the faculty. Professor Oswald, who was called to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Prof. Herrmann, and Orvin Sommer, member of the 1939 class of the Seminary, who is serving temporarily until a new Professor is called, are the new members of the faculty. Our wish is for every success in their new positions.

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RED ODE TO A GRASSHOPPER (Written on a Haymower)

Come little grasshopper, Sit on my knee.

Now tell me, I pray, How this can be That I must work From morn till night While you jump ;round With insect delight.

You’re a social outcast, A veritable pest, An enigma loathsome, A thing I detest.

You’re a conundrum With all your wings.

Your little tympanum And all sorts of things.

Of species Orthoptera, You little impostor, With hideous mandibles And a long ovipostor.

You jump ’round in circles Concentric and wide And sometimes you fly With infinite pride.

Why is it I ask you, That you are so mean And cut all my crops With appetite keen?

Now I hate to deny you The pleasures of life, But that’s how it goes In this vale of strife.

Chorus Tryouts were held for the male chorus. Sixty-five aspirants warbled before the judges, consisting of the officers and Prof.

Bolle, in hopes of making the chorus. The chorus consists of about forty members, over half of whom were chorus members previously. Each fall, the chorus starts practicing on its concert program of sacred numbers which is sung on its annual spring tour during Easter vacation. No definite plans for a tour have yet been formulated, but Prof. Bolle has already selected his concert numbers. All indications are for a successful year.

Ray Wiechmann is student director this year.

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RED Grams is back Some of the boys seem to be slightly hampered in their social activities this year, due to the fact that most of les belles dames have left for various schools.

Sweating is stuff which if you go out for football you do plenty of.

Face Lifting Many improvements are evident about the campus. New drapes made of monk’s cloth have been hung in all the study rooms of the dormitory. They were made possible through the efforts of Inspector Berg, the ladies of St. Mark’s, St. Luke’s, and Trinity churches and the Professors’ wives. The uniformity in appearance from the outside of the building is a pleasing contrast to the crazy-quilt of colors heretofore so obvious.

A new Flex-otile floor was laid on the third floor of the dormitory. All three floors have now been covered with this material, adding greatly to the general appearance.

Modern lighting fixtures were installed in the washrooms, making shaving a pleasure.

Cement curbing in the rear of the dormitory and resurfacing of the drive have improved our back yard. Much painting and redecorating also has been done.

Brick: Wick: Brick: Wick:

What time is it?

Quarter to.

Quarter to what?

I don’t know. Times got so hard I had to lay one of the hands off.

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â&#x2013; THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., October 1939

Number 5

Entered at the* Postoflice at Waiortowu, Wis. March l 1870. Publisliod monthly. >n. One Dollar,

SEEDTIME AND HARVEST Fritz Peterson

A man walked the earth. He pleaded. He exhorted. The waters came down. The waters came up. A ship quivered and moved; it thrilled to the touch of earth, it came to rest. Seed­ time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.

Another man rode in state behind toiling, chafing slaves.

He feared for his soul. More slaves dragged, polished and heaped one upon another numerous stones. The mighty monarch breathed his last. Yet overflows its banks the mighty river.

Beside a purple mountain he reared his fifty sons and daughters. A proud city obeyed his every bidding. Enemies appeared from beyond the sea. They built a horse. Summery breezes and wintry blasts play over the huge mound.

He felt the scorch of burning sands. A voice came to him beneath his tent of gray. The voice became a swelling flood, 124

swallowing all that met its force. Night came down upon the ear which heard that voice. Weeds grow where once the flood was felt.

Soft carpets muffled his ambitious feet. He moved amid delight and splendor. He was the state. His insensate coffin knows not heat or cold.

Wars must cease, he said. That tradition left us by the Greeks will save the world for us. He looked at three across a table. He returned to that from which he came. Tomorrow’s sun looks down upon a scarred, a gutted, a quaking city.

Seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, have not ceased.

Homecoming November 4th!

FATAL DELUSION R. J. P.

I noted that it was 12:15 by my wrist watch. I had spent an enjoyable evening with a chance acquaintance, one Jock Peters, at Marco’s Hotel Cabaret (“Open Till 3”）. As I rose to go, he spoke.

“Must you really go?” inquired he.

“Yes, I really must. Been keeping late hours lately, so I need the sleep. If you’re ready to turn in, too, I’ll accompany you as far as I can.”

“I live here,” explained Jock. “Besides,” he added, a blurred gleam obscuring his pupils, “I dare not sleep for several hours yet.’’

How is that?”

“It will take a little time to explain, but as long as you’re leaving—’’ “It seems such a queer thing to say, that I think I’ll stay and hear.’’ i t

It was about four years ago (began Jock) when my great adventure happened. I had become a faddist. A health faddist.

I read a book on “better living” by a so-called Dr. Galen Bradley. Later I heard several lectures by him in person.

Well, you can judge how easily I was taken in. I cut out 125

RED starchy foods. I ate only sausage. Cooked vegetables were taboo. This in itself wasn’t bad. The rub came in the amount.

The medical fellow seemed to bear a grudge against gluttons.

As a result, his rules for quantity might have pleased an under­ sized canary, but not a bustling cub reporter.

I lived on this diet for two weeks. In addition I was supposed to get nine hours of sleep. About five of those were spent tossing, staring at the ceiling, and thinking. Well, per­ haps not so much a matter of thinking as letting the mind wander. Keep that phrase in mind—letting the mind wander.

Before I continue, let me say that I’ve never told the story to any one before. You may ask yourself why then to you. I flatter myself that I’m a pretty good judge of character. You looked like a likely person to tell my tale to. And I feared if I didn’t tell it soon it would slowly overpower me.

I said I let my mind wander. One night (now don’t laugh, even though I know what I，m going to say is going to sound silly, insane; but it’s true) I seemed to get closer to the real me.

It was as though my personality were traveling through the corridors of my mind. And what a mind it was! I remember reading about how a fellow went into some cave, a real puzzler, and got out by following a string he had unwound. Well, I didn’t have a string, or, I might say, the string was broken.

While my mind was wandering we had an earthquake. A chan­ delier was knocked loose on my head. There I was trappped— so to speak—in my own head. Oh, I came to all right. That is to say, my eyes opened, I spoke, I talked, I ate. In fact, I acted like a normal being, as living goes.

But I was listless, I didn’t remember things. I didn’t seem to fit in with the surroundings.

There were doctors enough, too. And nurses. They said I had amnesia. The fools! They couldn’t see my real trouble.

They pretended to be so wise, and made it such a simple thing as amnesia. Amnesia, bah! And all the while I was aware, but helpless, having- lost voluntary control of my senses.

However, I，m afraid I’m going off the track. But you can understand my feelings. I went on that way for about a year, supported and annoyed by an officious old man, claiming to be my uncle. He was always bothering me and scolding me.

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RED somebody began following me, as I see it now. One night when I got back to my apartments he was there (whoever he was) and blackjacked me. They tried to tell me that I stumbled on a chair. But no matter. The jar cleared my head, or rather cleared me out of it. I became my old self, my calm sturdy self, as you see me now.

But that experience is still my big nightmare. The thought of it often scares me. So you will readily feel how I feel in unburdening myself of my happening.

As I said, this experience haunted me. I was afraid it would happen again. You will not be surprised to hear that I dropped the fad. I eventually drifted to morphine. Not habitually, you understand, just at random occasions.

I tired myself as best I could, my object being to fall asleep as quickly as possible, no letting the mind wander, see?

If I wanted to get a little extra sleep, I found a sleeping powder useful. So far I’ve been successful.

And you can see that there was a logical background for my statement.

I noted that it was about 10:30 when I approached Marco’s a few nights later. There was quite a crowd around the entrance, and I quickened my step when I perceived the police ambulance in front. I wormed my way through the throng crowding the main entrance, and got into the lobby. Being a generous and frequent patron, I was permitted to go to the second floor where the cause of the commotion seemed to be.

Here a more select crowd was standing about the entrance to room 223.

“What’s going on?” I asked the officer on duty.

“It’s old ‘Dopey’ Peters,” he replied in a flat, uninterested tone.

"What was the name?” I fairly shouted at him.

“Peters. ‘Dopey’ Peters we called him. This isn’t the first time we’ve come for him. It’s another one of his crazy stunts, taking sleeping tablets. He musta swallowed a boxful.”

Presently the police surgeon emerged from the room, followed by Marco himself. Marco clutched the doctor’s sleeve and looked inquiringly at him. He in turn shook his head.

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RED "He’s done it this time. It，s no wonder. His forearms and legs are all dotted with hypo punctures. We’ll have the coroner here right away. Has he any relatives?”

"An uncle. He supported Peters, ever since he was certified. I’ll see that he’s notified.”

“That will be fine. Well，’’ he called briskly to the internes, “all set? Let’s be off, then.”

Boost Homecoming !

I’D RATHER BE SICK Walter Schumann

A perusal of all available health books and treatises on hygienic treatment results in the following system to preserve one’s health. The beauty of this routine is that it requires only ten hours a day. There are no singular or special qualifications.

Anyone with the usual number of bones, tissues, and nerves capable of the strain is eligible.

It is absolutely mandatory that you rise at 4 A. M. for a seabath. If there is no sea immediately accessible, you can run a pipe-line from the nearest ocean to your dwelling. This will cost, at the most, a few thousand dollars, and think how much you will save by not consulting your specialist. Next, a cold bath with cracked ice is necessary. A short dip of twenty minutes is all that is demanded at first. The time period will be increased as you grow stronger. After this refreshing dip, go over yourself with a large No. 10 nutmeg grater. This improves the circulation and removes all superfluous tissue.

The next step required is that you drink a gallon of hot water. Then you may make your breakfast of two capsules of nutty nut and one ounce of selected grainy grain. Besides this you are allowed a wine-glass of prepared cream, with the casein, albumen, and fats withdrawn. After this repast you are asked to take a sunbath under green, blue and yellow glass, with the actinic rays of the sun removed. At 10 A. M. a deep-breathing exercise ensues. Raise the chest gently but firmly to the ceiling and rest it there for four or five minutes. Then let it fall slowly to the floor. All the windows should be opened, and if possible, the roof removed.

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RED At noon, you will feel hungry. Don’t let this disturb you, because hunger is an abnormal condition. You’ll gradually get over it. For dinner take a baked apple with the pulp removed and scrape off the inside of the skin. This will afford the mental excitement necessary to harmonize the nervous system with the pneumo-gastric nerve. With this take one grain of nutty nut.

After dinner you may rest one hour and then take the regu­ lar exercise of the day. Ordinary exercise is not in accordance with the latest beliefs. You are required to learn the names of all the muscles in the body and scientifically contract and expand them in alphabetical order. Do this until supper, which consists of a two-grain capsule of nutty nut and a pinch of grainy grain.

The mind also should not be neglected. Spend your eve­ nings reading health journals. By adhering to this system, it is absolutely guaranteed that in a few weeks you won’t know yourself. ______________ Remember Homecoming !

WHY? Roland Gurgcl

Two minutes and ten seconds flat! Wow, another knockout within one round! He is really good. The referee held up the hand of John Trapp once again, a hand which always seemed to be up, and proclaimed him for the sixth time within two years heavyweight champ of the world. The crowd began to head for the exits, every one discussing the chances of Trapp ever being defeated. The papers next morning were filled with the story of the fight and also discussed probabilities of the heavy­ weight champion being set back.

A young man stoutly built, with broad shoulders and long powerful arms, stood on the corner of 42nd and Broadway and watched the people pass by. He was interested in studying faces and habits and often stood for hours on this very corner and sought to seek out people whom he thought he would like to resemble. As he stood there he heard the cry of the morning newsboy and as was his custom he purchased a paper and glanced through the pages. The sport page caught his eye for 129

RED there the flashing words, Trapp Slaughters White In First Round, gave him a start; quickly he glanced at the picture be­ low, studying it for a while, and then read the account beneath the picture.

The wind was blowing hard, and snow drifting slowly down was caught in the tumult and hurled up and around again, but through this storm trudged a young man who seemed somewhat indifferent to the goings-on around him. After a good deal of pushing his way through snow banks, which troubled him not much for he seemed to be in exceptionally good physical condition, he reached the depot with just enough time to spare to purchase a ticket before boarding the train.

The conductor making rounds stopped at the seat occupied by the new arrival and asked for the ticket. Glancing at it as he punched it, he said, “New York, eh. What would be your business there?” No reply sent the conductor on his way but not without an occasional backward glance of admiration for the wonderful build of the young man.

The young man settled back to read a newspaper newly acquired from the passing porter. His first attention was turned to the sport page; ah, it was there in stirring headlines, John Trapp will take on Unknown Fighter Wednesday night February 28. Below this was the story of how Trapp had re­ ceived a challenge, from a stranger, who called himself the Shadow, some months before and how he had accepted it and trained secretly for this mysterious bout.

The Garden was packed to capacity, the preliminaries were over. The official announcer stepped out to announce the main bout. “Ladiesand Gentlemen. We are about to wit-, ness the strangest bout since the beginning of professional boxing. In this corner we have a man unknown to all, who has challenged the champion of the world to a fifteen-round fight and is here tonight to see what he can do against John Trapp, six times Champion of the World..... ” The bell rang for the first round, the fight was on. The fighters merely began feeling each other out the first two minutes. Trapp stepped in suddenly with a terrific wallop that caught the Shadow above the eye and left a cut, which began bleeding. Soon the dark mask which covered the Shadow’s 130

RED face was covered with blood spots. The remainder of the first round was a swift exchange of blows.

The radio announcer began getting excited, for the tenth round had passed and still the stranger was in the ring with the swiftly tiring champion. The eleventh round brought the crowd to their feet. The Champion was down and out.

The Shadow quickly asked for a police escort to take him to his dressing room. Reporters and every one were excluded from the room. Quickly taking a shower and dressing he left the building with his mask still on and with a police escort.

All got into a squad car and rode away.

As the car passed a theatre it slowed down, and a man jumped out and disappeared into the emerging crowd.

A young man with a sharp cut above one eye stood on the corner of 42nd and Broadway and observed the passing crowds.

In his hands was held a newspaper, turned to the sport page on which the story was told of a fight the night before in which the Champion had been defeated by a man who called himself the Shadow. Two men passed the young man on the corner and he overheard the words: “Why do you suppose he did it?”

The young man smiled to himself and thought, “If they only knew.”

Trounce River Forest!

WITH A SOPH PASSUQ ON A SPRING ROOSTER An Allegorical Nightmare Of A Junior Who Didn’t Study For Monday Btj Ardin D. Laper

What to blame it on I can’t quite say. Perhaps it was the white meat of the breast together with the leg and wing of a spring rooster. It may have been the rich brown gravy on the snowy heap of mashed potatoes. Maybe the cranberries caused it. Then again it could have been the two dishes of homemade ice cream covered with chocolate syrup. But most likely it was the thirteen olives and nine dill pickles; for Pve long been told that such things cause much dreaming.

It’s rather difficult to eat a big supper at home and then to start back to school immediately. And so it was about 10:45 when I again saw my desk and books, which had been so lonely during the week end. I yawned, looked at my Monday schedule and then I yawned again — French, German, Religion, Greek, Hebrew. It was useless. My eyes and mind couldn’t be 131

^RED bothered with such things, for my whole system was still working hard on the chicken, potatoes and gravy, cranberries, ice cream, the thirteen olives, and nine dill pickles.

But what about tomorrow, Monday, — when the professor would ask me to conjugate aimer,—when I would try to write the composition in German class on the Einleitung,—when I would be called upon to translate thirty lines of the Greek of St Mark into the German of the professor, — when I would be asked to review the last sixty-five lines about Odysseus in the sheep-pen of the Cyclops, — when blank sheets of paper would be passed out as we entered the classroom for Hebrew? Haunting horrors to think about late Sunday night!

At 11:05 my room was dark. I’d pret up early in the morning to study — maybe. As I lay half-wake on my bed, always I saw Monday coming closer, closer, and closer bringing with it French, German, Religion, Greek, Hebrew — French, German, Religion, Greek, Hebrew—French, German, Religion, And then I was gone to Greek, Hebrew — French Ger a land never seen I think by other mortal eye.

I was standing on the edge of a great chasm. Far in the distance on the other side I could see a soft green meadow which was dotted with flowers white and cylindrical. This was called the Meadow of Diplomas. There were different varieties of these flowers. Those nearer were called Beeaes. Those much farther in the distance were called Emaes and Peeatchdees. The only way to p：et to the soft frreen meadow was through the deep chasm which lay at my feet. I thought I’d like to have at least one of those Beeaes for myself and so began to go down into the deep canyon. The way was very steep and of a sudden the ground seemed to give way under me and I knew I was falling down, down, down. I must have laid quite senseless for some time and then finally my eyes opened to see a strange world illuminated by a pale yellow light.

Soon I discovered that I was surrounded by thousands of black spots. There were Chiraqs, Cholams, Kibbutzes, Zeres, and Segols dancing and chanting all around me. I can still hear their terrible song throbbing in my ears: “just who We are we can not tell But it’s up up to you to know.

And if you don’t, 0 woe! 0 woe!

To the deep abyss of U you go.!

What a weird chant it was. Some voices were pitched high and made only ee sounds. Others made only deep ominous o and oo sounds. Then the hords of dots danced closer and closer and surely would have thrown me in the Abyss of U right then and there, but just at that minute two spots which were bigger 132

RED than the rest galloped up on a spring rooster. He turned to the mob of little black-faced demons and speaking said, **Hold on here! I’m a Soph Passuq and I command you to cease this awful chant! When I come, everything is at an end. Leave off the deviltry you have planned for yon stranger! Let him stay with us a while, and perhaps he will insult you no more by failing to recognize each of you.

Then wiping the cold sweat from my face I thanked the Soph .

Passuq and asked, *4Where am I?” He turned in his saddle and looked all around and said, “This is the land of Grammer which is ruled by Syntax The Terrible whom very few have seen. The reason so few have seen him is because hardly anyone knows what he looks like.”

“What people inhabit this land,” I asked ‘‘Many and strange are the people who inhabit this land.

In this section live some of the Hebrew Vowels along with their related tribes of Dageshes and Schwas, who don’t ever say much. Sitting on that fence over there are four Mappiks.

They haven’t五een known to say a word in years.”

Then I inquired how I could get to the meadow where the Beeaes grew. ^That is indeed a long and hard journey with many horrors along the way. First you must follow this paved road of mashed potatoes and then go through the black forest of conso­ nant trees.’’

I thanked the Soph Passuq and then started on my way.

Soon I came to the black forest and entered it. As I picked my way through the dark growth I saw Kamatzes and Patachs swin ging by their tails from the branches above. When they saw me,^they made a villianous sound as if they had come upon a victim for their supper. All the time they kept saying,4 'ahhhhhh, ahhhhhh, ahhhhhh一，’ At first I tried to run and then I be­ came tired and I sat down to rest a bit under an Aleph tree.

I had no more than sat down when a Silluq jumped out and screamed, “You can’t stop here! You can’t stop until you meet the Soph Passuq again.’’

And so I took to my weary legs amid the ahhhhhhs of the Kamatzes and Patachs, who swung by their tails from above.

After I stumbled on for a time I finally could see the pale yellow light again. As I went on, I heard the sound of a large chorus in the distance. And then it came in full view 一 horrible to see! There were about 279 irregular Greek verb forms chanting that awful song again: ‘‘Just who we are we cannot tell But its up to you to know.

And if you don’t, 0 woe! 0 woe!

To the deep Abyss you go, you go!”

The hideous chorus had three directors—an Acute, a Grave, 133

RED and a Circumflex. Almost the ugly forms were upon me to cast me into the deep Abyss of U when Soph Passuq again came to the rescue as he galloped up on his spring rooster.

I said, "Soph Passuq, you sure came just in time. Where do I go from here?” . ‘.Now you must cross the Dactyl bridge over the river of Rich Brown Gravy, which is infested with long, slippery, scaly vocables.”

But how do I get there?” I asked.

“You simply follow the tives.”

14And what are tives?M “Tives are what we call our roads. In the land of Grammer the road you’re on is called the Nomina Tive. To go away from that road you take a Geni Tive. To go in another direction you take the Accusa Tive until you come to the Da Tive and then you’re at the place where you want to go.”

I can’t say it was clear to me either, but off I started to find the river of Rich Brown Gravy. I was not long on my way when a piercing shriek of “Help! Help!” struck my ears. I looked around and there across the field I saw a cute little French form running away from a strong German verb.

Another strange sight to behold was a team of 0 verbs and a team of Mi verbs playing a football game with a cranberry.

They_ asked me to ref the game; and when the game was finished, the Mi verbs would have indeed flayed me alive (I favored the 0 verbs), but Soph Passuq galloped up on his faith­ ful rooster just in time to save me again.

Then he took me to the bridge of dactyls over the river of Rich Brown Gravy. This was not really a bridge at all but only some stepping stones. First there was usually one large stone to jump on with both feet and then followed two small stones which were only big enough to step lightly on with one foot.

But in one place there were two big stones side by side and I stumbled over the second one. Down I fell into the deep river of Rich Brown Gravy among the slippery scaly vocables, who would have surely torn me limb from limb if it hadn’t been for Soph Possuq, who reached down, caught me and put me on his faithful rooster. # “Now,” said Soph Passuq, “you needs must climb yon mountain of Ice Cream to Syntax The Terrible. He will tell you whether you are fit to go to the green meadows to pick a Beeae or whether you are to be cast into the deep Abyss of U. But the journey up the mountain is indeed perilous for there dwell in the mountain two tribes of mean little demons known as Particles and Prepositions.”

And then I started to climb the Mountain of Ice Cream to find the castle of Syntax The Terrible. I had not gone far when I came to a narrow ledge and there standing right in my 134 c <

RED path was a little An. I tried to disregard him and step over him but he tripped me and I couldn’t pass. Finally I tried talking tough to him and told him he didn’t amount to any­ thing and that if the Verbs weren’t in the right mood, he wouldn’t even exist. This rather put him in his place and he quietly stepped out of my way. Then I climbed a long way with little trouble that now and then some Preposition from above rolled olive stones down the steep path, which sometimes made me stumble.

Near the summit the path became even more steep and much more narrow. I could look over my shoulder and see the deep river of Rich Brown Gravy hundreds of feet below. And then suddenly there stood before me two Tois and a De along with six more A ns. Each of the nine little imps carried a large dill pickle as a club.

So surprised was I at this dread sight that I lost my balance and slipped off into space. I was well on my way down to the river filled with the formidable slippery vocables. But then Soph Passuq came flying by on his trusty rooster and he picked me out of the air.

He now took me directly to the waiting room of the castle of Syntax The Terrible. And there I sat in the waiting room for two hours sweating and shivering as I tried to catch my breath before Syntax The Terrible would come in to examine me.

Then slowly the great door opened and slowly it closed. A chair moved up beside me. But I could see no one. Next to my ear I heard a voice, ‘’Can you see me? I am Syntax.”

I said, “N-n-no I c-c-can’t.”

Then he said, 'That settles it. You have no business picking a Beeae from the Diploma Meadow unless you can see me.’’

Then I felt something take me by the collar and lead me over toward a door which opened out on to a balcony. Thou­ sands of feet below I saw a deep black pit. Then I heard a hollow voice of Syntax The Terrible again, "That, my lazy Laper, is the Abyss of U. Into that I am about to throw you.”

And then I was lifted by the unseen monster up over the railing. I was dropped. I must have been falling for about five minutes. I must have been about half way down. And then someone grabbed my leg.

I cried, out loudly, “Good old Soph Passuq! Good old Soph Passuq!” But it wasn’t Soph Passuq at all, it was Dagwood Grams who grabbed my leg and said, ‘‘C，mon, get up off the floor. And don’t call me names! It’s about a minute to breakfast?”

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Dr. Jean L’Renard was peering intently into his huge reflector telescope when I staggered into his observatory, high up in the Pyrenees mountains. His aged figure was shabbily dressed and his face unshaven, but his eyes wear clear and penetrating when he looked up to survey me. His orbs glowered as if demanding explanation for my rude entry. I told him I was lost.

The British Geological Society had placed me in charge of an expedition near the source of the Garonne River. A raging blizzard had separated me from my colleagues while we were trailing a vein of rare ore several kilometers from camp. I called aloud for my companions, but a blanket of snow muffled my voice. I attempted to find my way • back to the base, but the swirling flakes had obliterated all signs of a trail. For eleven hours, I stomped through seas of snowdrift before chancing upon a dome-like building. By this time the storm had completely abated.

Dr. D’Renard was unmoved, but indicated that I might have some warm coffee and draw up a chair. Then first did he speak: *'Almost every man has at some time or other wished he could turn back the pages of time to view more clearly what has taken place in the past. He is seldom satisfied with history book sources, but would like to view the past with his own eyes. However, no one has ever invented a method of salva­ ging time, until recently --1 found a way. ‘‘As you know, if we could suddenly project ourselves into outer space upon one of the distant stars, we could see our world as it was in the past; and, with some powerful make of telescope, we might study the earth’s history. But a star is like our sun—so terrifically hot that no one could exist within seventy million miles of it. If a reflector could be substituted for a human being, and something faster than light were available, past history could be viewed on the earth with the help of a star.

“I came upon this discovery while viewing Arcturus (the brightest star in the northern hemisphere, situated behind the Great Bear in direct line with the handle of the Big Dipper) 136

RED through my telescope and with an electrical device of my own making. I found an unusual force coming from this star that was twice as fast as light. Several tests proved that the new force was really normal light reflected and accelerated by in­ candescent hydrogen (the gas surrounding a star) to the speed of 372,000 miles per second. This energy is invisible but be­ comes normal when directed through my so-called “Retrospector” onto a colloid screen. ‘‘Since Arcturus is forty light years away, the Retrospector permits me to see what happened here sixty years ago. The reflected image includes, roughly, a square mile around this observatory, seen as from a height of 400 feet. ” The Doctor beckoned me toward his immense telescope.

On one side a large aluminum cylinder with an eyepiece on one end was attached. Peering in, I saw a glowing plate with a beautiful scene upon it. I beheld the source of the Garonne River on a mountain top and many acres of rough terrain.

Even human figures were discernible. One man was skiing directly for a yawning crevice. I stifled a scream of warning when I realized that it happened sixty years ago. Another shot a deer and began to carry it home. Farther on, an elderly lady was haranguing a group of snow-balling youngsters. Just then the panorama faded and Dr. L’Renard spoke quietly, “That’s all I may permit you to see — enough to convince you of my discovery.” I remained silent while he continued: “If the telescope is aligned with some star farther or closer than Arcturus, the Retrospector is ineffective, because history is out of focus.

However, the Retrospector can de attached to any large telescope and will faithfully present history in any part of the world as it happened six decades ago. ‘‘This is but the beginning. Mankind will improve upon my invention after I present it to the Royal Society of Astrono­ mers two months hence.’’

The following morning Dr. L’Renard gave me directions for a short route back to my base and cautioned me not to relate a thing. I left the observatory and made my way across rocky paths toward camp. I was approximately two kilometers on my way when the earth trembled and an ominous rumble reached my ears. Whirling about, I saw a gigantic avalanche tear 137 i i

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When I finally reached camp, my companions were over­ joyed at my return. They asked where I had been, but I said nothing. They wouldn’t have believed me if I had told them of my adventures. I couldn’t prove a thing.

Even today, whenever I glance up into the heavens and look at bright Arcturus, the strange experience I had with Dr. Jean L’Renard flashes across my mind.

Conquer Concordia!

UNDER THE STARS A mass of humanity bubbling over with enthusiasm; music written by the masters, and played by artists, songs sung by one of America’s leading singers; and the scenery of flashing, twinkling stars in the blue of the heavens — that represents an outdoor concert at the Temple of Music in Milwaukee.

The time—8:15 on a midweek summer evening.

The place—the Temple of Music in Washington Park.

The characters—forty-thousand music-loving citizens, the Wisconsin Federal Symphony, and to-night, Lanny Ross, star of Radio and Screen.

We are sitting in the reserved seat enclosure before the beautiful shell, which is lighted in myriad colors. Every­ where the people are seeking their seats; icecream, pop, and peanut venders are calling their wares; and a tense wave of excitement hovers over all. The stars are not yet to be seen, but in the west we can observe a wonderful display of lightning coming from within ominous clouds. A few minutes remain before the beginning of the concert; the artists are going to their seats; and the heads of the crowd are turned towards those dark clouds still moving up from the west.

Suddenly the shell is flooded with orchid color and from the towers at the sides of the shell there springs a voice introducing the conductor of the orchestra for this evening, Mr. Joseph Gigante. He is short, stubby, and bald, but he looks his part.

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RED composed by conductor Gigante himself and dedicated to Mr. Emil Blatz, the donor of the temple. The march is good, and we applaud generously. The stars have come out, but the monstrous clouds are drawing nearer.

The next composition is Wagner’s overture “The Flying Dutchman.” This selection depicts a stormy sea, and with the aid of thunder and lightning from the clouds the orchestra succeeds very well. It is very seldom that nature and man work together with such close harmony.

And now our soloist, Lanny Ross. He greets us heartily and makes the crowd feel at home as he announces his own numbers, as he did on the radio showboat. His first rendition is “Frosquito Serenade,’’ or as you perhaps know it ‘‘In the Silence of the Night.” Beautiful! It still continues to linger in our minds. “Oh Promise Me” brings forth from Lanny the words that he hopes it will not rain. Victor Herbert’s “Sweethearts” wins the crowd and lightens their hearts with its fine melody and words. The applause is tremendous, and Lanny responds with two encores. ‘‘Moonlight and Roses，’ makes grandma and grandpa act just like the lads and lassies, and we see many heads touching in fond delight. “Penny Serenade” with forty-thousand voices on the choruses puts swing into the air, but it is not enough to swing away the clouds.

Conductor Gigante now leads the orchestra in the familiar selection from “Carmen”，which everyone seems to enjoy immensely. Strauss’ “Tales from the Vienna Woods” puts the final touch to the scenery, and everything is ready for Danny Cupid. Young and old alike catch the time of this beautiful waltz, and the benches fairly vibrate as the audience swings to and fro.

The fear of rain causes an intermission to be called. This forces the orchestra to omit “Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg” which was to have its first performance in the United States this evening.

A short Hungarian dance precedes the second appearance of Lanny Ross. "Oh, Moon of My Delight” fails to bring forth the sphere but invites a few drops of rain. The ‘‘Showboat Medley” receives a flood of applause from the audience. The next piece was sung better than we ever heard it. “When Day Is Done” brings so much applause, that not only Lanny came back to sing, but the stars too reappeared.

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RED for the benches, the crowd might have turned the concert into a dance festival. ‘ ‘To a Butterfly, ’’the next encore, is excellent, and the audience cries for more. Lanny then renders that fine old favorite “of that piece of heaven on the ocean, and they called it Ireland.” The applause, the greatest ever given to any star at the Music Temple, brings from Lanny sincere thanks and a dear Good Night.

Lanny leaves, the orchestra plays on, and still the thunder of applause rolls on, like the peal of the cannons after a battle.

The humorous music of “The Fair of Sinigaglia, a Characteris­ tic Fantasia,” which features train whistles, gunshots, and other things we see and hear in pink-elephant dreams, wins back the attention of the hearers. The march dedicated to the Chief of Police of Milwaukee is very fitting.

The next composition, although not on the program, takes the prize, and the crowd breaks out with singing, humming.

A one hundred-piece symphony orchestra can play “The Beer Barrel Polka” very well.

And now the close with the national anthem with all standing and singing. The crowd begins to wend its way home to all parts of the city. The adults have strengthened their bonds of affection, and Jane and Johnie, well, they have brought Lover’s Lane to Washington Park. The clouds are gone, the stars are twinkling, and we all enjoy the moonlight.

Another program in the 1939 summer series is finished, a great success, as were those featuring Jessica Dragonette, Lily Pons, James Melton, Jean Dickenson, and Gladys Swarthout.

Ralph A. Goede.

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ENNETH ROBERTS in his book “For Authors Only, and Other Essays’’ has one essay entitled “The Truth about a Novel. ’’ At the beginning of this essay he makes a statement upon which he bases the whole purpose of his essay. This is the statement: “There are ninety-seven per cent of the students (undergraduate) desirous of breaking into literature.”

When I first read it I believed it, as most people accept the validity of the printed word until the error is shown them. But —then I thought what that would mean, “ninety-seven percent of the students desirous of breaking into literature.” Why, right here at Northwestern College that would mean that there are at least one hundred boys in the collegiate department who are going to make a living by the pen. Perhaps there are, but they certainly have kept their intentions darkly hidden. How­ ever I consider this an impossibility for one hundred students to keep their aims entirely secret. Some inkling would surely 141

RED drop out. Sometime a short story, a poem, a writing of some sort would fall out of someone’s drawer and be noticed. (Cer­ tainly anyone intent on entering the field of literature would occasionally practice himself. A future musician practices, a future plumber occasionally picks up a tool.)

