Clarion 1946-10-22 Vol 26 No 02

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Vol. XXVI — No. 2
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. October 22, 1946
As Rosy Sees It
A New Feature "Construction" Homecoming Theme
Football and Basketball Games,
Socials, Open House Featured
Where but in the U. S. could it
happen? From four to six big air-plane
manufacturers are going in-to
the housing field, to produce
prefabricated aluminum units at a
retail price from three to ten thou-sand
dollars. Each manufacturer
hopes to prodUce anything up to
100,000 houses annually. I guess
with a house like that, husband
and wife would have to be pilot
and co-pilot.
* * *
Here is cheerful news for the
women. I've been told by produ-cers
in the nylon yarn industry
that due to a shortage of labor
and certain chemicals, yarn ship-m
e n t s to hosiery manufacturers
have been cut 15% and will re-main
so up to and through Christ-mas,
creating a far below mini,
mum production in nylon hose.
* * *
You can be sure that the meat
shortage is becoming acute when
even the home of meat-packers,
Chicago, is out of meat. It has
also put some 40,000 packing
house workers out of work.
A Bostonian, Majority Leader
McCormack, wants a 60-day sus-pension
of meat price ceilings.
The opinion of several authorities
is that if the Democrats don't have
meat on the table before Novem-ber,
they will lose the election.
President Truman says that the
reasoning is all wrong. He said,
"Whether price control had been
restored or not glut of meat in
the summer was bound to mean a
shortage in the Fall."
With the shortage, I'm beginn-ing
to wonder what they have been
making hamburgers out of late-ly!
Think I'll stay on a malted
milk diet! !
(Continued on page 4)
The Clarion has resumed pub-lication,
as any fool can plainly
see. Difficulties have been over-come
and it is again possible to
enter the publications room. Ev-en
archie is happy.
The perils of journalish were
brought dramatically to the at-tention
of the student body when
the editor proclaimed that "Due
to circumstances beyond our con-trol
we are forced to suspend pub-lication
of the Clarion. We like it
even less than you do, because we
feel a responsibility to our sub-scribers.
We promised you a reg-ular
publication and now we have
to back down.
Frosh Revive
Basket Social
The old-fashioned country bask-et
social was revived by the fresh-man
class Friday, Oct. 18, in what
was planned as the leading all-school
social function of the seas-on.
A harvest atmosphere was ar-ranged
and the guests appeared
in their hayseed clothes. Approp-riate
music was rendered by Bill's
Brass Busters and the Barnyard
Four.
p During the preceeding days
there was considerable activity in
the girls' dormitory, the preparing
a n d packing of supper baskets.
The baskets with their blind dates
were sold to the highest bidders.
General chairman of the enter-prising
committee in charge of the
arrangements was Morris Eng-s
t r o m, the class vice-president,
while Bill Lindroth, Byron Skal-man,
and Bob Haring headed the
program, deboration, and publicity
committees respectively.
El Barnites
Lunch Free
Residents of the Boys' Club on
the f air grounds, affectionately
known as Hotel El Barno, were
treated to a free lunch in the cof-fee
shop by school administration
the evening of Saturday, October
12.
Sandwiches, potato chips, dough-nuts,
pop, coffee and cocoa were
served at the counter. Dean C. E.
Cal lson carried trays of seconds to
the tables and discussed history
test methods with the guests.
"At the beginning of the year
our office had in it, aside from
the regular desk and typewriter,
14 mattresses, 1 bed spring, 42
desks, 1 bale of drapes, 2 coat
racks and a stack of last year's
Spires. While it is no joke to work
in an office that can't even hold a
staff meeting, we published a pa-per
In record time and we are con-fident
that we published a good
one. The Spire staff cooperated
and removed the Spires.
"But now conditions are getting
the better of us. Into our already
overcrowded of f i c e have been
crammed 42 chairs with their pads.
Furniture is 'stacked three deep
Off-Campus group
Being Organized
An Off-Campus Group is being
formed for the benefit and enjoy-ment
of those students, who, liv-ing
away from the school, miss
much of the fun and fellowship of
dorm life. The tentative plans are
that the group will meet in local
churches for programs, parties.
and get-togethers.
The three-fold purpose of the or-ganization
is to strengthen and up-hold
spiritual life; to increase the
importance of Bethel in the lives
of the students ; and to provide
Christian fellowship.
(Continued on page 4)
The men have come into their
own at last! Official figures re-leased
by the Dean's Office
show that this year they are in
a substantial majority in the
student body. The record en-rolment
of 466 students—almost
double last year's total — in
285 men and 181 women.
This total includes 279 fresh-men,
120 sophoromes, 71 semi-nary
students and six specials.
Of the total 75 are married,
there being several cases of
couples coming to college to-gether.
The state with the highest
representation is Minnesota
with 218 students. Foreign
countries and their representa-tion
are: Alaska, 1; Canada, 6;
China, 2; England, 1.
2fideit
and the door opens only a foot."
And so on—a real tear jerker.
The student body was stunned.
No Clarion meant—well, it meant
no Clarion. It was necessary to
assure each subscriber individual-ly
that publication was only temp-orarily
held up and would be re-sumed.
In the mean time, things moved
fast. To wit, 42 chairs moved.
Furniture is now five deep and
some floor space is cleared. We
didn't even have to take advan-tage
of Dean Carlson's offer of a
temporary room.
Neither chairs nor desks n o r
mattress stacks shall stay the
Clarion from its appointed round.
With "Under Construction" as
its general theme, the Homecom-ing
progam being prepared by a
special committee of the Student
Council includes open house in
the new wing of the girls' dormi-tory
together, it is hoped, with the
two new dormitories; a cafeteria
style banquet; football nd basket-ball
games; and an evening pro-gram
including a violin and piano
concert.
