| Summary: | from a Reporter's Notebook By BEULAH FSUTCH CONCORDIAN REALLY SMELT 'COWBOY' POIER SINGS TIME MARCHES FAST BLOMQUIST MEETS DUCHIN Major problem of a choir tour Is to keep 60 people from getting lost: At Tomah, Wis., Manny lillehaugon was left behind and an obliging salesman helped him track down the bus. . . . At Mt. Horeb, Pearl Mattfield and Beulah Hedahl were marooned on a farm sans lights, telephone or car. Erling Aarthun, Carsten Brein and Paul Conmoy rode St. Paul street cars for an hour and a half looking for the church. Last week's issue of The Con-cordinn really smellcd. For some reason or other the combination of book stock paper and a certain kind of ink produces a nauseating odor, although some Con cord in critics maintain that the same re-sult may be produced from the combination of an old joke book and a misdirected literary effort. Those mournful dirges emitting from the men's dorm at almost periodic hours of the day or night have been ex-plained at last. Probably Harold Poier is practicing on his guitar. Lest he be swamped with requests to ap-pear on all the weekend programs, let us hasten to explain that Poier is not really an accomplished guitarist. He bought the instrument several years ago with a little book titled, "How to Learn to Play the Guitar in 10 Easy Lessons." The first (and only) song he mastered was "Twenty-one Years." To any one interested: The guitar is for sale with a 10 per cent discount if you a:cept the book also. Time marches on but it certainly ex-ceeded tho speed limit in "Prologue to Glory." According to the printed programs scenes one and two occured in 1830 but scene three took place in December, 1930. At least one unobtrusive and harmless feature of the Reporter's Notebook is its title. In 1925 The Concordian ran a column called "Tho Ravings of a Dope-Fiend," which was a very narcotically dis-organized strip. Joy Blomquist was wandering around on the NBC floor of the Merchandise Mart looking for the studio in which Eddie Duchin was supposed to be practicing. Someone finally turned her out. A little later a dishevelled looking man was about to enter the studio when she stopped him, "No one is allowed in there," ho said. The man was Eddie Duchin. Note to job-hunting seniors who never overlook an opportunity: There is a vacancy for someone to teach pig-latin at West Fargo. THE CONCORDIAN VOLUME XXX. Z-348 CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939. NUMBER 26. Rare Amundsen Relics In College Museum Today, the Concordia museum houses two of the very few known personal effects of Roald Amundson. These relics are two molars which Dr. Albert Hallcnberg, dental surgeon of Fargo, extracted from Amundson dur-ing his stay here in 1927. Concordia college sponsored his lecture at the Fargo city auditorium on May 10, 1927. After his lecture, Mr. Amundson developed a severe toothache which could only be re-lieved by extraction. A year later, Explorer Amundson started on his ill-fated journey to the North Pole in search of General Um-berto Nobiles and his expedition. Two Alumni To Be Missionaries In New South American Field Among the candidates accepted for missionaries by the Home Committee of the South American Mission Prayer league are Miss Ingeborg Pederson '28, resident head of Fjelstad Hall, and Miss Lillian Bangs '26, of Landa, N. D. This mission field in Bolivia is be-ing begun by an inter-synodical Luth-eran board, since funds from one church are not available. The govern-ment of Bolivia has now opened the door for protestant missionaries in this territory, as the people themselves are calling for Christianity. MISS BANGS HAS M. A. DEGREE— Miss Bangs after graduating from Concordia received her master of arts degree at the University of North Da-kota. She has also completed the two year course at the Lutheran Bible In-stitute and has had ten years experi-ence as a public school teacher. Miss Pederson, who is now resident head of Fjelstad hall, has attended the Prairie Bible Institute of Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, and also the Lutheran Bible School. She has had seven years experience as a public school teacher and one year^in parish work in Eagle Bend. Miss Pederson has been interested in foreign missions since a child. PLAN TO LEAVE NEXT FALL— "Because of the numerous blessings both spiritually and materially which I have received, I want to do my part in sharing my God and Saviour with those who have never heard of Him," says Miss Pederson. If conditions politically and other-wise are favorable, Miss Bongs and Miss Pederson plan to leave together for Bo-livia this fall. The mission is supported solely by voluntary contributions and by faith. The mission asks for the support of the people in prayer. Sophs To Be Dismissed From Classes Tuesday For