On the other hand any of these students, who according to Kenneth Roberts have a desire to enter the field of literature, will deny such aspirations immediately when asked for some slight proof. Just ask any Black and Red member what he knows about the student body in this respect. He has merely to breathe the suggestion to a fellow student that he contribute an article and he immediately begins volubly to protest that he never wrote anything and moreover never intends to write any­ thing. Occasionally when a student does contribute an article there is serious doubt as to whether he has written it because of inner desire or because of outer pressure.

No, Mr. Roberts, I think you have erred. Your statement may be true of the Eastern colleges with which you have come in contact, but of this particular Mid-Western college it cer­ tainly does not appear to be true. If our college were abnor­ mal, perhaps we could be considered exceptional. Our chief course of studies is a normal liberal arts course, our students are normal students, they eat, sleep, at times think, and in general lead a normal collegiate life, even the professors are as normal as can be expected. Our college may be the one exception to your rule but that I doubt very much. There is not enough initiative present here even to be different.

I’m sorry, Mr. Roberts. I wish your statement were true (one hundred literary-minded students, ergo, at least fifty contributions per month to the Black and Red, ergo, a glorious number and staff members’ paradise). It is a beautiful delusion, but I don't believe it.

W. Kehrberg Raze River Forest!

ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACK T. P. B.

Europe is again enjoying a good blowout. A good time is guaranteed if you survive. But here in America we practice a much more subtle kind of war. Europe still seems to be in the 142

RED cannon stage. For example, taking a walk at one time was a form of relaxation, but in our age it has become a major military operation. Of course, this applies mostly to walking in a city.

But there are two sides to this story; the pedestrian’s point of view and the point of view of the operator of a motor vehicle.

The pedestrian usually is going some place or else he’s coming from some place, or he’s doing both. Since nine times out of ten he’s late, he is in a hurry. Of course, every one ought to know this, especially the driver of on automobile.

But what happens when this person attempts to cross the street. If there were no automobiles, it would be simple; but since this is not the case, it is anything but simple. The driver of an automobile has the feeling of power and invincibility about him. What does one pedestrian mean to him? But then suddenly the pedestrian appears from nowhere and the feeling of superiority vanishes from the driver. Now the game of bluffing starts with no “Munich” in the future. The pedestri­ an keeps moving; so does the driver. Both realize their actions might hurt someone. Consequently both stop. A stalemate ensues. The pedestrian thinks the driver is being courteous and wants him to cross. The driver believes that he has thoroughly outbluffed the pedestrian. Both start forward at the same time and the bluffing begins all over. This continues for a few minutes until finally some one makes a break. Sometimes it works. Usually the results are a big doctor bill.

But then, have you ever stood at a busy intersection and watched the antics of pedestrians? They resemble a company of soldiers attacking a tank corps. One pedestrian alone does not attempt to cross the intersection. He usually waits until a “suicide squadron” has formed around him, and then the "Blitz­ krieg”； throwing caution to the wind, they start their attack.

Their one desire is to obtain the other side of the street. The assaulting automobiles are repulsed and finally the pedestrians reach the opposite side of the street feeling elated.

There is, however, a much more subtle type of pedestrian known as the jaywalker or one who crosses a street in an unusual or very inappropriate place. He tries to obtain his objective, the other side of the street, by the surprise of his attack on the thoroughfare. Imagine the feeling of a driver on a busy street. He has just survived the attacks of the pedes143

RED trians at the intersection when quite nonchalantly from behind another car one of these jaywalkers appears. Fear and surprise grips the driver. He stops. That’s all the jaywalker wants. He has gained his objective and can now quite safely cross the street, thus saving himself the time and steps re­ quired for walking to the intersection and combining his forces with the major attack on the intersection. The jaywalker carries on guerilla warfare. The gorilla.

A few rules for the pedestrian would here be well in place.

1. Always trust that the driver will have more sense than you and will stop.

2. The green light means “go”； of course it doesn’t indicate for whom.

3. Always run. You’ll get there sooner providing some one else isn’t faster.

4. Jaywalk whenever possible, you might save nine tenths of a second.

5. Never look right and left, some one might think you’re afraid or else he might think you’re a criminal.

6. Don’t think, just act.

These rules will get you some place, and then it’s so much more fun to ride in a wheel chair.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BIBLE LAND MUSICAL TRAVELOGUE

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^ilnmnx JJctes At the age of 18 Alfred Fischer ex ’39 received his B. A. degree in Geology at the University of Wisconsin last spring.

During the summer he was exploring varions caves in Wisconsin and Kentucky and wrote an account of his findings for the official publication of the State Scientific Society. He is par­ ticularly interested in the study of fossils and is at present doing post-graduate work with Prof. Newell, who is in charge of work being done on hundreds of pounds of fossils which the government of Greenland has sent to this country for analysis.

Together with Prof. Newell he expects to publish a book with­ in a year or two. During this last summer Mr. Fischer was married to Miss Varney, a graduate of Berkeley, Calif.

Rev. John Raabe J34 lately received two calls into the ministry from Michigan and Nebraska. He has accepted the Nebraska call and will soon begin serving the congregation at Schickley. Since the Fall of *37 Rev. Raabe has been tutor at Northwestern. Marcus Schwartz ’36 has been called and will presently take over the duties left by Rev. Raabe at our college.

Rev. Scharf ’28 of Slinger is enjoying a trip through the West including Yellowstone Park.

During the latter part of this last summer Dr. T. M. Otto ex ’33 of Wauwatosa was married to Miss Victoria Scholz, also of that city.

On Oct. 8 Carl Thurow ’37 and Armin Schuetze ’37 preached for Rev. Warnke’s Mission Festival at Fall River.

The congregation of Rev. Hartwig ’13 of Montello recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and redecoration of the church. Prof. Franzmann ’28 and Rev. Hillmer ’13 and Rev. Jaster were the guest speakers.

August Kirchner ex ’40 recently visited friends at North­ western.

Rev. Krueger ’23 of Ixonia has recently accepted a call to Friesland. Rev. Albrecht ’27 of Kawkawlin, Mich, will take Rev. Krueger’s place at Ixonia.

Rev. A. Schulz ’02 of Milwaukee is at present confined to a hospital where he recently underwent a serious eye operation.

Karl Hartwig ex ’36, who graduated from the State Univer­ sity last June, has taken a position with the Universal Oil Products Co. in Chicago. Mr. Hartwig specialized in chemistry.

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赛RED of Evanston, 111., have been called to take positions as professors at our college, They will fill the places left vacant by Rev. Schumann ’12, who has gone to La Crosse and Dr. Ott ’85, who has been relieved of most of his classroom duties.

Miss Josephine Gnewuch, who had attended the Academy some twenty years ago, recently visited her brother William ’42.

PASTOR GOTTLOB MUEHLHAEUSER With the death of Pastor Gottlob Muehlhaeuser, the sole graduate of the class of ’74, this class became the second class to have all its members deceased. Pastor Muehlhaeuser passed away on July 18 at the age of eighty-six years.

He was born on January 23, 1864, in Milwaukee, Wis., the son of Rev. Johannes Muehlhaueser, illustrious in Wisconsin Synod history. Preparation for the ministry included study at Northwestern College, the University of Leipzig, and the Con­ cordia Seminary. He was ordained into the ministry at Beaver Dam, Wis., in JL881. While serving his second charge > at Roseville, Mich., he received the call to Hamlin, NL Y.， in 1893, where the next thirty years of his life were spent.

At the age of seventy he retired from the ministry and took his residence at Brockport, N. Y., in 1923. Here he re­ mained until his death. Burial took place at Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y. Surviving him are his wife, a son, Rev. F. Muehlhaeuser, and two grandchildren.

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細慮TICS FOOTBALL Extension 0

Northwestern 47

September 23—It was one of those real football days, cool and cloudy, when men hit hard to keep warm. Occasionally there was a drop or two of rain; otherwise it was an ideal game to begin the Gosling’s season. The band played and there was even a fair crowd. All in all, not bad for a starter. The game itself? The score is printed above. It tells quite a bit of the story, but not all. The essential point in the game was that Coach Umnus was able to use all his men and test them under fire. He started a veteran team with one exception and later putin all his new men. All showed up well, the backfield positions especially were well handled. What was lacking in weight, was made up in speed, although the opposite was true of the linemen. Extension was closest to our goal line in the first few minutes of play, when the Goslings had to kick out of danger. After that it was a matter of seven touchdowns, three conversions and one safety which decided the game for North­ western. Here are the line-ups: 147

RED Northwestern Extension Savas P. Nolting LE Sarned Habben LT Seehusen Jagger LG Wiechmann C Gloyer Wadzinski RG Sablica Naumann RT Mieske M. Horn RE Borgwardt Koehler QB Bartel 1 Grabner LH Francis Sauer RH Metz Staffeil FB Carley Substitutions for NWC: Birkholz, Leyrer, Hanke, G. Horn, Beske, Mitzner, Spaude, Netzke, Baganz, Zastrow, C. Nolting, Greve, Peil.

Substitutions for Extension: Klancnik, Jung, Newnam, Gardner, Camin, Schippen, Bailey.

Northwestern 13

Seminary 0

September 30—What Coach Umnus has been developing in the last few years was shown in this game. Some of the boys whom he developed and sent away came back and put up a real fight against his present charges. There were some of the opinion that the Seminary team should have won the game, saying that Northwestern won on breaks and was otherwise outplayed. But then in football a team makes its own breaks.

Northwestern kicked off and in a series of plays featur­ ing Pagels and Toepel, passer and receiver, the Seminary moved down to the Northwestern three-yard line. Then they lost the ball on downs and Northwestern handled the ball for the first and only time of the first quarter. Sauer kicked from the end zone. In the second quarter Northwestern intercepted a pass in Seminary territory and just before the half Sauer took the ball across for the first touchdown. The kick was no good.

In the second half things went along with the Seminary having somewhat the upper edge until a pass from Sauer to Seehusen from the Seminary’s forty-yard line connected for a touchdown. The kick for the extra point hit the goal posts and it was ruled no good. Later it was shown to be legal in college football. The Seminary made ten first downs to Northwestern’s six.

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Seminary Northwestern E. Toepel LE G. Horn Zimmermann LT Habben Schlenner LG Seehusen Koenig C Zastrow A. Wantoch RG Wadzinski Ten Broek RT Naumann G. Frey RE M. Horn Pagels QB Birkholtz R. Frey LH Grabner E. Frey RH Sauer Hempel FB Staffeil Substitutes for Northwestern: Koehler, Beske, Spaude, Leyrer, C. Nolting, Mitener, Greve, Hanke, C. Nolting, P. Nolting.

Substitutes for Seminary: E. Weiss, Tabbert, Hertler, Keibel.

Platteville Miners 6 Northwestern 6 October 7—Hot! That hardly covers it. Old Sol pushed the mercury up into the eighties in one of those freak fall days left over from the summer. Football seemed decidedly out of place.

But the Goslings journeyed to Platteville to engage in the sport.

After the kick-off the Miners marched from their thirtyyard line for a touchdown. The conversion failed. In the second quarter the Goslings improved slightly. “Buck” Grabner broke loose for a thirty-five yard run to put us in scoring posi­ tion. Then the Miners scared all the NWC fans by intercepting a pass and galloping into the clear. Luckily the play was called back for offside penalty and Northwestern moved to the three yard line. Leyrer then crossed standing up for Northwestern’s touchdown of the day. In the third quarter no one threatened, but in the closing minutes of the game the Miners were knock­ ing at Northwestern’s gates.

The line-ups were as follows: Northwestern P. Nolting Naumann Hanke Wiechmann Wadzinski

Miners LE LT LG C

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RT RE QB LH RH FB

Favro Scalzo Morrow Temple Spurberg Howell

Substitutions for Northwestern: Seehusen, Spaude, Leyrer, G. Horn, Mitzner, C. Nolting, Beske.

Substitutions for Platteville: Tuttle, Ganshert, Shanklad, Burris, Hodgson, Pokorny.

Northwestern 13

Lawrence “Frosh” 13

October 12—Scheduled rather late in the season to fill an open date, Lawrence freshmen came down to engage Northwestern in its first night game of the year. The band played before the game and drew a fair crowd. The night was cool and ideal for football.

Northwestern drew first blood by scoring in the first quarter.

Sauer crossed fora touchdown, but the extra point was not made.

The Lawrence Vikings retaliated by scoring six points in the second quarter. In the third quarter the Goslings displayed their worst brand of football this year. The Vikings scored from about the twenty yard line after practically the whole secondary and half the line had tried to lay hands on the runner.

A dropkick scored the extra point. After reaching the depths in the third quarter the Goslings rose to the heights in the fourth quarter. A few minutes before the end of the game, the Leyrer-Grabner pass combination clicked in several success­ ive plays to bring the ball within striking distance. Sauer then returned to the game and drove to the three inch line. With five seconds to go a pass was attempted and time immediately called. A quick quarterback sneak through center put Birkholz across. After the fourth quarter Grabner kicked the extra point to tie the score.

No line-ups were available.

Last minute note: Northwestern tied Mission House on their Homecoming Day, October 21, 6—6.

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TOP ROW—Left to Right Roland Netzke, Vernon Greve, Harold Mitzner, Paul Nolting, Wallace Zastrow, Carl Nolting, Leonard Beske, Luther Spaude.

CENTER ROW— Carl Baganz, Howard Birkholz, Carl Leyrer, Felix Grabner, Frank Staffeil, Philip Koehler, Gerhard Horn, Henry Peil, Delmar Brick, Manager.

BOTTOM ROW— Paul Hanke, Arthur Wadzinski, Harold Seehusen, Fritz Naumann, Ray Wiechmann, Marcus Horn, Albrecht Habben, Harold Sauer.

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HOMECOMING NOVEMBER 4 Old Grads, this is your day. Tradition has set aside one football game each year as a special day for. graduates and friends to return to Northwestern and renew their acquaintance­ ship. This year, the seventy-fifth year at Northwestern College’s existence, we again send out the invitation to the graduates of the seventy-odd classes and friends to return for the day to Northwestern. Come and see Northwestern this year. See the football team, not as glorious as those of former years (nothing can ever equal those teams in the minds of the graduates) but we have a team that, when we look back upon it a few years from now, will undoubtedly seem the most glorious to us. Come and see what we have now.

Our opponents this year on Homecoming Day are the boys from Concordia Teachers’ College, River Forest, Illinois. When they first came up to play us at Watertown in 1937 they defea­ ted us in a very hard fought battle 7-0. Last year we were guests at their Homecoming and we strove hard with them but we finally yielded 19-0. And this year they are coming to our Homecoming. Since Coach Umnus took over the football team in 1936, it has never lost a Homecoming Day game. Coach Umnus is determined to keep this record clean. With champion­ ship teams in ’37 and ’38 he is resolved to produce another in 1939.

To date this year’s team has practically an untarnished record with two wins and two ties. It is heading towards the Homecoming game with all the drive possible. That clash marks the end of the season and the determination is present to close it properly, with victory. . ..

The Concordia College team is coached by Mr. William Hedtke, a graduate of Illinois, the same school from which Mr. Umnus, our coach, graduated. He is also quite successful in his work. Last year he coached the team through an undefeated season. This year he has chalked up two victories to one defeat.

His Cougar team has two more games to play before they meet Northwestern. Although the team has been weakened by in­ juries and a small squad, it still has some of the stars from its last year team. It expects to put up a fight fully equal to that of last year.

That is the way the situation looks on the eve of Home­ coming Day. What will happen on that day, you must come to see. It will be well worth your while.

Just to let you know what to expect, here is a list of the players who will figure in the game, starting at 2:00 on Novem­ ber 4.

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NORTHWESTERN PLAYERS CENTERS

ENDS Marcus Horn - Senior 5ft. 11%inch. -169 lbs.-No. 30 Zumbrota, Minnesota Paul Nolting-Freshman 6 ft. 3% inch.-188% lbs. - No. 31 Frontenac, Minnesota Harold Seehusen - Sophomore 6 ft. 2% inch. -196 lbs. - No. 33 New Ulm, Minnesota John Danner - Sophomore 6 ft. 10 inch. -152lbs. -No. (15) Watertown, Wisconsin Henry Peil-Junior 6 ft. 8% inch. • 160% lbs. ■ No. 34 Bay City, Michigan TACKLES Albrecht Habben-Senior 6 ft. 188y2 lbs. - No. 36 Raymond, South Dakota Fritz Naumann - Senior 6 ft. ZVa inch. -195】/2 lbs. - No. 37 Watertown, Wisconsin Vernon Greve - Freshman 5 ft. 10% inch. -163 lbs. - No. 28 Aurora, South Dakota Robert Mitzner - Freshman 6 ft. Vz inch. -177 lbs. - No. 23 Watertown, Wisconsin GUARDS Arthur Wadzinski - Sophomore 6 ft. % inch. -193% lbs.-No. 36 Manchester, Wisconsin Marvin Hanke-Junior 5 ft. 6% inch. -163% lbs.-No. 22 Rollingstone, Minnesota Luther Spaude-Freshman 6 ft. 6Yz inch. -167 lbs. - No. 26 Lake Benton, Minnesota Leonard Beske - Freshman 5 ft. 10% inch.-191 lbs. - No. 32 Atwater, Wisconsin

Ray Wiechmann - Senior 6 ft. Yz inch. -164 lbs. - No. 24 New Ulm, Minnesota Wallace Zastrow - Freshman 6 ft. V2 inch. -180 lbs-No. 18 Watertown, Wisconsin

QUARTERBACKS Philip Koehler-Sop:homore 5 ft. 9 inch. -162 lbs -No. 16 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Howard Birkholz - Freshman 5 ft. 8% inch. -144 lbs. - No. 21 Redwood Falls, Minnesota.

RIGHT HALFBACKS Felix Grabner - Sophomore B ft. 9V& inch. -152 lbs. - No. 16 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Carl Nolting - Freshman 5 ft. IIV4 inch. - 1G6 lbs. No. 29 Frontenanc, Minnesota Harold Sauer - Senior 6 ft. 8% inch. -163 lbs. - No. 20 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Carl Leyrer • Sophomore 5 ft. 9 inch. ■ 134 lbs.- No. 26 St. Louis, Michigan Carl Baganz - Sophomore 5 ft. 5V2 inch. -130 lbs. - No. 14 Burlington, Wisconsin.

FULLBACKS * Frank Staffeil - Sophomore 5 ft. 9 inch. -176 lbs. - No. 19 Watertown, Wisconsin Gerhard Horn - Freshman 5 ft, 11% inch. -164 lbs. - No. 17 Zumbrota, Minnesota Roland Netzke - Freshman 5 ft. 6% inch. -144 lbs. - No. 27 Smith’s Mill, Minnesota

CONCORDIA PLAYERS ENDS Ed Krafft - Freshman 145 lbs. - No. 40 Melrose Park, Illinois W. Wurthmann - Junior 170 lbs.-No. 42 Napoleon, Ohio

Warren Schmidt - Freshman .162 lbs. - No. 21 Minneapolis, Minnesota R. Dornfeld - Freshman 164 lbs.- No. 22 Saginaw, Michigan

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RED H. Teschler-Junior 180 lbs. - No. 4 Lenox, Michigan TACKLES Bob Sauer- Freshman 140 lbs. - No 20 Elgin, Illinois Gene Burger - Sophom ore 195 lbss. - No. 38 Fort Smith, Arkansas Ken Kramer - Freshman 185 lbs. - No. 41 Onarga, Illinois *E. L. Bellhorn -Senior 159 lbs. -No. 45 Mt. Clemens, Michigan *Vick Bickel - Senior 175 lbs.

Bay City, Michigan *Vic Wollang - Freshman 170 lbs.

Racine, Wisconsin GUARDS E. Huebschmann - Sophomore 167 lbs. - No. 35 Evanston, Indiana Ray Hastmann - Freshman 160 lbs. - No. 37 Cleveland, Ohio W. Krause - Freshman 160 lbs. -No. 43 Sheboygan, Wisconsin Norm Gefeke - Sophomore 165 lbs. - No. 47 Napoleon, Ohio

QUARTERBACKS K. Hellmuth - Freshman 166 lbs.-No. 1 Joliet, Illinois Vic Krause - Senior 180 lbs.-No. 50 Sheboygan, Michigan HALFBACKS Charles Zeddies - Senior 180 lbs. - No. 44 Moose Jaw, Canada Bill Hinz - Freshman 140 lbs. - No. 32 Lebanon, Wisconsin Erwin Weinrich - Sophomore 147 lbs. - No. 33 St. Peter, Illinois Walter Stahlke -Sophomore 160 lbs. - No. 26 Hamburg, Minnesota J ack Brown - Freshman 169 lbs. - No. 10 Lombard, Illinois A1 Kahl ing - Senior 188 lbs. -No. 53 ., Arlington Heights, Illinois N. Engebrecht - Freshman 140 lbs. - No. 3 Oconomowoc, Wisconsin FULLBACKS Erwin Bauer - Freshman 160 lbs. â&#x20AC;¢ No. 16 Richville, Michigan

CENTERS Bill Strohschein - Freshman 165 lbs. - No. 4 Flint, Michigan

Wayne Block - Freshman 185 lbs. - No. 36 Marengo, Illinois

H. Miller-Senior 163 lbs.-No. 46 Elgin, Illinois

R. Pflantz - Sophomore 168 lbs. - No. 11 Hannibal, Missouri

Ted Leitz - Sophomore 192 lbs.-No. 24 E. Detroit, Michigan

John Socha - Junior 170 lbs. - No. 52 Garfield, New Jersey

* Injured players not likely to play.

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Campus and Classroom HOMECOMING Some came by car, and some by thumbing, But they’ve all turned out for our Homecoming.

The band just played to get some spirit, Did they do it? Just hear them cheer it!

The coach is nervous, the crowd is tense, Almost everyone is in suspense; The team’s all dressed in black and red Ready to fight and “knock ’em dead.’’

The whistle blows, the ball’s in play; “Let’s go, gang! Run hard today!”

They’ll play to win; and if they do— Boy, will I celebrate!

Falling leaves—half bare trees—chilly nights—bonfires— shocked up corn and—Homecoming! Many conditions go to­ gether to produce the atmosphere of blood-tingling excitement and a not-too-easily suppressed desire for celebration and revelry which mark the Homecoming celebration. Plans have been drawn up and completed to make this year’s Homecoming one to be enjoyed and remembered. The “N” club has again taken the initiative in managing the event. Through committees of the club, a program has been planned, invitations sent out, a banquet arranged for and all the necessary details have been attended to.

Friday, Nov. 3, the big pep rally and bonfire will be held.

As usual, the Preps are busy hauling boxes from all over the city. Enthusiasm will be worked up to a high pitch by the cheer leaders and by speeches from members of the team and representative students.

On Saturday afternoon, the climax of the celebration will be reached. Two football games: Preps vs. St. John’s Military Academy and N. W. C. vs. Concordia Teachers, River Forest, will be played. The latter game promises to be a hard-fought one. Concordia offers a team of seasoned players who have been coached into a smooth-running, hard-charging outfit by Coach Hedtke. Coach Umnus’ Goslings have been working hard and are counting on a victory.

For those whose appetites have been sharpened by the ex­ citement of the afternoon’s games, the big Homecoming ban­ quet at 6:00 will be most welcome. A delicious dinner will be 155

RED served, entertainment will be provided and speeches will be heard.

We’ll be seein’ y’all, alumni and friends of this h’yar insti­ tution! Bring the wife and kiddies; come early, stay late, Governor Heirs new cigarette tax has caused a revolution in students’ smoking habits. Our inquiring reporter tells us that some of the fellows are making use of pipes more frequent­ ly, while still a greater number have resorted to “rolling their own’’ by means of small cigarette machines. Smokers say the finished product is a bit of all right, and at the same time smile in a self-satisfied way for having escaped the effects of the tax.

Perhaps it’s a good thing, too, because now the fellows are kept out of mischief in their leisure hours while they busily manu­ facture their day’s supply of fags. Truly, ’tis a ill wind that blows no good.

Laper still sticks to his pet theory that the European war was promoted by the map makers. Well, could be.

War has strange repercussions. We used to get ping-pong balls of superior quality from Czechoslavakia. Now the table tennis fans are struggling along with domestic balls. Such are the hardships brought about by the bungling European diplo­ mats.

Jack DeRuiter is looking rather regal these days. Hob­ nobbing with the German equivalent of ‘‘king’’ probably has produced this effect.

Shades of Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest! Almost any afternoon, several archery addicts may be seen aiming at and sometimes coming surprisingly close to the bull’s eye. This ancient and honorable sport has been made quite popular through the efforts of Armin Keibel, who, incidentally, pulls a mean bowstring himself. Keibel gives instructions to anyone inter­ ested and has taught the boys how to make their own archery equipment. A room has been set aside in the gym where all the budding Robin Hoods may get together and make their bows and arrows, and also learn more about the sport. Some of the fellows plan to go hunting when their marksmanship is good enough! A suggestion: the first man to shoot a deer mlight donate it to the refectory. A little fresh venison would be quite all right.

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RED farewell to Howard Ambelang, who has discontinued his studies because of his health. Howie was an active and well-liked student and will be missed by all who knew him. Our wish is for steady improvement in his health.

Wishing will make it so.

Not where tomorrow’s homework is concerned.

Wild oats is stuff which, if students didn’t sow, they wouldn’t have as good a time as if.

Gobble, gobble! I’m talking turkey. Put it down on your calendars, folks. We had turkey for dinner Sunday, October 15.

John Brenner has gone poetic. He is now learning Die Glocke by heart.

The Frosh’s favorite radio program is “100 men and a girl.”

44Waffles these morsels be”, said friend husband as he sat down to breakfast.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— To Shelley

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Trailing Clouds of Glory

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Fortune??? .................. .

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Black-out

162

The Room 12 Incident.

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Unknown Soldier

165

Don Cossack Chorus

168

Farewell to War

169

Arrows—Deer

176

Olympiad

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EDITORIALS— As We See It..

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ALUMNI NOTES

181

ATHLETICS

182

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

187

THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., November 1939 Number 6

Watertown, Wis- as second class matter under Act of March 3. 187小 Published inontlily. Subscription, One Dollar.

TO SHELLEY G. Franzmann

As thou, 0 Shelley, wept for Adonais dead So I now, conquered by the dread That thou by mankind will be left Unremembered Weep the tears of sadness and despair That all these lines, these blessed sentences These winged words proceeding from your pen Should die so soon.

Is that where immortality then ends?

Live on, inspired genius that gave to me More than many a classroom hour With all its dull and uninspired facts E’er gave.

Live — till greater poet, priest or king Shall take thy place in fame’s eternal hall.

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RED “TRAILING CLOUDS OF GLORY.” Ralph Gchrkc

.... As when Alcides from Oealia crown’d With conquest, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines.

Milton ‘‘Mythology is the handmaid of literature.” You can hardly read any of the great poets without running into count­ less allusions to this or that myth. When Milton compares the wild uproar of the fallen angels to that of Hercules, he calls to mind an illustration more vivid and striking than even the pencil could furnish. Mythology has become the handmaiden of literature; but we could ask, where might this union of the myth and poetry have had its beginnings? We find them to­ gether in much of the poetry we read and we can trace them back to the Grecian world.

In Homer we first find the bond between myth and poetry.

There we find that the bards whom Homer pictures celebrate mythological examples as patterns for a truly noble life. Two passages from the first book of Odyssey may suffice to show this. The first tells of the bard Phemius singing to the suitors about the Doleful Return of the Achaeans. Prudent Penelope heard the songs from her upper chamber and weeping came down into the hall to ask Phemius to sing another song, speaking thus, “Phemius, since that thou knowest many other charms for mortals, deeds of men and gods, which bards cele­ brate, some of these do thou sing.” The bards, we note, were to celebrate ‘‘deeds of men and gods.” That these mythological examples were to serve as patterns for a truly noble life, is shown in a second passage. When Athena, in the guise of the guest-friend Mentes, come to young Telemachus, she urged him to force the suitors from his father’s house. But to strengthen her arguments she added, ‘‘Indeed, hast thou not heard what glory the goodly Orestes got him among all men in that he slew the slayer of his father, the guileful Aegisthus?” This mytho­ logical example not only provided the traditional event to parallel Telemachus, condition but by its very nature it was made up of glory, of the deed of a great man, a lofty action.

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^RED Telemachus; it is to be a pattern for his action. Later when Telemachus was in Sparta trying to find news of his father, Menelaus alluded to the same myth of Orestes. These mytho­ logical examples were to serve as patterns; they were to trans­ form the tender youth into an able companion for his returned father, when he should wreak vengeance on the suitors. It was the Homeric bard who was to celebrate these deeds of men and gods as patterns of a truly noble life.

From these beginnings the bond between the myth and poetry came. Time and History took their course; “the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome’’ suffered a slow decay, and from the ruins, the mediaeval church began to shape itself. In like manner the ideal patterns of the Greek world were modified and finally dropped. But when the Re­ naissance rediscovered the myths, the remains of by-gone ideals, they looked upon them primarily only as part of the poetic tra­ dition. Homer begins his epic, “Tel丨 me, 0 Muse of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he sacked the sacred citadel of Troy.” But Milton wants his muse to sing ‘‘Of man’s first clisobedeience.” Mythology in Milton serves in a softened manner to make the illustration more vivid and striking. Thus we also meet mythology, sensing perhaps its Grecian origin, but not its original as an ideal. To us it comes, but “trailing clouds of glory.”

FORTUNE???

Ed. Zell

On the night of November 10, Jimmy Allyn, 2nd division, 44th regiment, company 5, finished his mess, pushed back his chair and strolled into his tent to write a letter home. It was the first in six weeks. He began to write, ‘‘Dear mother.”

He stopped, ‘‘Mother!’’一！ It was a long- time since he’d seen her last; almost two years now. He’d been lucky! Nearly two years in this fool war and not a scratch. The thought struck him that every day of that time he had been in danger of getting killed.

The full realization of the thought was too much even for Jimmy Allyn, seasoned warhorse that he was; so up he gets and tears over to the Canteen for a good, stiff, bracer. As he 160

SIRED strode across the threshold, he stopped a while, but not long, and listened to the familiar babble of voices, some excited, some thick and some sort of wistfullike. He sat down, after ordering his drink, which was immediately gulped down to make room for a second, and hooked his receiver in on the line of thought of his buddies. Tonight they were dwelling on a subject which was not new to Jimmy. They were talking about when a guy "got his’’； why, and how.

And so they went on far into the night, talking and (be­ tween drinks) arguing. Till finally a fellow called Spud got up with difficulty and said with finality, ‘.I don’t care what you say, I say a fellow don’t “get his” in any way but by the shell what has the same number as his enlistment number. So there! I’m gonna go to bed!”

Jimmy rose and went out right after Spud, with those words still in his mind.

Pulling off his shoes and pants he dropped on his cot and tried to sleep. But he couldn’t, for the simple reason that Spud’s words kept recurring and he couldn’t help wondering when his “number” would come up. Finally, he dismissed the matter with the conclusion that, come what may, he couldn’t stop it.

"Hey! Pile outta there, hurry!” Jimmy bolted upright in his bed and flew outside, still pulling his pants on. It was Nov. 11. ‘‘Hey, soldier!” he hollered at the guy nearest him, “what’s up?”

'Ain’t you heard?” came back, “Big push coming at 10:00 A. M. Two minutes later found Private James Allyn headed for the front along with the rest of his company. They reached the trenches and crouched down, fixing bayonets, getting hand grenades ready, and waited for the “zero hour’’. **Whe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!M There it goes! Over the top raced company 5, Jimmy in the lead. Faster and faster they went, dodging, ducking, weaving, bobbing, dropping flat, and up running again, until they reached the barbed wire. Through the wire they cut and on across no-man’s land. Then it happened.

Jimmy felt himself spun around and he dropped to the ground, hit in the leg. The boys kept on going and he was left 161

RED alone, lying unprotected. He busied himself staunching the flow of blood from a good-sized hole in the calf of his leg.

Then he listened to the shells, hearing how they whistled over­ head, hit the ground and in a minute or two, went off. He re­ marked to himself, “They’re using time shells today.” *' Whe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!11 Another one came at him, he listened, waiting. Then he almost died of fright. The “egg” almost dropped in his lap.

It was so close he could see the number on it. “Holy Hattie!” he screamed. It was his number, corresponding exactly, 60,899,713. He couldn’t crawl away. Thoughts of what Spud said, of home, of his buddies, his girl, everything flashed through his head like lightning. Gosh! Why didn’t the blasted thing go off? He ducked his head and waited. Nothing happ­ ened. He stole a look, the shell was still there. He looked at his watch. It was 11:05 A. M. Suddenly he threw back his head and screamed with crazy laughter as the fact hit home. “It was a dud!”

BLACK-OUT F. E. P.

They were just three. Father went away every morning on the trolley and came back every evening. Mother sang as she swept the floor and prepared the meals. Bobby played about the house and the little yard. They were happy.

Across the water a man with a little mustache grabbed another chunk. Bobby could not figure out why all those busy men dug up the pretty parks. He couldn’t even look at all the nice things in the shop windows any more, for there were heavy bags piled in front of them. Why weren’t those beautiful windows in the church, as they used to be?

