THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 11 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) February 24, 1942
Chapel Hour Offers
ManyNotedSpeakers
Moslem Authority Speaks
Bethel's location in the Twin
Cities gives it the opportunity of
hearing many of the outstanding
Christian leaders of America at
daily chapel services.
Tuesday, February 17, Dr. Arthur
I. Brown, a surgeon who gave up
his lucrative practice in Vancou-ver,
B. C., to write books and lec-ture
about the Bible and its Author,
presented some thoughts about the
fallacies of the evolutionary theo-iries
so prevalent in colleges and
universities today.
Wednesday, Rev. Roy L. Laurin,
a California pastor formerly Vice-
President of the Bible Institute of
Los Angeles who is now a radio
broadcaster on the Bible in North
and South America, spoke.
Friday, February 20, Chief White-feather
who is conducting services
at the Simpson Memorial Church
was here. Chief Whitefeather is
a full-blooded Dakota Indian who
has been a screen star, radio fea-ture
artist at Music Hall, New
York, and grand opera singer in
Europe and America. Since his
conversion in 1933, he has devoted
his time to evangelistic work
among the Indians.
Yesterday, Rev. D. R. Aikenhead,
Superintendent of Child Evangel-ism
work of Canada, gave the ad-dress,
and this morning Dr. Bob
Jones, founder and President of
Bob Jones College in Cleveland,
Tennessee spoke.
Wednesday, February 25, Samuel
M. Zwemer, a former professor
from Princeton University will
speak. He is THE authority on
the Moslem religion and the author
of many books.
Gordon Johnson Heads
Curtis Hotel Program
Actively making plans for the
big event of Bethel's social calen-dar,
the annual JunionSenior Ban-quet,
May 8, are various Freshman
committees. It has been decided
that the banquet will be held at the
Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis: It is
hoped that Governor Harold Stas-sen
can be the programme speaker.
A room with indirect lighting, an
organ, and a loud speaking system
has been secured.
The banquet program committee
is headed by Gordon Johnson;
transportation facilities are under
the direction of Harold Helsing;
head of the decoration committee
is June Hedman, while Sidney
Wyma is chairman in charge of
corsage arrangements.
One committee which is not a
part of the banquet proper is a
dating bureau. This bureau is
headed by Rune Mentzer. He re-quests
that all students who desire
to make a request of the bureau
do so at least three weeks before
the eighth of May.
With six colleges, Bible train-ing,
and medical training schools
already actively participating in
the Student's Twin City Missionary
Retreat, and other colleges such as
Macalaster voicing eager interest,
the meetings to be held at Medi-cine
Lake, May 1-3, promise to be
enthusiastic affairs.
Ruth and Harold McClure of
French Equatorial Africa will be
the missionaries representing Be-thel.
Ruth is the daughter of Rev.
Jacob Peterson of Worchester,
Mass., and sister of Gordon Peter-son,
who was graduated from Be-thel
last Spring.
Rev. Reuben Nelson has been
charged to secure a missionary
from this area to give the main
address of the series.
The six schools who are formally
engaged in this organization are
Augsburg, Bethel, Gustavus Adol-phus,
Mounds Midway Training
School, St. Olaf and St. Paul Bible
Institute. William Hagstrom of
Bethel Seminary is president of the
federation.
Representatives met at St. Olaf
last Wednesday to lag plans for
the event.
"Us On a Bus"
Is Trip Theme
So that you may hear an un-biased
account of the all-school
trip to Albert Lea, the editorial
division of the CLARION has taken
over the assignment.
The Greyhound Chartered left
Bethel nearly on schedule. They
packed us all in. Al Walker had
a newspaper which he read and
passed around. Dick Braun and
Nelt Friesenberg harmonized ter-ribly
far apart and at last someone
resorted to a comb in an effort to
drown them out. Ben Anderson
won all honors with his introduc-tion
of the first ten verses of "A
Boy's Best Friend is His Mother,
His Mother!"
Margaret Erickson suffered from
exhaust gas which crept up into
the back row; and everyone else
suffered chills from the window it
was necessary to open.