National Testing Series All sophomores or fourth-semes-ter students will be excused from classes May 2 to participate in tho no-tional sophomore testing program sponsored by the American Council on Education, the personnel committee announced today. Preliminary instructions will be giv-en in the college auditorium today at 12:30 pjn. by Prof. Peter Anderson who is in charge of the testing. The tests will be given in the audi-torium beginning at 7:45 a.m. Tues-day. In the afternoon students will assemble at 1:40 to begin writing at 1:45 p.m. There will be no chance for those who come late to catch up, Professor Anderson warned. Students who work must arrange to be excused from work or get substi-tutes as this is the only time the tests will be given. Cobbers will be compared with each other and with other sophomores throughout the nation, and will be permitted to see how they rank. Tests are given at the end of the sophomore year before students begin specializ-ing on their majors and minors. The tests are given as a part of a program of self-study made by the college on the effectiveness of its educational program, but primarily for the purpose of guidance and coun-seling the individual student. Material included in the test will be on general culture, literary com-prehension, English and contempor-ary affairs. Students are asked to watch the bulletin board for the list of those who must take tho tests. Norse Periodicals Of Historical Value Added To Library Ulsaker, Ballou Donate Scandinavian Works Valuable historical source material has recently been presented to the Concordia library by I. H. Ulsaker, Fargo. The material is in the form of several years' issues of three early Norwegian newspapers - published - in Fargo. The gift of the periodical "Dakota" covers the years 1890-1909; "Fargo- Posten," 1889, and "Fram," 1900-1909. These papers are of particular inter-est to the college as they are import-ant sources of information concerning the settlement and progress of our Norwegian people in the Red River valley and throughout the northwest in general. "The college is always glad to get material of this kind, as well as all other types of records which furnish any information about these early settlers, records which may disappear entirely unless gathered now and systematically preserved," said Librarian Elmer Hnllnn. William Ballou, Fargo, has given the library a collection of 37 books of vari-ous types, many of them by modern Scandinavian authors. Among other recent additions to the library are a five-volume set of the "Works of Plotinus" translated by Stephen Machenna and published by the Meice society, London; D. M. John-son's "Edvard Grieg" published by the American-Scandinavian foundation and G. Bie Ravndal's "Stories of the East- Vikings." Outlaw's 'Signature' Said To Be Fake Terry Johnson, Concordia freshman, who possesses a musty hotel register of the 1880's containing the entry, "Jesse James—Missouri," learned recently that the signature is most likely a fake. A Colorado newspaper editor, who makes Jesse James' life his hobby, took four different specimens of handwrit-ing, including the one owned by Terry, to a graphologist, who found only one, but not Terry's, was genuine. In writing to Johnson, the amateur Jesse James expert said, "You can just put it down in your diary, Terry, that Jesse may have had a friend of his sign this hotel register for him. I say this because I happen to know that Jesse was very artful and deceptive, and furthermore did not wish to leave a specimen of his handwriting with peace officers." 15 Students Added To Concordian Staff Appointment of 15 persons as re-porters, advertising and circulation as-sistants and a desk editor completed organization of the 1939-40 Concordian staff this week. Desk editor will be Carsten Brein who has served as" a reporter the past year. Reporters named are Jean Ost-by, Jean Wennerstrom and Doris Spon-heim. » New sports writers- are Richard Melby, Edroy Woldseth, Ronald Mac- Gregor, Kenneth Ristuben, Olaf John-son and Miss Ostby who will cover wo-men's sports activities. Paul Gable, Lester Ladbury and and Howard Mortenson have been chosen on the advertising staff and Mel-by, Orvin Bilstad and Donald Bentley will be circulation assistants. An ad-vertising manager will be named in a few weeks. Bergan Has Charlie; Cora Has Classic— Edgar Bergan hasn't got anything on Cora Wai en, editor-in-chief of the Cob-ber Classic. They both are the proud possessors of a dummy, fashioned with loving hands and held together with plenty of glue. While Charlie McCarthy is the ave-nue through which the everyday philo-sophy and humor of America is ex-pressed, the Cobber Classic is the mouthpiece of the creative students of Concordia, According to the present plans, bright, new and accurate copies