Two traditional enemies joined hands in mutual pledge.

Now the streets were strangely quiet at night. Sometimes there was an ominous droning and humming coining, as it seemed to Bobby, out of the empty air. Then an eerie, pierce ing shriek would send him trembling to his mother’s side.

Why were Daddy and Mother so quiet? Why did they look at him and one another so strangely? Bobby was afraid when they tried to put that ugly thing on his face.

A rising September sun shone in the faces of marching men. One evening Daddy didn’t come home. He wasn’t home the next morning. The next evening lie was still gone.

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They were good to him, but he saw Mother cry when they put him on the train with many other boys and girls. But Bobby didn’t cry; he didn’t understand. They took him out to a pretty place in the country. Soon Bobby got tired of tliat and wanted to go home. But—Daddy was gone to war and Mother was driving a taxi. What is war? Mamma never drove a taxi before.

Countless numbers lay rotting in and on the ground.

Countless billions of dollars in wealth had been destroyed.

But at last the great war ends. Bobby is now in his early teens. He recognizes the two who await him at the depot by the picture in his hand. The woman looks old and hag­ gard. The man lies on liis back on a wheelchair. They smile wanly when they see him： THE ROOM 12 INCIDENT T/ieo. Harlwiq

The train pulled into Bremen at 4:30 in the afternoon.

After the usual rush for locating our baggage, we made our way to the hotel. “Get a good room, Joe,” I called to my friend. Joe Killinger and I had bunked together on the ship.

We were of the same age, his father was a Lutheran pastor as my father is, and so we had much in common. Joe lived in southern Virginia and had a decided southern drawl. He came back with the keys for our room. “Wliat room did you get?” I asked. “Room 12,” lie said. “It’s supposed to be the largest room in the hotel, and there’s a small outside porch, too. Boy, are we lucky!”

Joe was right. We did get a swell room. It had three large windows overlooking the busy thorofare below. The big double bed looked inviting. “I could go for some shut­ eye right now, Joe. We haven’t been in bed since Southhamp­ ton, and that was yesterday morning.” “Say, wliat’s that featherbed for?” he inquired. “It’s summer, isn’t it?” “I don’t know. Let’s wash and get something to eat. They’re probably waiting for us.”

After supper we wandered around the streets awhile, but Morpheus was calling pretty consistently, so we returned to the hotel. After unpacking the suitcases, we wrote a few letters. “Sould we visit some of the other fellows?” I sug­ gested. “It isn’t very late yet.” Joe consented. I went down one hall, Joe down another. “Here’s a likely looking room,” he called over to me. “At least, there's enough noise in it.”

We rapped, and Bill Hardt came to the door. “Come on in,” 163

RED he said, “We’re playing cards. Do you want to join?” “No, we’re going to bed right away,” Joe answered. We watched them play awhile. Then one of the boys got a notion to get some beer. “I’m going to find out if this German beer is all it’s cracked up to be,” he said. With a quick “take care of the room so long, fellows,” they all left for the “Brauhaus” across the street.

“Let’s have some fun while they’re gone.” It was my notion. “What should we do?” askecl Joe, “Carry their bed out into the hall,” I returned. No sooner said than done.

We carried their mattress, pillows, and sheets to the third floor and strewed them along the hall. Then we hotfooted it back to our room and locked the door.

“Here they come now,” whispered Joe. “It sounds like their voices.” It was, for pretty soon we heard a commo­ Maybe we’ve started something,” I tion in their room.

Open the door said. “I hear a woman’s voice over there, and see who it is,” Joe suggested. “It’s one of the girls who works in the hotel,” I said, looking through the small open­ ing of the door. “Slie’s talking in German, and they can’t understand a word of it. She’s telling them that she found their bed on third foor. Oh, I guess they understand now.

They’re following her.” “We better lie low now, Joe warned. “They’ll know who did it.”

After a short time all three of them came over to our room, as we had expected. “Open the door,” commanded We know you did it.” They were not anagry； Bil Hardt. we could tell that by their voices. “At least they took it for a joke,11 said Joe. “But don’t open the door.”

They finally stopped pounding. “Let’s go to bed,” said Joe. “It’s getting late.” I agreed. We were just about to turn in when I heard some noise on the small porch outside the window. Joe aslo heard it. “That sounds funny,” lie said. Then we both jumped for the windows as quickly as possible, for all three of our friends were standing on the porch, laughing. Before they had a chance to open them, we locked the windows. “That was a close shave,M breathed, Joe. We talked through the window, but we wouldn’t let them in. “How in the world did you get out there?” I asked. ‘‘Baker and Buenger have a room two doors down,” one of them answered. “This porch extends down to their room, After we had talked a while, they left again, and we went riglit to bed.

A minute later, I heard a woman scream. She was call­ ing for help at the top of her voice, in German, of course, saying something about thieves and night-prowlers. I 164

RED couldn’t get all of it. “Now lady, I’m not going to hurt you; I just want to get out through your door.” It was Bill Hardt’s vice, low and soothing. Bill wasn’t small; lie weigh­ ed over two hundred. You couldn’t blame the woman. But neither of them could understand tlie other. “’Raus, woher du gekommen bist, woher du gekommen hist.” She was al­ most hysterical. “But, lady, we were locked out. We just want to get back to our room.” It was Bill again, pleading.

Joe and I still didn’t know what it was all about until we saw three very scared faces at our window, huskily entreating us to let 1tliem in. We wasted no time in opening the window. They quickly came in, pretty white, saying somthing about “the wrong room.” They they hurried to their own rooms. We crawled back into bed, hoping that nothing would happen. The manager came up and com­ forted tlie woman; she was sobbing. Then it was quiet.

The next morning we came down to breakfast, trying to hide our guilty consciences. Nothing much was said about tlie night before. But our congenial German leader looked at us with a funny smile. Later, in a round-about way, we found out from him, that the hotel manager was not able to put the blame on any certain person for the “night prowling.” Certainly he suspected tlie boys from America. Our leader told us later that he suspected us, but that lie had taken it as an American boy’s prank. He told us good naturedly not to do it again. “We were lucky here, but we might get into trouble in another hotel, where the manager is more strict/1 he asserted. Joe and I promised never to do it again, although we were to blame for tlie “night prowling.” At the end of our tour we again stopped at Bremen, stayed at the same hotel, and Joe and I again secured room 12.

UNKNOWN SOLDIER Ralph A. Goede

“Hello, George.”

“Why, hello there, Buddy. Gee, it’s sure good to see you again.

“Ya，and ditto for me. Say, I hear you’re coming out to the trenches again tomorrow. Is it true?”

“Yes, it is, Buddy. When the doctor took off the bandages from my head and eyes this morning, he said I could leave for the lines tomorrow.”

“Ya, boy, but I’d swap those trenches for a bed in this 165

RED hospital any day. Say, what was the first thing you saw when the bandages came off your eyes?”

I had the nurses show me a picture of the family, you know the one with mother, dad and kid brother and sister.

Then I looked out the window and saw nice green trees, and flowery foliage, and a flock of little yellow butterflies flitting about. It sure was a lot different from the trenches.”

14Boy, you’re not tellin’ me anything. You know—” and so the chatter between the wounded Yankee, George Cordel, and his pal, Buddy Jones flowed on. It was peaceful at that base hospital behind the lines. i <

How different from the front line trenches two days later.

George and Buddy were standing in the trench chewing the rag while they were waiting for the zero hour. Every now and then there was a sharp explosion of a German shell and the rata-tat-tat of an enemy machine gun.

“Zero hour in thirty minutes,” drawled Buddy.

“Yes, zero hour and the opportunity to give your life to make the world safe for democracy.’’ **Ya, you know sometimes when I see the nurses carry in some of the German wounded, I think, ‘Gee, I could like those Heinies.’ ” “Yes, I know how you feel.”

"Ya, here we are; one of us, maybe both, is going to be killed off soon; and there sits the president at a ball, 'the pro­ ceeds of which will he used to help the soldiers over there.’

You know, every time I think of that I get a laughing jag. Ha, ha, ha, ha—.’’

A sergeant came up to the boys, “Get ready, boys, zero hour in five minutes; grenades and bayonets.”

‘•Say, you know, sometimes I think that guy would like to see me dead. If he wasn’t an officer, I’d....... ” “Forget it now Buddy, Listen, if I should get killed, de­ liver this packet for me will you. I’ll do the same for you.”

“Sure, pal，I’ll do it. You know, every time I think of you getting killed and getting only a wooden crossover your mound， I think it’s a shame__ ” A sharp whistling shell went over their heads towards the enemy line, the signal of the zero hour. Up and over. After 166

RED the boys had started the charge, the shells suddenly began to fall more heavily. ‘‘Say, George, you know, those shells aren’t enemy shells, they’re our own.”

"You’re right, Buddy, our artillery have got their aim mixed; they’re shooting right into our line. C’mon over this way—’’ Blam!

Buddy was thrown on his back, hot blood running from his shoulder. ‘‘Gosh, I’m wounded; but ray pal? He was here only a second ago. Oh man, my pal killed by his own country’s shell. Say, what in—, look, are those butterflies I see. Sure; no.

Buddy, you’re crazy, yellow butterflies on a battlefield, ha, ha.”

Dear Mrs. Cordel, Since you have made the great sacrifice by offering your son, George, to the service of his country, in which service he died a hero on the battlefield, and since his body has not been discovered, you are invited to attend the dedication of the Un­ known Soldier’s Memorial at Arlington Cemetery in Washing­ ton, D. C., on Sunday the fifteenth. signed, the President of the United States.

But Mrs. Cordell was ill, so the kid brother and sister went to Washington with their daddy. As Mrs. Cordell reread the invitation again she heard the patter of steps upon the stairs and in a moment Carl and Carol, eight-year old twins, rushed into the room. After kisses and embraces, they told their mother all they had seen. Carl spoke first and then Carol.

“— —and when the last ring of flowers was put on the big stone, the President said, ‘Let us all silently pray with bowed heads for a moment as the cornetists play ‘‘taps’’.’ And then some­ thing real pretty happened.”

“Yes, something real pretty,” added Carl.

“Well, dears, what was it? Tell me,” Mrs. Cord el pleaded.

“Well, dear,” broke in Mr. Cordel, who had just entered the room, “as we were all standing with heads bowed I happ­ ened to glance up at the monument covered with flowers, and there I saw six little butterflies fluttering about the flowers.”

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The theatre was filled to capacity. It was almost curtain time. Here and there the usual late-comers were quickly accommodated. Finally the Don Cossacks made their appear­ ance. Marching in from both sides of the stage, slowly and deliberately, they formed into two long rows. Most of them were bijr. husky men, grizzled, probably the effects of prison life in Russia. They were costumed in bright red jackets, short pants, and high black boots. But Serge JarofF, the origi­ nator and conductor of the chorus, stole the whole show.

Barely five feet high, in striking contrast to his six foot pupils, his head confidentially cocked way back, his whole face a smile, he walked, almost ran, onto the stage.

No time was wasted. Immediately they began to sing, very softly at first like a fur-away echo, then gradually in­ creasing to such volume that the seats fairly vibrated; and they sang- with all their hearts, which was evidenced by the flushed condition of their faces.

The tenor section especially attracted one’s attention. With their full chest voices they could sinj? in high notes clear as a bell. It is hard to describe such singing1, for one hears it so seldom. Their blending with their bass accompaniment on some high note as in one voice in a voluminous cadenza was enough to send shivers clown one’s spine. One of the tenors, a tall thin man, sometimes sang an octave above the rest. He had little trouble in hitting notes two octaves above middle C. I cannot forget the bass section with its deep, booming voices. What a ‘‘Resonanzboden’’ some of them said. Imme­ diately in front of the director stood a huge, full-bearded Russian, his deep rich voice sometimes heard above the rest.

Another bass, on the occasion of a solo, sang down so low that his voice lost its musical quality. And when the whole bass section turned on the volume, it sounded like the rumbling of thunder.

Mr. JarofF did not use a baton. He conducted with his whole body. Every finger was utilized; every motion of his hand had a definite meaning. It must have been easy to follow him. After acknowledging the hearty applause with a broad 168

RED smile and one slow bow, he would “about-face” like a soldier and walk thru the chorus ranks, smartly opened up by four of the singers with a click of their heels, this in order to give the tones for the next number. All the actions of the chorus were military.

The program had been divided into three sections. The first part was devoted to religious songs, among which were two Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer. The second section included the “Song of India” and “Dark eyes.” The last part consisted of popular Russian songs. These songs were altogether novel.

The music was frequently broken up by rousing cheers, a sort of chromatic hurrah; sometimes our soprano-voiced friend would insert piercing whistles or bird calls. They may be called comic songs, for they certainly amused the audience.

The program ended suddenly, too suddenly. One wanted to hear them again and again. Their singing had been wonderful.

The high tenor voices were still ringing in my ears. I will never forget this experience.

FAREWELL TO WAR Little Glimpses of a Grande Tour.

Ardin D. Laper

Not a few Americans are fed up with war news by now.

Even late this summer there were pretty many housewives who coulddn’t understand why broadcasting companies in­ sisted on taking them to Paris, Berlin, and London right in the middle of “Ma Perkins” and “The Man I Married.” Men also were disgusted when the score was three and three with two on, and two out, and two strikes on the batter, and then an important sounding voice said, “We now take you to Europe for the latest news. Come in, Europe, Who wanta to go to Europe when the score is tied at Wrigley Field?!!

Who cares what Hitler’s doing in Poland when Minnesota has the ball on Michigan’s twenty?!! And the truth is that these soap flake serial addicts and sport fans probably show a very wise foreign policy.

So perhaps it is out of place to write an article about such a tiresome subject as conditions in Europe. But it is not often that we can hear the human side of foreign con­ ditions from one who sat in our classrooms not long ago and who has come back again to live in the same city in which we spend so much of our time. Miss Wallner graduated from 169

RED our prep department in the spring of 1936. In the following autumn she entered Milwaukee Downer and there studied until the spring of 1938.

It was on June 22 that Miss Wallner boarded the Ham­ burg, and sailed for Germany. By July 1 she stood on the soil of the Reich. Life in Germany she found not unpleasant.

The German people are even more friendly and hospitable than we in the Middle West. Conversations with strangers in trains and street cars are commonplace and often result in lasting friendships. People spend less time wondering what to do with their leisure. Hikes into the country are a favorite pastime. Autos are rare. Citizens enjoy taking part in sports more than watching them. The average girl uses less cosmetics, but socially prominent ladies have all our western trimmings. Everywhere neatness is apparent.

Shoes in each household are polished every day by maid or mother. Clothes may be old and patched, but never ragged and dirty. No litter is left in public places. A fine of two marks if you throw your used street car ticket on the street!

Food is not too plentiful but the Germans were well trained by the English after the last war to get along with very little in their stomachs. People do not complain―they only think of twenty years ago and are satisfied.

Most citizens sincerely support Hitler. Some may dis­ agree with one of his policies and others find fault with an­ other of his plans, but put all his policies together, and the people agree he’s their man. Prohibition of criticism is not carried to the extreme commonly reported. It is like Ger­ mans to have various opinions and with discretion they are expressed. Many Germans sympathize with luckless Jews.

Strange to hear .there are only about 2500 men in Germany’s two concentration camps. The Germans feel bitterly against Chamberlain. They would rather not have war but will grimly go through with what is started.

Hildegard remained in Germany until the latter part of August when she left on a trip to Italy and Yugoslavia. Early in October she returned to Munich where she attended the University studying German Literature, Art, and Music.

Week-ends were never dull with fascinating tours to quaint cities, hikes into the picturesque country, sSiing in the Bav­ arian Alps.

Christmas vacation in Italy . . . Florence—appealing to ladies with its delicate finery . . . rich old homes of Italy’s aristocracy . . . Rome—appealing to men with its colossal ruins . Naples • everywhere ripe oranges .. . Isle of Capri—summer home of Emporer Tiberius .. . shop-lined 170

RED bridge across the Arno . . . Dante’s house ... everywhere ripe oranges . . . Christmas vacation in Italy.

“Pfingsten” vacation in Vienna and Budapest. Budapest —city of great beauty and many languages. Stores often advertise in five or six different tongues. German is com­ mon. Much peppery food in this city—with peppery food much wine. Miss Wallner happened to be there on the even­ ing of election and so only soda water and milk could be served.

It was late June when the term at the University of Munich closed. About this time Dr. Wallner :joined li is daughter. Together they set out for Paris. At 4:30 in the morning the train was stopped at the border. The officials asked to see Hildegarcl’s visa (endorsenient of passport by proper officials). Hildegard had thought it was unnecessairy. Her baggage was tossed out of a winclow onto a I w aiting wagon and then the train was again on its way without Hildegard and her father.

After waiting hours in the depot and then at the con­ sul’s office she finally obtained the visa about dinner time and again they were on their way to Paris. She traveled via Strassburg and visited the renowned cathedral. While in Paris they had the thrilling experience of seeing the mam­ moth parade on July 14 which was the one lnmdrecl and fiftieth anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Thou­ sands of troops took part including the plumed English guards along with the French Foreign Legion which never before had been in France. Negroes from the French African provinces are given flashy uniforms to attract them to the army. During the stay in Paris sand bags were distributed to the hotels. French fear the German strength. After seeing the sights of Paris Hildegard left lor Cannes in the French Reviera and her father returned to America.

The Riviera is all it’s reported to be—a pleasant place to live. While at Cannes Miss Wallner attended a small college, taking a light summer course in French with various lecture periods. Wonderful swimming. Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Tyrone Power with his Annabella lived near by. Hildegard's school friends were quite cosmopolitan during her stay here. They were Turks, Swiss, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford, students from Yugoslavia and even Michigan. A high light of her visit to this part of France was the colorful Battle of Flowers held every August. The society of the colony ride through the streets in horse-drawn carriages heaped with flowers. These they throw to by­ standers lining the streets and the bystanders in turn throw them back across the street.

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They too must leave. And so Hildegard left for Riva Bella, a small town on the coast to await passage on the Deutschland due to sail on September 1. Hitler marched into Poland. England declared war. The Deutschland could not sail.

Hildegard wrote to a French line for a passage. Sent ten dollars in advance for ticket—never received an answer.

Wrote to Consul in Paris. Took ten days for letter to get there. Everything in confusion. Everywhere were notices for tourists to leave. How? No one knew. Reply from Consul told her simply to go to Bordeaux where she might be able to get a boat.

The visa had expired. It could not be renewed. She could not get a letter of safe conduct. Must get to Bordeaux.

Went without safe conduct. No one protested. Trains were crowded to overflowing. Little money left by now. Nothing for food. A kind lady offered her a bit of her lunch and Hildegard politely declined while her stomach craved the yellow pear. Lady saw behind polite words. Insisted Hilde­ gard eat. And she did.

On the train to Bordeaux were also people coming from evacuated Alsace-Lorraine along the Maginot line. They talked a good German. French newspapers urged citizens to treat natives of Alsace-Lorraine as fellow Frenchmen even though they did have a “peculiar dialect.”

At last she reached Bordeaux. Bordeaux has many fleas. Fleas bite. Hildegard arranged for passage on the small French-American freighter, “Independence Hall.” The regular officers’ quarters were given to the forty passengers.

The officers and crew went below into the hold to live. And on Saturday, Oct. 14 the “Independence Hall” was off for America.

Then Hildegard’s Grande Tour really began to become exciting. The small freighter with its cargo of forty pas­ sengers was three days upon its slow way. About 3:30 in the afternoon came two S. O. S. calls. Two English ships were sinking一-one to the south—one to the west. “The In­ dependence Hall” hastened to answer the nearest ship. And soon they come upon a strange scene. There on the horizon were five ships all seemingly hurrying in different direc­ tions. One ship was plainly disabled and floated lop sidedly. Then of a sudden the ship broke in the middle and the 172

RED two halves slid smoothly into tlie sea. Five minutes before the torpedo liad struck. Tlie “City of Mandalay，，was sunk.

The sea was dotted with life boats and people clinging to bits of wreckage. As they came nearer the passengers saw a pathetic almost haunting sight. There floating along on a spar were two Hindus crying at the top of their voices to Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah! Life lines were thrown out to them. They were too far away. Later however they were picked up in a life boat. Most of the crew consisted of Hindus.

The life boats could only be lifted aboard from the side protected from the wind. This meant taking much time to maneuver upi to each boat. The Indians were weak from fright and as true fatalists they would do nothing to help themselves. They only cried hysterically to Allah. It was necessary to quiet some of them by knocking them out with an oar. They were too weak to climb aboard. Ropes were tied to their life belts and then they were lifted to the deck.

Many had nothing else on but a life belt. They were given a blanket and taken below.

English officers were in fine humor. After floating about in the cold ocean for hours one fellow first tied his precious “Johnny Walker” to the life line and then he let himself be pulled aboard. Only six on “The City of Mandalay” were lost.

Then for many passengers and survivors came the su­ preme scare of the voyage. Slowly the formidable German submarine raised itself to the scene. There before them lay, at least for the time being, the true “ruler of the waves.”

Through the approaching darkness came the flash of a light.

In code the submarine asked, “Wliat ship are you?’’

“American—The Independence Hall.” ‘‘Thank you very much.”

And now there was yet the other SOS call to answer.

It was dark. In the distance flares told where 230 people still lived. “The Yorkshire” too had slid smoothly into the sea, and swiftly. So swiftly that the surviving officers were convinced that the radio operator could not possibly have radioed the SOS call. The German submarine liad sent tlie SOS call to rescue the passengers on the ship it had sunk.

Perhaps chivalry has not yet gone out of war. And the sub­ marine yet hovered near late into the night cheering the survivors in the water with news that “The Independence Hall” was on its way. This was dangerous for the submarine because the British destroyers were coming and a destroyer can move more than twice as fast as a submerged submarine.

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Seven life boats held the 230 survivors. Wisely they had tied the boats together so that the rescue ship could more easily find them and pick them up. On “The Yorkshire” were women and children along with many English officers returned from India, in addition to the Indian crew. Am­ munitions were also on board.

The captain of the “Yorkshire” had warned his pas­ sengers early in the (lay that they were in dangerous waters and so everyone wore his life belt—everyone except a sort of young smart-alec who bragged he wasn’t scared. Then came the torpedo. He was strutting on deck. His life belt was below. He wouldn’t have time to get it. He knocked a man unconscious, took off his life belt and put it on himself.

1-Ie became an outcast among the survivors. He had mur­ dered a man.

A little boy was below. His mother was on deck. The torpedo struck. The mother rushed below frantically calling for her boy. She could not find him. She would not come up. And the “Yorkshire” slid into the sea.

Almost miraculously a man saved his four-months old baby after floating with her for hours in the cold sea. He had made a small life belt for her and tied her to an oar.

A mother and her four children were safely in a life boat. The Yorkshire” slid into the sea. Its funnel struck the life boat. The life boat was shattered. The mother tried to keep her children about her. Three were soon lost. The youngest she held in her one arm while she clung to a plank with the other. Slowly she became more and more weak: She could no longer hold her baby and still hold to the plank herself. She used both hands to cling to the plank. A life boat came alongside. She was taken aboard. In her excite­ ment she forgot about her baby which she had just let slip from her arm. Some said the baby must have been dead al­ ready but she was ever haunted by the terrible thought that perhaps she had left her baby still alive in the cold deep sea.

Then there was Jimmy, who was one of the last to leave the sinking “Yorkshire.” There were no more regular life boats that could be launched. Only an ordinary row boat re­ mained. It was thrown over the side. By a rope it was held Fifteen men descended into the boat. near the ship.

They were about to unfasten the rope which held them to the Yorkshire and be away. “The Yorkshire” slipped smoothly into the sea. The row boat is still tied to it. Three of the 174

RED fifteen came up. Jimmy was one.

The Indians on this ship were also frantic with fright.

Some were put into nets on derricks and lifted aboard. One tumbled out. He fell between the ship and a life boat along side. The waves dashed the life boat against the ship. He died.

The survivors who had lost close friends and relatives made little outward show of their grief. They only sat star­ ing blankly into space saying nothing. Now and then a muffled sob. The lady who lost her four children couldn’t forget the baby she thought she had left to drown in the deep cold sea. She asked to use Hildegard’s knitting to get her mind off the haunting memory.

And now what to do with three hundred survivors aboard a small freighter big enough for forty passengers and crew. The weak Indians were given cots in the hold and they were determined not to give them up all the way back to Bordeaux. Hilclegard’s bed had been a chest of drawers. She gave this up to various survivors, including an English officer. They slept in shifts. Hildegard slept in the carpenter’s shop where lived two Siamese kittens who playfully walked over the sleepers' faces with padded paws.

A Spanish doctor slept with his shoes almost in I-Iiklegard’s hair. A distinguished French Viscount slept on the carpen­ ter^ bench surrounded with hammers and saws.

Because of the excitement people cared little to eat.

Soup and stew was served at first. Later only stew. Soup is hard to handle when one is standing on a ship deck with a wind blowing. The Indians went on a hunger strike when» they couldn’t have a boiled egg with each meal. Holding to their oriental religion, they would only wash in moving water. It made a queer sight to see the Indians gathered around, pouring water over the hands and faces of their companions.

The American passengers on the ^Independence Hall” joined in the work of taking care of the survivors whether they were English officers or poor Indians. This the class conscious English could not understand. But finally even they laid off their suuerior feeling and entered into the spirit of the occasion. An English colonel sweeping a kitchen floor is a rare sight.

On the way back to Prance the sorrowing English on board who had lost many dear ones heard the voice of Cham­ berlain from a radio loudspeaker, “We are glad to report that we have the submarine danger well in hand.” Many Englishmen were disgusted with the bungling of their navy.

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And so back to Bordeaux to waiting reporters and news cameras. Hildegard did her part for the news reels as she and a member of the crew hung out the washing. A roll of film she sold to the Associated Press for $5.00. Two of the pictures appeared in the Nov. 6 Chicago Tribune. The survivors were put ashore. The Indians would not part with their blankets and like children carried their tin cups given them during the journey along with pieces of rope and other trinkets—only possessions in a strange world cold and con­ fused.

After restocking in Bordeaux, the “Independence Hall” was again on its way to America. The passengers lived in suspense as they sailed through the danger zone but no more rescuing was necessary and the trip was a smooth one back to the States.

On Nov. 12 Miss Waliner returned to quiet Watertown on the peaceful Rock. And here now she knits and cooks nnd lives at home with her parents on Civilian street until begins the second semester at our State University where she to attend. Bon voyage, I-Iildegard.

ARROWS-DEER "You couldn’t hit a buck with an arrow if he walked right up to you.” “I couldn’t shoot one with a rifle. What chance have you with a bow?” “Bet you don’t even see one!” These, and similar encouraging1 remarks assailed four members of the N. W. C. Archery Club ere they set out, armed only with bow and arrow, for the woodlands just west of Poynette, several weeks ago.

These four enthusiasts were “Johnnie” Kobl, “Ed” Zell, “Happy” Herzberg and myself. Herzberg’s uncle and Kohl afforded us transportation to the hills. At Lodi, after inquiring about the whereabouts of deer, we were directed four miles north, to favorable hunting grounds. There we hunted all day, seeing more than a dozen deer. However, most of them were out of shooting range. The few that were at all near happened to be does.

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He had stationed himself on a deer trail, and after a chilly hour of inaction, he left his post to find out where all the deer, repu­ ted to infest the country, were keeping themselves. Twenty minutes later, another hunter (one of more than two dozen archers also hunting in the vicinity) met ‘‘Ed’’ and said that three deer ran down the trail ten minutes after “Ed” got up.

Zell almost tore out his hair.

During the hair-raising issue, Kohl and I were sneaking through the woods looking for action. Soon after we had separated, a doe came loping down the hill within forty yards of me. It’s illegal to shoot doe, so I simply stared at her till she disappeared among the scrub-oaks. I left, too, and began to clamber up the hillside to inspect the lay of the land. Half way up, a large “cottontail” streaked out from under my feet.

By the time I was ready to shoot, it must have been in the next county. A few minutes later, I chased up another rabbit, took a hasty shot, but missed him by a hair. The arrow disappeared into the thicket at the foot of the hill. (It must still be out there. Perhaps I’ll stumble across it next year.)

Several of the other archers in the neighborhood were also unable to get shots at deer, so they asked us to join them in “driving” the woods. We acceded, since they were well acquainted with the territory. Half the archers stationed themselves along one end of a wooded area, while the others filtered through, driving all game toward the receivers. The first drive brought a large buck into the open. It passed within fifty feet of a Madison archer who shot and missed, his arrow whizzing over within eight inches of the buck’s back. This was the closest shot anyone of our company had that day. Another drive stirred up nine doe, but no bucks. After a few more un­ fruitful drives, the day’s hunting hours were over, and four de­ jected archers returned to school.

But the urge to hunt the noble stag gripped our hearts so intensely that we were determined to revisit the hunting grounds near Lodi the following weekend. The day before we would have gone, Zell and I had the opportunity of getting a ride up to Mishicot, in Manitowoc County. Although this county was open for bow and arrow deer hunting, several college students from Manitowoc and its suburbs asserted that no deer 177

RED ever showed their faces around there. But we did see deer. In fact, some almost stepped on us, coming as close as thirty feet.

We hunted along Lake Michigan, two miles north of Two Rivers, on the property of Mr. Lodi, a fox rancher. He told us of all the deer (more than one hundred and fifty, privately raised, but turned loose at the government’s request) abounding in the wooded swamplands that stretch for seven miles along the lake. He accompanied us through the timber and even drove deer for us.

It was during one of these drives that Zell was seized with buck fever”. He was squatting on a ridge when a buck suddenly appeared before him, in between the trees, not more than thirty feet away. “Ed” was so surprised that he could but stare at his quarry, and when it began to amble off, he lifted his bow to release the fatal shaft. But he couldn’t draw back the bowstring! His muscles positively refused to comply.

Cold sweat dotted his brow and a chill ran down his spine — he had “buck fever!”（Of course, the buck got away.) Today he remarks that he’ll never laugh at anyone who gets ‘‘buck fever.”

Half an hour later, after we had stationed ourselves at points half a mile north of the ridge, Mr. Lodi drove several deer in our direction. I was crouched with one knee on the ground and had my bow all ready for action, when a deer hove in sight. It stopped 15 paces away and glanced back towards the denser woods. I strained my eyes hard, trying to find a pair of horns between its big ears, but there were no antlers.

I concluded that the deer was a doe. She turned about and gave me quizzical looks, before sensing my presence. Then she took off, disappearing with two great bounds in among the trees.

Shortly thereafter, a buck came crashing through the under­ brush like a cannonball. He was about forty yards away when I saw him charge past. That was the only buck I saw up there.

While we were hunting in Manitowoc county, “Happy:’ Herzberg was back in the hills near Poynette. He didn’t hit anything, but he had more luck than we. He remained in one spot most of the day and really had some shots at buck—five in all. The longest shot was about one hundred yards away, the nearest, thirty yards. The longer shots were pretty well out of accurate shooting distance, but the closer ones would have been effective, had no branches interfered. A huge buck was less than thirty yards away when Herzberg shot. But several branches deflected his arrow, causing a miss. “Happy” is still 178 c i

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The rest of us are just as determined to get our bucks in 1940. (Perhaps every hunter does say the same thing, but we know they won’t get away next year!) Yet, despite our ill-luck, we found hunting deer to be such a clean, healthy sport that our blood yearns for the next bow and arrow deer hunting season.

Armin Keibel OLYMPIAD F. E. P.

“No, Mrs. T., I could never do that. That’s poor busi­ ness etliics. I don’t even know if your son has a just case.” ^Perhaps if it became known—” “Oh, you wouldn’t do that.”

“I most certainly will. I’ll go down to the Times office and tell the whole story this minute.” And she picked up her hat and gloves, as if to go. .

“Just a moment Mrs. T. I’ll see what I can do about it.

You say tlie prize was unjustly taken from your son. Well, leave it to me. But don’t let this get out—especially not to Mrs. J.” Mr. J. escorts Mrs. T. to the door and is just mopping his brow in relief when he sees Mrs. J. coming up the walk.

“Jupe, what does this mean? What is this woman do­ ing in my house?一Don’t try to get out of it. I saw her leave the house.”

“Oh, it was nothing, June; just a matter of business.”

“Business? Nonsense. Up to your habits again of en­ tertaining old flames behind my back.”

"But, dear, I tell you, it’s—” “Hey, ma! pa! Come on and dress. "We’re going over to Uncle Neppie’s for dinner, you know.” It’s Sonny who lias just come home from school.

“Go on and don’t disturb us. Can’t you see we’re talk­ ing?”

But Sonny is insistent. Uncle Neppie always has such good meals. At length, Mrs. J., for Sonny’s sake, agrees to forget about the matter, at least for the time being. Perhaps her husband really was telling the truth; perhaps it was merely a matter of business; and after all, a man need not share his business secrets with liis wife.

And so they gather about Neptune’s board with the rest of the brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. The food is placed on the table, Hebe fills the glasses all around and once more there is peace for the ruler of gods and men.

