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NEWS & VIEWS —..........................................

Chapel-Classroom Progress Pictures ........

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM —........................

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LITERARY — Maxims to Swear By or At Catullus ..................................

Mexico and Bust .................

The King James Version ....

Notice of Alumni Meeting ...

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Campus Calendar ..........................................

Prof. A. P. Sitz ..............................................

Autobiography of E. Edgar Guenther ’08.

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ALUMNI — Minutes of Alumni Meeting Alumni Notes .......................

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SPORTS — Baseball .

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The cover is a picture of the lamp ornament on the steps of the Library Building.

BLACK AND RED STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Mark Hillmer . . Editor-in-Chief Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor John Ribar__ Assistant Editor DEPARTMENT EDITORS Edgar Herman ...

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April 1956

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Entered at the Post Office at Watertown, Wis., as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly during the school year. Subscription $2.00.

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“Once we were walking behind him, saying our ‘Andra moi enepe’ out loud. He turned around with a big smile and said it with us for a while.” “He seemed so nonchalant, but I really learn­ ed the German vocs from him.” That was Prof. Sitz to his stu­ dents — whether sitting on the top of a front desk or tiltiing his chair against the blackboard — always taking the starch out of be­ ing professor. Eulogy, though warranted, would be out of keeping with the man.

Born in 1889, Prof. Sitz was raised by his grandparents, after his mother died. N. W. C., class of ’09, and then the Wauwatosa Seminary, after which he was married to Marie Koeninger, the daughter of the college steward. He held pastorates in Tomahawk, Rib Lake, and Wisconsin Rapids until 1926, when he was called to teach German and history at Northwestern College. During his 30 years here, he spent 6 summers at the University in Madison, earning the degree of Master of Arts. As chairman of the Educa­ tional Survey Committee, he did much for the building expansion program at Northwestern.

He taught until Christmas of ’55, was then hospitalized but returned home. He rallied and even taught until Easter vacation.

But amid the festivities of Arbor Day at the school, he died at the age of 67.

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Rev. Guenther continues his warming story by telling about his student days at New Ulm and Northwestern.

fiutoli/Hjwpfuj of 8. 8Mju Gmdwi 'OS Editor’s Note: This installment was printed without being read by our usual proof reader. President Kowalke.

A brakeman stuck his head into our antiquated smoke-filled coach: “New Ulem is the next station, N-e-w U-l-e-m.” Your rustic student-to-be grabbed valise and bundle and made for the plat­ form. Directly the train ground to a stop and he lurched down the steps. Where from here? Presently a genial giant in bib over­ alls asked, “Are you going up to the Collech? Well, you shust fol­ low that street up the hill.” After trudging along for many blocks 1 came to the foot of another incline not far from the ruins of a bullet scarred distillery. Halfway up the hill I was almost swept off my feet by an avalanche of sleds manned by a herd of shriek­ ing dervishes. One of them was a colored student of whom I later learned that lie had once rammed both head and sled against a light post with no further discomfort than a tingling in his toes.

The last one of the group, wearing a long stocking cap, sensing from mv baggage that 1 was enroute to help increase the New Year’s enrollment of Dr. Martin Luther College introduced him­ self as Adi Schuller and directed me to a certain room where I could wait until supper time. There I found a group of young chaps as verdant as mvself. There was one exception, a scholarly looking fellow, somewhat older than the rest dressed in a somber double-breasted suit and walking back and forth with hands clasp­ ed behind him, and his head slightly bowed as if in deep contem­ plation. The next day 1 found out that he was also a new student, fully as green as 1 but feigning a dignity and nonchalance that was apparently bolstered up by his new double-breasted suit.

The next morning after breakfast I was ushered into the of­ fice of a man, sturdily built along the lines of William Jennings Bryan, with a noble forehead like Mr. Bryan and a winsome smile like that of his illustrious counterpart. This was Prof. John Schaller, president of the institution. After a few kindly remarks to put me at ease he asked, “Do you intend to prepare yourself for the teaching profession or the ministry?” I was caught completely off guard. Nothing had ever been further from my mind than the thought of being a teacher; and a pastor, how could I ever pre­ sume to walk in the footsteps of a saintly man like Pastor Luebbert.

The horns of my dilemma were set together so closely that it seemed impossible to avoid being impaled on one or the other.

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Fortunately I had previously wandered into a little room that housed a row of Smith-Premier typewriters and was told that type­ writing, shorthand and bookkeeping were taught there. Grasping at this straw I falteringly answered that I would like to take a business course. This time he was not smiling as he reached for his huge, stub-pointed Watermann fountain pen and entered my name accordingly.

I soon learned that I was the only “furriner” taking this course, the rest being a group of happy-go-lucky lads from downtown whose attendance seemed to be a sort of perpetual frolic. Never­ theless, one of them later got into the pipe organ manufacturing business, and another became president of Shell’s Brewery! That calls to mind a small basement room in the main building contain­ ing a faucet protruding from the wall and a large copper mug suspended by a small chain. There was nothing to indicate their purpose but some of the boys claimed they were placed there to revive the spirits of weary wayfarers!

Dr. Martin Luther College in those days comprised the old Main building with the tower, a makeshift gymnasium (during my time but three of the students could do the Riesenschwung on the horizontal bar. I was not one of them), the students’ wood and coal shed, a barn for the janitor’s ancient horse, and lastly a struc­ ture with a row of six or seven doors facing the morning sun. The basement of Old Main housed the wash room, janitor’s shop, din­ ing room, kitchen and kitchen mechanics’ quarters. Classrooms occupied the first floor, study rooms the second, and in the two large rooms under the roof we were all corralled for safekeeping during the night.

One night in spring, when goats are frisky, the order went out (not from the faculty') that for the next week everyone must get into bed only by the aerial route, taking off from the top of the trunk at the foot of our beds and making a no-point landing with retracted landing gear. If one dented his skull at the head of the bed or skinned his shins at the foot he was disqualified. It was sport while it lasted but not so much fun sleeping jack-knifed on the springs which now scraped the floor.

It appeared that the founding fathers at Dr. Martin Luther College were determined that her students should never become softened by “res quae ad effeminandos animos ducunt”. The build­ ing with the many doors has already been mentioned.. There was no heat in the dormitories; we had to shag all our fuel up the stairs for our study rooms; we had to buy our own wood and coal, which was kept in separate sections in the woodshed.

During my first year two wooden herring buckets served as bathtubs. The second year we students secured a syrup barrel, 4

which we sawed in half so we could bathe in pairs and keep each other company. The third year the synodical budget permitted the installation of a bathtub, porcelain lined, in the corner of our wash­ room, but the student body had to reach into its collective jeans and purchase enough wainscoating for a partition so that bathers might have some degree of privacy.

A little later a catastrophic occurrence called for the poem “Die Tolle Nacht”, a copy of which, by design, fell into the hands of the faculty. After it had been read at a meeting of the synod at St. Paul, the House of Seven Doors became obsolete. Now we were really beginning to enjoy some of the luxuries of decadent Rome.

But I am getting ahead of my story. My first school year came to a close. In my pocket nestled an improvised diploma which stated that I could write a certain number of words per min­ ute in Pernin shorthand and so many words per minute on the typewriter, and that 1 possessed of bookkeeping “a good working knowledge”. My books were packed and I was seated at my desk removing the lock that belonged to me, when I looked up and saw Prof. Schuller standing at my side: “You’re coming back next fall, aren’t you? ' Who could resist that smile? I answered yes and the lock stayed in my desk.

1 was a bookkeeper now but did not have my diploma framed.

I could not well picture myself pulling a green shade over my eyes, donning a pair of black half-sleeves, straddling a high stool and poring over a ledger while the wide open spaces were beckoning me. 1 spent the summer pitching hay and grain bundles instead.

On my return to D.M.L.C. in fall I came in contact with all the members of our little faculty. I learned to love and admire each one of them. Professor Schaller continued to lead us deeper in the Christian faith as only he knew how to do. Besides that he taught German reading and grammar and gave me special assis­ tance in my struggle with mir and mich and dir and dich.

With Professor Ackermann we made the startling discovery that “puella amat puerum” and followed him all over the world in our geography.

Professor Montgomery was to us a specialist in arithmetic and a walking encyclopedia of maxims for our daily conduct.

Professor Reim was our science teacher. One never saw him without his binoculars except on Sundays. Pie never tired of scan­ ning our hillside for new wonders in nature and consequently sel­ dom arrived for his morning class on time. But we could easily forgive him for that, for he never failed to bring in something in­ teresting, ranging from an unclassified bug or flower to a last year’s bird nest. Anyone who left Prof. Reims classroom none the 5

RED wiser was either a dullard or a cainraiser or both.

And then there was stately Professor Burke who lived in a world of universal harmony. He taught English, violin, and pipe organ. When he read a story portion from Shakespeare it was music indeed, but let one of us plebeians read the same section in monotone or with improper emphasis and it would jar him to the core. He was not one to put on an act, for he was far too modest for that. Furthermore, using improper grammar irritated him as much as striking a false note on organ or violin. His very soul was tuned to beauty in speech and music. I dread to think what our modem vocal and instrumental contortionalism (not in Webster) would have done to him. When Prof. Burke tuned his violin his ears would start vibrating perpendicularly and not come to rest until the respective pair of strings were in perfect harmony. To establish my own musical status I once watched myself in the mir­ ror as I tuned my instrument and found that my ears refused to be* perturbed even by the crassest discords. I knew then that I might become a fiddler but never a virtuoso.

In a former paragraph I mentioned a colored boy attending D.M.L.C. With that it was implied that we were fifty years ahead of the decision of our present Supreme Court. There were five Negroes attending our school at that time: Bates the tobogganer, John Alston, Charles Thompson, Evan Reed and Zellar Clabcn, the only girl, who boarded with the Schaller family. Alston was the scholar of the group and had learned German so well in the first semester that he was memorizing the hymns assigned to his class in the second. Reed was older than the rest, and since Ger­ man was not required of him Professor Schaller would sit up late night after night translating chapter after chapter of his “Bibelkunde” into English for him. This manuscript later became the basis for his “Book of Books.” I took Reed home with me one sum­ mer and had no trouble finding employment for him with a Lu­ theran farmer.

Thompson was the athlete and joker of the group. Also at­ tending D.M.L.C. at the time was a German immigrant, Mr. Boehme, who wished to learn the English language. He also con­ sidered himself quite a joker in his own right and delighted in flinging such epithets at Thompson as “Thompson, du Schwartze Kanaille — Thompson, du Schwartzer Seehund”. Thompson could well respond in kind but one day his patience gave way and I came upon him throttling Mr. Boehme, who was backed to the wall, with his left hand, and preparing to carve him up with the knife in his right to the accompaniment of “You haben too much Spass mit mich”. Mr. Boehme became more selective with his compliments thereafter.

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The scene is not complete without ushering in two other ac­ tors, the Birkholz twins. My bed had been dumped regularly for a week and I was getting pretty well fed up with the performance when Thompson offered a solution: “Say, Ginny, why don’t youall hide in your closet tonight; then you can nab the guy.” I did just that after dark and did not have long to wait. In came the twins, like a pair of leprechauns, each grabbing an end of the mattress and proceeding to heave. I lunged, and while I was trying to hold one and manhandle the other, Thompson appeared on the scene laughing like a hyena because he had dumped my bed every night previously and sublet the contract to the twins for this evening. Had he not been so athletic I would have insist­ ed that he was “habing zu much Spass mit mich”.

1 had known all along that sooner or later I would come to another fork in the road of my academic future. But the years • spent at D.M.L.C. had been so pleasant and profitable that I paid little attention to sign posts or calendar. All too soon I arrived at the point of decision. The left hand sign carried the name of scores of parochial schools lying three years ahead, in Minnesota, Wis­ consin and even Michigan; the one on the right carried the names of little congregational whistle-stops in South Dakota and Nebras­ ka, some real and some prospective, situated some seven years in the future. \t this point Professor John Meyer appeared on the scene to organize the first tertia class and get it properly equipped, especially with Greek, for starting the long journey on the minis­ terial highway. Four of us volunteered. The good professor was so efficient and painstaking that when we arrived at Northwestern College we had little difficulty in falling in line with the fledgling sophomores, whose classmates we were to become.

When 1 applied for admission to Northwestern in 1905 the new “Shoefactory” dormitory had not yet been quite completed and I was given temporary quarters in the upstairs of Mr. Radtke’s home, across from the mailbox. Mr. Radtke was the candy-kitchen king in Watertown. As I recall, Ali Schaller and I had one side of a large table for our study, and the two Bergs, Ehrenfried and Art, the other. When we failed to walk about on tiptoes as silent­ ly as she wished, Mrs. Radtke would always quickly remind us what a quiet boy Mr. Eggert had been the year before. Unfortun­ ately, none of us ever approached that ideal and least of all Art, who was blessed with boundless energy.

And speaking of the mailbox, in due season our class planted a class tree about forty feet and two inches east from it, as the crow flies occasionally, and with it a bottle stuffed with documents, which I hope never, never will fall into the hands of posterity.

I must admit that when we came to Northwestern we were 7

somewhat fearful of how we provincials from New Ulm might be received, for we had been warned that we might be subjected to some severe tests to prove our eligibility. Of course, we did not expect to be sent to a drug store for strap oil, to Dr. Ernst for a left-handed monkey wrench or to Dr. Ott for “das Siebante Buch der Vernagelong”, but there might be more refined and yet pain­ ful modes of torture. We experienced none of that. Everyone went out of his way to make us feel that we were full-fledged members of the college family. The faculty members were no less friendly and co-operative.

Not many weeks after my arrival at Northwestern 1 was sig­ nally honored by being admitted as a full-fledged member of an emergency choir that included every enrolled student from senior to fox. Paul I-Iensel had hastily composed a song for the occasion with appropriate music. The occasion was Mrs. Pinkert’s and Ag­ nes’ imminent departure for Germany. Mrs. Pinkert was Generalissima of the kitchen mechanics and Agnes was her daughter. The song ran as follows: Frau Pinkert heisst die Dicke, die uns den Kalfce malt, Und Agnes ihre Tochter, von Wunderlich Gestalt.

Die beiden wollen nach Deutschland zum Kaiser Wilhelm gelm— Adieu Ihr Kaffe-basen, Adieu auf wiedersehn.

We thought the song to be highly fitting and the melody de­ lightful. Mrs. Pinkert evidently didn’t think so for she made no acknowledgment of our devotion, but folded her umbrella like the Arab his tent and silently (?) stormed away!

In my three years at Northwestern I recall but one reprimand from a professor and that was from Dr. Ernst himself. I had been to Milwaukee for the weekend on “important” business, which in­ cluded the purchasing of some football equipment for the teams and returned too late on Sunday evening to study how Caesar was getting along with his Gallic war. I knew the good doctor would call on me to translate the following morning, and for once I rode into his classroom on a “pony” that I stalled in the desk under the inkwell hole where I could watch it! I was called upon as expected and delivered quite a fluent translation. It must have been too fluent, for the doctor innocently sidled up to me, looked down the inkwell hole, and somewhat sorrowfully and yet with his cherubic smile said, “Gunther, how could you do it?” That, and no more, but it was plenty. I felt small enough to crawl through that hole and join my pony. I returned it to its owner immediately after class.

I never lived down that gentle reprimand; months later it re­ echoed at a sham battle on the last day of school. A young lady from Milwaukee accompanied me to the side lines; no one had 8

seen me with one before. No apparent signal was given and yet suddenly, as one man, the side liners called out, loudly enough so it could be heard all over the campus, “Gunther, how could you do it?” I refused to tell them.

During my years at Northwestern it was my good fortune to bask in the sunshine of an illustrious class, the class of 190S. I say that in all sincerity. There was Kowalke for instance. 1 say “was” for there is no need of my referring to what he has become. I would rather, therefore, sneak behind the scenes and see what I can dig up there. For one tiling EEK could prowl about in Euclid’s mathematical woods all night till almost daynight solving every problem assigned to us for the next day and yet appear in class as pert as if he had turned in the night before when curfew sound­ ed and risen barely in time for breakfast. I for one had no such endurance. Many a time when struggling with a difficult assign­ ment I would have to hie me down to Otto Schott’s about mid­ night to revive mv lagging spirits with a bowl of oysters that would tide me over till the first rooster crowed, but no longer. The reader may wonder how a two-bit bowl of undressed mollusks could ac­ complish so much. Well Otto’s were as big as mixing bowls, and one did not need a search warrant to find the contents.

But to gel back from oysters to EEK. It was in athletics that his stamina and endurance served Alma Mater particularly well.

EEK played four years of football, every game on the four sched­ ules and in all that while took out just two minutes of time out, by the stop watch ! That happened when three two hundred-fifty pound bruisers on a Catholic team from Chicago tried to bury him alive. To keep from going stale EEK also functioned as captain and coach. We never could afford an offensive and defensive coach for each player, nor did we have a separate dining room where the boys coulld be noodled like Watertown geese.

And then there was our Paul Horn, who as a lad had lost his right hand in a planing mill. Our baseball teams of 1907 and ’08 with Paul in the box and Phil Koehler to assist him whipped every college in Wisconsin and we were confident that the university would have been included if it could have been beguiled to play with us. I do not recall that Paul ever fanned out, but I do re­ member that he nailed out a two-bagger and a home run with a two bit boys’ bat in an eight inning game with Ripon. And don’t anyone call me a liar! I still have the bat and will gladly send it to the first of Paul’s sons who will ask for it. Paul also pitched a no-hit, no-run game with no man reaching second. His formula for making hits was simple but effective: “All you have to do is watch the ball and then hit it!” Just like Ted Williams!

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RED We had other athletes in our class who were born “to bloom and blush” unseen, or words to that effect. But as Louella Parsons would say, “Now the truth can be told.” Our class had a five-man bowling team hiding behind the nom de plume, the Clippers, who held the world’s championship for two weeks.

Then there was the sainted Wagner, whose name is revered by scores of teachers as their beloved spiritual advisor at Dr. Mar­ tin Luther College, while bearing only the title of Inspector. Others were Westerhaus—our Rock of Gibraltar, John Schaefer—the gen­ ial philosopher and my lifelong friend, Schneider - the gentle “Sarto”; Ewald Graf, Oswald Hensel, Paul Kirsch, John Schmieder, Arnold Sprehn, Edward Zell and, last but by no means least, Paul Hensel. As for myself as I look back, I can see that 1 let myself be drawn into doing a lot of chores that could well have been shared by others. That would have left me more time for endeavors of more than passing value.

The final scene finds us lying on the grass after graduation, debating which way we would go from here. Strangely enough no one took it for granted that he was going on to the Seminary. Per­ sonally I had never had any intention of doing so. 1 had passed the last cross road and now I was going on to Madison. Mr. Swift of the local newspaper had assured me that he could arrange for me to do some newspaper work at the university for out of town dailies, and classmate Graf promised to go directly to Madison to look into the matter of what courses we might wish to take. 1 re­ turned to my home in South Dakota and waited in vain to hear from my friends. In the meantime my conscience started to prod me a little; perhaps I ought to go on to the Seminary after all.

The next Sunday in August our Pastor announced after the ser­ vice that Prof. John Schaller had accepted the call to Wauwatosa as President of the Seminary! I told myself—if its good enough for Prof. Schaller it’s good enough for me — and sent in my appli­ cation. Arriving there I found that contrary to all expectations the class of 1908 was well represented by Kowalke, the Hensel brothers, Wagner, Westerhaus, Schaefer, and Horn.

We were not long in learning what a tragedy it would have been if the Lord had permitted us to go our own devious ways.

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MALE CHORUS

The tour to western Wisconsin and Minnesota went accord­ ing to schedule. (Sec C & C for interesting details.) Artistically, the tour was a success; financially, expenses were met. To help put the Music Fund into the black figure column, the chorus sang^several post-tour concerts. Sunday, April 22, saw the chorus present­ ing a morning concert at Montello and an evening concert at Wonewoc. On the following Sunday evening, the chorus sang at Hartford. The final presentation of the tour concert is to be held at the High School Auditorium in Waukesha at 8:00 p. m. on May 6. The arrangements for this date were made through Rev. M. L. Stern.

FORUM FRENZY

Practice sessions are in full swing for the three one-act plays which the Forum has chosen for this year’s finale. The date for the performance of the two comedies and one tragedy has been set for Friday, May 11. (See Campus Calendar) There is also one regu­ lar Forum program on the docket.. The emcee-to-be, Richard Paustian, is not vet ready to reveal the date of his Roaring Twenties.

SICK LIST

Our first string center for varsity football has been in Madison General Hospital since Monday, April 9. Ed Werner, Freshman, underwent an operation for a ruptured spinal disc. It is doubtful whether he will return to school this year. His classmates report he is in good spirits. Football future: No report.

PIANO RECITAL

Prof. Leo Steffens of the U. of W. has the distinction of being the first to give a recital on the school’s new concert Grand. His performance judged from audience reaction was excellent. The treatment of the presto movement of Chopins b minor Sonata, along with some of the Ravel work, makes any criticism look pale.

Prof. Steffen’s forte seemed to be in piano — and pianissimo. The phrasing and expressiveness of the largo and andante passages lost little under his fingers.

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RED FELLOWSHIP AWARDED

On the recommendation of the department of classical lang­ uages and literatures, the University of Chicago has awarded the Daniel L. Shorey Fellowship to Prof. R. Gehrke.

CHURCH MUSIC SEMINAR

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The Spring session of the Church Music Seminar was held Sunday afternoon, April 15, at Sun Prairie. (The Seminar is a study group consisting of local pastors and lay members who are interested in our church service, its music and function.) The top­ ic of the program dealt with the practical problems of the church sendee. Rev. W. Wegner, Columbus delivered an essay on “Plan­ ning the Services of the Easter Season.” The remainder of the program consisted of a discussion of “Planning the Service for Pentecost.”

TREE DAY

Friday the 13th proved anything but unlucky for the N.W.C. campus. It was Arbor Day. Books were readily exchanged for out­ landish costumes, and pens and pencils were quickly replaced with rakes and shovels. Under able supervision of the Junior class, the Preps cleaned up the lawns, while the Frosh and Sophs transplant­ ed and trimmed bushes and trees.

After the morning work was completed the afternoon festivi­ ties began with the annual Sophomore tree planting. Emcee Duane Tomhave began the ceremony with the traditional invocation of the muse after which followed several amusing numbers b\ the Soph High Society Band. The tree which will grace our campus is a scarlet thorn.

Later afternoon events were: a Prep track meet; a FacultyStudent softball game in which the students trounced the senior circuit by a 5-4 score. All hard feelings were smoothed over at the nourishing outdoor wiener roast which put a finishing touch to a happy and successful Arbor Day.

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Hello. Before we get on with the business at hand, let’s clean up some old business. I’d like to acknowledge the rousing sendoff given me by Keith (a blackguard’s blackguard) Haag, my worthless predecessor, who has made his obnoxious presence around these hallowed halls felt for entirely too many years. This villain can cram more slanderous statements into a half page of print than a junior Senator from the Dairy State. I deny anything he said, is saying, or will say. You didn’t realize last month that I’d have the last word, did you, Keith? Oh well, let’s shake hands.

Lots of luck at Sem, Keith, you’ll need it according to the grape­ vine. Yes, lots of luck, Haag. There are two kinds you know.

Lest I create the utterly false impression that this dignified column is going to be a scandal sheet, allow me to say that your reputation and that of your fellow students is perfectly safe in my care. So don’t be bashful about those human interest stories. Blackmail rates remain the same as last year.

We interrupt this column to bring you a public service bulle­ tin. According to a recent survey, thirty-seven co-eds are wearing their Speidel Heart Throb I. D. bracelets turned outward. This represents an increase of 8.3% over last month. Spring is officially here! Go get ’em, Braves!

Coincidentally, a search of the files revealed an Ode to Spring.

Spring is the time of year when we follow the Greek proverb “meden agan”, literally “do nothing” or more freely translated “take it easy”. Well, we turned it over to Magyar Ribar who ripper off a translation whose lyrical qualities and pathos are downright appal­ ling. To wit: The Robin in the cherry tree Who sings shrill notes in merry glee While you stand freezing 1 next to me Says Spring is here.

A young man’s’ thoughts will surely turn To some young miss, and for her yearn.

(1) The form in question is an accusative and may be taken as a ter­ minal accusative in which case the translation would read, “While you stand freezing onto me”.

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RED Some call it love---- 2 it’s just heartburn, For Spring is here.

We start to watch the baseball clubs, We moan when “Jolly Cholly” flubs3.

The Braves still maul those lousy Cubs When Spring is here.

And suddenly it’s Arbor Day 4.

Each class spirits itself away And party5-poopers are passe.

Ah! Spring is here!

During Easter Vacation the Male Aggregation of Vocal Dilet­ tantes saddled a greyhound and rode roughshod over select por­ tions of Wisconsin and Minnesota. I scribbled down a few notes, so if the following seems to lack continuity and polish-----as any good guesser might guess we started off “bright and early”, Voss notwithstanding. (You served Haag unwittingly but well, Adel, so 1 shall henceforth let you rest)-----Eau Claire station WEAU-TV. Fleming was barbecued in his own juice under the hot lights----On the way lo Bloomer, someone noted the odd combination form­ ed by the* inverse juxtaposition of “Girls” and our destination. It bears no repeating.----- West Salem marked the beginning of a strict ham diet. Little did we realize as we laid waste to that once proud porker.---- Entering La Crosse a voice from the rear of the bus observed, ‘And this is the home of Ed Wegner”. A certain trumpet playing junior replied, “No wonder all the inhabitants look starved”. The full implication of that remark apparently eluded me, for while 1 sat calmly in my seat the initiates into the myster­ ies of dorm life rocked the bus with huge belly laughs.-----The golden gophers of the chorus became simply unbearable as we rode into the wilderness of Minn., which occupies the space west of this state of states. Much was made of the alleged 10,000 lakes and I must confess there’s something to it. Why, when we were in Minneapolis there was one in each front yard.-----I overheard another schedule proposed for our little Gymnasium (pronounced with a hard “guh”). Cacophany No. 2, Advanced Anarchy, Sans­ krit Rhetoric, Positive Thinking, and related subjects. It has been submitted for faculty approval and an official announcement of acceptance is anticipated momentarily. — — We stopped off at (2) Most manuscripts have a consumptive de here, but it would have spoiled the meter anyhow.

(3) Literally “misses the mark”. The form is hamartaneis.

(4) First recorded by Plutarch circa 40 B. C. It seems to have been connected with the worshiD of Bacchus.

(5) Vergil uses a word that is etymologically similar describing Ae­ neas in the cave scene of the Aeneid.

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New Ulm for refreshments and also visited the D.M.L.C. campus.

Only now it can be told! A few brave sightseers invaded the Sanc­ tum Sanctorum (Centennial Hall). After departing from room 210 someone asked what Fritze was doing so far from home. 1 didn’t get to see him personally.-----We got quite a reception at Balaton, a little town in that State of Confusion. The town mayor, police chief, fire chief, mis chief and dog catcher came bounding up Main Street after the bus and informed us that we were sub­ jecting his street to too much strain. Herb, our doughty bus driver kept him at bay till we got unpacked and then took off in the di­ rection of the nearest 12 ton limit road.-----By the time we reached Caledonia, having eaten and regretted our way through dozens of description-defying delicacies we were ready for anything. In fact Zink just had to have a bite of “Duncan” Strangman’s “Spinach Pie”. You’ll have to ask Zink about it. He didn’t have a thing to say at the time.-----At the last stop, in the depths of despair and for the first time in two choir tours, Red and I were privileged to observe a young, eligible girl in her native habitat. My, My! Enough of that poetic prose; how about some prosaic poetry?

I have a veritable plumb here from the pen of the great bard, Ponce de Etruscano, from whom a later blind English rhymer got many ideas.

PARADISE LOST I walked into the dorm one night.

There sat ol* tutor beaming bright.

“Oh please sir, why this strange delight?”

He kept his usual aplomb— His answer hit me like a bomb.

“Come see my brand-new intercom.”

He turned it on and touched the dial.

His face was creased with a broad smile.

It made my veiy blood to bile.

“Just wait,” he said, “let’s listen in.”

I heard the television’s din A bubbler even. You can’t win.

1 turned and headed up the stairs.

I asked a question unawares.

My answer was-none, just mute stares.

One sad-faced prisoner motioned me To come. I followed quietly.

That solitude! It frightened me.

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RED And sadly slumped into a chair.

How long we sat, I cannot say But I could notice some decay, And then he spoke, “Alack a day.”

My spirit’s broke, I’ve lost the fight.

I’m even staying in tonight.

Can this, this brazen deed be right?”

What could I say? The die is cast.

The days of revelry are past.

Authority once more laughs last.

Wouldn’t that make Pegasus throw a shoe? I do hope you’re getting these classical allusions. They require a phenome­ nal amount of brain-racking and research, not to mention con­ siderable midnight oil burning. If any of these pearls should re­ main oystered bv ignorance my dear heart would rend. (1 rec­ ommend Harper's Classical Dictionary for collateral reading.)

A learned man once said, “Nothing can be said that has not been said before.” You may judge the following for yourself.

From class. “There are Dominicans, Benedictines, San Fran•’ (No comment) ciscans, Jesuits According to a local, printed source of information (one can’t be too careful) there is going to be a pot-luck supper one of these days. (Be prepared to show your membership card.)

A certain trumpet playing junior has the dorm hierarchy sum­ med up neatly. 'One horn but two tooters.” (Ergo the saying “to face the music.”)

This has been bothering me for quite a while, so I better get rid of it.

Johnny Milton, your bright English lad Dug the lingo of Jewry like mad.

Yes, he knew a great deal Of Qal, Niphal, and Piel Still he died — but his works live — how sad.

Acknowledgments for the thought for the month go to Will Durant. “A girl who is rounding the twenties is usually the equal of a man of thirty, but may perhaps be managed by a seasoned warrior of 37.” Goodby.

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Swan Song: A new poem by our senior poet laureate. Remember “Bachelors Last Stand”?

MAXIMS TO SWEAR BY OR AT Presented by those that enjoy the romantic, Although their passions are strictly pedantic, The mockers who scorn the sweet and the simple, The blossom of orange and Carol’s cute dimple, The men who affirm with feeble conviction Their motto, a false unfeasible fiction: “Never to fret and never to fidget, Never to act Love’s blinded idiot.”

Which they then accept as the majorst of premises, And think they can thus overpower their nemesis; And to aid in the fight for survival of Sense (or Cents) They lay down these laws for our common defence: “First of all, never kick over the traces; He embraces too much who merely embraces.

When a man is inactive and living in leisure, He’s ripe for a sweet sentimental seizure.

But never sweat and strain to get her; If she will go, why, simply let her.

Try not to impress by artful action; Through cunning is born no lasting attraction.

Never pamper a pet predilection; Never drink off an abortive affection.

Never fall prey to misguided emotion; There are lots of fine fish in the briny blue ocean.

Always be wary of modified rapture, For she may be teasing, not sieging for capture.

Never swear sweet nothings madly, And then regret behaving badly.

Never whisper, ‘I love you truly,’ Then run away so truly cruelly.

Never confess an enormous attraction; ‘Tis hard to blurt out a blushing retraction.

‘Love’ ’should mean love, not just a mere mouthful; Speak not of ‘love,’ if the heart is still doubtful.

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RED She’ll not be allured by the life of a spinster.”

The men who think women are corn and confetti Have this to say to those who “go steady”: “Don’t live a life of fettered frustration; Don’t chance the heartaches of sad separation.

To win a man’s heart may be her ambition, To pebble his pillow with jealous suspicion.

Her ‘steady’s’ a sort of social security, A male to veil her own immaturity.

Love or loss of it’s not so tragic; Not even in bloom is it unmixed magic.

If someone once steady says, ‘Lover, let mego,” It won’t break your heart; ‘twill but shatter your ego.

For a life of peace and calm coexistence Be friendly, be kind at a decent distance.”

In reply I say this, before we turn cynic And live out our lives from clinic to clinic: “Don’t regard the above as sworn-by solutions; They’re versifications, not weighty conclusions.

They’re not a matter of life, death, or money, Mere meaningless mud just meant to be funny.”

In conclusion I say: “You can take it or leave it; As for me, I’m not even inclined to believe it.

I believe to do battle with cute little Cupid Is not only heartless; it’s downright stupid.”

LAU

The Romans wrote poetry too. Our only Frosh staff member pre­ sents a well-worked translation of a love poem by:

CATULLUS Catullus — a name almost certain to ring a bell in the mind of every person who has studied the Classics. Just why does he stand out so far in one’s mind as a poet? Certainly it is not because of the topics which he chose to write on, namely love affairs, love squabbles, marriage songs, take-offs on certain people, and the like. Is his prominence dependent upon the fact that he is ac­ claimed the first of the Roman poets to try his hand at lyric poetry?

This does not provide the complete answer to our question either, since there is a dispute between men of learning whether Horace was the first lyric writer, or whether Catullus actually was.

That one point in which Catullus excelled beyond his con­ temporaries and which has given him the great name which he has, was his ability to put so much meaning, pathos, and passion into so few words. One outstanding example of his ability is the 19

1,1 \( K r.IHED short line “odi et amo”. Who fully can translate all the meaning these three short words contain? Many of his shorter odes also contain material almost untranslatable into fitting English verse.

A translation for his third ode might run as follows: Lament, ye goddesses, be heard, All ye men with tender feeling.

No longer lives my sweetheart’s bird, The sparrow, object of her grieving.

For this she loved more than her eyes.

This bird was sweeter than the others.

She knew it well, we may surmise, As children know their own dear mothers.

Upon her lap it oft would stay, And hopped about, now there, now here.

It used to chirp a cheerful lay, But only for its mistress dear.

O gloomy shades of dark damnation To which that sparrow now must go.

That all-devouring conflagration, Whence nothing can return, you know.

O evil deed that took from me, That sparrow, dear as it could be.

My sweetheart mourns; deep tears are shed.

Her eyes from weeping now grow red.

This translation, although employing over thirty more words than the original, does in no wise do fitting justice to the Latin.

Even famous masters of the English and Latin languages have found Catullus’ works impossible to set into flowing English verse that keeps the full meaning of the Latin. Thus a mention of the name Catullus will continue to bring to our minds the name, not only of a Latin lyric poet, but also of a man, who in the full mastery of his language, filled ever)' line to the brim with meaning.

JERALD PLITZUWErr

While the Male Chorus spent its Easter vacation in Minnesoiat five adventurous students headed for the land of sunshine: Mexico.

The young trailblazers (Roger Sprain, Darryl Bruemmer, Richard Paustian, Nicki Kiessling, and our Sports Editor Wm. “Art” God­ frey) had a little car trouble and lots of laughs. Godfrey, a loyal B&R staff member kept a diary on the expedition and heat Pepys at the game. Don't turn the next page without reading this hilari­ ous account of — 20 ji

MEXICO and BUST Thurs. March 22 2:30 P. M. Dear Diary, Amid a thunderous ovation from fellow students and with great exuberance we are starting for Mexico in Paustian’s black bomb, “Die Eiserne Jungfrau.” I can see the palm trees waving already.

2:35 P. M. Die Eiserne Jungfrau has come to a halt just outside of Wa­ tertown. We hope for the Jungfrau’s speedy recovery.

7:00 P. M. We just had the Jungfrau repaired and we are again start­ ing out for Mexico from Watertown, this time without an ovation and with less exuberance. Again I have visions of palm trees and dark eyed senoritas.

11:30 P.M. We arc now leaving Janesville. The Jungfrau broke down again and we just had it fixed. We are seriously considering chang­ ing the Jungfrau's name to “That Verschlugginer Heap.”

Fri. March 23 That Verschlugginer Heap busted down again in Rockford.

I’m beginning to think that Paustian made this trip just so he could have his car repaired and us suckers would have to chip in.

Sun. March 25 Saw the Mexican version of the roadrunner this aft. Much cuter than the American version and they are useful little birds.

But the roadrunners back home are much easier to catch.

Mon. March 26 Drove thru the mountains today and arrived in Mexico City late at night. Checked in at our hotel and went to a Mexican res­ taurant to eat. Ate my first Mexican dish and it practically ruined my taste buds. Us young American lads just don’t know how to handle these hot Mexican dishes.

Tues. March 27 Hired ourselves a guide and took a tour of the city during the day. Purchased a lot of worthless junk but Bruemmer managed the biggest purchase. He bought a jacket that the salesman said was of the finest cowskin, but Bruemmer tho’t it was deerskin and the rest of us tho’t it was ratskin.

Took a tour of Mexico City at night. We went to some spot where a bunch of Mexican farm boys were singing. These singing groups are called Mariachis, but they made so much noise they were called a lot of other names during the course of the night.

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I guess they’re the Mexican hillbilly singers.

Had our first taste of tequila. Our guide kept urging us to try it, and finally, purely for scientific reasons, we took a taste.

Wow! It goes right to your toes. We decided one test wasn’t enough, so we continued our scientific tasting for the rest of the night.

Went to some night club called the Ria Rosa, where they had 2 good singers and some jugglers. We also found ourselves surrounded by beautiful Mexican senoritas. After due delibera­ tion, we decided we had no scientific reason for talking to them, so we spoke to them purely for fun’s sake. We didn’t let the fact that we couldn’t understand each other interfere, as our guide was ready to interpret for us at the crucial moments in the conversation.

Wed. March 28 I don’t think I ever want to leave Mexico City!

Thurs. March 29 We left Mexico City today and I don’t think a certain bell­ hop at our hotel regretted it one bit. He carried down all of Bruemmer’s luggage, but Bruemmer ‘forgot’ to tip him. Bruemmer claims he wanted to tip him but the guy ran off before he could get his money out. This might be true, as Bruemmer’s purse strings were tight throughout the whole trip.

Fri. March 30 We spent the night at a beautiful hotel outside of Zinuipan.

They served us one of the best breakfasts I’ve ever eaten, all kinds of fruits and then ham and eggs. Now we started thru the worst stretch of mountains. Up and down we went, round and round, up and down. About this time Kiessling had an argument with his breakfast and when the breach proved irreconcilable, they parted company.

We stopped at the town of Laniers tonight and, after search­ ing desperately for a motel, we finally found one on the outskirts of town. The owner said we could have a 5 man room for only $ .40 apiece, but we would have to stay in a section of the motel that was reserved only for Mexicans. We decided that would be fine. When we entered our quarters, we found there were thou­ sands of occupants in it already. Cockroaches and bedbugs, as big as rats, were having drag races across the floor. We hauled out our machete and launched a vicious attack, but they had more and better reserves, so we finally gave up. The fact that I had to share my bed with these pests was bad enough, but Sprain was in there, too.

Sat. March 31 Crossed the border today. No trouble. Back in the land of the free. Ha! They were a lot freer in Mexico.

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Sun. April 1 Stopped at Hot Springs, Arkansas, after driving all night. Saw the hot springs and shot a round of golf. Bruemmer and Kiessling found the course pretty rough and both shot around 60.

Mon. April 2 Arrived back in Watertown today, a wiser and poorer group than started out. Not too much wiser but a great deal poorer. Oh well, we went down there with broad minds and we weren’t dis­ appointed. Let that wise old sage of room 211 call us “a bunch of foolish kids.” We are now authorities on Mexico and for the next 20 years we can monopolize conversation by saying, “Now when I was down in Mexico...........

ART GODFREY Why was the King James Version of the Bible revised? What brought about the need for the R.S.V.? Our new advertising mana­ ger, a town student, in a brief, original article answers these ques­ tions.

THE KING JAMES VERSION The King James Version was by no means the first English translation of the Bible. There were several before it, all of which were more or less based on William Tyndale’s translation, the first in English. If the King James is compared with these translations, it can be seen that it was influenced by all these preceding ver­ sions. After the King James surpassed the Geneva Bible in popu­ larity, it became the standard version of English-speaking peoples.

In spite of the fact that the King James is THE Bible of Eng­ lish-speaking peoples, it has defects which I believe should be remedied. Most of these defects concern language, and those that do not concern language are minor and would be present in almost any translation.

Naturally the first defect that anyone would see is the peculi­ arity of English of the seventeenth century. Since then many forms have become archaic, such as thou and thee. This, however, is a defect which can be tolerated, as it does not lead to misunder­ standing.

Besides archaic forms there are also many words used in the King James Version which have become obsolete. Since they are obsolete, the average reader of the Bible does not understand them. One may say that he could look them up in a dictionary, but I am afraid most people are much too lazy to do this. This second defect cannot be tolerated, since it leads to the one unpar­ donable sin of any translation, that is, it leads to misunderstanding.

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The worse defect, of course, is the fact that words which were accurate translations of the original text in 1611 now have other meanings. Since they have changed in meaning, they can cause false interpretations, because everyone does not have the original text at his disposal or because he prefers the UNIN­ SPIRED to the INSPIRED. Since there are more than three hun­ dred such English words in the King James, I do not think that anyone can honestly say that this is not a serious defect. In this case you must remember that there is no need to consult a dictionary since these words are common today and everyone knows their present meaning. Who does not know what “prevent” means today, what “comprehend” means today, what “wealth” means to­ day? But how many know that “prevent” once meant “precede”, “comprehend” once meant “overcome”, “wealth” once meant welbeing”?

The object of the King James Version was to present the Bible in a simple way in English to the people. This should be the object of any translation, or it has no object. As you can see, the King James no longer serves this purpose at the present time.

Do you think that the translators of the King James would be pleased to know that their translation no longer serves a purpose?

Wouldn’t they rather be pleased to see the Bible presented to the people in simple, easily understood English?

The easiest way to remedy the defects of the King James would be either to adopt a modern translation or to undertake . new translation of the Bible into modern English, not into modern slang or into modern expressions which may easily disappear, but into a straight-forward English, which would last until it should again have to be supplanted by another translation. DAN BUSKE

The ALUMNI SOCIETY Will Meet on June 6, 1956 at 3:00 P. M. in the Gym Luncheon at 5:00 P. M. - $1.00 per Plate No Reservation Required The Musical Organizations will present their final concert at 8:00 p. m. on June 6

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ALUMNI SOCIETY The Northwestern College Alumni Society met in the college gymnasium on the afternoon of June 8, 1955. The president, Prof.

Walter A. Schumann, acted as chairman. In the absence of the secretary, Pastor W. O. Pless, Prof. C. Toppe was elected secretary pro tern. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved with two corrections. The date of the 1954 meeting is to be corrected to June 7th; and the paragraph concerning the memorial for sanctuary appointments in the new college chapel is to read as follows: “In memory of Pastor Allyn Schuppenhauer the class of 1944 contributed $109.00 for the purchase of sanctuary appointments for the new college chapel.”

Roll call followed. Only forty-three alumni and honorary members were present at the time of the reading. Upon the rec­ ommendation of President E. E. Kowalke the twenty-three, mem­ bers of the graduation class of 1955 were admitted into member­ ship. The eight irirl graduates of the high school department were admitted into membership upon the recommendation of Prof. R. Sievert. Prof. E. Kirst, recommended by Prof. P. Eichmann, and Pastor K. Bast (Madison, Wis.), recommended by Pastor R. ITorlamus, were accepted as honorary members of the society.

The treasurer. Prof. Theo. Binhammer, submitted his annual report, as follows: NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNI SOCIETY Report of Income and Expenses From June 9, 1954 to June 8, 1955 Income: Dues for 1955 Interest...........

.$ 637.05 21.45 $ 658.50

Total Income Expenses: Mailing Costs Black and Red

29.15 30.00

Total Expenses Income over Expenses 25

59.15 .$ 599.35

CASH ACCOUNT Balance June 9, 1954 From Income

Total cash to be accounted for Disbursements: 59.15 Expenses 765.00 Curtain....

1250.00 Piano .....

2617.56

Total Disbursements

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Balance in Bank

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$ 543.41

An auditing committee, composed of Pastor Theo. Hartwig, Mr. Herbert Jaster, and Mr. Herbert Scharlemann, was appointed by the chairman.

The nominating committee, to which Prof. E. Schroeder, Prof.

R. Jungkuntz, and Pastor W. Kehrberg had been appointed by the president, read its slate of candidates for the various offices of the society. The list was adopted as presented by the committee chair­ man, Prof. E. Schroeder.

The following were elected as officers of the society: Prof.

Walter A. Schumann, president; Pastor W. Kehrberg, first vicepresident; Prof. E. Wendland, second vice-president; Pastor Eldor Toepel, secretary; Prof. Theo. Binhammer, treasurer; Prof. R. Sievert, mailing secretary; Dr. E.. C. Kiessling and Prof. R. Gehrke, members of the news letter committee, and Prof. C. Toppe, chroni­ cler.

The chronicler of the society, Prof. C. Toppe, read the names of the following alumni whose deaths occurred during the past year: Mr. W. F. Weimar, ’85; Rev. Fr. Graeber, emer., ’90; Rev. F. Uetzmann, emer., ’95; Rev. Gerhard Ernst, ’00; Mr. Otto Ernst, ’02; Rev. Alfred Sauer, ’02; Dr. Fred Kosanke, ’04; Rev. Oswald Hensel, ’08; Rev. Paul Horn, ’08; Rev. Arthur Berg, ’ll; Prof. Rich­ ard Janke, ’15. The society honored their memory by rising.

Pastor G. Redlin reported for the project committee and sub­ mitted the following list of suggestions: equipment for several rooms in the new dormitory, suitable pictures for the new dormi­ tory, bleachers for the athletic field, new band uniforms, the por­ trait of Pres. Kowalke. With regard to the last suggestion Prof.

Schumann reported that he had abandoned all hope of convincing the subject to yield to the mandate of the society and to sit for the portrait authorized in 1953. After considering the other sug­ gestions, the society voted to supply the funds (approximately $700.00) to furnish two students’ rooms in the new dormitory.

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

Prof. H. Oswald reported on the purchase of the stage back­ drop and two side curtains, and of the Baldwin concert piano, which were acquired during the past year.

Greetings from Dr. Ralph Owen (Marburg, Germany) and Mr. Jenny (Wilmington, Delaware), members of the jubilee class of 1905, were read by Dr. Ernst Heilmann, the only member of the class present. Ide was instructed by the chairman to convey the greetings of the society to the correspondents.

Adjournment at 4:30.

C. Toppe, SECRETARY PRO TEM

ALUMNI NOTES INSTALLATIONS & CALLS R. C. Hillemann, '25, has accepted a call to Brodhead, Wisconsin.

He will be installed May 6, '56.

His former charge was Savan­ na, Illinois.

G. Kionka, '43 .formerly of Stod­ dard, Wisconsin, was installed by his father as Pastor of St. John's at Newburg, Wis. on Sunday evening April 15, 1956.