The game was a bit of all right—
see the back page for details. Any-way
we won. Rev. Bloom dashed in-to
our midst as the final buzz sound-ed
and invited the whole crowd a-cross
the street to the First Baptist
Church for an hour of fellowship.
Pat Malone Demonstrates
Marvels of the Universe
By merely turning adapted light
rays upon his rocks, Pat Malone,
nation famous geologist and Christ-ian
lecturer on the marvels of the
universe, will demonstrate the
Maker's great workmanship to the
College Club aggregation Friday
night, February 27.
Mr. Malone's lecture is reported
to be one of great interest, beauty,
and informative value.
Many churches in the Twin
Cities have already had the pri-vilege
of witnessing this program.
At the Bethel meeting a collection
will be taken for the club, Re-freshments
will be served for a
minimum price.
Assam Mission
Pleads For Aid
Called home by death Jonas Ahl-quist
was stopped in a work dear
to his heart . . . and uncompleted.
That work was the building of a
mission school in Kangpokpi, Mani-pur
State, Assam.
Rev. Ahlquist was to have been
ealIoted one thousand rupees for the
edifice. By careful planning and
by undertaking to do the work
personally, Jonas Ahlquist wrote
he could do the job for eight
hundred rupees.
The Master called and Jonas Ahl-quist,
a year ago, answered the
summons to go home. The school
was uncompleted. His successor
is unable to complete the building
for less than the original estimate.
The .plea has come back: Send the
two hundred rupees of the original
estimate!
In answer to this plea the Mis-sionary
Band has set as one if its
goals $75 (the equivalent of two
hundred rupees.) for the Manipur
school. So far $50 of the $125 goal
has been turned in.
Neill Hauk, executive secretary
of the Foreign Missions Fellowship
will speak to the Missionary Band,
25.
ted by "plugging" his summer as-semblies.)
Miss Platts was prevailed upon
to stop at Faribault on the way
home; we all applied ice packs to
fevered brows and called it a day.
From there on in almost every-to
Follow
Itinerary
Nine City Recitals;
March 12 to Be First
With six weeks remaining before
their annual concert tour, the Male
Chorus, under the direction of Nels
Stjernstrom, is rapidly perfecting
its proposed repertoire.
April 6 has been set as the be-ginning
date of the trek and the
proposed itinerary includes approx-imately
fifteen churches in upper
Wisconsin, northern and southern
Michigan and Chicago.
According to tentative plans, the
25 chorus members will travel by
bus unless priority transportation
of soldiers is heavy at this time, in
which case the whole trip may be
cancelled. -
Although all numbers have not
been rehearsed, the well-known
"Lord's Prayer" by Millat will be
offered with other new selections
and some faithful stand-bys such
as "Studenten Sang" and "Rain".
One of the highlights of the con-certs
will be a medley of Negro
spirituals and "I Have A House
Not Made With Hands" by Robert
Harkness, for which –Mr. Stjern-strom
has written the harmony.
A number of Twin City churches
will be given a chance to preview
the chorus during the month of
March. Among the churches to be
visited are Temple, Central, Lake
Harriet, Fourth, Elim, and First.
Swedish Baptist churches. The
first of these concerts is to be held
at Temple Baptist church on
March 12.
Final arrangements and details
are being handled very ably by Mr.
Stjernstrom, director, and Carl
Lundquist, chorus president.
Mentzer Will
"Fix it up!"
Not that most Bethelites need
one, but to oblige a few backward
rascals and bashful maids, Rune
Mentzer has announced his inten-tion
of opening a dating bureau
under the auspices of the Fresh-man
class. The object will be to
procure dates for the "J. S." Ban-quet
to be held May 8.
Featuring all the super advan-tages
of "Available Jones" estab-lishment;
a laconical proprietor
with a will to please, judicious and
tactful arrangements, cut - rate
prices, secrecy, and what have you,
the undertaking promises to be a
real student boon.
The class is especially worried
about some bashful Seminary fel-lows
who "Al" Walker says are
willing to go but who are uncertain
of "who will go with . .".
All applicants must sign up three
weeks before the happy event.