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• Quite a number of alumni have accepted new calls. The following have been called to our attention: Armin Roekle，’36, to Manitowoc, Wis. George Barthels，’35, to Allen’ton，Wis. Erwin Scharf, ’28, to Flint, Michigan Carlton Toppe, ’34, to Bloomer, Wis. Roland Bretzmann, }33, to McIntosh, S. D. Orvin Sommers, ’36, to Calvary, Wis. John Martin, ’22, to Ypsilanti, Michigan Rev. Dudley Rhoda，，22, and Rev. F. Blume have accepted calls to the college. Both are expected to arrive in Watertown the week of November 19.

Rev. R. Wolf, of Cambridge, Wisconsin died on Nov. 12.

Prof. Winfred Schaller, ’11，and family, of Saginaw, atten­ ded the Homecoming celebration.

Gustav Krause, ’22, is the father of a baby girl.

The churches of Rev. Keibel, ’13，West Allis, Wisconsin, and Rev. Hillmer, ’13，Kenosha, Wisconsin celebrated their silver anniversaries on November 12.

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FOOTBALL Mission House 6 Northwestern 6 October 21â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Goslings travelled to Mission House to be guests on their Homecoming. We did not prove to be the most perfect guests, however, since we did not permit ourselves to be beaten.

We did the next best thing. We were tied. To say that the Mission House boys were out there fighting for the game would be still putting it quite mildly.

The Muskies kicked off to the Goslings and we were able to move the ball up to the fifty-yard line. A kick gave them the ball on their thirty-yard line. In seven plays they moved the ball across for a touchdown, featuring pass reception by Hodge.

The attempt at conversion failed and Mission House led by the score of 6-0 in the middle of the first quarter. The next two quarters it was a steady fight, with the Muskies keeping us quite within our own territory. And then in the middle of the fourth quarter Sauer broke loose from our twenty-yard line and was able to reach their twenty-yard line without mishap. After that a few thrusts through the line succeeded in sending G. Horn across from the two-yard line. The attempt at conversion failed and the score was tied. Mission House tried to come back but the game ended with the ball in their possession on our twenty-yard line. Their Homecoming was not quite a success.

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RED Mission House Northwestern LE Ley M. Horn Klaudt LT Habben Grether LG Hanke Rapp C Wiechmann Rammler RG Wadzinski Limberg RT Naumann Hodge RE Seehusen QB Pence Koehler Dunn LH Sauer Whiterabbit Grabner RH FB Grau G. Horn Substitutions for Northwestern: Spaude, P. Nolting, Danner, Birkholz, Leyrer, Zastrow.

Milton 7 Northwestern 2 October 28 — It was a night game. The lighting was poor and Milton kept us away from their goal line. That is why we lost.

Northwestern kicked off. On the first play Milton fumbled and we recovered on the thirty-yard line. Sauer took the ball to the seventeen-yard line, but then a fifteen-yard penalty threw us back. In the next four plays the penalty was regained but we lost the ball on downs. And then again Milton made a misplay. The pass from center went into the end-zone where it was downed and Northwestern scored two points on a safety.

At the opening of the second quarter Milton started a drive from the fifty-yard line that finally resulted in a touchdown.

The conversion was successful.

In the third quarter Northwestern struck pay dirt on Milton’s two-yard line, but lost the ball on downs. On the fourth down G. Horn hesitated a moment to make sure of having the ball in the poor light and by that time the hole in the line had closed. Our opportunity was not cashed in on.

With the loss of the game to Milton we lost all claim to conference championship for this year.

No line-ups were available.

Northwestern 12 Concordia 7 November 4—Our Homecoming Day! Our opponents were the boys from Concordia College, River Forest, Illinois. The best the pre-game dopesters could give us was an even break, with many not even willing to concede that. But they forgot some­ thing. In memoHo patrum Northwestern had never lost a Homecoming Day game. On that day our team is invincible.

This year could be no exception, and it was not.

The first half of the game was, as Coach Umnus termed it, “pansy play.” The teams were merely feeling each other out.

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RED to score. Concordia had the edge on us with the kicking of Zeddies.

The second half was opened with a return of the kickoff by Marc Hoan for thirty-five yards. The ball remained in Concor­ dia territory until late in the quarter when we got possession of it on the thirty-yard line. Then a series of running plays by Sauer put the ball on the opponents5 ten-yard line. A pass from Sauer to Marc Horn gave us a touchdown. The conversion failed.

Northwestern having found its stride, we opened the fourth quarter by a march, down the field with Leyrer doing the bulk of the ball carrying, and also passing to Paul Nolting for sub­ stantial gains. He scored from the three-yard line standing up.

Late in the fourth quarter Concordia blocked a punt on our three-yard line. From there it was an easy matter for them to score. They made the point after touchdown.

Concordia play was featured on the offensive by the running of Zeddies and on the defensive by the work of Leitz.

For Northwestern the whole team showed brilliant playing, but the five Seniors showd special sparkle. For Sauer, Marc Horn, Habben, Naumann and Wiechmann it was the last game for Northwestern and they used the opportunity to full advantage.

The line-ups: Concordia Northwestern Leschler LE M. Horn Kraemer LT Habben W. Krause LG Hanke Leitz C Wiechmann Gefeke Wadzinski RG Burger RT Naumann Wurthman RE Seehusen V. Krause QB Koehler Kahling RH Grabner Zeddies LH Sauer Socha FB G. Horn Substitutions for Northwestern: P. Nolting, Birkholz, Greve, Leyrer, Spaude.

Substitutions for Concordia: Stahlke, Krafft, Dornfeldt, Miller.

IN CLOSING The football season closed with the Homecoming Day game.

Final judgment can now be passed on the football activities for the year. The season can rightly be called a successful season since we won three games, tied three, and lost only one. Here are the scores for a quick check-up: 184

RED Extension 47-0 Seminary 13-0 Platteville Miners 6-6 Lawrence ‘ •尹rosh” 13-13 Mission House 6-6 Milton 2-7 Concordia 12-7

Not bad at all, eh?

In the conference we lost the championship by one game, the one against Milton. Here are the final conference stand­ ings: W

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At the banquet the night of Homecoming- recognition was made of individual players. This can safely be done after the season is over, but is always a risky thing to do during the season. But Coach Umnus gave each man his bit of praise and awards to those that merited them. Eighteen football players and their manager received letters. Five of those that received letters were Seniors, Marcus Horn, end, Albrecht Habben and Fritz Naumann, tackles, Ray Wiechmann, center, and Harold Sauer, halfback. Their loss will be keenly felt since each man was the first-string man in his position. Delmar C. Brick, also a Senior, received a letter for his work as manager. Then there are the thirteen others who were awarded N’s who will make up the nucleus of the squad next year, Hanke, guard, Grabner, halfback, Koehler and Birkholz, quarterbacks, Leyrer, halfback, Wadzinski and Spaude, guards, Greve, tackle, Seehusen, and P. Nolting, ends, Staffeil and G. Horn, fullbacks, and Zastrow, center.

Hats off to the boys. They did this year’s job well.

BASKETBALL Coach Umnus began basketball practice on November 20.

Thirty candidates for the team appeared. It is too early, how­ ever, to predict what the team will look like and what success it will have. Suffice it to say that Coach Umnus usually produces a successful team. He developed several good prospects last year who should really show their worth this year. Other­ wise all we can give you on the basketball situation is the schedule.

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Campus and Classroom Football with its attendant excitements—homecoming, pep meetings, losses and victories — is history now and once again school life has settled down to that semi-settled status called “normal.” Our pigskin heroes have now become easy-chair reminiscers and as they contentedly puff their long-denied cigarettes and pipes they look back on a season of mixed victory and defeat. They’re pretty well satisfied with themselves at that, though, because as Habben would put it, ‘‘I can truthfully venture to state, announce, and publicly proclaim without fear of contradiction that we, members of N. W. C. football team, did on the afternoon of November 4 decisively defeat our worthy opponents, Concordia Teachers College of River Forest, by the attractive score of 12-7.” Well done, fellows; you have my permission to smoke.

My toil and strife and all I do Has this one redeeming feature That when I’m done and years have passed I’ll some day be a preacher.

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Society Corner Would you like to take your place in society? Would you like to be popular, well liked, and sought after? For those who would, and Pm sure you’re all with me in this, Dr. Tek Neek has consented to give our many readers some advice on how to become the idol of femininity.

To be a good conversationalist is a prime requisite, so I will devote my space to the furthering of the art. The gentleman must always have some fitting, well-chosen remark at the end of his tongue ready to fill in any gaps in the conversation that might occur during the evening：. When calling for his ladyfriend he might say, “Hi ja, toots. Ya sure look swell tonight.

Must be the skirt youse got on. Where did ya ever pick up them nifty glad-rags? How much did ya put up for that outfit?”

This should serve to break the ice for the present and put the girl at her ease, opening vast fields of conversational material. Food is always an interesting: topic. The following： stichomythy might ensue between two intelligent people. The male begins: “Do you like carrots?”

“Yes.” Do you like peas?”

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“Yes.” "Do you like beans?”

"Yes.，， “Do you like beef broth?”

‘•Yes.，， “Do you like tomatoes?”

“Yes.”

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“Well, then you like vegetable soup.”

Mutual interests should be cultivated by discussing things which the couple have in common. Such casual remarks as: ‘‘Did youse see them new detective books they got down at the drug store? You ain’t? I read five pounds of them magazines in bed last night” will stamp the gentleman as a man of letters appreciative of the higher things of life.

The cinema also is a fruitful field. One might ask, ‘‘Did you see 'Rope ’em Jack’ Sagebrush in that magnificent produc­ tion, “The End of the Trail” or “Why the Horse Stopped’’？ Really you must see it. He’s just too cute. I mean he’s cute.1* Little things like that distinguish you as one who knows a little of the finer things in life and will make your company the kind that is sought after by the intelligent girl.

New popular song dedicated to late comer-inners: ‘‘I didn’t know what time it was.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of one Jack Jackson last seen on Homecoming night report to Tutor Marcus Schwartz.

Last night as I was goin up the stair I saw a little man who wasn’t there; He wasn’t there again today.

‘Cause Bradtke’s gone far, far-away.

Yes, little Mickey’s gone away to camp Farewell to books and study lamp.

His clarinet is with him too So Mickey won’t get very blue.

Stephen Haboush, lecturer from the Holy Land, was the second in a series of entertainments presented in the gymna­ sium. Mr. Haboush, who spent many years as a shepherd in Palestine, presented some fine colored moving pictures, the filming of which is said to have cost $60,000. An unusually large audience was on hand to see the pictures and to hear the interesting lecture.

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Willy’s mother at the funeral Said to Mrs. Brown ’Twas a chilly day for Willy When the mercury went down.

The archery boys have organized a club whoso purpose is to further the interests of that noble sport here at N. W. C. Armin Keibel was elected president, Ardin Laper, vice president, and John Kohl, secretary. Headquarters for the organization is a comfortable club room in the gymnasium. Dues are collected which will be used to furnish the clubroom and for incidental expenses. With the formation of the club, archery seems to have become a permanent part of our athletic program. Several of the boys have trieH their luck at deer hunting： with bow and arrow, but were not fortunate enough to bag any big game.

Our Male Chorus has been showing steady progress so far this year. The first appearance was at the Homecoming banquet at which they sang **Dear Land of Home” from Sebelius' **Finlandia” and several football songrs. The boys are practicing hard now in preparation for the proposed Spring1 Tour, the itinerary of which has not yet been determined. Prof. Bolle has arranged a beautiful program of Chorales and sacred concert music and with the assistance of Ray Wiechmann, student director, hopes to produce an excellent concert.

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., December 1939

Entered at the Posioftice at Watertown, March 3. 1870. Published monthly. Sul

Number 7

ris.. as second class matter under Act of ription. One Dollar.

THE SHEPHERDS Rulph Goede]

The shepherds on the lawn, Or ere the point of dawn Sat simply chatting in a rustic row.

When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet As never was by mortal strook. — Milton “Petrus, is not this a wonderful night? The stars are shining so brilliantly.”

“Yea, Abraham, indeed, this is a wonderful night, and the stars shine as if angelic hosts had heard some great news and their eyes were sparkling with joy.” ‘‘乂 pretty picture you have painted, Petrus. Have you not­ iced how quiet our sheep are tonight?’’ So spake the shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night.

“Petrus, look, behold what a marvel is this. The stars 190

RED have joined together into one brilliant light, and I can hardly see, for the brightness,” “The angel of the Lord has come upon us and glory of the Lord shines round about us. Oh, Abraham, I am afraid. Lo, it is an angel, and he speaks.’’：一Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger— —.

“Praise be to the Lord of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is as though.all the hosts of Heaven have joined to­ gether. Hark, hear the melodious anthem they sing: ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men.’

Hark, how their hallelujahs ring.

“The gates of heaven have closed and there remains but a star, a star that shines with the brightness of a thousand fires.

Come, let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us•” The shepherds hasten to the little town of Bethlehem, led by the brilliant star. And there they find Mary, and Joseph and the Babe, lying in the manger. And they make known abroad the saying which was told them by the angels.

“Petrus, the Messiah has come, for did not Isaiah speak the words that the child should be of a virgin born. And again, that he should be born of the house of David. And Amos also spoke the word.”

“Yea, and did not Micah say the child should be born in Bethlehem Ephrata? Behold these things have come to pass.

This is of a truth the promised Messiah, the Savior. How can anyone doubt it, when the prophets have foretold it, and angelic hosts have told us so tonight.”

“Yea, Petrus, who can doubt it, he is in truth the Son of God.” MOTHER WAS INTUITIVE R. J. P.

To begin with, Colonel George Masterson was in a ruffled mood when he sat down to read his newspaper. He was mutter­ ing in a subdued, gruff way as he tried to find something to divert himself with. He was just subsiding when his eyes came to a sudden stop at the caption: 191

RED MATTHEW RANDEL ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT TO CHRISTIE MASTERSON POPULAR CLUBMAN PROCLAIMS DEC. 27 AS DATE FOR WEDDING WITH POST-DEB DAUGHTER OF COL. MASTERSON

“Why of all the confound nerve!” exploded the Colonel.

"Does he think he can force the issue this way. I’ll put a stop to this foolishness yet.”

Sputtering and growing more violent he crossed the room, entered the hall, mounted a carpeted staircase to the second floor, and walked towards a door. Whereupon, without knock­ ing, he burst gasping into the room.

“Here now, he began, “what does this mean? Since when—have I given—my consent? I’ll not have my—daughter —marrying that—good-for-nothing son of a good-for-nothing.

Now see here, Christie—.”

The girl to whom all this was addressed had been siting on a small ottoman before the window. She now rose and broke in impatiently.

“Oh, father, let’s not go through that again. You know what my mind is, and nothing you can say can influence me.

Besides, I’m of age now, and furthermore, you’ve no right to keep me here.”

“Christie! Is that a way for a girl to talk to her father?

Why when I was a young man—’’ “George!” Mrs. Masterson, a middle-aged woman of the same height as Christie, entered the room, having been drawn by the sound of loud voices. “George,” she continued, ‘‘now don't excite Christie. She’s not had much sleep this last week.”

“Sleep!” echoed the Colonel, “Sleep! Why, I got more sleep in the service under shell fire. So she isn’t getting any sleep. How about me?’’ he cried, throwing up his hands.

He stooped and picked up the newspaper which he had discarded in his excitement.

“Look here, Harriet.” He held the paper before his wife’s eyes, meanwhile slapping the offending article emphatically with the back of his hand.

Mrs. Masterson read, then questioned her daughter anx­ iously.

“Christie, did you agree on this date?”

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RED Christie hated to hurt her mother, but she felt both parents were being unreasonable.

“Well,” she faltered, ‘‘I—I didn’t agree in so many words, but it’s understood. So if the 27th is all right with Matt, it’s all right with me.”

"But it isn’t all right with me.” bellowed the Colonel.

“Well, I don’t care.” ‘ ‘What! Now see here—. ’ ’ “Oh, father, be quiet,” was Christie’s impatient retort.

Mrs. Masterson now took the Colonel by the arm.

“George, now don’t excite yourself so. Let me handle this. Go out for a walk or do something. Please.”

“Well, all right, Harriet. But I’m afraid your taking the wrong course in the matter.”

As he crossed the threshold, he cast a parting shot at Christie.

"I’m going to put on heavy boots, so I can jump on that young man if I meet him.

“And I hope you break your leg doing it,” she shouted down the hall after him. Then she sat down on the edge of the bed with her mother. Putting her arm about her mother’s neck, she spoke wistfully.

“Mother, why must Dad be so obstinate and unreasoning?”

“You musn*t accuse him so. You know, I don’t approve either.”

“Yes, I know. But you’re more understanding.”

“That’s true. And I hope that you’ll understand soon, too.”

“I can’t see how you can say that. Look, there he is down there by the lamp post waiting for some sign from me. What more could I want.”

Mrs. Masterson crossed the room to look out of the window.

There gazing up at the window was an individual flashily dressed, propped indolently against the lamp post. He started to toss a kiss, but checked himself, seeing that it was another who looked out of the window. All of a sudden he straightened up, and rapidly walked away. A second later Col. Masterson appeared, striding down the drive, swinging a stick with a large gold head.

Mr. Matthew Randel walked briskly until he came to the Ambassador Lounge. Entering he immediately sought the 193

RED circle of men breakfasting in a corner. Calls of “，Mornin，， Matt” and “Hello, Romeo” greeted him. He, however, addressed himself principally to the man at the head of the table, “Count” Johnny Tubeck. He was a short bulky person, with a spike haircut. When not eating, he wore a thick, brown cigar.

“Good morning, Count.” He affected amiability.

‘•Good morning. Well, how did the old boy take the an­ nouncement?’’ ‘‘Well, he didn’t speak to me personally. But I rather think he’ll give in after the surprise is over. What can he do, but that? We’re forcing his hand. By the way, how about a couple hundred?’’ ‘‘A couple of hundred! What do you do with all the money I give you? Paper your apartment? Enough money’s been spent already. Besides, how do we know we’re gettin’ it bacR? And when?”

Don’t get worried. After the marriage I’ll have plenty.

As for expenses, how do you expect me to look the wealthy bachelor without a good allowance?

"All right, all right, but you better get this affair over pretty snappy. Here’s a hundred and fifty. That’s all I got right now. Now, here，s the layout. On the 27th Christie must go to a Red Cross meeting to go over accounts. Jerry here will get a taxicab and you’ll both go over to the Winchester.

Christie and her mother will be about the last ones out. So it’ll be comparatively easy. To drive up with a cab and pick up only Christie will be simple. In that way the marriage will be on the 27th. You’ll go early too, because in case you meet Christie alone in the hotel, it’ll be still simpler.—” 4 «

In the Crystal Room of the Winchester Mrs. Masterson sat alone upon a settee. Behind the settee, along the east end of the room was a colonnaded hall which had the effect of a porch.

This was separated from the main room by luxuriant impene­ trable foliage.

Mrs. Masterson was checking over her Red Cross Contribu­ tion list when voices floated over from the other side of the foliage. Evidently someone was sitting upon the other side: “How’s this place, Matt?”

“Fine. They won’t be ready for an hour yet.” Mrs. 194

RED Masterson could hardly have missed recognizing the precise confident tone of the latter as that of Matthew Randel.

"Well, Matt, so you’re planning on today as your wedding day?”

“Yup, Jerry. About two hours and it’ll be all fixed.”

"Do you think you’re gonna like being married?M Randel laughed heartily: ‘ ‘You don’t think this is for long, do you?”

At this point in the conversation Mrs. Masterson observed Christie approaching her across the floor. She realized she was faced with the problem of deciding whether Christie should know that Randel was near, or not. Quickly she decided that she must take the chance of the conversation continuing in the same vein. She arose.

• “Christie, will you check over my list for me. I must go over and speak to Mrs. Clairenton. Sit right down there.” ‘‘All right, mother. But I’ll take it along with me.”

“No, sit here. Then I’ll know where you are.”

She sat down, and was quickly aware of the voices beyond the foliage. If Mrs. Masterson recognized the voice of Matthew Randel quickly, Christie did more quickly. She, her faced flushed and gleamed with pleasant surprise, was about to call to him, when his speech to his companion arrested her.

“You know, Jerry, you musn’t take all this romantic busidess so seriously. It’s all right for the newspaper and girls.

With us -you and me -it’s all business. This girl has money, see? And her old man has more.”

‘•Are you sure you’ll get some of it, though?’’

“It’s a cinch. Here’s where I’ll let you in on another secret. I’m going to take care of you, so don’t spill it. The “Count” thinks he’s to get half of what I get, but he won’t, see? I do all the work and then he wants a 50% share. I’ll pay him back his money and call it square.”

"Say, but he’ll be sore, won’t he?’’

"Sure, but he’ll cool off. Besides I should have Col. Masterson^ protection by then; I’ll be his son-in-law. After that I can take a setttement and drop the girl. Well, say, we better be going out in front. It’s getting late.”

Mrs. Masterson was pleased to note, upon returning, that Christie was still seated there.

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RED “Could you understand it, Christie? I had the items a little jumbled.

She looked up at her mother and, you might say, deep spoke to deep. ‘‘Yes, I understand. Now, if you are ready, we’ll hand in the lists and go home.”

CHRISTMAS EVE FORTY YEARS AGO A. Keibel

Every Yuletide is happily anticipated by young and old.

Youngsters especially look forward to Christmas vacation with its outdoor play, unexpected joys and — Christmas eve. Our elders share much of their children’s enthusiasm, enjoying best of all Christmas Eve services. They attend these services be­ cause they delight to hear little ones recite “pieces” and sing those beautiful carols they themselves sang many years ago.

They also like to tell us about the fun they, as children, ex­ perienced on the occasion. The matter bears looking into; so, if you’ll kindly join me, we’ll hie us back to our parent’s child­ hood.

It is December 24—just at the turn of the century. Let us journey twenty-five miles northwest of Milwaukee to the commu­ nity of one of the oldest Lutheran settlements of Wisconsin.

The first Lutherans viame there in 1843 and founded a congregation, building a sturdy church atop one of the high hills in that territory. We have arrived at the home of the daughter of one of the founders three miles from church. She, her hus­ band and six children had been active for several weeks pre­ paring for the Christmas holidays — both boys helping father about his farm and repairing the ‘‘bob’’ sleigh; mother and her four daughters baking fruit cakes and cookies.

The pantry’s well larded with “Pfeffeniuesse，’’ small milk cans full of “Klotternuesse” (pardon me, but that’s what they’re called; they’re delicious little cookies made according to a recipe brought from old Germany) and “Stollen.” Six pairs of polished shoes are lined up behind the dining room stove. As the children get dressed they like to talk about the mysterious “goings-on” in that locked north bedroom during the night.

The youngsters had been looking forward to Christmas Eve 196

RED for months, and now they are all excited about the event arrived. In fact, they leave alyeady at three o’clock (three hours before services). There is just enough snow on the ground to warrant the use of the sleigh, but the children can’t wait for the folks to drive. Fearing they might arrive too late, they leave on foot, all bundled up and beaming with happiness.

They take a short cut through the woods and reach the schoolhouse two hours early. The two-hour wait in the school is a celebration in itself. Other children, also eager with anticipa­ tion, come early, too, many of them bringing apples for the teacher. Today is the teacher’s birthday, so his desk is well­ laden with apples by five o’clock. As he enters the classroom his stern features light up with a smile at the sight before him.

If any of the children were thinking what effect the kind deed might have upon the new school year, they are disillusioned by the teacher’s words. ‘‘Now don’t think, just because you brought these, I’ll let you get away with anything next year!’’

Evidently he practices no favoritism, for the children seem to realize he means every word he says. As it grows darker out­ side, everyone grows more anxious. At five minutes to six everybody is lined up. At six o’clock the church bells begin to toll out into the night and the boys and girls file over to church, guided by the light of the stained church windows. Their hearts are swelling to the bursting point as they cross the threshold, march down the aisle and take their seats in front of the congregation.

After the pastor’s sermon, the school children take their places before the altar and beside the huge Christmas tree lighted up by twelve-inch white candles. They face their parents and relatives to recite and sing for an hour and a half.

Look! One of the girls has fainted!—too much excitement, per­ haps, or too many Christmas cookies, or both (to stand for an hour and a half is no trifle). But she soon recovers and sits attentively in one of the pews as the program continues. The beautiful melodies of "Stille Nacht,” “Ihr Kinderlein Kommet，” and “Vom Himmel Hoch” resound to the rafters and touch our hearts. One song (without which the service would not be complete), “Den die Hirten Lob ten Sehre，” sung by twelve boys and the responsive congregation, stirs us profoundly. The program is almost over and the songsters take 197

RED their seats for the climax of the service — the distribution of gifts. Two of the elders bring out several large washbaskets from behind the pulpit and from them pass books and bags of candy and nuts to each of the children. This concludes the Christmas Eve service.

To the tune of “0 Tannenbaum，” played by the church band (as only it can play it), we are ushered out into the night.

We are startled by the magic of a billion stars suddenly appear­ ing in the clear heavens — like silver dust sprinkled upon black velvet. All around we see torches being lit up so that the families may find their way to the nearby stall where horse and sleigh have patiently waited all this while. We follow father and mother to their own stall and watch the children jump into • the back of the sleigh, snuggle up in the hay under the buffalo robe. Besides the ring of the snow crunching under the runners, the children fill the night air with Christmas songs they sang in church, keeping- time with the bells on the harness. They are all very happy and anxious to get home to see what prizes await them under the Christmas tree. The music of the youngsters and the tinkling of the bells softly fade away as the sleigh vanishes around a curve beyond the woods.

I PLAYED THE CLARINET T. P. B.

‘‘There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music;” so I believe Browning wrote. Music definitely plays an important part in the life of every human being. “Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts— —as the one which, So somemore than any other, ministers to human welfare, one once expressed his ideas on the greatest of all arts.

The piano usually is the instrument with which one tries to gain an entrance into the great realm of music. But I started with the organ because I was supposed to become a pipeorganist. But then, how did I get on this “career”？ My brother and sisters had been practicing their scales for a num­ ber of years. At first I couldn't understand what they were doing or trying to do, but finally I realized they were taking "music lessons.” I was sore; why couldn’t I take lessons.

Call it envy, jealousy, or what have you. So by hook and crook 198

RED I learned how to play the key of C Major. I was now set for my debut. My sisters and brothers had completed their weekly ordeal. So I ran to the organ and sat down, rattled off my scale, my entire repertoire, and yelled, “I want to take music lessons.” My future was determined. At the age of six I had sold my soul to the great god, Music. For six years I worked at the organ, but I did have a few difficulties. My feet couldn’t reach the pedals, but after much deliberation I developed a chair that allowed me to reach both the manuals and the pedals at the same time. Then I did’nt like to wear shoes so I simply took them off. Oh yes, practicing; “What’s worth doing is worth doing well”，so I practiced whenever I was supposed to do some.thing else. When I was getting- along quite well and Bach was giving me an interesting time I just quit playing the organ, not gradually, but all at once.

I went to Northwestern and my roommates played the clarinet. The organ was forgotten. All I hoped and prayed for was a clarinet. Finally I did get one. What a treat — my first squeak. Not that I applied myself any too diligently at first, but finally the bug got me; from then on nothing stopped me. All my spare time was devoted to the clarinet, time that still could be used, say, to study. Since I didn’t have an in­ structor, everything had to be obtained the hard way, but it didn’t seem to be difficult. Three hours a day isn’t too much even now to spend on rehearsing, “Time has no divisions to mark its passage.” Six hours a day in vacation was just so much fun, but then the lack of an instructor in my field is some­ thing hard to overcome. Practicing for hours, months on one mouth position, then a change to find faults with the other po­ sition, or its good points. Always striving for something that couldn’t be proved. Hearing a great clarinet soloist, imitating his intonation, his phrasing and still far from being even a fair player. Well, one finally does reach a certain goal.

Then one also has to contend with one’s roommates. Some­ how, they didn’t appreciate my rehearsals. Many a time I in­ stituted a one man hunt for my “sliver of grenadilla wood.”

But whatever unpleasant mood one is in, the clarinet will dispel it. First of all, it demands absolute coordination of mind and muscles. If the muscles in the fingers act the way they want to, an awful blurp is produced, not beautiful, but ugly.

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RED Moderns make great use of the clarinet both in classical and popular music. The clarinet still hasn’t been given its proper place. It still is treated as a novelty instrument by some.

Still, over it all lurks the pipe-organ — maybe.

SANTA CLAUS COMES TO THE BLAICES L. J. K.

Icy winds swept through the bustling- streets of Lynapolis.

The evergreen garlands, suspended from the lamp post, swung precariously over the hurrying throng. Among the crowd were two poorly dressed children, Jimmy and Junior Blake, gazing at old Santa Claus, who was beaming through one of the depart­ ment store windows.

“Do you think mother would let us go down and see him to­ morrow spoke Junior, drawing his thin coat more tightly around his neck.

"We have no money to buy anything,” sadly replied the other. “You know mother said that Santa wouldn’t stop at our house this year.’’

“But they are giving away free candy, and we can at least pretend we will get the things we ask for. Perhaps if we ask again mother will let us go.”

Leaving the window, they trudged through the streets and soon reached their home in the tenement section of the city.

Bounding up the steps they came upon their mother sitting wearily in a chair, a hand covering reddened eyes. A pile of finely mended garments spoke volumes, for fine mending had been the only means of supporting her little family since her husband’s death.

“Mother, are you still working? I thought you promised us you wouldn’t do any more mending this afternoon. You know how sore your eyes always get,” said Junior, climbing into her lap. ‘‘I thought that by finishing a few more pieces I could earn enough to buy a few toys for you,” she said, stroking his curly hair, “but my eyes just don’t seem to stand the strain. I should have been made of sterner stuff, but it seems I just can’t accus­ tom myself to hard work and poverty.’’ ‘‘Weren，t we always poor?’’ piped up Junior from the floor.

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RED •‘Why no, I haven’t ever mentioned this to you before, but your grandfather owns the largest department store in the city.

Why are we living here? My dear children, that is a long story, and I fear you，re too young to really understand.”

“0, please tell us, mother,” pleaded Jimmy, snuggling up in her lap.

44Well, it all happened one summer, the year I graduated from finishing school. One afternoon I went to our department store to pick up a gift for a friend of mine. While entering the store I slipped and clumsily sprawled on the floor. A clerk helped me to my feet and when I glanced up I was looking at the face of the handsomest and kindest man I had ever seen.

We were attracted to one another immediately and thereafter I spent much time around his counter. By the end of summer we were seeing much of each other. When father heard of it, he was furious and demanded that I stop seeing him because, although he was an ambitious young fellow, nevertheless his family was poor. But I continued seeing him and before long I promised to marry him. Father was highly enraged and threatened to disinherit me and remove John from his job at the department store. But we were deeply in love with each other and so we were married. True to his word, father fired John and disinherited me. We moved to New York and soon John found employment. The next years passed swiftly and we were so happy that it seemed like a veritable heaven. But then evil fortune caught up with us. Soon after you were born, Junior, your father caught a cold. This developed into pneumo­ nia and soon he—he died. After the funeral expenses were paid we had little money left. Vainly I tramped the streets looking for a job, but everywhere I applied I met with the same answer.

Finally I became desperate and moved back to my home town but pride hindered me from asking my father for forgiveness, and so, here we are today. Well, you children had better wash your hands and get ready for supper.”

“Mother, can we go and see Santa Claus tomorrow?’， “Perhaps，if you’ll be good.”

Two shivering girls entered the Anderson department store in which they were clerks.

“Look, old J. B. is here already, getting into his Santa togs. If I owned this department store you wouldn’t catch me 201

RED playing Santa Claus and let a bunch of kids scramble all over me.”

"Oh, I guess he visualizes himself as another Andrew Car­ negie when he tosses out the coins to the little kids. Since he disinherited his daughter he hasn’t any use for his money any­ way,^ replied the other, dexterously crimsoning his lips. ‘‘Say, I hear he’s ready to forgive, but he can’t locate the place where she is staying. Sometimes I feel a bit sorry for the old codger. Look at him, getting all ready for the little kids.”

J. B. Anderson was just now sitting down on his cottonbattened throne. Already children were thronging around him.

In true Santa style, he took one of them on his knee and said, ‘‘And how about you, young fellow, have you been a good boy this year? You have! Well, what do you want old Santa Claus to put in your stocking? Yon won’t be getting anything for Christ­ mas because your daddy died? Well, that’s too bad. What was your daddy’s name? John Blake, did you say!” He pressed the little boy close to him for a minute. Then he hastily arose and with two bewildered little boys clinging to either hand he went into the office marked “Private.”

Santa Claus visited the Blakes that Christmas.

THE MYTHOLOGICAL IN HAWTHORNE F. E. Peterson

All writers of any pretensions, and especially poets, make use of mythology to illuminate their expressed ideas and to lend their works a tinge of erudition.

The obscure, mystic, and unnatural character of the myth would appeal to a mystic and mythic writer like Hawthorne.

It adds to the mysterious and exotic nature of the stories and novels he wrote.