Paul Koch, '49, has his new charge at Newbury. Minnesota. His old charge was Hettinger, N. D. Paul Kuehl, '41. left Mandan, N.D. for his new charge at Cudahy, Wisconsin.

Jonathan Schaller. '50, has ac­ cepted the call to Stoddard, Wisconsin and will be installed April 15, 1956. He came from La Crosse, Wisconsin.

W. Schumann, ’41, formerly of Eagle, Wisconsin, has accepted the call to Watertown, South Dakota.

DEDICATIONS St. John’s Lutheran Church, the charge of Pastor T. Monhardt, was dedicated on Sunday, March 18. 1956.

ANNIVERSARIES J. Martin Raasch, ’03, of St. Paul’s Church, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, was honored in a special eve­ ning service on March 27, 1956, by the observation of his 75th birthday.

MISCELLANEOUS Robert Voss has been called as the Senior Pastor of Siloah Lutheran Church.

Pastors Arthur Tacke and Harry Shiley and their wives are on

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an extended auto trip to Mexi­ co. We hope that they are en­ joying themselves.

H. C. Nitz, ’15, and his wife will leave for a vacation in Tacoma, Washington, on April 9, 1956.

While there, he will preach at the dedication of the New Faith Chapel on April 22, 1956. His son Paul Nitz is the pastor there Rudolph Weyland, ’34, received the doctorate degree from the University of California, Berke­ ley, California, School of Edu­ cation in September 1955. The title of his dissertation was: “The Effects of a Semester Workshop on Fourth Grade Teachers’ Skills in Teaching Music Reading.” His present position is The Coordinator of Music Education for the Tulare County California School Sys­ tem. He is also on the evening and summer staff of The Fres­ no State College, The College of Sequoias. He is the chair­ man of The Music Education Division, San Joaquin SectionCalifornia School Supervisors Association. He holds the posi­ tion of Editor of The Central Section California Music Edu­ cators Bulletin, and is a mem­ ber of The California Music Education Board. Besides all this he is the organist of Grace Lutheran Church, Visalia, Cali­ fornia.

BIRTHS Su^an Marie, daughter of The Rev. and Mrs. Edmund Schulz ’44, of Hagelton, N. D. She was born on March 18, 1956.

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Seventeen boys turned out for the baseball team directed by Coach Umnus. As of now, it’s pretty difficult to say just how good the team will be, but with veterans manning nearly every position, last year’s record should certainly be improved on.

The team will probably line up somewhat like this: infield — Ed Lindquist will be back for first base duty. Ron Stelter, regular shortstop a year ago has been shifted to third and Niki Kiessling has been shifted from second to short, with either Harry Schewe or War­ ren Widman holding down the second base job. Ed Lindeman and Bob Michel from last year’s team, along with newcomers Dave Frit/.e, Dave Schumacher, and Don Seifert are fighting it out for the outfield spots.

Right now it appears as if N. W. C. will be strongest on the mound, since both Rog Fleming and Rog Uitti have returned and two newcomers show a lot of promise. The two new boys are Aaron Uitti, up from the Preps and Fred Jungkuntz, an aged, but well-pre­ served righthander, acquired from the Milwaukee police department.

The catching also should be adequate, with Freshman Cowboy Niel­ son apparently getting the nod over returnees Paul Albrecht and Ed Schaewe.

There is a movement under way to fashion a track team to rep­ resent N.W.C. at several meets this spring. Jack Herzog is in charge of this and his budding Olympians began serious training for the first time on April, the 16th.

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APPLIANCE STORES Watertown Sheet Metal, 117 S. Third St. James D. Casey Co., 119 Water Street AUTOMOBILES A. Kramp Co., G19 Main Street BAKERIES Pagcl’s Bakery 114 West Main Street Quality Bake Shop, 104 Main Street BANKS Bank of Watertown, First & Main Street BARBERS Saegcr & Brand, 9 Main Street BEVERAGES Coca-Cola Bottling Co.. Madison, Wis. Nehi Beverages, Madison, Wis. Seven-Up Bottling Co., 410 First Street BOWLING ALLEYS Chases Bowl, 125 N. Water Street CLEANERS Paramount Cleaners, 021 Main Street Vogue Cleaners, 412 Main Street COFFEE 0. R. Picpcr Co., Milwaukee, Wis. DAIRIES Dairy Lane, Union Street Mullen’s. 212 W. Main Street DIME STORES S. S. Krcsgc Co.. 207 Main Street DRUG STORES Bussc's, 204 Main Street Doerr Drugs, W. Main Street Gehrkc Pharmacy, 315 Main Street Tetzlaff Pharmacy, 110 Main Street EYE GLASSES Dr. H. E. Magnan. 410 Main Street FLORISTS Birkholz Floral Shop, GIG Main Street Loefflcr Floral Shop, 202 W. Main St. FUNERAL HOMES H. Hafemeister, 60*. Main Street Pederson Funeral Home, 211 Fifth Street Schmutzler Funeral Home, 721 N. Fourth FURNITURE H. Hafemeister, 607 Main Street Keck Furniture Co., 110 Main Street Klode Furniture Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Schmutzler Furniture, 401 Main Street GARAGES James D, Casey Co., 119 Water Street A. Kramp Co., 617 Main Street Voss Motors, Inc., 301 W. Main Street GENERAL CONTRACTORS Precour Construction Co., Oshkosh, Wis. GIFTS & CARDS The Gift Fair, Main & First Streets GROCERIES Bentzin’s, 905 Main Street Iffland’s, 207 S. Second Street Krause’s, 1101 Western Avenue Duddeck's Grocery, 813 Wisconsin Street HARDWARE & SPORTING GOODS Rex Draheim, Inc., 307 Main Street Harris Ace Stores, 304 Main Street Koerner & Pingel, 205-209 N. Second D. & F. Kusel Co., 108 W. Main Street

INSURANCE Aid Association for Lutherans, Appleton Herman Mutual Ins. Co., Iron Ridge Wm. C. Krueger, 312 Main Street Lutheran Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ia. Church Mutual Ins. Co., Merrill, Wis. JEWELRY Salick’s Jewelry, 310 Main Street Schneider Jewelry, 111 S. Third Street Warren’s Jewelry, 111 Main Street LAUNDRY Home Laundromat, 200 Madison Street Watertown Steam Laundry, 309 Third St. LUMBER & FUEL Hutson-Braun Lumber Co., First Street West Side Lumber Co., 210 Water Street MEAT MARKETS Block’s Market, 112 Second Street Julius Bayer, 202 Third Street New York Market, 8 Main Street MEMORIALS Archie Bros., Inc., 218 S. First Street Watertown Memorial Co., Inc., 112 N. 4 MEN’S CLOTHING STORES Faber’s, 311 Main Street Chas Fischer & Sons, 2 Main Street Kern’s, 114 Main Street Krier’s, 101 Main Street Penney’s, 201 Main Street MILLING Globe Milling Co., 318 Water Street NEWSPAPER Watertown Daily Times, 115 W. Main St. OFFICE SUPPLIES Minar Office & School Supply, 407 Main ORGANS Verlinden Organ Co., Milwaukee, Wis. United Organ Co., Milwaukee, Wis. PHOTOGRAPHS LeMacher Studio, 115 N. Fourth Street A1 Rippe, 113 Second Street PLUMBERS Otto Biefeld Co., 202 N. Water Street PLUMBING FIXTURES Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis. RADIO STATION WTTN, 104 W. Main Street RADIOS & TELEVISION Guyer Music Store, 109 N. Third Street RESTAURANTS East Gate Inn Herro's Fine Foods, 212 Main Street Legion Green Bowl, Oconomowoc Ave. Sharp Corner, Corner 9th & Main Zwieg’s Grill, Main & Ninth Streets SHOE STORES Meyer’s Shoe Store, 206 Main Street Ray’s Red Goose Shoe Store, Main St. Ruesch’s, 210 W. Main Street SMOKE SHOP Walt’s Picadilly, 406 Main Street THEATERS Classic, 30S Main Street Savoy, West Main Street

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Should you have life insurance?

Yes. For the same reason you’re in school.

Because you want to be successful. Life insurance gives you a definite savings goal. It assures cash, ready to go to work in any way your good judgment approves. At death, the money you wanted is there, to be paid to whomever you want— probably your wife.

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Your Aid Association for Lutherans is proud of its 53 year record of helpful service to member owners with our common bond of faith.

If you don’t know the A.A.L. man in your area, write to our home office for his name. He’U be glad to help you with your questions.

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Pewaukee, Wis.

Wepco Printing, Inc. “Pamphlet Printing A Specialty”

207 Second St., Watertown

Jnerr 'Srngs Day and Night Prescription Service Telephone 420

S. S. KRESGE CO. 207 Main Street WHERE NICKELS & DIMES Still buy good merchandise

WATERTOWN MEMORIAL CO., INC. THE BLOCK BROTHERS Quality Monuments, Markers and Mausoleums 116 N. Fourth Street

Watertown, Wis.

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High-Grade PASTRIES and CAKES 104 Main Street Phone 235

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WATERTOWN STEAM LAUNDRY 309 Third St.

Phone 59 "Your Home Laundry"

SEAGER & BRAND BARBER SHOP

5 Main Street Phone 53-J WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

UNITED ORGAN CO. SERVICE — SALES REPRESENATIVE FOR

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Complete Office Outfitters

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Equipment and Supplies for Offices and Schools Office Machine Service

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NEW THREE-MANUAL PIPE ORGANS Recent Milwaukee Installations Hear Them ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN CHURCH 8th and Scott JORDAN LUTHERAN CHURCH 77th and National CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10th and Wisconsin SILOAH LUTHERAN CHURCH 21st and Nash OKLAHOMA AVE. LUTHERAN CHURCH 54th and Oklahoma

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Archie Brothers, Inc. CEMETERY MEMORIALS 218 S. First Street Watertown Stores at Waterloo, Oconomowoc, MayviUe, Waupun, Fond du Lac

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 29

COMMENCEMENT — 1956 CLASS OF 1956 — Pictures & Biographies .........................

English Oration — Bach the Christian ............................

German Oration — Da/' Marburger Kolloqium ...............

V Last but not Least, Forum Program 6.

Forum Finale ..........................................

30 -36 37 39 42 42

PICTURE SECTION — The Black & Red Staff The Male Chorus .........

The Mixed Chorus .......

The Band ......................

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

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ALUMNI — Alumni Assignments Alumni Notes .........

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SPORTS — Baseball

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BLACK AND RED STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Mark Hillmer . . Editor-in-Chief Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor John Ribar .....

Assistant Editor DEPARTMENT Edgar Herman ...

William Godfrey Robert Schmiel .

EDITORS __ __ Alumni Editor ______ Sports Editor Campus & Classroom

BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul Siegler ............................... Business Manager Daniel Buske ........................ Advertising Manager Jerald Plitzuweit ........... Asst. Business Manager Vol. LX

JUNE 1956

No. 2

Entered at the Post Office at Watertown, Wi«., as second clast matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly during the school year. Subscription |2.00.

tornmjmmt ft56 The will of Gocl is always best And shall be done forever; And they who trust in Him are blest, He will forsake them never.

He helps indeed in time of need, He chastens with forbearing; They who depend on God, their Friend, Shall not be left despairing.

(This is the first stanza of the hymn (No. 517) which the class of ’56 has chosen for its class song.)

Clou Motto: Romans: S, 28. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who are the called according to his purpose.”

Clou yiowa: Lilies (The symbol of the lily is taken from the Sermon on the Mount which reads: “And why take ye thought for rai­ ment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”)

Clou Colon: Green and Silver

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The graduation theme of the cover includes the class

colors and flower. Our thanks to Bob Sievert who was responsible for the designing and photography of this, as well as last month’s cover, and to Mr. Keith Brunn who designed the lily.

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Fond du Lac ROBERT HERMAN DREWS Although ‘Bob’ is the youngest member of the class, he nevertheless kept pace with and sometimes even set the pace for his Senior classmates. His ex­ tracurricular activities include band, where he plays cornet, Forum, Male Chorus, four years of football, and owning a car. He came to N.W.C. from Winne­ bago Luth. Academy where his father is professor.

He has a certain affinity for the West. He looks and acts western-like. He’s got some boots and a ten gal­ lon hat, and in a kinda western drawl with a poker face he drops those short, humor-packed gems. As far as really outside interests go, he seems mainly concerned about the progress of the St. Louis Cardi­ nals. Beginning next fall he’ll get a chance to fol­ low them more closely, as he will be attending Mis­ souri State University, at which he has won a scho­ larship. The studies will be Greek and Latin After he has earned his M. A there, he will proceed to the Sem. ROGER WILLIAM FLEMING

Burlington

“Rog” is one of those real steady fellows. He never was a headliner, but he belonged to just about everything a student at N.W.C. could; he is one of those reliable fellows. You name it, Rog was in there pitching, which brings us to the baseball position he held for two years. Band, chorus, glee club, football, Forum take top priority in his long list of activities.

A man always ready for a joke, except if it’s about the Cubs (who have won ten pennants, he'll have you know), “Flame’s” gleeful laugh and infinite sense of humor have always made him a pleasant fellow to have around, except maybe when he was func­ tioning qua class treasurer. It was long climb but he finally made it to the top football ranks: Rog ended his last two football years as a right guard cog in the Umnus machine. Rog plans on attending the “Gemutlicher Abend” housewarming at Sem next year.

Unionville, Mich.

KEITH ROBERT HAAG Who said the Renaissance man is a thing of the past? Look at Haag, for example. Four years of Glee Club, Male Chorus, football, and Forum (president in Senior). This man-of-letters (basketball manager, football) was also a member of the Athletic Board and B & R Staff. So what if he doesn’t paint. He revels in music and with his barrel chest and boom­ ing voice he even sounded like the shrew-taming Petruchio in SHAKESPEARE’S GENTLEMEN. Al­ ready during his M. L. S. days Keith’s jocularity and ready banter was pronounced. The floruit of his well-nit wit came, however, during the “Sturm und Drang” period as C & C Editor. Whence the man?

Dionysos had nothing on him; he comes from the Thumb — Unionville, Michigan. Ol’ Keith will con­ tinue his introspection at the Sem.

1956 Mukwonago WARREN JACOB HENRICH “Hank” knew what he wanted and he kept plug­ ging until he got it. Northwestern wasn’t always easy sailing, but Warren took everything in his stride.

He has a great love for athletics, and when he in­ jured his shoulder he took over as assistant prep football coach for several years. During the past year Warren has been driving around in Bentzin’s grocery truck, but his more pleasant driving excursions take him to Kenosha, the home of his fiancee. A cheerful fellow but a serious student, Warren liked to joke a lot, in his quiet sort of way, and was always popu­ lar with his class. We wish him lots of luck in the future and we know he will always keep plugging.

He plans on going to our Seminary at Thiensville next year..

LLOYD ADAM HOHENSTEIN

Clintonville

Four years ago D.M.L.C. sent us a student who has become the mainstay of the library staff. Be­ sides the two years of library work, Lloyd Hohenstein has spent four years in the school band, four years in the pep band, and one year in mixed chorus.

What may we say of this man? Well, his character is impeccable, and he is no mean student. But - but, he is an independent thinker and many a professor has been jarred by his impulsive outbursts and his un­ usual replies to questions. If is loves are facts, de­ tails, and books. Nothing will so easily excite hini as the prospect of a new book During his service in the library, he has become known as “Father Con­ fessor” of the coeds. Ho has quite an interest in coeds — graduated coeds especially. When we last saw Lloyd, (and you can’t miss seeing Lloyd because of his ramrod posture) we asked him about his plans.

He told us that after graduation from Thiensville, a country congregation would suit him fine. When he was asked for a statement on Northwestern, he re­ plied, “I’m quite satisfied with the new buildings.”

ROBERT HENRY KRUEGER

Manitowoc

t Bob is another of the Sharp habitues, but this isn’t his only claim to fame. He was co-captain of the 1955 football team and he was named an allconference linebacker. A skilled operator on the clarinet, Bob played in the band for four years.

Knowing that inactivity breeds trouble, this person­ able young man accepted a job driving Bentzin’s de­ livery truck. However, he may have accepted this position in order to secure a nest egg, since rumor has it that a former Northwestern coed has been at­ tracted to Bob by his affable ways. When questioned, Bobo slyly remarked that he and his redheaded heart throb have no definite plans, but he did say that they have an understanding as regards the future.

Our loss will be the Sem’s gain, since Bob plans to continue his studies there this fall. Of course we all wish Bob the best of luck, and we sincerely hope that the rules and regulations, which plagued Bob so sorely at N. W. C., will only be a bad memory at Thiensville.

Elknorn DAVID THEODORE LAU “Dof” served his school well. A graduate from Northwestern Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, South Dakota, he still remains loyal to South Dakota. Es­ pecially active in the music department, he was presi­ dent of the Male Chorus and director of the Glee Club in his Senior year. Band and mixed chorus al­ so felt his presence. His literary talent came to the fore during his two years on the Black and Red Staff; poetry was his forte. Also an active member of Forum, “Dof” was accompanist for the Mikado and made his final stage appearance as “Romeo."

The part seemed to be quite natural for him. He showed his scholastic ability by tutoring in German and giving the English commencement oration Dave would like to go to Germany some day .but next year will probably see him at Thiensville. Good luck Dof. We’ll miss you.

RICHARD ERNST LAUERSDORF

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“Louie” belongs to that select, stout-hearted group known as “eight-year men”. During his stay here he has shown himself easygoing and industrious He has completely succumbed to the influence of German, Latin, and Greek. Wegen des Sprachgefuehls, he is going to give the German speech at commencement, perhaps as a prelude to many Ger­ man sermons in the future. Not only has he proved himself proficient in German; but last year, because of his knowledge of Latin, he became a tutor “lin­ guae Romanae”. Next year he plans to abandon the educative facilities here in his hometown and head for the greener pastures of Thiensville.

LYLE JAMES LINDLOFF

Elkton, S. D.

“Lindy” may be short, but he takes a back seat for no one. This statement may be readily verified by anyone who has ever had the misfortune to cross his path. Lyle is a native of Elkton, in the state (?) of South Dakota, and is proud of it. The last of the “Lindys” had his prep schooling at D.M.L.C. before taking unsuspecting Northwestern by storm. In sports because of his size (or lack of it), “Lindy” had to content himself with being a spectator and football statistician. By working at the Badger Paint store, “Lindy” kept himself in pin money, which was fre­ quently spent in the company of Schneider, Fleming or Parcher. He was often known to take a dim view of Northwestern and especially its food. The high point of Lyle’s career at N.W.C. came when he was selected to speak for the student body at the Home­ coming celebration last year. Look out, Seminary, here comes Napoleon.

1956 Weyauwega JOHN FRANCIS MURPHY •‘Well, he’s a real good egg — solid.” That’s ‘Murph’, an easy-going Irishman with long legs and glue-tipped fingers. As the old Italian said, “Yep, he’sa all rita.” He snagged a few passes for the foot­ ball team, two years’ worth, and pitched into Male Chorus for four There’s only one thing that could disturb John’s placidity, one thorn in his side - “that cotton-pickin’ Uitti." Argue, mash, mash, argue con­ stantly, neither coming off without a blackened ego.

It was so bad that they usually roomed together.

Murph’s major vice is being on time for dates when the girl is late, getting into a conversation with the father, and making the poor girl twiddle her thumbs for up to an hour and a half, not officially clocked.

No doubt Murph and Uitti will be rooming together at Sem next year.

New Ulm, Minn.

LAWRENCE ALVIN NOLTE “Louie was born and raised in New Ulm, where his father has been a teacher for twenty-five years.

As might be expected, he is an import from D.M.L.C. Among other memories which he can take along to Thiensville next year are four years as a member of the Male Chorus, two as a member of the Mixed Chorus, and four as a member of the Band, where he graduated from the bass drum to the kettledrums after one year. Besides this he also tried his hand at football for two years. He likes sports, especially basketball and tennis, which he practiced last sum­ mer at his place of work, a summer resort, after he had finished work for the day. In keeping with his quiet ways is his interest in reading and music. Re­ cently this interest showed itself, when he became a Hi-Fi addict through the help of the A & P, where he worked this past year.

JOHN LOWELL PARCHER

Flint, Mich.

“Parch’s” magnetic personality coupled with his modest and unassuming character easily made him one of the most popular men on the campus with both the male and female student body. Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, “Johnny” attended Michi­ gan Lutheran Seminary before coming to Northwes­ tern. He showed his tremendous athletic ability in football by playing backfield for four years. His basketball career started in Sophomore and led to his captaincy in Senior. After two great years in baseball, John decided the subsidy wasn’t enough; so he went to work at the local fertilizer plant this fPring- In addition to active participation in sports Parch” was also president of the Athletic Board and “N” Club. John’s diligence in studies is another phase of his life at Northwestern that must not be overlooked. He especially loves engagement parties for his sisters and is looking forward to the Semi­ nary, which is the residence of his buddy and future brother-in-law.

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GALE LAVERN PETERSON ‘Pete” is the man who is always busy, not nec­ essarily because he has more to do than the rest of his classmates, but because everything he does do, he does well. As a member of the Forum for four years, he took an active interest and helped to make it the popular and successful society that it is. His portrayals of the orator William Jennings Bryan and of Shylock, the Jew, were outstanding. The last two years Pete has served on the B & R Staff and this year he helped out as tutor of Latin for three of the special students. He studies a lot, but nevertheless has time for an occasional, worthwhile bull-session (especially worthwhile for the other participants).

He’s very interested in Synod and its history and has become quite an authority on it and its members.

Next year about this time, Pete with his surprisingly booming but easily understood voice ought to be preaching his first sermon, the first fruits of his eight years at Northwestern.

Glencoe, Minn.

DAVID JOHN PLOCHER This D.M.L.C. graduate certainly did a good job of keeping up his alma mater’s reputation for music talent. Dave sang a deep 2nd bass in Male Chorus, in Glee Club, and in Octet; he played baritone in Senior Band and directed the Junior Band for two years. It was primarily through David’s efforts that “Pinafore” was presented at Northwestern. Dave is a serious student and also seemed to enjoy his stay here. He was a member of the Forum and enjoyed acting in plays and skits. Somehow he always man­ aged to get one of those love scene roles. His reson­ ant speaking voice will serve him in good stead, as he plans to continue his studies at the Seminary next fall. See you around, Dave.

Kenosha JAMES ALAN SCHNEIDER President of his class for four years, James, or ‘Paizan”, as he is affectionately called, was one of our star athletes during his stay at N.W.C. He was one of the mainstays on the football team for four years and also took a fling at baseball. His athletic career was capped by his being awarded a berth on the all-conference football team. However, don’t think that James’ talents were limited to the athletic field. He beat a mean drum in the band and is con­ sidered quite an authority on American history. Des­ pite his scholarly bent of mind, Jim found time to work at the fertilizer plant in his senior year. The money thus acquired flowed back into circulation, for Jim is a boon companion. As of now no woman has any claims to him, so all you girls in Milwaukee sharpen your claws and prepare to meet this charm­ ing young Adonis, who plans on meeting you during his sojourn at the Sem.

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Austin, Minn.

EUGENE HENRY STRANGMAN “Max” originating from the Gopher state, spent his prep years at New Ulm, and then crossed the border to enter Northwestern in Frosh. He is the product of a Minnesota farm and firmly clings to his belief that “the life of a preacher is as penniless as that of a farmer.” His theory of life—silence is the gem of self-existence—has had results, for he is ev­ eryone’s friend. The Lenmen prospered in football during the 3 years he was manager, since three con­ ference championships were won. In his Senior year Eugene acted as Dormitory Council president and served as a member of the Car Committtee. He has been vice-president of his class since Frosh and sang in the Male Chorus 2 years. Max took part ir all intramural sports until his Senior year, when he be­ came one of the “Potash boys.” Next year the Semi­ nary will find him enrolled there.

RICHARD WILLIAM STROBEL

Watertown

“George” is one of those guys who goes about his work quietly and efficiently, without making any fuss. In his eight years here at Northwestern, I don’t believe he’s lost his equanimity once. His extra­ curricular activities consist in teaching a German class and working downtown. George is proud of his cool, green Chewy. Since he’s a town student, he has a good opportunity to use it, but George uses his car for cultural pursuits, not like some town stu­ dents we’ve known. On one safari to Milwaukee the car wound up at an Italian establishment, and George’s German palate made the acquaintance of the pie called pizza. Our subject was hardly impressed by this product of Italian culinary genius. So far he has always called Watertown home, but next year he’ll be heading for Thiensville, The atmosphere on the hill should suit George just fine.

ROGER WILLIAM UITTI

Jacksonville, Fla. “Rog”, hailing from south of the border (the Wisconsin border) ,has stood up under the stress and strain of eight long years at Northwestern. Roger always a conscientious student, proved himself a capable master of ceremonies in his presentation of the Forum program on Luther. Often his spare hours are passed writing poetry or listening to classical music. Besides playing baseball, he also enjoys try­ ing his skill at golf. Although attending school in a state where the Braves are famous, he has tenaci­ ously held his position as a faithful Cub backer.

He’s a loyal member of the “weeders” club and can always be found with Murphy. For two years his bass voice has been heard in the Male Chorus. Next year Rog will continue his pursuit of knowledge at the Seminary.

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Kewaskum CLEONE HARVEY WEIGAND The whole township of Theresa is rejoicing over the graduation of its most famous resident, “Chapie”.

Cleone is a strong-willed man of principle who has to be proven conclusively wrong before he will yield either to professors or students. His unusual inven­ tive genius is apparent in everything he does .from contriving puns to staying awake nights inventing gadgets to patent. This inventiveness also showed itself in his successful editorship of the Black and Red. He reworked the paper so as to put us in the black instead of the red.. Besides the editorship of the Black and Red Cleon’s extra-curricular activities included: three years in the band and four years of intramural football. He made his spending money by repairing radios for students. The Seminary will be his place of residence this fall.

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He rooms with Lau and so he does a lot of study­ ing. In fact he spent all spring working on his term paper on the Synodical Conference. There is nothing he likes better than hitting those books Now Bob doesn’t spend all of his time studying. He was in the chorus four years and in Glee Club one year. He al­ so found time to play intramural softball three years, but the sport to which he devoted the most time was making pilgramages to Milwaukee to pay homage to the fair sex. Lest you get the wrong idea. Bob is one of the most amiable and well-liked men in his class.

He is known as an organizer among his friends. An­ other point in his favor is that he hails from Michi­ gan. He took his high school training at Saginaw.

Bob plans to go on to Thiensville and thus conti tue the line of Lutheran ministers that started with his grandfather.

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On the following pages are pictures of the organizations, in which the members of the graduating class have participated, and the commencement speeches as they were given by the speakers, David Lau and Richard Lauersdorf.

The Commencement Exercises were held June seventh.

Padf, the (Ebrtsiian In the history of the world there have been many great geni­ uses and many simple, believing Christians filled with the Word of God, but only rarely have both sincere Christianity and great geni­ us been found in the same person. Johann Sebastian Bach, the great Lutheran composer of the early eighteenth century, was one of those rare examples. From him we can learn how art, in this case particularly music, can truly be made the servant of religion and a source of pleasure to God. From him we learn that genius does not have to lead a loose moral life, does not have to enter­ tain radical ideas, does not have to be puffed up with self-esteem, does not have to despise Gods way of salvation for men. Many composers make music their religion; Bach made music the ser­ vant of his religion; his music was an expression of his Christianity.

All of Bach’s church music is a series of sermons expounding the great objective truths of Chiristianity. lie was neither a mys­ tic pietist nor a lifeless dogmatist; he was rather an orthodox con­ fessional. Lutheran with deep religious feeling. Ilis favorite theme was the release from earthly woes in heaven. This was not a mor­ bid, self-pitying emotion in him, but a confident faith in his per­ sonal salvation. At Bach’s death many well-thumbed theological books were found in his possession, including many of Luther’s works. Bach’s Christianity was not confined to his church music.

All his music, whether gav dance tunes or instruction books for his little children, was prefaced with a phrase of thanksgiving to God, either “To God alone be glory” or “In Jesus’ name.” Even when Bach wrote a little poem about smoking a pipe, he could not help comparing man’s transitory life on earth to his pipe of earth and clay turning tobacco into nothing but ashes.

But if Bach’s spirit soared heavenward, his feet remained firmly planted on the ground. He was not a traveling musician like Handel; he fulfilled his duties as father, church member, and citizen while doing his work as a musician, and in doing that work he stubbornly stood up for his rights whenever he felt they were being trampled on. He fought often in behalf of good music in the church. He made much out of little disturbances and refused to compromise because he wanted to be steadfastly true to his ideals. Bach was a family man; altogether he had twenty children, seven from his first wife, thirteen from his second. He was a lov­ ing father, but many of his offspring inherited his genius rather than his Christianity and gave him much grief.

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By that time he had received a sound musical training and a fair education otherwise. After his years as a soprano were over, he turned to the violin for a livelihood, until, impressed with his technical and artistic skill, the Arnstadt church offered him the position of organist. He was twenty years old at this time, im­ petuous and idealistic, already a genius. After a visit to the brilli­ ant organist Buxtehude he returned full of new musical tricks which lengthened the church service and infuriated the members.

After he was admonished, he stubbornly refused to do any more than the absolute minimum. Experience had not yet taught him that man, even genius, must work among imperfections. Only after many more trials would Bach learn to exercise patience in the midst of difficulties.

Bach’s next position was as organist at Muehlhausen. Here he married his cousin, Maria Barbara, whom he had met in Arn­ stadt. Bach left Muehlhausen after two years, chiefly for religious reasons. The pastor had a tendency towards pietism and wanted to separate music and art from the service of the Lord. Bach de­ cided such an atmosphere was not suitable for him and his music and found another position .

From the age of 23 to 32 Bach lived in Weimar as chief musician in the court of Duke Wilhelm, a Lutheran prince who loved music. Although the musical resources at his disposal were meagre, his life at court was happy, chiefly because the prince appreciated him very much. However, after a time the prince in his appreciation became too possessive for the sturdily indepen­ dent musician. Bach then took a position with the Calvinist Prince Leopold. Duke Wilhelm tried to prevent the separation, and even placed Bach in jail. As soon as he was released, Bach made his way to the court of Coethen, his home for the next five years.

Although he had left his Lutheran surroundings, he did not forget his Lutheranism. He put his children into the small Luther­ an school in Coethen; and some of his musical notebooks contain the admonition: “Beware of Calvinism and Melancholy.”

In 1720 Bach made a journey with the prince. When he re­ turned to the court he found that his wife was dead. Sorrowfully he had to become both father and mother to his motherless child­ ren. A year later Bach, then 36, married a talented twenty-yearold girl, Anna Magdalena Wuelcken. Anna became his best critic, his best copyist. She it was who cared for the large family, seven from the first marriage and thirteen from the second. Husband and wife suffered many family sorrows together. Of the twenty children born to Bach, ten died in infancy, one was an imbecile, three became worldly-minded, two, Carl Philip Emanuel and Jo­ hann Christoph Friedrich, followed in the best steps of their father.

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But God also brought joys to Bach and his young wife. There was Anna’s gay laugh as he instructed her on the organ, or his proud smile when she sang his compositions. There were the happy Bach family gatherings, when music became the language of rejoicing.

In 1723 at the age of 38 Bach accepted the position of cantor in the St. Thomas school at Leipzig. Now again he was able to devote his genius primarily to church music, for he had to supply music for all the churches in Leipzig, besides taking care of his teaching duties at the boys’ school. Bach had many quarrels in Leipzig, particularly with the organist and the rector, who was the head of the school. During the four years from 1730 to 1734 when the rector was music-loving Johann Gesner, Bach was happi­ est and wrote some of his most joyful church music. After Johann Emesti became rector in 1734, Bach and his music were gradually pushed aside. Ernesti was twenty years younger than Bach, a coldly intellectual classicist ,who had no love for music. He treat­ ed the Scripture scientifically as any other book; one of his pupils said: “He laid within me the immovable foundation of unbelief.”

Bach with his old-fashioned orthodoxy and Lutheran love for music developed a tremendous dislike for the young rector. When we read that most of the students were set in the direction of heterodoxy under Ernesti, we cannot help thinking that Bach’s dislike was justified.

Thus in a hostile atmsophere Bach died in 1750, blind and unappreciated except by the few who loved him. At his death­ bed he dictated to his son-in-law the last notes that God had giv­ en him to compose. This musical genius, who had written sub­ lime music, ended his earthly life with a blessed chorale on his lips, breathing for the last time the Christian faith that had sus­ tained him.

“Before Thy Throne I now appear, O Lord, bow down Thv gracious ear To me, and cast not from Thv face Thy sinful child that sues for grace.

Grant that in peace I close my eyes, But, on the last day, bid me rise, DAVID LAU And let me see Thy face fore’er.

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testanten wenden. Um groessere Macht fuer sie zu erlangen, versuclite Landgraf Philipp von Hessen ein evangelisches Gesamtbuendnis zwischen den Anhaengern Luthers und Zvvinglis zu schliessen. Aber soldi ein Buendnis war unmoeglich wegen des Lehrgegensatzes zwischen Luther und Zwingli. Der Langdraf hoffte, jenen Gegensatz selbst zu ueberwinden, und mit dieser Absicht lud er die beiderseitigen Theologen zu einem Kolloquium auf seinem Schlosse zu Marburg ein.

Zuerst schlugen Luther und die Wittenberger die Einladung ab. Sie fuerchteten, dass eine Disputation den Streit nur heftiger machen wuerde, und vor allem fuerchteten sie die politischen Plaene des Landgrafen. Endlich aber wurden sie durcli Philipps Beharren gezwungen, die Einladung anzunehmen. Daher ging Luther nach Marburg, obgleich er ziemlich sicher war, dass das Gespraech nutzlos und umsonst sein wuerde, weil weder Zwingli noch er selber von seiner eigenen Lehre weichen koenne.

Zwingli und die Schweizer nahmen die Einladung gerne an.

Sie hatten nichts zu verlieren, und vielleicht konnten sie etwas gewinnen. Ohne Zweifel hoffte Zwingli, das politische Buendnis zustande zu bringen, selbst wenn sie ihre Glaubensdifferenz nicht in Ordnung bringen koenten.

Das Kolloquium fand statt vom 1. bis 3. Oktober 1529. Die wichtigsten Teilnehmer waren auf der einen Seite Luther, Melanchthon und Jonas, auf der anderen Zwingli und Oekolampadius.

Am Freitag, dem 1. Oktober, veranstaltete Philipp private Gespraeche zwischen Luther und Oekolampadius und zwischen Melanchthon und Zwingli. Klugerweise wurden Luther und Zwing­ li anfangs nicht einander gegenuebergestellt. In diesen pri\raten Gespraechen wurde eine Anzahl theologischer Fragen von den Wittenbergeni vorgebracht, die fuer sie Gegenstaende des Argwohns waren. Nachdem sie genuegende Erklaerungen von den Schweizern empfangen hatten, kamen sie zu einer Uebereinstimmung in Bezug auf diese Punkte. Aber ueber das Abendmahl konnten sie sich mit einander nicht verstaendigen.

Am 2. Oktober kamen daher die beiderseitigen Theologen fuer ein gemeinsames Gespraech ueber das Abendmahl zusammen.

Es dauerte den ganzen Tag und wurde auch am folgenden Tage fortgesetzt. Die Rede war meistens zwischen Luther und Zwingli, aber zuweilen warfen auch Melanchthon und Oekolampadius ein paar Worte dazwischen. Die Zuhoerer wunderten sich ueber die Hoeflichkeit, die die Gegner beobachteten, besonders weil beide so hitzig gegen einander gesclirieben hatten.

Nach der Eroeffnungsrede wurde Luther aufgefordert, das ^Yort zu nehmen. Er schrieb mit Kreide auf den Tisch die Worte: Das ist mein Leib, ’ und darauf bestehend, behauptete er, das Abendmahl sei nicht nur ein geistliclier Genuss des fuer uns gestorbenen Heilandes, sondem auch ein leiblicher Genuss. Zwingliaber nahm seine Stellung auf den Worten Jesu, Joh. 6, 63: “Das Fleisch ist kein nuetze. ’ Daraus schloss er, dass das Sakrament 40

nur ein geistlicher Genuss sei, und dass der vvahre Leib und das wahre Blut Christi leiblich in dem Abendmahl gegenwaertig seien.

Dann fragte Zwingli, vvie ein menschlicher Leib. wie es der Leib Christi sei, an viellen Orten zugleich sein koenne, weil nach der Schrift Christi Leib jetzt im Himmel sei. Auf diese Frage antwortete Luther, dass die Gegenwart des Leibes Christi im Sakrament eben nicht als eine lokale oder raeumliche zu denken sei. Als Zwinkli einen Bevveis dafuer verlangte, hob Luther die Tischdecke auf und wies auf die Worte hin, die er dort niedergeschrieben hatte. Darauf brachten die Schweizer Stellen aus alten Kirchenlehrcn vor, die ihre Meinung zu bestaerken schienen; aber jede Stelle wurde von Luther zurueckgewiesen und vviderlegt. Endlich beschlossen sie, dass es vergeblich sei, das Gespraech weiterzufuehren, unr trotz Philipp ernstlicher Bitte standen sie von weiterem Disputieren ab.

Doch vvollle Landgraf Philipp die Theologen nicht gehen lassen, ohne ein greifbares Resultat des Gespraechs erlangt zu haben.

Darum bat er Luther, diejenigen Punkte, ueber die sie sich geeinigt batten, in kurzen Saetzen aufzustellen; und Luther stellte rasch die sogenannten Marburger Artikel auf, vvelche aus fuenfzehn Saetzen bestanden. In den 14 ersten erklaerten sie sich einig, aber in dem 15. Artikel, welcher vom Abendmahl handelte, konnten sie sich wieder nicht einigen. Als Philipp dies sail, drang er in beide Teile, sich doch wenigstens als Brueder anzuerkennen, und obgleich Zwingli sich dafuer bereit erklaerte, verweigerte Luther die Bruderhand mit diesen Worten: “Ihr habt einen anderen Geist als wir.” Darauf schlugen die Schweizer vor, sie koennten doch vielleicht christliche Liebe gegen einander zeigen, und die Wittenberger stimmten dem bei, aber mit der Bedingung: “So viel es das Gewissen eines jeden erlaubt.” Nachdem diese Bedin­ gung den Artikeln beigefuegt war, unterzeichneten beide Seiten die Artikel und reisten dann am Dienstag ab.

Obgleich Luther den Vorschlag der Bruderschaft abschlagen musste, ting das Marburger Kolloquim doch bedeutungsvolle Fruechte fuer die Protestanten. Luther erfuhr, dass die Gegner es nicht gar so arg machten ,wie er gedacht hatte; und die Schweizer bemerkten, dass Luthers Lehre nicht so grobsinnlich sei, wie sie gemeint hatten. Ja, Zwingli hatte sogar die Bruderschaft angeboten und damit bewiesen, dass er seine Meinung ueber Luther und Luthers Lehre geaendert hatte. Zwar wies Luther diese Bitte zurueck, aber nicht mit dem Streitton, den er frueher in seinen Schriften gebraucht hatte.

Vor allem aber war die Hoffnung auf ein Buendnis mit den Schweizern durch das Ergebnis des Gespraechs vereitelt. Durch seinen maechtigen Widerspruch gegen den Bund bewahrte Luther die deutsche Reformation vor der Verquickung mit den hochfliegenden politischen Plaenen des Landgrafen und vor der Venvicklung mit den Schweizern. Freilich musste die deutsche Kirche dann allein gegen die immer naeher kommende Gefahr stehen.

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The program was notable in music, rhetoric and drama. First the music. As might be expected, it consisted of tunes popular in the twenties. Even here there was evidence of good planning, as in the course of the evening there was a “progression” from the more classical to the more jazzy. The program began with the stately “Old Man River” sung by the Prep Octet. About midway in the program the N.W.C. Quartet sang a medley of tunes in lhe moderate barber shop style. Then, near the end, John Fran/mann literally pounded out a medley in the jazz form and came up with some dissonances which J. S. Bach would never have called kosher.

Next, the rhetoric. This phase of the program consisted of three speeches, each of them on a certain problem of the Twenties.

John Franzmann (he appeared twice that night) tackled the first one and presented the struggles of jazz for recognition. Later Bob Sievert gave a blow by blow account of the struggles in connec­ tion with prohibition and aptly gave as the title of his presenta­ tion: “The War of the Wets and the Drys.” Mel Scheid concluded the program by polishing off the last speech, this one on the de­ pression. He mainly stressed its causes.

The highlight of the evening’s entertainment and instruction was the drama. Here Mr. Paustian proved himself a handy man with the pen, as he composed a fine satirical, comical and allegori­ cal skit based on life in the Twenties. No offense meant to the participants, but Mr. Paustian also did a fine job in picking his cast.

Those taking part were Shirley Wittchow, Annette Neumann, Roger Sprain, Nicholas Kiessling and William Godfrey.

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FORUM FINALE This years graduating class performed for the last time on the Forum stage in three one-act plays — the final Forum produc­ tion of the year. The plays, two comedies and a tragedy, were directed by two seniors and a junior. The dramatis personae are 42

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HOW TO PROPOSE — A hilarious farce dealing with the art of proposing through the ages. Carl Heidel was the narrator, who kept things well under control with his calm voice and steady carriage, even though Don Krause, his right-hand man, tried several times to trip him up. The couples who demonstrated how they did it in “their day” were: Roger “Foy” Sprain & Annette Neumann — A very lovable couple from the Stone Age (Burlap-bag costumes took first prize for originality.)

David Plocher & Mary Umnus — Sir Montmorency and Lady Er­ in intrude: make ye olde love only to be thwarted by a black­ out.

Duane Tomhave, Elizabeth Oswald & Chris Koch — Proposal scene of.boisterous father, timid suitor, and coy girl deftly portrayed.

Paul Siegler & Marie Bilse — Butch the Hood asks Cookie what she thinks of “dat ball and chain stuff.”

Robert Drews & Miekie Busche — High Society uses the five min­ utes between tennis sets to play the game of matrimony.

Marie Zwieg makes full use of the leap year to nab Carl Heidel, the narrator and bring down the curtain with a roar.

Roger Fleming was the matchmaker and director.

THE VALIANT — The gripping story of a condemned prisoner the night of his execution, well acted by David Ponath (Warden Holt), Wayne Borgwardt (Rev. Daly), Gordon Snyder (James Dvke, the strange but admirable prisoner), Shirley Wittchow (Josephine Paris, Dyke’s bewildered sis­ ter), Dan & Rollin Westendorf (Prison attendants). Keith Haag was director.

WHEN SHAKESPEARE’S GENTLEMEN GET TOGETHER Some of Shakespeare’s leading male characters meet at Shylock’s house to discuss their women problems and borrow money from the Jew. Romeo — David Lau Shylock — Gale Peterson Othello — David Lillegard Anthony — Dan Jungkuntz Hamlet — Mark Hillmer (Director) Petmchio — Keith Haag The staging was under the supervision of Cleone Weigand, and Prof. Kiessling was critic.

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The chief exec is “Paisan” Schneider, A laughing-eyed, athletic blighter.

He ventures forth just after dark.

His next address is Mequon Park.

About this chap by name Keith Haag, Who studies to the strains of Bach, His arguments are sophistic, His pose is somewhat pietistic.

You don’t hear much from Robert Drews Except concerning old St. Louis.

His mild way is quite disarming.

At least one person’s found it charming.

Fleming’s interests are very wide, Band, chorus, even Greek he’s tried.

Otherwise he’s probably bowling Unless perhaps he’s somewhere skoaling.

A member of an elite breed Is Peterson, the fair-haired Swede.

His Latin class has two-hour tests.

Beware of those misogynists.

He who hesitates is lost.

“Why should,” says Weigand, “man be bossed?”

“I’ll tell you, men, in all simplicity, I get a charge from electricity.”

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Murphy is Irish, let that be a warning When you try to wake him up in the morning.

He routs that bogey-man frustration By weekly interdigitation.

He’s a star in every sport, But basketball is Parcher’s forte.

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“Tell me, friends, why be esthetic, If you’re naturally athletic?”

He has a healthy appetite And satisfies same with delight.

Nolte attacks the tympanum But shies off from the demon mm.

Zink, the native Michigander, Is the Seniors’ chief philand’rer.

Folks, he’s a prize, and why is this so?

She’s from Milwaukee and therefore should know.

The man that made Dakota famous, A Sharp customer, his wit would shame us.

Lindloff is the profs’ delight — Hits the books hard eveiy night.

Plocher likes professors’ daughters From the land of sky-blue waters.

He sings a mighty potent bass.

An M. O. A., he’s rated “ace”.

Lauersdorf haelt die Deutsche Rede.

Sicherlich ist dcr Kerl nicht bloede.

But is there any town student, Who has no intellectual bent?

Henrich has it made, I’d say, Driving Bentzin’s “bus” for pay.

He loves to chew on “tiger meat.”

But Hebrew is his biggest treat.

Let’s take a look at Mr. Uitti.

So far he hasn’t’ found his sweetie.

He’s shunned tobacco, that filthy weed, Deciding that golf is more his speed.

Lau’s an authority on love, A tiling he seemed to be above.

He’s known for great mental acumen.

He worships the poetic numen.

Although not yet a Seminarian, He hopes his charge will be agrarian.

Our co-eds seek Hohenstein for advice.

Virginia gives his life some spice.

Strobel doesn’t talk too much, That’s why he never gets in Dutch.

He’s one-half of a famous pair.

If you saw “George,” “Louie” was there.

Krueger’s laugh is so hearty it effervesces.

He goes with the girl with the flaming-red tresses.

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He thinks that red-haired dish is neat, But his first love is down the street.

One manager showed quite a flair For keeping out of Coach’s hair.

Beware of Strongman when he smiles; He’s one of those Minnesotaphiles.

There, that oughta hold em!

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A current subject of debate has ben “Art’s” colorful left orb.

One Sunday morning he appeared looking like he’d been clobbered by a bottle of mascara. Guesses so far have been, “His girl said no, but”, “what can you expect rooming with Paustian?” and “It must have been rosy-fingered Dawn that approached him.” So much for the local color.

Will the heartless fiend that stole Braun’s last jar of strained watermelon hearts please return it promptly?

Arbor Day saw a near battle between the preps, spearhead­ ed by a cool crowd of Tertianers, and the collegiates, led by “Rock and Roll” Ribar. Seems the preps had gone without hearing “Long, Tall Sally” for about as long as they intended to, while the collegiates wished to be spurred on by the mellifluous, classi­ cal gems of Kurt Edelhagen, “Die urspruengliche Deutsche kuehle Katze”, Duke Ellington et al. The preps were conceded five min­ utes playing time per hour and peace was restored.

