Clarion 1950-11-17 Vol 27 No 05

              Psychology Class Visits
Faribault Feeble-minded
On Wednesday afternoon, November 18th, Professor Royal Bloom
and eighteen Bethel students who are majoring in Psychology, spent
the afternoon in an extensive tour of the Minnesota School and Colony
for the Feeble Minded at Faribault, Minnesota.
The group was introduced to the institution by one of the social
workers. This particular colony for the feeble minded is the largest in
Minnesota. There are some 2,850 inmates and 550 staff workers. The
plant includes 33 buildings and a hospital unit.
The inmates can be classified into three classes; the idiot, whose
mental development is that of the two year old; the imbecile whose
mental developement ranges from
approximately 3-7 years; and the
moron whose mental developement
rarely exceeds that of the twelve
year old. Individuals of the idiot
level are unable to guard them-selves
against such common phy-sical
dangers as fire or falling
down stairs. They are unable to
care for their own physical hy-giene
and therefore must be wash-ed,
dressed, fed, and kept phy-sically
clean. They rarely learn to
speak and are almost completely
lacking in memory and imagina-tion.
Student Sails
With Quartet
Swedish foreign student Ingemar
Gallno will leave the campus No-vember
20th, next Monday, to be-gin
his journey back to Sweden.
Mr. Gallno is scheduled to leave
New York, on the Swedish liner
Gripsholm, on December the 15th,
He will accompany the Bethel
Courrier Quartet.
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Vol. XXVII—No. 5
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, November 17, 1950
Local Churches Launch Building Program
Sophomores Will Sponsor
Nikolina's Dag Nov. 30
Three__ choral__ numbers__ were
rendered by the Chapel Choir, re-presenting
the music department
of the school. The athletic program
as climaxed in football was pre-sented
by team co-captains, John
Viren and Ronald Skoog, who
sketched their experience of play-ing
on a united, Christian team to
the glory of God.
The male quartet, James Rentz,
Bruce Woodman, Lloyd Cummings,
and Richard Anthony presented a
study in music and verse and pro-vided
a musical background for
chalk drawing entitled "Dreams
and Stones" by Eugene Johnson.
Pres. Wingblade gave a graphic
presentation of the spiritual and
material necessity of the daily
Chapel programs in the worship
'ife of the students.
Closing on the theme, "Arise
and go to Bethel and build an altar
to your God", Dr. Widen outlined
the scope of the Centennial pro-gram
and tentative building plans,
inviting those present to partici-pate
in reaching the goal for 1952.
Closing prayer was offered by
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, President
emeritus, followed by the benedic-tion
by Mr. Wyman Malmsten.
The Centennial Anniversary pro-gram,
as tentatively outlined, in
eludes the already completed erec-tion
of the present library and
Hagstrom residence, and the fut-ure
construction of a new chapel,
music and administrative unit as
an extension of the library struc-ture
and a separate athletic build-ing
or gymnasium at either the
north or south end of the campus.
It is hoped ground may be brok-en
for the new construction in the
spring of 1951 and that the struc-tures
might be completed for Bap-tist
General Conference Centennial
celebration on the campus in the
summer 1952.
Clarion Staff
To Have Party
Tuesday night, December 5, is
the date set for the first Clarion
Sfaff party of this year, it was
announced by Roger Hedberg, ed-itor.
The party will be held at the
home of Mr. David Guston, Clarion
advisor, whose address is 1344 N.
Snelling Ave., St. Paul (just one
and a half blocks South of the
campus).
All Clarion staff members will
attend, and will be given written
invitations soon. The party will be
both for the purpose of entertain-ment
as well as a brief business
session at which time problems of
editing will be discussed. Games
will be played and refreshments
served.
Enroute to New York, Mr. Gall-no
will speak at several Chicago
churches as well as speak over
the air on a Swedish program in
that city. Just before hopping the
boat, he will speak at the Trinity
and Dean St. Baptist churches in
New York.
Mr. Gallno has visited in this
country for the past year and now
goes back to Orebro, Sweden where
he will take up the pastorate of
the Ebenezer Baptist church,
which is part of the Swedish Bap-tist
Union in Sweden.
Mission Emphasis
January 22-29
Plans are being made by The
Missionary Band for the forthcom-ing
Missionary Emphasis Week to
be held on campus January 22-29.
Already slated to speak are Eric
Frykenberg, August Berg, and
Bengt Anderson, Missionaries to
India, and Dale Bjork, recently
returned missionary from China.
Sten Lindberg, China Missionary,
presently on a visit to Japan, will
be present at the meetings to
speak if he returns before the
meetings.
In cooperation with the Mission-ary
Band, the Elim Baptist Church
of Minneapolis, and the Central
Baptist Church of St. Paul, are
helping sponsor the speakers and
will use them in evening meet-ings
in their churches.
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"We are sorry that due to in-clement
weather last week the
Sophomore hayrack ride had to be
called off. No doubt we will now
abandon the hay rack ride idea
and begin plans for a Sophomore
sleigh ride party for next quarter
sometime."