In his “Wonder Book’’ and ‘‘Tanglewood Tales’’ Hawthorne plucks little anecdotes like the search for the Golden Fleece, Pandora’s curiosity, Theseus’ fortitude, and Bellerophon’s despatching of the Chimaera, — he plucks, I say, these whole from Grecian mythology, mixes them with the fruits of his imagination and strains the whole through the colander of his genius to make it palatable for younger children.

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She is strangely unlike normal children.

But I am interested not so much in these sides of the my­ thological in Hawthorne as in the purely allusive. His allusions, thoJ the tone of his novels as a whole is rather sober than merry, deal pre-eminently with the lighter side. References to Arca­ dia, Bacchus, nymphs, naiads, Pan, and their like are the most numerous. Most of the references are very simple, being used merely in descriptions and in the form of comparisons. Ex­ amples of allegorical or strictly figurative use are rather scanty.

But now to the allusions themselves. In the first chapter of “Marble Faun” there are mentioned various sculptures of Amazons, of Apollo, of Juno, of fauns and satyrs. We all know who Apollo and Juno are, but perhaps I had better describe the other figures. The Amazons are a tribe of warlike women, socalled because they were minus their right breast to give their fighting arm maximum freedom of movement. The fauns and satyrs were the followers of Pan, had the legs, ears, tail, and short horns of goats, and were represented as playing the pipe or timbrel. Their chief, Silenus, was Bacchus’ fosterfather. The fountain in the courtyard of Miriam’s boarding­ house was adorned with a naiad’s urn. The naiads, one group of the nature-loving nymphs, were the presiding spirits of fresh water.

The description of Miriam’s and Donatello’s visit to the Villa Borghese gardens abounds with references to dryads (tree-nymphs), nymphs in general, fauns satyrs, Pan, and Bacchus. Bacchus we know, and Pan is the hairy, bearded, goat-eared and -hooved god of flocks, shepherds, and nature.

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I may as well recount here the other references to the charac­ ters I have already mentioned. Donatello’s wine is compared to that pressed by Bacchus in the eternal springtime of the Golden Age. There is Donatello’s fountain of the nude nymph from whom he was supposed to be descended. The inhabitants of Monte Beni, Donatello’s estate,. because of the ease and sylvan nature of their life, are compared to Bacchus and the fauns, who both dwelt in Arcadia, a mythical land of languor and delight, peace and contentment. Donatello and Miriam are later in the story referred to as satyr and nymph. In the “Romance” Coverdale calls Blithedale Arcadia. And Pearl in the “Scarlet Letter”，when she adorns her head with flowers is compared with nymph or infant dryad.

The swineherds along the Roman via are compared with the Parcae. Parcae is another name for the three fates, Clotho, who spins, Lachesis, who measures, and Atropos, who cuts off the thread of life. Perhaps the punctum comparationis is the dark and unkempt apparel and solemn, brooding appearance, tho’ all artists don’t depict all three fates that way.

The author compares houses that have for centuries with­ stood the blasts of time to the Sibyl who obtained the “grievous boon of immortality”. The allusion is most likely to the Cumaean Sibyl, whom Apollo’s love rewarded with a life of as many years as he could hold grains of sand in her hand. But like Aurora when she obtained immortality for her mortal lover, Tithonus, she forgot to ask for eternal youth, so she soon withered away to almost nothing.

When Kenyon went to the scene of an excavation in the Campagna, a calf followed him. Hawthorne likens this to the heifer that Cadmus, at the bidding of Apollo, followed to the site upon which he was to build his city of Thebes. The comparison here is slight.

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RED mance，” because of the apparent hopelessness of her situation and because of the resignation with which she accepts her lot (indeed she is very happy), is compared to that of the maiden exposed to a dragon. Hawthorne perhaps had in mind Andro­ meda, who was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster to appease Neptune, aroused by the vanity of the girl’s mother. She had boasted she was more beautiful than the Nereids.

Again Priscilla. She has a buoyancy like that of Atalanta, the Mercury-footed Greek damsel who could be defeated in a footrace only by a ruse, an appeal to woman’s partiality toward beautiful and glittering things. Hippomenes defeated her by tossing three golden apples along the race-track, which she then turned aside to pick up.

The Veiled Lady, whom none has seen, is imagined to have snaky locks like Medusa’s and one great red eye in her forhead.

Medusa was one of three serpent-tressed, brazen-clawed, winged sisters of petrifying glance who were called Gorgons.

Her head now adorns the aegis of Pallas Athena. The one eye was possessed by a race of giants called the Cyclopes, who figure rather prominently in Greek mythology.

“Hollingsworth wrought like a Titan.” There were twelve of these children of Gaea and Uranus, one of whom, Cronus, was the father, and Rhea, the mother of Jupiter. In Jupiter’s revolution against his father, a usurper, the other Titans aided their brother and in the course of the struggle heaped one mountain upon another in a vain attempt to down the forces to Jupiter. Perhaps this the example of Herculean labor the author had in mind in this comparison.

In a paragraph on intuition, or sixth sense, Hawthorne re­ fers to it as “this Cassandra of the inward depths”. This approaches what I referred to as an allegorical allusion. But the allusion seems a little awry, unless taken very shallowly. My­ thology describes this daughter of the Trojan king, Priam, as a prophetess whose prophecies of evil were always true, but never believed. Not even Hawthorne could have imagined this to be true of our intuition. Or isn’t this a mythological figure?

Another example of a similar allusion is the expression ‘‘Orphic wisdom’’. In the connexion in which Hawthorne uses it, it is evident that he intends it to mean the gift of prophecy.

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Orpheus is more commonly known as a mythical bard or divine musician, who could move even trees and rocks with his ethereal melodies.

In speaking of Westervelt’s mystic power of magic, our author says it is bounded on one side by Tartarus. This was the hypochtonic abode of the dead and the allusion is to the un­ earthly and far reaching power of Westervelfs personality.

When Coverdale approaches the masqueraders in the woods, the lady accoutred as Diana threatens to change him into a stag as she did Actaeon. It seems that Actaeon, while hunting one day, spied upon Diana in her bath and for his rash deed was punished by the chaste virgin with being turned into a stag, which his hounds then killed. In a playful mood the motley assemblage chased Coverdale like, says Hawthorne, a mad poet chased by chimaeras. The Chimaera was a firebreathing, trimorphic monster, head of lion, body of goat, and tail of serpent, that inhabited Lycia and was slain by Bellerophon. I do not know the source of the allusion to a mad poet.

In the “Scarlet Letter” Chillingworth, in the guise of a doctor, visits Hester in prison, where he says ‘‘I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe’’. The first is one of the rivers sur­ rounding Hades, a draught of which removed all memory of his past life from a newcomer to the realm. Nepenthe is merely a Grecian epithet for an analgesic.

Pearl, an incommunicative child, is likened unto a man sowing dragons’ teeth, whence sprang armed enemies for him to fight. Ia mythology, Jason, of the Golden Fleece expedition, was obliged, as one of the conditions of gaining the fleece, to sow fifty dragons’ teeth, from which sprang as many armed warriors, whom he cleverly slew. The auther used the ex­ pression as a figurative way of saying, that wherever Pearl went she aroused animosity against herself.

The Rev. Mr. Blackstone is described as half-mythological, riding on a bull’s back. There may be an allusion here to Europa who was spirited away from her homeland in Phoenicia to Crete

by Zeus in the form of a bull. But if so, I don’t know what the comparison is.

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RED may be said to be made to the mythology of another land is the one in which Gov. Bellingham’s mansion is declared brilliant as Aladdin’s palace. Many perhaps do not classify Aladdin amongmythological figures, but I am inclined to describe the marvel­ ous tales told of him as at least semi-mythologicial.

PERMONITIONS FER A DAHKY OVER NEW YEAR’S WEEK

by Mosc Black

Deahly belubbed, an，dem whad is gwine to be in dese diggin’s endurin’ ob de New Year’s week, it behoof me ter lay down a few p’rambles an’ permonitions fo* yo’r gidances.

Firstly — De debbil am purty foxy in he ole age. He maik hisse’f up in fine puppel an，sto’ close. He know a niggah’s weakness, an’ temp him ter git whad moughty ap，ter to be a misfit. When de debbil cum down de pike, ax him ter git yo’ de countysign, an，if he say sumfin，sof’ and winnin’，jes，tell him ter go ‘way back whar he cum fum. Many a niggah got hisself inter striped garments tryin’ to argufy wid de debbil.

Secon’ly —Doan’ toas’ yo’r shins roun， sum uddah man’s hotbox, tryin7 to get yer blood wahm. Many a niggah got knockout drops settin，roundJ doin, nuffin. Dar am nuffin, so good fo’ wahmin, de blood as makin’ a grindstone go roun lively, or lay in’ de ax ter de root ob de tree. 亇’ree times—Yo* hab heerd it sed not to glue yo’r eye on de bottle; but I say ter yo’，doan’ stop when yo’re passin’ by a chickenroos’. Sum how a chicken doan* hang on ter de roos’ when a niggah gwine by at de snail’s gallop. De trackshun ob de grabit-tashun effec’ a chicken berry sudden lack when a niggah slow up whar he is.

Fouthly—Ebber, when yo’ go out in de darksome, hab yo’r razzah under de cyarpet. Bettah dat yo’r bettah-ha’f use it fo a can openah den hab it wid yo, when yo’r passhuns rise up.

Fift—Beware ob de craps. Craps am ob two kinds—de craps dat grow in de groun’ an’ de crap dat shoot. Beware of de crap dat shoot an* de crap dat grow in de groun’ taik keer ob itse’f.

Six times—'Bout this time ob de yeah luk out fo’ de husky t’roat. When dat disease taik root in a niggah’s mouf no ’mount ob waterin’ sashify de huskiness. When a niggah git it, nuffin’ seem ter do him no good ‘cept tanglefoot. Sum fool niggahs tink ‘case der noses am black, dey kin swaller tangle207

RED foot widout bein’ foun, out. De good Lawd nebber made a dead-line in a niggah’s bref so’s ter stop de smell of tanglefoot comin, outer de mouf.

Seben, de lucky numbah — De debbil ain’t gwine roun, in dese days lak a roarin’ lion. He done shaik a split hoof, an, he hab a fawked tail done up in ribbon an’ fine linen. He moughty fine-haired. He dress up in stunn’est style and paht his hair in de middle an’ put a eye-glass in his eye. He cum moughty nigh bein’ a high-roller in de chu’ch. He cum moughty nigh bein’ high, low, an’ de jack-pot.

Finally, belubbed, wid these few seasonin’ remahks I leave yo* ter reflek* on yo’r latter ends.

THE KERYKS Arthur Wadzinski

Gossip Column — Recently a noted scientist residing in Watertown, Wisconsin, received a mysterious letter from Space. The letter cordially invited the scientist for a year-end and for a bit of star-shooting. Realizing, however, that the earthling could not find his way without the usual Texaco road map, he sent the following instructions: Go to the equator, but be positive that your metatarsals are exactly on it before you carry out the other instructions. When you are in aphelion, take three of Hitler’s little dynamic Kampf-pills and let your­ self go. Just before you reach the stratosphere put on your London night-cap and cry “Viva la France.” This little act will take you past the Great Bear, who will be very frightened by your face and vocabulary. Turn left on the Via Milcha and give the Fascist salute to the praetorian guard, who will then goose-step you about two thousand milia to the station, Cygnus.

From Cygnus you will have to march five days’ journey and twenty parasangs till you come to the beautiful 8 Planetary Rd. As you see Neptune approaching, put out your thumb in the current style. This screwball will give you a gravitational lift and demagnetize you at my pylon.

This interesting letter was signed: Professor Cosmos 8.5 Planetary Rd. Ether, Universe.

This Watertown scientist wishes to have a traveling com­ panion and has had his letter published so that you may weigh the possibilities of returning alive before you volunteer. How about it, men?

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s I PROTEST Among the many pleasant, and otherwise, things that have to do with the editorship of a college paper not the least inter­ esting and annoying are the letters which come to the Editor’s desk.

By far the majority of these missives bear only a one-and-one half-cent stamp and a very official (and, therefore, lack-lustre) front view. It seems that all the more personal letters, and those containing checks, find their way to the Business Manager’s desk.

Many of the heralds of good will, good Americanism, and good business, by whom these letters are started on their illfated way, evidently thinking that otherwise they would not even be opened (in spite of the fact that they are not sealed), mark the envelope to indicate the general nature of the enclosed material. This inevitably seals their doom.

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RED ripple it creates in the swollen current of journalism hardly discernible to any less than a careful observer, the number of these letters that reach his (the Editor’s) desk is not so great that each cannot be given at least sufficient attention to deter­ mine what it has to offer before being relegated to the waste­ basket. It might be interesting to look into a few of these foredoomed epistles. The very fact, though, that they are so, precludes any letter-perfection in the details I am about to re­ count. May my memory not do any letter serious injustice.

One that comes to my mind now was warningly labeled News”； it was found to contain a lengthy excerpt from a re­ cent issue of the Congressional Record purported to have been delivered in the halls of Congress by one of its members (Senator or Representative, I forget) who hales from Wisconsin and who would like his faithful constituents to know that golf, and snoring in his arcked seat are not the sole busiment of Washington’s non-permanent (not quite) population. Would you print this? Sometimes I think the franking privilege a grave injustice to the American people.

Some of the letters want to sell something, ideas or objects.

One in particular I recall from a Twin Cities engraving company.

We should like to assist you with the production of your college yearbook. Fill out the enclosed blank, giving us the necessary information, and mail immediately. The enclosed illustrations were very convincing. A little gentle encouragement sufficed to speed to my room an excellent, easy-to-see (it’s big) calendar done up in three delightful colors. Any one interested may come in and look at it any day, where it hangs by my desk.

Another letter disgorged a sheet of paper adorned with a few delicate pencil sketches of U. S. college girls of various national and sectional types. Help us choose a Miss American Coed. Submit to us a picture (full-length or face; clad in even­ ing gown, sports outfit, tailored suit, bathing suit or otherwise) of your favorite coed. Additional sheets contained a fuller description of the contest and a list of the prizes offered.

This is perhaps enough to acquaint you with the nature of an editor’s mail. In conclusion let me say that, in addition to the waste of a busy Editor’s time, this sort of letter is culpable for such a destruction of natural resources as should be of the greatest concern to any active conservationist. For the good of all, I protest.

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The column this month is dedicated to those activities of an athletic and recreational nature which receive but little, or no, mention in other months. I would like to have a little friendly chat with the reader of those things which the students who are not basketball, football or baseball players, do for exercise and amusement. You know we all can’t 6e basketball players and make the team and yet we all need our fun. “All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy.” So we have other things to take care of our spare time. And here I would like to mention that we are very fortunate in having Coach Umnus with us.

He’s always behind the boys in their hobbies and pastimes, lending a helping hand and a bit of advice.

There are many things in which the boys can, and do, in­ terest themselves at this time of the year. With the weather as nice as it is, hiking and bicycling draw their share of enthusiasts. On a sunny day you’re bound to find some boys miles from the campus, riding or walking. Of course, when the weather becomes cooler, as we hope it will, we can engage in the real winter sports. Afternoons and evenings will find Northwestern students at the ice rinks. When the snows fall there will always be some that will polish up their skis and head for the hills. They say “head” for tlie hills, but really I think that it is another part of their anatomy that comes in contact with the hills, and suffers.

Naturally, if the boys don’t feel like going outside (it occasionally happens) they can always stay in and play billiards or table tennis. Perhaps you will say that billards hardly falls under the heading of exercise, but did you ever walk around a 211

RED table, pushing a little white ball so as to hit two other balls?

If it takes you anywhere as near as long to make thirty-five points, as it does me, you will agree that you do get some exercise. The table tennis enthusiasts have been starting rather heavily. They had a group from Oconomowoc come up to play one evening and lost decisively, winning only ten matches to the ‘‘Cooney’’ boys’ seventeen.

You’ve already heard that archery is sweeping through our ranks now. Up to this time, one dog has died, regretting his contact with an archer: but a hunted deer gamboled happily on.

That brings me to class basketball, which has just gotten under way. Sophs 1 defeated Sophs 2 and Seniors defeated Frosh 1. That is all the action to date, but there’s more a-cominR. All in all, you see, the non-team members do something be­ sides study and watch the games. More goes on than appears in this column.

BASKKTBALL Seminary 22 Northwestern 33 December 9 It was our first game of the season. To say that it looked it, would not be far from the truth. Play through­ out the game was quite ragged. The game started slow, with very little scoring：. The score at the end of the half was 8 to 6 in favor of the Seminary. The new *'check* * defense of our team did not seem to be effective and accordingly a change was made to the straight zone defense in the second half. Play livened up and things began moving in the second half. Kuehl and Naumann began making some shots and soon Northwestern had outdistanced the Seminary, in spite of the fact that Zimmermann dropped in some pretty buckets. But the game remained slow, due perhaps to the fact that the Seminary had played a game the night before. However our team did show occasional flashes and we hope to see the real things before the season is over.

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Campus and Classroom “Time, the subtle thief of youth,” that cunning klepto­ maniac, has been stealing so many hours, days and weeks from us that all of a sudden we find ourselves right on top of another Christmas vacation. For days the sextaners have been care­ fully computing the number of days, hours, aye, even minutes of school left until that last noon, when with lavish “Merry thristmases” they will be on their way home. Our snooping scribe once more has been making the rounds, inquiring into the lives of representative students to learn what they plan to do with their Christmas .holidays. His findings are at once interest­ ing and informative.

Del Brick says he won’t be seeing much of his home. He plans to spend as much time as possible at his uncle’s place of business.

“I’m going to be Milwaukee’s man about town， ，， says George Boldt.

Bradtke plans to crawl into an easy chair and curl up with his “Bartlett’s Quotations” and memorize choice bits to impress his feminine admirers when he’s on a date.

No bells will ring for Brenner this vacation.

Dick Kuehl is going to gather all the dope on Minnesota’s basketball team so as to be able to argue more proficiently with Michigan’s dauntless Henry Peil.

Ray Wiechman will leave for home on the twentieth. With good luck and a favorable wind he should get there by Christmas.

Karlheinz Neumann just doesn’t seem very anxious to leave.

After all, you do get sort of attached to certain things around here, don’t you, Karl?

Laper and Grams are going to “do” the whole city of Markesan.

Ralph Gehrke plans to sink his teeth into a little Pindar. ‘‘Boots’’ Schumann is going to do his best to get acquainted with the beauties of La Crosse.

Ted Thurow figures on making up for lost time with the “girl he left behind’’ The same applies to about 95 per cent of the rest of. the Romeos, so it should be a real merry Christ­ mas for all.

The way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach” is the contention of Stern and Schumann. So, in order to snare the best possible wives these two culinary converts have been learning how to prepare dishes that no woman could resist.

Each Monday night they take their stab at cooking such things as chop suey, casserole dishes, cakes and even pie. They say 213

RED they go to learn how to cook, but with their being the only two males in a class with scads of beautiful damsels, I wonder.

“In 10,000 years,” say weather experts, “we shall have summer weather the year ’round.” Boy, I can hardly wait.

Carlyle once wrote: "Produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God’s name.”

That, dear student body, applies perfectly to you as regards writing for the Black and Red. Produce if it kills you, but for your sake and the B. and R’s. produce!

Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to him­ self has said, “Hm!”? 氺本

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One disease which all the learned doctors of the world in­ cluding the hundreds of specialist at the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota, have not been able to cure or even diag­ nose properly is that dreaded malady known as columnitis. Yet anyone who has ever tried writing a column periodically for more than a month knows the horrible effects this sickness pro­ duces. Symptoms are sleeplessness, falling hair (induced by pulling at them violently), restlessness, loss of weight, irritability, melancholia, nervious prostration, and finally complete and in­ curable insanity. Columnitis is brought on by deadlines. The haunting fear of that regularly recurring menace which editors fix each month, causes the poor column writer to go positively “Wacky,” The people shout “column, column,” and there is no column. The poor sufferer sits for hours before blank sheets of paper, smoking countless cigarettes, and gnawing up three or four pencils, while he thinks of anything but possible column material. The strange part of this affliction is that it grows better and worse according to the proximity of the deadline.

The longer the columnist is at this business of columnizing the worse his condition becomes. Each deadline brings on a new and more violent attack. Instead of sleeping nights he tosses about tormented by the thought that he must produce before the next day passes. While tossing about thus he may tumble out of bed with an idear” grab pencil and paper and start writing only to find his brainstorm is a ‘.dud:’’ The only cure is to resign and take a cruise to the beautiful isle of Tahiti, which I will do before that final stage of insanity gets me.

The cinema version of “Gone With the Wind” is finished, thank goodness. We all feel we’ve gone through a lot for 214

RED the production was first planned. several years Having to listen to all the ballyhoo was almost as bad as having to produce the thing, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wager. Cheer up, maybe in another year or so we can see it.

No cold -no ice; no ice -no skating; no snow -no skiing -no sleighrides; no sleighrides -no fun; -phooey, what a climate.

Guess Iil go to Canada for some real weather where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still possible to get a little Christmas spirit.

I claim no place Among the Seven Sages But this, my friends, You must admit I did fill up these pages.

Difenthaeler and Dittl

Piano Duo

j Friday, January 12th, 1940 8 P. M.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARYRendezvous Ridiculous

216

Philosophy

224

Written at a Late Hour of the Night..................................

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Ski Patrol

226

The Wizard

228

EDITORIALS— More Eutopias

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There Ain’t No Justice

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ALUMNI NOTES

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ATHLETICS

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., January 1940

Number 8

as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879，Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

RENDEZVOUS RIDICULOUS A Closet Drama Ardin D. Lapp.r

ACT I Scene I Somewhere in Europe About 2:30 one winter Wednesday afternoon (Telephone rings in a spacious and well-furnished office.

Herman picks up receiver.)

Herman: Hello . . . Adolph? . . . Just a minute. (Turn­ ing) It‘s for you, Adolph.

Adolph: Hello . . . Yes. Who is this please? . . Franklin who? . . . Oh. ... This week end? . . . But I’m pret­ ty busy these days you know . . . No, I’m afraid not. .... Do you think so? Not any one? But if someone did find out? . . . What calibre did you say—32?...

Okay, 1*11 bring my 44 . • . Yeah, I know where Mil­ waukee is . . . about 250 miles northwest ... I get it, near Rice Lake . . . Well you really wouldn’t have to bother—make it Miller’s High Life . . . Okay, I’ll try to get away. Good-bye.

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RED SCENE II Somewhere else in Europe Same afternoon. A little later.

(Telephone rings in a spacious and well-furnished office.

Jeeves answers.)

Jeeves: Hello . . . Yes, he is. Neville, ifs for you.

Neville: This is Neville speaking ... I say now, this is a pleasant surprise. How soon are you coming over? •..

No, we don’t exactly need your help but—. ..You aren’t coming — you want me to • . . Next Saturday? .... But you know wliat a mess things—.. .Make mine Scotch and soda. That will be a jolly good time.

Cheerio.

SCENE III Somewhere else in Europe Same afternoon. A little later.

(Telephone rings in a spacious and well-furnished office.

Guiseppe answers.)

Guiseppe: Hello . . . Benito? I’ll call him. Benito, some­ one wants you on the phone.

Benito: Hello . . . Oh, hello, Frank. How’s tricks?...

Yeah, it’s got me guessing too . . . Oh, not too busy .... Just sort of waiting to see what they’re gonna do . . . This week end? . . . Oh, I guess I can make it.

About 300 miles north of Chicago? . . . Okay, I’ll bring my 44 . . . Don’t bother, I’ll bring my own—from my own grapes, you know . . . Okay, and thanks a lot.

SCENE IV Somewhere else in Europe Same afternoon. A little later.

(Telephone rings in a plainly furnished office. Petroff answers.)

Petroff: Joseph? . . . Oh, you mean Joe . . . Yea, lie’s right here. Joe, it’s long distance calling.

Joseph: Hello . . . well, hello there . . . Not so good •..

No, not quite like I planned, but we’ll come out all right I guess .. . I’m afraid not一sort of a bad time for me to leave . . . No, I suppose they couldn’t do much worse without me, but— ... Well, maybe for a day or two.

I would sort of like to do some quiet shooting for a change. . . Can you get vodka over there? . . . Fine ...

Okay. Good-bye.

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RED ACT II Scene I Somewhere in the Wisconsin north woods.

The following Saturday.

(The curtains opens on the interior of a small but cozy cabin. Through the windows on each side of the door can be seen pine trees laden with snow. The sky above the trees is a brilliant red as the sun goes down and twilight settles over the north woods. Chickadees and sparrows can be heard chirping about and occasionally a crow caws in the distance.

Otherwise all is quiet except that now and then we can hear the crackling of the wood in the small cook stove. There are four bunks. Two lower and two upper . A minute or two after the curtain is raised there is heard a faint hum­ ming sound. Presently it becomes a drone and then a roar.

All is quiet again. After a few minutes there’s a knock at the door. Then another and another. A voice outside says: “Hey，Frank, are you in there? Hmmmnimm. This is the place all right—well, he told me to make myself at home.”

The door opens slowly and there stands Adolph dressed like a lumberjack and wearing a bright red hunting cap. He is carrying a small traveling bag and a gun case.

Adolph: Mnimmm. Nice and cozy一quiet too. (After look­ ing about) Wonder if there’s anything to eat. (Goes to the cupboard.) Mmmmmmm some crackers.—Not bad cheese.—Let’s make yourself a few sandwiches, Adolph.

Might just as well make yourself at home. That’s what he said. Mmmnimm. Just as I ordered. (Pours himself a glass full. Lights the lamp, gets a thick book out of his suit case and begins reading while he eats cheese and crackers.) Hmmmmm (as he reads) I sure was full of ideas Guess I didn’t just dream about ’em either Mmmmmm. Did I write this? Guess I was a little young—but it still wouldn’t be a bad idea.—pretty maybe I wouldn’t need quite all of big job though that. (A humming sound is heard in the distance. It gets louder. Then all is quiet again.)

Adolph: Must be Frank coming back. (A knocking at the door.) Adolph goes to the door and opens it. On the porch stands a man wearing a lumberjack’s outfit with a bright red hunting cap. He is carrying a Gladstone and an umbrella.) What can I do for you?

Neville: Take these bags. boy. I’m Frank’s week-end guest.

Adolph: But Prank isn’t here. I— Neville: Oh that’s quite all right. He knows I’m coming 218

RED and lie said I should make myself jolly well right at home.

Adolph: But I don’t— Neville: Oh, of course ifs all right.

Adolph: But— — Neville: What kind of a butler are you?—arguing with your guest!—American impudence! (Adolph quietly picks up Neville’s bags and holds open the door for him.) I say now, that fire feels good. When do you expect Frank back?

Adolph: Well—I don’t know you see I— Neville: I say now, don’t you know anything? How do you expect to get anywhere in this world if you don’t know wliat’s going on. Haven’t you any ambition, lad?

Adolph: But, well—you see I— Neville: Enough of this backwoods ignorance. Is there any­ thing to eat?

Adolph: I was just eating some cheese and crackers. 1 guess it’s all right if you have some too.

Neville: You guess it's all right? I say now, are you Frank’s guest or am I? Adolph: Well—I thought— Neville: Well, stop thinking and get some more cheese and crackers. (Looking about.) Oh there it is. Fix one up for me. I’m a little chilly. Don’t bother about the soda. (Looks at the book oil the table.) I say now, are you reading this trash? !

Adolph: Ye―yes, I was. You see, I— Neville: Don’t you know that the blighter that wrote that is an insane maniac?

Adolph: No, is he? I mean no, is he?

Neville: Why sure, almost everyone knows that. (Pauses and then quietly) But say, I never did read the bligliter’s stuff. Do you mind if I have a peek at it.

Adolph: No, go right ahead. I’ve read it already.

Neville : Maybe you’d like to read what I have with me. (He gets a big book from his Gladstone and gives it to Adolph.)

(Both sit silently reading while they eat cheese and crackers. Occasionally there is heard a sip.)

Adolph: Ummmm this Scarlett is quite a girl.

Neville: I say now, do you suppose the fellow was serious when he wrote this?

Adolph: No, this Ashley sure didn’t know a good thing when he saw one.

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RED Neville. I say now, some of these arguments aren’t bad.

Maybe he has some brains after all.

Adolph: Then again I don’t know, maybe it was best he didn’t get her一not a good nordic type.

(Neville ponders what lie’s read and stares up into space.

Finally his eyes fall on Adolph, and he looks at him very intently and 黾tarts suddenly in his chair.

A humming is heard in the distance. It becomes a drone.)

Neville: Well, aren’t you going to answer it?

Adolph: (Not looking up from his book.) Could be.

(The roar stops. Both continue reading while they eat their cheese and crackers. A knock at the door is heard.)

Nevile: Well, aren’t you going to answer it?

Adolph: No, I’ve never seen the like of her.

Neville: Well, we can't let him stand out there in the cold.

(Puts down his book and opens the door. In the door­ way stands a heavily built man wearing a lumberjack’s outfit and a bright red hunter's cap. In one hand he has an overnight bag and a gun case. In the other he holds a package which could be two “fifths”, by now it's quite dark outside.)

Ben ito: Good morning, gentlemen. Is Frank in, yes?

Neville: No, but he ought to be along soon. Do you want a to wait?

Benito: Don’t mind if I do. (Comes in.)

Neville: Come right in. That’s Frank’s butler.

Adolpli: (Turning a page.) Hello.

Neville: What did you say your name was?

Benito: Just an old friend of Frank’s. As you must know I’m—nice day wasn’t it? Beautiful sunset. How about a little supper, boys?

Adolph: (Turning a page.) Pull up a chair and have some cheese and crackers.

Benito: No spaghetti, yes?

Neville: We can have a look. (Neville and Benito go to the cupboard.)

Benito: All, liere’s a can.

Neville: Let’s make ourselves a little tea.

Adolph: (Turning a page.) I’ll have coffee.

Benito: Well, we’ll have to have some water first, no?

Neville: Quite right, old chap. (Turing.) You, there, take that excuse for a mustache out of that book and go out to the pump and get a pail of water.

Adolph: Well—(relunctantly) All right. (Uses a cracker 220

RED for a book mark. Gets up and puts on his coat. Takes the pail and goes out.)

Neville: (Lowering his voice and coming closer to Benito.)

Listen, old boy, liow would you like to make a little money?

Benito: Well— Neville: Do you know who that man is I just sent for a pail of water?

Benito: Frank’s butler, yes?

Neville: No, shlihlih (He whispers to Benito.)

Benito: Do tell. Who’s lie?

Neville: Huh? ! Oh well, I suppose up here in the woods you wouldn’t know — Benito: Well, what do I do, and what do I get out of it?

Neville: Well, all you have to do is take the old chap out hunting in the morning and just sort of lose the old boy in the woods for a few days—say about a week.

Benito: Well, what’s it worth? 50 dollars, no?

Neville: I’ll give 25.

Benito: I’ll settle for 35.

Neville: It’s a deal. Here’s the money. Shhhh, lie’s com­ ing back. (Adolph comes in.) How’s the weather out?

Adolph: Turning a little colder.

Benito: Getting colder in here too, no?

Adolph: It is. (Sitting down with his book, while looking intently at Neville.)

How about you going out to the wood pile and bringing us in a few more chunks. After all, I got the water.

Neville: Righto, old boy. Nothing like roughing it, you know. (Puts on his coat and goes out.)

Adolph: (Comes closer to Benito and lowers his voice.)

Do you know who that man is?

Benito: No. Adolph: Shhlihh (Whispers to Benito.)

Benito: Do tell. Who’s he?

Adolph: What? | Oh well up in the woods here maybe you haven’t heard一How would you like to make a little in money?

Benito: Well— Adolph: All you have to do is take him hunting with you in the morning and lose him in the woods for a few days—about a week or so. I’ll give you 25 dollars.

Benito: It’s worth 50.

Adolph: I’ll give you 35—no more.

Benito: Well—it’s a deal.

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RED Adolph: Here’s the money. Shhhhh, here he comes now.

Neville: (Gome in.) Sure is getting nippy outside.

(Adolph settles down to his book and beer again. Benito warms the spaghetti.. Neville makes tea.)

(A faint humming sound is heard. It becomes a drone and then a roar. All is quiet again.)

Benito: That must be Frank now.

Adolph: (Turning a page.) Could be.

(A knock at the door.)

Benito: I’l】 answer it. (He opens the door and there stands a big nran wearing a lunkerjack’s outfit with a bright red hunter’s cap. Icicles hang from the end of his black mustache. 1-Ie carries a valise and a gun case.)

Joseph: All, good evening, comrades. Is this Frank’s place?

Benito: Yes, it is.

Joseph: Ah, my comrades, I’m sorry I come so late. It’s good of you to keep supper warm for me. This must be the western hospitality we hear so much about. Ah, but it’s good to see men like you in this country of capitalists—men who live close to the earth, close tQ the snow, the sun, and the rain,—men who live with the trees, and the birds—hearty lumberjacks of the woods.

Have you been waiting long?