(The weather forecast for Wisconsin and Michigan is “Fair and continued cool with scattered light tornadoes”.)

Best of all, we finally sent the faculty softball team to the showers with a defeat pinned squarely on their manly shoulders.

Further comment would be unwise.

The sadistic track fans were somewhat disgruntled over the prep track meet. The mile run, which last year took a toll of four sturdy sprinters, was discontinued.

While watching the three, one-act plays not long ago, 1 made some acute mental observations which I might just as well pass along now. Sprain was born 3 million years too late— Miss Neu­ mann wasn’t really trying — she never knew what hit her— Siegler has a complex—girls aren’t made of glucose and seasoning—Hillmer has Weltschmerz—the plays were real gone.

We’re waiting with bated breath for “Bambino” Braun’s first word.

“I don’t like the way that I feel, And a doctor’s job is to heal.”

He went to the Doc, Got a terrible shock.

The Doc told Norman Vincent to peel.

Sir George Etheridge gets credit for this month’s quote.

“There is an inbred falsehood in women, which inclines ’em still to them whom they may most easily deceive.” I wish you all an hilarious and profitable summer recess.

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ALUMNI ASSIGNMENTS Bruce Backer - Winnebago Acad­ emy, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Glenway Backhaus - tutor, Sagi­ naw, Michigan.

R. Bittorf - Bristol, Wisconsin.

Paul Borchardt Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

Allen Capek - Rising City, Nebr.

Norton Carlson - Denver, Colo.

Orrin Falk - Plum City, Wis. Richard Frohmader - Tyler, Minn.

G. Haag - Portland, Oregon.

Paul Hoenecke - D. M. L. C. Paul Kolander - Kingston, Wis. Donald Laude - Burke, S. Dakota.

H. Lichtenberg - Hastings, Nebr.

Paul Manthey - tutor, Saginaw.

Henry Peter - tutor, N. W. C. Harland Reed - Belview, Minn.

James Rockhoff - tutor. Saginaw.

Iowa.

Arlyn Schmeling - Fort Madison, Raymond Schultz - Wayne, Mich.

Richard Seeger - Tokyo, Japan T. Van der Bloemen - Hettinger, North Dakota.

M. Westerhaus - Kripplein Christi Iron Ridge, Wisconsin.

Richard Yecke - Hyde, Michigan.

Allen Zenker - tutor, N. W. C. Roland Zimmermann - Willow Lake, South Dakota.

II. Jaster - La Crosse, Wisconsin D. Kock - Rapid City, S. Dakota.

L. Lothert - Swan Creek, Mich.

M. Otterstatter - South Monroe, Michigan.

H. Essmann - Rhodesia, Africa.

A. Barry - Minneapolis, Minn.

C. Nommensen - Lincoln, Nebr.

VICARS Geo. Rothe - N. W. Academy, Mobridge.

J. Kingsbury - St. Paul, Minn.

Paul Pankow - Whiteriver, Ariz.

M. Teske - Fond du Lac,, Wis. Ron. Schultz - Beaver Dam, Wis. Karl Brandle - Milwaukee, Wis. L. Meyer - Osceola, Wisconsin.

Kenneth Strack - Manitowoc, Wis. D. Zietlow - North Trinity, Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin.

A. Lenz - St. Luke’s, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

V, Prange - Tucson, Arizona.

Ph. Kuckhahn - Ringle, Wisconsin R. Wendland - Appleton, Wis. J. Meyer - Madison Student Mis­ sion.

David Tetzlaff - Winona, Minne­ sota.

L. Dobberstein - tutor, Saginaw.

Geo. Tiefel - Instructor N. W. C.

ALUMNI NOTES INSTALLATIONS & CALLS John Schaadt, ’45, has been called to Tomahawk, Wis. At present he is minister in Prairie Farm, Wisconsin.

Victor Schultz, ’31, will be instal­ led in his new pastorate at Newton, la., on June 10, 1956.

The installation will be done

by Rev. Milton Weishan. Pastor Schultz’s former charge was Platteville, Wisconsin.

Marvin Radtke, ’46, has accepted the call to Christ Lutheran Church, Eagle River, Wisconsin The pastoral charge which he will vacate is Redeemer Luth­ eran Church, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Faculty of Northwestern College, circa 1891-1950, has happily ac­ cepted the call to the new reci­ tation building. Installation! service will be ably taken care of by. students next year. We

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hope there isn’t too much blood shed over the choice of class­ rooms.

Daniel Gieschen, ’49, has been called by Zion Church at Bris­ tol, Wisconsin.

Luther Voss, ’18, now the pastor at St. Paul, Minn., has been called as assistant pastor by Siloah Church of Milwaukee, Wis. His son, Robert Voss, ’47, was called as the senior pastor.

Theodore Mahnke, ’26, C. R. M., (In case you’ve forgotten, that means candidatus reverendi ministeri.) will be installed in his n-w charge in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, on May 13, 1956.

Herbert Scharlemann, ’49, who this year will have completed his third year as tutor at North­ western College, will be or­ dained into the ministry on June 17, 1956. He will have two charges, Dodge Center and West Concord, both in Minn.

DEDICATIONS Faith Lutheran, Tacoma, Wash., will dedicate their new church on April 22, 1956. The seating capacity is approximately two hundred.

St. Luke’s Lutheran, Denver, Col. whose pastor is Victor Tiefel, ’34, recently held the dedica­ tion of their enlarged church.

The speaker was Karl Gurgel, ’37, of Caledonia, Minnesota.

Zion English Evangelical Luth­ eran Church of Detroit held its dedication on April 22, 1956.

There were three services. Ir­ vin W. Weiss, pastor of the church, was the speaker in the first service. The second ser­ vice was conducted by Ger­ hard L. Press, President of the Michigan District of the Wis­ consin Synod. Raymond Timmel, member of the Board of Trustees of the Wisconsin Syn­ od, officiated in the final ser­ vice.

MISCELLANEOUS William Sachs, ’29, of Wisconsin Rapids, has been promoted to superintendent of the Bleach Plant of the Wisconsin Rapids Water Power and Paper Co. division of the Consolidated He is also serving as chairman of St. Paul’s Congregation at Wisconsin Rapids.

Stanley Kablitz, ’58, was rumored to have been spotted aeain in the Chicago subway. We ex­ press our hope that he arrives in time for at least a part of the ’55-’56 school year.

Carl Kionka, ’25, of Rib Lake, Wisconsin is undergoing treat­ ment at the Spears Clinic in Denver.

ALUMNI DEATHS During the past year the deaths of the following alumni of Northwestern College were reported: Mr. Emil Kielgas Rev. Leonard Kaspar Rev. Emil Walther Rev. Ewald Kirst Rev. Prof. Alexander Sitz Rev. Walter Amacher Rev. Siegard Westendorf

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BASEBALL “It doesn't matter whether you win or lose But how you play the game ” Grantland Rice said something to this effect and it seems to apply to those stalwart young lads who comprise Northwestern’s baseball team. Inclement weather has hindered practice and forced the postponement of over half the games. The varsity players have been able to display their talents in only three games, all of which ended in defeats for our side. However, our boys haven’t allowed these reverses to get them down and, bloody but unbowed, they are awaiting their future opponents with that Umnus-engendered spirit, characteristic of all Northwestern’s athletic teams.

MILTON 6

NORTHWESTERN 5

This is the one game we had a chance to win. However, vic­ tory just wasn’t in the cards, for after holding a 4-3 lead going into the eighth, a Milton player smashed a home run to tie up the game, and then in the ninth the winning run scored on a wild pitch. Aaron Uitti, who went all the way, pitched a fairly good game, but his teammates failed to suppl yin the way of runs. Northwestern got only five hits, two by Lindemann, and one each by Lindquist, Stelter and Schewe.

NORTHWESTERN 2

EXTENSION 14

Fred Jungkuntz started on the mound for NWC and the portly right-hander, hurling the first three innings, didn’t allow a hit, but he walked four, and three other Extensionites were hit by pitched balls. About this time, the powers that be decreed Rog Fleming should relieve his errant teammate, but apparently the only relief afforded was to the opponents, who, freed from the danger of being hit by Fred’s fast ball,’ promptly dug in and clobbered the ball all over the field. After 2/3 of an inning, and with eleven runs across the plate, Coach waved Uitti in from the bullpen. Uitti blanked them the rest of the way. Northwestern got only four hits, one each

by Lindemann, Lindquist, Stelter and Schewe.

NORTHWESTERN 2

MILTON 8

Because of his fine relief pitching in the Extension game, Uitti was chosen to start again Milton. The score doesn’t reflect accurate­ ly the type of game Aaron pitched, because Milton scored six runs in the first two innings and then was checked the rest of the way.

Our total hits declined to three this time as only Stelter, Lindquist and Kiessling managed to hit safely.

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STUDENTS!

ATTENTION!

This classified list, of business men and merchants has been alphabetized for your convenience. These men are our advertisers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PICTURE SECTION — We Are Seven............

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Campus Calendar

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ALUMNI — Autobiography by E. Edgar Guenther.

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SPORTS — Football .

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

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NEWS & VIEWS

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BLACK AND RED STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF . Editor-in-Chief Mark Hillmer Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor Assistant Editor John Ribar ......

DEPARTMENT Edgar Herman ...

William Godfrey Robert Schmiel

EDITORS .......... Alumni Editor ............ Sports Editor Campus & Classroom

BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul Siegler ........ ........ Business Manager Daniel Buske ...... .... Advertising Manager Jerald Plitzuweit Asst. Business Manager Vol. LX

OCTOBER 1956

No. 3

ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT WATERTOWN, WIS., AS SECOND CLASS AAATTER UNDER ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879. PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00

Come and take a journey with us. We will be very happy to show you around. In fact, we have been escorting many sight-seers from all over the country on this tour we have in mind. Wellwishers from miles around have been coming to see us.

Our family was started many years ago. The original mem­ bers of the family were a dormitory and an administration build­ ing. Northwestern was producing students for the ministry, but the facilities were not able to cope with the increased enrollment.

New structures were added so that more students could attend N.W.C. But that was quite a while ago. The passage of years saw the housing shortage grow increasingly acute. The family of build­ ings on our campus could not adequately support the family of Christian youths attending here.

God has been particularly gracious to us in the recent years.

All of our building needs are taken care of. In the air view on the next page you will see our first dormitory (left center), which is now the dormitory for the high school, or preparatory, depart­ ment. Until recent years it was the home of the entire North­ western student body. To the left of the prep dormitory is the gymnasium, which was donated by the NWC Club of Milwaukee in 1912. Proceeding clockwise you will notice our new dining hall, our new collegiate dormitory, East Hall, and our library building.

The collegiates entered East Hall last year. It was dedicated this summer, but 1956-57 is the first complete year in which the stu­ dents will enjoy the luxurious study conditions within its walls. The well-lighted new dining hall already has served many a delicious meal, and it is still a pleasure to eat there.

But that makes only five buildings. We are now happy to pre­ sent the two newest additions to our campus family: our new chapel and classroom building. We are now completely equipped.

Every professor has his own lecture room, and at long last, we have our very own campus chapel. Come with us now as we go on a picture tour of this newly dedicated pair of twins.

THE OCTOBER ISSUE IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. NO SEPTEMBER ISSUE IS PRINTED.

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The ceiling is made of two-inch varnished planks of assorted sizes. Above these there is an insulating layer three-quarters of an inch thick. Above this insulation is the outside roof, composed of asbestos cement shingles.

The altar and lectern are made of hand-carved oak. The pews are made of Pennsylvania elm. Originally oak pews were ordered; but, after most of them had been completed, the factory burned down together with the pews.

The floor is cement covered with vinyl tile. By the way, there is no basement under the chapel.

The amber tinted glass in the lancet windows above, the altar is someday to be replaced with stained glass. Up to the pre­ sent time $1300. has been contributed for this purpose.

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Taking a look from the Chapel into the classroom building, we catch our first glimpse of the inside of this brightly-lighted, modem structure, erected at a cost of $363,553.37.

For a building 150 feet by 59 feet this price is by no means excessive. We feel that we have received our money’s worth The workmanship on it is beautiful. In fact, the architects were so pleased they sent a letter to the builders congratulating them on the fine job they did.

The building went up without any major mishaps or delays.

The pouring of cement went especially well. Some floors were poured so fast they are monolithic, a desirable feature.

The style of the building is modern. There is not much to distinguish this structure from other new schools. As a matter of fact, there can’t be. The Industrial Commission lays down the law. Each student must have so many square feet of floor space, and so many cubic inches of air must be drawn in for every per­ son in the room. Even the size of the light bulbs is controlled by this commission.

The new building is lower than the Library Building. This has saved labor and material. There are several other improve­ ments over the Library Building. The blackboards are higher (This should eliminate a few sore backs among the faculty.), and the walls are tile instead of plaster. Anyone who has had any­ thing to do with students will realize the advantage. Well, in­ stead of talking, let’s walk around and see it. I’ll show you just a few rooms. They should give you a good idea of what the build­ ing is like.

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This is the hall looking west away from the Chapel. Notice the bright lighting and the indestructible walls I mentioned be­ fore. The halls are 9 feet wide. This allows for freedom of move­ ment between classes. Let’s look into the typing room on the left here.

Here stands Coach Umnus teaching some of the seniors how to type. Observe the fierce looks of concentration. Professor Sievert is next door behind those windows teaching bookkeeping.

That way he can keep an eye on the typing students at the same time. Do you see those blinds? They have vertical slats. They afford a better control of light than the old horizontal type. The blinds are only on the south side of the building. The north side, with the exception of two rooms, needs no blinds. (See picture, next page ) . Let’s step across the hall.

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Look at the lights. They are incandescent. The upkeep of fluorescents was found to be excessively high in the Library Building. In addition, some people prefer incandescent lighting.

The desks are movable. It’s hard to anchor things in a concrete floor. If you look closely, you can see East Hall out of the win­ dow. Let’s go down to the basement.

The music department has long awaited an up-to-date prac­ tice room. When the new building was being planned, the voice of Professor Oswald could be heard calmly suggesting this fine room. He had much to do with it’s planning. Here we see him 61

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The boys’ room is also in the basement. This room is used by students who attend school here, but live in town. They are sup­ posed to study here. Note them looking lovingly at those lockers.

They never had it so good in the old building.

We hope you enjoyed the tour. Be careful of the door closers on the way out. If you’re over six feet tall, you’ll hit your head.

But we can’t complain. It’s the only mistake we have found and the plans are to fix it shortly.

PICTURES IN THIS ISSUE BY AL RIPPE AND BOB SI EVERT

@aCettcl&i Saturday, November 3 — Preps play Milwaukee Lutheran at home Varsity plays Milton there (Night) Sunday, November IS — Black and Red Deadline Wednesday, November 21 — Thanksgiving Vacation begins 3:15 Monday, November 26 — Thanksgiving Vacation ends — 8:00 a. m.

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Last February, Rev. Guenther, our Senior Missionary to the Apaches, began his life story. Be sure to read this fourth installment, which tells about his arrival in Apacheland.

The old Seminary was located in the open country on a corner of Pabst Fann, halfway between Washington Park and the town of Wauwatosa. It was a homelike place that sheltered all departments under one roof, like old Main at Dr. M. L. C. The halls leading to our living rooms had been named, evi­ dently by former students of a classical period: Highland (pronouned Hiechlandt in the vernacular) Boulevard, Zoologen Gasse and Ketzer=Allee. This does not imply, however, that the faculty in those days was in the habit of compelling new students to run the gauntlet of a rigid entrance examination, classifying them into highbrows, queerbeers, heretics, and then assigning them to the corresponding rooms. It was just by accident that I became an in­ habitant of Ketzer- Allee together with other kindred spirits of neither high-churchly nor comformist propensities, and we would have deeply resented any implication or insinuation of our sharing kinship with even the noblest of the creatures that can be found in a zoo, Darwins contention to the contrary notwithstanding.

Our highspeed offspring often listens with tolerant scepticism when we oldsters get off on a tangent concerning the good old days of yesteryear. But these doubts cannot dun our memory of them, and among those memories none stand out in clearer relief than the three years our class of ’08 lived and studied at the old Seminary at Wauwatosa. The men who made them precious to us were the grand gentlemen of our faculty who walked with God. There was John P. Koehler, who could lead us theological recruits to the heights of Mount History and with a sweep of his hands conjure forth a panoramic outline of human events, (either ordained of God or tolerated of Him for a purpose) from the dawn of history to the present day. And just as deftly he could illuminate the entire pan­ orama with the light of Holy Writ, so that God’s great plan of Sal­ vation for mankind was clearly outlined, hovering like a rainbow over the scenes of human turmoil. As for his prophecies of the course of history in the future, particularly that of the church, we students never doubted that they would be literally fulfilled. His one concern for us was that we might be “rooted and built up in Christ Jesus the Lord and stablished in the faith”.

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August Pieper was the second person in our faculty trinity and the Boanerges of that era. It appeared to be his implied assign­ ment that he set us on fire with the Gospel and instil in us the courage of our convictions.

And lastly there was the winsome John Schaller, the Nathanael of the faculty. He lived his faith and could preach, instruct and write with such simplicity and warmth that we could not fail to understand him and love him. Humanly speaking, the Lord took him home before his time.

Occasionally one hears of so-called “Cases” in the church — some involving false doctrine, some misbehavior, and some both.

Some have far reaching repercussions, some remain purely local.

We once had a case of our own within our little Seminary group that had all the “Wesentliche Merkmale” of a full-fledged “Lehrstreit”. What made it particularly interesting was the fact that pre­ vious to this affair Professor Pieper had once heroically stated that no “Lehrstreit” ever germinated in principles, but in personalities.

In proof thereof he cited the so-called “Gnadenwahlstreit” that caught fire back in the days when sideburns were in flower.

It all came about in this wise: a list had been drawn up of those who would lead our morning devotional periods, S— was on for the week. Intending to be gone on Saturday he asked L— to take his place for this one time, which the latter did willingly.

And then, lo and behold, L— was cited to apper before some student “Winkel-conference”’ to answer to the charge of “in ein fremd Amt gegriffen xu haben”. He received such a dressing down that he tearfully confessed his sin (?) before the student body at the breakfast table. O temporal O mores! I never could understand why S— was not also cited to come to Canossa for having lead Brother L— into sin. But being only a first year man I kept my mouth shut and of this I am still ashamed. As a denizen of Ketzer =Allee I ought to have appointed myself as the defendant’s attor­ ney and fought the prosecution to a standstill with a counter charge of lovelessness and “Wortklauberei”. I like that latter word. But at any rate I had learned a little about “Cases” and a little more about human nature. And so we again pursued the noiseless tenor of our way. However, having looked about a little since those days it would appear to me that Professor Pieper’s dictum might well be kept in mind in dealing with present day “Cases”.

Already during the first months of our third year at the Sem­ inar)' one began to hear of vacancies in congregations here and there and of missions to be opened, particularly in South Dakota, and all begging for pastors. This naturally gave rise to speculation among my classmates as to which place this or that member might be sent the following June. I remained aloof from such discussions and pursued my studies all the more intensely to keep the spectre of a call to an organized congregation like Pumpkin Center or Grace Church in Milwaukee from haunting me! Suddenly out of a clear sky I learned how foolish my fears had been. One evening in late November, 1910, a letter from the Executive of Indian Missions 64

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Here was my call! 1 rushed over to Professor Schaller with a different attitude from the one with which I had first appeared before him some nine years ago in his office at D.M.L.C. At that time I had refused to study for the ministry; now I eagerly told him I was all set to go to Arizona. The next day I went down to PritzlafFs hardware store and purchased a cook stove and two guns: a 351 Winchester rifle for keeping distant enemies at bay and a 38 Colt Army pistol for close range encounter! It wasn’t long before I sold the one and embalmed the other! A day or two later Profes­ sor Schaller called me into his office,, and after a little stalling, he put it to me gently that it would not “be good for me to be alone” at East Fork. What could be done about that? Professor Pieper (like George Washington in his time) had continually warned us against “entangling alliances” during our seminary years. We could keep our eyes peeled, or words to that effect, for some likely dam­ sel, “aber ihr ja keine Hoffnung machen”!. Now some Adonis among us with hypnotic eye might have been able to keep some likely lady hovering and waiting outside the monastery walls of our Sem­ inar)' in suspended animation for three long years, but what hope had I, a rustic from Dakota, of having someone outside the gate , waiting and longing for the rustle of my diploma?

Nevertheless, I blithely asked Professor Schaller for two weeks lime for reconnoitering. Having no Eleazer to send forth and in the absence of a camel I took a train and dropped off on Thanksgiving morning at Arcadia, Wisconsin. I knoked at the door of a house located about two blocks from the Lutheran church; a young lady all dressed to go to church opened the door. No preliminaries, - “I have a call to Arizona: will you go with me?” Answer, “Sure”.

Maybe Professor Pieper wasn’t so far off after all. However, when I mentioned the fact that I had already purchased a cooks tove I received a reprimand for my cock-sureness, but when I added that I had not intended to cook on a camp fire even if I went alone, the frown disappeared, and the two weeks were far from being up. On December 28th we were married, Professor Schaller performing the ceremony.

Just before this event I received a letter from Pastor Harders, superintendent of Globe, Arizona, of our Apache Mission. 1 opened it eagerly expecting a hearty “Welcome to Arizona”. But there wasn’t a syllable even suggesting that; instead, there was a long list of the privations both of us would have to endure and another enumerating all the different tasks I personally would have to do, e. g., be able to ride horseback, shoe my own horses, repair our oun shoes, do carpenter work, etc. etc. What he meant to imply was just as plain as if he had written it outright: “I don’t think you two will fit in down here”. Nevertheless, his letter did not dis­ courage us in the least, and my answer was a letter informing him of the date of our intended arrival in Globe. After an uneventful trip via Kansas City, El Paso and Bowie, Arizona, we arrived safe65

ly in Globe in the evening of Jan. 10th, 1911. We were the last ones off the train and everyone had departed with the exception of a tall man smoking a pipe who paid no attention to us but look­ ed over our heads as if expecting someone who had not yet stepped out. I finally asked the tall stranger if he were Pastor Plarders and when he answered in the affirmative we introduced ourselves. He looked at us as if we were imposters but finally solemnly shook hands and loaded us into a little “Democrat” wagon. Presently we were off and headed uphill towards his home. How his pair of little broomtails could develop enough horse power to negoti­ ate the semi-perpendicular road leading to his house remained a mystery to me.

We were very cordially received by the rest of the family and spent several hours in friendly conversation before retiring. Our host, on the other hand, sat in his armchair in the doorway smok­ ing his pipe, looking siilently at us and starting a small woodpile on the floor with the matches he used to keep his pipe lit. It al­ most seemed as if lie were disappointed in us because we did not appear as unprepossessing as he had concluded from some source of information that we had to be! Be that as it may, it would not have required a very large knothole in the wall to enable us to make our getaway.

Since we were to remain in Globe for a week, after my ordi­ nation, we decided to make the most of it and prove ourselves use­ ful wherever possible. Finally our host came across handsomely.

For him “the most interesting beings on earth are people”. Con­ sequently he had divided all his acquaintances into certain classes and if he was given but one characteristic of someone he would classify him accordingly. For example, there was the class of “only sons” — puny, blond little fellows who parted their hair in the mid­ dle and were impractical and unreliable. He had learned that I was an only son; ergo 1 was classified accordingly, and “ergo” 1 would be useless in the mission. And a former Milwaukee steno­ grapher, wearing a Merry-window (Widow) hat coming to East Fork! Preposterous! But he was now willing to admit that there were exceptions to the rule. Later he liked to drive up to visit us at East Fork to rest and talk. Pie made no special demands ex­ cept that we keep him supplied with matches for his pipe. And there we learned to know the true Harders, and to love him, a hero in the Lord’s Kingdom.

Before our probationary week at Globe was over we were in­ formed that a heavy snowfall on the Nantanss had rendered the road to East Fork impassable. Snow on the mountains but the foothills around Globe glowing with California poppies! We now had ample opportunity to observe a true mission-minded family in action. The physical plant consisted of a ramshackle four-room house barely large enough to shelter a third of the family. It had no modern conveniences. We broke through the kitchen floor so often that I replaced it with a new one. East of the house Pastor 66

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Daughter Hildegard, in addition to helping her mother, pre­ pared the noon meals for the Apache school children, mostly from clean leftovers that her younger brothers brought up nightly from the Chinese cafes. She also conducted an evening class in English, Bible history and Catechism for young Chinese.

Daughter Irmgard taught the Apache Mission school, also without renumeration, for it had not been authorized and recog­ nized by the Synod. And Harders would not ask for a cent of sup­ port for fear of being asked to close it. Harders himself was forever on the go, visiting the camps in Globe and Miami, talking to the Mexicans working on the railroad rigiht-of-way, calling on Apaches living at Wheatfields 20 miles away, looking after the white mis­ sions he had started in Phoenix (ninety miles distant) and at Tucson, one hundred and fifty miles away, not to forget the Apache families at Roosevelt Dam, which was under construction some fort)' miles to the north. I went with him on one of the latter trips and received my first glimpse of tine Western hospitality. The judge of Roosevelt Village owned a little store and in the absence of hotel facilities let us sleep in his bed behind the counter, while he selpt on the top of the latter!

Though we rose with the chickens, frequently on Saturday morning we would find Harders already gone, leaving a note under my plate requesting me to preach on the morrow, as he felt it sud­ denly imperative to conduct services at some other place.

For relaxation Harders liked to go downtown of an evening and sit on the bandstand in front of the court house with old-timers, smoke his pipe, and watch the traffic go by. But one could be sure that before he left, some derelict sitting near him had perhaps for the first time in his life learned of “the one thing needful” and ten to one, before he had reached the trail that lead to his home some Mexican, or “Cousin Jack” out of work had wheedled him out of the little change in his pocket under pretext of hunger, which would later frequently dissolve into thirst.

When the Lord called this consecrated man Home a judge of Globe said of him, “He was a fine man, but he made the Gospel too easy,” little realizing that he was paying him the highest com­ pliment possible.

Time marched on, and on or near the first of March Mr. Tuttle, and Indian trader at Rice, now San Carlos, 22 miles away, sent word that the snow was melting and that he would try to get us over the mountains with team and wagon to East Fork the following week. The reader can well imagine how good that sounded to us, 67

but a few days later we were informed that the old plank ferry at Black River Crossing had been washed away by spring floods. . (Black River forms the boundary line between the San Carlos and the Fort Apache Reservations.) What now? There was no alterna­ tive but to buy two railroad tickets with the little nest egg we had held in reserve and set out by train from Globe to Bowie, Bowie to Deming, N. M., Doming to Albuquerque, and thence on to Hol­ brook, Arizona, seven hundred miles around only to find ourselves still ninety miles from our new home, not a foot nearer than we had been at Globe. On these ninety miles no road grader had ever covered a rut. On the first day out we made thirty miles by wagon to the Mormon town of Snowflake. Here we had to lie over for the night because other passengers were waiting who had preference over us, and there was not room for all on the one seat. We had hardly retired when some strange creatures invaded our bed and attacked us from all sides. They looked like minature turtles. My wife’s mother had told her that bedbugs could be identified bv the odor if you crushed them. The execution of the first one convin­ ced us that these creatures were indeed bona fide bedbugs. Zest­ fully we assumed the offensive. When the carnage subsided, half a hundred had been streaked across the sheet at various angles.

The resulting scene resembled a painting by Picasso at his best.

The following night we stayed at a wpuld-be hotel at the Mormon village of Showlow, in a room so cold that all the bugs had evident­ ly gone into hibernation. On the third and final day we arrived in Whiteriver late in the evening. The Superintendent of the Re servation urged us to stay but we were so determined to terminate our odyssey that very night that he arranged for an Indian boy with a mule team to take us to East Fork. After many curves and the fording of two rivers, our driver stopped, let us off, set our suitcases and bedroll on the ground, turned around and departed into the night. A little house loomed out of the darkness, and a chorus of coyotes on the hillside welcomed us HOME. (To be continued if no protest!)

Dear Reader: The other day we received a card from Rev. Guenther. He is wondering what his readers would like to hear about most. For the next installment he has planned a few “firsts”: his first service, first baptism, first school, etc. His main concern is that “what is supposed to be merely a sketchy biography'' is growing into a history'. . . a story drawn out too long.” We of the Black and Red staff have already given him our answer: we have thoroughly' enjoy'ed everything he has written and count it a privilege to be able to print his stoiy. We are telling Rev. Guenther to omit noth­ ing. We are now asking you our interested readers, to let us know how you feel about these articles and what phases of Rev. Guen­ ther’s work among the Apaches would interest you most. Any' comments or helpful suggestions will be appreciated.

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INSTALLATIONS & CALLS Henry Meyer has been called to St. Paul’s in Millersville, Wis­ consin. He was installed Oct. 14, 1956. His former charge was in Elroy, Wisconsin.

Herman Scherf, who was the pas­ tor in Abrams, Wisconsin, will be installed in his new pastor­ ate on October 28, 1956. He has accepted the call to Daggett & Carbondale, Michigan.

Joel Sauer has accepted the call to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Campbellsport, Wis. He will be installed on October 28, 1956.

His former pastoral charge was in Bylas, Arizona.

Wilbert Gawrisch, the former pas­ tor in West Bend, Wisconsin, will take the call to Zion Con­ gregation in Rhinelander, Wis. He will be installed in October.

Otto Henning, the pastor in Valny. Wis., will be the new pastor at Nasewaupee, Wis. He will take charge of Salem Lutheran Church sometime in October.

A, Werner will fill the charge va­ cated by Henry Meyer. Werner the former pastor in Cataract, Wis., has accepted the call to Elroy, Wisconsin.

Pastor Schroeder will be installed in Prairie Farm, Wis. on Octo­ ber 7, 1956. He is leaving Loyal and Loganville, Wisconsin.

W. Koelpin was installed June 10th by Edward Zell. He left Arlington Lutheran in Toledo, Ohio, and took the call to Saint Paul’s Congregation in Livonia, Michigan.

A. H. Baer, who held the pastor­ ate at St. Stephen’s Congrega­ tion, Adrian, Mich., accepted the call to Redeemer Lutheran, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, He was installed on July 29, 1956 by A. G. Wacker.

Edward Renz has taken the call to Arlington Lutehran Church in Toledo, Ohio. He had been pastor at Scottville, Michigan.

R. Scheele installed him in this new charge on August 19, 1956.

Karl Heinz Neuman, the former pastor at Grace Luth. Church, Grass Valley, Calif., was instal­ led at New Salem Lutheran, Sebewaing, Michigan, on Sept.

9, 1956. Fred Schroeder spoke.

Harris Kaesmeyer was installed as Dean of Boys at Michigan Lutheran Seminary on October

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7, 1956, by E. E. Kasischke. His former charge was at Palos Lutheran Church,Palos Heights, Illinois.

Anyone sending in 25 different ways of wording installations & calls to the Alumni Editor will receive an English B. A. from the Black and Red. James Vogt, Mount Olive, Bay City, Michigan has accepted the call of Mount Calvary Mission, Tampa, Florida, and will be in­ stalled Nov. 4, 1956 by William . Steih.

ANNIVERSARIES (Pastors) Hilmar Eckert celebrated his 25th year in the ministry on Sept.

9, 1956. At the same time he celebrated his 25th year as pas­ tor of Saint Luke’s, Saginaw, Mich. His brother O. J. Eckert spoke.

Emil E. Kasischke, the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Bay City, Michigan, celebrated his 25th year in the ministry on September 30, 1956. Professor C. Frey spoke.

ANNIVERSARIES Congregations Redeemer Lutheran Church, Yale Michigan, celebrated its 10th anniversary on July 29th. The present pastor is Herbert Buch, Arnold Tiefel, the former pas­ tor, spoke.

St. Paul’s Congregation, Norfolk, Nebraska, celebrated its 90th anniversary. Hugo Frit/.e is the pastor. President Naumann and Pastor Lawrenz spoke.

St. Paul’s Congregation, Platteville, Wisconsin, celebrated its 80th anniversary. B. A. Borgschatz is the pastor. On Sept.

30, 1956, F. Naumann and R. Hillemann spoke .

Zion Lutheran, Peshtigo, Wiscon­ sin, celebrated its 85th anni­ versary on Oct. 7, 1956. This congregation was organized the afternoon of Oct. 8, 1871, Pastor Carl Huebner being in atten­ dance. That evening the Pesh­ tigo fire wiped out the city of Peshtigo (1750 population ac­ cording to'the 1870 census) and surrounding settlements. It was the most destructive fire in hu­ man losses in American history.

The Chicago fire was burning the same night. Estimated loss of life ranged from 500 to 800 people. What happened to Pas­ tor Huebner is not known. His

name does not appear again in the records or reports of the congregation.

DEDICATIONS St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Mon­ roe, Michigan, dedicated a new parsonage on August 12, 1956.

Marvin E. Otterstatter is the pastor there.

Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado, was dedicated by Victor Tiefel and Im. P. Frey. W. Krenke is its pastor.

St Matthew’s Congregation, whose pastor is A. Mennicke, dedicated a school at Winona, Minnesota, on September 9, 1956. O. Naumann was the speaker.

MARRIAGES Lyle Albrecht and Judith Ann Cole were married on October 7, 1956, at Two Rivers, Wiscon­ sin. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has few pleasures.

— Johnson.

BIRTHS Mrs. Ronald Freicr. nee Gwen Bilse, bore a son, Mark Ronald, on October 8, 1956. She and her husband are residing at

Grafton, Wisconsin. She is a medical laboratory technician there.

Pastor and Mrs. G. R. Cares of Elgin, North Dakota, had a son born on August 29, 1956.

Pastor and Mrs. Carl Voss have a baby boy. He was born on September 20, 1956. His name is David Arthur Voss. Pastor Voss has the charge at Beatrice, Nebraska.

MISCELLANEOUS Pastor Bernard Westendorf of Em­ anuel Lutheran Church, Flint, Mich., is seriously ill in Genesee County Sanatorium, Flint, Mich.

Doctors believe that a year’s confinement will be necessary for recovery.

Lyle Albrecht is now teaching at Appleton Lutheran High School, Appleton, Wisconsin.

David Kuske is tutoring at North­ western Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, South Dakota.

No matter how many new trans­ lations of the Bible come out, the people still sin the same way.

It’s autumn, and as young men come back to school after a re­ laxing summer vacation ,one thing is uppermost in their minds: girls, of course. However, football is also an important subject in the in­ tellectual discussions carried on in the rooms of the students across -the nation. Girls swoon and tremble as they see the handsome brutes who carry their school’s colors on the gridiron apply themselves duti­ fully to the rigors of the training schedule.

This happens at Northwestern every year also. The faculty de­ cided that Professor Umnus should again teach football and, since he accepted, he was the man who welcomed the 28 stalwarts who represent Northwestern on the football field this year.

Umnus put together his first string by using a combination of returning regulars, letter winners from last year, and some promis­ ing freshmen. Ronnie Stelter was switched from half-back to quarter­ back, with A1 Worden, a freshman from Watertown, and Harry Schewe at the halfback spots, and Ed Lindemann at full. Dave Fritze and Dave Umnus at the ends, Bob Michel and Ed Lindquiist at the

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tackles, Rog Sprain and Ron Ehlert at guards, and either Paul Al­ brecht or Jim Radloff at center complete the starting line-up. Other boys who can expect to see a lot of action, especially in the defensive platoon ,are Bob Gunderson, Merlin Nielson, John Lober, and Mark Liesner in the backfield, and Dave Krenke, Dave Sievert, Aaron Uitti. Rollie Westendorf and A1 Hinz in the line.

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The Goslings’ first game failed to show Coach Umnus just what he could expect of his charges, since the opposition was too poor to provide a test for the team. As long as the first team stayed in, the Black and Red scored almost at will. Allie Worden tallied 3 T. D.’s, one on an 80 yard run from scrimmage, and John Lober, Ron Stelter, and Dave Umnus each scored once. Umnus’ touchdown came on a pass from Stelter. There were a few newsworthy items concerning the game, inasmuch as the entire team was excused from class on both Friday and Saturday for the trip up to St. Paul and the game was viewed by a bevy of students from New Ulm.

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Don’t let the name fool you. It was Mission House that North­ western defeated on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the same team that snapped our winning streak last season. The fair-checked maid­ ens who danced so happily for Lakeland after last year’s victory, appeared a bit shop-worn and bedraggled after this year’s defeat.

Most of those glorious Spartan heroes who fought so gallantly last year were carried off on their shields this year and Lakeland’s dreams of becoming a major football power were temporarily delayed. “Lake­ land should beat Northwestern by 30 points,” the sports editor of the Lakeland Mirror predicted. He must have felt rather foolish as he watched his schoolmates struggle unhappily out on the field, ob­ viously unaware of the fact that they were 30 points belter than Northwestern. Actually, Lakeland didn’t have its best fighter on the field. The most courageous Muskie seen all day was one would-be student and erstwhile photographer who brazenly accused the North­ western students who were holding the stakes of cheating. This bold young man was standing right in front of the Northwestern bench at the time and he was promptly reproved by Coach Umnus and the Northwestern student body. Despite the fact that he was taking abuse from all sides, he bravely stood his ground for a while until he was finally forced to retreat to the Lakeland side of the field. (For his courageous stand I humbly recommend him for that highest of all awards, the Gosling Goose.)

Out on the field the game was notable because Lakeland man­ aged to hold the Goslings to a single T. D. in the first half, scored by Ed Lindemann. In the second half NWC began to roll and added T.D.’s by Worden, Stelter, Schewe, and Lindemann to turn the game into a fiasco.

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While Northwestern was riding its winning streak, a good share of our victories were traceable to the fact that the breaks went our way. In this game, however, all the breaks went to Tech. Three times Northwestern was down within Tech’s 10 yard line, but once a penalty and twice fumbles halted the prospective T.D. march. Harry Schewe scored the Gosling’s only T.D. on a 32 yard run. All in all, the team played a good game, but you can’t win if the breaks don’t come your way.

With all the new buildings going up around here, it seemed only fair that the athletic field receive a face lifting job also. For one year now there have been tractors plowing up the sod which once was our football field. The new gridiron will be in the same spot as the old one, on the Northeast side of the athletic field running North and South. The baseball diamond will be between the new gridiron and the intramural field. It is believed the project will be ready for use by next spring.

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I? Well, here we are again in search of the finer things in life, laden with lucre and lurid livery. This summer in the course of ex­ tensive research into the extant works of Saxon, Welsh, and Old English poets, a corrupted manuscript, a poem apparently, was found. It fits the occasion so without further ado.

DE EXCVRSV AD AQVRBEM Linia in sero avtvmno scripta. Vertiginosi versvs, nervosi cantvs, morosi modi, et cassa carmina imprvdenter ad nauseam in vilem editionem per ponderosvin Etrvscvm collecta. Nihil obstat X. Ca­ veat lector.

Already l can hear the sneers and see the head-shaking and finger-pointing. I am a martyr. You see, our editor got a letter from a school somewhere in Canada requesting a subscription to the ’57-’5S series of 13 and R’s, under the absurd notion that this is a Latin newspaper. After weighing conscience against the appal­ ling state of the treasury, we decided to ship them the B and R’s with the necessary adjustments, thus forestalling a visit form the Better Business Bureau. But to get back to the poem.

When Autumn with its heat and rainless skies The lawns to gardeners’ displeasure dries, And scores of motorists are laid to rest, Who failed to pass Labor Day’s grim test, Then teachers everywhere dust off their books, And students practice comprehending looks And take their leave of Carol, Jane, or Leah Once more to woo the fickle maid Sophia.

A Soph came first, long, scrawny and a grease Whose ever-searching mind was not at peace Unless engaged by noble Sophocles, Dull Plato, or wordy Thucydides.

But do not think that his way was rule, For all his friends thought him a perfect fool.

There was a co-ed from IxoiYia Fair as the mother of Ionia.

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Before she put her books upon the shelf.

Who could relate all her heart-rending woes, Among a patch of carrots just one rose.

Then came a pedagogue of Greek, I guess Already pond’ring what he should profess.

His byword was, “Another hundred lines!”

—What if the student tears his hair and whines.— He’d smile and say it was for their own good.

For Homer is the scholars’ staple food.

There was rugged coach from Illinois Wide-famed for making men of fuzz-cheeked boys.

In recent years he got himself in dutch Because the powers claimed he won too much.

But still his job is safe, for we’re no fools; He’s hanged in effigy by other schools.

There was a student from some far-off town, Though in years past, he yet has wide renown.

Alas, he loved too well wine, women, song And so for this our school, he was not long.

Oh, woe, when Fortune wears an unkind frown.

There was a student from a far-off town.

Down strode a tutor from renowned Thiensville, Now may the Saints guard him from any ill, For his bright face, which now is young and fair In nine short months, what marks of pain will wear.

But if the underclassmen get too mean, He’ll send for reinforcements from the Dean.

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A tall and stately Prof strode briskly by With smiling face and twinkle in his eye.

He had acquired his “Doctor’s” by the way But that is not where his chief talent lay For he cracked better jokes by accident Than famous men of humor can invent, Last came a senior, noble, strong, and kind, Handsome and gracious, perfectly designed, A ready wit, a pleasure to behold, A paragon of virtue, tall and bold, A friend to all, a credit to the school, A brilliant mind, magnificent, a jewel.

The summer bonum, and je ne sais quoi, The ne plus ultra, worthy of eclat.

Football is upon us again making its presence felt even in Greek class. “Thus, then, he, Wilterdrink, spoke, and took, on the one hand, the snap from center, and faded, on the other hand, back and hit in point of fact, far-darting, rolling-gaited Thieleke in the 73

bronze-clad breadbasket. He groaned a bit and fell forward futi’ely on the head-long tnrf, and his hip pads and shin guards, which the clever artificer Wilson, the bowlegged nephew of Spauld­ ing, had made, clattered about him, and his tobacco-stained eye teeth munched dirt.”

Since common man can not aspire to the heights of the great literary classics, they must be brought down to him. With this in mind I have translated an English poem (“Maid of Athens, While We Cling”, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, found in all the better anthologies) down to the student level. In retrospect I think I went too far, the student level being what it is. Nevertheless I offer it for your kind and considerate consideration.

Babe of Clyman, While We Cling Zoe mou sas miseo Babe of Clyman, while we cling Give me back my college ring Or, since, as you say, it’s lost, I will settle for the cost.

Listen now, before I go, Zoe mou sas miseo!

By thy mop of streaky gold From the bottle which is sold, By those lids, a certain sign That thou usest Maybelline, By thine orbs, in color sloe, Zoe mou sas miseo!

By the dew I used to sip From your gently quiv’ring lip, By all the flowers in the dell, Who know what words can never tell, By love’s constant ebb and flow, Zoe mou sas miseo!

Babe of Clyman, I must fly Think of me. You can’t? Well, try.

Though I go to Louisville Please, oh please, don’t wish me ill.

Can I cease to love thee? Ho! Zoe mou sas miseo!

Well, I’ve heard a couple of you say uncle, so let’s close with two quotes from two very learned men. “Women will be the last thing civilized by man.” “God created woman only to tame man­ kind.” See you.

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CHURCH MUSIC SEMINAR The last weekend in September the Church Music Seminar held a workshop here. (The Seminar is a study group consisting of neighboring pastors, teachers and lay members who are inter­ ested in our church service, its music and function.) Making full use of the facilities provided by the new campus buildings, the Seminar held sessions from Friday night thru Saturday afternoon (Sept. 28-29) on the general theme of planning the church music for the Advent and Christmas seasons. An elaborate program of lectures, recorded music and joint singing of choir music was succesfullv earned out under the leadership of Prof. R. Gehrke, who is now studying at the University of Chicago, Prof. II. Oswald, Rev. K. Eggert of Milwaukee and Prof. B. Backer of Fond du Lac. ;

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FORUM FUNCTIONS The Forum Society of 1956 has decided to present eight pro­ grams this year. Last year only six programs were scheduled be­ cause of inadequate practice facilities. The society boasts a strong sixty members this year, the largest membership in its history.

The following members were chosen to engineer the productions: Hartman, Uhlhorn, Kuznik, Sprain, D. Westendorf, Tomhave, God­ frey and Kiecker. Good luck, fellows. We’ll be watching for your programs.

NEW FACES Tutor Henry Peter is the dean’s representative in the collegi­ ate -dormitory. Although he served as a vicar at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Appleton, this is his first regular call. His teaching du­ ties consist of sexta and quinta English classes.

Prof. E. Scharf was graduated from N. W. C. in 1928. After his seminary years he did postgraduate work in history at the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin. After teaching history for seven years at the Winnebago Lutheran Academy, serving in the ministry at Slinger, Wis., and serving as camp pastor in Louisiana during World War II, he received and accepted a call to Rhinelander, Wis., where he served for twelve years. Prof. Scharf is now teaching sexta history and Latin, quarta and quinta history, and a remedial German class.

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Left to right, standing: G. Tiefel, H. Peter, A. Zenker Seated: Prof. O. Schlenner, Prof. I. Scharf Prof. O. Schlenner was graduated from N. W. C. in 1939. His first call was to Milwaukee L. II. S., where he taught until the fall of ’49. He then received and accepted calls first to La Crosse, Wis., until *51, and then to Ascension Lutheran Church in Detroit, Mich.

At N. W. C. Prof. Schlenner is teaching sexta algebra and Latin, quinta Gennan, and a remedial Latin class.

George Tiefel is substituting for Prof. Gehrke this year. He will return to the seminary next year as a senior. He teaches sexta and quinta history, quarta music, and one division of freshman Greek.

Allen Zenker is the tutor in the prep dormitory, supplying the dean with much needed aid in that capacity. As a sideline he also takes care of two divisions of sexta English. Tutor Zenker vicared at N. Trinity, Milwaukee for a year (54-55). This is his first regu­ lar call.

“TREATED LIKE CELEBRATIES” Coach Umnus has been having a hard time filling up his foot­ ball schedule the last couple of years. Last year it was Elmhurst University that filled the gap, and this year he had to go all the way to St. Paul, Minn., to find someone to play his well-reputed football team. Bethel College of St. Paul obliged, and we had our open date filled. Scheduling a team so far away does have its drawbacks, however, especially as far as the money angle is con­ cerned. Equipment and tape take up all the funds Coach can get his hands on. But in spite of that, the team had as good a trip as any Big Ten team could have made.