Harold Christenson and Dorothy
Nelson are to be host and hostess
at the Homecoming on Friday, Oc-tober
25th. They headed the poll
of short-list candidates that had
been reduced from a preliminary
ballot during the week.
The runners-up in the election
are to be ushers and usherettes.
The ushers will be Roy Nelson,
Jim Rehnberg, Dick Forsline, Don
Goldsmith. The usherettes will be
Florence Bergman, Evelyn Chris-tenson,
Goldie Erickson, and Mar-jorie
Erickson.
It is anticipated that alumni will
gather in large numbers for the
function, this being the first real
homecoming with the Servicemen,
who at the time of last years ev-em,
were still in uniform.
(Continued on page 3)
Bjork Speaks
To Miss'y sand
The recognition and substance of
a missionary call were discussed
at the Missionary Band's first
meeting Friday evening, Oct. 11,
by Mr. Dale Bjork, who, with his
wife Alma, is to leave for service
in West China at the end of this
month. Also on the platform was
Marwin Lindstedt, one of this
year's freshmen, who has spent
most of his life in China, where
his father is in charge of the Rus-sian
Mission.
Dale emphasized that the call
was something distinct from a call
of the wild, saying that in spite
of reports a missionary's life was
a bard one. Neither could the call
be expected by some miraculous
sign. It came as the result of a
vision of the need, both of the peo-ple
and for workers, and in con-sequence
of a love for Christ.
God's leading would be made
plain as the first steps were taken
in obedience.
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Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, What He's
Done for Me
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
The Apostle Paul in the first
chapter of Ephesians says that
God has "predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to Himself, according to
the good pleasure of His will, to
the praise of the glory of His
grace." Do you notice the impact
of it? It is all of Him. First, HE
predestinated us unto the adoption
of HIS very own children. "He
first, loved us." Think of it; that
GOD should love us enough to
choose us. This HE did through
"The joy of the Lord is your
strength." Neh. 8:10
Many people consider the Chris-tian
religion a sad and solemn
thing. This is one proof that Sa-tan
is still operating in the world.
For the whole idea of creation is
that man may live a joyous life on
this earth, which belongs to God.
Some people think the earth be-longs
to the devil, and we can do
nothing about it. But the Psalmist
says: "The earth is the Lord's
and the fulness thereof. . . " The
hymn book of Israel opens with
these words: "Blessed (or happy)
The Freshman Class is to be
congratulated on its sponsorship
of the basket social. Bethel needs
a greater awareness of social func-tions
in education.
Much emphasis is placed upon
spiritual development. Scholastic
needs are well met, with facilities
expanding, and a fuller sports pro-gram
is planned. All these are
fine, as far as they go. -
But man is a social creature.
Dates, for instance, are here to
stay and Bethel has made scant
provision for them. The only place
Jesus Christ. It is still the God
Head working. How? "According
to the good pleasure and HIS will
through which we have been taken
into the sonship. Oh, then where
Is the place of the first person
pronoun? Has it a place in the
central thought here? No wonder
then, that He continues "to the
praise of the glory of HIS grace."
HE has done it all, that HE might
receive the praise and glory. Does
He?
is the man. . . " On that first
Christmas long ago, the angel of
the Lord came saying: "Behold, I
bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people."
It is a sin for us not to let Christ
give us His joy to the full.
What about the day of trouble?
It will come, no doubt. But Paul
Silas sang praises unto God
from their dungeon at midnight.
Christianity is a religion of praise,
of joy, and certainly we, as Chris-tians,
have much for which to
give praise and joy.
for a beautiful friendship to even
start is in the lounge of the girls'
dormitory, which is open only one
night a week. The mere opening
of one room one night a week is
manifestly inadequate.
Bethel largely assumes respon-sibility
for the regulation of af-fairs
in the lives of its students.
There is a multitude of understood
rules and "shall nots" which are
good, but there should be an equal-ly
large number of "mays." The
student is thrown too much upon
his own devices socially.
Chow Hounds
Infest Bethel
Bethel is a Christian college,
but there is one place where a
few students show very little
Christian spirit. We refer to the
"chow line."
A chow line is an unfortunate
thing, but it is necessary this year.
No one really likes to stand in
line or watch a pal fall in at the
end of the line. The Christian
thing to do is bear with it cheer-fully.
Some students, richly deserving
thus names of chowhound and chis-ler,
don't have that attitude. Ev-ery
meal, they find a pal and join
the first part of the line, cheating
those behind of their places. -
If anyone tried that trick in the
Army he had a sense of fairness
quietly beaten into him. We cavet
beat people at Bethel, nor do we
want to. All we can do is give
them the contempt they deserve.
If it is imperative to eat before
turn, walk up to the door and
tell your troubles to the ticket
puncher. He will let you through.
In fairness to the majority who
are content to wait decently it
must be added that only a few
students offend. The offence of
those few however is flagrant and
strictly unchristian.
It ba5 been • gib : 3atprint5
The first and almost the only
book deserving of universal atten-tion
is the Bible. I speak as a man
of the world, and I say to you.
Se'irch the Scriptures.
John Quincy Adams
Hold fast to the Bible as the
sheet anchor of your liberalities;
write its precepts on your hearts
and practice them in your lives.
To the influence of this book we
are indebted for the progress
made, and to this we must look as
our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant
I am profitably engaged in read-ing
the Bible. Take all of this
book upon reason that you can
and the balance by faith, and you
will live and die a better man.