May Retreat Held Male Chorus
At Medicine Lake
Great Lakes
Here's where we got the surprise
of our lives. Miss Platts, when
called upon for a reading, was
tongue-tied! (Almost). Also Coach
declined to sing his much-publici-zed
seven verses! (He recapitula- one slept.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
Escape of a World War I pilot
from Russia disclosed only recent-ly
the discovery in 1915 of a
strange and curious ark beached
high and dry on the crest of Mount
Ararat.
On a low reconnaissance flight
over the mountain the young pilot
noted a strange vessel stranded by
a lake cached high on the summit's
top. He reported to his comman-der
who ordered ground troops to
scale the mountain from either
side.
The ark was discovered. It's
length was estimated to be a city
block long. It's structure was very
plain, only a narrow passage
around the entire ship and a door
twenty feet square adorned the
massive ship.
The boat which was frozen ten
months of the year was almost per-fectly
preserved. It was noted
that the ship's timber consisted of
Wonder what Glenn Anderson's
hair would look like if that wave of
his were deflated and combed as
other people comb their hairs . . .
Why hasn't someone with an in-ventive
mind created a felt-cush-ioned
affair that would deaden the
piercing sound of the wall-banging
telephone receiver on second floor
at the girl's dorm? . . .
Guess that editorial several
weeks ago must have missed its
mark? We're still wondering why
the United States flag isn't flying
from Bethel's flag pole . . .
The student body sympathizes
with Dorothy Nelson over the stiff
neck she got while simply sleeping
in bed, she said. . . .
Is it indicative of the residents'
rate of speed that the clocks in
a peculiarly hard, durable wood.
Over a hundred compartments
had been built in the ark, some of
such size that they could have
housed animals larger than ele-phants.
Some compartments were
smaller and contained perches or
roosts—as if prepared for birds.
Pictures were taken of the ark
and all the information filed in the
Royal Russian achives. Upon the
intrusion of the revolutionary gov-ernment
in 1915 the archive re-cords
were destroyed. Until now
this astonishing discovery has not
been made known.
A shrine near the ark brought
to mind the tradition that in 600
B. C. devotees pligrimaged to Ara-rat
to worship. These pilgrimages
were gradually discouraged be-cause
of the intense hardship.
Can it be that God has withheld
this revelation as a reawakening
for a very skeptical age?
the Seminary are lagging quite a
bit behind Central War Time? . .
From the likes and looks of
things, Gordy Johnson, Bethel's
orator, is getting in a few practice
licks before spring blooms forth in
all its glories and possibilities . . .
A thing to marvel at is the fac-ulty's
amiability in still laughing
at jokes the chapel speakers bring
in. Just think how many times
we've heard those jokes in the few
years that we've been here, and
then think what it must be for
them. Must be a sympathetic na-ture,
no less, for the jokes aren't
funny . . .anymore.
Students ! Now is your big
chance to see the CLARION office
since its recent house-cleaning
ecidmial Co.inoneal
The Human Equation
Many scathing, yet good-humor-ed
remarks have been lipped the
past week. I've been handling
them and puzzling over both sides
of the question.
You've voiced a situation and I'm
admitting it . .I'm also defending
it. You see, just tonight I happen-ed
upon the answer,
The object of your ire is one who
formerly was one of your darlings.
That's why you are taking the dis-illusionment
so harshly. You are
one part of my human equation.
The second part of my problem
in social-relations geometry is a
blue-eyed livewire who a few
weeks ago was hailed as the re-awakened
Bethel school spirit. To-day
he's in a bit of a mess . . feel-ing
a bit blue about it. It is a
little hard to cheer.
Remember the old adage; "He
ain't heavy, mister, he's my bro-ther!"
This lad started our new enthu-siasm
and we've got him to thank
for that. Let's tide him over now.
He's our brother!
splurge. Hurry while this free
offer remains open to all. . . .
I've reached the conclusion that
it's impossible to walk into the
library at any period of any of the
five schools days and not find the
Westmo's studying . . .
Cutest trick of the month . . .
After one of the Seminary stu-dents
who lives in the Twin Cities
mentioned that it would be im-perative
to get home and reach
those grades before father got
them, Walter Julien said, "Guess
I'll have to hurry home before
the children get my grades." . . .