The trip was extended over three days, the last weekend in September. The bus (a Ray Yelk special) left Friday morning 76

soon after breakfast and arrived on schedule at its first stop, Pastor Millers congregation in La Crosse. Here we stayed just long enough to eat. More time was spent in preparing for us than we actually spent there. The basement and tables were decorated with our school colors, and the beef dinner left nothing to be desired, either in quality or quantity.

Coach wanted the team to work out for an hour or so that afternoon, and so we rushed o£F to Lake City, Minn., where we were to spend the night. We pulled up to the church, and Pastor Albrecht immediately came out, greeted us, and said that if we wanted to work out, the local high school had placed their facili­ ties at our disposal. What a deal! But that wasn’t all. On the way down to the high school, Pastor Albrecht told us what had been planned for us that night. The Young People’s Society would serve us supper and then treat us to their high school football game, which happened to be Lake City’s homecoming game. Everything went as planned — workout, supper, and football game (Lake City won 20-0, their 18th in a row). Coach had made it clear to Pastor Goede that he wanted his players in bed by 10:80 and it wasn’t long before everyone was dispatched to some comfortable bed in the congregation.

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The next morning everybody boarded the bus on schedule, as any good guesser might guess, and we were on our final 70 mile lap of the journey. There was no trouble in finding Pastor Sauer’s church. By the time the taping was done, the poached eggs and tea were ready.

The story of the football game is found in the Sports section.

Although we were 400 miles from home, we didn’t lack any backers.

Pastors and teachers from the surrounding territory and professors and students from New Ulm came to see us play. After the game and after the players had crowded back into the bus, a certain gentleman in a blue overcoat and hat with his black N sweater peeking out at his neck appeared in the front of the bus and con­ gratulated the team. Quite an honor, since the gentleman happen­ ed to be the president of our Synod.

Win, lose or draw, whichever way the game could have gone, we probably would have had that fried chicken supper. But with a victory under the belt, that meal tasted twice as good, and seven chickens were devoured in short order.

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Again strictly according to schedule we began the triumphal journey home. We pulled into Niellsville and were greeted by Pastor Schewe ,who immediately got the boys off to their “homes for a night”. The next morning we all had bacon and eggs and rolls for breakfast, said thank you and goodbye to our hosts, and were soon on our way. The trip was as good as over. A big THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who made it possible.

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ATTENTION !

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Without them the Black and Red could not exist. They are deserving of your patronage.

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Because you want to be successful. Life insurance gives you a definite savings goal. It assures cash, ready to go to work in any way your good judgment approves. At death, the money you wanted is there, to be paid to whomever you want— probably your wife.

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Your Aid Association for Lutherans is proud of its 53 year record of helpful service to member owners with our common bond of faith.

If you don't know the A.A.L. man in your area, write to our home office for his name. He’ll be glad to help you with your questions. 'vithout obligation, of course.

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Luther’s Views on Education

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Luther on Dancing

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Luther, the Student, 1489 - 1507

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Asst. Business Manager Jerald Plitzuweit Vol. LX

NOVEMBER 1956

No. 4

ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT WATERTOWN, WIS., AS SECOND CLASS MATTER UNDER ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879. PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00

The Forum Society has a good idea. It gives us a chance to get a little practice in public speaking, but it also makes our speeches more interesting to the audience by uniting all the speeches in one program under one theme. That’s what we would like to in this issue. We have chosen a subject of common interest, Martin Luther. Several qualified staff members were assigned articles and have done some research work in the writings of the reformer. Obviously, we could pick only a few of the numerous Luther subjects upon which to dwell in one issue of the Black and Red. We hope that the unification of the articles under one general topic will lead to a keener interest among all our readers.

The cover picture was designed and arranged by Bob Sievert.

The bust of Martin Luther was furnished for photo purposes by Saint John’s Church of Jefferson, Wisconsin.

EDITOR

LUTHER AS A MAN Luther unfortunately lived before the age of photography. The likenesses which we have of him are paintings which were swayed more by the painter’s zeal than his desire for accuracy. The accounts of his appearance contradict each other. Some people say his eyes were black; others called them brown. One man said they were dark with yellow rings around them. All of them were impressed by his eyes.

They said that a fire seemed to Hash from them. Mis eyes were one of the strongest factors in his influence over men.

Another thing which helped Luther along in his work as a preacher was his voice. It was clear and penetrating, yet resonant enough to be pleasing. This was a definite asset in the days before the invention of the loudspeaker.

Luther had a strong body. We can say this despite his many ill­ nesses. It was evident that he had a strong constitution. No one with a weak constitution could have carried on the work he did. ITe was strong-boned and athletic looking, really quite unlike the fat, piouslooking Luther of certain well-known portraits.

Luthers enemies have called him a “hop-brother”, “wine-barrel”, and a “drunkard.” They quote a letter he wrote while visiting the Prince of Anhalt. It contained the following: .. .“Yesterday I shipped some bad beer for which I had to sing out.

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The fact is that Luther was speaking playfully in this letter. It is of course true that like everyone else in the sixteenth century he drank alcoholic beverages — chiefly beer — instead of coffee and tea, which were not introduced into Europe until a century after his time. People consumed amazing amounts of beer and wine with their meals. Charles V wasn’t considered a drunkard, for he took only “three draughts” with his meals. But at every draught, without drawing a breath, he emptied a ciystal beaker containing about one and one-half pints, or a bottle of wine. Luther himself took some pride in his ability to drink beer.

He had a mug with three rings around it. The first represented, he said, the Ten Commandments, the second the Apostles’ Creed, and the third the Lord’s prayer. Luther was pleased that he could drink his way through the Lord’s Prayer, while his friend, Agricola, could not get beyond the Ten Commandments.

Yet, Luther fought drunkenness in Germany. He thought that people who get violent when they drink should definitely stay away from alcohol altogether. Those who worked hard all week he did not judge too harshly if they drank over the weekend. We wouldn’t ap­ prove of this view today, but in the sixteenth century any other view would have been considered narrow-minded.

Was Luther then a drunkard? No! This can be proven. Medical science says that a habitual drunk can cany on no sustained concen­ tration. It is plainly evident that Luther did. Also, no one of his ene­ mies has ever been able to say that he saw Luther drunk Luther has also been called a glutton. This charge can be dismis­ sed very easily. In latter years he did acquire a paunch, but it was in no way due to his overeating. He had the kind of metabolism that brought on obesity. This is common among older people. As a mat­ ter of fact, Melanchthon, Luther’s friend, often marveled how little Luther ate. At times all he ate for an entire day was a herring and a little bread.

Again, Luther has been accused of being a licentious man. His chief sin in the sight of his enemies was his marriage to a fugitive nun, Katherine von Bora. Before Luther’s time it was considered wrong for a clergyman to marry. It took an unusual amount of courage for Luther to take this step. No wonder that even his best friend, Melanchthon, was at first shocked. Melanchthon dashed off a confused letter to Camerarius, bewailing Luther’s decision and making scornful remarks about the forthcoming marriage. Melanchthon soon changed his views and not only attended Luther’s’ wedding, but married himself.

Luther’s detractors make much of a letter written by the Reformer to his friend, Spalatin, soon after a group of runaway nuns, including Katharine von Bora, came to Wittenberg and turned to him for further instructions. He helped them all to get husbands or positions as gov­ ernesses. Then he wrote: 79

.. “As for your remarks about my marriage, do not be surprised that I do not marry, seeing that I am an exceedingly skilful lover. It is still more remarkable that I who have written so much concerning marriage and in this way have so much to do with women have not become a woman long since, not to mention the fact that I have not mar­ ried a long time ago. Still, if you want my example, you have the very best reason. For I have had three wives at one time and loved them so desperately that I have lost two of them again who will now get other bridegrooms. As for the third, I am hardly keeping hold of her by the left ann, she too will perhaps soon be snatched from me. But you are a slothful lover, you do not even venture too become the husband of one wife.”

It is obvious to any reader who hasn’t made up his mind ahead of time that Luther is joking. Luther was known for his good humor.

This letter is characteristic of his joyous temper. He was usually in a good humor except at tlu* times that he was crushed by ill health or work as in the last years of his life. At this particular time he was con­ sidering marriage and he joked about the whole situation to a good friend. Luther’s marriage w as happy. Through it he founded the Pro­ testant parsonage. The blessing of the Lord has rested visibly on the married pastor and his family.

Sometimes in the circle of his friends during an evening meal Luther expressed himself freely, even coarsely. These items are record­ ed in his table talk. They were not the words of an evil but an out­ spoken man. They were uttered in a century that was noted for its frankness and even vulgarity. Melanchthon once said, “Oh that Luther could know when to remain silent.” But another friend, Matthesius, who often took part in these after dinner sessions, affirmed that he had never heard Luther tell an indecent story. On the contrary, when some­ one else did make an off color remark, he would deftly change the sub­ ject, yet without sacrificing the spirit of good fellowship. Luther’s gen­ eral attiude is expressed in these words from a letter to Prince Joachim of Anhalt: .It is true that joy in sin is the devil, but jov with good pious people in the fear of God and with moderation pleases him, even if an indecent word or two now' and then slips in.”

To be sure, Luther w'as not perfect. He had faults. He made mis­ takes. He said harsh things against those who disagreed with him. It is good for us to look at him as a man once and a while. Too often he is pictured as a saint. It comforts us to think that a man of Luthers stature and insight into the Word of God could have the same failings that we have. Let us remember that Luther is a man and not blindly accept every word that he says, just because he said it. Let us examine his words closely. There will be some things with which we disagree.

We ourselves must decide what is right. In the end, however, the chances are that the more we read him the more we will see to admire in him. The old saying will still remain true: The nearer to Luther, the better the theologian.

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LUTHER'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION

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Luther realized that the center of all society lav in the home, and wherever the homes were faulty, the whole society suffered. He held the parents, as the center of the home, responsible for the upbringing of their children; the children, in turn, were to respect and honor their parents. The training of children was a divine requirement, as Luther tried to stress. “Let everyone know, therefore, that above all things it is his duty (or otherwise he will lose divine favor) to bring up his children in the fear and knowledge of God; and if they have talents, to have them instructed and trained in a liberal education, so that men may be able to have their aid in government and in whatever necessary.”

All possible encouragement was given to the parents to carry out tin’s instruction, since they then could show their gratitude to Cod for the gift of children and could fulfill their obligation to mankind.

But difficulties also arose in this domestic training, since some were hardened toward their children, others were unqualified to teacli them because of their own ignorance, and still others, although hav­ ing piety and intelligence, were constantly beset by cares and labors.

In view of this Luther would have only such people marry as were competent to instinct their children in the elements of religion. These elements of religion, the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer were conveniently assembled in Luthers Small Catechism. By th? proper use of this book parents could make domestic training a pleasure both for the children and for themselves. The Fourth Com­ mandment was to serve as the standard for children’s obedience to their parents, so that children would esteem them as their most precious treasure on earth, practice modesty while speaking to them, and show honor by helping and providing for them when thev grow old. Where­ ver a person will find Christian upbringing by parents and faithful obedience bv children, he will also see a happy, blessed family.

At Luther’s time schools had so completely degenerated, that the neglect of education seemed to him a working of the devil, who was seeking the destruction of society and the church itself. In a special letter written to the mayors and aldermen of all the cities of Germany on behalf of Christian schools, Luther set forth two important reasons why schools should be maintained in every German village. In the first place, schools help the Church by imparting a Christian training to children in preparing them to be teachers, ministers, or heads of God-fearing families. Secondly, Luther perceived the truth which has become a maxim in modem education, that the welfare of a country SI

depends on the intelligence and virtue of its citizens. From this we must note that Luther did not contemplate a complete secularization of the schools, but desired them to have a distinctly Christian character.

Luther originated the idea that schools should be compulsory, since he declared, “I maintain the civil authorities are under obligation to com­ pel the people to send their children to school, especially such as are promising, as has elsewhere been said. For our rulers are certainly bound to maintain the spiritual and secular offices and callings, so that there may always be preachers, jurists, pastors, scribes, physicians, schoolmasters and the like; for these cannot be dispensed with.”

Luther appears to have advocated three types of schools: 1. Schools in which the common people could be prepared for the di­ verse callings of life. 2. Latin or secondary schools for those who were to pursue professional careers in Church and State. 3. Universities at which the final preparation for learned vocations was to be given. Since he felt that all Christians should have a knowledge of the Gospel, he repeatedly encouraged the establishment of schools where girls also could obtain religious instructions and learn to read and write. Luther recognized that the universities needed a sound reform, for in them the principle of authority prevailed, and little independent investigation was carried on. Therefore much energy was used up by the students on almost useless questions in philosophy, while the Scriptures and their explanation were practically neglected.

For each grade in school Luther considered the Scriptures far the most important subject. Of next importance were Luther’s two cate­ chisms, which he prepared in 1529 after he was astonished by the ig­ norance he had seen in the churches of Saxony. As the method for eatechetic instruction, Luther urged first simplicity and repetition of words and the explanation of the meanings of the words by using con­ crete examples from the Bible. When all is clearly understood, a ques­ tioning should be given by the instructor to find out how the students understand it.

For carrying on governmental affairs and especially for under­ standing the Scriptures, a good knowledge of ancient languages was required. Luther tried to make language study a living thing. It had too often consisted of mechanical drilling in grammar. He approved of both rhetoric and logic, since logic showed a person how to use know­ ledge, while rhetoric showed the correct ways for expressing knowledge.

History was stressed, for it revealed the working of God’s divine hand through the ages of mankind. In his appreciation of nature Lu­ ther laid the foundations for educational science. He discarded the in­ tricate study of the writings of Aristotle and Pliny and introduced the observation of nature itself as the means of learning natural science.

Music was not forgotten, for in the schools established under Lu­ thers influence, it formed a part of the regular course of instruction.

Luther considered it a very beneficent influence upon the character and lire of a person, for it acted as a good antidote against temptation and evil thoughts. Finally gymnastic exercise was encouraged, since it proved healthful for the human body. Luther himself said, “Therefore these two exercises and pastimes please me best, namely music and 82

the heart and the latter produces elasticity of the body and preserves health.”

Indeed Luther approached education from the practical side and directed his attention most to its character as a preparation for the various duties of life. In view of this new approach to education, Lu­ ther deserves to be considered the greatest educational reformer this j. p. world has seen.

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That dancing is a controversial subject is evidenced by the many tracts and pamphlets which have been written about it and by the variious opinions which are being voiced on it even in our own circles, “Is dancing wrong?” “Is all dancing wrong?” “If some dancing is permis­ sible, where is the line to be drawn?” My aim is not to answer these questions or to take a stand on this controversial subject, but rather to explain what type of dancing was in vogue during the time of the Reformation and what Luther had to sav about it.

Albert Czerwinski in his Historij of the Art of Dancing states that in the dances of Luther’s day the dancers had contact with one another mainly with their hands. There was no embracing in these medieval dances, which to modem eyes would have more the appearance of children’s games than of dances, for “the dance itself consisted of mak­ ing a circle around the hall with measured steps, and this often in­ volved some jumping around, especially if the dance took place out in the open.” The dances that Luther saw and attended must have been even a bit milder than our present-day square dances, for in one in­ stance, after speaking very favorably about one’s having a good time at a wedding, he says, “But there is one thing in the performance of the dance that displeases me, and I wish that this would be publicly prohibited by the people in charge (die Obrigkeit), namely, that the young men spin the girls in a circle, especially right out in the open when there are a lot of people looking on.” Many authorities, especi­ ally the city councils at Luther’s time and later, issued public decrees banning “dancing without a coat” and “dancing in a circle.”

And so in one instance at least, Luther is on record as giving his considered opinion about a particular dance-floor gyration. This is found in one of his letters. But in no other place do we find him draw­ ing a line between what he considers proper and what he does not.

The dance must have been most common among Luther’s contempor­ aries as a way of celebrating a wedding, for he several times expresses his views on the proper decorum at weddings and also applies some axioms of Christian living to the wedding dance.

“The dances are organized and allowed so that young men learn politeness in society, so that they also learn to honor the female sex and so that friendships are struck up between our young men and re­ spectable girls. The pope has condemned the dance because he was an enemy of a proper, decorous marriage. And older men and women are for this reason invited to a wedding, so that everything is done in moderation.”

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Luthers very active and sensitive conscience played no small part in the iconoclastic movement of the Reformation. His was a restless conscience that would not be quelled and satisfied by the clever decrees of the Roman church. Yet when it comes to a practical church problem in which vou would expect a man with “ein enges Gewissen” to be quite puritan and positiv'stic, Luther shows that he is not at all in favor of putting rigid controls upon one’s conscience. In speaking about the wedding he says that a simple thing like the bride’s dress, by being too lavish, can be just as wrong as improper behavior on the dance floor.

“And so (at a wedding) one must leave that right to the world, taking away the excess, that a bride be properly adorned, that a person eat and drink, and that a person dance. And about this dancing one must not make scruples (man musz dariiber kein Gewissen machen), only be sure you forbid it where it goes over the limit. ... If a person now and then does too much, no one should therefore bind the conscience. But where a person is not looking for pleasure (Freude), but makes a pig out of himself, that is not good and should be for­ bidden. It’s just like a bride’s adornment. Nowadays there has to be so much silk and pearls; just as though it’s not to see the bride adorn­ ed but to see how much she can carry. . . We can talk about dancing the same way as we talk about dress. That it brings much inducement to sin is true, if it goes beyond moderation and good manners. But where dancing is chaste, done in a manner that is not shameful, either in words or actions, and done only for pleasure, it is not to be con­ demned. . . just so a person does not misuse it.”

Without going into the question of giving offense, which is one of today’s strong points against any kind of dancing, Luther several times speaks of dancing on the same level as eating. Luther was of the firm conviction that if a person’s heart is full of faith and love, he need not be shackled bv a strict regimen. He knew that all the members of his congregation, himself included, were human beings subject to sin and when he dealt with a problem such as this he appealed to the faith and love that are within instead of attempting to set up a legalis­ tic code.

“The fact that sins are committed is not the fault of the dance alone. The same sins are often committed at the table and in church.

In the same manner, it’s not the fault of the eating and drinking that people often make pigs of themselves. But where everything is chaste (ziichtig) I’ll always leave to the wedding its right and custom and dancing. Faith and love don’t so soon let themselves be danced out, as long as you are chaste and moderate. The young children dance without sinning. Do it that way and become as a child; then the dance wont hurt you. Otherwise, were dancing in itself a sin, you wouldn’t be able to let your children dance either.”

From this passage it is again evident that Luther did not have our dances of today in mind. Our children of today are dancing when they play Ring Around The Rosy; we would hardly catch them doing a mambo or a samba.

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So Luther does allow dancing where it is zuchtig — chaste, in ac­ cord with proper Christian behavior. This, then, is what we have re­ ceived from Luther: a restatement of St. Pauls stand on Christian lib­ erty and a proper perspective on Christian conduct. Of course, the big issue in dancing today is just what Luther did not go into, namely, what is zuchtig. Where is the golden mean of Christian behavior in respect to dancing? Is it off the dance floor altogether? Is it on the square dance floor but on no other? Is it proper to go to a regular dance as long as you restrict yourself to, say, the bunny-hop and an occasional fast polka? I cannot answer these questions for you, and 1 am not go­ ing to. I as a Christian have answered them for myself. You must M. H. answer them for yourself.

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At the age of six, Martin enrolled in grade school, where he stud­ ied religion, which embodied the memorization and explanation of prayers, psalms, hymns, the Ten Commandments and the Creed. The second course of study was music, in which the hymns and psalms they had memorized were sung. Lastly there was the study of Latin. In this class the students learned to read, write and speak the then universal language of Europe.

One thing that Luther remembered throughout his life about his first years of schooling was the severity, cruelty and lovelessness of the teachers, whom he referred to as tyrants and executioners. An example he often recalled was of the day he was flogged fifteen times for failure to memorize certain conjugations and declensions.

Discipline was also strict and often severe at home, too. Luthers parents had a strict sense of moral duty and severe punishment. Even for the stealing of a nut Luther was once whipped until he* bled. There was one notable difference, however, between his punishment at home and at school. The parents had an equal measure of love to counter­ balance the harshness of their punishments.

Hans Luther saw in his eldest son a bright and studious lad of more than ordinary ability; so, in spite of his poverty, Hans made plans to send Martin on to school and give him the chance for a better life than Hans had. His plans were to make a lawyer of Martin.

At the age of thirteen Martin left home for the first time to attend the secondary school at Magdeburg. Hans was still very poor and so could not send Martin away to school with much in the way of worldly goods, but he had provided him with something much more valuable.

Martin, through inheritance, had a wonderfully healthy physique, a spirit of independence, clear-headedness, practicalness, thriftiness and an extra measure of common sense. From his mother he received the sensitiveness of an imaginative and poetical nature and a cheerful dis­ position.

After one year at Magdeburg Martin decided to transfer to the high school at Eisenach. The reason for the change probably was that

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Hans thought Martin would receive financial aid from his wife’s rela­ tives, who lived in Eisenach. This plan did not work out, and so here, as in Magdeburg, Martin was classified as a “poor scholar”. But being a “poor scholar” meant one could receive his education and room at no charge in return for singing in the church choir. Food was obtained by singing for it from house to house.

The teachers at Magdeburg and Eisenach were much more hu­ mane than were his first teachers at Mansfeld; so school became a joy for young Martin, not merely a drudgery. The story is told of the headmaster of the school at Eisenach who always tipped his hat to his students when entering class, because, as he said, “Who knows how many of these boys will not become burgomaters, lawyers and famous men in a few years.”

During this time the fortunes of Hans Luther were steadily im­ proving, until by 1501 he was able to pay Martin’s way through school.

This enabled Martin to throw himself into his schoohvork at the Uni­ versity of Erfurt without being bothered by financial worries.

The University, mentioned above, was the next school Martin at­ tended immediately after his graduation from high school. This uni­ versity was one of the oldest and most famous schools in Germany.

He entered there in 1501 at eighteen. Here he studied for the degree of Master of Arts, which was a prerequisite for one taking up the study of law, medicine or theology. We may note a parallel between this uni­ versity and our own school in that there were no elective subjects, on­ ly required courses. However with this the parallel ends, for the sub­ jects studied at Erfurt were: 1. a review of Latin grammar and rhetoric with exercises in composition, 2. lectures on rhetoric and 3. a study of logic based on Aristotle and the interpretation of the Church by medieval commentators. With the completion of this course a Bache­ lor of Arts degree was granted. To achieve a Master of Arts degree, further study of logic was required along with work in mathematics, music and several courses in moral philosophy or ethics.

Luther was not satisfied with going to this university and getting through with as little work as possible, but, in addition to preparation for classes, he spent much of his time reading Vergil, Ovid, Cicero and Livy. Luther’s purpose in this was not to perfect a language style or grammatical form, but to get at the content and store it in his amaz­ ingly retentive memory. He did not read many books, but the good books he did read he assimilated.

As a dormitory student, Martin was under closer supervision than we meet with at Northwestern. All the boys were required to pray through the whole psalter, besides other prayers. The Bible was read and discussed at meals. Each student was also under the supervision of a monitor, who was required to report quarterly on the conduct of each student in his care. An unfavorable report meant expulsion.

While all these duties and studies consumed a lot of time, Luther did not turn into a dull, bookworm-type recluse; but was a talkative, merry, jovial young fellow, who heartily participated in the social life of the students. He was president of ae debating club and took special 86

pride in his prowess in disputation. He could boast two nicknames, Philosopher and Musician. He was called Musician because of his ability to sing (in a soft but penetrating tenor) and to play the lute.

Although he was often subject to deep fits of melancholy, he was al­ ways sociable.

That he was not an outstanding scholar is borne out by the fact when he received his Bachelor’s degree, he was thirtieth in a class of fifty-seven. By diligence and industry, however, he improved his stand­ ing, until he ranked second in a class of seventeen receiving their Master’s degrees in 1507.

Luther, through all his years of schooling, had one successful method for attacking all his studies. This method is as useful for stu­ dents today as it was for Luther. “Fleizig gebetet ist halb studiert.”

(Diligent prayer is half the work of study). Let us make diligent use of this simple approach to studies, and you may be sure we will find that all our work at Northwestern and throughout our life will be much easier.

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PROFESSOR WESTERIiAUS TO HOSPITAL Saturday, November 11, Professor Westerhaus could not meet with His classes because of a stomach ailment. When it grew worse a doc­ tor was called in. The trouble was diagnosed as a gall bladder attack.

The professor was rushed to the hospital and operated on almost im­ mediately. The operation appears to have been a success and from all indications Professor Westerhaus should soon be able to return to his classes.

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MEETING OF DEANS Last year the heads of the German departments of our Wisconsin Synod schools met on our campus to discuss the various problems which arise in teaching German. This month the deans of our schools con­ vened here to discuss their specific problems. The deans are Prof. Delmar Brick from New Ulm, Prof. Wayne Ten Broek from Mobridge, Prof. Harris Kaesmeyer from Saginaw and Prof. Reim from the Sein.

Our own Dean Horn, of course, was host.

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Toastmaster Rev. J. Mahnke and Mainspeaker Rev. W. Wegner

><£L ALUMNI BANQUET LUMINARIES Robert Schmiel, Student Body Speaker; Roger Sprain, Capt. of the 1956 Varsity, Coach Malchow; Ass'i Prep Coach, Ed Werner; Coach Umnus.

Prof. R. Sievert, Athletic Advisor

QUEEN SHIRLEY AND HER COURT Left to right: Eunice Pankow, Shirley Wittchow, Elizabeth Oswald

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY E. EDGAR GUENTHER, '08 While I was detained at Globe my predecessor had returned to East Fork. On our way down from Holbrook I asked one of the drivers if he knew the former. “Sure,” he answered. “He’s the guy wots got the forty hounds”. I had never seen a blood hound and imagined them to be little less ferocious than a wolf. After our Apache boy had let us off at the Mission we had hardly gained the front porch when a pack came baying around one side of the house. I fought them off, only to have them threaten us from the other. This maneuvering kept on for quite some time and I felt my wife’s admiration for my matchless courage growing with every attack. Finally, during a lull in hostilities we heard the clun-clup of approaching horses and a voice saying, “I wonder where those tender feet are tonight.” They soon found out and bade us welcome. The next morning I stepped out early to see what had become of the forty hounds. A sad looking pair was chained to a spread­ ing oak and a half-grown pup ran to meet me. He was the one I had so bravely fought off the night before. But what I had thwarted was not his hostility, but his curiosity.

As our little house could be used as a duplex we immediately took possession of one side. It was fully equipped with a decrepit stove and a sway-back bed, of uncertain vintage. We added our suitcases and bedroll. I immediately converted the bed into a “beautyrest” by stretch­ ing rawhide thongs over the sagging spring lengthwise and across.

Our own stove which had been shipped from Milwaukee together with my wife’s “hope chest” etc. in December of 1910 arrived at East Fork on April 5th. 1911. Whence the delay? The Mormon freighters who plied between Holbrook and Fort Apache lived in little Inter­ mediate villages. When we came thru, the road over the mountains was impassable for heavy vehicles. We unknowingly passed the ones bearing our goods parked somewhere on the other side of the moun­ tain. Since the farms of the freighters dried earlier than the mountain roads, they frequently put in their spring crops before continuing on with their loads. My own goods which had been routed via Globe arrived a month later.

I expected to be installed on the following Sunday. Instead I was told, “This is your church!” Period. Hurriedly I cast about for a text and chose the story of the Prodigal Son. After the first hymn I stepped up with the interpreter Jack Keyes by my side. He began to translate sentence for sentence as I spoke. But when I mentioned the Prodigals leaving home he continued right on, growing more eloquent with every sentence. The longer he spoke the more conspicuous and embarassed 90

I felt. I was at a loss to know whether I should stop him or just sit down. Finally he came to an emphatic conclusion, wiped the perspi­ ration from his face, turned to me and said, “Go head, I got to the fat calf’. Thru it all the congregation had been very attentive, but it was impossible to tell whether Keyes’s “sermon” or my conclusion pleased them most. But I soon learned that at least one hearer was not disappointed in me. Rivers Kessay, a little boy whom 1 had never seen before, stepped up to me, looked into my face and said in all sin­ cerity, “I love you”, and then went on his way.

Word had gotten around that I was in the market for at least one horse, and a white man was waiting for me when we stepped out of the church. He had a horse he wanted me to try. Now when a real Westerner mounts a horse, especially one that he does not trust, he takes hold of the latter’s mane or cheek strap with the left hand, grabs the saddle horn with the right, puts his left foot in the stirrup and then if the horse should jump it would tend to swing him into the sad­ dle. Not knowing all this I grabbed the saddle horn with my left hand, the cantle with my right and, foot in stirrup, started to mount. Simul­ taneously the wiley nag, sensing the tenderfoot, went into action on his own with the result that I landed behind the saddle instead of in­ to it, while my glasses flew into space. I am not ashamed to admit that I “pulled leather” with might and main, but I am also proud to add that in spite of my mount’s “sunfishing” my center of gravity never veered too far to the right or to the left. As suddenly as he had started his act he also came to a stop in evident shame and humiliation of hav­ ing a woman (my wife) like a female toreador, flashing his apron in­ to his face. In spite of the ludicrous figure I must have presented to the congregation gathered about us my reputation as a horseman was established: “He sure stuck, he sure stuck”! Nevertheless the owner of the nag lost a sale. Sometime later I succeeded in buying two saddle horses that were not so pugnacious.

Not long after my private bronco busting exhibition 1 made a trip with my predecessor to Globe to a Conference. The latter rode a splen­ did animal with a rocking-chair gait, while the borrowed one that 1 rode seemed especially adapted to wear out tenderfeet. As I prepared to mount the steed my young spouse with wifely foerthought handed me a bottle of milk as a sort of emergency ration on the way. I quick­ ly stuffed it into an inside pocket before my pardner could see it and ridicule me. Then we were off, the latter riding ahead and leading the pack horse and I bringing up the rear. About sixteen miles out, near Kelly’s Butte, I decided surreptitiously to take my “milk break” and get rid of the bottle. With the first swallow I almost choked on a lump of butter! I had discovered a new method for churning butter. All one needed was an awkward rider and a horse with a choppy gait.

The first night we camped at Bronco Corral about thirty-five miles out of East Fork. While my pardner blew up his air mattress I scraped together pine needles for mine and would have slept as soundly as he but for the hoard of tree toads above our heads in the trees practicing , their dissonances all night long. The next morning we broke up camp 91

early and rode fifteen iniiles to Oak Springs before eating a morsel.

On the return trip we again camped at Bronco Corral but rode fifteen miles on to Whiteriver Crossing before eating our breakfast I found out later that my compadre had meant to play me out and show me up as a tetnderfoot. All the satisfaction he got, however, was to see that I arrived home bare backed, having ridden through the seat of my old Seminary trousers!

The very next week I rode up East Fork about ten miles to take a picture of a forest fire raging there. On my arrival I was immedi­ ately drafted by the Ranger to grab a rake and get busy. I fought fire two days and a night and received a check for fourteen dollars. That was more than a mere coincidence! I could now return home and pay cash for a pair of trousers to replace the pair that had recently parted company with me.

My call read that I was to be located at East Fork, near Ft. Apache, but that my field was to be the entire Ft. Apache Indian Reservation, a territory roughly fifty miles wide and a hundred miles long, — air miles that is. As a comparison, our Reservation is two and a half times as large as the state of Rhode* Island. The only roads anywhere were the nits made by the buckboard or wagon that had preceeded you.

And during the rainy season any of them could become impassable.

One day I rode down Black Canyon and noticed a hat lying in the mud.

Picking it up I saw a man under it. ‘*Do you need any help?” I asked.

“Nope” was the cheerful reply, “I’m on horseback”. This gives the reader some idea of how deep mud can get in our rainy season. On my return trip the hat was gone. This story stands until it is disproved!

I may add here that since there were no planes in those davs we were less interested in air miles than terrestial ones, so much of the Reserva­ tion stands on end and it is traveled by so many ridges and valleys that one had to travel much further than the crow flies. For instance from Whiteriver to McNarv the ratio is 23 to 17, and from Whiteriver to Cibecue 50 to 33.

Mount Baldy, at the foot of which the major streams have their source, has an altitude of 11,490. The Indian population at the time numbered about twenty-five hundred souls, scattered all along the major and minor streams in order to be near water for drinking and to irrigate their little fields. And 1 was supposed to cover all this terri­ tory and evangelize the inhabitants.

And that was not all! Reading my call over more carefully, one day it dawned on me, that like some Life Insurance policies, it also had its fine print, namely the phrase “So bald wie moeglich eine Missionschule eroeffnen” (Open a Mission School as early as possible). I had once switched courses to avoid becoming a teacher and here Jo­ hann Friederich Ilerbart’s Fuenf Formal-Stufen were again staring me in the face.

In my naivete I had always assumed that to start a school one needed a school room with desks, school equipment, particularly school books, and, not to forget, pupils! Naturally some money would also come in handy. But there was nary a line on any one of these items.

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Orders are orders and I set forth to look for pupils, taking no thought for the morrow on any of the other items. The fact that all the older pupils were already attending the Government Boarding school at Whiteriver and that a Day School had been opened four years before within a stones throw of our Mission which had enrolled every youngster of school age, did not make my task any easier. Fur­ thermore the latter institution clothed their pupils and fed them a noon meal. In every camp that I entered I was met with the same refrain, "Will you clothe and feed our children as the Government does?” And every time Harders warning would come to mind, “Promise nothing”.

One day I happened upon a large group playing the old Apache Pole game. Perhaps here there might be at least a father or two who would let me recruit a five year old out of his family. But the only encouragement I received was from Y-23 who said, "Whv don’t you let us take more than one wife; then there will soon be plentv of children for your school”. I was compelled to tell them that I could hardly grant a Nihil Obstat to such an innovation, and furthermore, it could not solve my present problems here and now. September drew nearer.

Finally Y-24, a kindly man, consented to send his five-year-old Charlie and a few friends and relatives then followed suit. And on the first day of school seven other school age youngsters were ushered in. Our first task was to give them English names. We named them after friends, relatives and celebrities. As an example, when a husky chap came straying in, we named him Willard, as Jess Willard was the Champ at that time.

We now had the pupils; the church would have to serve as a school room, and one of the four little rooms in our house was set aside as a dining hall where the children would get their noon meal, while the cooking was done in our kitchen. (The food at first came from our own meager larder; months later we were granted the munifi­ cent sum of fifty cents per month per pupil.)

But we still had no desks nor books. One Friday we succeeded in borrowing two harnesses and wagon without a box. We hitched up our half-broke ponies and set out for a little Government waterpowered saw-mill that nestled up North Fork among the pines some twenty miles away. My help-meet occupied the reserved seat on the rear wheel braces, with a gunny sack for cushion, and manned the brakes. We found Mr. Miskimin, the sawyer, to be a man after our own heart. He fed and bedded us; next morning he added breakfast and loaded our wagon with odds and ends of lumber “free-gratis” and sent us on our way rejoicing.

My father had packed a cross-cut saw and a key-hole saw, ham­ mer, block-plane and' square into one of my boxes, and now the furni­ ture factory could open for business immediately. For obvious rea­ sons I could find time to operate by lamp light only. It was some time 93

before I could catch up with the demand for desks for, as our little school became better known, an occasional adult primary dropped in and asked to be enrolled. (Apropos — never again during the succeed­ ing years did we have to solicit pupils for our schools.)

With the seating problem solved we turned to the one of prov id­ ing reading material in addition to that furnished by MontgomervWards’ illustrated catalog. “Mr. Ward” had already sold us an Oliver No. 3, the model-T of the Typewriter family, and from some other source we obtained a supply of blank paper. Our printery could now operate, but again only by lamp light. Since Indian children, like whites, are inquisitive and like to ask questions, we set up reading les­ sons in catechism form dealing only with objects, events, and activi­ ties with which they were already acquainted. Our little Apaches had very retentive memories, and it was not long before they could recite pairs, the one asking and the other answering the questions in the cur­ rent lessons. And they delighted in repeating them on the playground when no one was listening. By Christmas many of them could carry' on simple conversations on subjects bearing on their every day life.

Our Bible stories were set up in the same manner. John Brown, Super­ intendent of the large Phoenix Indian school, once dropped in on us and was so pleased with our system that he offered to print our lessons for us on the school press. But this never came to pass.

Disciplinary' problems were best met with a minimum asking of questions and as little to-do as possible. One day on my way to the river for water (we had no well) I spied a group of little shavers hid­ ing in the brush and smoking. I said nothing. In stead 1 bought a handful of stogies and the1 next day called these boys to the front of the room for a smoking contest. The spirit of competition is strong among Apaches, and all puffed away with might and main. The con­ sequences of this contest were discomforting and embarassing for the participants but the lesson it taught was never forgotten, even though the subject of their smoking in the brush had never been mentioned to them.

Then there was a time when 1 took up dress-making. The pupils of the near-by Government school were clothed and bathed and their clothes washed regularly. I was determined that this should be done at home. But our pupils, especially the girls, did not take my admoni­ tion too seriously. To drive home my point without arguing I had my wife wash several gunny sacks very clean, then cut the corners off for arm holes and a large circular hole for the head between them.

The next morning several girls had my new creation slipped over their dirty dresses. The following morning all came with clean dresses of their own. My implied hints had been taken to heart without any waste of words. Years later I saw a picture of Great Garbo with a dress very similar to the one with which I had outfitted my girls. The ma­ terial was evidently different but the streamlining the same. (to

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The Goslings rebounded from their defeat at the hands of Wisconsin Tech to crush the Cougars of Concordia by a 34-0 score.

After Harry Schewe returned the opening kickoff to his own 28 yard line, A1 Worden dashed 72 yards on the first play from scrimmage to make the score 6-0 in favor of the Goslings. Worden kicked the first of his four successful conversions to make the score 7-0.

Concordia had the ball for only one play after they received the kickoff, a running play which gained only 9 yards. On the next play a pass was intercepted by Nielson who returned it 14 yards to the Concordia 46. The Goslings moved to the second T. D. in ten plays with Harry Schewe picking up most of the yardage. However Ed Lindemann took the ball across from the 5 yard line. Worden again converted to put the Gos­ lings in the lead 14-0.

The Goslings were unable to score again until late in the second quar­ ter. A poor pass from cenier on the fourth down forced the Cougar punter to run with the ball. When he failed to pick up the required yardage, N.W.C. took over on the 23 yard line of Concordia. Stelter carried from the 23 to the 15 and passed to Fritze for the third score. The try for the extra point was good and Northwestern led at the half 21-0.

After a scoreless third quarter, Northwestern’s A1 Worden broke loose for a 55 yard T. D. gallop of the second play of the final period. The try for the extra point was no good and so Northwestern led 27-0.

The Goslings ended their scoring with a 7 yard sweep by Lindemann after Nielson had set it up with a 50 yard runback of an intercepted pass.

Worden converted to give the Goslings their final point.

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ST. PROCOPIUS 7

Northwestern put on another brilliant offensive show in their home finale, played before the usual large homecoming crowd. The Goslings received the opening kickoff and drove from their own 24 to the Saints’ 49 yard line. A holding penalty set the Goslings all the way back to their own 38, but the Goslings’ A1 Worden offset this with a 62 yard dash for a touchdown. Worden’s try for the extra point was no good, leaving the Goslings wiith a 6-0 lead.

The Goslings second touchdown was set up when Mumm intercepted a pass and returned to the Saint’s 15 yard line. On the Goslings first try Nielson took it over from the 15 and the score was 13-0 after Worden’s successful conversion.

With four minutes left in the first half the Black and Red started a 60 yard march to their third T. D. The entire drive took only 7 plays, the big play being a Stelter to Fritze pass, good for 24 yards. Lindemann earned it over from the 7 and Worden converted to give the Goslings a 20-0 halftime lead.

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As the third quarter was drawing to a close the Saints’ safety man fumbled Umnus’ punt and Jim Radloff recovered for Northwestern on Procopius’ 20 yard line. Four plays later Lindemann ran over from the 2 for his third touchdown, and Worden’s conversion concluded the Gos­ lings scoring.

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MILTON 26

Milton by virtue of this victory won the undisputed championship of the Badger-Illini conference.

To say that Milton defeated Northwestern would be unfair since the United States Army and the University of Miami also contributed their share. The army contributed one Wayne Pierson, an outsized 265 pound tackle, who was an All-European choice while stationed in Germany. The U. of Miami did the army one better, inasmuch as it gave two players to

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the gallant Wildcat band . To top it off, Frank Rabiola, who was a sen­ sation as a freshmn last year, returned to school again and it was his run­ ning that proved Northwestern’s undoing.

As soon as the game started the Wildcats showed that they had the superior team. Three times during the first half Milton put on sustained marches to score touchdowns. The Goslings were pushed all over the field and were lucky to escape at halftime with only a 19-0 deficit against them. However, in the second half the Goslings managed to change the script a little. Except for a 78 yard scoring jaunt by Rabiola, they man­ aged to check the Milton attack and even scored T. D. of their own. The fog was so dense during the fourth quarter that it was almost impossible to see the playing field. However, it is reliably reported the touchdown was scored by Ron Stelter with about a minute and a half to go.

MISCELLANEOUS Capt. Roger Sprain and Ron Stelter were the only representatives from NWC to make the final Badger-Illini all-conference team. Sprain was chosen as a guard because of his aggressiveness and fine all around play. Stelter was named at quarterback because of his brilliant play call­ ing and his passing.

The Badger-Illini Conference has come to an end and Northwestern has been left high and dry with no conference affiliations. The Illinois schools have withdrawn to form a conference of their own and NWC, Wis. Tech and Lakeland are the only schools in the old conference.

STATISTICS INDIVIDUAL SCORING T. D.’s Extra Points Total Worden 7 15 57 Lindemann 7 42 0 Stelter 3 0 18 Schewe 2 12 0 Umnus 1 0 6 Fritze 1 0 6 Nielson 6 1 0 Lober 1 0 6 Total 23 153 15 INDIVIDUAL RUSHING (Conference Games) Attempts Yards Gained Average Worden 9.5 51 487 Schewe 5.8 63 365 Lindemann 5.1 45 232 Nielson 6.7 10 67 Gunderson 7 2.0 14 Stelter -0.6 32 -20 Lober 2 -5 -2.5 Total 210 1165 5.5 PASSING Attempts Comp. Yds. Gained T. D.’s Pet. Stelter 18 .444 8 110 1 Gunderson 8 2 13 0 .250 Total 26 123 .384 10 1 TEAM STATISTICS __ , Yds. Gained Rush. Passing Total Yds. 1st Down Pts. Northwestern 1165 123 1288 47 153 Opponents 834 272 1106 54 64

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C*\lilIMIS x CLASSIC (Ml III c,<% Q And a happy November to you, my gentle readers! While I try to slap something together from this month’s report on the activities of the flora and fauna native to or acclimated to the Northwestern at­ mosphere, why not read the sports column or better yet the verses be­ low.

CELIBACY’S LAST STAND When I reached my fifteenth year, Father made it very clear, “Son, just leave those girls alone a little while.”

This surprised me quite a bit; I had never thought of it; I was fully unaware of female guile.

On my very next birthday Sister chose to have her say, “You’re sixteen, but I’ll just bet you’ve had a kiss.”

“Well, a couple girls tried But I brushed them all aside.”

“Ignorance,” my brother murmured, “can be bliss.”

On my eighteenth year of birth Brother said his two cents worth, “What’s her name, come on, we know you have a date.”

I got red and rose to leave But he nabbed me by the sleeve And I finally had to say it, “John and Nate.”

When I managed twenty-one Mother started in, “Now son I sure wish you’d make me a grandmother.”

“Nuts,” I blurted out of breath, “Give me liberty or death.

Anyhow let’s leave that up to brother.”

Now I’m pushing thirty-eight I’m alone — except for Kate (Not my wife, you ignoramus, she’s the cat.)

Am I sorry? Not a bit.

Bachelorhood is really it.

So I’ve had my final say and that is that.

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I have always been saddened by the fact that the collegiate stu­ dent body so wholeheartedly ignores the wealth of magazines, especi­ ally the literary or educational variety, adorning the rack down in the clubroom. To stimulate interest I have culled some especially choice bits from said sources.

First we might see how the contemporary poets are doing. The first selection is taken from Schenkofsky Peak, a pamphlet of poems, enjoying a circulation of some 3 or 4 dozen, by Henry Schenkofsky.

Every time we part You take with you my heart In your care it be Till you again I see.

According to the pamphlet Mr. Schenkofsky is an up and com­ ing young “poet from the Pacific Coast, Cousin Henry on your radio, the author of Collected Rad:o Poems, cloth binding $2.00 post-paid, over 100 poems, over 50 illustrations. (52 to be exact.) Every student in any English class should have this book.” As you can see the elo­ quent, altruistic emotionalism and artistic mediocrity of this fellow are awesome, or as Miss George Sand said — but no. If you will arrange to contact me in the next two years, I will be glad to send your order in. Perhaps we might persuade the faculty to use this in place of the Chaucer course.

I also found the following by Miss (I assume) Marca Registrada.

Rubies were haughty, rubies were shy, Never were naught) , till Revlon came by.

Certainly no magazine has suffered from neglect as has the Science News Letter. Remember Science marches on, and we must march along or be trod underfoot. Space does not permit me to quote an arti­ cle in toto, but perhaps a couple titles will be sufficient to pique your dormant nervous systems into activity. I want you to observe the im­ mediacy and universality' of appeal in these titles.

FATTEST PERSONS LOST MOST FAT ON REDUCING (I have permitted myself the luxury of quoting the first sentence.)

The more fat on a person’s body the more fat he will lose on a low calorie diet, also: MODERN LEPROSY DRUGS PREFER AFFECTED SKIN The New Yorker was rather skimpy but I did pick up something.

Question: What is a Bloody Hiklegard?

Answer: Akvavit and tomato juice.

For the bargain hunter: Fresh Russian Beluga Caviar (large grain) can now be had for only $8.00 for 4 oz. Hurry!

I was reading my notes from class the other semester and I dis­ covered the following pedagogical paux fas.

Was it cross puq>oses or a lack of disunity?-------and the sons of rich men who didn’t amount to anything were de­ pressed, so they were fluid.-------Did Gilbert write the words or the lyrics.-------Its not what it follows but what precedes it.-------100

I had planned to add a comment by Mr. Roger Sprain but I felt that his recent meteoric (everyone has been using that word lately) rise to fame deserves more than one isolated quotation. So with great fanfare, pomp ,and exhuberance we humbly present.