Abraham Lincoln
(Cont. in col. 4)
A course in social usage was of-fered
last year as part of freshman
orientation, and it is inconsistent
to teach such a course and not en-courage
its practice. The exis-tance
of a social aspect of life is
not in conflict with any principle
of Bethel.
Largely, the fault lies in a lack
of space. When the new adminis-tration
building is built, it is to be
hoped that ample provision will be
made for a student union lounge.
n tbe Carpet
By President Wingblade
Dr. Lee Scarborough, f or me r
president of the great Baptist Sem-inary
at Fort Worth, Texas, now
with the Lord, was one of the
greatest soul winners of the south
land.
After much prayer he resigned
from his successful pastorate to
accepts the "chair of fire," that
is, the chair of personal evange-lism
at the seminary,—and later
he became president.
Dr. Scarborough would win men
for Christ everywhere. If he took
a certain train often he would
soon have every member of the
crew won for Christ—and busy
winning others.
But this is the story. When Lee
Scarborough left the Texas farm
to enter college, his parents' pray-ers
went with him. They prayed
that God might use him,—possibly
in the ministry.
But Lee had not been in college
long before he became very home-sick
and discouraged, and one day
he stood quietly thinking and de-finitely
deciding to leave school
for the good, old farm.
A senior, sensing the situation,
came up and put his arm around
the young ,freshman, and spoke:
"Lee, don't leave us. Don't go
back home. I want you to know
that I love you, and I will do any
thing to help you. Stay on in col-lege."
That turned the tide. The crisis
was over. Lee continued, and soon
the great decision was made deep
in his heart to give, all he had to
the service of Christ.
The senior died soon after that
incident and there was a funeral
service, attended largely by the
students and faculty of the college,
The great Dr. Fuller preached the
sermon and brought out the fine
points in the character of that
senior.
But the biographer of Dr. Scar-borough
says that if that senior
had done nothing in all his life
except to encourage that one
young freshman to go on, at that
critical mom en t, his short life
would have been eminently wqrth
while.
Maybe this year you and I will
be privileged to do something like
that for some fellow student who
needs just that encouragement in
some critical hour. May we be
ready to be thus used if and when
that hour comes.
REPRINTS
(Cont. from column 3)
Almost every man who has by
his life-work added to the sum of
human achievement of which the
race is proud, of which our people
are proud, almost every such man
has based his life-work largely up-on
the teachings of the Bible.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is impossible to mentally or
socially enslave a Bibl e-reading
people.
Horace Greeley
The Bible has been the Magna
Carta of the poor and oppressed.
Thomas Huxley
Joy, Real Joy, Wonderful Joy
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Evangelists
Talk In Chapel
Getting acquainted is, at best, a
stilted, drawn-out process. It in-volves
a good many hours of mu-tual
misery over "Shorter Spanish
Grammar," or long weeks of strug-gling
side by side in classes, be-fore,
even in as small a school as
Bethel, we are over the first hump
of keeping names a n d faces
straight.
Not only to speed the process
of getting acquainted, but arso to
increase the value of friendships
made is the twofold purpose of
the Clarion feature, Facsimilies.
The recent class elections
brought a lot of names to the
front, and to those of us who are
new, they were just that—names.
Did these lists posted on the bul-letin
board mean anything to you?
Have You Heard?
THAT a leg fell off the piano
during Bert Anderson's playing for
Chapel* service.
THAT a Snelling Avenue street-car
motorman has expressed . pleas-ure
at the return of Bethel stu-dents
because he. enjoys their
singing.
THAT the agony column of the
Bulletin Board included the plain-tive
plea of one who had lOst
twenty minutes at the Snelling-
University corner.
THAT, according to Dean C. E.
Carlson, the list of reasons for at-tending
College includes that of
the girl, who "came to College to
be went with—and I ain't."
THAT a history student found
the Modern World class so big
that he thought he was back in
the Army and called the class to
attention when the teacher en-tered
the room.
THAT George Taylor found it
less difficult to tackle the pronoun-ciation
of French words after he
had deposited his gum into the
waste-paper basket.
THAT Prof. Norstrom asked his
chemistry class why a balance
balanced and considered the fer-vent
explanation "because it bal-ances"
to be an unbalanced reply.
THAT Dean C. E. Carlson an-ticipates
that Theological Schools
will soon be producing educated
men as well as ministers. That
the Dean feels that such products
are being held back by what he
calls "a tunnel-visioned" view of
education.
THAT among the most appropri-ately
named students are Maxwell
Bible and Roland Reasoner.
THAT hat fashions for men will
be set by Erik, who has appeared
in a new-styled Stetson.
THAT enrolments include that
of Ouida Ward, who has travelled
all the way from Fairbanks, Alas-ka,
the terminal of the great Alas-ka
Highway, to attend School, but
who covered the journey by flying
to Seattle and then proceeding by
train.
Sophomore Class:
Harold Christenson, president
Roy Nelson, vice president
Trudy Lehman, secretary,-
Florence Bergman, assistant sec.
Dick Forsline, treasurer
Bud Peterson, assistant treas.
Freshman Class:
Bob Nelson, president
Morris Engstrom, vice pres.
Marvel Zimmerman, secretary
Robert Hamlert, assistant seer.
Berge Hoogasian, treasurer ,
Valyan Larson, ass't treas.
They were probably merely nam-es
to you unless you had known
them previously, but even if you
did, I wonder if you know some
of the interesting background that
largely accounts for their being
(Continued on page 5)
Walter Stone
New Custodian
From the scores of new persons
filling the halls of Bethel this
quarter, we single out Mr. Stone
for an informal introduction this
week. To many of us students he
is a complete stranger. But to
Bethel and the Twin Cities, he as-sures
us he is no stranger at all.