Sophomore Committee
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The imbecile is usually able to
guard himself against the common
physical dangers, but is incapable
of self support. He can be taught
very simple skills and usually
learns to speak a little. The moron
is, under certain circumstances,
able to become self sustaining. He
can be trained to work and to read
and write and do simple arithme-tic.
He has no imagination or reas-oning
powers. These are the class-es
of individuals that the Psy-chology
student had the opportun-ity
to observe.
A few of the types the stu-dents
observed were the Mongo-loid,
the microcephalic, the mac-rocephalic,
the hydrocephalic and
the Cretin. The etiological factors
of mental deficiency are many and
varied. They include hereditary
factors, germinal factors, embry-onic
factors, fetal factors, intrana-tal
factors, and postnatal factors
and undetermined factors.
In the process of the tour, each
of the group was entertained by
the singing and dancing of one
inmate and the piano playing of
another. In the school, they saw
the moron as he learned to read,
and write, and do simple and com-plex
manual skills.
Realizing the mental deficien-cies
of these individuals the visi-tors
from Bethel were surprised
at the degree of skill that some
of the inmates had attained in
weaving, sewing, embroidering,
lace making, and other such man-ual
tasks. Other inmates worked
in the laundry, and as janitors.
Vacatiafra @kyle
Isn't it great to have a vaca-tion
to use to rest up on after
these grueling days of tests?
Yep, we're being treated mighty
proper by the administration
these days. In case you haven't
heard by now, you don't have to
come to school Thanksgiving
Day. Nor the Friday that foll-ows;
nor Saturday and Sunday,
and not even Monday. (rhymes)
But, be sure you're back to
wipe the dust off your books
on Tuesday, November 28th,
because by 8 A. M. everything
starts in again.
There is a bright side to hav-ing
to start up again. That is,
looking forward to Christmas
vacation which will start just
19 days after we get back from
Thanksgiving vacation. CHRIST-MAS
VACATION DATES
HAVE BEEN CHANGED.
Thanks to the Student Council
(and the faculty) Christmas va-cation
starts at 5:30 P. M. Fri-day,
December the 15th, and
lasts through 5:30 P. M. Tues-day,
January 2nd, 1951. School
will begin again Wednesday
morning, January 3rd. This
change was made to give stu-dents
a longer period to work
before Christmas, which we
appreciate. So you see it's va-cations
galore.
Just in case the faculty
thinks we're a bit lazy, we'll
conclude by saying "we like
school, studies and all, but va-cations
are so much fun!!!
signed —Emcee
Thanksgiving Used
AsProgramTheme
For B WA Mon.
An informal meeting with a
Thanksgiving theme was held in
the Woman's Dormitory nine-thir-ty
last Monday night. Barbara
Mullin was in charge of the pro-gram
and Gloris Swanberg was in
charge of refreshments.
The meeting opened with prayer
by Ardis Anderson and the read-ing
of Psalm 100 by Barbara Mull-in.
Music on the program began
with a piano solo, Liszt's Liebest-raum,
by Nadine Westin. The
girls trio, Beverly Harris, Barbara
Port, and Carol Bessey used the
occasion of their first song, "Bless-ed
Be The Name", to get used to
playing on their ukuleles, after
which they also sang "Thanks to
God" and "We Gather Together".
Iva Strandlund sang. "Great Is Thy
Faithfulness" and Florence Jacob-son
played "Praise Him! Praise
Him!" on the bells.
The announcement that high-lighted
the evening was made after
the ice cream and cookies had
been passed out. Beverly Harris
announced that although the girls
knew about it already Nikolina
Dag was now officially proclaimed.
by Marlene Burt
The thing you've been dreading,
anticipating ("Who are you ask-ing?"
"Did you ask him yet?" "Is
he going?") and planning for will
be coming off right after Thanks-giving—
Thursday night, November
30th.
Mickolin's Dag—the Swedish
version of Sadie Hawkin's Day—
has been tossed around until the
big day is just around the corner.
Sponsored by the Sophomore
Class, the affair has Bev Harris as
its chairman, with her committee
also comprising Jo Johnson, Elaine
Holmquist, George Visel, and Hen-ry
Quiring, as well as the class
president, John Viren.
The evening social beginning at
7:30 will be in the form of a
mixer to be held in the College
gym. According to Miss Harris,
school clothes are to be worn.
Girls are to make vegetable cors-ages
or bow ties for their dates
and are to exhibit all the common
date courtesies they would expect
a boy to give them.
Among the games and relays to
be participated in will be the gay
"tunnel of love". The rest of the
program and personnel are to be
a surprise to the crowd.