of this "Cobber McCarthy" will be ready for sale sometime in the early part of next week. Cicero once said, "I criticize by creation, not by finding faults. "While this may be a wholesome attitude to take toward all student projects, the editors of the Cobber Classic believe that it will not be necessary as regards this publication. While the volume of material sub-mitted has not been very great, it has been sufficient to make a very interest-ing magazine. So help me, if it isn't! -^J. M. N. Missionary, Former AP Writer Describe Chinese War, Hospitals Two pictures of life in China were presented to Concordia students and fa-culty over the weekend, a former As-sociated Press correspondent in China telling of Japan's advances in the Chin-ese- Japanese war and a medical mis-sionary describing work in Chinese hos-pitals. Lecturing on China were Dr. Gustav Guldseth, who spoke at three campus religious sessions, and Malcolm Rosholt, speaking at an open meeting sponsored by the Men's brotherhood at Trinity church Monday evening on "The Rape of Shanghai." Japan is handling the war very cap-ably and China hasn't a chance of win-ning, Rosholt told The Concordian in a special interview. "China has already lost control of the north half, which in-cludes some 200 million people. For the other half of the people, new industries must be built up to control and aid their state. China needs loans im-mediately sinpe the Japanese are pres-sing hard." According to Rosholt, Chinese insti- Here Is Mapped Itinerary Of Prince's Tour tutions and traditions are remaining and home life will be the last to go al-though the Japs intend to beat the Chinese to their knees. Observing that the war is indescribable as to horror, Rosholt maintains that a boycott against Japan is silly since it only hurts the poorer classes. "Japan is definitely not going bankrupt and will be able to prosecute the war indefinitely." A graduate of St. Olaf, Rosholt is married to Margaret Njaa, a sister of Judith Njaa, who is a sophomore at Concordia. No electricity, no running water, no heating system, but despite lack of these conveniences, Dr. Guldseth, head of one of the large hospitals in the in-terior of China, manages to take care of 600 "in" patients and' 1,200 dispensary patients each year. TTie hospital has its own graduate Chinese druggist who compounds the medicines that are needed to care for the sick. All the nurses are Chinese. Malaria is one of the most prevalent diseases in China. There are also many cases of kalcazar, tuberculosis and hookworm. Dr. Guldseth plans to return to China next fall. McLean To Speak Cap And Gown Day Dr. R. B. McLean, president of the Moorhead State Teachers college, ac-cepted an invitation yesterday to be speaker at Cap and Gown day exer-cises May 27. Erling Loan, class president, has ap-pointed Gladys Borstad, Thordis Aas and David Halbakken to select the class orator, poet and song writer. Planning the senior outing are Del-win Liane, Carl Grimsrud and Her-moine Hagen. Deviating from the custom of pre-vious years the valedictory and sa-lutatory speeches will be given on Cap and Gown day instead of at com-mencement. Edward Johnshoy is vajedictorian and Barbara Rosenqvist is salutatorian. He Edits All-American Ail-American Rating Is Given Concordian First Time As Weekly Concordia Sheet Only Norwegian Lutheran College Paper To Receive Superior Ranking Announcement came Saturday from Minneapolis that the Associated Collegiate Press in a critical survey of 401 college and university papers judged The Concordian "superior" and awarded it an Ail-American rating for the first time in The Concordian's history as a weekly. Five years ago in 1934 The Concordian lost its All-Ameri-can rating when it changed from a bi-weekly to weekly paper and thereby entered more difficult competition. Previous to 1934 The Concordian received All-American for five consecutive years as a bi-weekly. Adding to The Concordian's tri-umph was tho information: That The Concordian was the only paper of the Norwegian Luth-eran colleges to obtain the honor, and That The Concordian was the exclusive Fargo-Moorhead college paper to be given the highest rat-ing. Judged with other weeklies from colleges of 500 to 1,000 enrollment, The Cpncordian was lauded as "a fine, well-balanced paper with good feature material given the proper emphasis." Practically perfect scores were giv-en The Concordian on news stories,' features, copyreading and proofread<- ing, an improvement over recent years. Reducing the total possible num-ber of points, but classed as "good" nevertheless, were the scores given headlines, typography, makeup and printing. Editorial page features were characterized as "excellently done/1 but more news on minor, intramural and women's sports were said to be needed-. Other Minnesota