He is a former member of Bethle-hem
Baptist Church of Minneap-olis
and a resident of that city. In
recent years he has served as jani-tor
at the high school at Red
Wing. He is married, and his wife
joined him here a week ago. They
hope to set up their new home in
an apartmnet in the seminary
building here on the Campus. He
has one son, who lives at Red
Wing.
He is looking forward to a full
year at Bethel. H e says h e
will take care of four buildings and
let Eric worry about the girls'
dormitory. Welcome to our midst,
Mr. and Mrs. Stone. We hope to
know you all well before the year
is up. May God bless you in this
new station and may you find
Bethel What we have found it—a
place of inspiration and blessing.
HOMECOMING
(Continued from page 1)
M e 1 Soneson, vice-president of
the Student Council, is in charge
o! the event and heads up the fol-lowing
committees:
Program committee, whch is res-ponsible
for all of the day's events
—Robert Sandin (Chairman), Bob
D a 1 e y, Harold Christenson, and
Jim Rehnb erg.
Decorations Committee— Lois
Norberg (Chairman), Eloise Jen-sen,
Shala Link, Evangeline Ren-dahl,
Mel Peterson, and Bert An-derson.
Arrangements Committee— Dick
Forsline (Chairman), Donald Gold-smith,
Gordon Krantz, and Ever-ett
Forsberg.
Publicity Committee — Charles
Germany (Chairman), Elaine Peg-ors,
Frank Shindo, Ingrid Johnson,
Adell Bavin, Trudy Lehman, and
Nettie Castle.
Once upon a time there was a
sailor who was honorably discharg-ed
from the Navy. After getting
himself a shack on the beach, the
necessary small stores for health
and comfort, and stenciling h i s
name and his number on every-thing
he had, included his nifty
new sport coat and his polka dot
tie, and learning not to try to tie
a bow tie with a square knot, he
set out to go to school under the
GI Bill of Rights.
When he walked toward the
school, he saluted a gold-braided
doorman, a police sergeant, and
two elevator operators. And when
he came to the administration of-fice
of the school, he asked the
yeoman, or rather the secretary, if
he was being signed on for a two
or a four year cruise; and what
time was reveille, and what kind of
chow did they serve, and how was
the liberty. Also he asked what
was the uniform of the day, who
did you salute, and were they
strict about regs.
The secretary was frankly be-wildered
and tried to keep from
staring; then with a great deal of
patience she tried to explain the
complexities of civilian school
routine as simply as she could. He
frowned and said it sounded foul-ed-
up because in the first place, if
the dean and the janitor wore the
same kind of clothes how could
you tell who to tell your troubles
to. Another thing, he said, if they
were going to have things like lad-ders,
decks, and bulkheads, why
didn't they call them by their
right names instead of making up
confusing words like stairs, floors,
and walls. And when he asked if
they had field day on Friday, she
said she didn't know much about
dear boss
say thanks pal that was a noble
thought and a kind deed
now that i have my own box of
crumbs on your desk i wont have
to go foraging all the way down
to the coffee shop thats a hard job
what with all the closed doors and
high stps its not so bad on the
w ay down i just squeeze under the
doors i need only a quarter inch
and jump down the stairs but on
the way up i have to leap 48 times
my height and when you consider
the ways my arches take a beating
bouncing on these typewriter keys
but thats one of your faults boss
you dont consider why dont you
get some fresh crumbs once in a
while the ones i have now are like
flint and by the way boss who put
that big ball that smells like malt-ed
milk in my crumb box ive seen
some like it down in the coffee
shop marked 2 for one cent boy
boss are you a cheapskate
if you cant get any fresh crumbs
boss how about some of that paste
you used to have around here it
must be nice and ripe by new
Methods of Child Evangelism
were described at the Chapel ses-sion
Thursday, Oct. 10, by Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Swanson, who are
leaving shortly to organize simi-lar
work in Norway and Sweden.
Mr. Swanson stressed the need of
reaching the children, who to such
a large extent were untouched by
the Sunday Schools, and gave de-tails
of his own experience and
work with the National Bible In-stitue
and Good News Clubs. Sam-ples
of the literature and flannel-graph
talks used were shown by
Mrs. Swanson.
Bethelites, like everyone else,
are quite careless of what they
sign.
"Inasmuch as student opinion
is overwhelming in favor of the
installation of elevators or es-calators
in the College build-ing,
we, the Society for the Pre-vention
of Stair Climbing,
would like to determine the
proportions of students favoring
each plan. Those favoring ele-vators,
sign on the left. Those
who wish for the installation of
escalators, sign on the right.
Osculators, sign in the mid-dle,"
was posted on the bulle-tin
board recently.
The middle column was soon
filled with names.
the sports but she thought that
this was the basketball season.
The ex-sailor was so unnerved
and shaken by her stupidity that
he shoved off to the recruiting
station and signed up for a thirty-year
cruise, after which he knew
he would make chief and would
live happily ever after.
say boss who was that guy who
came in here the other day to
count ballots he nearly stepped
on me and then where would you
get someone to write your stuff
he was counting ballots like i
told you and i got up on those
mattresses and watched who is
this person called quote laurel the
cute blond unquote that someone
voted for
boss what are you going to do
about this insidious rumor to the
efi ect that nursie is scared of ang-le
worms we cant have it said that
we have a squeamish nurse ill bet
shes willing to hold one of my
hands or even all six
how about arranging it she looks
like it would be a pleasure
well boss this has taken me all
night and its almost time for the
janitor to come around so ill have
p leave Ill bet you dont even ap
preciate all the work that goes
into one of these tender missives
i have to climb up on the type-writer
frame and jump down on
each key separately
archie the cockroach
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Prof. Stjernstrom
Starts Rehearsal
of Both Choruses
Judging from beginnings, Bethel
faces a promising musical season
this year, with an abundant and
fine array of talent showing itself.