Neville: (All are dumbfounded. Even Adolph looks up from his book.) Well, not exactly, sir, you see— Joseph: I apologize again, comrades, but enough of this talk. 1*11 eat, so you can wash all the dishes together.

Neville: But— Joseph: Suppose you’ve eaten hours ago. Ah, this air of the north woods—great for the appetite. Comrades, do you know T feel as if I could eat all of that spaghetti you’ve kept warm for me. (And he does.)

(Benito glances at Neville and then sits down beside Adolph and eats some of his cheese and crackers. Ne­ ville quietly sips his tea.)

Joseph: Ahhhh that was good. First spaghetti I’ve had in a long time. Hardly ever eat the stuff. And now, comrades, I feel as if I could sleep like a log. Haven’t been getting much sleep lately. You boys just show me where your regular bunks are and I’ll make myself com­ fortable in what’s left.

Neville: I guess it’s all right if you sleep in this lower one.

Joseph: If you don’t mind, comrades. I think I’ll turn in rig：lit now. (Takes off his boots and crawls between the blankets.) Ahhh this feels good. Good night, comrades.

Neville: Good night.

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PRED Benito: Good night.

Adolph: (Turning a page.) Good night.

(Neville continues sipping his tea as he glances uneasily at Joseph. Benito butters more crackers as he glances uneasily at Joseph and opens a “fifth.”

Adolph glances uneasily at Joseph as he turns each page. All is quiet until Joseph begins to snore.)

Neville: (Getting up.) Gentlemen, I think I’ll get us another pail of water before I retire. (Puts on his coat and cap. Slips the book under his coat. Takes the pail and goes out.)

(All is quiet for a time and then of a sudden there’s a loud roar and soon a steady drone becomes only a clistant hum and all is quiet again except for Joseph’s snoring.)

Adolph: (Turns to the back of the book. Muttering to him­ self) Mmmmmm 1037—283—leaves S54—can’t finish it tonight anyway. Cooling off in here, isn’t it?

Benito: Yeah, guess it is.

Adolph: I’ll go out and get a little wood. (Puts on his coat and cap. Slips the book under liis coat and goes out.)

(All is quiet except for Joseph’s snoring. Then a great roar comes and goes.)

Benito: 10-15-25-30-40-50-55-65-66-67-6S-69-70. Well, Ben­ ito, 70 dollars is 70 dollars. (Puts on his cap aiul goes out.)

(Joseph snores in solitude. 1-Ie tosses restlessly in his bunk muttering.)

Joseph: Not bombs—spaghetti—no, just spaghetti—cans of spaghetti—not bombs一(He jumps up in his bunk and bumps his head. He awakes but doesn’t realize he’s alone.) Comrades, comrades, what a terrible dream! I was with some scoundrels and they forced me to give the order to drop spaghetti, not bombs. Then they knocked me out. (Realizing lie’s alone.) Oh. Brr, my toes are cold. (Benito has left the door open. The fire has gone out. The wind howls wierdly outside.) Sort of lonely here. Too lonely. Brrrrr, my toes are cold.

(Puts on his boots, coat and cap. Picks up his valise and goes out.)

(The roar is gone, and the humming too. After a lapse of time it becomes light outside as the sun begins to rise over the north woods, and the chickadees and spar­ rows chirp merrily among the branches of the snow covered pines.)

Curtain.

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by Mosc Black

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‘•I wanter tell yo’ somethin’，fodder,” nervously remarked the family heir-apparent the other morning, “I’se gwine V git marr’d__ t’a gal named Pearl, wiv langerous eyes, poutin lips, a sylph-Iaik fohm, an* a voice, fadder, laik de ocean murmurin’ o’er pebbles on a foamin, shore.”

4 4Well, den，” said the pater, carefully putting his hand over the top of his head, "I suppose dar ain’ no help fo’ it. But when yo, heah Pearl's foamy-shore voice git up laik a Kansas cyclone, an, see dose langerous eyes glar’ laik a fo’teen-button rattlesnake; when yo, see dat sylph-laik fohm wiv a poker in its han’，strain out laik a feller gittin, a ‘lectric shock, an7 dose poutin’ lips, wiv beartrap jaw attachment, close up wiv a click laik a fo’ty poun, snappin,-turtle, —doan ya’ stop fo* de door, but jes’ jump right froo de winder an run home an，tell yo ole man dat yo，made mistake. Go ‘long wiv yo’！ Ef yo* war gwine V marry a sinsible gal dat know how to cook, I tink yo’ know somefin’； but now I see yo, jes, as foolish as yo, mudder.”

WRITTEN AT A LATE HOUR OF THE NIGHT To-night at about 10:30 I “snuck” out. Yes, that is what I said, I ‘‘snuck’’ out, out of the rear entrance, then behind the recitation building; just as you have pictured it. Why? I justified the act by telling myself that I was only going to take a walk to get some fresh air before I went to sleep. I succeeded in getting- out without being- seen.

And what did I, the outlaw, do? It is quite warm to-night with the freshly fallen snow covering the ground. To my first crime I added another. I observed what other people were doing at home. Whenever I came to a house with the shades not drawn. I’d walk at a slower pace and make a mental note of what I observed. Several people obliged me and had their shades up. At the first house I saw from my place on the side­ walk a middle aged man reading his evening paper next to a stove. He moved only a little, and since I had already seen that part of the paper I moved on. In another house I saw a Christmas tree dressed up in pretty lights, and I thought of my tree at home, the one I had trimmed.

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RED But soon I made a discovery. I found something beautiful; something that I hadn’t found in the pictures of Rembrandt, Angelo or others; something I hadn’t found in all the books of Dickens, Scott or Tennyson; something I hadn’t found in the music of Wagner, Strauss or Verdi -- only here in insignificant Watertown. I’d seen it before, so have you, but perhaps I never had paid attention to it. I found diamonds. Yes, dia­ monds in Wisconsin, more diamonds than all the dollars spent by the New Deal, more diamonds than a hundred Kimberleys could produce.

You have guessed correctly, diamonds in the snow flakes.

The newly fallen snow had not been disturbed, and the flakes lay as they had fallen. Every flash and stream of light was reflected a thousand times. It was just as if on some night you entered the grave yards for dead cats where all the eyes were on one heap. I forgot about my windows. I was walking the streets alone, so I had a fine conversation with the diamonds.

The more I looked at them the more of them I saw, till the whole sidewalk, ground and road seemed as if it was covered with a cloth made of silk interwoven with jewels and gold and silver. I took some of the silk in my gloved hands and let it flutter through my fingers. But when I removed my gloves and took the fluff into my bare hands, it, like so many things in nature when touched by the destructive hand of man, lost its beauty and dissolved.

I started back to the dormitory, but was suddenly shaken from my thoughts by the strong oder of an alcoholic beverage.

I bumped into a fellow who too seemed to be enjoying himself.

I disentangled myself and walked till at a certain house I saw a young Miss bidding a boy grood night. That gave me an idea -I’d better hurry back to the dormitory.

I passed one house where Eddie was reading “just one more chapter”，and dad was listening to the program that ‘‘will soon be over, Ma,” and mother wanted all to get to bed.

I have returned to the dorm without having been detected.

I am refreshed and ready for sleep. You ought to try it sometime (I do not advise sneaking out), you will sleep better than you do in classes.

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RED SKI PATROL A. Keibel

‘‘Classes postponed indefinitely. All men report to office immediately!” rang forth the classroom amplifier, interrupting Erik Svensen’s Law period at the Helsinki Public University.

The terse message implied one thing — war on the front!

Everyone paled at the thought, but none winced. The first to move was the professor. He drew himself erect and slowly strode out of the room. One by one the students arose to follow him.

The young men were enlisted and most of them sent to the Mannerheim line to strenghten the Karelian isthmus against Russian attacks. Erik was among them. At Viipuri the com­ manding Finnish officer interviewed several of the students.

How much military training have you had and what 'experience on skis?” he inquired of Erik.

“Six months field training at Turku. I am a member of the Scandinavian Ski Club and have been on skis for twelve years.”

“Fine,” continued the commander. “I also have your in­ telligence rating from school. With this, your qualifications render you capable of handling a ski patrol on the eastern front.

Tomorrow you will be transported to Rovaniemi, where you will receive detailed instructions and have twenty-four men placed under your command.”

The next day Erik boarded a special train that sped him northward. He wondered what his men would be like. When he reached Rovaniemi he met his ‘‘subordinates’’ at the station.

They were mostly members of his Ski Club who knew very little of fighting, but were Erik’s equals on skis. The few he was not acquainted with lived around nearby Sal la and were wholly familiar with the neighborhood.

It took Erik several days to drill his men, but soon they were highly proficient. He taught them guerilla tactics and how to camouflage effectively with white robes. Besides agressive maneuvers, defensive measures of “digging in” out in the open and dispersion in the woods were thoroughly drilled.

All commands were issued by hand signals, since silence was imperative.

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In an attempt to weaken Finnland by cutting it in half, the Red troops made their way across its “waistline.” But they were lured onto ice-covered Lake Kianta by ski patrols who surrounded them, taking cover in the forest bordering the lake.

Refusing to surrender, the Russians were mowed down with machine guns set up by patrols around the lake and by bombing planes overhead. Erik’s patrol captured several hundred of those who had escaped from the lake into the woods. All of the prisoners were poorly clad and undernourished. With the help of an interpreter, Erik asked several prisoners a question.

“Were you forced into battle?”

The prisoners nodded, one telling the interpreter, ‘‘Yes, when our company went into battle we were told to line up or we’d be shot. No one told us whom we were supposed to fight or why.’’

On New Year’s day Erik was commissioned, with several other leaders, to penetrate the frontier to interrupt Russian communications and supply lines near Uhtua. After they had crossed the border, the speedy and hard-hitting patrols harassed supply columns, surprising them at every turn and picking off hundreds of Reds. In the darkness, Erik’s patrol men burned several troop trains, besides tearing up several hundred feet of rails. Erik, meanwhile, had stealthily crept up to a Russian camp, set afire a shack housing several thousand pairs of skis and hurried back to his underground outpost, wondering why no one pursued him.

A few days later, the ski patrols ambushed the 44th di­ vision, after it had tried to rescue the 163rd. The few Russians who had slipped back to their base told about the outstanding deception of the patrols, the ‘‘snow birds,” as they called them.

Three days thereafter Erik’s “snow birds” espied some Russian units using skis and wearing white cloaks. But the cloaks lacked hoods so that the heads of the soldiers were uncovered and made excellent targets. It was in pursuit of these units that Erik was shot.

While he was leading his patrol down a steep slope, an enemy bullet struck his right shoulder and spun him around in­ to the snow.

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RED ‘•Don’t stop. Get after them!” shouted Erik. ‘‘I’ll be right with you.” Then he fell unconscious.

When Erik opened his eyes he saw a nurse standing be­ side him.

“You are in the Salla hospital and will be out in three weeks,” she said. “If Finland still needs you then—well, your fighting patrol is waiting for you.”

THE WIZARD S. Hillmcr

"S. W. H.” No answer. “Is S. W. H. in the audience?”

“Gosh, those were my initials. Er-ah-yes. Yes, right here.”

“Well, young man, in respect to your query concerning your future as a musician, I have this information,” said the tall, suave mindreader, as he rubbed the resplendent sphere with a silk handkerchief. ‘，You have already attained some degree of success, and since you are so interested in this field of endeavor, you will in time become a fine musician.”

There I sat in the fifth row of the theater, and listened to this Omniscient paint a glowing picture of my future. I was to become a professional musician. At least that’s what I thought at the time.

But other people wanted to know what the Fates had in store for them. Let’s hear what information the mental giant with the shiny patent leather shoes has received from the ether waves.

“Mr. C. K. L.，what you suspect is true. When you work at night, as watchman, your wife associates with the man you have in mind. In fact, she is not even worthy of you. If I were you, I would get a divorce as soon as possible.’’ A wave of “Ohs” and “Ahs” swept through the audience. ‘‘This young lady wants to know what happened to her tennis shoes. Well, Miss, the last time you had them, you were sitting on the front porch with your boy-friend, were you not?”

“Yes.’，"When you went into the house for a moment he tossed them on top of the porch roof. Take a ladder and re­ trieve them when you return. They are lying there now.”

Hm — that was certainly a practical question.

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f RED “Now Mrs. L. M.，I receive many questions like yours.

Your son has been suffering from this ailment for some years now. There is a Sun Ray Health Corporation in Tampa, Florida, that has cured thousands of rheumatic sufferers. I urge you to write to them immediately. The address is 608 Palm Drive, Tampa, Florida.” I wonder how much commission he gets for each “patient” that he sends to the Sun Ray people?

“So you want to be an opera singer, M. J. ? Well, let me tell you that your voice isn’t any better than mine. Stop spending your parents’ hard earned money for those expensive lessons and go home!” Wow, our mystic seer certainly handed out a dose of common sense that time.

“You will have to work fast, if you want to regain your bicycle,” said the versatile artist. “It was stolen by an Italian, Fred Corelli, living at 7068 50th St. However, he no longer posesses it. He sold it to a man on South Sheridan Road. Three old maids are living at that particular place. Inquire there for your stolen article. ‘‘That ends my reading from the stage, ladies and gentle­ men. I am leaving tonight, but I have a few hours to spare.

There is a booth in the balcony of the theater where I shall be glad to answer all your personal questions. I can take no money. Just purchase a complete horoscope from my attendant for one dollar, and I shall answer any and all of your questions.

Thank you.”

Not in the least disillusioned, I walked home. On the way I bumped into several people. At home I received a none too cheery reception. Everyone was eating supper. They wanted to know where I had been. My father said he thought school usually closed at three-thirty. It was now six.

I ate supper in somewhat more sober spirits, I can assure you. But that night as I lay on my bed and felt the cool summer air blow in through the window, I was warmed by a glow of satisfaction. Everybody has a purpose in this world, even if it is only to cheer and encourage impressionable young boys.

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MORE EUTOPIAS F. E. P.

There is in man with all his short-comings and infirmities a passion for betterment. I don’t say that every human being has this upward striving in the same degree, nor even that every human being has it. But in man as a genus it is there. Adam and Eve way back when, what with their absolute perfection and all, were looking for something better.

That brings up another thought. What we glorious little humans think improvements, aren’t necessarily that. Very often a reform kicks back. The medicine results in worse com­ plications than the disorder. So ever since Eden man has been striving to get back onto the level off which Eve shoved us.

But the amazing thing is that nevertheless man still keeps on rowing upstream, all rapids and obstacles notwith­ standing. Of course, one must not try to be blind to the pro­ gress that has been made. Surely there has been progress and in spite of all any one can say, we’re still making pro­ gress. If this were not so, Pd perhaps now be sitting in the 230

3IRED lee of towering walnut trees trying to guide a blue-cold, shiver­ ing hand in simple markings on the snow, rather than sitting on a cushioned chair in a warm room tracing characters on a smooth white surface.

Striking proof of this fact can be gathered by a perusal of old stories of Eutopias, Atlantes, Blithedales, and Pantisocracies. Many of the pipe (and perhaps also fume) dreams of tnese old prophets and optimists are today accepted facts.

Among them might be mentioned six-hour days, old-age compen­ sations, civil and legal equality of women with men, separation of church and state, freedom of religion, universal suffrage (at least in theory).

Then again many have been tried out and found to be not what proponents hoped they would be. Such were the commu­ nistic fiasco of Russia, Mr. Wilson’s League of Nations, and the Prohibition movement in America. This latter is an example of the way a change, good in itself (maybe), resulted in some­ thing which will remain a joke to all straight-thinking minds as long as American History is read.

The change I refer to is the war-born feministic upsurge which culminated in the nineteenth Amendment. The only kind of a Eutopia in which prohibition would be successful would be one in which every member would refuse the colloquial ‘‘one too many.”

The success in the scientific, medical, and technical fields has been so amazing that it surely tops anything even the wildest of Eutopian dreamers could have dreamt. Here I don’t have to start naming improvements. I might go on for a page and then not mention all you can think of off-hand, nor begin to list all there really are. All you have to do is sit down by your radio, in home or auto, and think how Grandma used to live when she was a girl; or better still let her tell you as she speeds her heated car down lighted, divided highways. Then compare and marvel.

Do you think there aren’t any Eutopians today? How about Mr. Roosevelt? He was going to bring the forgotten man out of oblivion, he was going to dethrone a lot of economic royalists, he was going to help God control demand and supply.

The latest wrinkle is to keep the U. S. out of war so that there will be some organization to restore order where ruin lies and 231

RED to set up a system which will insure better feeling and more friendly cooperation between nations thereafter. Let’s hope that if the war ever ends Mr. Roosevelt, or whoever is astride the balky steed of state, will remember the forgotten men of Geneva.

Meanwhile Eutopias will come and Eutopias will go, but human affairs will go on forever, that is, as long as this world lasts, and ultimate perfection will never be achieved.

THERE AIN’T NO JUSTICE Thco. Thurow

Karl moved away from his study-room window where he’d been watching the swirling snow cover the ground with an ever-thickening blanket. As he turned he saw Mark standing in the doorway, one hand still on the knob, the other extended toward the blaring radio. «« Shut it off!” he said. Then he faced Fred, whose cigarette was sending lazy smoke rings towards the ceiling. ‘‘You know you shouldn’t smoke in here”，he said. “Put it out!’’ And Mark noticed young Herman who was only a prep. ‘‘What’re you doing here? You should’ve been in bed an hour ago!”

Then as little Herman crept past him and squirmed through the open door, Mark added, "You’ve pulled just about enough of this!”

He glanced around the room again, and left. Not, however, before he had “requested them to be a bit more quiet”.

For a while the usual silence followed.' Then Art ended it, as he usually did. “What kind of a hole is this, anyway? No radio! No smoking! No talking! This isn’t a dorm — its Alcatraz!” Someone seconded him. Then another and another and finally all were tooting the same horn.

“Hey, listen”，and Karl was putting in his two cents worth, "listen, if you were at Concordia back in Milwaukee you wouldn’t even be up and around at this time. You’d have been sleeping since ten-thirty!” He went on to explain that at Concordia ifs “10:20 curfew” for all, collegiates as well as preps. ‘‘At that time the lights are switched off and all is blacked-out, so breaking dorm regulations by staying up is no fun. What can a fellow do without lights?” He watched 232

9RED the reaction of Art and Fred and of the rest before he went on.

“Imagine!” he said, *'Going* to bed at ten-thirty with the chickens! Where’d we be at. ?”

The fellows agreed that they didn’t know.

“An’ what’s more’’，continued Karl, “they have buckinghour inspections there. Every night, too— not just off and on.

Some prof makes the rounds every single night, anywhere be­ tween seven and nine, and boy oh boy, if you aren’t glued at your desks with a couple of textbooks, well — —you’ll have plenty of explaining to do”.

He stopped and let it soak in. It did. ‘‘And that’s what bucking is like at Concordia’’，he concluded. ‘‘An’ pers! Why they don’t know what the word means down there. They have none. You may get an evening off, occasionally, by claiming there’s a good opera in town and you’d like to see it. But that’s all”.

Slowly it dawned on Art that perhaps he and his chums weren’t so bad off after all. Now Karl shrugged his shoulders.

“You fellows don’t know what law and order means’’，he said. ‘‘Down there, after seven o’clock, you daren’t set as much as a foot off the campus. And believe me, no one ever does!”

They were smiling in that know-all way.

“Oh! So you think they went out anyway. Well don’t kid yourselves. The faculty’s in control there and they really run the place. All I say is that it’s too bad for the poor fellow who thinks he’s pulling a fast one by sneaking out. He’s bound to be caught, and that’ll mean campusment. ifou all know what It’s different that is — no rights or liberties or anything, around her*e.”

Steps which all recognized sounded down the corridor.

Cigarettes were crushed out and the radio snapped off. And Mark entered.

“Red! Your bed wasn’t made again this morning. That’s four times in four days. Let’s watch that!” Before he hadn’t noticed the floor, dirty as it was; now he did. “Let’s keep the floor cleaner, too. Mother wouldn’t permit it at home, would she?”

No, we thought, she wouldn’t.

“And Art’’，continued Mark, “don’t forget that your lamp won’t turn itself off. You left it on last evening, you know!”

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费RED He closed the door so softly that we didn’t know he had left until we looked up.

The footsteps faded away and when distance had swallowed the last one, Art began fuming again. “There you are! What’d I tell you! A fellow simply can’t do anything right around this place; he’s always bawled out for something. Yesterday it was for tossing the butterplate, and the day before he had the crust to say I wasn’t really sick and that I was only staying in bed to skip some class, or something like that”.

Karl silenced him and, upon his fingers, counted off the advantages a fellow had in attending Northwestern. “You’ve got radios and pers and free nights, and you’re up till all hours of the night”.

But Art wasn’t at all convinced. “That’s all right, Karl, you can say what you want, but I’m sick of this place. Concor­ dia or no Concordia, Northwestern’s still a-a-well, I don’t know what”，He shook his head. “All a guy can do around here is sleep”.

He jumped up. “I’m going to bed!” he said, and slammed the door after him.

Editor’s Note: While the above article is not, in form at least, strictly an editorial, we feel that the nature of its subject matter justifies listing it as an editorial.

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s Prof. Frederick Brenner, ’05, of the Seminary at Thiensville died suddenly on January 15.

Wm. Hahn, ex MO, announced his engagement to Miss Virginia Moore of Milwaukee on Christmas Eve. Miss Moore is a former student of Valparaiso University.

Rev. Herbert WacGerfuss, ’27, of Bison, South Dakota, accepted a call to the Evanston congregation which Professor Blume served.

Gerhard Ehlert, ’35, received the call to Bison, South Da­ kota, At present he is teaching at St. Mark’s School, Watertown.

A baby girl was born to Prof, and Mrs. Hilton Oswald, ’29, on Jan. 10.

Hilbert Siegler, ’31，was married to Miss Ella Hackbarth of Cedarburg, Wisconsin on December 31, 1939. Siegler is now Regional Biologist over 46 counties in Texas with the Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission. Miss Hackbarth was a student at Wisconsin University.

George Rowe, ex ’32, has a position in the Agriculture De­ partment in Washington, D. C. Mr. Rowe discontinued in 1930 after attending Northwestern for three years.

Rev. Elmer Mehlberg, ’36，and Miss Elinor Lorenz were married on Jan. 20 at Milwaukee, Wis. They will live at Faith S. D., to which congregation Rev. Mehlberg has just accepted a call.

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Whitewater 30 December 12—Northwestern started with a bang that seemed to stun Whitewater but after a few minutes the Whitewater men got the feel of the game and played smooth ball. The five points made by Northwestern in its opening spurt were soon matched and passed. The score at the half was 8—13 in favor of Whitewater.

The second half was a continuation of the first with North­ western play still very ragged. Towards the end another flurry began and Northwestern tried to tie the score. The Goslings came within one point of a tie, but while they were pressing their advantage, Whitewater calmly passed to men open under the basket for an additional four points. And then after a long hush, not knowing whether it was a time-out or not, we found • that the game was over. The final score was 26-30.

Northwestern 26

Sauer, f Berg, f Koeniniger, f Birkholz, f Naumann, c Seehusen, c Kuehl, g Nolting, g Hoffmann, g

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Ripon 62 Northwestern 24 December 13—It’s hard to write about this game, since it seems that most people are of the opinion that the sports’ writer should confine himself to a description of the home team’s play, with only a side remark on the opponents. However, we are not able to do this on this game. Our opponents，play was so dominating that we can speak of nothing but what they did. To the man of artistic sense, together with a love of athletics, this game was a real thrill, especially when the first string men were in.

The Ripon five formed a team that had real finesse, with pass­ ing that was smooth and accurate and shooting that was deadly.

Their play was carried out in such a simple and effortless manner that it seemed they had almost reached basketball perfection.

Our play, however, did not look bad, but our passing was poor and we often lost the ball before we had a chance of shooting. The shots we did manage to put in were for the most part all made from some distance from the basket. Naumann did some good defensive work and Seehusen and Koeninger helped our cause offensively.

Northwestern Berg f Sauer, f Koeninger, f Birkholz, f Naumann, c Seehusen, c Kuehl, g Hoffmann, g Nolting, g Baer, g

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Ripon Bloecher, f Ardziejewski, f Cauers, f Bushner, f Larson, f Miller, f Lapotka, f Anderson, f Williams, c Wallschlaeger, c Taylor, c Kate, c Rember, g Christiansen, g Gatzke, g Lentzner, g Krcmar, g Blanas, g Hildebrand, g Dubon, g

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RED Northwestern 29 Extension 32 December 16—It may have been the fact that the boys were all excited about it being their last game before Christmas vacation when they could break training. It may have been that, but the fact remains that it was the poorest exhibition of basket­ ball Northwestern has shown this year. Against a team, which under any average ball playing we would have defeated, we showed poor passing, highly inaccurate shooting and rough de­ fensive work. All around it was a bad game for Northwestern.

The score at the half was tied at 12 all. Our team still had hopes of coming out on top. But it was not to be. The final gun stopped the scoreboard at 32 一29.

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Milton 30 Northwestern 46 January 10—This was the first time that we ever noticed that a vacation decidedly improved a team. At times we could hardly believe it, but the new solar year seemed to have done something. The five players made a team as a team defeated Milton with quite a margin of victory.

Kuehl at guard gave the right start to many a successful play and himself contributed heavily to the scoring. Schumann, a newcomer to collegiate ranks, made his debut into basketball and also the scorebooks in the second half with four through-thehoopers.

Messrs. Conway and Thiel gave us a display of officiating that was a joy to behold, for, although three of our boys had to leave the game on fouls, the game was played with a nice observance of all the rules, especially those on bodily contact.

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Free throws missed-Northwestern: Berg 1, Naumann 1, Hoffmann 1, Molting 4. Milton: Polan 1, Gschwandter 3, Miller 1, Beebe 3, Smith 1.

Mission House 39 Northwestern 40 January 13—It seems to have become tradition that Mission House and Northwestern engage in dose-fought basketball games. The last three games were won in overtime play by a one-point margin by Northwestern.

The game this year was close all the way. At the half Northwestern led with a score of 19—17. The teams kept matching basket for basket until just a few seconds before the end of the game Mission House had crept forward to a two-point lead at 36—34. And then, while the timekeeper was squeezing the trigger of the final gun, Kuehl dropped in a basket to tie the score. The game went into overtime and out of the fiveminute skirmish we emerged the victor by one point. Naumann, who seems to thrive on overtime play, had dropped in two field goals to their one field goal and one free throw. The one-point difference gave us the decision.

Individual scoring honors were taken by Nuerhof of Mission House and Koeninger of Northwestern with twenty-one and seventeen points respectively.

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RED Extension 45 Northwestern 55 January 20—Northwestern established a new high scoring re­ cord in this game. Last year the team at the same place, against the same team, established the record of fifty-four points made in one game. This year they broke that record and made fifty-five points.

The game was an unusually fine one with all the men playing good ball. The starting five showed such good per­ formance that only two of them were replaced by substitutes, and then only for a very short time.

Our forward wall did the heavy scoring of the evening, the forwards dividing thirty-one points quite evenly between them and the center making eleven points. The guards performed the defensive work, helped quite a bit by Naumann, center, who controlled the rebounds under the backboard. The guards contributed to the offensive by scoring thirteen points.

Wasserman of the Engineers established an individual scoring record of nineteen points.

And that’s the short story of a very exciting game, with very much action and much scoring.

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Campus and Classroom Comes a January — You can have a lot of fun; Comes a cold wave — You can dress up nice and warm; Comes a snow storm — You can shovel lots of snow; Comes exams — ow!

Nothing can be done. except study and that, too, seems hopelessly futile what with thousands of lines of Greek to review plus the Hebrew verb, hundreds of years of man’s struggle through the Middle Ages, plus various and sundry other subjects too humorous to mention. Speaking of studying (who brought this unpleasant aubject up anyway? As you can plainly see, it’s very distaste­ ful) that brings us to books. Dag wood Grams, that master of impromptu classroom witticisms and bright remarks, has found a good use for his many volumes at last. When last seen they were propping up his dilapidated couch. We always knew Dag would make good use of his learning. Who said book learning isn’t a good means of support?

Item gleaned from the long-distance telephone bill: I call to Milwaukee Downer------------$.65 Come on Bradtke, pay up.

A beautiful bouquet of stink daisies to the Literary Socie­ ties. Who’s responsible for the late start in presenting the first program? Maybe precedent-breaking is the vogue, but accord­ ing to the constitution the first one is to be presented before Christmas. The drive for members was anything but success­ ful —indicating the decaying condition of these organizations.

The attitude toward programs is blase: mere incidents sand­ wiched between basketball games.

One night as I roamed through old Singapore I bumped into a bloke in a revolving door *'Pardon me,” I says with a flourish, “If I seemed to be a bit boorish.”

“Oh that’s perfectly all right,” he replied. ‘‘You see there Are no revolving doors in Singapore.’’

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RED “Nya, Nya, Nya,” said the N. Y. A. boys as they cashed their monthly checks. * * * * The two-piano recital by Margaret Diefenthaeler and Roland Dittl, presented in the gym on Jan. 12, was very well received. The concert pianists presented a varied program from classical and modern composers. Mr. Dittl and Mrs. Diefenthaeler give piano instructions to music students in Mil­ waukee where they have appeared in concert performance several times at the Pabst theatre. They have also appeared in New York and Chicago and are acclaimed as outstanding duopianists. Their technique at the keyboards is nothing short of perfection. 氺

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Several students attended Yehudi Menuhin’s performance as concert violinist in Milwaukee, Friday, January 19.

The big snowstorm brought out the hardy Norseman instinct in many of the students. Despite the raging blizzard, they bundled up and went for hikes on that blustery Sunday afternoon. Too bad the storm didn’t come at a more opportune time —say some weekend when half the student body had emigrated.

Perhaps we would have some periods off.

“Radio” was the subject of the first literary program of the season presented by the Phi Gamma Rho society. Reinhart Pope and Willard Kehrberg arranged the program. Paul Nolting discussed ‘‘The History of Radio”； ‘‘Technique of Broadcasting” was the topic of TedThurow’s speech and Ver­ non Gerlach held forth on “Television.” Following the speeches an amusing variety radio program ‘‘Men Only’’ was presented with all the accounterments of a studio broadcast except pre­ cision. The program lacked that finished perfection so vital to a presentation of that type. Mickey Bradtke’s German Band dished up a little corn as did the quartet. We’ll not humiliate the boys by mentioning their names. Perhaps Mr. Pope cquld get a job as a grag-writer for some of the so-called big time comedians. Although the program had shortcomings we must give the gentlemen credit for producing an original bit of enter­ tainment.

We welcome back John Kohl who has been absent since Thanksgiving. Johnny looks pretty good after his extended illness, and we hope he won’t have too much trouble getting back in the groove.

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RED Remorse At this sad season of the year, A.s exams once more draw too, too near, We wonder as, having written all we know, With fal’tring steps from the room we go, If then we must repeat once more Those words well known in poets’ lore: “Of all sad words of tougue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’ ’’

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Watertown, Wis., February 1940

Number 9

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertow n. Wis.. as second class matter under Act of March 3% 1870. Published monthly. S ubscription. One Dollar.

240* Bootis of Watertown

Hail "240”，gleaming racer of the hills, To thee we chant this fond remembrance.

On thy sleek form there were no mars or ills And starry-eyed we gazed in wonderment.

Thy slender streaming body was no thing for us, But to immortals should have proved its worth, On snowy, glistening heights of the eternal clouds To transport Zeus above in breathless admiration.

No fault of thine that now thou liest shattered; We are the cause of thy present wretched state.

Thou hast indignantly the mortals scattered Who did so much as dare to mount thy back.

Rather than dwell below in shameful servitude Thy spirit thou didst pluck from us its keepers.

We, most unworthy of thy convoy proved, Have left us now a silent, wasted form.

Hail “240”，gleaming racer of the hills, To thee we chant this fond remembrance.

On thy sleek form there are but mars and ills And sober-eyed we gaze in melancholy. *Please note that this fragment is not a parody on “480”, a lyric by Theognis of Megara, but a proclamation of sorrow by four students who were once the proud possessors of a sleek and beautiful toboggan, the “240”（d. Jan. 28, 1940)

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RED DAUGHTER OF CIRCUMSTANCE F. E. Peterson

It is cold. Bitter cold. The kind of damp antevernal cold which soaks right into one’s body, and once there defies the utmost effort to be rid of it. The lurid early afternoon sun looks from a murky featureless sky at an acute angle into a dirty, barren canyon between blackened rows of squalid buildings.

On the concrete stands a youngish woman with a little bas­ ket on her arm. In her eyes is a hunted, a forlorn, a despairing look; and yet there is just a trace of hope as her unseeing eye roves over the roaring vehicles in the street at her side.

She is not alone. She is but one link in a long human chain of dejection and shivering misery. She waits with forlorn resignation and shuffles along a step or two at a time like a criminal in a chain gang. After long hours of standing and moving thus she arrives at last at the goal towards which she has been pressing, a narrow booth of rough unpainted boards in the entry of a public building. A worker quickly gives her two small packages and she moves off to make way for the next.