college papers which received the highest rating in their respective classes were The Min-nsota Daily of the University of Min-nesota; The Aquin of St. Thomas col-lege; The Carletonian of Carleton col-lege; The Hamline Oracle of Hamline university; The Catherine Wheel of St. Catherine's college and the Hilltop College Scoop of Eveleth Junior col-lcgc. Fifty-five papers, or 13 per cent of the total number of papers en-tered in the survey, received the coveted All-American rating. Tlie largest number of entrants in the history of ACP were entered in the survey. The system has been in use since 1924. Following the judging all pub-lications receiving one of the honor ratings — All-American (superior), First Class (excellent), Second Class (good) and Third Class (fair)—are awarded a diploma giving the name of the publication, the rating received and the year of competition. In charge of the issues of The Con-cordian entered in the survey were Lloyd Sveen as editor-in-chif; Will-mar Thorkelson, managing editor; Alf Stavig, sports editor; Marjorie Teis-berg, news editor; Thordis Aas, society editor; Beulah Fritch, feature editor, anyl Carol Zank, associate editor. LLOYD W. SVEEN Armory Chosen As Norse Opera Site Negotiations have been completed for the use of the Moorhead arniAry in which to present the Norwegian opera, "Olav Trygvasson," May 17 by the mixed chorus. Use of the armory will facilitate handling a larger audience than could be accommodated in the college audi-torium. Norris Heder is chairman of tho ticket sales committee. Beginning May 1, publicity of the opera in the form of handbills, sale of tickets and stories in Fargo-Moorhead papers will be released. Friday at 5 p.m. the mixed chorus of 80 voices and the orchestra of 40 pieces will practice together. In the weeks to follow several joint rehears-als will be held. Music Hour Time Changed; Band To Play Because of the change to daylight saving time the Concordia Music hour broadcast over ^VDAY, Fargo, each Sunday will be heard at 3 to 3:30 pjn. for the rest of the current school year instead of at 4:30 as formerly. Three numbers by the Concordia concert band directed by Prof. J. A. HJoIvik will comprise the program next Sunday. Womens League Discontinues Sunday Library Service Womens league members have dis-continued keeping the library open Sunday afternoons as the original plan was to quit at Easter, Miss Agnes EIHngson who was in charge an-nounces. An average of 25 persons used the library each Sunday. A Capella Choir Scores Success; Critics Uniform With Praise Music critics were uniformly lavish with their praise of the Concordia college a capella choir which returned Monday from its 17-day spring tour through the middlewest. According to A. O. Wigdahl, mana-ger, it is estimated that approximately 11,000 persons attended concerts of the choir in addition to several million listeners who heard the group in broadcasts over hookups of two na-tional broadcasting chains. Excerpts of the reviews follow: Chicago Daily News—"The choir which sang . . . at Orchestra hall Monday evening is one of the best in its class. . . . Certainly the singing was not merely beautiful in itself; it plainly bespoke the grinding, hard and ad-mirable training the 55 choristers have been put through. Musically the per-formances were in the best possible taste." Chicago Tribune—11. . . These visitors from Moorhead, Minn., astonished their listeners with the beauty and vari-ety of their tonal effects. Depth and richness are the choir's principal char-acteristics, but theae are readily modi-fied when the music calls for a skyline delicacy and simplicity of texture." Chicago Herald and Examiner — "Paul Christiansen, following in the artistic way of his eminent father, F. Melius Christiansen, displayed notable artistic standards and achievements in directing his group of Concordia col-lege choristers In a program of super-latively sacred music at Orchestra hall. . . . Tonally the group wrought ex-quisitely ethereal effects with fine ac-coustic balance and) precision. This is an outstanding choir and we hope they return soon to Chicago." Minneapolis Journal—"Hie perfec-tion of ensemble which has made the Concordia. choir one of the best or-ganizations of its kind, was again con-spicuously present in the concert giv-en last night at Central Lutheran church. . . . Tho choir sings with a strangely unearthly quality of tone ideally suited to the sacred music on the program. "Using infinite care in details of at-tack, release and balance, the con-ductor led the singers through many styles from Palestrinajs jubilant •Gloria Patri' and Bach's contra-puntal 'The Spirit Also Helpeih Us' to several modern songs by the con-ductor's father, F. Melius Christian-sen."
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