The Music Department is working
at capacity with lessons and re-hearsals.
Mr. Bergman, the piano instruc-tor,
is, unable to cope with the de-mand
for lessons, and it has be-come
necessary to obtain the ser-vices
of another teacher to take
some of the overflow. Mr. Stjern-strom,
too, is finding his time at
a premium. Besides his classes.
he has two choruses to rehearse
and direct and a full schedule of
voice lessons.
The chorus situation is the most
promising that it has been for
some years. With the difficult
task of elimination and balancing
completed, the Male and Arlon
choruses are now in serious re-hearsal.
Mr. Stjernstrom seems
pleased with the spirit and enthus-iasm
shown and is looking for-ward
to an unusually successful
year.
In a talk to the Male Chorus, he
emphasized the fact that the chor-us
represented not only Bethel
but also Christ, saying that a chor-us
could present the Gospel mess-age
with great effectiveness.
The formation of a band or or-chestra
is at present uncertain, but
there is a good possibility that we
will have one as there are a num-ber
of instrumentalists on the cam-pus.
Some of these instrumental
groups have already been heard at
chapel and prayer-meeting ser
vices.
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Coffee Shop
—Where Students and Faculty
Meet Around the Coffee Cup
Morn., Aft., and Eve.
Gospel Teams
Organize for
Religious work
Twenty-one Gospel Teams have
been organized to operate in the
neighborhood during t h e winter.
Captains of the teams are John
Leggett, Wallace 0 1 s o n, 0. D.
Lindstedt, James Rentz, Charles
Germany, Russell Voight, Clarence
Anderson, Mel Soneson, John Dis-chinger,
Maurice Paulson,
Byron Skalman, Herbert El-lison,
Lewis Schultz, Bob Daley,
Richard Forsline, B u d Peterson,
Everett Forsberg, Roy Nelson, Ro-bert
Lundquist, Morris Engstrom,
and Dave Carlson.
One of the teams includes Jim
Rehnberg, who recently toured
four of the eastern states as pian-ist
of a Moody Bible Mission Band.
His testimony is that "Prayer is
the thing" if a Gospel Team is to
succeed.
The Religious Council, under
whose auspices the teams are to
work, hope to reach out to a rad-ius
of 80 miles.
Hospital evangelistic w o r k, as
well as street meetings and church
services are included in. the pro-gram.
Tract distribution, while
traveling to and from meeting pla-ces,
will also be emphasized this
year and a tract display in the
Coffee Shop is being arranged to
add interest to the project.
Prayer and consecration of in-dividual
workers is expected to
contribute much to the success of
the teams and it is hoped that
weekly prayer meetings can be
worked out for each team.
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Two Students
Reported Sick
On the sick list this week are
Roy Nelson and Minnie Peters.
Roy was confined to the Dispen-sary
on the sixteenth, but he hopes
to leave soon. Dave Carlson is
staying with him.
Minnie Peters had a little diffi-culty
swallowing something and
spent a few days in Midway hos-pital.
She is now recovered and
is in school again.
AS ROSY SEES IT
(Cont. from page 1)
And in Pittsburgh, George Muel-ler
had Mayor Lawrence and the
Duquesne Light C o. wondering
what would happen next. When
an injunction was disregarded by
Mueller, leader of utilities work-ers,
he was thrown in jail, but he
managed to be freed and the strike
continued. Pittsburgh's power was
down to 1/3 o f normal. The
courts and the Mayor bowed out
of the picture hopelessly.
We should be thankful that the
college professors d o n' t go on
strike. . .
And speaking of Unions, I've
just received news that Bucking-ham
Palace, home of the British
Royal Family, now has its own
trade union. The Palace has giv-en
them the use of a private of-fice
in the Palace for their meet-ings.
From my past experiences
with the English, I don't think the
servants will ever be found picket-ing
Buckingham Palace. . .
* * *
The falling stars seen in the
northern skies on the night of Oc-tober
9th. was due to the earth
being swept by the cosmic dust of
a comet. Well, the earth needs a
good sweeping anyway. . .
OFF CAMPUS GROUP
(Continued from page 1)
The committee behind the Off-
Campus Group is anxious to make
it clear that they do not wish in
any way to cause division among
the "on and off" campus students.
The Party Line
Knows All
Sees All
Scene—a quiet, peaceful Monday
morning in the Library. Stu-dents
are dozing happily over
their books. Suddenly, a whis-per
is passed along, and within
a short time the library is de-serted.
What is it? Why, the
CLARION, of course. (Hereaf-ter,
a charge will be made for
free advertising.)
Heard in El Espanol. .. When ask-ed
for a rule, one bright stu-dent
replied, "page 25, rule 21."
It takes brains, they always say.
Speaking of Spanish, it's get-ting
so bad they have to sing
"Cheer Lip, Ye Saints of God,"
before classes.
Mr. Lawson is either worried
about the diet of his students
in second period Lit, or else he
just has a generous nature. He
was seen cutting an apple into
pieces to feed his whole class.
The apple, by the way, was fur-nished
by Phil Johnson. Guess
he believes in starting early.
Will people kindly refrain from
eating in the Coffee Shop during
third period? It disturbs indus-trious
students who are trying to
study.
It has been said by their cowboy
boots and their mustaches shall
we know them. Now we believe
it.