SPRAINORAMA or THE CASUAL SPRAIN or ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY SPRAIN or SPRAIN UNMASKED or THE POCKET BOOK OF TWISTED LIGAMENTS or SPRAINIANA or SPAIiN, SPRAIN AND A DAY OF RAIN or THREE BAGS OF PLANTERS OR BUST or SPRAIN FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE CLASSICS Or JUST PLAIN SPRAIN When I asked Roger how he would like to be featured in this edition, he looked up from his well-thumbed, biglot Iliad, grinned as only Sprain can grin and said, “Oh, then “te” follows the word it’s in front of.” Nothing daunted, I asked him how he did it. He replied in his usual mild, unassuming manner, “You know the light bulb I bought in Quinta? Well, it finally burnt out. Hah Hah Hah!” 1 know this is immaterial, but I’m sure the faculty at least is interested.

It would have been a shame if after 8 years of rough, tough, bash­ ing, bruising and buffeting football without a scratch, it would have been a shame if a harmless stick of wood should have brought him to grief but that is precisely what almost happened. One night in a se­ cluded little store not far from here, Roger bent over his glass of soda etc. for some reason yet unknown and narrowly missed putting out an eye. Fortunately someone was there to pull out the offending mixer before it could complete its dastardly business.

But while were on the subject, hats off to Capt. Rog and Ronnie the All Conference selections and to the rest of the team and now on to basketball.

It has come to our attention And we note with apprehension That this column is becoming too high-brow.

So to ease the situation We have whipped us up a batter Made of worthless guff and patter Asinine------but does that matter?

Well, let’s get this business over with right now.

And so we usher in a new feature of the C & C, the Kiddies Kolumn, which has been in great demand lately. It will be a bit short this time but I hope to at least set the pattern so that those who are interested may contribute worthwhile stuff.

Let’s commence with the demise (Oh, this brings tears to my eyes.)

Of the funny little cotton-tail called Peter.

He got hung up on some brambles On one of his midnight rambles And was caught and et bv Peter Pumpkin Eater. • 101

I heard something about Coach, a warm up jacket, and a pack of Luckies. Must be some mistake.

If you want to read “The Seven Year Itch”, go to Godfrey’s room.

He’s got it.

In conclusion: The animal men call the Goeduck Is an awfully, terribly scrwe-duck.

Without feet. (Who could stand Under 2 feet of sand?)

He’s a clam not a duck. He’s a Geoduck.

The Geoduck, Gweduc, Geoduck pronounced JEE- oh- duck, GWEE- duck or gooey-duck is a bivalve mollusk—inhabits W. coast of America—buries 2-3 feet into muddy sand— gets his name from Indian words “‘to dig deep” — is a gourmet’s HAPPY HUNTING delight and a reader’s despair.

ALUMNI NOTES ACCEPTED CALLS Roman Bieamann, the former pastor at Norwalk, Wis. has accepted the call to Abrams, Wis. His date of installation has not yet been set.

F. G. Kosanke has taken the call to Goodhue, Minn. No date has yet been set for the installation. He was the former pastor at Altura, Minn.

Robert Waldschmidt was installed Sunday, Nov. 4, 1956 as pastor of the Palos Height?! Lutheran Church in Palos, Illinois, by Chairman R. Wiechmann.

Richard Werner has acepted the call extended to him by the St. John’s Congregation, 8 miles north of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. For seven Black and Red front cov­ ers and only ten dollars you can receive postpaid a complete list of alumni. Send to Alumni Editor care of this paper.

O. W. Heier, ’32, was installed as pastor of Zion in Crete, Illinois on September 9, 1956. He formerly served St. Paul’s of Millersvile, Wisconsin.

ANNIVERSARIES A. W. Voigt, ’28, observed his 25th anniversary of ordination and 25th wedding anniversary. He was hon­ ored by St. Paul’s Congregation of Green Bay, Wis. and brethren of Fox River Valley Conference. The ordaining pastor, Gerhard Pieper, Fond du Lac, Wis., delivered the anniversary sermon on Sept. 16, 1956.

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DEDICATIONS Grace Lutheran Church of Milwau­ kee, Wis. ,re-dedicated its beauti­ fully decorated church to the Lord on Sunday, Oct. 28th. Elton Huebner is the pastor.

DEATHS Carl Kionka died on Oct. 19, 1956 at Saginaw, Michigan. He was form­ erly pastor at Rib Lake, Wis. He was 52 years old. Burial took place on Oct. 23rd at Saginaw.

BIRTHS Unfortunately we have no births to report at this time. We will try again next month. It has been brought to my attention that this column contained a falsehood. Al­ though we try to avoid them, er­ rors do slip in. Under “Births” last issue it should read: A daugh­ ter, Cathryn Anne, was born on August 28, 1956 to the Rev. apd Mrs. Gerhardt F. Cares, Elgin, North Dakota. Mrs. Cares is the former Marianne Uetzmann.

Seriously, we are sorry that this happened & most happy to make this correction. Address any other complaints to Complaint Editor, Swan Creek, Alaska.

MISCELLANEOUS Pastor John Brenner and Prof. John Meyer have both rounded out 60 years of service.

Werner Franzmann was installed as Literary Editor of Northwestern Publishing House. He was former­ ly a Professor at Michigan Luth­ eran Seminary, Saginaw, Mich. At present, his son, David, is attend­ ing Northwestern College.

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ATTENTION !

This classified list of business men and merchants has been alphabetized for your convenience. These men are our advertisers.

Without them the Black and Red could not exist. They are deserving of your patronage.

APPLIANCE STORES GAMBLE'S, 415 Main Street JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water St. BAKERIES PAGEL'S BAKERY, 114 West Main Street QUALITY BAKE SHOP, 104 Main Street BANKS BANK Of WATERTOWN. First & Main Sts. BARBERS SAEGER'S BARBER SHOP, 9 Main Street BEVERAGES COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Madison, Wis. NEHI BEVERAGES, Madison, Wis. SEVEN-UP BOTTLING CO., 410 First St.

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BOWLING ALLEYS CHASE'S BOWL, 125 N. Water Street WATERTOWN BOWL, Inc., 102 W. Cady St. CLEANERS LEE EDWARDS CLEANER, 111 N. Fourth PARAMOUNT CLEANERS, 621 Main Street VOGUE CLEANERS, 412 Main Street COFFEE O. R. PIEPER CO., Milwaukee, Wis. CONCRETE TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO., Watertown DAIRIES DAIRY LANE, Union Street MULLEN'S, 212 W. Main Street DECORATOR SUPPLIES ALBRECHT'S BADGER PAINT, 208 Third St. DRUG STORES BUSSE'S, 204 Main Street DOERR DRUGS. W. Main Street GEHRKE PHARMACY, 315 Main Street TETZLAFF PHARMACY, 116 Main Street EYE GLASSES DR. H. E. MAGNAN, 410 Main Street FLORISTS BIRKHOLZ FLORAL SHOP. 616 Main Street LOEFFLER FLORAL SHOP, 202 W. Main St FUNERAL HOMES H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street PEDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 211 Fifth Street SCHMUTZLER FUNERAL HOME, 721 N. 4th FURNITURE H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street KLODE FURNITURE CO., Milwaukee, Wis. SCHMUTZLER FURNITURE, 401 Main Street GARAGES JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water Street A. KRAMP CO., 617 Ma n Street VOSS MOTORS, Inc., 301 W. Main Street SHAEFER MOTORS, Inc., 305 Third Street DODGE STREET GARAGE, 311 Third Street GIFTS & CARDS THE GIFT FAIR, Main & First Streets GROCERIES BENTZIN'S, 905 Main Street IFFLAND'S, 207 S. Second Street KRAUSE'S, HOI Western Avenue DUDDECK'S GROCERY, 813 Wisconsin St. HARDWARE & SPORTING GOODS ACE HARDWARE STORE, 304 Main Street REX DRAHEIM, Inc., 307 Main Street KOERNER & PINGEL, 205-209 N. Second D. & F. KUSEL CO., 108 W. Main Street

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KRAUSE’S GROCERY CIGARETTES, CANDY and ICE CREAM We Aim to Please — Free Delivery 1101 Western Ave. Phone 125 Groceries awl Cold Meats

TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO. Materials Accurately Proportioned and Thoroughly Mixed To Your Specifications Phone 47 Watertown

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS Paints for Every Purpose Phone 2077 20S Main Street WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

SEAGER’S BARBER SHOP 5 Main Street

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WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

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Wicks Organ Company 640 W. Virginia Street Milwaukee

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Chase s Bowl SIX MODERN LANES and COCKTAIL BAR 125 North Water Street Watertown

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DUDDECK'S FOOD MARKET ICE CREAM

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FLOUR GLOBE MILLING CO. “SINCE 1845” PHONE NO. 1

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TRI-COUNTY TOBACCO CO. Servicing Your Canteen With

Candy — Tobacco — Drugs — Paper Goods, Etc. 200 W. Main Street

Watertown

HOME LAUNDROMAT

Phone 178-W Across from Post Office 1 Washer load, Washed and Dried, Serviced 65c Called for and deld. Small extra fee for folding.

For greatest economy, we suggest students pool their laundry

The "READY" AGENCY Watertown 424 N. Washington Street ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Phone 3029 ALMA READY. AGENT - LUTHERAN MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.. Madison, Wis

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Go ahead. This is one exam on which you should ask for help. You cheat yourself if you don’t. And we. as you. are opposed to any cheating.

Should you have life insurance?

Yes. For the same reason you’re in school.

Because you want to be successful. Life insurance gives you a definite savings goal. It assures cash, ready to go to work in any way your good judgment approves. At death, the money you wanted is there, to be paid to whomever you want— probably your wife.

Why not ivait unlil married?

Waiting incurs the risk of uninsurability. Even if you never marry, you will still need insurance. And the sooner vou take it out. the less your annual payments will be.

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Where should you lake it out?

Well, there are about a thousand ** insurance organizations. All operate on a legal reserve basis. The main thing you have to go by is the service they render. This service is given by your insurance man, backed by his home office.

Your Aid Association for Lutherans is proud of its 53 year record of helpful service to member owners with our common bond of faith.

If you don’t know the A.A.L. man in your area, write to our home office for his name. He’ll be glad to help you with vour questions.

Without obligation, of course.

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119-121 WATER STREET

KRKR'5 101 Main Street

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KOERNER & PINGEL HARDWARE 205-209 North Second Street

Watertown, Wis.

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The Dead of Winter

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Desirability of A More Progressive General Science Course in Schools

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Dragnut

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER, ’08 —

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ALUMNI NOTES —.

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM —.

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ATHLETICS —

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BLACK AND RED STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF . Editor-in-Chief Mark Hillmer .

Assistant Editor Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor John Ribar ......

DEPARTMENT Edgar Herman ...

William Godfrey Robert Schmiel .

EDITORS ............ Alumni Editor ............. Sports Editor Campus & Classroom

BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul Siegler ....... ......... Business Manager .... Advertising Manager Daniel Buske ......

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THE DEAD OF WINTER The man turned and veered slightly toward the northeast, or at least what he thought was the northeast. In making this turn from his previous course he hoped to come upon some trace of the trail left by his comrades in the new fallen snow. “This time” he thought, “sure­ ly this time I’ll find them”. Unconscious reaction to this optimistic thought quickened his footsteps until he was forced to stop, catch his breath, and then continue on at a much reduced pace. Continuing in this direction, he walked on, constantly searching the horizon for a familiar landmark. The snow muffled all normal noise of a forest, and a deep, eerie silence prevailed all about him. The only audible sound was his own breathing and the squeak of his heavy boots on the white carpet of the forest floor.

Five hours had elapsed since he had heard an articulate sound from a throat other than his own. What had begun as a light-hearted outing with a camera into the early morning bleakness of the Northern Idaho primitive area, had suddenly changed into a desperate, unceasing quest, one man alone in a vast, silent, unchanging world of white, alone in a sense of aloneness few ever experience. Solitary old men who have lived all their lives in die forest know what it means for such a one to become lost there. They tell stories of the novices, who after losing their way are found sitting under a tree or against a cliffside, the life breath gone from them. And this for no apparent reason, for food and drink were not totally absent. The solitude had virtually frightened them to death. What is it in a man that robs him of all composure and reason and ships him down to a bare' core of fearful, quivering flesh?

The leaden sky began to change to a morose gray-black. He plodded mechanically on, placing one weary foot ahead of the other, guided by instinct and sparked by a small voice of hope from within.

A casual observer from some vantage point nearby would see only Folly and Futility the companions of this speck of humanity among the cold unfeeling snows.

The cold seeped into ever)' crack and crevice and took possession of the land. A light icy snow swept along, driven horizontally by the rising wind. And still he stumbled on, lashed by the minute particles of ice and cut through by the razor edge of the merciless wind. Through gullies now drifted deep, over hidden windfalls which clutched at bis unwary feet and tumbled him to the ground, he strugggled on with increasing difficulty until finally he heard a faint cry in the wind. Or was it only his imagination, the deceit of a benumbed mind that cried out to him through the cold and blackness? No further stimulus, real or fancied, was needed. The lost man slowed, stopped, sank to the JIM NORDBY ground completely exhausted, waiting in vain.

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DESIRABILITY OF A MORE PROGRESSIVE GENERAL SCIENCE COURSE IN SCHOOLS An ideal science course would begin with a rough explanation of the Bohr theory, the kinetic-molecular theory of the structure and movements of matter. Since 1913 when Niels Bohr first announced the results of his experiments and promulgated his theoiy, his concept of the structure of the universe has been generally accepted. Therefore since this theoiy permeates our entire concept of both the macrocosmos and the microcosmos, it would form a natural beginning for a general study of physics.

The question has been raised, that if the students now have diffi­ culty in understanding simple force problems, how could they possi­ bly work with the electromagnetic equilibrium within the atom. There is but one answer: try it. The question actually revolves around the preference one would have — — to build up to the Bohr theory by studying the physical properties of matter and then its results or to start with a general explanation of the Bohr theory, gradually filling out a concept of it by its consequences. It is doubtful whether a dras­ tic revision of this theory will come within our lifetime, as A. S. Eddigton said in 1927: “Whatever further changes of view are in prospect, a reversion to the old substantial atoms is unthinkable.”

After a working knowledge of the structure of the atom has been established, how easily would the explanations be of the ductility of metals, the theory of solutions, the compressibility of gases! Would it be preferable nevertheless to know that metals are ductile, or the rea­ son why they are so? The answer should be natural if one wishes to be honest with himself.

The Bohr theoiy is a good starting point for general science, but it is also a jumping off spot in the study of quantum mechanics. After this has been clarified, it would be no major work to build up pro­ gressively from this point into higher theoretical sciences-----the fields of relativity, light quantum, and matter-energy conversions.

Since the Bohr theoiy has been accepted for 43 years now, and the kinetic-molecular theory for many more years that that, it would be natural that any new development in the field of atomic structure would come from this basic work. There would be no fear that, if a change in the present theory of the structure of matter were to take place, the Bohr theory would be outmoded.

As science courses are carried on now, mathematics is used to explain a hypothesis, theory, or law, rather than to clarify a thought through the application of its arithmetic equivalent. Problems in mass profusion and confusion are very desirable if they are used to attain the right ends. For example if a law is not clear, rather re-explain the law than work out the formula or a problem adapted to that law.

Then when the concept of that law has been thoroughly clarified,- bring on the problems. Mathematics in the science course would not be ob­ jected to under these conditions.

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The story you are about to read is true, only the ink has been changed to protect the pen. As you drive through a city, you may see many people in many different walks of life. There may be a newsboy, storekeeper, butcher, and many more. I have contact with all of these, since I am a cop. My handle is Saturday and my dear little sidekick is Knarf Htims. The story I am about to tell began in Tucson, Arizona, at 10:00 a. m. Monday morning, November 2, 1956.

“Good morning, Knarf.”

“Morning, Saturday.”

“Have a good weekend?”

“Yes, but I hear there is a 316 for us to work on."

We slowly walked into the commissioners office and received our assignment. It seems there was a young lady beat up pretty badly on South Sixth Avenue on the north side of town. We hurried over to the scene of the crime as quickly as our little Ford would take us and found that she had died immediately. She had been robbed of all her belongings and her glasses, which has one broken lens, were lying be­ side her.

“She must have been hit on the head with a hard object,” I said, looking at the hole in her scalp.

“Probably an iron bar with a hook on the end by the looks of her face,” Knarf answered.

We apparently had nothing to go on, and the only motive we could see was robber)'. I carefully picked up her glasses, hoping to . find some fingerprints on the lens, but there were none.

Suddenly Knarf shouted, “Saturday, come here quick!”

I quickly walked over to the other side of the street where Knarf was standing. He had found a red hair in the doubled-up fist of the young lady. We had found our first clue! As we drove back to headheadquarters, I sat there thinking how hopeless it looked to find her slayer with only one little hair to go on.

After we got back to the office, we determined that the hair had come from a young man between twenty and thirty years of age. Now we had it narrowed down to only S,000,000 people. Knarf and I work­ ed all night without success. None of the old criminals seemed to have red hair. Feeling might)' low, I told Knarf that we might as well get some rest and work on it the next day.

The following morning Knarf and I were up and at ’em again bright and early. This time we decided to pound the pavement and see if we could find any more clues. As we walked by the large “Consum­ ers’ Super Market”, I saw something that just about turned my hair red. I yelled for Knarf to warm up the car radio while I went into the 106

market.

When I returned to the car, Knarf asked me, “What the deuce is wrong with you, Saturday? Have you gone completely crazy?”

I slowly turned around and looking him in the eye, I began to laugh. “No, I am not crazy. I want you to call all the places that sell red hair dye and find out who bought some in the last few weeks. I completely forgot to check that little strand of hair for dye, but I am sure it must have been dyed. I’ll check witih the lab just to make sure though.” Within five minutes one of the little geniuses at the lab had verified what I said. Now we had narrowed it all the way down to 200,000 persons.

By the end of the first month we had only 200 names left to check. Fortunately the names were pretty evenly divided so that I took the north and Knarf the south part of town. It took the two of us two more days to narrow the list down to ten names.

It was a bright Saturday morning as we headed through the rain for the address of the first name. By noon there were only five names left.

“Let’s eat before we go any further,” Knarf said. He acted as if he hadn’t eaten for a week.

“All right, Knarf, but we should try to finish by evening since tomorrow is Christmas, and I promised Margie, my little German Shep­ herd, that I would take her for a walk in the park. She doesn’t get out much, you know.”

Soon we were back on the trail and arrived at our next address.

It was a low ranch-style home with a nice front lawn. Knarf rang the doorbell twice before there was any movement inside. An old woman came to the door wearing dark sunglasses. After questioning her for about an hour, we headed for the next address.

By five in the afternoon we were at the last house, and a little downhearted, to say the least. This was a regular mansion. It had two stories and a double garage, containing two Kittylacks. In front of the house there was a large picture window. A huge green lawn was in front and a large patio wall surrounded the back yard, decorated with a huge Christmas tree.

“Quite a joint,” Knarf said.

“I’ll say,” I said as 1 rang the doorbell, which had a dainty little chime. A young man about twenty-five years old came to the door.

“We’re police officers. We’d like to ask you a few questions,” I said.

He slowly backed away and asked us to come in. “Please sit down,” he said, “ and tell me what’s on your mind. Does it have some­ thing to do with that woman that was beaten to death?”

“Yes, what do you know about it?” I asked.

“Only what I have read in the papers and heard from others.

Sure is a shame. I suppose her husband feels awfully bad about it.

Have you any idea who it might have been?”

“No, we don’t, but we’ll find him; don’t worry.”

“I’m sure you will, and I am awfully sorry I couldn’t help you.

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Lots of luck in catching him.”

‘Thanks, and please don’t try leaving town. We may want to question you some more.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t. And, by the way, Merry Christmas.”

“Thanks,” I said.

As we drove away, Knarf turned to me and said, “Sure seemed like a nice fellow. I doubt if he had anything to do with it.”

I just smiled and drove on.. When we arrived at the station, I told Knarf to go in and try and catch a little sleep, since by this time it was close to 2:C0 a. m., while I went over to the coroner’s office.

It was a couple of hours later when I returned.

“What did you want to see the coroner about, Saturday?”

“I had to make certain about something before we get our man,” I said as we walked to our car and hurried away. It was 9:00 before we arrived at our destination. After telling Knarf to take the back door, I slowly walked to the front door and rang the bell. There was that same pretty chime that we had heard earlier that day. Looking through the window I could see the man busily packing his suitcase.

If today wasn’t Christmas, one might think he was going away for the holidays. As the doorbell sounded, he quickly turned toward the door with a gun in his hand.

“Who’s there?” he yelled.

“The laundryman,” I answered.

Looking a bit more relieved, he opened the door. I quickly stuck my foot into the doorway and, pushing him back, quickly snatched the gun from his shoulder holster, where he had placed it shortly before.

Just then Knarf came in the back way. Seeing that l had everything under control, he bravely strolled over to the man and put the hand­ cuffs on him.

“What’s this all about?” the young man asked.

“I’m taking you in for the murder of that young woman,” I an­ swered.

Seeing that he was trapped, he slowly raised his head from his hands and asked, “How did you know that it was me?”

“It was quite simple,” I said, “how did you know that she was married?”

“She was wearing a ring, so I just took it for granted.”

“That’s just it, she wasn’t wearing a ring when we got there and close examination showed that she hadn’t been wearing one on her left hand either. In your haste you thought the ring on her right hand was a wedding ring.”

“So that’s why you wanted to see the coroner,” Knarf said.

“Yes,” I answered, “I had to make certain before accusing him.”

As we headed for the jail, I looked at Knarf and said, “You know what day this is?”

He looked at me a little puzzled and then began to smile. “O yes, I almost forgot. Merry Christmas, Saturday.”

“Merry Christmas, Knarf. Maybe this hasn’t been much of a Christmas vacation, but we sure did a good job in rounding him up. didn’t I?” DENNIS RASMUSSEN 108

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER, '08 We had been at East Fork but a short time when an Indian lad came to inform us that a sick boy “up Seven-Mile Canyon” wished to see us. Still having no horses of our own at that time we made the five-mile trip on foot. Smoke curling lazily upward from a camp hid­ den in the .brush half way up the hillside disclosed our destination.

Old Chief Chino (L-l) received us graciously and asked us where we had tied our ponies. When I told him that we had walked up, a frown overshadowed his face as he looked at my one hundred and nine pound helpmeet, betraying the thought that I was lying to him. Curt­ ly, in Apache, he ordered a boy to find where our horses were tied. The former soon returned to report that the animals were nowhere to be found. With a smile of admiration and approval the old gentleman then led us into his camo where lvs son Robert lay ill of tuberculosis.

Though we were strangers to the boy he opened his heart to us im­ mediately. In turn he listened eagerly as we told him of God, the true Giver of Life, from whom man had separated himself in sin. And we continued with the story of the eternal Son of God named Jesus, the Saviour, who stepped in for us before His Heavenly Father by giving up his life for us and paying for our sins upon the cross. He also learn­ ed that this same Jesus rose again on the third dav to become our brother here on earth and remain so in the blessed life to come in Heaven where there will be no tuberculosis or any other human afflic­ tion. He accepted gratefully the little bucket of soup we had brought him.

After several more visits Robert asked to be baptized the next time we came. This was direct evidence of the Holy Spirit’s having taken up His abode in the boy’s heart. When we came again the old gentleman received us as courteously as before but begged us to post­ pone baptism until his son had recovered from his illness. As I tried to explain the divine significance of baptism to him, Robert called im­ patiently from his pallet, “Don’t waste time trying to explain things to my father now. I don’t have much time left on earth. I want to be baptized right away. When I am gone home you will have time to explain everything to him.” His request was granted then and there and so Robert Chino received the honor of being the first one to be baptized on the Ft. Apache Reservation. At the funeral Chief Chino repeatedly hushed those who would cry and wail, reminding them that Robert had requested that there be no crying at the camp or at the grave, as he was going to a new home where there would be no 109

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I forgot to mention in the last chapter that with the beginning of the school year I had to conduct Sunday school and services in the forenoon in the Whiteriver Boarding school (five miles distant) for the three hundred and fifty boys and girls attending there. Services at East Fork followed in the afternoon. On Sundays we had time for three meals. During the rest of the week we lived on a two-meal schedule as the noon hour was taken up with giving the children their noon meal and later mingling and playing games with them in order to help them put their English into practice.

On my first Sunday trip to Whiteriver on horse-back I overtook an Indian on the trail whom I had not seen before. To open conver­ sation I asked him if he lived in these parts. “No” he answered indig­ nantly, “I don’t live here. My home is in Cibecue (fifty miles to the West) where we live from our own two hands and don’t sponge on Government”. In later years I learned how succinctly and correctly John Williams had sized up the so-called Indian problem. Under mili­ tary rule the Indians were permitted to live their own lives while the Army saw to law and order. Under Civil rule the “white man’s way of Life”, so-called, which outside of the Gospel, has so little to commend it, was literally thrust upon these primitive people with the same in­ evitable results achieved among other primitivie people, — robbing them of their commendable customs without edifying replacements.

Very early in my “career” as a teacher I learned a most impor­ tant pedagogical principle that has stood me in good stead ever since.

And to think that it came to me not out of the pages of Pestalozzi but from the lips of a little Apache first grader. It came about in this way: On one of those days when an atmosphere of restlessness and indiffer­ ence permeated the school room I let loose in terms that left no one in doubt what I thought of them at the moment, collectively and indi­ vidually. During the following recess Charlie Garland went over to the house, and, without preamble, said to Mrs. Guenther, “When some­ body talk mad to me I feel like to fight in pieces,” then turned on his heel and left the room. The former could have no idea what he was driving at, but I having calmed down in the meantime, knew only too well. As far as Charlie was personally concerned, I had, with my an­ ger, iniected my subjectivity into an objective issue that could have no other result but to arouse his resentment over having been publicly humiliated before his school mates. To me Charlie’s statement was even clearer than my attempted analysis of it. Too bad that to this very day one runs across teachers and professors who have not learned that a fatherly or brotherly heart to heart talk in private will accom­ plish more than a dozen public “dressing-downs” which betray only cowardice at their best.

It may not be amiss to add how a kind and objective treatment of one of my Apache friends a goodly number of years ago is paying dividends to this very day. Being swamped with desk work one morn­ ing I sent John Williams who was now my helper, up the valley by stage to visit a number of families on foot on the way back. Some hours later he returned with fear in his eyes to tell me that he had 110

met Mantanno on the trail, swaying under an overload of fermented corn juice, who had threatened to shoot him and me on sight (perhaps with one shot, to save ammunition). “And he’s going to do it too,” John added breathlessly.

The old Adam demanded that I rush up to Mantanno’s camp for an immediate showdown. But after counting to ten, I sent word to him instead that I wished to see him in my study. A day or two later he came and was welcomed cordially. After inquiring as to his state of health, I told him that, as he was going to shoot me, I preferred his doing it here and now in my study to avoid undue publicity. At first he pretended not to know what I was talking about but presently his memory cleared and he continued meekly, “I want to Yeshpect’ my missionary and his helper. So I do not like to see them walking on trail in brush from camp to camp. I like to see them riding in car or on horse..” Evidently he considered that satisfactoiy explanation for his liquefied threat, for he arose with a sheepish smile, extended his hand and added fervently, “You all same my ‘fodder’”.

And to this day, if Mantanno sees me from afar, he will approach quam celerrime, take off his hat, and call me, “my papa”, (he’s only 65 while I am 72) .Yes, one’s study can be a most fertile Mission field.

Of the scores that have been invited to mine to be shown the error of their ways objectively, on the basis of the clear cut Word of God, few have failed to thank me for my interest in their various problems, spiritual and otherwise.

With no other pastor available within a radius of one hundred miles I was occasionally called upon to perform marriages for couples of other races from various walks of life. Some applicants had to be turned down for various reasons, others could not well be refused.

One morning in early March a man knocked at our door and in­ troduced himself as Mr. Jacques, a rancher, and asked if I could come to his place on the 13th of March to perform a marriage ceremony.

His home was four miles East of Lakeside, making a total of about 35 miles from East Fork Mission. Before the given date we had a heavy snowfall cn unfrozen ground. Mr. Jacques made a very favorable im­ pression on me and 1 took pains to prepare an appropriate sermon ex­ pecting to memorize it on the way up on horseback. But again it was snowing so hard that 1 dared not pull my manuscript forth out of my slicker pocket. With my steed trudging constantly thru mud and snow, the trail leading ever uphill, it was dusk before I arrived at the ranch.

The bride met me at thedoor. She had despaired of my being able to get thru but added that Mr. Jacques had assured her that I appeared to be a man who would keep his word. That compliment wanned my chilled body from head to toe.

I was their snow-bound guest for three days. As I was prepar­ ing to leave Mr. Jacques handed me three ten-dollar bills (half a month’s salary!) and wondered whether that would be enough. 1 would like to have told him that at that rate per day I would not mind being snow-bound for another week. However, that would have been most unfair to my junior partner at home who was holding down the school,

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At another time when the snow was melting cn the mountains filling the rivers I had another caller at nine P. M. Answering the knock on the door I was greeted out of the darkness with “My name is D------- ; I want to get "married; cut it short; the river’s going up.”

The sermonette must have been satisfactorily short, for after the couple left I found a five-dollar bill in my palm.

At still another time a colored soldier from Ft. Apache applied for marriage. After the ceremony the groom sheepishly and hesitating­ ly said; “Doctor Gunther, I’se aimin’ to pay you five dollars, but I’sc got only two so I’ll be owin’ you three.” That was over forty years ago and I am beginning to fear that the balance may not be forthcoming.

In the early days, with the breaking out of an epidemic disease our Apaches would pack up at twilight and head for the valleys in the foothills after dark to prevent the sickness from being able to follow them.

Stepping out one snowy wintry morning, I noticed an absence of campfire smoke over the camps in our neighborhood. From that I judged something to be wrong, for our Indians are early risers. In those days they still divided day and night as the chickens do; they retired with the latter and arose with them, the roosters being their alarm clocks. Only recently an Indian wanted to buv a rooster from my son because his alarm clock has stopped running and he did not want his daughter to miss the school bus.

When we rang the school bell on the aforesaid morning only a few children put in their appearance, and from them we learned that almost every family with children had moved to a hiding place in the foothills to escape whoopingcough and pneumonia. Their fears were well founded for these maladies soon swept across the entire Reser­ vation. My wife and I spent many weary days in the saddle from morning till dark trying to find our people so that we might minister to their children. We were led to many a temporary abode by smoke rising from camp fires; others we came upon merely by chance. Hav­ ing no medicines of any kind I trapped skunks, rendered the fat and mixed it witih turpentine and coal-oil. To give the concoction a pleas­ ant odor my wife added some of her precious perfume. For containers we begged extract and other bottles from the Officers’ wives at Ft. Apache. For chest pads we cut up every spare piece of warm cloth on hand and when that was used up our long winter underwear was dedi­ cated to the cause. Humanly speaking we saved the lives of me \y youngsters; everyone of our school children survived, but several hun­ dred others died thmout the Reservation for lack of proper care. For weeks we were awakened almost every morning by a rifle shot announ­ cing that another family had lost one of its little ones.

One evening as I was heading for home on a round-about way 1 ran onto the camp of the Medicineman, Pete Qaedejule (Little Foot) not over two miles from the Mission. Pete heard me coming thru the brush and stepped out to tell me that his daughter Nina, (one of our 112

favorite pupils) was deathly ill. Instantly there came something over _ that led me to ask the Lord for a miracle that might bring this me proud old faker to his knees. I entered the camp. A burning forhead, galloping pulse and feverish respiration, —all confirmed Petes appre­ hension. It was pneumonia in an advanced stage. Placing my hand on her brow I pleaded with the Lord to spare this child. There was little sleep for me that night and at sunrise I was again in the saddle to learn what the Lord had done. 1 found Nina outside walking about by the campfire and she is still alive today.

It is with some reluctance that I sketch this episode. I trust no one will misjudge my motives for doing so. If but a single reader is strengthened in his faith that our Lord still performs miracles today it will have served its purpose.

A truckload of Christmas trees from the mountains has just passed my window. Christmas is in the air. The one almost at our thres­ hold will be the forty-fifth in Apacheland for mother and me. How­ ever, of them all, none stands out moreclearly in our memories than our first one at East Fork. Preparations were begun early, for there was so much to be done. True, we had received enough money from friends back home to order candy, nuts, popcorn and bags from Montgomery Ward; other friends and societies had promised to send boys’ clothing.

Girls’ clothing had to be made locally as our styles differed from those back East. My ex-Milwaukee stenographer had never sewed a stitch before coming West, but sh< had plenty of self-confidence and daring.

There were no patterns but that did not discourage my amateur seamstress and after much midnight oil had been burned, dresses, petti­ coats and bloomers came oil the assembly line from materials her mother had sent her. ' Naturally we wanted to have a Christmas program at our Christ­ mas Eve service. Each child was given a part which was drilled line for line along with the Christmas songs. Soon all knew their parts.

Willard Cheney, our adult-primary, received none because we did not think he would care to memorize even a short one. One evening as we were looking for the family cow, we heard someone sobbing bitterly behind the church. It was Willard crying his heart out because we had not given him a piece to memorize. We assured him he would still receive his part.

In due season we received notice from the freight office in Hol­ brook that all the things ordered and promised had arrived there. The cards were sent to our freighter and he promised to bring everything as soon as the road over the mountain was passable! More snow fol­ lowed, first and second class mail came thru on horse back occasionally, but no parcel post. January crept past, followed slowly by February, and finally on a day early in March four weary creatures dragging a mud spattered freight wagon came to a stop in our front yard. “Phil Kay is here with our freight. Christmas has come at last”. Everyone helped to get things in order. Even our freighter, Mr. Kay, stayed over two days to pop several tubs of corn to help fill the bags.

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1 On our March Christmas-Eve our children dressed in their new clothes celebrated their first Christ-centered Christmas. The last num­ ber was by Willard Cheney! (My wife had composed the poem for him). Clearly and fearlessly he recited; I’m a very big boy for a piece so small, But in one year of school you can’t learn it all, But I know that God loves me and will lead me aright, And that Jesus my Saviour was born Christmas night.

A cow puncher of the old school, who had drifted in from no­ where could not help praising our little pupils, on noting their friend­ liness and progress in their studies.

And now dear readers, “Mother” and 1 wish you all a Blessed Christmas and a Joyful New Year. (to be continued)

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tor; Good Shepherd Church, West ACCEPTED CALLS Allis, M. Schwentzon, pastor; and Pastor F. C. Knueppel has accepted St. John’ Church, Good Hope Rd„ the call extended to him by St. Milwaukee, pastor, Martin Braun.

John’s Lutheran Church of East All of these are in Wisconsin and Mequon, Wisconsin. He will be are now in the process of build­ installed by Prof. G. Hoenecke ing. on Sunday, Dec. 2nd, the first Sun­ day in the new church year.

Joel Nitz, ex. ’46, was recently pro­ moted to the rank of Ranger in Pastor Victor Weyland is called to the United States Forest Service.

Northwestern Lutheran Academy He is in charge of the office in at Mobridge.

Andalusia, Ala., which admininDEDICATIONS ters the affairs of the Conecut National Forest.

St. Paul’s of Livingston, Montana, dedicated a new chapel and par­ R. Ulhorn, ’58, has had reprints of sonage October 21st, 1956. N. Barhis picture made and will send enz is the pastor there. free copies to all women who write in.

BIRTHS Doralise Hanson was born Septem­ The School of Public Administration News carried the following story ber 11th, 1956, to Rev. James Han­ about Arnold Bolle. “Newcomer son, ’51, and Marianne, nee Pfeif­ to the staff this year is Arnold M. fer, ex. ’54. They are residing at Bolle, associate professor of fores­ Amherst Junction, Wisconsin. try, at Montana State University.

John Daniel Wendland was born to Bolle will handle the area of the the Rev. and Mrs. E. Wendland. economics of conservation, a course He was born on October 14, 1956. that emphasizes land utilization Mrs. Wendland is a former Jungfrom the standpoint of principles kuntz. Rev. Wendland is the pas­ governing its use. tor at Benton Harbor, Michigan. . . . The new staff member has MISCELLANEOUS a liberal arts degree from North­ Three new church buildings are be­ western College, Wisconsin and a ing erected at this time: Mt. Leb­ bachelor of science in forestry anon, with J. Mahnke as its pasfrom Montana State University.”

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CAIIII’US * CLASSROOM O There was a girl as dumb as could be Who worked in a motor boat factory.

(She was supposed to shim motors but she wasn’t any good at it, or anything else as far as that goes.)

One day he cried in deep despair, “Why live? I can’t get anywhere.”

She was ready to end it all with a knife When a ten-horse Mercury came to life.

“You dizzy broad, how else could it be?

Just how far do you think any girl can get if she can’t even shim me?”

Hello, are you still there? Good. Let’s talk about Sprain. He makes good copy. The other day Roger made his nomination for the boo-boo of the year. Sprain was standing by the milk machine in the clubroom noisily stirring up the smoke in the heat of an argument. He put in his dime, pulled the lever, reached in and was amazed to find the compartment unoccupied except for his hairy paw. But Roger 'is determined not to let that happen again. He’s switched to cokes.

Texas is one amazing land.

One of its laws, 1 understand, Stated that no girl under eleven or so Could legally learn how to cook or sew.

One assemblyman had a precocious young niece Who had gotten sick of tending geese.

One day she approached him livid with rage, “At next assembly, dear uncle Gage, Have them do away with our sew-age.”

Those of you who are interested in history should find the fol­ lowing most rewarding.

One year ago today the East St. Louis High School chess team stunned the world by mauling Cicero in their annual grudge battle 7% to 5%.

5 years ago today there were ten shopping days left till Christ­ mas.

10 years ago today was unusally quiet.

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is well to follow the Rules of Courtly Love for a change.

George, my maiden uncle, Had a red carbuncle.

He went to see Doctor Roland S. Dingle Who’d only recently hung out his shingle.

Now the carbuncle I am speaking of weighed about thirty pound.

Uncle always had to carry' it or it dragged on the ground.

Dingle took a look, grabbed his scalpel, and observed to his male nurse, Russ, “How novel, just think, my first magnum opus.” (magnum — two quart bottle. Merriam Webster.)

Whv don’t we have more personals, human interest? Forthwith.

E. H. claims to have seen B. S. alone with T. C. P. over at P. P.’s last Thursday, but Q. T. doesn’t care because she’s finally gotten H. A.’s bronze baby shoes.

Why were you looking so happy yesterday, J. ].? Hah, Hah. Gipro fid egar boak? I’ll bet B. 6.

Does anyone know why R. D. 19 was wearing his shoe laces inside out? Wow!!

Notice to whoever slugged Rollie outside Ace’s. We found your Elvis Presly membership pin. Have you had it, kid!

Marilyn, David is trustworthy.

The other day, I accompanied an anonymous collegiate into a room on the south end of East Hall, first floor. The inhabitant bade my friend the time of day. He looked anxiously about the room and murmured, “Hi.” The other countered, “Think it’ll snow?” My frieind replied, “Maybe,” then seemed to have remembered something and threw open the closet, looked under the bed, straightened up, grab­ bed Kempf bv the throat, and had just about shut him off before they could be separated. I casually arranged for a straight-jacket and en­ quired if something was up. Well, this summer Kempf got a tape re­ corder from his folks, and he and his Junior cronies have been whiling away the long fall evenings and alienating what friends they have by a diverting little pastime called candid mike. A pall of silence has des­ cended over East Hall and no unconditional negative or affirmative has been uttered since early October. It appears that nothing short of a shortage of tape can keep Dennis from paying his way through school with hush money.

It was December twenty-four; The year was forty-five.

S. Glaus jumped in the sleighs side door, “You reindeer, look alive!”

The sleigh was loaded up with toys And all of Santa’s crew “Gee-hup,” said Santa, “cut the noise.”

And off the whole works flew.

The sleigh did not have any lights As you may well suppose.

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They merely used the northern lights And Rudolphs ten-watt nose.

The boys were doing mighty fine, They were two hours ahead.

But then the lights refused to shine And Rudolph’s cell went dead.

But wait, the worst is coming yet: One runner hit a rut.

The reindeer got all shook- Comet Got antlered in the butt.

“EEOYV,” quoth he and took a jump Imagine how that felt.

St. Nick flew under on his rump And hung there by his belt.

The reindeer really let her go The toys began to fly.

They mushed from Maine to Mexico In the twinkling of an eye.

When Santa got back to his seat They were on Hudson Bay. “I guess we goofed this year, I’m beat; Cool Yule anvway.”

Our sentiments exactly.

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As nearly every one probably knows by now, Prof. Umnus has re­ tired as collegiate basketball coach to devote more time to his numerous other jobs. After due deliberation the faculty dipped into its own ranks and came up with a replacement in the person of Prof. Dan Malchow, a Black and Red star of ten years ago.

Coach Malchow has built up his team around five returning lettermen, Niki Kiessling, Ron Stelter, Gordie Snyder, Dave Fritze, and Bob Michel. However, they are being hard pressed by the reserves which in­ clude Aaron Uitti, a holdover from last year, Dave Umnus and Dave Sievert. up from the Preps, and newcomers A1 Worden, Jim Hinz, Dave Schultz and Charles Thompson. As usual the Goslings will have only average height but should be able to overcome this deficit with team speed and balance.

The Goslings put on a rather ragged performance in the annual opening game with the.Sem, as they managed to sink only 30 out of 100 shots from the field.

The game was a loosely played affair with heavy fouling on both sides. The Sem jumped off to an early 6-0 lead and managed to hold The Splendid Splinter, Niki Kiessling, and Gordie Snyder topped the Northwestern to a 17-17 deadlock during the first quarter. (The teams played four quarters instead of two halves, contrary to college rules, be­ cause it was' feared that the Seminarians, being older and further re­ moved from training vigors, might not be able to keep up with their younger and more vigorous opponents.) The second quarter was also a see-saw affair and the Goslings were lucky to escape with a 39-37 half time lead.

The game was close up until the third quarter, which ended with N.W.C. in front by 57-51 score. In the fourth period, however, the weary Sem battlers slowed to a grinding halt, while North western s fuzzy cheeked youngsters kept going at their usual fast pace, and led the Goslings to a decisive victory.

The Splendid Splinter, Niki Kiessling and Gordie Snyder tooped the Gosling scorers with 16 points apiece, but Dan Habeck and Ed Stelter of the Sem topped both teams with 24 and 20 points, respectively. Most of Stelter’s points came on long set shots, but it was big Dan who captured the crowd’s heart with his ability to make baskets from anywhere and everywhere on the court. By this he proved conclusively that his point making ability is not slop ,as some people have vulgarly termed it, but the skill of a brilliant and dedicated student of the game.

The following boys received letters for football: R. Ehlert, Stelter. Nielson, Radloff. Sievert, Lober, Mumm, Uitti. Fritzo.

R. Westendorf, Lindemann, Janosek, Schewe, Krenke, Worden. Albrecht.

Gunderson. Umnus. A. Hinz. Michel, and, of course, a manager’s letter to Fearless Dan Jungkuntz. who served his school so well for three long years, tieing shoestrings, carrying baggage, comforting Coach and washing the Dlayers’ sweat socks. I must commend him personally because he didnot lose any equipment during those three trying years. Ah, well, to quote the blind bard of Idiot fame. “Some men can hold a job and some Capt. Roger Sprain and Eddie Lindquist were awarded trophies. Sprain was awarded his because he had received a letter the three previous years and Fd earned his bv being on the football and baseball teams for the last four ve?rs.

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Without them the Black and Red could not exist. They are deserving of your patronage.

APPLIANCE STORES GAMBLE'S, 415 Main Street JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water St. BAKERIES PAGEL'S BAKERY, 114 West Main Street QUALITY BAKE SHOP, 104 Main Street BANKS BANK OF WATERTOWN, First & Main Sts. BARBERS SAEGER'S BARBER SHOP, 9 Main Street BEVERAGES COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Madison. Wis. NEHI BEVERAGES, Madison, Wis. SEVEN-UP BOTTLING CO., 410 First St. BOWLING ALLEYS CHASE'S BOWL, 125 N. Water Street WATERTOWN BOWL, Inc., 102 W Cady St. CLEANERS LEE EDWARDS CLEANER, 111 N. Fourth PARAMOUNT CLEANERS, 621 Main Street VOGUE CLEANERS, 412 Main Street COFFEE O. R. PIEPER CO., Milwaukee, Wis. CONCRETE TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO., Watertown DAIRIES DAIRY LANE, Union Street MULLEN'S, 212 W Main Street DECORATOR SUPPLIES ALBRECHT'S BADGER PAINT. 208 Third St. DRUG STORES BUSSE'S. 204 Main Street DOERR DRUGS, W. Main Street GEHRKE PHARMACY, 315 Main Street TETZLAFF PHARMACY, 116 Main Street EYE GLASSES DR. H. E. MAGNAN, 410 Main Street FLORISTS BIRKHOLZ FLORAL SHOP, 616 Main Street LOEFFLER FLORAL SHOP, 202 W. Main St. FUNERAL HOMES H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street PEDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 211 Fifth Street SCHMUTZLER FUNERAL HOME, 721 N. 4th FURNITURE H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street KLODE FURNITURE CO.. Milwaukee, Wis. SCHMUTZLER FURNITURE, 401 Main Street GARAGES JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water Street A. KRAMP CO., 617 Main Street VOSS MOTORS, Inc., 301 W. Main Street SHAEFER MOTORS, Inc., 305 Third Street DODGE STREET GARAGE, 311 Third Street ■ GIFTS & CARDS THE GIFT FAIR, Main & First Streets GROCERIES BENTZIN'S, 905 Main Street IFFLAND'S, 207 S. Second Street KRAUSE'S, 1101 Western Avenue DUDDECK'S GROCERY, 813 Wisconsin St. HARDWARE & SPORTING GOODS ACE HARDWARE STORE. 304 Main Slreef REX DRAHEIM, Inc., 307 Main Street KOERNER & PINGEL, 205-209 N. Second D. & F. KUSEL CO., 108 W. Main Street

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TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO. Materials Accurately Proportioned and Thoroughly Mixed To Your Specifications Watertown Phone 47

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS Paints for Every Purpose Phone 2077 20S Main Street WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

SEAGER’S BARBER SHOP Phone 53-J

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Phone 178-W Serviced 65c for folding. pool their laundry

The "READY" AGENCY Watertown 424 N. Washington Street ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Phone 3029 ALMA READY. AGENT - LUTHERAN MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO . Madison. Wis

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Should you have life insurance?