The concrete and stone walled valley is now in shadow, for the sun is approaching the horizon. She now steps inside her paintless battered door. As she does so, a swarm of little children rush to her in wide-eyed anticipation. “Mother, it is cold.” “I’m hungry.’’ They don’t have to tell her that. She can feel and see it. They look up and see the joy of meeting her children overshadowed in her face by wearied hopelessness.

“All I could get was twelve ounces of dried peas and a pound of powdered milk.” In silence she breaks open the packages and using the scraps of old newspapers she found on the streets for fuel builds a fire and prepares the little meal which soon disappears into hungry mouths, a mere sop to empty stomachs.

But the mother doesn’t eat. How can she take anything from her dear little ones? They need it more than she. So she picks up the youngest child, only a few months old, who had been whimpering blue-cold in its shattered crib, and sitting in the gathering darkness, she nurses and warms it, trying to for­ get her own gnawing hunger.

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RED Now she sits in the plutonic blackness of her room and spirit. She has tucked her children away in bed where they will be warmer and perhaps forget their hunger for awhile.

She does not weep. At first she did, but the tears no longer come. She merely thinks with sorrow on what life was and with despair on what it may be. Five months ago her husband was killed in an airplane factory, making wings of death. The little compensation she first got had been suddenly discon­ tinued. But she lays her weary limbs carefully beside two of her children in the ragged bed, and is quickly borne down by sheer tedium into fitful slumber. Outside the moon is shining.

An airplane drones ominously overhead.

The scene! Helsinki? No! Berlin? No! A large city in the U. S. DESCENT INTO HADES R. J. P.

Alex Eleutheros Hydrothermios Worked in a fruit store in East St. Louis, Till he stept in the way of a passing car And was whisked in a flash from these places far.

His soul was amazed at the sight which it saw, At the sparkling river and resorts on the shore.

And this he well knew was the river Styx.

And everyone here naught but gullible hicks.

For here close by was a great white stand, And a hawker with Lethean water in hand, Persuading a crowd of really dead-pans That it cured the sorrows and pains that are man’s.

“Step rijrht up for a bottle of sody, And you’ll never remerrber you had a body.”

But no such sucker was Hydrothermios.

He hadn’t brought his funereal obolus.

The place for which he next set his bearin’s Was an old, old shack wiih the name of Charon’s But Charon just sat all alone in his scow.

He couldn’t get hold of a client nohow.

For Charon was charging a nickel a ride.

While Hermes was stopping the folks on this side.

So Hydrothermios did leave the canoe For Mercury's Wcite?，side Playground Casino.

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So Alex went in and joined in the fray. * Cause the prizes being given were not just hay.

Alex exclaimed over all he explored But more than the rest, the gaming-board.

For so says the man who to Hermes yields, 44Who want’s to go to th’ Elysian Fields?”

Ignoble ’twould be the result to becloud.

Alex joined in and he lost his shroud.

When Mercury found that he had no dough, He called him names, a-a so-and-so.

He threw Alex down in the cellar below, To peel the potatoes and sift the roe.

Here’s the result of not going across For Alex Eleutheros Hydrothermios.

HOW TO BOWL A. Keibel

Any Caucasian over seven years of age who has ever rolled marbles can learn to play tenpins. If you are a rank amateur or a veteran of the alleys who is unwilling to become a champion in one breezy lesson, please pass this dissertation on to someone who does have aspirations.

To get down to the subject, first you select from the racks a reasonably spherical ball and grasp it firmly between the thumb and middle fingers. Should it slip from the hand, look for three gaping holes somewhere on the ball’s surface. These openings serve both to facilitate proper wield and to keep the ball airconditioned.

Form is the fundamental factor of bowling since it is the method of delivery that makes one ‘‘champ’’ or chump. For best results, the Rules Committee has sanctioned as indispens­ able the following points: 1. To send the ball on its way, if you cannot run, stand with your back to the pins and bend over, hurling the ball as a football center does; otherwise step a few (about thirty) feet back of the foul line, whirl the ball around your head six times and make a rush for the alley. This gives the ball momentum.

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RED your shoes may be at fault. A pair of leather soles will send you slithering half way down the alley. Therefore, immediately visit “the canteen” to purchase one roller skate and one cleated right football shoe. The skate allows you to reach the alley with minimum effort and friction, while the hobnailed shoe will halt you at the very edge of the foul line, provided you dig the the spikes deep enough into the polished floor.

3. The release is an essential part of the delivery. This is accomplished by allowing the ball to slip from the fingers after the windup. I once saw a player forget this and bat himself on the head. Have you ever seen a gutter-ball result in a strike?

I did! It was like this: a medium-weight member of a womens’ bowling team wound up like a pinwheel and made a dash for the line. She held on to the ball, afraid of letting go, and was carried along down the right gutter. As the ball passed along­ side the pins, the little woman side-swiped all of them for a strike. She was a bit dazed but anxious to try again. (If you don’t believe it, ask her.)

4. The curve is an important part of the ball’s flight. When you lay the ball upon the edge of the alley, twist the wrist toward the inside. This curves the ball between the number 1 and 3 pins for a strike. Ned Day, world’s champion bowler, throws a slow ball with a wicked twist, so that when the ball hits, it sends the pins spinning against one another for a clean strike. By all means, be careful not to impart too much hook lest the pin-boy in the next alley be injured, or, if he have his mouth open, swallow the ball.

5. ‘‘Observe the foul line!”一reads the sign above the alleys. This is to prevent one from ‘‘hunching’’ or sneaking up several yards, and makes for consistency. You bowl the same way and distance every time. Some bowlers have a morbid fear of crossing this line. They usually release several feet behind it, but if they reach the line they totter as if it were a high building or the brink of a canyon.

6. If you cannot score, you cannot win. Therefore practice making X，s and /’s on graph paper as you would on regulation scoring sheets. You’ll always break 200 then.

I once watched a beginner bowl 300. Although it took him three games to get this score, you too can bowl as well by faith­ fully applying the foregoing principles. — See you at the Na­ tional’s!

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To be awakened, or not, —that is the question, Whether ’tis nobler, mind you, to suffer The flings and parries of outraged monitor Or to thrust your arms 7gainst him who troubles, And by such pokes offend him. To lie abed, — to sleep,— 0 more! for by a sleep we know we end The heart-ache and the dozen natural worries That we’re all kin to, — ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To try to sleep, 一 To sleep! perchance to dream! ah, there’s a thought; For in that sleep of ours what pleasant scenes may come When we have shuffled off to dreamland!

(Much as there’s in that pause, ’tis a state select That does claim a third of so long life.)

Who’d care to get up this morn on time?

“The professor’s wrong,” the sluggard cries, (’Though pangs of deprived lunch — they really gnaw The insides of him, and he yearns That of the breakfast he might partake.)

“The bell, I’m sure it has not rung, or I’d have heard it!”

Who’d for these victuals care (To get up and eat is such a weary life) But that the dread of someone afterwards, The undiscovered tutor, to the “dorm” So rapidly returns. This he does well, And makes the late-bird bear gross ills, and behave By a few orders that he knows lots of.

Thus conscience doth make cowards bawl.

For thus the ,bated hue of resolutions Is quickly o’er with, and the pale rascal’s thoughts And anger rises to great pitch for a moment; But this retards his “drag” all right, For he’ll lose “X” in house deportment.

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^bxtaxmi 2 THE LITERARY SOCIETIES “The Literary Societies are dying out.” This has been said since they were started. Nevertheless, they managed to keep on going. But now the Literary Societies are dead, perhaps not in name, but in spirit. Never has such a lack of interest been shown as in the last two years. Out of the entire collegiate body about fifty students still belong to one or the other society at least in name.

Primarily the purpose of the societies is not to develop some literary genius but just to give the student a chance to produce something and then present it. This has degenerated into nothing but a trip to the nearest reference book, a rapid perusal of some article, most of the time a mere copying, then probably some memory work, the presentation and then hope for someone to call one a Demosthenes or at least some flattery to satisfy one's vainglory. Of all the speeches presented in the last two years probably one speech was worth remembering.

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Consider each cause. Finally, it is up to all officers to cre­ ate an interest in the societies among the students. But how can this be done if the programs that are presented are nothing but a rehearsing of what has been known since the eighth grade?

A program should have an appeal to the students. Of course, most students would want a slap-stick comedy in about ten acts.

Then perhaps a humorous speech. A program in order to have appeal doesn’t need this. Certainly, comedy is fitting, but it shouldn’t be made the main theme. Usually a program is judged by the number of laughs the various speakers get. If they get many, the program is good; if they don’t get any, the program was stale, dry, trite and whatever else it might be called. Usually programs of the latter type are the best.

Then consider the other activities of the students.

Basketball games, skating, dates, and all such minor trash.

First of all, a master of ceremonies has to consult a calendar or rather the basketball schedule in order to arrange his program.

It is practically impossible to have a Literary program without interfering with a basketball game. Of course the Literary program is indefinitely postponed. The game is so much more important. And then if there happen to be three basketball games in one week, well, it’s impossible to present a program.

The students have to study sometime. The Literary program is literally sandwiched in between the basketball games. Of course, athletics have their place, but finally how many students derive any benefit from a game? The team, of course, but the student very improbably. But in the Literary programs not only the speaker or the actor obtains the benefit but all the 251

5PRED students. Here they’re brought into contact with knowledge and probably culture in its simplest form. But then, what student wants to be brought into contact with knowledge and culture in the good sense?

If only the students would realize that in appearing on a program they are doing themselves a great favor and in reality are deriving a great benefit from their appearance, a great battle would be won. But then, consider some of the speeches that were presented this year. The so-called life of a great humorist. Certainly he was born, but then, a retelling of his jokes which everyone knew certainly told no one what makes a man a great humorist. Then the attitude some speakers take toward their speech. They, in their own opinion, are great orators. Therefore, they don’t write their speeches, but merely work out an outline and then get up and hold forth, with the result that the presentation is a flop.

Finally, the criticism should be constructive; if it is destructive it isn’t criticism. We’re young and make mistakes, but usually are too blind to see them. Flattery is destructive criticism. Why not, in criticizing, give credit where credit is due, but not make it flattery, A so-called plan to unite both societies might work out, but what benefit would be obtained? None.

The Literary Societies will remain outdated institutions in most students’ minds, but why should they? Why not dissolve and organize on an entirely different basis, forgetting the title, *'Literary Society”？ T. Bradtke

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Clouds are in themselves very beautiful and interesting objects of study, because in the summer surely, and to a certain extent in winter also, they are so changeable. Except when the vault of heaven is fully overcast the play of light and shadow, the ever-altering shape and size, and the various move252 i

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Anybody who has ever lain on his back alone on a grassy hillside, perhaps chewing a blade of grass, and watched a sum­ mer sky will have noticed the highly interesting movements of clouds. It is best seen when there are but a few clouds in the sky. What on casual glance seemed merely an indefinite splotch of cloud will appear on closer scrutiny to be a highly mobile and almost living thing. Not only does the outline of the cloud con­ tinually change, stretching, shrinking, bulging, hollowing, but the interior of the mass is ever, as it were, seething. It swells, thins out, perhaps an opening with a backdrop of more distant cloud-wisps will slowly close up only to leave an aperture of a different nature at another spot. Anyone gifted with a little imagination can see a continually varied parade of objects in the passage of a single cloud across a limpid sky.

A very impressive thing to see is the approach of a storm or thunder cloud. Out of a slowly advancing bank of deep blue understructure piles of intensely white cloud roll and rise often at an alarming rate of speed, ever forceful and pregnant with continually dispensed and never-ending kinetic energy. Often­ times they are incandescent with flashes of burning lightning.

Though these clouds are called “wool-packs”，I see in them something hard as marble, which the incalculable power of the universe yet molds like soft butter.

Everyone must have seen a glowering sky suddenly burst open as if by magic, and reveal behind it beautiful white clouds gleaming in the dazzling light of day. So the effect on one’s mood when like a flash a difficult problem opens to a solution in the mind.

Then there are the clouds of a glorious western sunset. In the glow of the departing sun they glisten with every shade of red from flaming scarlet to the most delicate pinks. Often the whole sky is covered and casts a pinkish ethereal light upon the earth. And these thousands of shades of red are never exactly alike at any one spot for a second, as one can quickly determine by glancing back after turning away for a few seconds. But as the bright spots in our lives these colors last but a short time and leave us with a feeling of depression.

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JUumnt ^ote s The engagement of Rev. N. E. Paustian ’29 of Oconomowoc, Wis. to Miss Hazel Witte of Milwaukee has been announced.

The Rev. Gerhard Albrecht ’27 formerly of Kawkawlin, Mich, has now taken over the pastoral duties of the Lutheran Church at Ixonia.

Miss Louise Notbohm ex ’31 and Miss Hertha Notbohm ex *35 accompanied by their sisters Viola and Gertrude, all of Oconomowoc, attended the Mission House game.

The Rev. Marcus Fleischer ’30 of Ripon, Wis. is the proud father of a baby boy.

The Rev. Erhard Rupp ’27 of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, has been called to Lomira, Wis. The Rev. Lester Groth ’35 has accepted a call to Salome, South Dakota. His engagement to Miss Ruth Kionka has also been announced.

The Rev. William Schweppe ’29 of Nigeria, Africa is on leave at present. On Feb. 11, he held a lecture at Slinger, Wis. Samuel Kugler ’36 is teaching school at Rev. Koelpin’s in Milwaukee.

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纖！lints Northwestern 44 All-Stars 47 January 30-It looked as though it would be a bad defeat for the home team at the hands of the Waukesha All-Stars during the first half. The All-Stars quite easily took over the lead and kept it. At the half the score was 31-14 and there was no hope for Northwestern. The spectators settled down merely to watch the second half. But the teams came out for the second half and Northwestern began making an assault on the score. The All-Stars weakened and near the end of the game it almost looked as though Northwestern mi^ht gain a victory. But that victory was three points out of their reach when the gun ended the game at 44-47.

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Northwestern Koeningrer, f Sauer, f Schumann, s Bersr, f Birkholz, f Naumann, c Seehusen, c Kuehl, g： Hoffmann, g Nolting, g

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Free throws missed—Northwestern: Koeninger 2, Schumann 2, Naumann 1, Kuehl 2, Hoffmann 3. Waukesha: Mahnke 1, Robel 4, Land 1, Buck 1, Bayne 1.

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It was a scoring machine that kept rolling up points almost as fast as the scorekeepers could record them. On defense they were practically air-tight, for the score at the half was 30-5.

The boys played the second half just to see how large a score they could gather together. They managed to get the largest score ever gotten by a Northwestern basketball team in one game. They made a grand total of sixty-two points against the Engineers, the same team against which they established the record of fifty-five points earlier in the season.

Koeninger led the heavy scoring with nineteen points, with the same number divided between Naumann and Schumann.

Northwestern Koeninger, f Birkholz, f Schumann, f Sauer, f Naumann, c Seehusen, c Kuehl, g Baer, g Hoffmann, g Nolting, g Berg, g

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Engineers Nierenberg, f Roth, f Wasserman, f Jaskulski, f Allen, c Frangesh, c Costello, g Zancanata, g Goodreau, g Stauder, g Dobbin, g Tamdlinson, g

FG 0 0

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F

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4

2

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4

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2 0 0 0 7

2 3 0 0 0 22

Free throws missed—Northwestern: Koeninger 3, Birkholz 1, Schumann 3, Seehusen 2, Kuehl 2, Nolting 1. Engineers: Nierenberg 2, Roth 2, Wasserman 1, Jaskulski 1, Allen 3, Frangesh 1, Costello 1.

Northwestern 43 Miners 27 February 8—Northwestern travelled to Platteville and although the trip made the boys groggy, they still managed to defeat the Miners. The game, however, was characterized by rough and ragged play. The trip had put the boys below form.

There was a record set in this game which is worth men­ tioning. This is the first time that anyone can remember that we ever defeated the Miners on their own floor. That memory goes back almost ten years and we feel that it is quite accurate.

However, Platteville has not the championship team it had last year, having to date won no games, either at home or away.

Naumann and Schumann led the scoring with tip-in shots that brought them each a total of eleven points.

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FG

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Free throws missed—Northwestern: Koeninger 1, Schumann 1, Naumann 1, Kuehl 1, Nolting 1. Miners: Carey 2, Goodrich 2, Schuman 1.

Northwestern 51

Mission House 42

February 10—With a lot of school spirit the student body came out and spurred the team on to a victory that may mean the championship. But it was more than school spirit that won the game. Northwestern was out to prove that it could defeat Mission House decisively, and not by such a small margin as there had been in the last three games between the schools, all of which went into overtime. And just by the way, the boys were out to get a little revenge on their home floor for the foot­ ball game at Mission House last fall.

In other words it was our game even though the outlook was dark just before the start when several of our players were camplaining of sickness or injuries.

The first half was a close nip-and-tuck battle with North­ western pulling into a lead just before the half. The second half was as hard and fast as the first, but Northwestern kept its lead. Everyone was excited and glad when the game ended and Northwestern actually had the victory written down in the scorebooks.

Perhaps the most deciding factor in the play of the game was that the Northwestern substitutes came through when they were needed. Sauer and Birkholz kept up the pace set by Koeninger and Schumann when the latter were put out on fouls.

There were many fouls called, although the game was not rough, but rather it was fast and hard. The officials kept it well under control.

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Mission House Zurbuchen, f Stueben, f Neerhof, f Whiterabbit. f Hodge, c Ruebel, c Wierwille, g Dunn, g Reichert, g

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Free throws missed—Northwestern: Koeninger 1, Schumann 2，Sauer 3, Naumann 3, Seehusen 1，Kuehl 2, Hoffmann 1. Mission House: Zurbuchen 1, Whiterabbit 1, Hodge 6, Wierwille 1, Dunn 2.

Waterloo 42

Northwestern 53

February 13—Coach Umnus managed to get in a game outside of the regular schedule with the Waterloo city team. He started his second-string men and gave them a much needed experience under fire. They stood the strain quite well and managed to keep even with the Waterloo team. Then towards the end of the game the regulars were sent in and they finished the game with a fine margin of victory.

W. Higgins of the Waterloo team made over half of his team’s points, getting twenty-six out of the forty-two point total.

The game had this to say for itself that it got the whole team in trim for the last lap of a drive toward the championship.

Nothwestern Sauer, f Schumann, f Birkholz, f Koeninger, f Seehusen, c Naumann, c Nolting, g Baer, g Berg, g Hoffmann, g

FG 4 2 2

2 4

FT 1 2 1 0 2

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Waterloo W, Higgins, f Gingles, f Battist, f D. Higgins, f Lutschmger, c Converse, g Bach, g Sturtevant, g

FG 11 0 0 0 4

FT 4 0

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Free throws missed—Northwestern: Seehusen 1, Berg 1, Hoffmann 1.

Waterloo: W. Higgins 3, Converse 2.

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The team remembered that defeat and determined to “lay it on’’ when the Extension boys came to Northwestern. This is the game in which they did.

Northwestern started out rather shakily but still managed to keep abreast of Extension. Coach Umnus sent in substitutes to break loose the Northwestern team. They broke it loose and the regulars returned and “laid it on heavy.” Naumann with his tip-in shots and Schumann with his shots from everywhere rated high among the scorers. Birkholz and Sauer were the ones that put the spark into the game that sent Northwestern ahead.

Northwestern Koeninger, f Birkholz, f Schumann, f Sauer, f Naumann, c Seehusen, c Kuehl, g Baer, g Hoffmann, g Nolting, g Berg, g

FG 3 4 0 7

2 0 0 2 0

20

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3 2 0 0

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Extension Cleary, f Vogt, f Paicopolus, f Armbruster, f Hennings, c Troepke, c Sjogren, g Grin, g Faber, g Savass, g Stevens, g Straite, g Frankie, g Tiece, g

FG 1 0

FT 0 0

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Free throws missed—Northwestern: Koeninger 3, Schumann 1, Naumann 1, Kuehl 2, Hoffmann 2, Nolting 1, Berg 1. Extension: Cleary 1, Henning 2, Grin 2.

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Campus and Classroom Before we tear February off our desk calendars and chuck it into a waste basket and oblivion, let us see what this fleeting month has meant to our young lives.

Robert Krause presented a program for the Philomathean Literary Society on famous humorists. A speech on Irvin Cobb was presented by Roland Gurgel, Armin Keibel talked on Robert Benchley and Gerhard Franzmann discussed P. G. Wodehouse. A play “A Marriage Proposal” by Anton Chekhov was given and well received. The characters were Marion Mattke, Leonard Beske and Robert Steffenhagen. Although the program had a few good points, it limped insofar as the speakers did not cover their topics adequately.

Watertown’s latest development is a part-time radio studio which broadcasts through the facilities of WIBU, Poynette.

This gives the musical organizations of N. W. C. a chance to broadcast once in a while. On Thursday, February 1, the Male Chorus presented a half-hour program, arranged by Prof.

Bolle and Ray Wiechmann, consisting of sacred and secular numbers. On Thursday, February 15, the band also broadcast for half an hour. The station intends to establish permanent studios in Watertown at a later date. Perhaps some of our organizations will again have an opportunity to display their talent over the ether.

It seems the coeds’ party was disrupted by an uninvited guest the other night. The event inspired Ardin D. Laper to compose the following epic, which we would like to call poetry, but out of respect for Wordsworth, Milton and other “greats”， we hesitate to call it that.

To Herman (A mouse who bravely went to a coed party)

The pounding of your heart is done Though in a furry coat it now lies cold.

Little mouse, who had but one life To nobly give for laughter, Proud you might be If yet you were To think you died so gloriously.

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Had you lived in corn shock, Straw pile, or hay mow and there Had been found out.......

Sharp fork, heavy boot, or greedy dog...... .

There’d be no one to call you Herman Or tell about you in the Black and Red. I wish you could have seen How prettily we wrapped you up With tissue and red ribbon.

Did all that female chatter Get on your nerves?

I’m sorry.

But nobly did you play Your part. I’ll bet you almost Laughed yourself when out you Leaped and all around saw shrieking Coeds perched on chair and table.

I sadly saw you had no chance 一 That die you surely must.

I knew that when they’d swing the broom You’d have to bite the dust.

I think I’ll miss you some.

For now no more at night I’ll hear your nibble, nibble, nibble.

I know you didn’t ask for much.

A few crumbs of cake, a few Pages from a book or two.

I marvel that in a week or so You might have insulated your home With conditional clauses.

And that you might have been The first to completely digest The dialogues of Plato.

I could have spared them, too, But we just couldn’t go on Living together.

What would people say?

And so, Herman, it was Either you or I. It was you Herman, And nobly you met it.......

Mid piercing shrieks, Quaking legs and trembling breasts.......

While I and my companions laughed.

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Also this:

Out of Focous To live To learn And to forget, It seems such pointless toil.

To think The brains That hold so much Soon turn to dusty soil.

Our musical organizations are now concentrating on their program numbers for the Spring Concert to be held on March 12. This date is unusually early this year because Easter falls .such an early date. Prof. Bolle and Ray Wiechmann are on getting the Male Chorus into top shape. Extra rehearsals are being held to polish concert numbers and also in preparation for the tour. Prof. Oswald has been putting the band through some intensive training, and the band has shown very definite improvement since he took over the directing last fall. Traugott Bradtke is now directing the orchestra and hopes to have the organization up to its usual standards. A girl’s trio is being trained by Ray Wiechmann.

Ted Stern, chairman of the committee in charge of the Male Chorus tour, reports that the itinerary has been nearly completed. He has arranged for concerts to be held at the following places: Racine, Wisconsin; Lansing, Owosso, Chesaning, Bay City, Saginaw, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Jenera, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two other places as yet unde­ termined will probably be added. There will also be a Home­ coming concert here at the college on Sunday evening, March 31. The chorus travels via chartered bus and are the guests of the congregations at which they present concerts. The warblers will be gone about ten days. Arranging for a tour of this kind is no easy task and Stern deserves a lot of credit for handling his job so efficiently. The purpose of the tour is to give the people an opportunity to hear some of the fine music of our church and also to become better acquainted with Northwestern 263

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On February 14th, the mailman struggled up to the college under a staggering load of (would you believe it?) Valentines.

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So Far and Yet So Near

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War—A Thrill

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XLIII.

Watertown, Wis., March 1940

Number 10

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FREEDOM R. J. P.

There is much crying- today, about Liberty and Freedom being in danger. While the liberty which is meant is usually of a political nature, the same views could be taken of liberty on the personal and social side. For liberty in this field seems almost totally non-existent.

There is, to begin in a small way, the dictation in eating.

A condiment used with one food is correct, with another wrong.

You must salt your egg (whoever heard of eggs without salt?) but you must not salt your ice cream, not even if it tastes good to you. If you do, there’s something the matter with you.

When it comes to dress, the same thing holds. We claim to be broadminded, to stress the individual, not the type. But we don’t allow anyone to express his individuality. Instead we compel one to wear type-clothing. Not forcibly, of course, but the ridicule, of a small-minded public is hard for all, except an Oscar Wilde, to bear.

If a pair of socks doesn’t, to popular fancy, “match” your hat and necktie, you dare not wear them. If your suit is too 265

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In like manner there seems to be a right way of standing, of sitting, and of reclining. No one seems to know the origin of these rules, or the authority for them, but they are none the less binding. Of course, if you are Elsa Maxwell, you can change all that.

Finally, we come to the matter of dictation in speech.

There is as much bickering and cavilling about a pronunciation, as if God himself had written a right pronunciation into the moral code. The party engaged in this not only shows that he sees no farther than the dictionary, but that he prizes the for­ mal word above the thought behind the word.

Not that the dictionary pronunciations are without benefit.

Natuarlly, a generally uniform pronunciation is desirable. But not compulsory. Is it really imaginable that personal liberty in this line will in time cause great confusion in the language and obscure our communication?

We try to establish the validity of such rules by pleading universal acceptance. Yet no number of people, even the entire population of the world, can by taking thought establish any­ thing as an absolute truth. Then, not even ignorance of the accepted standards should brand breaches of them as wrong.

After all, tastes differ, and in such cases, the individual is a law unto himself. If morals are not concerned, what seems right to an individual, is right.

There is no reason to accept such bonds willingly merely on the basis of another person’s feeling.

Compulsion causes revulsion.

SO FAR AND YET SO NEAR li. E. s.

Out of the world he stepped! Back into the eighteenth century! He was passing through the hills and vales for a special purpose. Now he was hastening, almost at a run, then suddenly he seemed to be but an idle wanderer with no goal in view. He was on his way to a concert and what a concert.

This concert promised to be given by a choir of angels.

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RED But why the odd, changing pace? Lost?—Hardly! Every­ thing was leading him to his concert. In fact he was listening to the “Prelude” to the concert, for while hastening through the forested hills he would suddenly hear beautiful voices from the mountainside. They are always taking him farther back into the eighteenth century. — Here a family was returning from their mountain corn-field, singing an evening ballad. — In the next valley a hunter was returning from an all-day hunt, a successful hunter, singing a rousing song of knights and steeds.

How could anyone hasten through these valleys, no matter what goal he had in view. Therefore, after listening to a lover on his way to a secret meeting place, he slowly approached the “Concert Hall” on the hillside. Night was already falling.

The choir was almost ready to begin their concert. Our friend got the last seat in the house. From his seat he could not see the choir, but that mattered little. He wouldn’t have seen the singers anyway, for what he saw was a vision of a great knight seeking his lost lady, or a lofty castle casting its grotesque shadows over a turbulent sea. He saw the glorious banquets of the lords and the wondrous deeds of valor, justice and honor, the magnificent triumphs and the beautiful ladies.

Before him loomed the lords of the sea in their odd ships, and their hosts of hardy men, fearless in any storm.

On and on went the glorious pictures sung in the voices of purest of cherubs. The voices were mellow; the voices were sweet; yet the voices were natural, they were untrained.

Our listener never noticed his odd seat and the ‘‘Concert Hall.，’ Much less did he notice the hours flitting by. Not until the little choir of cherubs finally broke down out of sheer exhaustion, did he become aware of his crude surroundings.

For the “Concert Hall” was a little hut in the Alleghenies but twenty-five miles from civilization, yet where a girl gets married, moves to the other side of the mountains and never sees her parents for ten years.

The listener didn’t see the choir, because his chair was facing the fireplace and his back was turned to the singers. The only other chair in the hut was occupied by the mother of the little choristers, who made no sound throughout the concert, except to spit tobacco-juice into the fire with an unerring eye.

The choir of cherubs was a group of little children led by the eldest. Our listener found it hard to believe.

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So near and yet so far.

PHILOSOHY Mose Black

**Whad de mtttah yo, doan’ eat no breakfas,?M remarked Deacon Black the other morning. ‘‘I doan feel well,” replied the Black heir-apparent “I eat some lobster salad las’ night an’ it doan’ agree wiv me.”

The Deacon fixed him for a moment with his glittering eye and then remarked, ‘‘Yo, got a pow’ful delicate stomach fo’ a young buck niggah. Was it lobster salad dat made ya，tack all over de street fo’ an hour, like de Puritan in a head-wind, befo’ yo’ cud maik de gate? Was it lobster salad dat made yo’ fall up again de front do, so hard dat yo’ wake up yo’ po’ ol’ mudder? Did lobster salad maik’ yo’ hang yo’i，shoes on de hall-tree, frow yo1 clo’s on de flo’，an’ go t’ bed wiv yo, hat on? Go ’long wiv yo’. Ef yo’ had said dat niggah gin was de mattah wiv yo, den yo, bin jes’ as good a man as Geo’ge Washin’ton; but now yo’ ain no bettah den a infidel.’’

BEAUTIFUL DONABELLE A FAIRY TALE Ardin D. Lapor

Once upon a time in a far away land there lived a beautiful princess named Donabelle. It is hard to tell this story about Donabelle because it hasn’t a happy ending like most fairy tales, but happy ending or not this is the story of Donabelle. Dona­ belle wasn’t always beautiful. In fact when she was a little girl she was quite homely.

Now at that time there were hardly any mirrors at all.

And if there were any, they were much too valuable to let children use them. And so all her life Donabelle had never seen that she was homely, and she was happy.

But soon after her fourteenth birthday she began to think 268

RED of boys and then she began to wonder how pretty she was and whether she was as pretty as her playmates.

One day Donabelle and her playmates were playing tag in a meadow. Through the meadow ran a brook. It was a warm summer day and soon the girls became tired of running and decided to sit on the soft green bank of the brook to rest. Now at the place where Donabelle and her playmates sat there were hardly any ripples on the brook at all. It was as smooth as a mirror. And then what do you supposed happened?

Donabelle saw herself in the water. She saw her playmates too and saw that she was not as pretty as they were. During the rest of the afternoon she didn’t care much to play. She hardly ate any supper that night. And when she went to bed she began to cry and she cried, and cried, and cried.

As her father passed her bed chamber on his way to bed he heard the sobs and went to the side of Donabelle’s bed.

“What’s the matter, my daughter?” the king ask kindly.

Donabelle lifted her little wet cheeks out of her damp pillow and said, “0 father, I’ve seen today I’m not as pretty as my playmates. I’m homely and ugly.” Then she blushed a bit and sobbed a little harder and said, “Boys will never like me. They won’t even look at me.”

The king sat down beside her and took out his royal hand­ kerchief and dried her eyes. Then he took her little hands in his and said, "Donabelle, you just forget all about what you saw today and go to sleep. There’ll be so many other things to think about tomorrow. Remember you wanted a new saddle for Betsy? —Well, the harness maker finished it today. We’ll go riding together in the morning, And don’t forget tomorrow is the day for your first music lesson. And the day after, your tutor will arrive from Constantinople with all the latest story books. Why, you’ll be so busy you’ll hardly know there are such things as boys. Good night, Donobelle.” And then he tucked her in, kissed her, and went out.

Donabelle couldn’t help but sob a sob or two even after her father left, but soon she was fast asleep.

Now in the bedpost of Donabelle’s bed there lived a funny little purple fairy. What he had to say was usually good advice, but he had the funny idea that he could talk in poetry. That 269

RED night about twelve o’clock he came out on top of the bedpost to dance and sang this little song until Donabelle awoke and heard him. This is what he sang— Donabelle, Donabelle, worry no more.

Men there will be that will come to your door.

Donabelle, Donabelle, shed not a tear.

Never 0 never —don’t look at a mirror.

Soon as you do, you will ever regret.

And then the purple fairy was gone again.

The next morning the king decreed throughout his land that if any one should ever speak to the princess about the way she looked, he should lose his head. And the princess remem­ bered what the purple fairy said and so she nevermore tried to see herself. She knew she was homely but she planned to make the best of it.

She liked the new saddle for Betsy, her horse. Each music lesson became more and more fun. Her tutor from far off Con­ stantinople was interesting and clever and she loved to hear his tales of strange people and places.

She knew she was not beautiful to look at but she tried to make her presence pleasant by talking interestingly and almost musically and, above all, not too much. Soon the people about the court forgot that she was homely. In fact they didn’t think much about how she looked at all. They just liked having her around because—well—she was nice to every one and—well—it was just pleasant to be with her.