The students also extend their
sympathy to Gordon Larson over
his three-fold loss, his girl, his
church and his solo in the Male
Chorus. . .
Meditations
Let your speech be always with
grace. Col. 4:6.
But let your- communication be;
"Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatso-ever
is more than these cometh of
evil." Matt. 5:37. What gift is so
valuable and such a source of plea-sure
as that of speech, conversa-tion,—
the expression of thought
between man and man! And yet
what gift so liable to abuse! The
Teacher who "spake as never man
spake" here, in his Sermon on the
Mount, shows us how to beware of
this evil. He warns us to let our
words be few.
Careless speech tends to frivo-lity.
He who utters may words
will speak many ill-advised, foolish
things. We should be on our
guard against rash, hasty speech.
This is the frequent source of un-kindness,
of uttering angry, heart-aching
words. "A soft answer tur-neth
away wrathk: but grievous
words stir up anger." Prov. 15:1.
Heeding this precept will, too,
keep us from impiety. It was be-cause
he reflected before he spoke
that Job "charged not God fool-ishly"
with unjust providential
dealings, and "in all this did not
sin with his lips." Job 2:10. Few
words, again, are the more likely
to be resolute, decisive words. A
positive "Nay" to the tempter;
how often it has rescued youth
from vice, or saved a soul to hea-ven
where compromising speech
would have lost both!
Let us then remember, each day,
this council of Jesus and begin it
with the Psalmist's prayer: "Set a
watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips." Psalm
141 : 3.
Direct, control, suggest, this day
All I design, or do, or say,
That all my powers, with all their
might,
In Thy sole glory may unite.
from Life's Golden Lamp
Ark, Reputed Noah's,
Found on Mount Ararat
hither and yawn • • •
Bethel Enters Drive
Sinks $6000 In Bonds
May it never be said that Bethel
is not a patriotic school, loyal to
the last of her Swedish Baptist
blood to the United States.
Did you know that the school has
$6,000 invested in Defense Bonds.
That several of the faculty mem-bers
have bought one $500 bond
apiece. That presents a pretty
fair picture. doesn't it? But the
students' record doesn't bear such
close scrutiny. An average of $25
a week for ice cream and candy,
not counting coffee and rolls and a
very slim $5 a week is spent for
defense stamps.
May we suggest that the Coffee
Shoppe for the convenience of its
patrons purchase defense stamps
and give them a prominent place
of display. We love America for
the privileges it has given us as
young people. This is not a goose-stepping
command, merely an ex-
Easter Speaker
"Rev. Lester Thompson, the stu-dents'
first choice will be speaker
at Bethel's Easter Week Service."
according to President H. C. Wing-blade.
OPERATED ON FRIDAY
We are sorry to hear that Ger-trude
Carroll was operated on last
Friday night at Deaconess Hospi-tal,
Minneapolis, for an appendec-tomy.
Our best wishes for a speedy
recovery.
pression of our appreciation. Our
sodas and pies al a mode won't be
taken from us.
Gruen watches have an unsel-fish
and patriotic slogan, "Buy a
Gruen watch, but buy a defense
bond first." Let the Bethel Stu-dent
motto be, "Buy a root beer
soda, but buy a defense stamp
first."
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Editor-in-Chief Alice Schouweller
Managing Editor David Carlson
Feature Editor Joyce E. Johnson
Sports Editor Bernard Hammerbeck
Reporters—David Moberg, Mary E. Hamlin, Mary Jenkins, Robert Christian-son,
Marilyn Peterson, Ma ry Ellen Lundquist, Gene Johnson, Art.
Circulation Phyllis Karlson
Doris Fanberg
Business Manager Gunnar Hoglund
Ass't Business Manager Harold Helsing
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Today's Youth Speaks
"Say not we laugh too much,
Or that we dream in vain;
Graveness of war may touch
Even the coolest brain.
We, so endowed with hope,
Laughter, and valor strong,
Left in the dark to grope,
Find courage in joy and song.
We have known much of ,hate,
Much of the world's blind
greed.