Dr. Holmer Is
PDG Speaker
For Nov. 28
On Tuesday, November 28th, the
day school is resumed after
Thanksgiving vacation, Dr. Paul
Holmer, professor of philosophy
at the University of Minnesota,
will speak before the Progressive
Discussion Group, at a meeting to
be held in the seminary lounge be-ginning
at 9:00 P. M. Dr. Holmer
is an authority in the philosophy
of the 19th century Danish phil-osopher
Kierkegaard and will dis-cuss
with the group Kierkegaard's
attitude toward the scriptures.
This meeting will take the place
of the previously announced No-vember
21st meeting which was
post-poned because of fall quarter
final examinations.
Any of the campus male pers-onnel
who qualify for membership
and are interested in becoming
members of the Progressive Dis-cussion
Group are invited to at-tend
this discussion with Dr. Holm-er
as speaker, it was announced
by Roger Hedberg, group pres-ident.
Business to be taken up at the
meeting will include the voting on
an adoption for ammending the
PDG constitution under article II:
Membership. This ammendment
states that any one interested in
membership in the group, may be
given membership by showing in-terest
by attendance and during
the spring quarter of the year in
which he seeks membership, be
moderator of a discussion, writing
up a summary of the discussion.
This is offered as an alternative
to the former requirement of writ-ing
a paper on any current topic
in world affairs or in Christianity.
Kick-off Banquet Begins March
Toward $500,000 Goal on Campus
Launching the promotion of one-half million dollar Centennial
Anniversary building program on the Bethel campus, a kick-off banquet
was served to one hundred and thirty church leaders of the Twin
Cities and surrounding areas on Monday evening, Nov. 13, in the Bethel
dining room.
Dr. W. F. Widen, chairman of the Board of Education, presided as
Master of Ceremonies and introduced a program presenting the goals
of the promotional campaign as represented in three phases of student
life and activities on campus—music, athletics, and worship.
Virginia Lovaas
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THE CLARION Friday, November 17, 1950
The 'Thanks' In Thanksgiving (Etnig of 1E bouctht
by Henry
Thanksgiving is the strange practice of
Americans. Such, perhaps would be the
definition given by those living without
our nation. And, in most instances, their
definition would be applicable to the prac-tice
which exists. The original custom
carried cut was that of thanks•giving. Giv-ing
thanks unto God for his many bless-ings.
But we have made it a feast for
gluttons.
At no other season of the year do we
eat so much. In fact, we stuff ourselves.
Food has become our first thought; thanks
our last.
It is time for us to "awake" and to get
back to the original meaning of Thanks-giving.
Not only in this specific season,
Just about two years ago was the time
that Virginia Lovaas, a Bethel freshman,
became afflicted with polio and was taken
away to Ancker Hospital.
The dramatic story of her recovery was
told to this reporter by the quiet, dark
girl in a simple way, sliding over the
parts where her own effort played a
role.
Sheltering Arms,
a polio hospital in
Minneapolis w a s
the scene of Virg-inia's
many answers
to prayer. She tells,
"When I came there
I just didn't care
about getting well
for a time. Then
with the encourage-ment
of a certain
technician I w a s
forced into walk-ing."
Here she experienced one of her first
answers to prayer, many of which had
come from special prayer meetings at
Bethel. After a week of using sticks (she
now uses these supports which are simi-lar
to crutches) she was able to go home
without her wheel chair. The wheel chair
played only a small part in the perform-ance
for after three months of it, Virginia
began walking constantly on her sticks.
At the hospital she is referred to as an
"outsanding case" because the doctors had-n't
been sure how long 'till she'd walk
again.
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I liked the statement Miss Oesterle made
last Wednesday in chapel. She said that it
has not been the testimony by word of
mouth that has particularly blessed her
during her stay on campus, but that it has
been what she has sensed in lives that were
moving in routine activity, being unaware
that an impression was being made. Here,
I thought, was concrete evidence on our
own campus of something Christians talk
much about; exerting an influence by 'liv-ing
the life'. I was glad it could be said
abdut our campus.
Yet, by this chapel testimony I became
aware again of how often one should keep
in check that which he speaks in testi-mony
regarding his Christian experience.
Too often words are spoken in an honest
effort to make the influence we want to
make. Unfortunately, certain verbal testi-monies
become an offense rather than a
wholesome attractive source of power and
blessing to the hearers.
Through this testimony we heard in
chapel, we know that "living the life" has
borne fruit. I was challenged anew to 'live
the life' as I saw that it does mean some-thing
to others. In defining for myself
what this idea was all about I thought that
at least it might mean more devotion to
God and his principles of life, and at the
same time more industry in performing
asks well, not so much that I say some-thing.
Shop atitivie
by Marjorie Ford
Who is she? "Mona Lisa Erickson" or "A
Little Girl Left Waiting At The Ladies
Aid"? Why are the shadows in the wrong
places on that grain elevator? Who can
make sense out of that whirl of technicolor
feather dusters? so runs coffee shop rep-artee.
Why not ask Gene Johnson? He is the
artist responsible for the cultural conver-sation-
pieces complimenting sale of Gus's
`Swedish gasoline'.
