| Summary: | Page Two THE CONCORDIAN Thursday, January 23, 1941. Jottings From The Editors Desk Towards An Education BY HOWARD MORTENSON When extra-curricular activities are brushed off the face of the modem college, one realizes that it's really the education a school can give you that counts. Quality of the education is determined by the number and quality of the courses offered. Thus when it is announced that the Concordia college con-servatory has been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and that plans for a commerce course have been submitted to the Minnesota department of education we can say that Concordia is making strides forward in the accom-plishment of the real objectives of a college. Prof. Paul J. Christansen is to be congratulated upon the high standard he has set in the conservatory. The honor ac-corded is outstanding. The Concordia conservatory is the only one to be so rated between Minneapolis and the west coast. Modern life makes some knowledge of certain comtnercial courses indispensable. It is well then, that we make such cours-es available to the liberal arts student Black coffee, sleepless nights, open books, worry, grind, blue-books, heat, squirm, scratch, ink—it's that time again. With the knowledge acquired in an even-ing's study we go forth to conquer the final exam. An exam which in some courses accounts for 75 per cent of the grade and in many 33 per cent. Why is it that we continue this cram-jam system of measuring knowledge ? Wouldn't periodical examinations serve the purpose better? They would keep the stu-dent continually on his toes, more-over, they would keep the teacher continually informed of the prog-ress of his class. Put Up Your Dukes! You're Scheduled For A Seven-Day Series Of Tussles Truly diplomatic envoys for Concordia are the two travelling musical organizations, the band and the choir. After they've fin-ished their trips in May, people all over the midwest will know that Concordia college not only ex-ists but that it is a fine school. Mr. Wigdahl is to be commended for his work in booking them this year. AES Claims Hoop Title Dear Editor: To you and to the campus, the Alpha Epsilon Sigma society wish-es to announce that its member-ship holds the Intersociety bask-etbaU championship, won in the last year of competition. We shall continue to claim that title until such time as some other society team shall defeat us in a contest. Varsity and reserve team members shall be ineligible for such a contest. A. E. S. More Effective Than Criticism Wonders humanly incredible, power invincible, and joy unspeak-able— these we Christians receive if we pray with faith grounded on the Word of God. As we look back upon this last semester, how have we Cobbers used this God-given privilege of prayer—or have we used it? In our relations with our faculty and administration we sometimes with a cynical attitude look ask-ance at what they do. Such an at-titude can never foster a rela-tionship of Christian love. Let us recognize that they also are hu-man and then in spirit of love pray that God will give them wis-dom and strength to yulde us on the path to greater learning. We have numerous student or-ganizations on our campus, both religious and secular. None of us, I suppose, attends all of them. These organizations may fall short of completely fulfilling their pur-pose. Shall we then rake them over the coals in a hot-bed of destruc-tive criticism? Could the reason be that we don't bend our knees in prayer for them and for their leaders ? Every hour daily we rub elbows with all types of students in our classes. Do we associate with only a few and then shake our heads at the lives and activities of those outside our small group? Is this Christian love? Cobbers, we need to help one another in the Christ-ian life—and the most effective way is prayer! All this does not mean that we should then compromise with sin. No, in our campus associations we need the criticism if it is con-structive. Christ hated sin but loved the sinner. We need the prayer of faith for the love of Christ—O.I.T. You—of course— are a nice quiet guy. You like your siesta. You rarely get into arguments with unknowns and you never set-tle them with your fists. But one evening you are having a nap in your favorite "reclin-airre". An unknown sitting next to you goes to sleep on your shoul-der. You disengage him, try to fin-ish your snooze, when you finally find yourself yanked around by your no longer affectionate neigh-bor. You retreat In alarm but before you can got your mitt up In the manner described as approved, ho has led with a "terrific" and dumped you Into the sawdust with, a mouthful of ruined bridge-work. Anything can touch off a fight—and you're always the one—gentle, retiring, In-offensive— who gets lumped. Like measles, a fight doesn't care who has it. If you refuse to participate, it takes place any-way with the other guy doing all the scrapping. So cock an ear and give heed to these fundamentals. There's