War-lords have planned our
Fate
And tried to command our
creed.
Yet, in our hearts there lies
Something of inborn strength,
Such as all storm edfies,
And promises peace at length.
Out of the darkest night
Our laughter shall ring out
clear,
We shall be glad despite
The presence of doubt and
fear.
Bid us ever to look
On wrongs that our foes have
done,
Take from us pen and book,
Put in our hands a gun.
Leave us our laughter though,
It is sO small a thing.
We shall need much, we know,
Though we forget to sing.
You say, 'They laugh too
much,
You of the older ones.
Laughter will be a crutch
For those who will soon bear
guns."
—Mary Elizabeth Hamlin
Congo Ministrant Anxious
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Dear Editor:
It was indeed a privilege to visit
Bethel last fall and again meet so
many of my old friends, at Bethel
and at the Minnesota churches I
visited. Last month I visited our
churches in South Dakota, and
there again I met many Bethelites,
with whom I had gone to school.
It is indeed a privilege to go a-round
telling folks about my dear
Congo friends and presenting their
needs. I am now in Pennsylvania
and was in Ohio last week.
But I am asking my many
friends to pray with me that I may
soon return to' the Congo, if that
be the Lord's will. The way things
are now, I cannot get a passport.
I enjoy the Alumni paper, the
last was forwarded to me here at
Sykesville.
Greetings to my many Bethel
friends.
Yours for Congo,
Mildred D. ()ism
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A Hair-raising Tale
by a Sleuth
This is just a short story. It's
about Gene Johnson and Bob Be•
gerud—and some stubble that
grows on top. It's slick—because
it's so short that slicking it pat is
the only way to keep it down.
But then who can keep those
two down long? They-re not super
tall anyway. But last Thursday
over the phone Bergie confided to
the press that he and Johnson
would wear a "part" the next day.
In vain did the press beg them
to postpone the fateful moment—
until say Tuesday morning when
the CLARION could scoop the sit-uation.
But no, pride conquered all
and the poor reporter was left in
the lurch.
I sit gazing proudly at them.
Two who have defied the raging
elements for months. At last they
have rejoined the popular fold.
Again they modestly display a crop
of hair—almost long enough to
part.
Bravo, boys!
Intramural
The season ended March 12,
Coach Adam announced that intra-mural
basketball playoffs will be-gin
March 15.
When the play-off schedule has
been completed the men's gym
classes will take up volley ball.
The women's classes will indulge
in archery and calisthentics; tumb-ling
and some phase of recreation-al
leadership.
The women's classes will not
play volley ball as they ran off
their schedule last fall. As soon
as the weather permits, all gym
classes will convene out on the
playing field to enter soft-ball com-petition.
Most of the gym class games are
very close competitive affairs. The
boys' sixth hour games usually
have a fairly good cheeking section.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Indians Excel Comets Emerge
F H o d Long on 68-30
The Concordia Comets handed
pn5ap5
Name: Betty White.
Nickname: "White".
Most-enjoyed pastime: Reading
and talking.
Culinary treat: Salt-water taffy,
Favorite lyric: "She Don' Wan-na'
".
Characteristic saying: Oh, I wish
I was a little piece of soap.
Most embarrassing moment:
Well, my face was red, anyway.
Most thrilling experience: Hit-ting
a Gov't car in Florida last win-ter.
Name: Bob Bergerud.
Nickname: "Bergie"
Most-enjoyed pastime: Eating.
Culinary treat: Chocolate - chip
cookies.
Favorite lyric: "I don't Want to
Walk Without You".
Characteristic saying: Man! Oh.
life!
Most embarrassing moment:
When I nipped the seat out of my
pants on a tobogganing party. (2
miles out in the country).
Most thrilling experience: A
week in camp with "Gwendolyn."
Name: Dana Larson,
Nickname: (I guess we'll have to
give him one).
Most-enjoyed pastime: Boys'
Dorm escapades.
Culinary treat: Jelly rolls.
Favorite lyric: "I'll Come Back
to You in Apple Blossom Time"
Characteristic sayings: Charlotte
Most embarrassing moment: A
stroll on a bridge in Youngstown.