When approached on the subject, 'Gene'
shyly chuckled and stated that there are
no hidden meanings nor exciting stories
behind his work in the coffee shop but
the rather mundane motivation of produc-ing
required projects for summer sessions
art work at the U. of Iowa, where he is
taking graduate study toward his master or
Fine Arts Degree.
Mr. Johnson declines to be classed as an
artist of any particular school, though he
enjoys the impressionistic type of express-ion.
The cock fight he suggests calling
"Fighting Feathers", stressing the move-ment,
color and action of the fight, not the
birds—art not of the taxidermist but the
T. V. sports commentator. The grain eleva-tor
is not intended to show the way the
sun shines in Iowa but just to present
a pleasing form of line and shadow that
invites, the vewer to step n, look around
and enjoy himself. The girl on the farm
might have been finished very differently
or not at all, except that her production
was to prove the artist of the cock fight
could do something completely different.
Mr. Johnson, as he is known to his Bible
Survey students, is a graduate of Bethel
Seminary and spent two years of his coll-ege
career at Bethel and two at the Univ-ersity
of Southern California.He did some
pastoral work on the coast and traveled
in an evangelism team with Rev. Harold
Carlson and Lloyd Nordstrom.
"Gene's" art work is especially apprecia-ted
around Bethel, for, as one student put
it, "Well, at least when you're gazing into
two orbs of blue and coherent thought
fails, you can depend on sighing and say-ing,
'And what does that picture remind
you of?"
Nelson
but to realize anew the need of giving
thanks every day of the yea..
Many are the blessings for which we
can give thanks. So often we forget the
simple matter-of-fact blessings. The air we
breath; the food we eat; the bed upon
which we lie each evening; sight, ability
to speak and converse intelligently with
others; physical strength.
God's Word plainly declares, "In every-thing
give thanks for this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus concerning you." (I
Mess. 5:18). As you enjoy the fel owship
o1 loved-ones and friends this Thanks-giving
season, remember its purpose.
Thank God for all His blessings. Consider
and apropriate to the needs of others. God
will add other blessings.
A whole chain of events—of definite
answers to prayer—make up the story with
wFiich Virginia said she "could keep us
entertained for hours" in her testimony
at the Freshman Retreat. One of these
incidents came when she decided it was
time for her to go home. After much
prayer, Virginia announced her decision to
the doctors. Amazed at her determination
they considered, calculated, and then sent
her home. That night a verse in Virginia's
devotions struck her—"Is anything too
hard for the Lord?"
"At home convalescing, I was led into
the work of the church, which I wouldn't
have had an opportunity to participate in
before. The Lord provided so that I could
teach an Intermediate Sunday School class
and also help in D.V.B.S."
Dark-eyed Virginia feels that Christ def-initely
led her back to Bethel, for the
superintendent informed her that the Vo-cational
Rehabilitation Fund would pay
her tuition.
Virginia descrilles her two years away
from Bethel, and as a semi-invalid, as a
wonderful time of blessing from the Lord.
"Because I had to depend on Him so much,
I was certainly drawn closer to Him," she
says.
So, if you want a thrilling story of
the reality of God, get Virginia to go into
detail on the way God moved in her life.
She'll tell you how He overcame her fears,
answered her prayers, and brought her into
spiritual victory with Him.
President Wingblade
This is the season when we are reminded
in a special way to be thankful. The word
think and thank come from the same root.
How true it is that We are not likely to b
thankful unless we ai‘e thoughtful.
The Bible warns us to "think on our
way." That is, to consider searchingly our
life and what we are making of it.
A successful business man was asked
the secret of his success. He answered that
he had made it a practice for years ti
spend a period of time each day thinking
through hip business program and life's
urogram prayerfully, and to note the im-provement
that could be made.
Another outstandingly successful man,
when asked the same question, took his
fi iend into his private office and then
into an "inner, inner office" as he termed
it. There was a chair and a table with a
Bible on it.
"This, he said, is the place where I meet
each day with my silent Senior Partner.
We talk over the problems and the needs.
Here is the secret and the source which
accounts for the atmosphere which char-acterizes
my organization."
Years ago it was quite the thing to have
an efficiency expert visit plants and make
a study of the program and then bring
suggestions for improvement—to eliminate
waste and to improve output.
Individuals need something like that for
personal efficiency—somebody to make a
study of them and then report. It might
not be so pleasant. People do not like to
go to a doctor to discover whether or not
they have cancer��or some minor ailment.
They would rather drift, and then it may
be, suddenly realize that ciestruction had
come upon them.
The wise man goes to the doctor to
get the truth. The wise man seeks diligent..
ly to improve himself morally and spirit-ually.
Benjamin Franklin discovered thir-teen
faults in his life. He determined to
spend a Week on each to eliminiate it, and
then if there was any left at the end of
the thirteen weeks, he would begin all
over. No doubt he made some progress.
But how much better to have a silent
Senior Partner who knows all about us
and loves us,—and is willing and able to
transform our entire personality for the
purpose of highest efficiency.