Yes. For the same reason you’re in school Because you want to be successful. Life insurance gives you a definite savings goal. It assures cash, ready to go to work in any way your good Judgment approves. At death, the money you wanted is there, to be paid to whomever you want— probably your wife.

Why not wait until nuirried?

Waiting incurs the risk of uninsurability. Even if you never marry, you will still need insurance. And the sooner you take it out, the less your annual payments will be.

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Your Aid Association for Lutherans is proud of its 53 year record of helpful service to member owners with our common bond of faith.

If you don’t know the A.A.L. man in your area, write to our home office for his name. He’ll be glad to help you with your questions.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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LITERARY SECTION — Justin Martyr’s Last Hours

119

The Hymns of Ambrose

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The Oldest Christian Hymn

121

Ireneaus

122

A Walk — A Talk.

124

NEWS AND VIEWS—

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOMALUMNI — Autobiography of E. Edgar Guenther, ’08 .

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Alumni Notes

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AND RED STAFF

EDITORIAL staff . Editor-in-Chief Mark Hillmer .

Assistant Editor Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor John Ribar ......

DEPARTMENT Edgar Herman ...

William Godfrey Robert Schmiel ,

EDITORS ............ Alumni Editor .............. Sports Editor Campus & Classroom

BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul Siegler ....... ....... . Business Manager .... Advertising Manager Daniel Buske .....

Asst. Business Manager Jerald Plitzuweit Vol. LX

JANUARY 1957

No. 6

ri« ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT WATERTOWN, WIS., AS SECOND CLASS MATTER UNDER ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879. PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00

This is attempt number two at our Forum policy of uniting the Black and Red articles under a single subject. The subject dealt with in this issue is somewhat broader than that of the Luther issue (No­ vember 1956). The topic: Early Christianity. The cover picture: The Cross of Christ in which early Christians gloried. John Ribar was in charge of assigning and supervising the articles. Bob Sievert did the photography.

JUSTIN MARTYR'S LAST HOURS They’ll soon come, Antonius. That will mean only one thing, and you as a Roman guard and I as a Christian prisoner both know what that one thing will be — death. Yet, rather than being sad, I must say I feel no great regret as those heathen do over in the next cell.

Sure, Antonius, death will be an ending, but it will also be more than that. It will be also a beginning, a beginning procured for me by the Savior a hundred years ago.

You’ve asked me what there is about Christianity that makes it so inviting. You say you don’t understand why we Christians put up with all the hardships we undergo. Well, take me as an example, not that I’m in any way a special Christian, for there is no such thing, but my experiences will serve as well as anyone else’s. To begin with, I was bom in Samaria — that’s a province in Palestine north of Jerusalem.

My parents were not Christians and gave me the best in the way of an Eastern education. Aristotle was my first love, but soon I loved Plato even more. Later I moved to Ephesus and there continued in Platonic lore. I really considered myself wise, and without realizing my own stupidity, I expected soon to look upon God, the ideal Good, for that is the end of Plato’s philosophy.

Then one day a respectable looking old gentleman came upon me as I was walking by the seashore. Soon we fell into a discussion of Truth and the best way of obtaining it. He pointed me to the pro­ phets of ancient Israel and the prophets of a certain Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Immediately there was kindled in my soul a love of the pro­ phets and those men who were friends of Christ, and while I was re­ volving his words in my mind I not only found this philosophy to be the oldest, but also the only safe and profitable one. *—Justin was one of the Apologists, a group of early Christians who de­ fended their faith by appealing to intelligence. He made his heroic wit­ ness in Rome, about 165.

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Now my only wish is that everybody, including you, would draw near to the words of the Savior. Then you, too, would find that sweet rest. For if you have any concern for yourself, and if you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may become ac­ quainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated, live a hap­ py life. You too would then undergo hardship for the sake of that sweet rest you would find in the Savior as a result of the forgiveness of your sins.

I noticed you looked skeptical when I said Christianity is the oldest of philosophies. All you need for proof is a study of the pro­ phets of Israel. Again and again they point to Christ as the promised Messiah that should deliver His people. There is much more to this subject than I’d have time to point out to you before they come to take me from this prison, but in this regard I would like to refer you to a book I've writtten. Maybe you’ve heard of it. I have named it An Apology because in it I defend our faith against the attacks of the AntiChristians. In the middle section of that book I prove the firm basis of our philosophy from those prophetical writings.

You asked how it happened that I was condemned to be behead­ ed. A few days ago I was taken prisoner and brought before the judg­ ment seat of Rusticus the Prefect. I was commanded to obey the gods at once and to submit to the emperor. To this I replied that there was nothing blameworthy in obeying the commandments of Christ. Rusticus continued questioning me, especially concerning our dogma. To this I gladly replied, for in so doing I was giving voice to the faith within me.

He then wanted to know where we met in assembly. Here I gave him an evasive answer so that my Christian friends may meet in some sem­ blance of security. Finally he made that demand. Under the threat of being beheaded, 1 was to sacrifice to the gods. Now 1 ask you, Antonius, how can a right-thinking person turn from piety to impiety and thus deny what is dearest in his life? I couldn’t and that is why you find me here.

Did you also hear those footsteps? They’re coming now and it soon will be all over. They may take my life, but they will never be able to take my soul and the faith to which it clings. Many Christians before me have given an excellent testimony when they were wrongly killed. I pray God that I might do the same, so that I too may be re­ membered as one who bore witness, so that I too may be remembered as a martyr.

WAYNE BORGWARDT

THE HYMNS OF AMBROSE Aurelius Ambrose was the third child of the prefect of the Gauls; as a result he was born at Treves in France about 340 A. D. When his father died, the rest of the family moved to Rome, and Ambrose began his extensive education for the law and administrative duties. Finally he became Consular of Liguria and Aemilia in 374, with the result that he now lived in Milan.

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he died and a successor was to be elected, Ambrose had to be present to keep order. Because of his eloquence he himself was elected bishop, even though he was only a catechumen. Immediately he was baptized, resigned his office, and was consecrated bishop one week later.

After he became bishop, he sold all his possessions and began to carry out his duties fervently and with devotion. He soon recognized the value of music in worship and secured active congregational par­ ticipation in the church service by the introduction of responsive sing­ ing.

Ambrose was no repsector of persons. Empress Justina, a friend of the Arians, tried to induce him into opening the church at Milan for their use, but he remained firm and with dignity stated that the state had no right to interfere in matters of doctrine. Later he denounced the massacre of the Thessalonicans by Emperor Theodosius, even though he was a close friend of the emperor.

In 384 Augustine came to Milan as a teacher of oratory. There he was attracted by Ambroses eloquence, converted, and baptized on Easter Sunday 387 by Ambrose himself. When his friend Theodosius died in 395, it was a severe blow. He lived two more restless years and finally met death on Easter evening 397.

As Athanasius was the defender of the doctrine of the Trinity in the East, so Ambrose was its champion in the West. Arius, an elder of the church at Alexandria, maintained that the Son was not of God, but a creature of God. This heresy spread very rapidly over the north­ ern barbarian world, since it was easy for polytheistic peoples to accept Arian’s compromise regarding the Trinity.

This battle over the Trinity naturally was reflected in Ambrose’s hymns. They were a theological weapon, educational in content; their puqiose was strengthening of the faithful and converting of the Arian heretics. For his meter ho chose the marching rhythm of soldiers, a 1-2, 1-2 step in a four foot line, an old Latin classic meter. Because of Ambrose’s use of the iambic tetrameter in his hymns, later compo­ sitions of this type were given the title “Ambrosian Hymns”. This does not mean hymns written by him, but those written in his meter.

At least twelve hymns can be ascribed to him with certainty, and this number can probably safely be raised to eighteen. His best hymn is most likely “Veni, Redemptor Gentium” (95 in the hymnal). Two more of his compositions are included in the hymnal, “O Lux Beata Trinitas” (564) and “Splendor Paternae Gloriae” (550). In all three of these the educational purpose, the confidence, and the aspiration of D. 13.

Ambrose’s fighting spirit can be recognized.

THE OLDEST CHRISTIAN HYMN The Christians began to use hymns other than the Psalms and scriptural chants very early, and thus they spoke the praises of the Lord with their own words. The oldest hymn in existence, aside from those derived from the Bible, is the hymn now known as “Shepherd of Tender Youth” (628 in the hymnal).

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The author of this hymn was Clement of Alexandria, and conse­ quently this has always been known as “Clement’s Hymn”. Clement, whose full name was Titus Flavius Clemens, was bom about 170 A. D.„ possibly at Athens. He was a diligent student of Greek literature and of the philosophy of the Greeks, Assyrians, Egyptians, and Jews. In the time he was converted to Christianity, when he was at the theologi­ cal school conducted by Pantaenus in Alexandria. Some years later when Pantaenus died, he became the head of this institution. Among his stu­ dents were Origen, who became one of the greatest scholars in the early Church, and Alexander, later Bishop of Jerusalem, and still la­ ter, Bishop of Cappadocia. In 202 A. D. Clement was driven from Alex­ andria by the persecutions of Severus. Of his later life we know prac­ tically nothing, but it is believed that he died about 220 A. D. Clement was a Gnostic, that is, he embraced the heresy of Gnosti­ cism, a combination of Platonism, Stoicism, and Christianity. As such he became head of that school which taught that Greek philosophy was compatible with Christianity and can serve it. He believed that the “Logos” (John 1:1) was the teacher of mankind everywhere. God had given philosophy to the Greeks until Christ should come with something better. This was the focus of his faith, the “Logos”, the revealer of Truth, the source of all true philosophy.

Clements best work was “The Tutor”. This was a book which was to instruct new converts from heathenism how to regulate their conduct. At the end of this work there is a poem of thanksgiving and praise to the “Logos”, the modern translation being the hymn “Shep­ herd of Tender Youth”. This hymn was translated by the Rev. H. M. Dexter, but the sentiments of the original are either missing or heavily disguised. Clement, as stated above, was not writing for the “tender youth” but for the heathen convert whose task it was to curb his las­ civious and immoral way of life. The first line of the original brings this out. Literally translated it says, “Bridle of colts untamed!” This control was the function of the “Logos” according to Clement. The Church was to break these colts and then use their harnessed energy for the advance of the Kingdom of the Lord. In fact, this is stressed to such an extent in the original that Clement has twenty-one different names for the “Logos”, each expressing the protecting and directing function necessary in the training of Christians. d. b.

IRENEAUS In the first three centuries of the Christian Church the formal theology of the church, the interpretation of Holy Scripture, and the status and authority of the Christian Church Scripture, and the status and authority^ of the Christian Church in the world were formed and molded by five men — Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus, Cyprian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen. Irenaeus’ life and work for the church are well worth at least brief consideration.

Irenaeus’ boyhood was spent in Smyrna, where he associated with some of the pupils of Polycarp, especially Florinus. Later in life Iren­ aeus wrote a letter to this same Florinus, “On the Unity of God and 122

the Origin of Evil,” attempting to win back the presbyter Florinus who had fallen into heretical error. It is evident from his writings that Irenaeus was well-acquainted with Greek poetry and philosophy, for he fre­ quently quotes Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Plato. But, more important, he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Old and New Testaments and all the Christian literature available, especially the writings of Justin Martyr and Hegesippus. In manhood Irenaeus served as a pres­ byter at Lyons, perhaps as one of the Greek missionaries who converted Southern Gaul. The noble Marcus Aurelius, his mind poisoned and warped against the Christians by his calumnious tutor Fronto, at this time instigated a bloody persecution of the Church. Irenaeus escaped this inordinately inconsiderate and ruthless persecution, apparently because he had been sent to Rome to intercede with the Bishop of Rome, Eleutherus, on behalf of the Montanists.. The Montanists had misshaped Christian orthodoxy with a sort of gloomy fanaticism and their influence had become too strong over Eleutherus. Irenaeus ap­ parently ]jointed out successfully to Eleutherus the faults and errors in the Montanist movement. While at Rome Irenaeus enjoyed success too, as a lecturer against various forms of heresy. Upon returning to Lyons he was elected successor to Pothinus a Bishop of Lyons. At Lyons he lived out his long and peaceful life in literary activity, pas­ toral work, and missionarv preaching.

It was the duty of Irenaeus to maintain a strong Christian doc­ trine in the face of attacks of the Gnostics, which certainly was a task only for the ablest of men. In these years of concentrated theological work he credited himself with several interesting “firsts” in the history of the Christian Church: He is the earliest Church writer who quotes from almost every book of the New Testament. With the exception that he was a millenarian, his opinions were orthodox and backed by sound scriptural rea­ soning, shrewd moderation, and essential, calm, good sense. He also established wise and sober views on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.

Irenaeus also was the first Christian scholar who troubled him­ self about the different readings of the manuscripts of Gods Word.

His writings, therefore, are meticulously considerate of the possibility of human error. This carefulness helps to temper all his writings, even those which may contain some degree of theological error or an over­ influence of different philosophies. All that is true in his teaching rests convincingly and firmly on the sure foundation of the direct words of Christ and the recorded testimony of the Apostles — based on the rock of truth, not on crumbling foundations of oral tradition.

In the writings of Irenaeus we find the earliest traces of our present creeds. We can thank his untiring efforts after clarity and con­ tinual moderation for the presenting of such important basic doctrines.

A brief survey of the three great controversies in which Irenaeus was involved will serve to fill out this introduction to Irenaeus: The Montanists, led by Montanus, spread resistance of the ten­ dency to crush the freedom of individual religion and also maintained that the power of the Holy Ghost still continued to confer spiritual 123

gifts upon true believers. Irenaeus wisely saw that if he were to play a role in the controversy more aggressive than mediator that the Montanists would grow defiant and even be goaded into permanent schism.

As mentioned above in his biography, Irenaeus successfully tempered the problems raised by the Montanists.

The Quartodeciman controversy involved only a matter of Church order and discipline. Regardless of the day of the week on which it fell, Nisan 14 was celebrated by this.group as the feast of Christ’s res­ urrection. As a result, while most churches were still observing a time of sorrow (the Roman church and others always observed the Crucifixon on a Friday) the Asiatic churches were celebrating joyously. This variation in rituals soon became more complicated and the controversy more heated. After some heated interchange of letters Victor, Bishop of Rome, branded the Quartodecimans as heretics and threatened them with excommunication. Irenaeus interposed, saying, in effect, that varietv “does but illustrate the oneness of the faith.” Irenaeus’ interven­ ing prevented any disastrous results and the Roman practice quietly was established later.

The struggle against Gnosticism was far more deadly and im­ portant than the other conflcts. Gnosticism held a great attraction for newly-converted heathen who were familiar with philosophy but shaky in the essential truths of Christianity. Irenaeus successfully opposed Gnosticism with a book on the two most greatly disputed doctrines: the absolute unity of God as Creator and the Father of Jesus Christ; the rejection of Docetism and the assertion that there is nothing in mat­ ter which is unholy or unredeemable.

Irenaeus is one of the most important figures in the early Church and deserving of more intensive study.

JOHN FRANZMANN

A WALK - A TALK Socrates walked down to the Piraeus with Glaucon. Justin Mar­ tyr took an early morning stroll. Look what happened! Sometimes it’s difficult not to consider too literary whatever seems too natural. Cas­ ual settings for not so casual conversations on not at all casual subjects!

Certainly, though, it happens. How could it miss? If ‘maybe’ seems to work, blandly make it an ‘is.’ What’s the difference — as long as it works. So much lip-service to the unbiased ‘may be!’ But most reasoning, it seems, is in terms of the elevated ‘maybe’, the neophyte ‘is.’ Okay, for practical purposes. But how about subjects that aren’t really ‘practical’ That’s the mb that usually produces the ‘not so causal’ on ‘not at all causal’ in causal settings. Here’s an example from our level. I was walking past the U. Library on my way to the dorm.

One of my roommates stopped me. I suppose he was beaming on the inside but he didn’t show it.

“Just read The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors. Kersey Graves.

Christianity is officially ‘pinned and wriggling on the wall.’ Here, his thesis is right here in the front: ‘And as nearly the whole outline and constituent parts of the Christian system are found scattered through these older systems’ (his whole book is full of examples) ‘the query is 124

at once sprung as to whether Christianity did not derive its materials from these sources — that is, from heathenism instead of from high heaven — as it claims.’ It’s no ‘query;’ he’s got this book to prove it’s a fact. Really quite a collection.”

“I wonder if the ‘founders’ of Christianity had a collection like Graves’ so that they could just pick and choose what they pleased — little bit from China, little from Africa, maybe even the American In­ dians, you know.”

“Open-minded, aren’t you.”

“When I’m in doubt, which might be excusable — or might not be. But once a possibility is chosen and is reconciled and adapted, it’s a completeness that has no need or use for open-mindedness. Its im­ plications and applications are a different story — in a nutshell, I’m not open-minded about this. Neither are you.”

“Could be. But how about the idea; it’s all but axiomatic, you know.”

“It’s no devastating discovery. A long time ago Justin Martyr admitted heathen parallels to the virgin-birth, the crucifixion, resurrec­ tion, and so forth. But he drew different conclusions. He also says that Christians are fuller and more divine in their teaching. You won’t deny the ‘fuller’ content.”

“No, I credit early Christians with some imagination. They im­ proved what they got from older systems.”

“Couldn’t other possibilities be held as well?”

“Depends on how strong they are.”

“I know you like to hack the Old Testament into little chunks and view it as an example of moral evolution. But I don’t think that will matter— you can’t be certain, especially about the latter. Those things in the ‘Book of Moses' happened long before they were recorded.

That leaves tradition free to circulate long before the written record.

So maybe the derivation is just the other way around — front what was (and even what wasn’t) later recorded in the O.T. No one has ever really proved that the Old and New Testaments aren’t a whole. Be­ sides that, the Spirit of God (that includes tradition) was in contact with the ‘heathen’ between the Fall and the Incarnation and man docs have a natural knowledge of God.” “Forgetting all the rest — did you ever read a book that didn’t consider Judaism and Christianity separate?”

“Judaism was around for a long time. You have to consider what period is being defined — post-Maccabean, around Abraham’s time, or what? Eusebius says that the name Christian is of late origin, but Christian life, conduct, and doctrines come down from the creation of man. Irenaeus says that the Logos was present with the race of men at all times — in what form/forms?”

“—as long as you don’t claim to have proved anything! This nat­ ural knowledge of God?! If man feels there is a god—some god—it’s because that feeling is almost predetermined by his state of existence.

He recognizes an inner voice, a conscience, so either that is god or indicates a god. From the outside, man in a sometimes adverse nature feels that there must be something that can control nature, either 125 -

nature itself or even something beyond nature. Presto! —a god. The experiencing of a seemingly limitless universe acts as an effective ca­ thartic for little man, too. Presto! —a religious experience, actually nothing more than feeling better after a good cry. Now this power has to be made concrete — either an idol or an incarnation. To authen­ ticate this power, now a god, all he needs are miracles, scriptures, per­ fect life, and the like. Add to this a sense of moral responsibility which springs from life in society and you have a natural knowledge of god and his precepts - it’s not a big step to combine the inner and outer gods.”

“If —if that’s the way God chose to write the law in men’s hearts, that’s His business. Do you realize that it’s about time for the library to close? Let me say just one more thing. If Christianity derived from older systems, didn’t some of those derive from still older and back and back to the oldest? (Only one. If there were more, then similar systems, can develop without reference to one another.) What’s so horrible about making that one oldest what Christianity claims it is” “Right now I don’t know. I’ve got to get this book back before the library closes. We can talk about it tonight, all right?”

“Sure — tonight.”

Renovation The old bowling alley is no more. The Athletic Department has been doing some redecorating in the gym basement. The two-lane bowling alley which has been heretofore the haunt of the senior classes has been removed and the partition has been taken out to provide more space for other activities such as dart-ball and wrestling.

Third Tutor The need for administrative manpower at NWC has been somewhat relieved by the placement of a new tutor. Darwin Raddatz is the man of the hour. Darwin graduated from Northwestern two years ago and has interrupted his second year of Seminary to answer the call at our school. Darwin has several classes in the prep department, but his main function is that of assisting in the adminitration of the prep dormitory.

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Professor Westerlmus Returns After a short illness following a sudden gall-stone operation. Prof.

Westerhaus has returned to his classes.

Forum off to “Flaming” Start Some time ago Ronald Uhlhom took a long objective look at today’s teenagers. What he saw he embodied in Forum’s first program.

He entitled it Flaming Youth and presented it on December 4th. As emcee Uhlhorn handled his controversial ideas in a manner that neither the ‘I like Elvis” partisans or the “Oh, for the good old days” adherents were greatly offended.

The four speeches were given by Don Thuss, William Godfrey, Edgar Herman and Dave Lillegard; and covered subjects from juvenile delinquency to recreation. A skit entitled “These Modern Kids” pro­ vided an enjoyable take-off on modern slang. A second skit showed how a student’s letter written today compares with one written thirty years ago. The college quartet sang a medley of tunes intended to please the young at heart.

A Forum Presentation December 11, 1956 Tonight the Forum commemorated the Christmas season by pre­ senting the most famous secular Christmas story of all, Charles Dickens’ immortal “A Christmas Carol.”

The lead role, that of Scrooge, was played by Mark Ilillmer. The success of the story depended upon the acting of this part and Hillmer rose to the occasion.. Wayne Borgwardt, who played the part of Jacob Marley’s Ghost; along with Dan Westendorf, Dan Jungkuntz and John Franzmann, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future respec­ tively, also added to the general effect of the story. Just a few of the lead roles have been mentioned, but without the excellent supporting work of the rest of the cast, the play would certainly have been much the poorer.

This Forum program, the second of the year, was under the very able direction of Joel Kuznik. Kuznik, with the assistance of Professors Kiessling and Scharf, gave the production the impetus and fine hand­ ling which it required.

Education The Black and Red received a circular from the office of Senator J. W. Fulbright (Ark.) the other day. In it he explained to the Presi­ dent why he considered the two bills that he had introduced were “vital to the development of our educational institutions.”

“The first bill would allow an additional income tax exemption for a taxpayer or a spouse, or a dependent child under twenty-three years of age, who is a full-time student at an educational institution above the secondary level. The exemption may be claimed by the tax­ payer himself, or on account of a spouse or a dependent child under Ihe age of 23, who is in attendance on a full-time basis at an educational institution above the secondary level.

“The second bill would allow a taxpayer, who is a student in an institution of higher learning to deduct expenses for books, tuition, fees, and other supplies necessary to the courses of instruction in which he 127

is enrolled. This bill is primarily designed to assist those students who work their own way through college, and it would apply to both full­ time and part-time students, whether self-supporting or supported by outside sources.”

Another item of interest from the letter (and one which would throw cold water on many a bull-session): “The average cost of a col­ lege education is estimated at $1,500 per year, or roughly $6,000 for a 4-year college education.”

The Black and Red is also on the mailing list of the Institute of International Education. We regularly receive notices and news re­ leases from the Institute reporting on the American Student Exchange program. The American government through the Institute of Inter­ national Education annually grants hundreds of Fulbright scholarships to American students who wish to study overseas. Beside handling American grants, the Institute also distributes grants made by foreign countries. The latest news release received for example, announces that “opportunities for American graduate students to study in Switzer­ land during 1957-58 have been made available by Swiss universities and societies and by the American-Swiss Foundation for Scientific Ex­ change.”

These Swiss grants were established in 1927 in appreciation of those given by American colleges and universities for Swiss students.

The qualifications for these particular awards are: U. S. citizen­ ship; bachelor’s degree at time of departure, good academic record and capacity for independent study; good knowledge of French or German; good moral character, personality, and adaptability and good health.

CAinriis« CLASSIMHIIII

Greetings! The following is apparently a poem adapted from, THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB by Byron. You may find the original on page 219 of the senior English book. I urge you all to study it thoroughly before continuing.

THE DISCOMFITING OF GEORGE IIALAS The Bruins came East like the Bruins of old, And their faces were gleaming with sunlight and cold; And the sun shot bright tracers from cleats as they ran, Like the glimmering whitecaps on Lake Michigan.

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the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, uniformed host in the morning was seen: the leaves of the forest in Autumn’s fierce heat, host in the evening lay wilted and beat.

For the sure-footed Giants ran, blocked, kicked, and passed, And dealt those dazed behemoths blast after blast, And the team from Chicago knew nothing but ill; And they quit rather early— they had had their fill.

And there lay J. G. in a heap on the grass, He’d tried, all for nothing, to pilfer a pass; And the breath from his mouth had congealed on his nose, As white as the snow where he groveled and froze.

And there lay Ed Brown almost senseless with fear, He had jumped up to pass and come down on his ear: And the dressing room silent, the glasses still wrapped, The ciggies unlighted, the champagne-untapped!

And the Scribes of the Tribune are loud in their wail, And the fans are dispatching their gripes in the mail, And the Monsters of Midway, the choice of the West, Have chalked up a zero in their final test!

Haven’t you ever wondered how you appear to an older person?

Perhaps this will give you some idea.

Excerpts from COLLEGE LIFE: A SOCIAL TRAGEDY delivered at the sesquicentennial Convention of the Janitors of America Guild, for­ mally known as the JAGs, by Joseph Carr, D. S. Belle Plaines Gram­ mar School.

—so without fear of contradiction one might say that college stu­ dents are more mature emotionally, more stable financially, better handball players, less neurotic, more collegiate, 2% more frantic, and, taken on a curve, show a mean increase in age over last year of 11-14 months. As my esteemed colleague Madam Julie London, associate professor of Psycho-somatology and Practical Hypchondria at Bryn Mawr, so cleverly observed, this is due largely to a progressive decrease in the time-expanded quotient, (c. f. pp. 107-110 Jaroslav Preslie attri­ buted this to the removal of the obviously curricular primaries such as Language, History, and Mathematics.) Whether this has as yet pro­ duced any observable results is still. . . .

Psychologically there is no change between the student of today and the student of yesterday on a national scale. However, on a reg­ ional scale, it has been observed that there is a progressive development of inferiority complex on the West Coast. (c. f. Section VII1I Intercol­ legiate Sports: Rose Bowl). . . .

As usual, the annual pre-axam Sheepshead craze has struck in the Middle-West, especially the small, Liberal Arts colleges. Professor Hoyle has noted in his inimitable fashion, “If students spent as much time reading as playing cards, more students would be wearing glasses than Ivy-league shirts.”

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Part IV — Recreation The advent of extended range sound reproduction systems (Hi Fi) has produced widespread results. Decibel delirium has displaced dipsomania as the leading cause for the failure of students. Many dor­ mitories Have been made uninhabitable by occurrences of the “classiccat” phenomenon. This phenomenon is comparable to nothing except possibly the old time hog-calling contest. The only condition necessary for an occurence of this type is that a classical music fanatic and a pop­ ular music fanatic be living within a block of one another. The final result is all-out war with record players blaring, contestants barricaded in their rooms, and a cacophonous no-man’s— land in the dormitory hall. Peace can be restored only by separating the opponents.

A somewhat subtler but equally nerve-wracking variety of this is the fearful “Big Surprise” game. All one needs is a quiet dormitory and a powerful phonograph, which the fiend turns to full volume and then stands in the hall to watch the poor unfortunates burst wild-eyed from their dens and splatter against the opposite wall.

The Platypus The platypus Started out a sort of goose; Apparently not pleased with that, By natural selection, Or cellular defection, Well, perhaps even natural rejection (At least THEY think there’s some connection, In this direction.)

He ended up almost a rat.

Poor beast, of all trades you’re physiologically a Jack, Can’t nibble cheese, and cannot quack. .

Part V (of the report) Study Habits Study Habits is habitually one of the most difficult subjects of college life to study, because so few students have acquired the habit of studying. It is, to put it one way, studiously avoided. (Ed. note This unfortunate attempt at a witticism could not be deleted without breaking up the train of thought and causing endless confusion.) We have found, that 30% of the students study less than 35 minutes per week, 47% up to 2% hours per week, 17% up to 10 hours, and 9% over 75 hours per week. This enabled us to make some very interesting observations. More of group B like to play Scrabble than those of group D like to trap mink. If you take the number of students in group C and divide by the number of students in group A you will almost get pi.

Should “transcendental esthetic” Leave you apathetic Or “transcendental analytic” Make of you a bitter critic Or ‘transcendental dialetie” Leave you wild, red- eyed, and hectic To you this kind advice I offer You’ll never be a philosopher.

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Finally vve have a thumbnail sketch of a famous man, to be sung to the tune of “TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR”.

JOHN DONNE Born in 1573 Made his name in poetry But in 1631 Requiescat, John was Donne.

Were through too.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER, '08 The Christmas rush and subsequent illness threw this writer so far off schedule that he must beg his gracious and tolerant readers to bear with him as he leaves the beaten trail temporarily and scurries hastily about in arroyas and foothills for a few items bearing on the history and habits of mv Apache brethren of yesterday and the day be­ fore yesterday.

Mormonism says. About 600 years B. C. a colony of Israelites were led from Palestine across the waters and became the ancestors of the present day race of American Indians.” If this were true then it would be reasonable to assume that they had a common tongue and so one could expect to find some trace of it in the various languages the American Indians spoke at the time of Columbus and later. But this is not the case. Apache Medicinemen who handed down their tra­ ditions thru the ages knew nothing about Nephites, Lamanites, or the Land of Cumorah. But they did know that since the immemorial they had called themselves N’dae, The People, and that they had come down from the North (and not from the South) “a long time ago”.

In the Barrens of uppermost Canada there lives a tiny tribe of Indians, (not Eskimos) of Athabascan stock, which also calls itself N’dae, The People. They say “once we were a large and proud nation but our forefathers became restless and split up into groups and trav­ eled far towards the South.” One of these groups arrived in our present Apacheland sometime after fifteen hundred and forty and it still calls itself N’dae, the People.

Traveling northward from the Barrens, via the language route, would lead us across Bering Strait, down thru China, past the Himalaya Mountains and even on into the palace of the ruler of Turkey. The Apache word for father is Ta, and the former ruler of Turkey called himself At-fa-Turk, “father” of the Turks!

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of South America where Lehi and Ishmael are supposed to have land­ ed 600 B. C.!

One often hears that the Apache has no positive religion (save praying to the sun) but a negative one of superstition and of fear, —fear of death, lightning, owls, etc. Suppose that were true, so what?

Our country is littered with intellectual people who worship “positively” at the decaying altar of that senile old couple, Mother Nature and Father Time (recently having added the little urchin In­ finity, to make it a Trinity) and at the same time kneeling fearfully before the number Thirteen, Crystal balls, Black cats, etc, etc. What’s the difference? There is a difference. The old Apaches of yesterday who used to get up early in the morning to greet the morning sun could have told our intellectuals “I do not pray to that great ball of fire, but to the great invisible “Giver-of-Life” who created the sun with all its life giving warmth and light. To me the sun is just a manifestation of the great power and love of the Giver-of-Life who sustains it. The Apache term for Giver-of-Life has been adopted by us as it corresponds closely to Jehovah,—“He who is, ever has been and ever shall be”.

Who is the wiser, our old Apache or the white anti-Biblical intellectual?

In common with most primitive people our Apaches have the story of the flood. There are several versions with various incidents telescoped together but all containing a central figure. They agree that there was a great flood that destroyed mankind for its evil doings. Ac­ cording to the most common version a virgin, a chipmunk and a turkey were spared. The virgin Istzan-ad/lae’ and the chipmunk crawled into a large hollow log, sealing the ends with pinion pitch; the turkey, proud bird that he is, rode out the flood sitting on the log. The ends of his tail feathers dipping into the foaming surf. For this reason the tips of his tail feathers have remained white to this day. When the flood had subsided the turkey hopped lightly off the log, then ran about flapping his wings and scattering, for a new crop, the grains of coni that he had wisely carried under them. Corn until recently was the Apache’s staff of life. The chipmunk came out of the log and scattered the nuts he had stored in his cheek pouches. The virgin realizing that she had been spared for a purpose exposed her body to the first rays of the morning sun and in due season gave birth to a boy. In his day this son freed his people from many evil beings and so earned the name “Na-yaed-nes-yan/nae,” Monster killer.

Many of our Christian Indians like to identify Istzan-ad/lae* with the Virgin Mary and Na-yaed-nes-yan/nae with the Lord Jesus.

And who would gainsay them? How could their ancient forebears have telescoped a Monster-killer into the story of the flood if they knew nothing of Him of whom God had promised that he should crush the real monster’s head and that he should be of the woman’s seed! More­ over, since the ancestors of our Apaches can be traced into the very heart of Asia, is it not reasonable to assume that they may have learned from one of those who went out after the great day of Pentecost the more recent story of the Virgin’s Son, who was the true serpent slayer, as had been foretold in the Garden of Eden?

Apropos, Jack Keyes once told me that long, long ago when a 132

man grew very ill the Medicineman would boil a large quantity of venison in a large kettle. Then all of the sick man’s friends were asked to pass by in single file and the Medicineman would hand each one a piece of meat and say, “Take it and eat it. The sickness is gone: I don’t know where.” Each morsel of meat was supposed to contain a part of the patient’s illness. In this way he would be freed of it while his friends could each absorb a little with no harm.. It would seem as if this ceremony might be a faint image of the sin offering in Leviticus 16, and then again is might have been an echo of Holy Communion.

The old time medicinemen appeared to have been honorable men as a rule, convinced of their powers and sincere in their beliefs. The average garden-variety of today are charlatans to the n’th degree.

There was for instance one P-5 back in 1915, who foretold that on a certain date, at a certain place, the long-deceased mother of an old Scout would come back to earth dressed all in white and mounted on a white horse, to carry back the worthy ones to the new world. The worthy ones were those who had purchased from P-5 a tiny bag of cattail pollen for a cash price. This was as to be, so to speak, the ticket admitting them to the new world. I tried to buy one too but unfortunate­ ly he was just sold out! As another condition all the eligible ones would have to be dressed in white clothing from head to foot. In a short time the Trader’s establishment was stripped of everything white from muslin to undershirts, drawers and unionsuits. At frequent meetings P-5 would hold forth on the glories of the new kingdom. Y-23 refused to be interested. He told the “faithful” “You can go on your way and I will become a rich man from all the ponies and cattle you will have to leave behind.”

Jack Keyes took another view: he drew two circles in the dust, “These are two corrals” he said, “The one to the right is the Kingdom of Jesus. The one to the left is the devil’s Kinkdom. It is all the same as vour new world, the devil is the boss. Your missionary has been calling you people and inviting you to enter the Kingdom of Jesus; many of you have come over. That makes the devil jealous. He can’t break thru Jesus’ corral, therefore, he is now trying to coax you into his new world. And now do you want to know what I think of that new world?”

With that he jumped into the circle with both feet, obliterated it and walked away.

On the appointed day all the faithful had gathered in a secluded valley near Turkey Creek, all dressed in white, nothing was said and the hours slipped silently by while they waited. The old lady had evi­ dently been unavoidably detained, P-5 sneaked away and his followers returned sheepishly to their homes. Let the reader not judge these poor people too harshly. Wiser folks than our Apaches are daily being deceived by the same Satan who “transforms himself into an angel of light”. 2 Corinthians 11-14.

In our histories the Apaches were listed as the most warlike In­ dians in America. But I think their exploits stand out in bolder relief because they were the last to be subdued by the white man. (The same white man who has the record of never haring kept one of the treaties he made with the Indians.)

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The Apache best known is undoubtedly Geronimo, and it is rather amusing to read that he kept a total of ten thousand American soldiers hurrying and scurring hither and thither to catch him while he never had more than 250 men with him at one time. And Geronimo was not even a General or Chief but a Medicineman. It is also well to remem­ ber that while it was “open season” between the Apaches and the Mexi­ cans, the former lived in peace with the early hunters and trappers living in their domain. And it was the perfidy of a shave-tail Lieu­ tenant (Bascom) in 1835, and the treachery of a white trader (John­ son), living near the Mexican border in 1865, that were the direct causes of a game of military hide-and-seek that did not come to an end until Geronimo was shipped to Florida in 1886.

Since Apache men spent most of their time hunting or raiding for a living, the women did most of the work in their cornfields and homes and consequently the wife ruled the roost. She deemed it a privilege to perform the duties that were hers. Even once in my day when an Apache set out with team and wagon to get wood for his wife, she ridi­ culed him by asking if he was trying to be a white man. The mens line of duties made it imperative that they remain physically fit to sur­ vive. Sweat baths followed by a plunge into the cold mountain stream, even when covered with ice, were taken at regular intervals. Four songs were sung during confinement in the tiny air tight camp so that when they were dressed they could return home spiritually and physically clean, so they thought. There were also stringent health rules for young men and boys. Chief Alchesay, as a very young man, and a white soldier were once sent with dispatches from Fort Grant to Fort Apache, a distance of about 150 miles. Alchesay set out on foot over the Gra­ ham Mountains while the white soldier took a Different route on horse­ back. Alchesay beat his partner to their destination.

John Williams once dog-trotted from Globe to Cibecue a distance of 50 miles over hill and dale in one day! “I never sat down to rest be­ cause then your legs get stiff and you can’t make it” he told me.

John Bourke said, “My father would make me fill my mouth with water and run up the hill behind the Agency, (a distance of about a mile) and when I got to the top I would have the water still in my mouth to prove that 1 breathed thru my nose.” “In the winter to make me tough I would have to put a snow ball under each armpit and keep it there till it melted and there were many other things he taught me to make me strorng”. John was blacksmith at Ft. Apache and Whiteriver for many years. Incidentally, ever)' warrior used to carry a hollow reed fastened to his belt with a buckskin thong. When he came to a stream or water hole he would drink thru the tube to avoid contamination from surface water.

What a football team a squad of those old times would have made! My good friend Lambert Stone, who attended Carlisle Institute over half a century ago, claimed that he had played “hind-quarter” there under old Pop Warner.

Our old time Apaches also had standards of ethics and morals that well might be copied today. Said Oscar Davis, “My father made me rise early in the morning and walk barefooted when the dew was 134

on the ground to draw health and strength into my body from Mother Earth.” ‘As you walk’ he said ‘look into the first rays of the morning sun and you will see the face of the girl you are someday to marry.

Hold that picture of her before your mind constantly and keep your mind and body clean and pure so that when you see her later face to face you will be worthy of her’.”

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Now Juniors and Seniors, please do not scoff at this quaint old Apache custom. I dare say that if you would give it a trial you might stand a better chance of finding a suitable helpmeet than you would gum-shoeing about nights and looking at a poker-faced moon, especially since, as Dr. Ernst used to contend, night air may be physically pure but morally bad!

In the earlier days young Apache maids wore a beaded ornament shaped like a closed figure eight "on the back of their hair as an em­ blem of virginity. These have long gone out of fashion. Those which we have in our collection are perhaps the only ones left in existence now. This reminds me of another old Apache custom: a faithless wife would get the tip of her nose cut off for’punishment. Before consider­ ing this barbaric treatment let us be reminded of Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter”.

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panied by a younger sister or brother. A boy wishing to speak to a girl was allowed to do so only across the camp fire in the presence of the later’s mother. Marriages were always arranged by the parents and the size of the remuneration involved depended on the wealth of the groom's father. I have known this to vary from a fine pony and saddle with some cash involved to a lowly sack of beans.

When we first came to Apacheland practically all of the Indians lived in camps, or “tepees” as the Easteners say. But let no one think this indicated a lower civilization. For their mode of living they were comfortable and practical. We ourselves still have a handfed pipeless furnace in our house where you bake in one room and raise goosepimples in the others and ninety percent of the heat goes out the chim­ ney to the tune of $25 a ton.

In an Apache camp in winter you will find two small oak or cedar logs forming a V in the center of the earthen floor and smolder­ ing at the point of contact. From here the heat would radiate later­ ally immediately with only a small portion of it finding its way out with the smoke at the top of the camp. If you would ask for a cup of coffee your hostess need only to place a few splinters of wood on the coals and the pot would be perking.

In spring some of the bear-grass shingling would be removed and a shady fresh air summer home would remain.

When we plan to go on a trip we spend a week getting things arranged, then load the car with the “bare necessities” till it looks like that of an “Oakie” heading for California to pick walnuts, and then spend a farewell hour telling our neighbors how to look after the things we have left behind.

When our Apache friends wish to go on a vacation to dig Mes­ cal in spring or gather acoms in fall, two or three burros are wrangled and packed with the necessities which includes practically everything movable in camp. The cloth flap is pulled over the camp opening and held in place by a chunk of wood, which also indicates to any passerby that the place is locked. Then the burros are mounted and our friends are on their way, leaving no cares behind because they have none to leave.

Many of the Indians had two camps, both facing the morning sun. One was built near the river where it was cooler in summer and water was handier; the other was erected on higher terrain nearer ce­ dars for fuel and to catch the warmth of the early morning sun. There was no mortgage against either home.

In summer city folks leave their mansions in Phoenix and Tucson and swarm to our cool mountain streams by the hundreds, men and women dressed alike, setting up flimsy tents, squatting awkwardly by awkwardly built camp fires, inhaling smoke and burning fingers as they fish their kettles out of the fire, but eating gustily nevertheless, and effervescing on the lovely time they are having!

Just which of the two ‘tribes” is advancing and which is retro­ grading, or vice versa? e. e. g. (to be continued)

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ALUMNI NOTES accepted calls Pastor N. Mielke, formerly of Kekoskee, Wis., has accepted the call to Dundee, Wisconsin.

James Hanson has taken the call to Hyde, Michigan. His former charge was at Amherst Junction, Wis. D. E. Hallemeyer, ’36, is now the pastor at Green Lake, Wis. He was formerly at Appleton, Wis. James Berger, a Seminary student, has been the Vicar at Emmanuel in Flint, Michigan, since October.

Alvin Degner, ’26, has accepted the call to Newtonberg, Wis. His for­ mer charge was at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Wayne Schmidt, ’52, who was at Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, is the new principal of the Lutheran High school at La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Hildebert Bauer was installed at Austin, Minn, on Jan. 13, 1957. He had held the pastorate at Minocqua, Wisconsin.

E.. Becker, ’38, has charge of Bruce and Cameron, Wis. His pastorate had been at Elmwood. Wis. R. Biesemann, ’33, who was at Nor­ walk, Wis., is now at Abrams, Wis. M. Kujath, ’43, who had been the pastor at Janesville, Wis., is now at Zion Ev. Lutheran in South Milwaukee, Wis. Kenneth Seim has taken the posi­ tion of Director of Manitowoc Lutheran High School, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He had been at Two Creeks and Gibson, Wisconsin.

Richard Yecke, ’52, who was at Hyde Michigan, was installed at Trinity, in Winslow, Arizona, on Jan. 20.

DEDICATIONS Zion Lutheran in South Milwaukee and Zion Lutheran Church in Col­ umbus, dedicated new schools on Jan. 6, 1957.

ANNIVERSARIES Christ Lutheran Church of Beatrice, Nebraska celebrated its 10th anni­ versary. Carl Voss is its pastor. deaths Harold Haefner, ’32, of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, died of a heart attack on Dec. 17, 1956. In his college days he was a fullback on the var­ sity.

Gilbert Seager, Jr., son of the vicepresident of the Arizona-California district was killed in a hunt­ ing accident at Flagstaff, Arizona on Jan. 6, 1957.

MARRIAGES Frederic G. Kosanke, ’47, was mar­ ried on Monday, the third of De­ cember, in Resurrection Lutheran Church at Rochester, Minnesota.

His bride is the former Miss Rhoda Lillian Borgschatz. The editor wishes to thank the Kosankes for the information concerning their wedding. We wish them a blessed married life.

MISCELLANEOUS R. W. Mueller Jr., ’51, of Crivitz, Wis. was commissioned as a mis­ sionary to Northern Rhodesia by R. W. Mueller Sr„ ’28, and A. Wacker, ’18, on Jan. 6, 1957, at Crivitz, Wisconsin.

Dr. Herbert O. Fleischer, ’34, has taken over as chief of the division of timber processing at the U. S. Forests Products Laboratory. The following appeared in a Madison paper: “Succeeding Dr. Truax will be Dr. Herbert Fleischer who has been in charge of the Laboratory’s ve­ neer and plywood research since 1944.

“A native of Watertown, Dr. Fleis­ cher is a graduate of Northwestern College at Watertown.”

Earnest A.. Heilman, ’05, has been at the University of Ankara, Tur­ key, since October 1956. He is as­ sisting in developing its courses in accounting, under the auspices of the International Cooperation Administration of the U. S. State Dept. He will probably stay one year. On his return he intends to reside at St. Paul, Minn. He had retired as Professor of Account­ ing at the University of Minn, in July, 1955. During 1955-56 he had been a visiting professor at San Diego State College, San Diego, California. He reports that the troubles in the Near East have caused gas rationing but no other disturbance. Ankara has grown from 60,000 in 1940 to over 300,000 and has become a modern city.

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Northwestern opened its conference schedule against St. Procopius and emerged with its first defeat in a loosely played game at Watertown.

Both teams were cold in the first half, but Procopius managed to pull away to a 29-27 lead, thanks to their superior rebounding.

The Goslings managed to stay close behind the Saints during the second half until Bonkamp and Damm, a pair of St. Procopius substi­ tutes came in and started pouring in points for the visitors. With these two showing the way, the Saints slowly pulled away and coasted to an easy victory.

There were a few bright spots in an otherwise dreary evening for NWC, chief of which was the brilliant play of reserve forward A1 Worden, who topped the Gosling scorers with 16 points, all of them in the last half. Bonkamp scored 18 points in the last half for the Saints to emerge as the leading" scorer.

WHITEWATER 87

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Northwestern traveled to Whitewater to absorb its second defeat in three games. Whitewater had too much height, depth and ability for the out-manned Goslings and the Teachers went into an early lead, built it up and maintained control for an easy victory. The score at the half was 40-27 in favor of Whitewater, midway thru the second half they were in front by 64-44 and finally ended up 29 points in front.

Fredrickson of Whitewater was the top scorer with 26 points and Niki Kiessling led NWC with 15.

MILTON 95

NWC 73

The Goslings went down to Milton and for the third straight time came out on the short end of the score. The Goslings kept the score close all during the first half and wound up this period trailing by only 4 points, 39-35. Until the final three minutes the game was still close, as North­ western was behind by only 9 points, 75-66. However, during these final minutes Milton outscored NWC 20-7 to turn the game into a rout. Ron Stelter was high for Northwestern with 26 points, and Schultz had 24 for the home team.