Seen and Heard:
Martha and Bert Routan waiting
anxiously for the married coup-les.
. . Mr. Engwall wishing his
students would not start leaving
his class ten minutes before the
bell. . . Freshmen girls wonder-ing
what happened to their big
sisters. . . Everyone wondering
about Sadie Hawkins day.
Poor Joe Brygger and poor Miss
Berthel. Joe just couldn't get
the verbs of relative clauses
straight; Miss Berthel's examp-le,
"The crowd clapped their
hands until they were hoarse,"
didn't seem to help much.
Zoology can be carried too far. It
was not necessary Mr. Anderson,
to swallow that fly. Besides,
what do flies have in common
with a lecture on mytofibrils?
Piano Facilities Prove Inadequate
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Everything goes Cagemen Compete for First String On at the Dom
Hub of School Football Discussed
Possibilities of Twenty to Twenty-live Men to Be
What's doing in the dorm? Plen- Chosen; Training to Begin Soon
ty! Footsteps scurry down the
hall; f i en dish laughter echos
around the corners. It's a few
weeks early for Halloween, but it
must be ghosts who walk off with
everyones possessions and ferret
out all kinds of secrets.
One day Gladys Carlson's pic-ture
of Lyle, and Margie's picture
of Jim really "got around." They
were seen first in the dining hall
over the fireplace. Liter in the
morning they made striking decor-ations
for the platform in the cha-pel.
All those red-faced girls you see
a r o u n d aren't blushing . Some
sprite whispered to them that a
sun tan was alluring—but that sun
lamp must have been too strong.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Taf-fy's
beautiful "sunset red" flush
on her face is a result of the sun-lamp,
not because of Al Olson and
his ring.
There are some girls such as
Valjeanne Larson and Edna Ren-strom
who seem to have no inter-est
in dorm doin's, but are al-ways
keeping the telephone busy.
No aoubt they do this through a
sense of duty.
Vangie Rendahl couldn't even
eat supper last Thursday night.
It was her Keith's "anniversary"
and Keith sent flowers that were
the talk of the dorm. The most
frequently heard q u e s t i o n was,
"Are you sure he's a Bethel fell-ow?"
The "P. K.'s" held an auction at
the dorm meeting last Monday
night. Eunice Peterson and Helen
Voight spend all their money on a
new wardrobe, but Gladys Carlson
really got the best bargain; a
?, for only 1 cent.
There was excitement in t he
Seminary Dorm on the night of
October 9th. Don Johnson and
John Soneson were up on the roof
watching t h e celestial fireworks
when they spotted an orange glow
in the sky towards downtown St.
Paul. Filled with evitement, they
took pictures, and then climbed
down and spread the news of the
big fire. Fellows, that was the
"coke burners" you saw!
It's a sad day in the Seminary
Dorm when mothers have to sit
on the steps and study so that
baby can go to sleep. Anything
can happen here!
Washing clothes is an exact
science of which Melvin Peterson
and Emmet Johnson w e r e not
By Dean Carlson
The possibilities of • school foot-ball
were discussed by Dean C.
E. Carlson at one of the Freshman
Orientation lectures.
To play football, the Dean ex-plained,
it is necessary to have at
least thirty available men. In the
past they have not been on hand.
Perhaps with the new student bo-dy
that problem would be rectified.
But there remains the question of
expense. Schools that play foot-ball
find that they spend all their
money on football to the exclus-ion
of other sports. Bethel will
have to decide if that could be
justified.
In any case it would be difficult
to find opponents in the game, for
up to now none of the o the r
schools in the Junior College Con-ference
have played football, and
unless they change their policy
there will be nobody to play.
Finally it would be necessary to
think out whether th e football
spirit in any way clashes with the
ideals of Bethel. Quite likely it
doesn't but the matter deserves
some thought. But there has so
far been no fundamental objection
laid down in the School.
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aware the other evening. After
emptying the wash machine of
their clothes, they discovered their
pajamas, shirts and shorts were
covered with streaks of red and
pink . The cause i s claimed to
have been due to a new Bethel
"T" shirt that had been in the
wash. Maybe they didn't read the
directions.
Squaws Hope for
Another Year of
Wins: Vets Back
near future, Coach Paul Edwards'
With practice starting i n th e
Girls' Basketball team will start
its '46-'47 schedule.
Delores Erickson, last year 's
star and team captain will not be
here this year; however Eunice
Peterson and Doris Richert, veter-ans
of last years' games will form
the nucleus for this year's team.
A schedule of ten games, with
the same opponents faced last
year, are in the offing for this
year's sextet. With only two los-ing
games played last year, there
are high hopes for a successful
season.
BOX SCORE
(5-46
Opponent We They
St. Francis 26 23
Sacred Heart 42 19
Neighborhood House 40 16
St. Francis 35 32
Northwestern Bible
School 20 19
St. Francis 31 32
U. of M. Agr. School 16 20
Northwestern Bible
School 38 24
U. of M. Agr. School • 34 22
CLASS OFFICERS
(Cont. from page 3)
chosen to represent the classes in
these offices.
MARVEL ZIMMERMAN, for in-stance,
isn't any novice when it
comes to secretarial work. She
was a stenographer in the Daily
Dispatch newspaper office at her
home town, Moline, Illinois,' be-fore
coming to Bethel. In addition
to business prowess, Marvel has
the personality and talent to carry
her far; her musical ability, both
instrumental and vocal, has al-ready
been recognized at chapel
services. In Moline, she was pi-anist
for the Young People's Group
in the Evangelical Free Church,
and arranged selections for the
trio in which she sang.