The recipe is to think in His presence
and to thank Him unceasingly for His
transforming work.
Martyrdom Has
Its Moments
by Ann Radunz
Most of us undoubtedly have heard about
Thanksgiving, and even a few intellectual
souls know why it was originated, but how
many know of the part that young Jona-than
Pringleweed played? No one! Well,
I don't doubt it in the least, as Johnny
is only a figment of my poor imagination,
and would hardly be read about in a hist-ory
book, but, to me, he\ is the founder
and the foundation of this old tradition.
Jonathan Pringleweed was not like most
men of his times, in fact, he wasn't even
regarded as a man, but was considered
strictly for the birds. But this is not at
all surprising, for most turkeys are birds,
and Johnny certainly was no exception.
But one day, disaster struck! The white
mc.n sent out a petition among the turk-eys
to obtain recruits for a huge feast
they were preparing, and not one single
turkey responded. Johnny realized that if
no one volunteered, the women and child-ren
from their flock would be forcefully
taken along with the men, and this, he
would not tolerate.
The first name to appear at the top of
tha list, the name that embarrassed the
courageous and spurred on the cowardly,
was that of Jonathon Pringleweed. He was
happy to do something for his country and
deeply honored at the thought of being
the first turkey used in the Thanksgiving
feast.
The day approached and the rejoicing
crowd drew together, giving thanks for the
bounty of food and blessings. But one little
turkey was by far the happiest at the
occasion, even though he was in a stew.
Prayer and Perseverance
Conquer Polio
by Marty
Battle of the Books
by Jean Hoskings
While many and varied ideologies are vying for acceptance with a book-buying
public, those who have the true gospel of Christ are just beginning to realize the
potent challenge of recent public interest in serious reading. Wilbur M. Smith in
"Therefore Stand" talks about the "battle of the books". Far from winning this
important battle, in his opinion, evangelical Christians are not even in it to any
appreciable extent.
The other night I noticed a review in the November Christian Life of an Inter-varsity
Christian Fellowship book entitled "The World's Religions", edited by J. N.
D. Anderson. It reminded me of how a student of Bible Institute of Pennsylvania
told me last winter that their instructor had looked for a textbook to use in a class
of comparitive religion but found none that could even be adapted to evangelical
needs. The instructor had pointed out that here was something for a Christian with
proper training and ability to do. This review encouraged me to believe that here
was one book need that had been met.
Publishers like Wm. B. Eerdman, Zondervan, and Moody Press who are especially
committed to the publication of evangelical literature complain that they cannot get
carefully written material. In order to be able to print more worth-while books they
have resorted to reprinting works of Christians of other ages. Typical of this is the
Christian Classic series published by Moody Press. Such books are a real adventure
to experience and have some pertinent things for us to apply in our Christian lives
today, but they are still of the past. We need books of today to meet today's chall-enge.
Although the need is for a great number of books, the need is for books of such
caliber that they require much as years of patient research, in order to stand beside
the best the world can offer.
It means more than initial inspiration. It means hours of pouring over volumes
heavy in more ways than one, hunting for obscure details, carefully checking facts.
Among both writers and publishers there is an awareness of the poor quality of
evangelical writing and contests offering prizes for better work have been launched
as one effort to improve this condition. Besides reprints, there are some good books
being published which have a ,real evangelical message and are carefully done. Still,
much that comes from evangelic-al publishers are not worth the costly expenditure
of publishing them.
Not much will be done about really getting into the "battle of the books" until
Christians as a whole see the importance of publishing a literature to represent
the ideals and aims of our evangelical faith. We need to consider publishing Christian
books and magazines not as a sidelight to the ministry, mission field, and Christian
education, but as an integral part of them without which they could not go far.
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The some two hundred persons
who were in attendance at the
Chamber Music Recital in the Coll-ege
Chapel on November the third
heard the works of Buxtehude,
Handel, Raid, and Brahms, well
performed. The music was made
to speak to our hearts and lifted
us above our mundane living.
Mildred BisgrOve, pianist; Valdeko
Kangro, • violinist; and Kaljo Raid,
'cellist were the artists of the
evening.
The works performed were high-ly
appreciated by the audience,
especially Mr. Raid's own Duo for
Violin and Cello, and the Brahms
Trio Sonata. It is not very often
that we here at Bethel, are privi-ledged
to hear a concert of such
a high calibre and yet performed
by Christian musicians. We should
be thankful to God for providing
such fine consecrated musical tal-ent
for our cultured education and
spiritual edification.
Present at the evening's concert
was Mr. Charles E. Herbrig, the
maker of Valdeko Kangro's violin.
He operates his violin shop at the
First Federal Building, 5th and Ce-dar,
in St. Paul. Mr. Kangro's vio-lin
is valued at $1,000, and Mr.
Herbrig makes three or four such
violins per year, plus other cheap-er
ones. He also does repair work.
It took him eight months to com-plete
work on Mr. Kangro's vio-lin.