LAKELAND 75

NWC 88

Playing at home in their first game after the Christmas recess, the Goslings pulled out all the stops after three straight defeats and dealt the league leading Muskies their first defeat. The Goslings started early and built up a 39-28 lead at half time. Lakeland finally found the range in the second half, but the Goslings kept pace with them and emerged with their first conference victory. Four Goslings scored in double figures to pace the triumph. Dave Umnus was high with 20, Kiessling and Worden had 19, and Stelter added 15 counters.

NWC 64

CONCORDIA R. F. SO

Playing against a good Concordia club, the Goslings fell behind early and never could catch up. The taller Cougars controlled all the re­ bounds and scored consistently from long range as they completely domi­ nated the game. During the second half Concordia maintained its delib­ erate offense and continued to an easy 80-64 victory. Jim Brown, the Concordia’s 6'4" center topped all scorers with 23 points while Kiessling and Snyder were high for the Goslings with 14 points each.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS LITERARY — A Man

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Truth and Socrates

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FEBRUARY 1957

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First, did we successfully unify the magazine?

Secondly, did we thereby improve the B & R as a school magazine ?

Write your answers in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letters to the Editorâ&#x20AC;? and we shall print the results in the next issue. This gives us a chance to find out what the outside reader thinks of our work, and also gives the student here a chance to air his views of the B & R publicly. The deadline for the next issue is March 15. Thank you.

THE EDITORS

The striking face on the cover is Socrates. The picture obviously will not provide you with a perfect conception of the old philosopher’s visage; you would have to know many more details about his stature and appearance before you could say you knew just what he looked like. Nevertheless, the drawing does present a view of Socrates. In this issue of the Black and Red are four articles dealing with four as­ pects of the greatest of the Greek thinkers. The first article is about Socrates — what he did and when he did it. The other three deal with a few of the main conceptions of his philosophy — what he thought and how he got his ideas across. You would have to read many more pages than the few we have devoted to the subject before you could say you were well versed in Socratic philosophy; but, if you are inter­ ested in meeting the man, read on. We have brought Socrates here to you at Northwestern. In fact, in one of the articles he even comes down into our clubroom for a game of Schafskopf. I’m sure it will be a rewarding experience to meet the man; it might even develop into a profitable and lifelong friendship.

Richard Paustian and Bob Sievert teamed up for the cover pic­ ture and Dan Jungkuntz was in charge of assigning and supervising the articles.

EDITOR

A MAN “And now, Athenians, 1 am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you. For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very' size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.”

These words were spoken by Socrates at his trial and afford the best picture available of the greatest of the Greek philosophers. This is the man whom many people have sought to compare with Christ himself, because Socrates represents the highest development of human mind and thought.

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Socrates and Christ have undoubtedly had the greatest and most profound effect upon the life of humanity and there are many parallels in the lives of these two. Socrates left no written record behind, but depended on lu's followers to furnish one, just as Jesus did. Both men were poor and taught their doctrines without any visible means of support, except the bounty of friends. Although he could have escaped die ignominious death of a criminal, he did not do so because he re­ fused to disavow the tenets by which he had lived, and Christ, although He was true God, died on the cross that He might save mankind. This devotion to duty was a marked attribute of both and shows why these two have had the influence on mankind that they still maintain today, Christ in Christian thought and Socrates in humanistic learning.

Socrates was born in Athens around 470 B. C., the son of a middle class citizen named Sophronisticus. The young Socrates was sent to school and was taught the usual courses, such as rhetoric, science, and medicine.

The details of Socrates’ early manhood are few and obscure, but this much is certain that lie consorted with some of the greatest think­ ers the world has ever produced. The great minds of the Periclean age turned from the study of nature to thinking out clearly formulated principles in legislation, politics, and the personal conduct of men, and this seemed to be a lucrative opening for using one’s intelligence to real purpose. From this arose a new profession, that of the “sophist” or paid “educator of men.” Sophists wandered from town to town and taught the young men of wealthy families how to be “good” and “virtuous”, "that is, how to conduct one’s private affairs and one’s city’s affairs well.”

Although Socrates was well acquainted with a number of these sophists, he did not hold to their theories. He believed that no man should sell knowledge but that he should give it away, since it was a person’s duty to try to make all men as good and as wise as himself.

At the outbreak of the Pelopenesian War Socrates was about forty years old, but he was still conscripted for the Athenian army. Plato stresses quite often that Socrates was a courageous soldier who posses­ sed a great deal of stamina on the long campaigns. This high value placed on his military exploits might explain in part why young men like Xenophon, who had ambitions for a military career, were attracted to Socrates.

At the close of the war, Socrates returned to the city and assumed the role which made him famous, that of the “gadfly” of Athens. A group of wealthy young men of leisure soon gathered around him, for they took delight in the way he exposed the ignorance of public men.

By this time Socrates had developed his peculiar manner of teaching.

He would have someone try to give a definition of “justice” or “piety.”

Then he would express doubt as to the truth of the statement. He would ask the person involved to explain it more fully and then pro­ ceed to prove the theory incorrect. In this way Socrates attempted to teach the others, by making one person prove that the traditional or obvious meaning of a word such as “justice” need not be the correct one. By his continual doubting Socrates wished the man, whose theory 141 ■

had been proved false, to learn the true meaning of the term in question.

While Socrates was exposing so many of the sophists of his day, one of his pupils did something which indirectly caused Socrates’ death.

The man was Alcibiades, who had become very popular with the Athen­ ian people. He persuaded the assembly to send him against Syracuse with a strong fleet, but soon after" he left, he was implicated in a re­ ligious scandal in Athens. Instead of returning to Athens to stand trial, Alcibiades went to Sparta, where he became a formidable enemy of the Athenian democracy. Since Alcibiades was the pupil of Socrates, many men held the teacher responsible for the student’s conduct, but Socrates was still too popular a figure to be brought to trial.

Some ten years after the treachery of Alcibiades, in the year 403 B. C., Sparta conquered Athens; and Lysander, the Spartan commander, established a new government for the city. A Commission of Thirty was appointed to draw up a new constitution, but they established them­ selves as the ruling body instead. The Thirty proceeded to disgrace themselves by their high-handed action and were finally overthrown late in the year 403 B. C. Unfortunately for Socrates, two of his former students were prominent in the Committee and Socrates was held re­ sponsible because he had been their teacher.

The new democracy finally brought Socrates to trial in 399 B.C., on the charge of introducing novel religious practices and not believ­ ing in the State gods, although actually a good many Athenians feared him because he had been the teacher of “traitors”.

The prosecutor asked for the death penalty, thinking that Socrates would counter this with a proposition that he be banished, which is what the court wanted to do with Socrates. However, the old philoso­ pher suggested that since he had been a godsend to Athens, he should be allowed to eat at the public tables, an honor accorded only to Olym­ pic victors and victorious generals. This so enraged the jury that they overwhelmingly voted the death penalty.

While he was waiting to be executed, Socrates twice had offers to help him escape. It would have been an easy matter, but he refused to do so, because he said that the state had the legal right to execute him, since he was a citizen, even though he had been unjustly accused.

To escape would have been a violation of all that he had ever taught and believed.

On the day of his execution, his friends found him with his wife, whom he immediately sent home for some rest. He then proceeded to explain to the men present that death held no fear for him, since his soul was immortal and that his life in the hereafter would be much happier than the one in this world. When the cup of hemlock was car­ ried in, Socrates drank it and on the instruction of the prison official, walked around the room until his legs became heavy. Then he lay down on his pallet and covered his head. A little later there was convulsive movement and upon examination, Socrates was found to be dead. “Here­ upon Crito, a friend, closed Socrates’ eyes and mouth, and so ended our friend, the man we hold best, wisest, most upright of his age.”

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GODFREY

TRUTH AND SOCRATES Consider the word “perfect”. It is unique, self-sufficient, all-em­ bracing. It cannot be compared; to say “more perfect” or “most perfect” is meaningless — merely using two words to express the idea already expressed perfectly in “perfect”. Socrates revealed the full impact of the word in his famous “analogy of the arts”.

People speak of men of different professions, such as a doctor of medicine, scientist, statesman, football player, farmer, or shoemaker.

Now let us attach the adjective “perfect” to each of these: the perfect doctor, the perfect scientist, the perfect football player and so on. The perfect practitioner will know perfectly and understand completely ev­ erything about his profession, so that he does not make any mistakes and can accomplish perfectly what he wants to do. Thus the perfect doctor can heal every sickness, the perfect scientist can solve even,’ problem, the perfect statesman will end all wars, the perfect football player behind the perfect team will run for a T. D. even’ time, and so on down the line.

But we all know that such things never happen and such men do not exist. Why ? Socrates said the reason was ignorance, which is true as far as it goes. The word perfect was not used exactly in any of these expressions. Should man ever overcome his ignorance this would be a different world.

And so we ask why man is ignorant or why he remains ignorant.

We answer that it is because of original sin. Adam was perfect, but he did not love and trust God above all things, thereby sinning and con­ taminating every’ man after him. Each and ever)’ man is tainted with imperfection.

Now although Socrates did not know the basic cause of man’s imperfection, he still did recognize its presence everywhere. All his life he tried to find the “perfect” idea, the Absolute Truth, which is nothing else than God. But he could not do it and on his dying day had to admit that he was still ignorant. We pity him because he did not find Truth revealed and incarnate, that is, Jesus Christ. However, we also can admire him for his integrity as a man, in fact, admire him so much, that we want to study his ideas of good and bad or how he thinks man can attain truth. d. jungkuntz

SOCRATES AT NORTHWESTERN Different people have different ideas about Socrates. Some like to think of him as a great moral teacher and compare him with Christ; others think of him as a sceptic, disturbing the reverent or complacent convictions of his generation; still others consider him one of the great originators of European philosophy and thought.

Such ideas about Socrates are not a prime concern of study at NWC, but I think Socrates does not have a place in the eveiyday life of a Northwestern College student, namely, as an educator.

To learn, we say, is the function of a student. A college or uni­ versity is set up, in order to make the quest for knowledge easier for 143

a person, since it brings together in one place the people who have the knowledge the student is looking for. What is the knowledge for which the NWC student is looking? 1. The accumulated facts of the devel­ opment of mankind in science, politics, and philosophy. 2. Truth as we find it in the Word of God. How does he acquire that knowledge ?

Often he merely memorizes it. That would mean that education is a process of emptying one encyclopedia (both the walking kind, the pro­ fessor, and the standing kind, the library book) into another would-be encyclopedia, the student.

Now just what “good” does all that knowledge do a person? Not anymore “good” than an encyclopedia does him. Knowledge is useless unless it helps a person in living his life. And it is a lesson in applying knowledge that Socrates teaches us.

It was Socrates’ main contention that we should know what we do and what we think and believe. That is, we should carefully and objectively examine our actions, thoughts, and beliefs and be able to account for them. Goading the people of Athens into examining their lives Socrates considered his calling in life. lie asked them pointed questions about justice, braver}', piety, friendship and other such ap­ parently simple things. And yet they never could answer his questions without contradicting themselves, thereby revealing their conceptions and also themselves as ignorant as Socrates.

But let us now apply “the Socratic method” to the NWC student.

If Socrates were an educator at NWC, he might ask something like this: Why do you go to NWC? Is it “to learn" something, or is it be­ cause your parents want you to go or because you want to escape the draft or have a good time, or is it just because you want to be a minis­ ter and you have to go to NWC to become a Wise. Synod minister?

If it is because you want to be a minister, why do you want to be a minister?

Or: Why do you believe in the Triune God? Is it because you were born in America and into a Christian family or is it because you have searched the Scriptures and found it so there yourself and believe it because of a faith in God and his revelation?

Yes, it is such Socratic questions that drive a person to God and the Bible. In fact, such questions drove Luther deeper and deeper in­ to Scriptures. Luther is said to have “freed the conscience from the bonds of human dogmas”. The great thinkers of the Middle Ages had tried to capture the mystery of God in logical propositions and then had forced these dogmas on me nas if they were the doctrines of God. Luther reexamined these dogmas in the light of Scripture and found them false. This is the advice he gave to future students of Scripture.

“Go at the reading of the Holy Scriptures as if you were beginning just now to read them for the first time, and ponder carefully the mean­ ing of every single word and abandon yourself to thoughtful consider­ ation.” This does not mean just the Holy Word itself, but also those terms which we use to name certain dogmas, such as Trinity, justifica­ tion, inspiration and the like. We should examine these doctrines and see if they really are in Scripture. For as future ministers, we must know what we preach and not just make beautiful speeches.

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Now it happens, often right here at school, that a person who asks himself and others such questions is called a skeptic. But just because a person asks questions about such things, that does not mean that he does not believe in them himself. Socrates did not ask his gen­ eration what justice or bravery is, because he did not believe in such virtues himself. He proved with his life that he thought more of bravery and justice than any of his fellow-Athenians did. He thought it better to die than to betray what he thought to be tme. Do we who know the Truth bear witness to it as courageously as Socrates did to his unknown truth? If not, we ought to examine ourselves and our knowledge of the Tnith. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates in the “Apology”). “Examine your own heart diligently and inquire of it, and you will surely find whether or no it cleaves to God alone.” (Luther in D. JUNCKUNTZ his “Large Catechism”).

The following article is a somewhat humorous treatment of the Socratic method. It demonstrates the typical way Socrates proved his point by eliciting the logical answer from his opponent by means of well directed questions.

LUDO I went down to the Clubroom yesterday with Porphirio to pay my tribute to the Canteen, and at the same time I wanted to see who was playing Schafskopf. Mello was doing very well but Arturo was making the most points. Ludo and Nepio, upon whom Fortune had been frown­ ing, completed the foursome.

Ludo: I’m going to quit this lousey game!

Nepio: Yeah!

Ludo: Why play if you can’t win?

Nepio: Yeahf Arturo: Ach, Ludo, it’s just a game.

Nepio: Yeah!

Ludo: You’d sing a different tune if you lost.

Sock®:Hold on there, Ludo, Arturo is right, I think. As the poet says.

It isn’t whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.

Ludo: The poet wasn’t talking about Schafskopf, you dolt!

Sock: But it applies to Schafskopf as well as football doesn’t it? Or where does the difference lie?

Ludo: Schafskopf is almost entirely mental but football is largely physical.

Sock: Would you say that a narrator and an actor in a play are both artists?

Ludo: Of course.

Sock: And yet the narrator’s activity is not physical but the actor’s to a great extent is.

Ludo: Yes. Sock: And both the card player and the football player are players.

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Sock: So the saying applies to both.

Ludo: Then why does another poet say, Be it Poker, Skat, or Gin One must always play to win.

Sock: Ah yes, but is that “why” or “how”?

Ludo: The clause in question is clearly a “hina” purpose clause, Goodwin and Gulick pp. 153-157.

Sock: Quite true. Notice, however, the pronounced caesura between “always” and “play”. This unquestionably indicates that "play to win" is a gerundive noun clause in the rather vivid mode, dependent upon “must”. Robertson pp. 117-119 and Kaegi p. 208 part I, paragraph 11, section A 3 g. It is one complete thought stating “how”.

Ludo: Your manuscript has a variant reading from the spurious codex Ixoniensienanian, I'm afraid.

Sock: Have you ever played Schafskopf with Ricardo?

Ludo: Only once, thank goodness.

Sock: You won, didn't you?

Ludo: I couldn’t help winning.

Sock: Did you enjoy the game?

Ludo: It was terrible.

Sock: Why? Ludo: No competition.

Sock: Then you don’t play to win as an end in itself, but to increase the pleasure of playing?

Ludo: I play because I enjoy winning.

Sock: Why do you live, Ludo?

Ludo: I was born and I haven’t died yet.

Sock: Why not?

Ludo: I beg your pardon!

Sock: You know the story of Narcissus. Why did lie die?

Ludo: He was disgusted with life.

Sock: Why? Ludo: You know perfectly well.

Sock: Life ceased to be a pleasure for him, so he died.

Ludo: What’s the point?

Sock: You are living because, among other things, it is pleasant.

Ludo: So what?

Sock: A race is a type of game is it not?

Ludo: It is.

Sock: And life is a race.

Ludo: By a considerable stretch of the imagination.

Sock: As you live for pleasure you play cards for pleasure.

Ludo: I suppose I should have guessed you were warming up to one of those asinine analogies again.

Sock: So in life, living is what counts, and in cards- the playing. How about the arts?

Ludo: Go on.

Sock: Don’t we see plays even if we know the outcome?

Ludo: Yes. Sock: So the play or the “playing” is the thing.

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Ludo: Let’s suppose I agree.

Sock: To get back to living again, since we agreed that it is the most important part of life- What do you think of the saying, “Bear then in mind, in faithful effort alone true victory lies”?

Ludo: You tell me- you will anyhow.

Sock: Doesn’t it mean that we must “win” by living constantly while we are living, that is day by day, instead of at certain times which we look forward to. We must live for the present not in the future.

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R. SCHMIEL

FORUM PROGRAM February 13th the Forum presented its third program under the direction of Dan Westendorf. It was based on the life of Mark Twain.

Warren Widmann presented a biographical sketch, while John Janosek discussed some of the author’s major literary contributions. What the speeches lacked in human interest was counterbalanced by Twain’s whimsical skit, “Encounter with an Interviewer,” enacted by Herman John and Jerald Plitzuweit. Rollin Westendorf was the highlight of the evening; his effective presentation of “A Cure for Warts,” a mono­ logue adapted from Tom Sawyer, stole the show and aptly illustrated the simple warmth and the literary effectiveness of local color for which Mark Twain is so famous. The collegiate Octet, arrayed in striking at­ tire, rounded out the program with several fitting numbers.

The fascinating personality of the well-known American humorist and novelist, coupled with the capable handling the program received at the hands of the Master of Ceremonies, provided a brief hour of delightful entertainment.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER, '08 This chapter opens with a momentous event, the birth of Wenonah, (The First Born), her father functioning as attending physician. He had been perusing a pertinent volume but was still far from the last chapter when called to duty. An Indian, Fanny Keyes, had already made an Apache cradle for us. I later fashioned a baby crib out of some boards ripped off the fence near the barn. This crib served as bed not only for Wenonah but for the eight brothers and sisters that followed in the next two decades, and then for a dozen grandchildren as well.

An old Chiricahua Apache woman actively stepped onto the stage at this period. I never learned her true name but simply called her Shi-ma (my mother) and that she remained until her death many years later. She was one of those faithful characters that one often reads about in story books but seldom meets in real life. She not only took care of the child when my wife was in the schoolroom, but would laughingly reprimand her for being a poor housekeeper, and then render the house spic and span. This reprimand was spoken in Apache, of course, as she never learned a word of English: neither had she ever been in a white man’s house before coming to us. The week after our 147

daughter was born, my wife was compelled by my absence to pinch-hit in the school room, Shi-ma appeared on Monday morning and took charge of the house and baby as matter-of-factly as she had at one time majored in this type of Home Economics. Years later she would walk the seven miles to visit us in our Whiteriver home, often staying several days and nights; after Wenonah went away to school she would sit on the floor and weep because she could not visit with her in her native lang­ uage.

In this connection I cannot help adding an incident that might have caused tragedy in our little family at this time. The ceiling of our bedroom had been covered with a thick layer of plaster and even before our arrival gravity had pulled down irregular pieces of it here and there.

As for obtaining funds for repairs the reader will recall that we were still living in No-man’s land. The plaster remaining resembled the map of Western Europe. One morning we had barely brought Wenonah out of her crib into the kitchen when we heard an explosion in the bed­ room and rushing in we found that all of Great Britain had crashed into the empty crib.

Prophetically speaking, would it not seem to be high time for Uncle Sam to move his crib out from under the map of Great Britain !

Apropos: When news of our daughter’s arrival reached our Mis­ sion Board we were granted a magnanimous salary raise of $4.00 a month.

We were duly grateful but try as we would we could never make a break down of this grant that would come out even. Either the items would not cover the amount or they would leave a remainder. We did not mind the shortage but did not want to cheat the Mission with a sur­ plus! If we would have had to purchase all “necessities” then we would have landed extremely in the red. Only one amount remained constant.

We were granted 50c per month for a noon lunch for each school child.

For lack of time we personally ate only two meals a day. So on that basis we couud multiply fifty-cents by only two, that would leave a balance of three dollars, since mother made baby clothes and “accessor­ ies” from articles in the mission boxes. Castoria cost 35c per bottle, and Indian women kept the baby supplied with moccasins. We gave up fig­ uring! Maybe Mother Time in the future could strike a happy medium!

For a year I carried Wenonah on horse back strapped in her Indian cradle on our trips to Fort Apache, Whiteriver and elsewhere. Naturally she became heavier from month to month. And since I could hardly hope to approach the degree of strength in reality that the Greek lad attained mythically with his calf, I artlessly asked our Mission Board to purchase a buckboard for my station. (To enlighten the present generation; you will find a picture and terse but correct description of one on page 131 of Webster’s Dictionary, 5th edition.) As for the “buck” attached to the board: one soon found out how apt that term was when you hitched a half-broke team of broncs to one and set out over terrain where burros fear to tread.

The answer from our Board: it politely but positively refused my request, because, “Es wuerde einen Praezedenzfall gruenden” (esta­ blish a precedent). Just as politely but positively I reminded the ven­ erable gentlemen that a precedent has been established to accomodate 148 :

“Tanta” Haase who had kept house for her nephew, Pastor Haase, at East Fork years before. This buckboard had wandered from Whiteriver to Cibecue. I received permission to retrieve it and set out on horseback with my father, who was visiting us, immediately. The latter had never ridden horseback before and to make matters worse, the pony he was riding went lame from a splint before he had covered a fourth of our fifty-mile trip. His horses limping, and the extreme cold did not add to my father’s comfort and by the time we reached Cibecue Trading Post, he was almost exhausted. The Trader’s wife, realizing my father’s plight, proved a veritable angel in disguise. Immediately she bundled him up before a blazing fireplace, fed us a bountiful meal, dragged a new mat­ tress and blankets out of the storeroom and bedded us down then and there. A fine example of true Western hospitality.

On the morrow we set out for our Mission station a few miles up­ stream only to learn that the buckboard had eluded us and could be found at Carrizo! That meant a ten mile ride over Cibecue Mountain. At Carrizo, Trader Saul informed us that the phantom vehicle had escaped to Snowflake about 48 miles northeastward, and could be reached only over a rough mountain trail. Mr. Saul invited us for supper, but living in a small abode shack with his large family he could not take us in for the night. But he did have a cedar-pole shed filled with smelly sheep pelts. To escape the cold, we burrowed into these like bears going into hibernation, and remained blissfully in Morpheus’ embrace until long after the morning sun peered over the eastern mountains.

A Mormon freighter later located the “precedenting” buckboard and set of harness and brought them to me. With the aid of two bows fashioned out of locust poles and a bed sheet, the former was converted into a “top buggy” and we could now travel in state with our little daughter, and also bring home supplies for ourselves and the school without an extra pack horse.

While speaking of the buckboard I cannot refrain from adding an experience that a brother Missionary and I had while on a trip over the mountains to a Conference in Globe. A fifty-foot-high bridge had been erected over Black River to replace the raft that had floated away in 1911. Two sections rested on concrete piers, a third one was built on wooden piles driven into the ground, and extended beyond the river bed proper. In early spring a fifty foot wall of flood water had shaved off the latter completely. After the water had receded somewhat a ladder was improvised down the side of the last pier, for obvious reasons. For buckboarders a more ingenious provision had been made.

Near the northern end of the bridge there stood a large cedar tree and on the other side of the river at a lower level, a large boulder. A heavy rope equipped with a block and tackle connected the two. All one had to do was to back his vehicle under the rope near the cedar tree, tie the four wheels to the tackle and send the buggy on its way. To prevent its being dashed on the boulder, another rope was kept on the site with which its speed could be retarded. On one’s return trip the operation was reversed and the vehicle had to be pulled up the rope to the cedar tree. When we had ours all rigged up for the take-off we found that some miscreant had purloined the tow rope. There was no time to bemoan 149

our misfortune. I walked out on the bridge, scrambled down the wreck of a ladder, walked out to the water’s edge and called to my partner to let her go! He did, but it came with greater speed than 1 had antici­ pated. As it passed me I made a flying tackle, grabbed a wheel, dragged my feet in the gravel and retarded the speed enough so that no dam­ age was done as the buckboard hit the boulder. Returning to the other side, I joined my fellow-traveller in trying to persuade our ponies to swim the river. The suggestion did not appeal to them and so we had to lead them to a small perpendicular bluff and push them into the swirling water. Seeing no other alternative they struck out for the other side. We expected them to start eating in the lush grass, but instead, as if to show their defiance of us, they kicked up their heels, and high-tailed it over the hills in the direction of Old Mexico. The situation would have appeared ludicrous if it had not been so serious.

Neither one of us had the agility of mountain goats to follow the treach­ erous creatures. Fort Apache was 24 miles behind us, Rice (now San Carlos) 46 miles beyond us, and we the only human beings between them. We sat looking into space for over an hour, neither one volun­ teering even an inane suggestion, when we heard a shod hoof strike a rock on the hillside behind us. A cow puncher was driving our ‘ornery caballos before him! He was a stranger riding thru the country and had by chance run into the pair. Ordinarily he would have assumed them to be cow ponies running loose on the range, merely stopping to read their brands and passing on. But his keen eye noticed fresh collar galls on the steeds and rightly assumed that no draft ponies would have been turned loose way out in the hills. A lucky break? No, indeed, chance had nothing to do with it. It was our own stupidity that let the horses get away and solely the Lord’s will that this cowpuncher should have chosen the route he did.

During the following winter we had an extremely heavy snowfall on Mt. Baldy and vicinity, with the result that North Fork flowed at a rising and falling flood-level for over a month. At Whiteriver the river bed was over a hundred yards wide and constantly changing, with deep pools being washed out today where submerged sand bars had been yesterday and visa-versa. The approach on the south shore was gradual but on the other, the river had gouged out a steep ten-foot bank. On this side the authorities had cut an approach down to the water for those who had the temerity to attempt to cross.

On a Sunday morning on our way to Whiteriver for services we entered the river far enough upstream, we thought, so that we would not be forced beyound the dug-way approach on the other side. For ballast we carried a two hundred-pound Apache lass in the rear of the buckboard and were proceeding according to plan when the team was suddenly struggling for footing, our feet were submerged, and our passenger was snorkeling. Relentlessly we were being borne down stream past our only port of exit. Fortunately our ponies soon struck higher gravel and by pulling frantically on the right rein with both hands we gradually turned broadside to the stream again. The former seemed to realize that the slash in the bank was our only avenue of escape and they made it without a foot to spare. Not far down stream the river 150

enters a narrow gorge from which there would have been no escape.

A lucky break? On the contrary, our congregation of 350 Apache boys and girls learned among other things that morning that in God’s dealing with his children there is no such thing as luck. They learned that our Lord Jesus, though invisible to the naked eye had stood on the bank of North Fork but an hour before and guided us to safety accord­ ing to His promise “Lo, I am with you always”. And this was neither the first or the last time in which He kept that same promise to us in Apacheland.

My helpmeet claims that I have gone “overboard” with my buckboard in this installment. She thinks that the reader may get the impres­ sion that life now was just a happy-go-lucky flitting hither and yon. To forestall that, I need only add that at this time I was still pedagogue five days a week and that a missionary cannot remain in contact with half a thousand or more charges living within the boundaries of his immediate territory by remote control.

This also calls to mind Prof. Pieper’s injunction: “Gentlemen, a pastor should spend every forenoon in his study!” What an ideal!

Mine was a corner of our livingroom, (the parsonage study being used as diningroom for the school children) and though in plain view it virtually remained terra incognita to me in those days. My Whiteriver sermon was usually prepared on the way thither and the one for East Fork on the way back, while my wife wielded the reins. And in all modesty, I may add that though the latter is my severest critic, my sermons ran her gauntlet unscathed for many years. Naturally I gleaned much sermon material during the week from my camp visits and from talks with Indians coming to the house with every imaginable problem.

Recently we have been reading much of membership drives, even in the Lutheran church. I unwittingly conducted a successful one years ago with a single call. My church attendance at East Fork had been falling off for no apparent reason though I might have known that a medicine man was the cause of it. The trail from East Fork to Whiteriver takes one much nearer to the foothills than the wagon road, and as I was returning home on the former one Sunday forenoon, I heard singing off in the brush. A short detour brought me to the Medicine man, P-7’s, "service". My congregation was well represented. For once I forgot Charlie Garland’s implied admonition, “When somebody talk mad to me I feel like to fight in pieces,” and angrily told all and sundry that they were headed for the nether regions. Only then did I realize that I had stepped on dangerous ground; but perhaps all had been taken too much by surprise for not a single word was spoken and since I had had my say, I departed.

My attendance next Sunday and for many more, went over the top, and everyone seemed more friendly than ever before. An Apache never bears a grudge against his Missionary for long, if he considers a reprimand justly given and will eventually in some way show his appreciation for having been set aright. (to be continued)

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Please to consider yourselves the recipients of a salutary and Guten Tag........ Here is a chance Hi. salubrious salutation for you to exercise your discrimination and good taste. As you see, there are three greetings above. Place a check (V) or x (x) behind the greeting you prefer, carefully rip out the page (after you have digested the contents) and mail with 25c in coin, check, or money order to Yours Truly, 510 Cady St., City. It’s as simple as that—nothing to buy, noth­ ing to sell, no obligations. Entries will be considered in order of receipt.

Most of the interesting news around here latch has concerned those threadlike outgrowths from the skin of human bein'/s - HAIR.

SWEDE UNMANED (See next page) HAIR tells a lot. You see Mr. Fred Jungkunlz and you know that his .152

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scant outcropping is a mute outcry against the scandalous D. A. God­ freys kinky production is equally eloquent. You see a head boasting that long, flowing glory, praised in song and story and you know its one of THEM. You see a head with short hair and you’ll probably find a girl directly beneath. IIAIR also grows on the chin- even on the cadaverous countenance of Mr. Franzman. All of which brings us to . . .

Seer:

* THE BRAVE AND THE BALD (SWEDE UNMANED) Why stands the hair on my neck’s nape?

Why dream I of hair 1 -breadth escape, And harrowing experiences Beat upon my weaiy senses?

Chorus of Tutors:

* O North is North, and South is South and then there is East Hall, Where all the boys are making noise, and having themselves a ball.

But there is neither North nor South, Hero nor Heel nor Hair, When two Freshmen stand face to face, and one of them takes a darej.

Howie:

How goes it Swede, mortal born of Dad and Mother, Thou brother to thy sister who is sister to thy brother ■> ?

Since you ask me- tell I will Though I would have said its - ill Why must mortals sorrow bear?

I shall cut off all my hair! • Five green singles 7 you don’t do it.

For five singles who would rue it?

Great Apollo, lord of all.

Ward off FATUM from East Hall.

Oh Swede ’tis sad, sad, that’s not funny, Thy thatchwork»- shorn - for moldy money.

What will Zeus almighty7 say?

(This is HYBRIS by the way!)

Swede: Howie: Swede: Howie: Swede: Chorus of Students:

* — This play is sort of last will and testament of the lesser Attic playright, Potrocles. Shortly after completing it he passed quietly on from beneath a sturdy bough of the tallest tree in Greece. The coroner mentioned some­ thing about suspended animation. The play was a long time favorite with the Greek slave girls. It was last presented at a meeting of the Tiryns Frank Sinatra Fan Club in 170 B. C. 1 — In case you didn’t notice the introduction of the leit-motif.

2 — This chorus presents the only difficulty in the play. Norwood considers it utterly spurious; he believes it was inserted by a stupid English scribe. Wilamowitz says characteristically, “Kann man denn nicht lesen?” Kitto has a good explanation but Verral doesn’t agree.

3 — Enter the tragic flaw. Dig that emphasis by position. | — Xenogenes— He was his own Grandpa.

5 — Brilliant tautology, what? ® — Imagine the shudder that went through the Greek audience!

7 — Equivalent to about 80 cents in our money.

8 — Here - hair.

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From my Spartan den I’ve run With my trusty Remington.

I too-I am here —came quick9 Ehlert: With my hair-devouring Shick.

Fetch a box, prepare a broom Diener: Tutor hates a messy room.

Hide thy faces and despair!

Chorus of Townspeople: ATE strideth from her lair!

Shall we flee? O where, O where!

Mortal man this grief can’t bear!

He who dares to take a dare Punishment and pain must bear!

Gone, all gone, gone, every hair!

Hide thy faces and despair!

From the wide-walled town I’ve comeMaiden: Who’s » that crazy-looking bum?

Can this be him standing there Him, the Swede n I once thought fair?

Woe is me, I am undone.

This will ruin all the fun.

How can I run hands through hair When there isn’t any there?

Woe, woe, here is woe, woe—Wo? Double Everywhere is woe. Woe - Whoa!

Chorus: Sleep sweetly in thy downy bed Aphrodite: While wintry breezes fan thy head.

Please, leave off dropping that fresh tear.

In several weeks fuzz will appear.

Diener:

The dormitory weather bureau informs us that Hillmer stuck his nose out of the Black and Red room February 2nd and did not see his shadow so therefore . . .

ON THE LAMENTABLE DEMISE OF A CENTIPEDE IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS Ah! Where you going, centipede, With your hundred- footed speed?

You should pay a little heed!

Oh! Borree came with heavy tread, Stepped him down, and crushed him dead, in conclusion, THE END 9 — Ehlert had arrived.

10 — Note the play on words. Who is and whose (showing possession). The full impact of this should be apparent.

11 — Term of contempt.

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ACCEPTED CALLS Harry Spaude of Hadar, Nebraska, has accepted the call to Gooding, Idaho.

Harry Wiedmann, ’44, has accepted the call of the St. John’s Congre­ gation at Burlington, Wisconsin.

Martin Bradtke, ’48, has accepted the call as Pastor of Good Shep­ herd Congregation in West Bend, Wisconsin. He was installed on Sun., Feb. 3rd. His former charge was Kenton, Ohio.

E. Pankow, ’21, of Hustisford, Wis­ consin, has accepted the call to Eitzen. Minnesota.

W. Zank, ’16, of Newville - Deerfield has accepted the call to Town Trenton, Wisconsin.

H. Lehmann, ’23, of Prentice, Wis­ consin, has accepted the call to Cataract, Wisconsin.

Uncle (to six-year-old after church service): “And how did you like it, dear?”

Six-Year-Old: “I liked the music, but the commercial was too long.”

E. Kionka of Wausau, Wisconsin, ac­ cepted the call to Carlton, Wis­ consin.

Wm. Zell, ’44, of Forestville, Wis­ consin has accepted the call to Emanuel Congregation at St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ralph Unke, ’39, of Butterfield - Dar­ fur, Minnesota, has accepted the call to Mishicot - Two Creeks, Wisconsin.

ANNIVERSARIES Pastor Fred Gilbert, ’28, celebrated with his congregations, St. Paul of Slinger and St. Paul of Cedar Lake, , his 25th anniversary of or­ dination on Sunday evening, Feb. 10th, The president of the con­ gregation presented him with a gift from both congregations in token of faithful service.

DEDICATIONS Re-dedication services were conduc­ ted by the members of St. Peter’s Congregation of Theresa, Wiscon-

sin, on Feb. 17th. Benjamin Hahm, ’32, is the pastor there.

Each time I pass a church, I always pay a visit; So when at last I’m carried in, The Lord won’t say, “Who is it?”

Re-dedication services were conduc­ ted by Ephrata Congregation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Sunday, day, Feb. 17th. Norman Schlavensky, ’26, is the pastor.

A new church was dedicated by Bethany Congregation at Manito­ woc, Wisconsin, on Feb. 17, 1957.

Armin Roekle, ’36, is the pastor.

DEATHS Pastor A. F. Herzfeldt of Appleton, Wisconsin died.

MISCELLANEOUS Fox Valley Lutheran High School of Appleton, Wisconsin, laid its cornerstone on Feb. 3rd.

Divine Charity Congregation, Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin, Pastor John Jeske, ’45, celebrated the 25th an­ niversary of the dedication of its house of worship on Sunday, Jan. 27th.

David Kuske, who graduated from Northwestern only a year and a half ago, has returned to North­ western to be a tutor for the sec­ ond semester. After one year at the Sem, he became a tutor at Mobridge for the first semester.

There he taught four courses and had 19 periods a week. Here he has it “easy” for he only teaches one course. However, he also is one of the dorm supervisors. He plans to return to school next year.

This note was written on the bot­ tom of a returned Alumni News Questionnaire: Pastor shortage be­ coming acute ! In the Western Wisconsin District, Altura & Town Norton, Minn., Janesville, Loganville, Elmwood, and Beyer Settle­ ment, Wisconsin — all vacant!

Projection: Somebody, even after the assignment committtee meets is going to be without a pastor!

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CONCORDIA MIL. 78

NWC 82

Playing at home against a good Concordia team, the Goslings managed to grab their third victory of the campaign. For a while things looked pretty dark for the Black and Red as Concordia took a 38-33 lead at the half. During the second half, however, the Goslings managed to grab the lead and hang on to win by four points, thanks to superior rebounding and accuracy at the free throw line. The Goslings were outscored from the field. 34-30, but sank 22 free throws to only 10 for the visitors. Niki Kiessl­ ing led Northwestern with 26 points while Finke was high for Concordia with 16.

CARROLL 71

NWC 57

The Goslings were soundly beaten. Carroll used its superior manpower to build up a 38-26 half time lead. During the second half coach Malchow cleared the entire bench as the Goslings managed to hold Carroll to 33 points while scoring 31 themselves. Bob Michel topped the Northwestern scores with 11 points.

WIS. TECH 70

NWC 67

Northwestern traveled to Platteville only to absorb their second straight defeat at the hands of Tech, The Goslings started out fast and left the court at half time with a 39-35 lead. However, in the second half, the Goslings couldn’t hit the basket and scored only 28 points, 19 of them being scored by Ron Stelter. Millman of the home team led all scorers with a total of 32 points while Stelter was high for the Goslings with 25.

CONCORDIA 76

NWC 50

The Goslings absorbed their third defeat as they bowed to the league leading Cougars on the latter’s court. The Cougars controlled the rebounds and raced to an early lead, which they had built up to 42-23 at the half.

The Goslings fared no better during the second half as Coach Malchow cleaned the bench in an effort to find a combination that could score.

Hoffman of Concordia and Aaron Uitti of NW shared scoring honors with 14 points each.

NWC 69

ST. PROCP1US SI

Northwestern again made the long trip down to Illinois and came back with a fourth straight trimming. The Saints struck quickly and had built up an apparently safe 41-28 lead at half time. However, Ron Stelter began to find the range in the second period and the Goslings managed to pull even, but when Stelter fouled out no one could take up the slack and the Saints again built up a safe lead. Stelter was the leading scorer with 28 points, 23 of them in the second half, and Damm had 26 for the victors.

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NWC 69

The Goslings finally snapped their losing streak by scoring their second straight victory over Concordia. Both teams were hitting well in the first half and it ended with the Goslings on top, 43-35. The second half was a different story, as neither team could hit the mark. Concordia managed to take a one point lead but a free throw by Worden tied the score up at 62-62 at the end of regulation time. During the overtime period, 4 points by Snyder and 3 by Michel provided the Goslings with all the points they needed to win. The game was won on the free throw line since both . teams made 23 field goals, but the Goslings sank 23 out of 46 free throws while Concordia could make only 20 out of 41.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS LITERARY — Editorial — Letters to the Staff

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A Most Learned Treatise on the Iliad

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The Art of Notetaking

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NEWS & VIEWS —.

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FORUM NOTES —

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER, ’08 .....................

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ALUMNI NOTES —

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM —

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ATHLETICS —

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INDEX TO VOLUME LX

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BLACK AND RED STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF . Editor-in-Chief Mark Hillmer .

Assistant Editor Dan Jungkuntz Assistant Editor John Ribar ......

DEPARTMENT EDITORS .............. Alumni Editor Edgar Herman ... ................ Sports Editor William Godfrey Campus & Classroom Robert Schmiel .

BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul Siegler ....... ......... Business Manager Daniel Buske __ .... Advertising Manager Jerald Plitzuweit Asst. Business Manager

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EDITORIAL This publication has the peculiar problem of rising each year, like the phoenix, from its ashes. The ashes, to ride the simile a bit further, are composed of the ideas of the preceding editors. Every editor qua editor has high asiprations. He agrees with Browning that “a mans reach should exceed his grasp.” He must “aim at a million” and hope that his “unit” achieves his aim.

In the past, certain editors have heeded the cry, “Give the paper to the students.” Others have imitated the format of daily newspapers, reporting intramural incidents and pranks on every page. One editor had the policy of letting each class of the collegiate department be re­ sponsible for the publication of one issue.

Last year we had a somewhat different idea: to unify the literary section in a theme of general interest. The inherited format of the pa­ per was to be left intact (C&C, Alumni, Sports, etc.); former editor Weigand’s contribution of the “News & Views” was to be retained with the addition of a comprehensive “Campus Calendar.” We have fallen short of our aims in reporting the news partially because of indolence and partially because of the dearth of what we felt was pertinent and printable news. We found that the lack of notable school events, es­ pecially during the winter months, did not warrant devoting a whole page to the Campus Calendar and so at times it was omitted entirely.

Admittedly, our main efforts were directed toward an effective literary section. We felt that any contributions we could make lay in this direction. And rather than dominate the scene entirely with our pre-planned and “assigned articles” literary section, taking away all opportunities for individual student contributions, we planned only three issues with the unified literary section in mind, the November, January', and February issues. The December and March issues were to be “giv­ en back to the students” to avoid accusations of, “You’re monopolizing our school paper.”

Our aim was not pseudo-intellectual. Had we gathered in a smoke filled room the night before deadline and hammered out articles on Socrates, yes. But we didn’t What we offered in those three issues was the result of research, thought, typing, and retyping. Did we succeed?

We put that question to our readers in the last issue.

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Here are a few of the answers we have received: Dear Members of the Black and Red staff: Unifying your Literary Section has been, 1 feel, a very successful policy, and a good improvement. I esjjecially enjoyed the issues that centered in “Luther” and in “Socrates.” The Christmas issue which by its very nature should perhaps have been unified by some Advent or Christmas theme was unfortunately disappointingly organized, and, in my opinion, fell far short of the other issues.

It may not be wise to “unify” every issue, nor to rule out a modest Editorial Section for current student comment even in a “unified” issue; but I hope that the Literary Sections of a goodly number of next years issues will he as well conceived and written as those you have just giv­ en us.

The present staff is to be congratulated in having risen to this chal­ lenge with a great number of interesting, well-conceived and well-writ­ ten articles. Recent B & R staffs have improved the magazine in many departments. Let's hope the newly-elected staff will keep up the im­ provement in the student magazine to which 1 am happy to be a sub­ scriber.

RALPH GEHRKE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

We made an appeal to the student body to contribute to this Dec. issue. We purposely left this issue “open” to the students. The old ap­ peal (the annals of the B & R are filled with hapless pleas and appeals of editors for student contributions) brought no results. The December issue was a result of room to room canvassing.

Dear Editor: In the last issue of the B & R, two questions were asked. First, was the B & R successfully unified? Secondly, was the magazine thereby improved as a school magazine.

Uiidoubtedly, the B & R was sucessfuly unified. The idea of pre­ senting articles on one general theme is a good one and it has done away with the helter-skelter arrangement of some of the previous editions.

As a school paper, however, it has not been improved. As each edition came out, in general, it was not received with open arms. Evi­ dently this reception was caused by the choice of topics. Is it necessary that topics such as Socrates be presented in a school magazine? No! They have their place and a study of them would be of lasting value, but the B & R is not the place for such weighty themes as these.

Therefore, for a better B & R it is necessary to keep this new unity but to change the quality of topics.. What topics should be chosen? It is hard to say just what will please the student subscribers as a whole, but if more popular topics are chosen, the magazine, as a school maga­ zine, will be more enjoyable.

This, of course, should be the purpose of a school magazine — to produce thoroughly enjoyable reading. If it succeeds in this, it will be vastly improved as a school magazine. dave franzmann NORTHWESTER COLLEGE

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Yes, that is the problem: what topics should be chosen? What does the student consider thoroughly enjoyable reading material? That is still the challenge to future staffs. Our aim in dealing with Socrates was to produce thoroughly enjoyable reading. We tried to present So­ crates in a popular vein to show that “Socrates” and “philosophy” are not foreboding and weighty themes to be dealt with in the classroom only.

Another letter : . . . One distinct feature of a unified section that I appreciate is the impression of order and orderliness it conveys. One senses that planning and forethought have gone into the issue, and that is a pleasing feeling for the reader.

Of course, there are the drawbacks. Such a procedure many tend to make the B & R entirely a staff project. But it need not be, as was shown in the January issue where articles appeared written by Wayne Borgwardt and. John Franzmann. ... I am sorry to see the “News & Views” section smaller than in the previous volume. For me that is the section that allows the reader GALE PETERSON to see the heartbeat of the school. . . .

CALEDONIA, MINN.

Concerning the tendency of the Unity idea to make the B & R entirely a staff project: We, in fact, feel that this is one of the assets of the Unity idea. Once the theme has been chosen, the editor may make individual appeals to those persons of the student body he feels are most capable in a certain subject. This appeal to the individual has proved more successful than an appeal to anybody and everybody.

Concerning the diminished News and Views Section: We are sor­ ry too. We hope the next staff improves the B & R by not following our bad example in this.

Sir: Concerning the February issue: A very good piece of work. The handling of Socrates was not accompanied by the usual hysteria in one direction or the other; the writers did well in their comparison of So­ crates with Christ. Vm glad that touchy problem was aired. It seems that Socrates for all his wisdom, destroyed the foundations of Athenian society and was unable to provide anything positive to replace it — the very antithesis of Christ.

You succeeded in unifying the magazine, both individually with topics and serially with the Guenther autobiography.

I dont suppose it’s wise to go overboard on the unifying project; it's interesting to alternately read a unified and then a conglomerated B & R. Seems you came thru on your aims that you expressed last year.

BOB DREWS COLUMBIA. MO.

Dear Editor: In the February issue of the B & R you asked for opinions — well here is mine — 160

1 was genuinely happy that the B & R has a small circulation when l saw the last issue. Vm not referring to anything in the literary dept, hut to that picture of two students (?) in the Campus & Classroom.

Here in LaCrosse both would have been expelled, from the public schools. We in our parochial school are trying our best to stem such, call them at best “fads” among the students and then where do we see them but in the B & R. I do not know if the student body actually is coddling such oddities, but your presentation of it seemed to make very little of the entire matter. For students preparing themselves for a consecrated Christian life it might be well to withdraw more from the world rather than throw themselves into its arms.

Just one other thing - Is it necessary to have half of the issue con­ sist of advertisements? I have enjoyed the rest of your articles very much.