(Ask Irene N.)
Most thrilling experience: Char-lotte
(repeatedly.)
Name: Phyllis Karlson.
Nickname : "Phizz".
Most-enjoyed pastime : Wasting
time.
Culinary treat: Chocolate cake
(my own brand).
Favorite lyric: "How About
You?"
Characteristic sayings : You
jeep.
Most embarrassing moment: It
will be when this comes out.
Most thrilling experience: That's
for me to know and you to find
out.
Name: Ingmar Larson.
Nickname: "Inge".
Most-enjoyed pastime: Studying.
Culinary treat: Anything I can
get.
Favorite lyric: "Blues in The
Night."
Characteristic saying: Shoot the
meat ball to me!
Most embarrassing moment: I
don't get embarrassed.
Most thrilling experience: Lor-raine
(spasmodically).
Name: Ruth Nelson.
Nickname: "Swede".
Most-enjoyed pastime : Sleeping
and eating.
Culinary treat: Oranges and
crackers.
Favorite lyric: "This Love of
Mine."
Characteristic saying:
Most e mbarrassing moment:
Started laughing when giving a
pep-talk in high school.
Most thrilling experience: Your
guess is as good as mine.
It Speaks For ItselF 79-43 The Bethel Indians dumped the
Farm School Aggies by a 79-43
count in a return engagement be-tween
the two teams on the Bethel
court Feb. lb.
The Indians started fast by tak-ing
a 21-11 lead at the quarter and
were never headed as the game
developed into the highest scoring
contest in Bethel basketball his-tory.
The outstanding feature of the
game was the scoring mark set by
Glen Swanson as he dropped eigh-teen
field goals through the hemp
for 36 of his teams 79 points before
he retired midway in the fourth
quarter because of four fouls.
The game was exceedingly rough
with 25 fouls being called against
the Bethelites and 13 against the
Aggies. Swanson, Nyman, Gene
Johnson, Bergerud, and Halvorsen
all left the game via the personal
foul route.
The Bethel "B's" also won their
contest by downing the Aggie
"B's" by a 39-18 count in a prelimi-nary
contest.
Farm School (43) (79) Bethel
Miller (10)
(36) Swanson
Hendricks (6)
(2) Anderson
Wahlberg (16)
(8) Nyman
Titus (1)
(5) Johnson
Kuhnan (2)
(6) Halvorsen
Substitutes — Aggies: Stalock (3),
Pomeranz (3), Kaapman (2); for Be-thel:
Thompson (4), Laurence (6),
Hammerbeck (8), Bergerud (2), G.
Johnson (2).
Chess Wizard
Storms Tourney
If you don't know how—learn
tonight! What? How to play
chess of course. I don't 'know how
yet but I have an appointment with
enlightenment—and I shall learn!
I've heard reference to kings—
and I think I can manage a king or
two, after all, I took International
Relations in high school. The
queens, to be very candid, have me
worried. I never could tell a wo-man
off.
Horses . . horses aren't so good
either; especially when they kick.
But I imagine chess ponies are
rather well bred. The terms seem
rather frightening . . queens, hor-ses.
Wild creatures all.
But I've got to take the plunge
If I don't take a lesson this after-noon
I can't enter the tournament
tonight. And the sign said anyone
could play.
Honest it did, Dean.
(Overheard in an aside: There
was a list for a checker tourna-ment
posted. Why couldn't she
have signed up for that! !)
or ome row
Nearly Eighty at Albert Lea
The Bethel cagers registered
their fifth conference triumph as
they downed the Albert Lea quin-tet
47-321 at the Albert Lea court
February 13th. This game had
been designated as the All-School
trip and was witnessed by about
seventy-five loyal Bethel fans and
band members.
The first quarter of the contest
was very slow with the Indians
holding a scant 8-6 lead. The
Adammen went to work in the se
cond quarter though, and retired
at the half with a comfortable 26-
12 lead.
The entire second half was play-ed
with the Bethelites far out in
the lead with the margin between
the teams reaching as much as 19
points. Swanson •and Nyman led
the scoring - parade for the Bethel-ites
with fifteen and twelve points
respectively. Peterson led the
losers with fifteen.