This violin is made after the
Stradivari style, made of imported
Maple from the Carpachian Hills
of Czecholslovakia. The top wood
is a special fine grain of Feathered
Spruce, imported from Czecholslo-vakia.
Born in Minnesota, Mr. Her-brig
has been in the violin pro-fession
since 1910. He learned his
profession both by observing pro-fessionals,
and by learning from
other violin makers.
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From the ranks of Bethel stu-dents
Uncle Sam has begun to
call. Army Reservist Lucius Butler
has received orders to report to
the Reception Center, Fort Sheri-dan,
Illinois, on Saturday, Novem-ber
18th. Upon completion of pro-cessing,
Lucius will be sent to
duty at the 9952 TSU-SGO Madi-gan
Army Hospital, Fort Lewis,
Washington. In a matter of hours,
Lucius will no longer be Mr. But-ler,
but, by retaining his rank
during previous military service,
he will be Staff Sergeant Butler,
U. S. Army.
Lucius has been in his second
year of college, having begun as a
freshman last year after his dis-charge
from the service. He will
not go back into service alone
however, for last Saturday night,
at the Calvary Baptist church,
Donna Medchill, former Bethel
student, became Mrs. Lucius Butler
and plans to accompany her hus-band
to his station. _
Clothing from the drive ending
last Friday has been steadily pil-ing
up in the hand-ball court in
the Edgren residence where it will
be packed and sent to the east
coast, with Hamburg, Germany as
its final destination, the clothing
will leave New York addressed to
Mr. Kenneth Norquist -who will be
in charge of seeing that it is prop-erly
distributed.
Response during the two weeks
of the drive was good. Volunteers
for packing the clothing will be
needed in the near future and will
be asked to indicate free hours
when they could assist in this
manner.
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THE CLARION
Page
Debaters to Enter Six Major Tournaments
Left to right, Annamarie Oesterle, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Norquist
as they appeared shortly after Annamarie's arrival at Bethel a year
ago. The three are examining colored slides of Germany. Mr. Norquist
returned to Germany in August to represent the Baptist General
Conference and the Baptist World Alliance in missionary work among
the displaced persons of that country. Annamarie will sail from New
York December 8.
The Challenge Is Made
Will Bethel Answer?
by Margaret Sheffler
"Leaving Bethel is like leaving home," Annemarie was saying, "and
yet .... there will be new challenges in Germany." It was Wednesday
afternoon. I tried to forget that the dark-haired girl with the firm
challenging ring in her voice would be leaving the campus in one more
week.
She would work for a German publishing house, perhaps. To teach
German young people of the Christ she loved would be her first
goal, though, I knew. But it was not as simple as that. Her home-ties were
cut. She could not be sure, even, that she could obtain lodging in what-ever
German city she found employment.
Russia casts a shadow on her homeland, but the girl in the bright
blue sweater could still smile. 'Christ is the answer,' she declared
firmly. "The leaders in Germany do not have the answer to social
problems. Christ is the answer."
Then came the quick, stern questions with which she has challeng-ed
my own life since first she took Christ as her Saviour.
"Why do American Christians—the Christians at Bethel—do so
little to see that the American government follows Christian principles?
Why do they not exercise more of a voice in the government, since
democracy gives them that opportunity? Christ is the only answer
for them, too." Christianity, if it is Christ-centered, ought to produce
good citizens according to Annemarie's reasoning.
And I knew she was right. She was challenging Bethel to act.
I remembered that the first time I saw Annemarie was in the
Norquist living room in St. Paul about a year ago. She was a little
unsure of the American way of life, but interested in democracy even
then. Her first impressions of Bethel had not yet congealed into words.
She needed "a day to reflect between each day's activity."
"I 'have come to the conclusion," she told me gravely later on,
"that Christianity is more than a way of life. Christianity is a Person—
the Lord Jesus Christ."
From that time on she grew in the Lord. Christ was to her a
marvelous discovery. He over-ruled every discouragement. Her confi-dence
in Him seemed unshakeable. She wrote an article for the Stan-dard,
emphasising the Christian life as a process of growth. And for
her it is that. She will settle for no less.
"You ought to get two pairs of good walking shoes before you go
back to Germany," a well-meaning Bethelite counselled Annemarie.
"So that the Russians can have them when they take Germany
over?" was Annemarie's rejoiner. But she grinned as she said it. She
had Christ and He is more powerful than the Russians.
"I would be discouraged at having to go back," someone told her.
"I was born a pessimist." "Oh?" came from Annemarie, "the second
time, too?"
Annemarie will leave campus Wednesday morning, heading for
NeW York and eventually, Heidelburg. But Bethelites will not forget
the German exchange student. "You have so much!"—her words will
echo in their memory. "Trust your Christ and share Him with others.
Put a Christian emphasis into your government. Christ is the answer."
Yes, the words will echo in Bethel's memory, but the test of
thought is action.