Sincerely, HERBERT JASTER LACROSSE. WJSC.

We have heard from more than one source that the picture in the February issue caused offense. We are sorry for that. It was not our intention to offend anyone. We printed it because we felt it was a can­ did shot of a rather humorous, typically-collegiate prank. But it is not a “fad.” No student has copied either hairdo with exaggerated zeal.

The beard is now gone and the bald pate is rapidly growing a new supply of hair.

Our advertisers provide half our income.

Dear Sir: My comment regarding your efforts to put out a unified Black and Red can be stated very simply: 1 liked it.

Sincerely yours, WALTER HOEPNER, '34 FOND DU LAC, WTSC.

Thanks to all who were kind enough to share your opinions with us.

And herewith ends Volume LX. Its business manager has been Paul Siegler. He is the next editor. Here are the ashes, Paul. Good luck to you and your cohorts of Volume LXl in whatever you create.

MARK 1IILLMER, ED.

A MOST LEARNED TREATISE ON THE ILIAD After thoroughly examing the capabilities of many and various authorities of Greek literature, I have finally arrived at the conclusion that I am as well qualified as any of those examined to deal with the sub­ ject of the Iliad in an effort to make it understandable to the common masses, namely, the Hoi Polloi. As the basis for this learned work I have chosen the Textus Deceptus as edited by Dusseldindorf, class of ’99, San Quentin. To make this simple commentary even more simple and therefore naturally more understandable, a set of illustrations has been included for the edification of all.

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First of all, let us consider the author of this epic war novel. Upon, consulting the accompanying set of illustrations, you are likely to find a picture of Homer. This sclmook is Homer Goober who hails from Podunk Junction. The majority of Greek authorities, in fact all of them, agree that he had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the writing of the Iliad. I beg to differ with them, and I believe justly so, for after careful examination of various Homers, I have arrived at the conclu­ sion that such a work as the Iliad was more than likely a product of such a fellow, the likes of which you see in the illustration.

As for the story itself, it takes place in a dump which goes by the name of Troy in the year (circum) 3257 B. E. (Before Elvis). It is the story of the Grecian-Roman war with its gods and heroes. The gods are the immortal, mythical inhabitants of Olympus, the heavenly moun­ tain where they feasted on ambrosia, got pie-eyed on nectar, and watch­ ed the human spectacle below them, laughing their fool heads off in doing so. These gods, furious partisans of one side or the other, had much to do with the final outcome of the ten-year war.

The war, how did it start? Well, it all started when a guy by the name of Tyndareus who was king of Sparta decided that his daughter was costing him too much money (she had already racked up two of the family chariots by wrapping them around telephone poles) and rather than keep on buying chariots all the time, he figured that he’d be better off if he married her off. The unlucky guy was Menelaus, but believe it or not, they hit it off real good together. Then along came this character who went by the handle of Paris. He was a gay young blade, the son of the king of Troy, who had come to Greece for a visit. Although, as 1 have stated before, Menelaus and Helen, the broad under discussion, had hit it off real good together, Helen and Paris hit it off even better. She really flipped when she met him and he in turn went ape over her. So off they run back home to his Pappy.

You will see him in the process of doing that if you will consult his picture. You ask, “What’s she singing?” YOU don’t? Well, I’ll tell you anyhow. It’s the hit tune of the time, “I Love Paris,” Naturally.

As you probably noticed in the preceding paragraph, you didn’t have much choice whether or not you wanted to know what Helen was singing. That’s what I like about this writing racket. If you once get a person to start reading your article, you have him in your power.

You can sneak in anything you wish to say and before the unsuspecting reader realizes it, it’s already too late. lie’s already read it. If I wanted to, I could even slip in a pun into this learned paper and get away with it. Tailor: Euripides? Customer: Eumenides. There, I got you before you even know what was happening, didn’t I? Now you see what a ter­ rific sense of power it gives the author.

But now back to our story. Now let’s see, where was I? Oh yes, we had just finished getting Helen run off with Paris. Thus began the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Whereas the Trojans had their big wheel heroes, such as Paris and his brothers, the Greeks were not to be outdone along that line either. Their heavy-weight champion was a fellow by the name of Achilles (confer illustration). He was a 162

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He made his brothers do most of the work. It was kind of a dirty trick, but you can’t really blame him. If you had a wife like Helen, you’d probably stay in doors most of the time, at least if you’re the typical, fun-loving, young college student like the type I’ve run across up here.

But now back to Hector. If you’ll look at his picture you can get somewhat of an idea of what kind of character he was. Even his very looks portray the idea that he was rather weak-kneed. He had to de­ pend heavily upon the help of the gods whenever the going got a little rough. He was also what one might call a chicken. Many was the time when some god or goddess had to urge him into battle before he would consider fighting (see cut II).

Most of the pages in this great epic of Homer are occupied with accounts of the terrific conflict that was taking place on the battle field.

However, every now and then they did have a day or so off. This free time, it would seem from careful perusion of the novel, was spent in satisfying their appetites. Their table manners were not exactly up to par with those of the present day (dining hall excluded) and they had some very peculiar customs. One of the same is depicted in the illustra­ tions. For the benefit of the Hoi Polloi, the illiterate, and some of the Juniors, I suppose it would be noble upon my part to translate for your edification the Greek underlying the picture under discussion. It goes something to the effect that in roasting their meat, they pierced it with spits. See what I mean when I say that the guy on the pounding end of the typewriter can get away with murder.

I regret to inform you that the board of censors hacked out one of the most enlightening pictures. As you know, every great book must have an affair or two or the result is that it just won’t sell. Homer must have recognized this fact for he included in his manuscript a very touching scene that occurs when Hector’s wife tries to talk him out of returning into the raging battle. As the story turns out, he should have taken her advice. In reference to the picture that was originally includ­ ed with the rest of the illustrations, the basis of objection was that it was too stimulating. You see, I had included in the drawing a picture of a can of Spam which, they said, stimulated the appetite.

But before we go into this any deeper, let us take special note of a fact for which the Iliad is especially noted. It is in this book that mention is made of what may well be called the first Democrat in re­ corded history, namely, Thersites. It is this brave little lad who had the courage to stand up from the ranks of the common soldier and tell his commanding officer straight to his face, “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog.” The following description of this democratic, self-rights conscious P.F. C. has been lifted directly from the pages of the book, the translation by W. H. D. Rouse: . . No manners and no sense . . . ugliest man ever seen . . . bandy-legged and lame in one foot... a hump back with his two shoulders crushed together into his chest; on the top he had a sugar loaf head with a few tufts of hairy fluff. . .hated 165

bv all.” If this little episode has any moral that we should derive from the example of this first Democrat, perhaps it lies in the fact that he “was felled by the blow of a scepter between his shoulders. He shrank down, and great tears fell from his eyes as a blood red welt made itself evi­ dent across his back. He sat down terrified and wiped his eyes with a helpless look, in great pain. The remained of the soldiers all forgot their troubles and rolled on the ground in laughter.” Fitting and apt!

The story ends on a tragic note with our friend Hector getting clobbered by our friend Achilles. This brawl can be seen at its peak in the illustration in between, ’twixt, and amongst the cut containing the portraits. After Achilles gets through smashing Hector, Hector’s old man says he wants the body back so as to give a decent burial. At first Achilles refuses to hand it over but after a while, being a decent sort of a chap, reconsiders. This is quite a task, for if you will consult the Greek beneath the picture in which he is portrayed as returning the body, you will see that it has already been lying out in the hot sun for nigh unto nine days and in consequence proves very odoriferous.

This leaves the picture of some poor fellow being carted along be­ hind a wagon drawn by a pair of flashing steeds. Some authorities be­ lieve the hindermost fellow to be Hector and that the incident occurred when Achilles, the hot rodder at the wheel, uttered those simple but yet immortal words, “this will teach you that the free peoples of the world are not to be plundered by you pawns of totalitarianism”. I myself dis­ agree. I believe that the fellow in question is none other than Homer himself, the picture serving as a shining example to all of you of what the consequences might be if you aspire to write a novel such as Hom­ er’s. And so on this note I will take leave of you as I go into the other RICHARD PAUSTIAN room and quietly commit suicide.

THE ART OF NOTETAKING The following has been included to show the relationship between the dictation of the professor and the notes of a student.

Student: (Genus Seniorus) Professor: Music — Now in respect to hymn 568. One of the original six fat it was published by Adrian Valarius, a Dutchman, in his Nederlandish Gedenck Dutchmen, maybe ? clanck, Haarlam, 1626, to celebrate the Dutch victory over the Spanish.

Hebrew — The Seghol is composed of Seagulls go ‘eh’, but what three dots, two being situated over the thev’re doing in bed beats other, thus forming a triangle. The Eng­ me. lish equivalent would be the -e- as it is found in ‘bed’.

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History — On August 27, 1776, the Brit­ ish proved superior to the American forces by defeating Putnams division at Brooklyn heights. Their victory was not complete though, due to Washington’s clever, strategic retreat across the East River.

Washington was a coward.

Greek — Your examination tomorrow wilj; entail Oedipus Rex in its entirety and we will concern ourselves mainly witli its hidden meaning, the tragic flaw of Oepidus himself, and the role which the Gods play in the story. In your prepa­ ration, pay special heed to the use of the word Tuchai’. The test will be of the essay type.

No need to study. Shoot the bull.

German—Dieses Lustspiel ist angesehen als eine der besten deutschen Komoedien. Der erste Auftritt beginnt mit. .

Philosophy — Source and validity of knowledge are found in the empirical aspects of experience, consisting of two types of sensations, subjective and ex­ terna].

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Anniversary Celebration In February, a faculty celebration was held in the new dining hall, commemorating Prof. Westerhaus’ fortieth year of service at Northwest­ ern. The banquet was sponsored by the faculty and is the third to be held within the last five years, preceded by those for Prof. Kowalke and Prof. Wendland. The evening was taken up with a supper, three speech­ es, and easy conversation.

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First Annual Grade School Tournament March 10 was an excitement-packed clay at Northwestern. The gymnasium was filled with yelling, screaming spectators, anxious about the outcome of Northwestern’s First Annual Grade School Tournament.

The idea for a grade school tournament at Northwestern originated last year about this time. Coach Umnus was approached by several people who were interested in their grade school basketball teams. He saw in it a good chance to give the children of our schools an oppor­ tunity to become more intimately acquainted with their synod’s school at Watertown, and he put it before the Athletic Board this fall. Plans were immediately begun. The Athletic Board found a willing sponsor in the College N - Club. Letters were sent to 20 surrounding Lutheran schools inviting them to participate. Twelve accepted the invitation: St. Paul’s, Oconomowoc; St. Mark’s and St. John’s, Watertown; St. Paul’s, Janesville; St. John's, Jefferson; St. John’s, Juneau; St. Peter’s, Lebanon; St. Paul’s, Fort Atkinson; Bethany, Hustisford; St. Stephan’s, Beaver Dam; Zion .Columbus; and St. John’s, Waterloo.

There were many headaches suffered over the arranging and or­ ganizing and there were wrinkles that had to be ironed out in the last few minutes, but 1 don’t think a person could have attended a more efficiently and smoothly run tournament. Members of the Prep N-Club were chosen to act as hosts for each of the teams. They directed the teams on tours and were in general helpful in introducing the boys to Northwestern. Several collegiates were asked to act as referees, time keepers, and scorers. Four team trophies were bought plus ten indivi­ dual awards. These plans culminated on the weekend of March 8-10 in a thoroughly enjoyable tournament. Over 1500 people attended the sixteen games.

JEFFERSON-TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS (Left to right) Hoffmann, Lautsch, Kramer, Radloff, Martins, Mr. O. Degner, Sherman, Buske, Wei flag. Gross, Hefke.

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The winner of the tournament was St. John’s of Jefferson, with St. John’s of Waterloo taking the runner-up position. St. John’s of Watertown nosed out St. Paul’s of Oconomowoc for the consolation trophy

ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM (Back row, left to right) Dennis Radtke, Oconomowoc; Mike Ramsey, Fort Atkinson; John Strobel, Watertown; Erwin Tietz, Beaver Dam; Gerald Wendling, Juneau; Donald Dunning, Columbus.

(Front row) Roger Weisflag, Marvin Radloff, Jefferson; James Springer, Ken Backhofen, Waterloo. and St. Paul’s of Fort Atkinson was chosen for the Good Sportsmanship award.

A vote of confidence goes to Roger Sprain, president of the N-Club, and Bob Sievert, chairman of the Athletic Board, for their fine work.

Wrestling Another bit of sports news that may be of interest to our readers.

The athletic program offered the preps has been expanded. This winter it was wrestling and this spring it will be track. The wrestling team took part in six matches, besides a number of scrimmages. They lost only one of their matches, the first one, to Wayland Academy on Wayland’s mat. They beat Wayland here and swept both pairs of meets with Brookfield and Waterford. For the next year fourteen meets have been scheduled. Don Fastenau and Ed Werner assisted Coach Umnus in whipping the Gosling Grapplers into shape. t

FORUM NOTES The scene is the NWC gymnasium on the night of March 5th of this year. The main floor darkens and a hush falls upon the audience, gathered for the Forum’s fourth program. As the curtain slowly opens.

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the MC for the evening, Duane Tomhave, steps into the glare of the footlights and in a relaxed manner welcomes us to his production of “College Initiations”.

His program from the outset sheds all serious pretenses and pre­ pares us for a lively portrayal of a traditional college trait. The speech­ es follow upon each other with growing liveliness, as G. Kloehn dis­ cusses for us the hazing at West Point, a school known for its unique ideas. Then D. Ponath brings the topic nearer to NWC by reminiscing on Northwestern’s own brand of home-grown hazing. He traces the tra­ dition from its origin, through its changes and along its ups and downs until he finally brings it into the enjoyable memories of our own school days.

The evening progresses, spotted with frequent descriptions of the odd and peculiar designs which the energetic mind of a scheming stu­ dent can conceive. In a mock initiation of the “Most Noble Omega Fraternity”, a group of Sophomores headed by E. Werner, succeeds in dramatizing a few of those devilish designs. Their hapless victims are fittingly enough unsuspecting Freshmen.

At intervals the curtain opens to put the newly-formed Frosh Quar­ tet in the lime-light. They round out the evening with their fitting ren­ ditions of some old college favorites and afford a smooth transition to the closing presentation of a “College Joke.” This fast moving playlet stars C. Kock, D. Sabrowsky, and D. Kempf as the characters who are involved in resolving a suitors plight. The curtain closes upon this en­ joyable note and the assembly disperses with favorable comments.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF E. EDGAR GUENTHER. '08 The year 1916 ushered in the Model-T era for us though our horses also continued to serve us for many years to come. An Army doctor transferred to a distant Post offered us a practically new Ford, plus $80 worth of accessories, for $500.00 Lacking only $499 of this amount we could not afford to let the opportunity pass. Driving a car was a new experience for me, but some fifteen years previously I had had some pipe organ lessons at DMLC, and the Ford having only three pedals to pedipulate, my feet soon fell in line, and the rest was easy.

Before I could bring my car home, however, I had to build a bridge across a deep cut in the road with the help of my school boys. In ap­ preciation of this civic project the Agency Superintendent presented us with a horse-drawn cultivator for our school garden.

On one of my first trips to Ft. Apache, my pride of ownership re­ ceived a severe jolt that I was never allowed to forget. I was chugging blithely along at a lively clip of about fifteen miles per hour when a sleeping burro suddenly loomed in the roadway. With the first honk of my rubber-bulb horn the creature jumped up and came braying straight toward me as if recognizing a long lost brother. To forestall any future humiliation I lost no time in procuring a hand-operated Klaxon” whose blaring tones could never be mistaken for a greeting by any descendant of Balaam’s mount.

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1 also soon learned that my Ford was not by nature amphibious.

On entering a mountain stream a novice’s first impulse is to dash in, take the river by surprise, and get across before Neptune’s nephews’ reflexes can get into action. The next scene would be in a ditch; the car stalled in the middle of the stream; the distributor and wiring soaked; water oozing into crankcase, transmission, differential and tailpipe (be­ lieve it or not); the driver perched high on the seat as a living monu­ ment to his stupidity and hoping for some Indian horseman to appear before sundown to tie his lasso to the front axle to pull him out. One such lesson is usually sufficient.

At the next approach to a stream of doubtful depth, I could jump out matter-of-factly, fasten a tarp over and under the radiator, wrap distributor and wiring with an old shirt, remove the fanbelt, proceed cautiously and confidently across, and thus become qualified for the first degree in the Malevolent Order of Ford Skinners.

My wife claims I am getting off the beaten trail with my new toy but I cannot resist sketching another episode that is mechanically re­ lated to the one of the two ponies that left us in the lurch at Black River Crossing. In those days every Model-T owner would at some time or other burn out No. 1 connecting rod on some long uphill pull.

To avoid that I would always tty to keep my oil level higher than was indicated in Henry’s manual.

A Conference in the valley was again in the offing. 1 had gone to San Carlos in former times on horseback, two wheeled cart, and buckboard. This time my compadres and I could travel in state in a Ford.

Where the miles had crept past formerly at snail’s pace, they now van­ ished in clouds of dust at 15 miles an hour; we crossed Black River Bridge; the four-mile climb loomed beyond but held no terror for us.

We had plenty of gas in the tank, plenty of oil in the crank case, and five gallons of water for quenching Lizzie’s thirst. 1 stepped on the low pjjdal and in low we ground our way upwards, and then, only fifty feet from the top, it happened! A sudden hideous clatter; No. 1 rod was kaput. The evening sun gave us a wink of derision as it slipped below the horizon. What now? I carried no extra rod. We started back down grade for Black River and might have sung “We re twenty-nine miles from home!” but we didn’t.. A bridge-repairing crew invited us for supper and bedded us down for the night. On the morrow we were awakened to a bountiful breakfast. While debating how to get word to Whiteriver, the foreman mentioned that he had bought a stripped Ford the day before for $18 from two lads who were broke: “I’ll take a look” he added “and see what I can find in the old heap.” There was not a chance in a thousand that he would find a rod, but he did, and a new one at that! He made me a present of it and joyfully we pranced up the long grade to the car, in high. In those days one carried more tools than just a lug wrench and pliers. In a comparatively short time the rod was installed and we were on our way to Conference. .

A lucky break? It had been no mere lucky break that some years before a cow puncher had drifted thru these very parts just in time to return a pair of ponies to the river. And similarly it was no lucky break 171

return a pair of ponies to the river. And similarly it was no lucky break that two young chaps had sold their car at Black River just the day be­ fore we spent the night there, and that a brand new connecting rod should be found in the latter. Mv wife and I could add scores of other incidents that have happened during our abode in Apacheland, in some • of which the very life of some member of the family was involved, where the Lord graciously intervened and in His Word chided us for ou r lack of faith as he once did his disciples on the Sea of Galilee.

Apropos: anyone doubting this little Ford story can call Pastor H. C. Nitz of Waterloo for verification, he was one of my passengers.

Now in 1917, being the proud owner of a Motor Vehicle and not having ventured beyond the borders of Arizona since my arrival in Apacheland, I decided to embark upon at least one-fourth of a Sabatical vear with kith and kin: the former, in the singular, being a favorite Apache lad named Charlie Garland and the latter, in the plural, one wife and three children. A form-fitting commissary was built and at­ tached to the back of the car, which held food, dishes and cooking utensils: a lean-to tent was fashioned to fit one side of the Ford, and a false bottom between the two seats provided room for all the clothing.

My wife constructed four sleeping bags for Charlie and the children which took up a minimum of space, and a folding bed was added for ourselves. As a finishing touch I plugged the overflow pipe on the radi­ ator and soldered a home-made funnel onto the radiator cap after saw­ ing off its top. This funnel served a dual purpose; the radiator could boil without wasting precious water and whenever the baby demanded a bottle it could be heated in the funnel with little delay.

We camped wherever night overtook us. At Las Vegas, New Mexi­ co, we were directed to a vacant block absolutely bare but for a pipe and faucet sticking out of the ground and a tiny ventilated edifice whose purpose was left to our imagination. That was our first introduction to a “Camp Court” and we marveled at the thoughtfulness of Las Vegas for her tourists. On the Hat barren stretch beyond Las Vegas, Charlie asked us apprehensively how many more miles we would have to travel that way before we got to the end. He had been taught that the world was round but what he saw before him seemed to belie that doctrine and he feared that we might come to a jump off place. The next day his fear for his survival grew. We had persuaded him to eat sardines for dinner, in spite of the fact that fish were taboo on an Apaches die­ tary' list at that time. We had not gone on very' far when Charlie began to feel some discomfort (in his mind) and he grew sicker with every' mile. That evening he wrote a letter in which he sorrowfully bade all his relatives good-bye because he had eaten fish that day and knew the time of his departure was at hand. Fortunately his “illness” did not prevent a good nights sleep, and when the sun again greeted him the next morning another taboo had been overcome and the letter was nev­ er mailed.

At Trinidad, Colorado, we made camp near a large pavilion on the outskirts of the city'. As it grew dark that building came to life and we drifted over to see what might be going on. A typically modem “white172

man’s dance” was in progress. In the only dances that Charlie knew, Apache youths and maidens dancing chastely side by side, or facing each other, and moving four steps forward and four back, without touching hands. The contrast was so great that Charlie’s thoughts could be read like an open book. We did not tarry long and Charlie had nothing to say. But in camp when I was out of hearing he said to my wife, "I could see that Mr. Guenther was much ashamed that I see how white man dances”.

Our actual driving time to Milwaukee via South Dakota was fif­ teen days; our longest run 177 miles, in Western Kansas. Our only mis­ hap: a crystalized crankshaft, one mile out of Cashton, a tiny village near LaCrosse. We were towed to a shed where a young chap had a few tools and no parts of any kind but a Ford crankshaft hanging on the wall! Working together the two of us got our land cruiser in ship­ shape by noon of the following day. On the fifteenth day we rolled to a stop in front of Pastor Bendler’s church in Milwaukee where Synod was in session at the time. The welcome accorded us there, alone made our trip worthwhile.

Our return route took us thru Denver where we allowed ourselves an hour out to go thru a museum near the place where we had camped.

As we again embarked I noticed that my six-shooter was missing and reaching further, also found my camera gone. The curator of the mus­ eum gave us no hope that these articles could be retrieved. The Alsati­ an park policeman spoke more encouragingly, “Mavbeso we git ’em”.

I reported the theft to police headquarters and was requested to come down at 3 PM when the reports from the pawnshops would be in. Our articles did not show up. Sorrowfully we returned to our car and 1 just started to crank it when a paddy wagon came screaming down the street and come to a stop in front of police quarters. Out tumbled four youngsters, one of them dragging a .22 rifle that one of my cousins had given Charlie and we had not yet missed! Three of the boys had stolen all the articles. The rifle they had hastily thrown in a nearby bush, hidden the six-shooter under a church steps in another part of town, sold the camera to a fourth lad, and then returned for the rifle when my friend ,the park policeman, nabbed them. He had kept his promise to “git em”. Within an hour we were again in full possesion of all our goods and headed for Arizona. Another lucky break?

Turning west at Walzenburg our route led us to the summit of La Veta Pass. From the site of the old Denver & Rio Grande depot one had a breath-taking view of the country round about. An old Irish road worker joined us and exclaimed, “Its the most beautiful sight that God Almighty ever-r-r made.” No words more fitting could have been spoken here than came from the heart of this lowly child of God. Pages more could be written about this trip but suffice it to say that we arrived home three days later safe and sound. We have made the trip East a number of times since then but all have been drab in comparison to the one during which the wheels of our car did not touch pavement outside of the cities and towns. The friends whom we had engaged to run the station during our absence had been most faithful : i

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and so we could again step in without a shadow of regret for having been absent from our field for three long months.

Almost coincidentally with my purchase of a car came my release from the Schoolroom. Camp work could now be done more systemati­ cally than before. Greater numbers could be served oftener and at greater distances than before at Turkey Creek, Canyon Day, Cedar Creek and occasionally Carrixo. Weekly classes could also now be held at the Government Day School at Canyon Day. During the summer months we would try to reach the Indians scattered over the entire Res­ ervation whose children (some four hundred in number) were receiving weekly services and religious instruction from us in the Government Boarding school at Whiteriver. These trips were short vacations in them­ selves for we were everywhere welcomed heartily and the Word of their Saviour was gladly received. Never once was a home closed to us and everywhere we were asked to return soon. ✓ In those days Ft. Apache maintained a troop of twenty Apache Scouts and their families. They all lived close together on a knoll out­ side the Post. This was a fertile field in itself. If one came at the pro­ per time lie could always be assured of a sizable congregation. It was at one of my services there that the Holy Spirit gave evidence of His presence as clearly as lie had at the conversion of the Eunuch on the road to Gaza. 1 had been taught by Pastor Iiarders, “never to take any­ thing for granted". On this day I took particular pains to sketch God’s entire plan of Salvation from beginning to end in the simplest language possible to those gathered about me. I had hardly finished speaking the prayer when a young man whom I had never seen before stepped around behind a camp and said. “I heard what you said; I believe even' word of it; I want to be baptized right now." Philipp had not hesitated to baptize Indicus so I could not refuse here.

It was also at a service at the Scout’s Camp that I had my first op­ portunity to play the part of a matrimonial peace angel. Old Scout Josh and his wife had had some misunderstanding and would neither speak nor even look at each other. After the service I succeeded in getting them to listen to what the Lord had to say about the proper relation­ ship between husband and wife. The next Sunday I held my service right in front of Josh’s camp. He came out and sat down but his wife failed to appear. I feared that my attempted reconciliation had failed.

At the conclusion of the service 1 happened to ask what time it was.

Scout Josh arose stuck his head in his camp and called “Hey, Sweet­ heart, catchum clock!” Both Sweetheart and the clock appeared! (to be continued)

ALUMNI NOTES ACCEPTED CALLS Paul Heyn, ’31, has accepted the call to the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles, California. His former charge was in Tucson, Ariz.

Philip Press, ’47, has accepted the call to Collins, Wisconsin. His for­ mer charge was Theresa, Wis. Pastor Wm. Hein, ’50 who formerly was the pastor at Faith and Du­ pree, South Dakota, has accepted the call to Minocqua, Wis. Gerhard Franzmann, ’47, was instal­ led as Pastor of Divine Saviour Lutheran Church in Wauwatosa, Wis. on April 7. David Mark Franzmann is Pastor Gerhardt’s young nephew. He is attending Northwestern College at present, by the way. David Mark Franz­ mann will assume the editorship of this column beginning with the next issue. David Mark Franzmann was chosen over all the other can­ didates for this office.

Markus Koepsell, ’42, has accepted the call to Beyer Settlement-Pop­ lar Creek, Wis. His former charge was Remus-Bromfield-Hamilton, Michigan. He will be installed sometime in May. Wernor Wagner, ’48, who was the Pastor at Findlay, Ohio, has taken the charge at Tucson, Arizona.

DEDICATIONS Nain Church in West Allis, Wis. was dedicated on Sunday March 31.

The pastor there is Walter Keibel, T3.

Lola Park Lutheran Church, Detroit Michigan, was dedicated on Sun-

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day, February 24th. Edward Zell Jr., ’08, is the pastor. Theodore Sauer, ’37, preached the dedica­ tory sermon.

The new parsonage of Good Shep­ herd Lutheran Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan was dedicated on Sunday, March 3rd. W. Zarling, ’35, is the pastor.

DEATHS Hans B. Press, not a graduate, but a onetime member of the Class of ’17, was in an auto accident at Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 25th.

Taken from a newspaper: “The Rev. Walter A. Hoenecke, Class of 1889 88 yrs., former pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church, died Monday at his home.

“He was pastor of Bethel Luth­ eran Church for 30 years until his retirement in 1940. He served con­ gregations at North La Crosse, Onalaska, and Granville before be­ ing called to Bethel Church.

“A native of Watertown, Wis., he came to Milwaukee in 1870 with his parents. He was graduated from Watertown College in 1881 and from Milwaukee Theological Seminary in 1884.”

MISCELLANEOUS Mr. and Mrs. Christian A. Johnson, Woodville, Wis., have told of the troth of their daughter, Charlette Nathalie Johnson, N. 64th St., to Reuel J. Schultz. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Schultz, E. Nock St., Miss Johnson is an alumna of the Milwaukee County hospital of nursing.

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I? In Memoriam This column is tearfully dedicated to Richard Paustian who was cruelly struck down by a thunderbolt while desecrating the "N” in East Hall with his hob-nail motorcycle boots.

TRADITIONAL PAEAN OF JOY FOR DEPARTING C&G WRITERS Friendship went down the drain.

C & C, tis of the Impossibility Of Thee I write.

For voti I wracked my brain.

Opium eased the pain.

Bane, Blot, Blain, Blight. .

GIRLS! ! WOMEN! ! COEDS! The College Book Store is proud and happy to announce the GRAND OPENING of its new $S000 Lingerie Department!! The first seven customers will be given free, lilac-scented ink erasers. Hurry right over and have chief fitter Diener find you a pair of our fabulous Eaton Westport stockings to suit your personality, pocketbook, and pins.

We’ve bought up a huge supply for were expecting a huge run on our HERMAN EDGAR nylons. And they’re guaranteed non-snag! !

TWICE TOLD TALES REHASHED Part the First Zeus and Europa Zeus was dozing in his throne on high When fair Europa sauntered by, And girls were Zeus’ Achilles’ heel, Especially ones with the appeal.

Now this Europa was a queen, o And Aphrodit’ was feeling mean, So she had Cupid test his craft.

The two gave Zeus the good old shaft.

Over Hera’s eyes to pull The wool, he changed into a bull.

To fair Europa he drew near And lowed, it was a thrill to hear.

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He knelt down, she climbed his backside, And did he take her for a ride She knew he was no bull but Zeus, But as things stood, what was the use?

At Crete Zeus galloped to a stop, Europa hopped down from on top.

Zeus led her to his dark love nest — Bullfinch can tell you all the rest.

Whereas the time has come for the old staff to bow out; and where­ as tradition demands that this column be the instrument for ushering in the new staff with the traditional remarks; therefore let’s begin with the new editor, none other than that roly-poly 1st tenor, Paul Siegler.

Siegy learned the business from the bottom up, so things should go swimmingly with his experienced hand at the wheel, especially where humor is concerned, for Siegler is widely known for his punitive efforts in the field of the funny-bone. e. g. He has been known to ask if someone would like to hear the opening chorus from “Fanny.” Someone unwittingly replies in the affirmative, whereupon our hero decorously graces the ivories with his posterior extremity.

Well let that suffice.

Then there’s the boy without a family. At least he has no family name. Edgar might be an asst., and then again, he might get the C & C, or this talented import from the outlying province might do both. Well, the first job should not take much doing on his part. Now we must press on.

Buske will be the other Asst. Buske’s one of those extraordinary creatures who now and then grace our Campus — a town student.

Town student — strange word — most philologists insist that it comes from the Sanscrit word meaning “chauffeur” or “cabby;” others con­ tend that it is from a Nordic verb meaning “to play the host,” “to throw parties.” Please excuse the digression. Back to Buske. Somehow I don't have the heart to defame a native of the sleepy little village so dear to our hearts, cuddled up on a gentle bend in the Father of Waters. Ho hum, back to work. Let’s see, six more to go. 1 guess well have to step up the pace and quit shooting the breeze. But whose fault is that?

It’s an occupational hazard. Just ask one of the. . . .

TWICE TOLD TALES REHASHED Part the Second Pygmalion and Galatea Pygmalion w&s a misogynist, The first of a very lengthy list.

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Eternal feminine, as one expects Had her revenge on the prior sex.

Pygmalion hugged, caressed, and kissed; She didn’t respond, she didn’t resist.

Pygmalion thought, “This just won’t do.”

And Venus held that opinion too.

He begged Dame Venus for a wife: “Please give my limestone-love some life!”

Once more he bussed her lithic lips, She heaved a sigh and moved her hips..

He ran his fingers down her ann “Oh boy,” thought Pyg, “she’s getting warm.”

He pulled her close with all his might “O dear,” she smiled, “not so tight!”

The next day Venus read the banns, And three weeks later joined their hands.

Where was I? Plitzuweit. Now, there is an interesting name, es­ pecially before it was shortened and Americanized. He is to be the business manager, a position about which I know absolutely nil. They say the best things come in small packages. Take dynamite. . .

Franzmann, David. . is slated for Alumni Notes. Fine intersynodical name, Franzmann. We have our share of them here. Yes, we have all the Franzmanns we can manage. In fact there are some Franzinanns around who seem almost unmanageable. At any rate, last year’s Alumni Columnist (look it up if you’re interested) seemed to think the whole thing was a joke. Let that suffice for Franzmann. . . . David Rollin Westendorf, one of the Michigan Westendorfs is also down for C & C. It would seem that C & C writers in the not so distant past have not always given full satisfaction to our readers, so the job might be split up. Roily has been one of the pillars of the Forum ever since he got here. He’s qualified.

Sports has been dropped into the lap of Nicholas Kiessling, the notorious “Splendid Splinter” of the hardwood campaigns. Great things are expected of Niki, originating from a family of literary giants as he does. In fact, it’s been rumored that he is now engaged in putting the finishing touches in the first of six articles on basketball. It’s entitled ‘The Art of the Hip.” Circulation will be managed by Chris Koch, Scholar, organist, pi­ anist, singer, — apparently no untoward activity here.

The youngest addition to the family is Dave Hahm. He will un­ dertake the management of the advertising, commonly called soliciting.

Who knows if this might not come in handy in later years. This and other menial jobs ordinarily lead to the editorship, and if one plays his cards right, one might work his way into a situation like the one Hillmer has been enjoying the past year, sitting at his desk, not a care in the world except to choose the best of the countless brilliant articles handed in by the eager student body.

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In spite of the impression you might have gotten from the preced­ ing, I wish the new staff the best of luck.

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MILTON 73 NORTHWESTERN 72 Minus Gordie Snyder, the Goslings took on Milton, in hopes of aveng­ ing a previous defeat at the hands of the Wildcats. However, even with the home court advantage the Goslings couldn’t quite win. They had a 38-36 half time advantage, but the Wildcats managed to open up a 7 point lead late in the second half and although the Goslings finally narrowed it to 1 point, mainly because of the efforts of Dave Sievert, they were un­ able to get the winning points. Umnus of NW and Sisson of the Wildcats each scored 16 points and Dave Sievert had 14, to top the scoring.

LAKELAND 73 NORTHWESTERN 62 Without too much difficulty, the Goslings managed to stretch their losing streak to two games. For a time it appeared as if the boys from the shores of the Rock might have had serious intentions of knocking off the Muskies a second time, as they battled their hosts to a 36-36 standoff at the half. However, the Goslings’' offense began to sputter during the second period and Lakeland quickly opened up a safe lead and went on to an easy conquest. The Goslings futility is best shown by the fact that they could score only 26 points in the second half, one of their poorest per­ formances of a season marked by last period lapses. Quasius of Lakeland topped the individual scorers with 23 points, while Stelter was “high” for the Gooses with 12.

NORTHWESTERN SO WHITEWATER 76 Playing at home, the Goslings finally snapped their losing streak by upsetting Whitewater. The Teachers managed to take a 45-41 lead at the half, but during the last period NWC, sparked by Gordie Snyder and Ron Stelter, took the lead and held it, despite Whitewater’s frantic efforts to steal the ball. Stelter and Snyder were high for the Goslings with 22 and 20 points respectively, but Friedrichs of Whitewater pumped in 29 to lead all scorers.

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SEMINARY 91

NORTHWESTERN 87

After the Seminary Bonecrushers had lived up to their name by an­ nihilating a special Senior team from Northwestern in the preliminary game, the Seminary varsity proceeded to mop up the floor with the Gos­ lings’ varsity. During a wild first half, the Sem piled up a 54-34 lead, which they held, despite a desperate second half rally by the Goslings, who poured in 53 points during the final period. The Seminarians won the game at the foul line as they sank 29 out of 45 free throws, while the Gos­ lings hit on 15 out of 27. Eddie Stelter led the individual scorers with 31 points and Ron Stelter was high for Northwestern with 28.

INTRAMURALS The Juniors defeated the Sophomores in a play off to win the intra­ mural basketball championship. The Seniors finished third, losing out in their last game when they couldn’t match the pace set by their younger opponents.

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INDEX - VOLUME LX Page

TITLE

55 Aerial View of Our Campus, ’56 ..........

51 Alumni Assignments ................................

24 Alumni Meeting Notes ............................

25 Alumni Minutes .........................................

27, 51, 69, 102, 114, 137, 155, 175 Alumni Notes ..............................................

140 A Man .....................................................

161 A Most Learned Treatise on the Iliad 166 Art of Notetaking .......................................

3, 63, 90, 109, 131, 147, 170 Autobiography of E. Edgar Guenther, ’08 124 A Walk — A Talk ......................... .................

47 Band Picture, ’55 - ’56 ......................................

44 Black and Red Staff Picture, ’55 - ’56 .........

14, 48, 72, 99, 115, 128, 152, 176 Campus and Classroom....................................

Campus Calendar ...„.......................................... ..................................................... 1, 62 19 Catullus .................................................................

29 Commencement, 1956 ........................................

104 Dead of Winter, The ......... ..............................

105 Desirability of a More Progressive General Science Course 106 Dragnut .......................................................................

37 English Oration: Bach the Christian ................

11. 42, 75, 127, 147, 169 Forum Notes ..............................................................

39 German Oration: D&^Marburger Kolloquium 88 Homecoming Highlights ........................................

120 Hymns of Ambrose............. ....................................

122 Irenaeus .............-......................-...............................

119 Justin Martyr’s Last Hours .................................. .

23 King James Version ................................................

158 Letters to the Staff .................. .............................

78 Luther As A Man ...................................................

83 Luther on Dancing .................................,................

Luther the Student..................................................

85 Luther’s Views on Education ..............................

81 Ludo ............... ................. ...........................................

145 45 Male Chorus Picture, ’55 - ’56 ..............................

Maxims To Swear By or At ................................

18 Mexico and Bust ......................................................

21 Mixed Chorus Picture, ’55 - ’56 ............................

46 News and Views ..................

11, 75, 87, 126, 167 Oldest Christian Hymn ......

121 Prof. A. P. Sitz......................

2 Socrates at Northwestern .. ......................................................... 143 Sports ......................................

28, 53, 70, 96, 118, 138, 156, 179 Truth and Socrates..............

143 Varsity Football Squad, ’56 95 54 We Are Seven (Chapel Classroom Building)

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STUDENTS!

ATTENTION !

This classified lisi of business men and merchants has been alphabetized for your convenience. These men are our advertisers.

Without them the Black and Red could not exist. They are deserving of your patronage.

APPLIANCE STORES GAMBLE'S, 415 Main Street JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water St BAKERIES PAGEL'S BAKERY, 114 West Main Street QUALITY BAKE SHOP, 104 Main Street BANKS BANK OF WATERTOWN, First & Main Sts. BARBERS SAEGER'S BARBER SHOP, 9 Main Street BEVERAGES COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Madison, Wis. NEHI BEVERAGES, Madison, Wis SEVEN-UP BOTTLING CO., 410 First St. BOWLING ALLEYS CHASE'S BOWL, 125 N. Water Street WATERTOWN BOWL, Inc., 102 W. Cady St. CLEANERS LEE EDWARDS CLEANER, 111 N. Fourth PARAMOUNT CLEANERS. 621 Main Street VOGUE CLEANERS, 412 Main Street COFFEE O. R. PIEPER CO.. Milwaukee. Wis. CONCRETE TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO., Watertown DAIRIES DAIRY LANE, Union Street MULLEN'S, 212 W. Main Street DECORATOR SUPPLIES ALBRECHT'S BADGER PAINT, 208 Third St. DRUG STORES BUSSE'S, 204 Main Street DOERR DRUGS, W- Main Street GEHRKE PHARMACY, 315 Main Street TETZLAFF PHARMACY, 116 Main Street EYE GLASSES DR. H. E. MAGNAN, 410 Main Street FLORISTS BIRKHOLZ FLORAL SHOP, 616 Main Street LOEFFLER FLORAL SHOP, 202 W. Main St. FUNERAL HOMES H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street PEDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 211 Fifth Street SCHMUTZLER FUNERAL HOME, 721 N. 4th FURNITURE H. HAFEMEISTER, 607 Main Street SCHMUTZLER FURNITURE. 401 Main Street GARAGES JAMES D. CASEY CO., 119 Water Street A. KRAMP CO., 617 Main Street VOSS MOTORS, Inc., 301 W. Main Street SHAEFER MOTORS, Inc., 305 Third Street DODGE STREET GARAGE, 311 Third Street GIFTS & CARDS THE GIFT FAIR, Main & First Streets GROCERIES BENTZIN’S, 905 Main Street IFFLAND'S, 207 S. Second Street KRAUSE'S, HOI Western Avenue DUDDECK'S GROCERY, 813 Wisconsin St. HARDWARE & SPORTING GOODS ACE HARDWARE STORE, 304 Main Street REX DRAHEIM, Inc., 307 Main Street KOERNER & PINGEL, 205-209 N. Second D. & F. KUSEL CO., 108 W. Main Street

INSURANCE AID ASSOCIATION FOR LUTHERANS, Appleton CHURCH MUTUAL INS. CO., Merrill, Wis. HERMAN MUTUAL INS. CO., Iron Ridge WM. C. KRUEGER, 312 Main Street LUTHERAN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO., Iowa READY AGENCY, 424 N. Washington Street JEWELRY SALICK'S JEWELRY, 310 Main Street SCHNEIDER'S JEWELRY, 111 S. Third Street SCHOENICKE'S JEWELRY, 116 N. Third St. WARREN'S JEWELRY, 111 Main Street LAUNDRY HOME LAUNDROAAAT, 200 Madison Street LUMBER & FUEL HUTSON-BRAUN LUMBER CO., First Street WEST SIDE LUMBER CO.. 210 Wafer Street MEAT MARKETS BLOCK'S MARKET, 112 Second Street JULIUS BAYER MEAT MARKET, 202 Third NEW YORK MARKET, 8 Main Street MEMORIALS ARCHIE BROS., Inc., 218 S. First Street WATERTOWN MEMORIAL CO., Inc., 112 N. 4 MEN’S CLOTHING STORES FABER'S, 311 Main Street CHAS. FISCHER & SONS, 2 Main Street KERN'S, 114 Main Street KRIER'S, 101 Main Street PENNEY'S, 201 Main Street MILLING GLOBE MILLING CO., 318 Water Street NEWSPAPER WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES, 115 W. Main St. OFFICE SUPPLIES MINAR OFFICE & SCHOOL SUPPLY, 407 Main ORGANS UNITED ORGAN CO., Milwaukee PAINTS SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS. 208 Main Street PHOTOGRAPHS AL RIPPE, 113 Second Street PLUMBERS OTTO BIEFELD CO., 202 N. Water Street WATERTOWN PLUMBING CO., 204 W. Main PLUMBING FIXTURES KOHLER CO., Kohler.Wis. RADIO STATION WTTN, 104 W. Main Street RADIOS & TELEVISION GUYER MUSIC STORE, 109 N. Third Street RESTAURANTS HERRO'S FINE FOODS, 212 Main Street LEGION GREEN BOWL, Oconomowoc Ave. SHARP CORNER, Corner 9th & Main ZWIEG'S GRILL, Main & Ninth Streets SHOE STORES MEYER'S SHOE STORE, 206 Main Street RAY'S RED GOOSE SHOE STORE, Main St. RUESCH'S, 305 Main Street SMOKE SHOP WALT'S PI CAD ILLY, 406 Main Street SUNDRIES TRI-COUNTY TOBACCO, 200 W. Main Street THEATERS CLASSIC. 308 Main Street

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Telephone 174

PARAMOUNT CLEANERS For Cleaning Well Done â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phone 171 Leave Cleaning with Schlieve, Rm. 230 Pick-Up Tues. Thurs. Sats.

Watertown 612 Main Street Special Student Prices

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Mail Orders Our Specialty

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Ask For GLENDARE School Papers At Your School Book Store

QUALITY BAKE SHOP GEROLD OLSON, PROP.

High-Grade PASTRIES and CAKES Phone 235 104 Main Street

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Rex Dralieim, Inc. TIRE and SPORT HEADQUARTERS 307 Main Street

Watertown

GEHRKEPHARMACY Phone 507 Watertown, Wis.

315 Main Street

STUDENTEN! Kommen Sie herein um unsere Pfeifen zu priifen WALT’S PICCADILLY SMOKE SHOP

GUYER MUSIC STORE 109 North Third Street MUSIC, RECORDS RCA VICTOR RADIOS, PHONOS, T-V

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Your Cleaner is Your Clothes' Best Friend Phone 1248

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KRAUSE’S GROCERY CIGARETTES, CANDY and ICE CREAM We Aim to Please — Free Delivery Phone 125 1101 Western Ave. Groceries and Cold Meats

TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO. Materials Accurately Proportioned and Thoroughly Mixed To Your Specifications Watertown Phone 47

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS Paints for Every Purpose 208 Main Sheet Phone 2077 WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

SEAGER’S BARBER SHOP Phone 53-J

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UNITED ORGAN CO. SERVICE - SALES REPRESENTATIVE FOR

Wicks Organ Company 640 W. Virginia Street Milwaukee

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FLOUR GLOBE MILLING CO. “SINCE 1845” PHONE NO. 1

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TRI-COUNTY TOBACCO CO. Servicing Your Canteen With

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The "READY" AGENCY 424 N. Washington Street ALL KINDS Phone 3029

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James D. Casey Co. CHEVROLET SALES AND SERVICE NEW AND USED APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE DRI-GAS, RADIO, AND TELEVISION WATERTOWN

119-121 WATER STREET

KRKR'5 101 Main Street

Watertown

KOERNER & PINGEL HARDWARE 205-209 North Second Street

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DODGE STREET GARAGE, Inc. Your Oldsmobile Dealer 311 Third Street

Watertown

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COLLEGE CANTEEN Courtesy of Panel's Bakery 114 W. Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

HERROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FINE FOODS For Those Delicious

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Office and School Supply Equipment and Supplies for Offices and Schools Office Machine Service

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VOSS MOTORS, INC. LINCOLN and MERCURY 301 W. Main Street WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

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SCHNEIDER JEWELRY "HAMILTON, ELGIN and GRUEN WATCHES" 111 S. Third Street

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Archie Brothers, Inc. CEMETERY MEMORIALS 21S S. First Street Watertown Stores at Waterloo, Oconomowoc, Mayville, Wanpun, Fond du Lac

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