During this time a strange thing happened. And yet per­ haps it wasn’t so strange, for I’ve seen it happen already my­ self. As Donabelle grew up she became less and less homely.

And by the time she was eighteen no one could deny that she was a very beautiful princess. But her wise father did not change his decree. No one was ever to speak to Donabelle of the way she looked.

Then one day a dark and handsome prince came riding on a fine white horse from a distant land. That evening the king 270

多RED gave a great banquet for him and of course Donabelle was there. All during the meal the prince and Donabelle glanced at each other in a certain sort of way. After they had finished eating, the strange handsome prince said to the king, '*1 should wish to have your daughter, Donabelle, for my wife”.

Then the king called his daughter and said, “This prince wishes you for his wife. What do you say to that, Donabelle?

Donabelle blushed prettily and said, “Surely I could wish for no finer man. 0 father, I’m so happy.”

Then the handsome prince took her in his arms and said, “0 my dear, my own dear Donabelle, you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.”

A great murmur went through the banquet hall. Everyone heard what the strange prince said. Everyone knew the king’s decree. Surely the prince would have to lose his head. Sorrow­ fully the king told the prince about his decree and how he must meet his end.

But Donabelle cried and begged her father not to kill the prince since he was a stranger and did not know of the law.

And finally she said that if the prince must die she would die with him. When her father heard this, he was very sad and did not know what to do. But since he loved Donabelle so much, he decided to pardon the prince, and on the next day the prince and Donabelle were married. Now I’d like to say they lived happily ever after, but I’ve got to tell it as it really happened About a week after the wedding Donabelle began to wonder, “Ami really the most beautiful girl in the world? Or was the prince just making fun at me? I wonder how I really look. I I wonder ... I wonder ...” She felt of wonder her face with her hands. “But I can’t tell that way. I ought to see. Just a peek. Just a little peek’’.

And then late one moonlit night she stole out of the castle and went to the quiet place on the brook in the meadow. At first she took just a little peek at herself. And then she looked longer. The sun was beginning to brighten the horizon when she crawled back into bed. On the next day she bought a mirror. Now she clearly saw. No other girl in the whole land had such beauty. ‘‘Why every man in the court ought to look at me when I，m around,” she thought. “Why was I such a fool to marry the first prince that came along? Perhaps he loves me, 271

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And so Donabelle learned more and more to like herself.

She spent more and more time fussing with her already beauti­ ful face. She spent more and more time fussing with her already beautiful hair. She had little time to ride Betsy. Men were much more exciting than music. Books were for girls who could have no live friends. All conversation in her presence must be about her. The people of the court were bored with her. Before she had been pleasant to everyone. Now her smile was too beautiful to waste on ordinary folks and so she looked sour most of the time because folks seemed just ordinary to her.

She hated herself for having married the first prince that came along and each time she saw him she became more angry.

The prince tried his best to care for her, but that was very hard because she was not the same girl he had loved. He spent most of his time away from the castle fighting and hunting and wished a thousand times that the king had cut his head off when he told Donabelle that she was beautiful.

And so, as far as I know, Donabelle and the prince lived unhappily ever after.

WAR-A THRILL A. Keibel

Chasing thrills is, and always was, the favorite pastime of children. They consider life all play topped with hundreds of thrills like tricycle races, weekend visits to the country and Easter Day egghunts. Even in its early twenties, youth cherishes thrills. It likes to go places, to drive around in cars.

It seeks excitement in playing football, skiing, high-diving, flying,—anything that offers competition or risks. Why? Be­ cause surplus energy stored up in the individual must seek an outlet. As a pent-up child becomes nervous and recalcitrant when denied play, so youth becomes restless and grows stale with inaction.

One reason why war is attractive to youth is that it brings excitement and violently disrupts all habits and routine. Like a calm before the storm, monotony is tolerated for no great 272

RED length of time. People welcome varie ty, something new or novel, in all departments of life; for example, a song acclaimed popular over night is soon forgotton and replaced by another tune. A president is seldom re-elected twice because Mr. Public wants new blood and new policies in office, Conser­ vatism is often frowned upon as being "out of date” while ‘‘new” thoughts are eagerly snapped up. If one is served the same meals day after day, he craves and welcomes a change of menu. To the youth who craves a change in his routine existence, war is a luring siren. It offers him the “glories” of combat: fighting action, extreme risks, a chance to do and dare, and heroism. » By nature man loves to fight, if there is some trifling reason for it. Youngsters need little provocation to exchange blows, except they be disciplined by an elder. As they grow older they learn to control themselves but still retain the instinct to fight, and, when the government calls out all patriots, give this flair the upper hand.

Older people do not relish excitement because they haven’t the surplus energy their children possess. Their maturity dulls the keen desire for a thrill and they adhere to the conservative things which proved most sensible to them. Those who have known war find it no thrill; they remember only the horror, the suffering and the vanity of it. They are the ones who show youth how futile and what a “waste of the good” it is. Grown­ ups of our country have done much to lessen the bent for war in the young man by promoting healthful athletic diversions wherein he can work off excessive steam.

Every-day news proves the thrill war effects. Foreign correspondents describe in print, over the air, and in news reels bloody details of war in various sectors of Europe. Every­ one is interested and everyone takes sides, whether he be in the war or not. But the novelty of war, like a comet, fades out quickly. An old war ceases to be even news, except when, like- the last World War, it is directly related to the horrida bella currently ensuing. With excitement centered around Berlin and Helsinki, people forget what was happening in Spain or in China. — They follow the thrill-spotlight wherever it points.

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“Five o’clock. Everybody up!” No response. Again the voice called out, much louder this time. ‘‘Everybody up who wants to climb today.” The voice produced results. Some thirty boys crawled out of their bunks. The more hardy slipped on trunks, ran down the hillside, and jumped into the lake, fed by ice-cold mountain streams. The others donned trousers and ran a half mile down the road and back, the required before­ breakfast exercise.

After a hasty breakfast, we packed our knapsacks with a box of cookies, a canteen of water, and the inevitable rye bread.

We were ready to climb the Herzogstand. A young Bavarian lad, leather trousers, feather-in-hat and all, had agreed to be our guide. It was early. The sun, just peeping over a neigh­ boring mountain, had not yet dried the grass, and the birds were in full chorus.

The muddy path, leading up thru the wood-covered slope, was narrow, steep, and slippery, slippery from a heavy dew.

We grasped one another’s hands to avoid falling. But the be­ ginning is always the hardest, for soon the path widened and became less steep. On all sides giant trees stretched upward, • guarding myriads of tiny alpine flowers, fairly shouting with color. There were yellows, reds, blues—all colors. Edelweiss?

No, not on such a well-trafficked path.

We reached a promontory on the side of the mountain, affording a beautiful panorama. Below us stretched the Wolchensee, dark blue, reflecting the rays of the morning sun and surrounded with a chain of snow-capped mountains. But our way lay upward. The effects of the continuous climbing were already showing themselves. Many aspiring mountain climbers were straggling far behind.

Gradually the woods thinned out. Now we met only solitary trees, picturesquely weatherbeaten. But the flowers were profuse. Signs warned us not to pick certain species. Among these was the mountain rose, a beautiful little flower, bright red, and shaped like a rose. I still have the one which I picked; there were so many.

A bell tinkled musically, distinct thru the clear air. We saw a small herd of cows. Beyond them in a sheltered little 274

RED valley lay a mystic Bavarian Bauernhaus. Its walls were deco­ rated with quaint carvings. A small flower garden completed the picture. It was a summer home for the Bavarian farmer and his cows.

It was getting chilly. We appreciated our jackets. Then we ran into fog, or rather a cloud. Suddenly the cloud dis­ appeared. We had climbed above it, and now we saw the top of the mountain. Those last few yards, as usual, were the longest. A large wooden cross marked the summit. A stone at its base gave the altitude, 1747 meters, about a mile. It was eleven o’clock in the morning. The hike had taken five hours.

The view had been blotted out by the cloud, although we could see the mountains in the distance. But it wasn’t the view this time. It was the thrill of being on the very top of a mountain, of being entirely separated from civilization, breathing the pure, exhilirating air. We had conquered a mountain.

IT HAPPENED LAST THURSDAY S. Iiillmer

“Ah-ha, me proud beauty. If your father doesn’t come with the money by twelve o’clock, the house will be mine”，said the sneering villain has he looked at the watch he was holding with his left hand, and twirled his long-handled mustache with his right.

This was the picture that came to me whenever I thought of the man that takes away your property when you can’t scrape up enough cash to meet the final payment. But I was destined to have this old-fashioned impression replaced by a tweentieth century one. This is the way it happened: I was walking along the country highway south of the'city in order to get a breath of fresh air and review a few Greek vocables at the same time. The dogs must have found some­ thing amiss with my enunication or articulation, because they were objecting strenuously. I had no idea that a few little-remembered Greek words could create such a furore. Well, to re­ turn to my story, I suddenly heard a car pull up along side of me. In it, as I was to learn later, sat the big bad wolf himself.

He had on a big brown shaggy coat, but his face was as smooth as Lady Esther's.

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Hardly knowing why, I stepped in and was soon speeding along highway 19.

"Are you getting this car for a friend of yours?”，I inno­ cently queried. “Hardly. I’m agent for a finance company.

You’ve heard of me, have’nt you? I’m the nasty man who takes your car away when you don’t keep up your payments.” Hor­ rors! Was I now to become the aider and abettor of the per­ petrator of such a dastardly deed?

The victim lived in a little cabin tucked in between the rolling hills south of the aforementioned hamlet, Napoleon’s Nightmare. A glaring sun was shining on the snow-covered ground. The last stretch of road was little more than a single car track, which had become parallel rivulets. As the car hit bottom with a jolting “karumpf” a few times I rubbed myself and inquired, “Your job isn’t the softest in the world, is it?”

“Far from it. I travel between five and six thousand miles a month. I am allowed five dollars a day for meals and gas. Last week I lost the door handle on your side and half the fender and running board on my side when I tipped over.”

The last time I had been so severely disillusioned had been fifteen years prior when I saw my parents decorating the Christmas tree. Ah, but life is full of such heartbreaks and disappointmenst, I suppose.

The farmhouse was locked from the inside. Back to Water­ loo we went. My man gave me a description of the car. It was a dark blue Pontiac ’38 with a license plate that read 147-258.

We took opposite sides of the street and searched through the whole down town with a fine tooth comb. Four minutes later our search was at an end. Did we find the car? No. There was no more downtown to be examined. The gas station attendant and creamery man were consulted in vain. The only thing we could do was to return to the tucked away cabin and wait for the proprietor to come home, Ho-hum. Well, I still had that list of Greek vocables. But look there! Is that a blue ’39 Ply­ mouth standing on that hill? }}

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On the way, the “villain” told me that he had visited Mr. Simpert, the proud owner of the car (on which he had even made the down payment last fall) ten days before. However, the latter had wanted some time to go up to Sunfield, or some such place, in order to borrow some money.

“It’s always those fellows that get by with the most,” he added. “He didn’t have a job when he bought the car and he hasn’t had one since. Guess he figured he’d have the free use of the car. But we’ll fix him. If the car is in good condition we’ll sell it and break even. The account will be turned over to a collecting agency for 33V^%. They’ll garnishee his first check, even if it’s about ten years from now.

Of course, our Mr. Simpert wanted some more time to go up and borrow some money from his Sunnybrook Farm, or someplace. But, time and the insurance man wait for no man.

Besides, I was just itching to drive that trim-looking Pontiac.

A few minutes later I was following my unusual host back to Watertown. The smooth floating power of that new car (ours is a ’26 P. R.f plenty rough, Nash) soon brought me into a reverie.

So this was the way twentieth century tempora et mores worked. Well, I certainly had learned a lot this afternoon.

Perhaps I would work up my experience into a readable article for the Black and Red. I glanced at the speedometer. The slender needle was hovering near the70 mark. ‘‘Holy smokes,” quoth I to myself. I slowed down to a mile a minute and soon had the car safely stored away at Schaefer’s garage on Fourth Street.

As I was about to leave my recently acquired acquaintance, he asked, “How much do I owe you?” To which I answered, “I don’t know whether you owe me something or I owe you something.” I walked from his car with a light step. That fifty-cent piece in my pocket didn’t make it any heavier, either.

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It was about two o’clock on a cold, blustery morning in winter. A man, bundled up to his ears in a shawl, overcoat, fur cap and mittens, stumbled into one of the hamburger shops seen open in Lynnapolis at any hour of the day. He mumbled to the cook; ‘‘Cup of coffee and a hamburger.” The cook cheerfully answered, “0. K.，coming up. Cold out, isn’t it?”

“Yeh，” answered the man gruffly. Silence again reigned in the shop, broken only by the crackling of the hamburger frying in the grease.

A newspaper was lying on the counter. Reaching for it, the customer took it and began paging it. Attempting to make conversation, the cook began, “Did you read about this big shot committing suicide last night?” “No, I didn’t.” “Yeh, seems like he lost a pile of money, so he took the easy way out. Wish I could get hold of those fellows before the final step.” “Why, what makes you think you could do anything about it?” “Well, to do that I’d have to tell you the story of my life, and I’d hate to bore — .’’ But the customer, seeming interested, urged him on.

“It was about ten years ago — before the depression. I lived in the city of Waterford. I wasn’t exactly making millions, but I had a comfortable income. I was young and it looked as if I had a brilliant career ahead of me. Since my wife and I were living quite high in those days, I tried to make money as fast as possible. I started plunging since my income wasn’t sufficient to keep up the pace. I，as is usually the case, enjoyed great success at first. I invested more and more until all my holding were tied up in stocks. Then came the crash. At first I was able to hold out, for the company for which I worked didn’t go with the first big crash and I was able to use my in­ come to keep my head above water. Finally my job went, too.

To make matters worse, my wife ran off with the man whom I had thought to be my best friend. This put me so down in the dumps that I tried to commit suicide, but I didn’t have the nerve. Instead I took to drink and for over a month wandered about in a half stupor. One night I dropped in on the club to which I had belonged before the crash and I was kicked out.

This opened my eyes to what a sorry wretch I really was.

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He advised me to ride the rods with him to another city and get a fresh start. I happened to strike Lynnapolis. After knocking about a while, I got a job at this place. I’ve owned it now for two years, and I’m finally on my way back.”

Having listened intently until this point, his customer jumped up and hurried from the shop, leaving his hamburger and coffee untouched and a bewildered cook behind.

The next morning a worker getting off a street-car in front of the shop, kicked against something hard lying in the snow in the gutter. Bending over, he picked up an automatic pistol.

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

EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief

Fritz Peterson....

Traugott Bradtke Reinhart Pope Ardin Laper

Contributing Editors

Department Editors Campus and Classroom ________ _ Athletics Business Managers ......Business Manager Delmar Brick.........

Walter Schumann Advertising Managers Leonard Koeninger

Gerhard Franzmann Willard Kehrberg...

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LOOKING BACK Every wanderer through unknown, uninhabited tracts, whether it be jungle, mountain, or open plain, knows the im­ portance of looking back, if he intends to retrace his steps.

For a landmark strongly fixed on the mind as it looks when approaching it from one direction, may be puzzling or even un­ recognizable when viewed on drawing near from the opposite direction. Hence it behooves the wary wayfarer to turn about and take careful note of the way an object looks after he has passed it.

Something like this is my sentiment after looking back on a year as ye honorable editor of the Black and Red. Not that my object is to retrace my steps. Far be it from my thoughts!

But the analogy is to be taken as to how the path just traversed looks, now its length has been trod.

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Not that we didn’t meet difficulies. But they were no greater nor any more courageously met than the frailties of human nature would lead us to expect.

And now before shutting my eyes on the past year, I want to formally thank those, fellow staff members, subscribers, ad­ vertisers, contributors, advisors, and especially those obscured sufferers, the typists, because of whose cooperation the success, whatever you may want to call it, of the past year was possible.

And express the wish, that a year hence the staff which now takes over may look back with more satisfaction, and feel a greater regret at pulling off their boots.

The New Staff Gerhard Franzmann Editor-in-Chief Ralph Gehrke .Walter Schumann Contributing Editors Henry Paustian Leonard Koeninger Athletics....................

Ardin Laper Campus and Classroom .Robert Steffenhagen Business Manager......

Theodore Hartwig Advertising- Managers Armin Keibel This staff will take over activities next month.

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LINGUISTIC EXUBERANCE R. Gehrke

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The English language in America is showing much of that “life” and zest which made for its pliancy and vigor in the days of Shakespeare. ‘‘The essence of language，’’ said an eminent philologist, “is it’s activity.” Now, if you compare the English of Shakespeare, the American of today and the English of today, you will see how much more forcibly the healthy pro­ cesses of language are going on in the first two than in the last. For instance, Shakespeare could use almost any adjective or noun as a verb. He could happy his friend, malice or foot his enemy, or fall an axe on his head. In America we can engineer a job, stump the teacher, hog the road, style a dress and even author a book. However, the Standard English of to­ day, although it might be superior in completeness and perspi­ cuity, lacks such freedom. “It shows no living change since the reign of Samuel Johnson. Its tendency is to combat all that expansive gusto which made for its pliancy and resilience in the days of Shakespeare.” American on the other hand, despite the pedants and “school-marms” has broken away and regained much of the old freedom and vigor which Standard English has lost.

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Life in America demanded opposite qualities: curiosity, daring.

And so the Americans are known the world over as restless, impatient of forms in politics, business, and in habits of mind and speech. H. L. Menken holds that “such a term as rubber­ neck is almost a complete treatise on American psychology,” re­ flecting their “boldness, contempt for ordered forms, grotesque humor, delight in devastating opprobrium, and the acute feel­ ing for the succinct and savory.”

Quintilian once said, “Language is like money, which be­ comes current when it receives the public stamp.” The Ameri­ can language receives this stamp. It is the living expression of the mind and spirit of its people and so we might say that this “linguistic exuberance,” manifested foremost in our slang, tells us something of the mind and spirit of our people.

Lest We Forget HE Black and Red, as the first two lines on the editorial page read, is a publication of the students of Northwestern College. They contribute the articles and by a select staff edit them each month.

The students are supposed to contribute the articles; but, judging from the thickness of some editions, they certainly hold out. Our young men pride themselves in the fine extra-curricu­ lar activities this school has to offer them, but when it comes to doing something for the school there are very few who will offer their services voluntarily. This lack of initiative seems to be the reason for the meager amount of literature in the Black and Red. If every collegiate would contribute but once a year — anything from a learned “comp,” a short story or personal experiences to a few lines of poetry—then every Black and Red would contain twice as many articles as this March issue.

The most common excuses for not writing are: “I haven’t got time,” “I wouldn’t know what to write’’ and “not now一 later.” The first apology is pretty sick, considering the time some of the boys fritter away — not to mention that they have

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It’s amazing how much “throwing about of brains” takes place.

And yet, to try to get one of these rhetoricians to write is a most difficult task — he can talk by the hour but can’t spend a little time putting his interesting thoughts on paper. The last pretext is reasonable, provided the speaker does hand in an article; but if he says “later” only to dismiss the staff articlecollector, he is ungentlemanly.

The members of the staff should be complimented for their faithfulness in writing often and on interesting topics; how­ ever, a few of the students privileged to be on the Black and Red staff could write more frequently.

The benefits of writing for a school publication are several.

It gives the student practice in expressing original thoughts and sentiments accurately. His vocabulary becomes more pliable and his spelling more exact. His brain is vigorously stimulated by the groping for ideas, thoughts and fitting words.

The young man who himself determines to write is making his future work a bit less difficult. Compositions and theses will flow more freely from the pen. Outlines will be more easily built up and properly chothed with rich thoughts. This is especially im­ portant in teaching, with course outlines, or in preaching with its weekly sermon-writing.

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Northwestern 49 Milton 37 February 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The boys got off to a slow start down at Milton, but they soon fell into their stride. At the half they had a lead of five points with the score at 28-13.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a very exciting game. Northwestern missed many shots and should have won by a larger score. It was quite an ordinary basketball game.

Koeninger led the scoring for the Goslings with fifteen points, followed by Schumann with ten points.

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The violation was punished by awarding Farina a free throw, which he made to win the game as the final gun sounded.

This was a game of the type that one wishes to see played over on a more secure footing. Our fast break was getting away from them but before the boys could shoot they had slid out of bounds under the basket. No matter how you look at it, though, it still was an excellent game between two very evenly matched teams.

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Northwestern 76 Miners 27 February 22—Already in the first few minutes of play the spectators felt that tonight the team was going to break a scoring record. Coach Umnus felt it also and he accordingly kept in the first-string men for most of the first half. At the half the score was 34-16. In the second half the regular five returned with instructions to push up the score. They remained until they had broken the old record of 62 points and then the second-string men finished the last few minutes of the game and drove the score up to 76 for an all-time high at Northwes­ tern. It was this writer’s humble opinion that much water will flow over the dam before this record will be broken. He will, however, be happy at any time to eat these words. More power to you!

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And in addition to everything else, this game gave us un­ disputed lead in the conference. Northwestern regains the championship after two years.

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Seminary 34 February 24—Last game. Make it good, boys. But the boys had some trouble. They were in cramped quarters and elbows and knees seemed to be everywhere. On the very first play of the game Schumann wrenched his knee and had to leave the game. All through the first half the score remained very close.

At the half it was tied at 18 all. Northwestern pulled ahead in the second half but never did the game seem to be definitely ours until the timer blew his horn to end the game at 41-34.

Because of the close quarters many fouls were called. The game looked rough although it was not intentionally so. The officiating was done by Tabbert and R. Frey.

That’s all, folks. No more varsity basketball until next year. This year’s team is now dissolved and the members are out breaking training.

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BASKETBALL RESUME

The ’39-，40 basketball season was a grand and glorious one.

First of all the team took the conference championship after being among the also-rans for two years. The conference record was nine victories to one defeat (that game with Exten­ sion before Christmas. In conference games the Goslings ran up a total of 508 points for an average of 50 points a game against a total of 310 points made by our opponents for a 31 point average. Looking over the scores for the entire season we find that Northwestern won twelve games and lost five.

The average number of points made by our team throughout the season was 44 against our opponents’ 36. In case you would like to make a check on the seasons’ scores, here they are: Northwestern 33 Northwestern 26 Northwestern 24 Morthwestern 29 Northwestern 46 Northwestern 40 Northwestern 56 Northwestern 44 Nortowestern 62 Northwestern -43 Northwestern 51 Northwestern 53 Northwestern 61 Northwestern 49 Northwestern 35 Northwestern 76 Northwestern 41

Seminary 22 Whitewater 30 Ripon 62 Extension 31 Milton 30 Mission House 39 Engineers 45 All-Stars 47 Engineers 19 Miners 27 Mission House 42 Waterloo 42 Extension 22 Milton 37 Whitewater 36 Miners 27 Seminary 34

In looking through the score book we found some facts and figures on the individual players. We’ll pass them on to you, not that we believe that they will give you an eccurate picture of each player (for much of a basketball player’s best work is never mentioned in the score book), but just for the sake of a little interest. There is no order to the names, but we put them down just as they were entered in the score book.

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Now you have seen what the team looks like in hard, cold facts. But there was more to it than that. It was a team that had a lot of color on the floor. They played hard, fast basket­ ball every minute of the game. And to top it off they made a lot of baskets to give the fans their money’s worth. It was a real team. As a championship team all the members were awarded N’s. Fritz Naumann is the only member that will be lost by graduation. Here’s tribute to a great player who gave his best for four years. He’ll join me, I’m sure, in wishing future teams all the success achieved this year and more besides.

INTRA-MURAL SPORTS

We have a few notes on intra-mural sports this month. Out of the intra-mural basketball season the Senior class emerged as victors with nine victories and one defeat. They travelled to Seminary and played the ‘‘B’’ team. They were defeated by a score of 24-18. At the end of the varsity basketball season the members of the varsity team acted as captains of teams in an open basketball tournament. The two centers came through with their teams to the finals where Fritz Naumann’s Bears de­ feated Seehusen’s Dodgers to acquire that vague honor of a mythical championship.

The volleyball tournament was also held in the week before Easter vacation. The tall men came through with Tertia and Frosh teams battling in the finals. The Frosh team with Hartwig took the championship from Nommensen’s Tertia in three out of four games. _ Wrestling tournaments were also held, but so many different weight classes and only a few in each class, it hardly pays to mention the winners. It’s enough to say that the boys had a lot of fun.

GOOD-BY, FOLKS!

This sports writer now formally hands over his well-worn press pass to his successor, wishing- him success. It’s been fun writing for you. Thanks for reading.

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The Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society presented the follow­ ing program entitled “Modern Ame rican Dramatists” arranged

by John Kohl and Donald Grummert.

Elton Huebner Christopher Morley, original speech Carl Leyrer Eugene O’Neil, original speech Maxwell Anderson, original speech - Willard Kehrberg “All Gummed Up,” a comedy in one act with Marion Mattke, Marion Maltz, Fred Miller, Arvid Gullerud, and Roland Gurgel in the cast.

The speeches were well organized, well delivered, and well received. The play was rather light, saved by the clever acting of funny-man Gullerud.

A program on Johann Sebastian Bach was arranged by Ray Wiechmann and Delmer Brick for the Philomatheans.

Life of Bach Frederick Heidemann Preludes and Fugues Theo. Hartwig Chorale R. Steffenhagen Besides music “off the record,” the Male Chorus sang a Chorale.

This was by all odds the best program of the season because of the interesting treatment which the speakers gave their topics and the unity of the subject material.

By the time you’ve read this the Male Chorus will have completed its jaunt through three states aboard their big stream­ lined Greyhound bus. All will be wearied by ten days of travel­ ing, feasting, and singing. But their experiences will furnish material for conversation for months to come.

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Prof. Bolle arranged the following: Part I •.......Kuntze Singt in Jubelchoeren_____ . ....... Ruffo Let Us Adore Thee, 0 Christ Melody 1557 Lamb of God......................... ...........Bach Komm, Suesser Tod..............

Part II ... Dickinson In Joseph’s Lovely Garden ■...........Bach Wachet Auf....................... ....... .Hosier Cantate Domino.................

Scholin-Gore God is a Spirit....................

Part III Ray Wiechmann — Conductor .Haendel Hallelujah, Amen .................. . ..... Bach Now All the Woods are Sleeping Schubert Gott ist Mein Hirt....... ............ …Haydn Tenebrae in A-Flat.....................

Part IV Zink’s Choralbuch 0, How Shall I Receive Thee ..... ...Bortniansky Cherubim Song..................... .......... Mendelssohn Glory to God in the Highest.. .............Praetorius A Spray Arose to Glory....... ..................... Bach Benediction...........................

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Now his task is great, The reward is small, In fact there are times When he’s not paid at all.

But that’s not what makes him Discouraged and blue — It’s the guy who pipes up: “I don’t know the review.”

The annual Mid-Season concert was presented Program: I. Menuett In G ..................... ...........

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Girls’ Glee Club

Fabio-Wism.nr ....... ....... Back __Lambillotte

....... Kuntze V. Singt In Jubelchoeren Scji，olin-Gore God Is A Spirit.......... ......Schubert Gott 1st Mein Hirt Male Chorus .......Geibel VI. Kentucky Babe..................................

Westendorf I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Girls’ Quartette: M. Berg, M. Maltz, H. Wendland, and M. Mattke VII. Rienzi ..Wagner Grainger Country Garden...........

World In Arms—March __ Teike Band 292

RED Financial report of the Black and Red for the fiscal year 1939-40.

Receipts: Advertising--------- -------- ------Subscriptions...................... .......

Sale of cheese sandwiches___ Sale of egg sandwiches............

Sale of burned-out radio tube.

Paper sale...................

Found behind radiator Hush money to Campus and Classroom.

Hush money to eeditor ..

$ 897.62 64.50 6.60 10.80 .05 7.80 .01 500.00 660.00 $2027.28

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Disbursements: Printing............................. .............................

Graft to editors........................... ..............

Groceries................................ ........... ..........

Graft to Campus and Classroom editor.

Business Manager's Cut..........................

Purchase of pulp magazines------ -------Advertising Manager’s Cut...................

Furniture........ ..................... ......................

Cigarettes...... ......... ....................................

Unaccounted for..... ................ ..........

•$ 260.00 ■ 500.00 56.32 75.86 . 268.95 10.80 . 498.20 . 200.00 20.00 .147.16

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So, having set our house in order, this columnist leaves with mingled sighs of relief and regret.

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RED INDEX TO VOLUME XLIII Title And so, for the 40th (or thereabouts) time, F. Peterson Announcements: Alumni Meeting........

Final Concert..............

Homecoming Concert.

Illustrated Lecture— Kryl Concert-------Mid-Season Concert.

Piano Duo ..............

Arcturus, A. Keibel.-------------- -------------------Arrows-Deer. A. Keibel，----------------------------As We See It, F. Peterson................................

Attack and Counterattack, T. Bradtke----- -----Basic? R. Gehrke....................... .........................

Beautiful Donabelle, A. Laper............................

Bird Study, W. Schumann............... ......... .........

Black-out, F. Peterson......................... ................

But a Pipe, Ah!, W. Schumann ..........................

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.74 Catherine Winkworth: English Oration, I. Weiss 196 Christmas Eve Forty Years Ago, A. Keibel----252 Clouds, F. Peterson............

Columns: ................. 20, 47, 85, 116, 145, 181, 235, 255 Alumni Notes....... ...... . 21, 60, 92, 119, 147, 182, 211, 236, 256, 285 Athletics......................

27, 61, 101, 120, 156, 187, 213, 241, 261, 290 Campus and Classroom 9 “Comp”，A, T. Bradtke

Daughter of Circumstance, F. Peterson . _ Day-Dreaming, W. Kehrberg............. .....

Day in the Bavarian Alps, A, T. Hartwig Descent into Hades, R. Pope....................

Don Cossack Chorus, T. Hartwig............ .

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Echoes and Re-echoes, H. Paustian..........

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Farewpll to War, A. Laper..............

Fatal Delusion, R. Pope....................

Fortune???, E. Zell.................. ..........

Freedom, R. Pope................... .........

Future in America, The, D. Schaller

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Grand Central, R. Pope..............

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How to Bowl, A. Keibel..............

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I Don’t Believe It, W. Kehrberg I’d Rather Be Sick, W.-Schumann I Played the Clarinet, T. Bradtke.........

I Protest, F. Peterson..... .......................

It Happened Last Thursday, S. Hillmer

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RED Title Keryks, The, A. Wadzinski...............................

Late Date, A. Laper................. .................. .

Lest We Forget....... A. Keibel------------ -----Lim-rix, R. Pope....... ...... ......................... ........

Linguistic Exuberance, R. Gehrke .................

Literary Societies, The, T. Bradtke......... ......

Looking Back, F. Peterson-------- ‘............. --More Eutopias, F. Peterson .............................

Mother Was Intuitive, R. Pope-----------------Mythological in Hawthorne, The, F. Peterson Nancy Goes to the Laundry, A. Laper...........

Noise, F. Peterson.............................................

Northern Lights, A. Wadzinski----Note of Explsanation, A, F. Peterson Notes on a Concert, R. Pope----- ------- --------------------------------

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Obituary, A. Keibel..................................................... .....................

Olympiad, F. Peterson.......................... ............................................

Our Hero, L. Grams ................... ......................................... .........

114 179

Permonitions fer a Dahky over New Year’s Week, W. Schumann Philos ophy ,W. Schumann Philos ophy ,W. Schumann

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Rendezvous Ridiculous, A. Laper --------------------------------------Room 12 Incident, The, T. Hartwig.................................... ..........

216 163

Santa Claus Comes to the Blakes, L. Koeninger--------------------Say It Isn’t So, F. Peterson....... ...................................................

Seedtime and Harvest, F. Peterson...................... ............ ..........

Seven A. M. Soliloquy, A. Keibel...................................................

Shepherds, The, R. Goede--------------------- ----------- ------ --------Ski Patrol, A. Keibel ................. .............................. .....................

Snatches, W. Schumann.............. ......................................... .........

So Far and Yet So Near, R. Schaller----------------------------------Story, A, L. Koeninger............................. .............. ............. .........

Story of the Rise and Fall of Collars and Cravats, The, A. Laper

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There Ain’t No Justice, T. Thurow.................................................

They Howl!, R. Gurgel........................ .............................................

To Shelley, G. Franzmann-------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------Trailing Clouds of Glory, R. Gehrke 240, W. Schumann-------

232 .35 168 169 244

Under the Stars, R. Goede.

Unknown Soldier, R. Goede

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Violin, The, L. Koeninger..

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War—A Thrill, A. Keibel...........................................................

War is a Blessing, R. Pope....... ........... ............................ ........

Why?, R. Gurgel------------- ------- -------------------- ---------- --Wie bewerten wir das Griechische?: German Oration, 1. Bade With a Soph Passuq on a Spring Rooster, A. Laper.

Wizard, Tne, S. Hillmer ................. ................ .........

Written at a Late Hour of the Night, A. Goede...

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