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Also Schedule Interschool Debates
With Local Colleges Dec.-April
A full schedule of tournaments has now been planned for the
debaters this year. Besides the various interschool debates with colleges
in the Twin City area, the debaters will enter the following tourna-ments:
Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls—December 8 & 9.
Red River Valley Tournament, Concordia College and Moorhead
State Teachers, Moorhead—February 2 & 3.
Eau Claire State Teachers College, Eau Claire—February 16 & 17.
Northwest Debate Tournament, St. Thomas College, St. Paul—March
1, 2 & 3.
Delta Sigma Rho—U. of Wisconsin Tournament, Madison, Wiscon-sin—
March 9 & 10.
University of Minnesota Tournament, Minneapolis—April 6 & 7.
The teams are now shaping up and are showing more promise
than originally anticipated. While only a few of those out have had
any appreciable experience, a great deal of interest is being shown
in the very pertinent question: "Resolved, that the non-Communist
nations would form a new international union."
If there is any area where
teachers, preachers and the like
need to be informed it is in this
one, for the problem of world
government promises to be the
most important question of the
coming century (provided mankind
exists that long). Those of us who
have been blessed with the oppor-tunity
of an education have a duty
of searching out the facts and of
bringing to the public unprejudic
ed and honest clarification of the
issues which arise and if we fail
in this duty it will be a case of the
blind leading the blind, a situa-tion
which we in America can ill
afford to tolerate in these days of
extreme international tension. A
debater who stays out for the sea-son
is very fortunate in that he
is given the opportunity first, to
learn all about the U. N. with its
strengths and weaknesses and
secondly, he is given the oppor-tunity
to discuss it with some of
the leading students In the coll-eges
of the Northwest. One who
stays out for the entire season
will find himself so full of infor-mation
at the end that he will
have little difficulty in discussing
with the very learned the ins and
outs of the U. N.
Here is a real opportunity for
those who wish to grow in this
respect. It is late but tryouts are
still being given to those who
still wish to learn the art of pub-lic
speaking through debate.
German Club Has
Farewell Party
The German Club held its sec-ond
regular meeting on Tuesday,
November 7th at 11:20 a. m. in
the lounge of the girls' dormitory.
It was a farewell party for three
of our students who will be leav-ing
us soon. Annamarie Oesterle
was the guest of honor, and was
presented with a birthday gift
from the club. Ingermar Gallno,
who returns to Sweden next
month accompanied by Bethel
Courier Quartet, and Lucius But-ler,
who will be in the armed
forces soon, were also presented
with gifts at that time.
Special music was provided by
Anna Karcher and Carolyn Clark.
They played a violin duet, accom-panied
by Mr. Kangro.
Speakers were Annamarie Oest-erle,
Ingermar Gallno, and Axel
Bjorholm.
The next meeting will be the
Christmas party.
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At long last I have my new column head. Now I shall ask you
faithful three people that read this column to quit wondering what
happened. It's just that after ordering it fairly early in the year, it
got stalled somewhere and it did not arrive until a short time ago.
Now, I suppose that the rest of my staff, Oliver DuFrene, and Wilbur
Madsen (he promised to write a story some day), will want their
names in big type too!
After watching some of the basketball workouts, I have drawn a
few conclusions. Bud Pierce is one of the finest players I have seen.
Pete Unruh, Gordy Johnson, Art Hage, and Dick Bandy all look very
good in their off asive work. Looking great defensively are Dean
Stromwell, a fine ball handler, and his running mate, Gene Messenger.
Chuck Lindgren and Ralph Martin both have the height on the team-the
boy named Chuck goes way up to 6-5, and Ralph measures about
6-3. The prospects for the season look good to me. Be at the first home
game on December 5!
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&telt 1000 2/a4cis gamed
The following records are statistics compiled from the sea-sons'
play of the Bethel 1950 football spad. No records are avail-able
on Worthington game, but figures do include the other
five games. All statistics by Cliff Smith.
First Downs
Against: Rochester 5, Ely 7, Northland 4, Morris 15, Austin 9,
TOTAL 40.
Yards Gained Rushing
Against: Rochester 90, Ely 181, Northland 126, Morris 223,
Austin 178, TOTAL 798.
Yards Gained Passing
Against: Rochester 88, Ely 104, Northland 23, Morris 65, Austin
27, TOTAL 307.
Forward Passes Attempted
Against: Rochester 3, Ely 11, Northland 7, Morris 9, Austin 13,
TOTAL 43.
Forward Passes Completed
Against: Rochester 3, Ely 4, Northland 3, Morris 4, Austin 3,
TOTAL 17.
Total Yardage For All Games
Against All Five Teams: 1,105, Average Per Game of 221 Yards.
Opponents Total Yardage For All Games
Against Bethel: 625, Average Per Game of 125 Yards.
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THE CLARION Page 4 Friday, November 17, 1950 Luther to Test Cagers In Season Opener
SmashAustin14-6
In Football Final
In the final football game of the
season, Bethel downed Austin 14-
6. The game, played October 27,
was at Austin. The win gave the
squad a season mark of five wins
and one loss.