Albert Lea (32) (47) Bethel
Haakenson (1) (15) Swanson
Harvey (12) Nyman
Petersen (15) (1) Laurence
Foley (12) (6) Johnson
Guhlrandson (2) (5) Halvorsen
Subs—Albert Lea: Aspensan (2); for
Bethel: Thompson (8).
Bombers Dump
"B" Squad, 43-38
In an earler issue of the CLAR-ION
we ran an article on an in-dependently
organized club which
had adopted the title "Bombers,"
signifying their intent of straight
victory.
Their activity has been some-what
eclipsed since then by high
interest varsity games. However,
during the latter part of the past
week the Bombers again gained
our admiring eye.
A game with the "B" squad on
Thursday netted the quintet a 43-
38 victory. Perhaps the most in-teresting
and unusual feature of
the game, as far as Bethel fans are
concerned, is the fact that no one
went out on fouls.
The contest was a tight affair;
both teams showed good defense
activity. The passing of the "B"
squad displayed more polish than
that of the opposition but the Bom-bers
recovered any disadvantage
incurred in this field by the verve
and drive of their play.
Bob Hails and Gilmore Lawrence
led the scoring for the two teams
with twelve points apiece. Ben
Anderson held close with ten
counters.
Bombers (43) "B" Spuad
Wessman F Hammerbeck
Hails Bergerud
Anderson C Johnson, G.
Wwma, M. G Thompson
Gustafson G Lawrence
Substitutes; Bombers, H. Johnson.
Referee, Nyman, Halvorson.
the Bethel Indians their third con-ference
loss of the season last
week as they won a decisive 68-30
triumph. The win placed Concor-dia
securely in second place and
leaves the Bethelites still in third
place.
The game started in much the
same way as did the earlier con-test
between these two teams with
the Bethelites unable to hit the
hemp. As the result the Comets
held a 35-12 lead at the half.
The Indians failed to snap out
of their scoring slump in the se-cond
half, however, and the Co-mets
went on to win handily. Ny-man
and Anderson paced the In-dians
with nine counters apiece,
while Glen Swanson was held to
a single point by the close checking
Concordia guards. Grumm led the
Comets with 24 •points.
The Bethel "B's" also took a
drubbing in the preliminary as
they dropped a 40-23 contest to the
Concordia Academy quintet. The
Junior Comets piled up a thirteen
point lead before the Bethelites
could score and the lead was more
than the Red and White could over-come.
Concordia (68) (30) Bethel
Grumm (24) (1) Swanson
Hinricks (2) (9) Anderson
Meichsner (9) (9) Nyman
Fuerniss (10) (2) Johnson
Wahlers (8) (2) Halvorsen
For Concordia — Brockopp (4),
Brandt (8), Klinkenberg (1), Mar-quaardt
(1), Koch (1). For Bethel
Thompson (1), Hammerbeck (2), Law-rence
(4).
Concordia Ac. (40) Bethel "B's "
Hanneman (6) (8) Hammerbeck
Hinricks (6) (6) Bergerud
Fehner (2) Johnson
Freidericks (10) (2) Gustafson
Nahnsen (6) (5) Finke
For Concordia,—Wolfram (1), Buen-gner
(2), Klingelbiel (2), Schmidt (2),
Beck (1). For Bethel—Thompson (2).
Sem Vandal
Accosted in Act
Belligerently walking off with
the ping-pong table that has stood
so long in the men's recreation
room—and then having the auda-city
to justify both means and end!
Merely by claiming that the
table belonged to the Men's Re-creation
Club of three years ago—
and that all those members are
now happy residents of the Semi-nary!
Disproving not a whit the worthy
arguments : that the room set aside
for the club is in the J. C. building,
that most of the members are en-rolled
in the J. C., the rightness of
tradition. (It has always stood in
the College building! ! )
However, the right of might
must always prevail and as he was
contested only by a mere girl, he
argued merely for the pleasure of
appearing superior intellectually
and passed on.
But we heard wafted down the
hall this threat: "You can't do that,
Glenn Anderson!"