Marvel has no definite plans be-yond
Bethel, but has a firm test-imony
for the Lord which she
sums up by saying: "My testimony
lies in the first line of the song,
"Jesus Is All the World to Me."
I was saved in June of 1935 at Bi-ble
School in St. Paul. Each day
since then, He has become more
precious to me. I praise Him for
Bethel, itself, and for all the bles-sings
He has showered upon me
since I arrived. My prayer is that
I may be a channel through which
the blessings bestowed upon me
can flow out to others"
A native of Minneapolis, Trudy
Lehman, was employed in mathe-
As it comes from Mr. Webster's
book, "competition" means: T h e
act of trying to gain something
sought by another at the same
time; rivalry. This and more is
taking place in our pre-season
cage aggregation. Coabh Paul Ed-wards
h a s been f o r nearly two
weeks now looking over this large
basketball team. He expects to
make a cut very shortly that will
bring the team down to a suitable
training size. He plans to keep a
team of twenty to twenty-five, and
choose from this each week a
traveling squad of ten or twelve
men. Official practice will begin
with this cut.
Shaping a team for the Alumni
game the last of October is the
first main objective of Coach Ed-wards.
He then will point at the
regular basketball seas o n. The
league schedule will star t the
first week of December with the
following:
Rochester
Austin
-Luther
,Bethany
Waldorf
Worthington
Concordia
There are lots of rumors, mak-ing
it interesting, on obtaining the
U of Agr. school gym for Bethel's
home games this - year. Nothing
definite has appeared as yet, but
everybody is hoping.
Bethel is headed by good bas-ketball
material this year, unlike
a couple of years ago when play-ers
had to be manufactured. The
story had it that even after tak-ing
prospects out of classes, there
wasn't enough for a team. With
less than the average amount of
breaks, you can depend on Bethel
coming through with a 100% sea-son
this year.
matical work at the Hardware Mu-tual
Insurance Co. before coming
to Bethel last year. In addition
to her office of Sophomore class
secretary, Trudy takes an active
part in B. W. A., is a member of
a Gospel Team, works in the Stew-art
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
and participates in many sports..
In spite of such a demanding
schedule, she finds time to keep
up her hobbies of collecting poetry
and Chinese brass figurines.
The Lord willing, Trudy plans
to go into Christian social work
on the foreign field after gradua-tion.
With the infectious smile that
wins her new friends every day ,
Trudy bears a shining witness for
her Lord: "I thank God for hav-ing
directed me to Bethel, and for
the Christian fellowship I h av e
found here. I pray that I might
grow in grace and in the know-ledge
of our Lord and Savior, Je-sus
Christ, and be found worthy
of His love and mercy."
But no ghoSt could have carried
that huge alligator into Nettie's
bed! The funniest thing was that
Nettie didn't suspect anything, ev-e
n though half the dorm was
standing around to see the ex-pression
on her face. It was worth
• waiting for.
Page 6 THE BETHEL. CLARION
Rel. Council Pail &tows giacieats
BeginsWork of ai Mask ifrt ate ea/dee shop,
Year of Service
The Religious Council starts of!'
this year with great plans for bet-ter
and more effective Christian
progress. The Council is a stu-dent
organization, the officers be-ing
elected by the student body
at the end of each year. This year
Ray Larson holds the position of
President, Maynard Johnson that
of Vice president. Becky Iosty.
Secretary, and Carl Olson, treas-urer.
The Gospel Teams, street
meetings, evening prayer meetings,
and the Friday chapel programs
are organized and directed by the
council.
The secretary, Miss Becky losty,
states that the purpose or objec-t
i v e of the Gospel Teams and
Street meetings might be consid-ered
as a two-fold purpose; First,
they enable the students to attain
leadership qualities in Christian
work, and secondly, they bring the
Gospel to many who would not
otherwise hear it. This year the
Gospel Teams will operate within
a radius of eighty miles of the
city, and all teams will be made
up of student leaders and students
who have indicated their interest
in the teams.
Calls for the Gospel teams are
received from various churches
throughout the city who have re-quested
teams a week in advance.
Also, calls are received from down-town
missions for teams a certain
day of every second or third week.
Street meetings a r e organized
each Wednesday and Friday when
no conflicting programs intervene.
So far, three of these meetings
have been held, and each has seen
souls won for the Lord, rededicat-ed,
and reached with the true
gospel.
The council is asking g r eat
things from the Lord this year
with every hope that He will ex-ceed
their highest expectations.
Reception Given
For New Teachers
By School Board
New faculty, staff members and
their wives were welcomed at a
reception given last Tuesday ev-ening
by the school board. Also
invited to the reception in the Col-lege
Chapel were the entire Bethel
faculty and staff, and local pas-tors.
A musical program was featured,
with several selections being sung
by the girls' chorus and a trom-bone
duet offered by Burt Ander-son
and Marcia Johnson. Deans
C. E. Carlson and K. J. Karlson
discussed progress in the College
a n d Seminary respectively, a n d
Mr. Stjernstrom told of advances
in the music department.
After the program, refreshments
were served by the school board.
Mrs. Hagstrom and Mrs: Burton
poured.
D. V. B. S. Work
Reported at
Chapel Session
A small boy who pictured Moses
in the bull-rushes as being madly
chased by a charging bull; child-ren
who had never seen a Bible ;
boys who eagerly read the com-plete
Gospel of John in one even-ing.
These were some of the in-cidents
of Bible Vacation School
Work reported at a special Chapel
session Monday, Oct. 7.
During the summer over 98 stu-dents
conducted some 147 schools
all over America, work being re-presented
in ten State Conferen-ces.