Both teams displayed a fierce
type of football as they tackled
savagely and blocked expertly.
Several players on both sides were
injured in the fray.
Although Bethel held command
throughout most of the game, they
had to fight continuously to main-tain
their advantage. Scoring in
the second quarter on a one-yard
smash was Don Spratt after a sus-tained
drive of 27 yards. Dick
Chadderdon ran for the extra
point.
In the third quarter Ron Skoog
broke loose for a 16 yard dash to
scoring ground. Once again, Chad-derdon
ran the point after touch-down.
The score at the end of
three quarters was 14-0.
Austin picked up their score in
the last quarter on long passes.
Penalties against Bethel helped
the Blue Devil cause as they drove
62 yards, climaxed by a two yard
smash by Gene Goich. The extra
point was no good.
GRID SUMMARY
Bethel 13 Rochester 0
Bethel 0 Worthington 14
Bethel 40 Ely 0
Bethel____13 Northland 7
Bethel____31 Morris 0
Bethel _14 Austin 6
Total ___111 .27
B Squad to Play
Practicing with the varsity squad
so far this year, the "B" squad
is preparing for the coming sea-son.
Their opening game will be at
Luther on November 27. This
game will be a preliminary to the
varsity game with Luther.
The squad will be composed of
those who do not make the varsity.
About ten men will be included.
Elmer Fischer will direct the
squad in its games which include:
Luther, Superior State, Northwest-ern
Schools, Austin and Twin City
church teams.
West F'ball Champs
Intramural football has ended
with West being crowned champ.
In the playoffs, West beat East,
and Illinois qualified for the finals
by knocking off Iowa. In the
championship game, West beat
Illinois, 20-0, for the title.
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yearbook of the entire grid team.
•Individual shots were taken of
each man in game uniforms. Each
of these pictures will appear in
the sports section of the book
when the Spire appears in May.
The pictures were taken by
Ralph Carlson and Dick Lovell
under the direction of Photo Edi-tor
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Schedule Begins at New Ulm;
First Home Game December 5
The curtain on the 1950-'51 basketball season will be raised on
Grid Captains For
'51 Season Chosen
The anual football banquet was
held on October 31 in the dining
hall. Attending the banquet were
Dean and Mrs. C. E. Carlson; Ath-letic
Director Del Ray Peterson
and Mrs. Peterson; grid coach
Lynn Lundeen and his girl; assis-tant
coach Elmer Fischer, and the
entire football squall.
After a delightful meal, Ron
Skoog presided over a program
which included colored slides,
speeches by Dean Carlson, and
Lynn Lundin, and the presenta-tion
of a plaque to Mr. Lundin.
The plaque had the team members
names inscribed, the season's re-cord
and carried the theme, "For
His Glory."
Co-captains for next year were
elected by the squad. The new
captains are Bob Schumacher and
Clarence Anderson. Turning over
the duties were this years co-captains,
Ron Skoog and John
Viren.
Sport Shots Taken
Monday night, November 27. Hoping to start off the season with a
win, the Bethel cagers will take on the Martin Luther team which
they beat twice last year in a game at New Ulm, Minnesota.
The first home game of the season will be the second scheduled
game, that with Northwestern Schools of Minneapolis. This contest
will be played at Minnehaha Academy as will all Bethel home games.
Following these two opening
games wil come tilts with Itasca,
Northland, Bethany, Austin, Con-cordia,
and probably with Wart-burg,
Worthington, Waldorf and
possibly others.
The entire squad .which consists
of about twenty five at the pre-sent
time, has been practicing
hard in daily workouts. Much of
the talent is new, although some
of the candidates are familiar, hav-ing
played last year. A squad cut
is expected soon, after which those
named to compose this year's team
will aim for the Luther game.
At present, those who appear
most likely due for positions on
the first ten are: Bud Pierce, Pete
Unruh, Art Hage, Dick Bandy,
Gordy Johnson, Ralph Martin,
Gene Messenger, Dean Stromwell,
Chuck Lindgren, and Wayne
Thompson. Pushing them hard for
starting positions are: Lowry Fred-erickson,
Art Vogel, Cliff Ander-son,
Dave Sheldon, and Jim Lem-on.
Getting a late start because they
played on the grid team, but
nevertheless trying hard are the
following: Clarence Anderson, Rod
Kjell, Ray Brace, Stan Mayer, Don
Spratt, Dick Chadderdon, and Bob
Schumacher. Two of the fellows
Harry Nelson, and Ron Nelson are
on the sidelines at present with
injuries.
Coach Del Ray Peterson, aided
by Elmer Fischer, is working the
squad in two hour drills daily in
the gym. Practice has been held
in the Minnehaha gym on several
occasions to acquaint the fellows
with the floor on which they will
be playing. The manager of the
team has been named in the per-son
of George Martins. One new
look is the new practice shorts
the team is wearing.