The 77 reports so far received
by Miss Sabel put the total atten-dance
at these Schools at 4,334,
out of which some 507 were listed
as conversions. There are other
reports to come in and there was
additional work by students not
sent out officially.
Representative reports given at
the Chapel service from North.
South, East and West, as well as
from up in Alberta, Canada, all
carried a note of the blessing the
students themselves had received,
as well as inspiring stories of the
need and response of children in
town and country alike.
An added indication of the value
of Bible School work came when
a number of students rose to in-dicate
that they had been reached
earlier through Bible Schools.
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Mrs. Lundberg: Very good idea,
playing only fundamental relig-ious
music.
Mission Band
Sets Cash Goal
Plans to take moving pictures
on the Mission Field for showing .
back at home were outlined by
Roy Nelson (Treasurer) in appeal-ing
for the Missionary Band bud-get
at a Chapel Session Wednes-day,
October 9th. The budget goal
was set at $1,500, of which the
first $500 would go to the support
of Dr. Cook's Bible School at Jor-hat,
Assam; the second $500 for
the purchase of photographic
equipment for the North Bank ter-ritory
in Assam; and the last $500
for a similar set of equipment for
the General Conference a r ea in
China.
The Band plans to devote any
subscriptions received in excess of
the budget to the purchase of sup
plies for Miss Joy Phillips and
Miss Grace Swanson, w h o are
shortly leaving for the North
Bank in the General Conference's
Advance Program.
Roy Nelson declared the propos-ed
budget to entail $3.50 per stu-dent
during the year, or its equiv-alent
of 10 cents weekly. That, he
raid, was but the price of one dish
of ice-cream per week,
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Coming Events
Fill Schedules
For Students
Two more local churches are to
entertain Bethel students. Sunday,
Oct. 27 is to be Bethel Day at
Payne Avenue Baptist Church, St.
Paul, while an all-school party
will be given by Central Baptist
Church, St. Paul on Friday, Nov.
15.
Missionary Day will be observ-ed
in Chapel Wednesday, Oct. 23
with Reuben Holm and Herman
Tegenfeldt a s speakers. There
will be a morning session at 9:45
and one session at 7:30 in the ev-ening.
A Halloween Party is planned
for Nov. 1. It is to be a masquer-ade,
with weird but durable cos-tumes.
"You may get wet," warn-ed
Harold Christenson, president
of the sophomore class which is
sponsoring the party.
St. Croix Falls is the site chos-en
f o r Student Mission Retreat
Nov. 1-3. Missionary Band a n d
BWA will hold meetings on Nov.
8.
Concerts at the University of
Minnesota through the month of
November are: Gala Opening Con-cert,
Oct. 25; Eleanor Steber, so-prano,
Nov. 1; Gregor Piatigorsky,
violoncellist, Nov. 9; Artur Rub-instein,
pianist, Nov. 15; Dimitri
Mitropoulos, pianist, Nov. 22;
Fritz Kreisler, violinist, Nov. 29.
Tickets are on sale at the Sym-phony
Ticket Office, Northrop Au-ditorium;
Downtown Ticket Office,
188 Northwestern Bank Bldg.; and
Field-Schlick's, St. Paul. Twilight
Concerts at the University begin
Oct. 27.
Student Council
Plans Functions
For Coming Year
T h e Student Council convenea
Monday evening, October 7, to
take up several important matters.
including primarily the plans for
Homecoming. T h e representation
was not complete for several or-ganizations
have not yet elected
epres en ta tives.
The Council plans this year in-clude
its ordinary functions, in-creased
social activities, and NAS.
All in all, the program is one of
college and student betterment.
Representatives to the Council
are elected by the various organiz-ations.
The officers are elected
by the student body during the
Spring before they take office.
This year Robert Sandin is Pres-ident;
Mel Soneson is Vice Presi-dent;
Eunice Peterson is Secretary.
The representatives a r e: Semin-
,ary, Fred Mille r; Publications,
Charles Germany; Forensics, Earl
Hoagberg; Athletics, Everett John-son;
Religious Council, Becky Ios-ty.
Those from the college, Miss-ionary
Band, B. W. A., Alexis, and
Music have not been elected.
QUESTION: What do you think of
having a nicolodeon in the Cof-fee
Shop playing religious re-cords?
Delmar Johnson: I suggest that
an automatic victrola be install-ed
playing both religious and
classics.
Nettie Castle: Good! Wonderful!
Only Fuller's records.
Joe Brigger: I heartily approve of
the plan if carried out strictly
on a Christian basis.
Arnold Olson: I would rather it
be put in the music room on
third floor so that when there
is no class there, we could en-joy
it without the accompani-ment
of teaspoons in coffee cups.
Trudy Lehman: I think it would
be very nice in the women's
Mr. Lawson: The negroes in the
south have adopted the idea of
spirituals only on juke boxes,
so I guess we can do it with
hymns.
Don -Le Master: I would be in fav-or
of only religious music. I
recommend very highly -the Old
Fashioned Revival Hour quartet.
Patty Anderson: There is a gener-al
confusion in the Coffee Shop
all the time and I think songs
about the Lord should be listen- -
ed to respectfully.
Everett Johnson: It would be all
right at times. No one would
listen to it if there was a large
crowd.
Gladys Carlson: I think it would
dorm. I would enjoy it in a be a good idea, something real
quiet atmosphere. Peppy!
Curti' Carlson : I don't think the
Coffee Shop is the right atmos-phere
for Hymns.
Myrtle Weeldreyer: It do e s n 't Mr. Malmsten: If students de-make
any difference to me. I mand music in the Coffee Shop
don't spend a great deal of time plans will be made to install a
in the Coffee Shop anyway. nicalodeon.