a first rule in the lex-icon and for emphasis it goes in-to large letters. DON'T OVER-MATCH YOURSELF. If the other guy is bigger and broader, fly, don't walk to the nearest exit. If you're the average man, how-ever, the fellow you tangle with will probably be nothing but an-other average man . . . your height, your reach, your degree of physical decay. So when the ar-gument boils over and he's about to fire a punch you observe Bat-tle Order No. 1. Let him have it first. They call it self-defense, but the prime can-on is to hit before you get hit. Be forceful but not ferocious! You don't want to murder him, but you want to protect your-self. When you've landed your punch, and especially if you've missed it, jump in and clinch! Hold onto the unpleasant creature as though you were a Scotchman and he your last shilling. The opening phase of the row will have term-inated in your favor. Again you attack. Meaning that you continue to prod ner-vously like an old maid poking at something that's got into the ice-box drain. Occasionally, for ef-fect, you do a rubber-legged ver-sion of the bobbing-weaving sci-ence. And what's the other bloke do-ing while you fashion these an-tics? He's not so fancy-dancy. He inspects you with much interest as you stumble around him. Your blows annoy him about as much as a swarm of butterflies. All of a sudden he closes his eyes and lets fly with a haymaker. You don't see the wallop any more-than its dispatcher sees you. But the sock crashes horribly upon your battle-frown and you sit out the rest of the conflict on the cold, cold ground. Now don't get sore. Don't rub-your jaw and start looking for a rock to heave at us. Remain on the shiny seat of those trousers of yours and watch while we run the film backward. Your shenanigans have provid-ed us with a beautiful straw man. Instead of simply burning this dummy, we will dispose of him ac-cording to the George Jean Na-than recipe, using the ambush, the Chinese water torture, and the garotte. Then we'll tell you; what you really should have done —thanks to Alexander for that great "fighting" inspiration YOU SHOULD HAVE STUDIED FOR THAT EXAM! The Concordian's Mirror Of Collegiate Viewpoints What Students Are Doing And Thinking Here And In The Nation Second college band organized . . .Cobbers defeat MSTC Peds 24-21 . . . Total enrollment reach-es 394 . . . Bison down Cobbers 35-13 . . . Mission society to give plays as a means of raising money. 10 YEARS AGO Arnold Hage, Paul Anderson and Merril Dilstad represent Con-codia at intercollegiate model League of Nations . . .Coeds act as substitute nurses in illness of nurse . . . Directors discuss plans for 40th anniversay . . . Debate team meets MSTC in first contest of season . . . Ernest Davis, Amer-ican tenor, presents third college artist couse. 5 YEARS AGO Jascha Heifetz gives concert . . . Dragons defeat Cobbers 28-21 . Final plans for building Fjelstad hall accepted . . . Dean Oscar Hanson resigns to accept pastoral call at Watertown, S. D. ON OUR CAMPUSES luUTHERAN' STUDENT? UNION Buy Byrd Instrument Used by Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his last Antarctic expedi-tion, an instrument known as a sounding balloon theodolite has been purchased by Amherst col-lege for its astronomy depart-ment. (ACP). Anderson Is Guest Of Annapolis 'Middy "Fargo, N. D.? Oh, that's way up by Winnipeg, isn't it?" is what most people remarked when they had asked Lois Anderson, holiday visitor in New York, Washington and Annapolis where she lived. Intellectual treats In New York were provided by the New York Philharmonic orchestra with Dmitri Mltropoulos as guest con-ductor and a boys' choir of 75 voi-ces which sang in the Church of the Heavenly Host on Fifth av-enue. She also attended stage per-formances of three light musical comedies. Miss Anderson, junior, rounded off her stay in the fashion cen-ter when she "walked in—and out" of Tiffany's and roamed through tfie bargain basement of Macy's department store, Christmas eve for Lois meant midnight services in the chapel at the Annapolis Naval academy as a guest of Midshipman Billy Han-sen ex-'42. An impressive part of the ceremony was a choir of 150 uniformed m i d shipmen who' marched in singing. Stumbling and spraining an ankle are hard to avoid on the cobble-stone streets of Annapol-is. To keep the city as it always was, no pavement is allowed on the streets. Besides the entertain-ment planned for guests of the "middies," Lois watched drills, ob-served "chow formation" before meals and saw 2600 midshipmen march between classes to the tune of snare drums. A trip to Washington, D. C, allowed Lois to visit such his-torical sites as the Lincoln Mem-orial, Robert E. Leo's home, Tomb of the' Unknown Soldier and the White House. After a whole day in the Smithsonian Institute, Lois avers, 4*I think the whole of civili-zation could be destroyed if we could still beep the Institute" Guides in the building which houses the Federal Bureau of In-vestigation showed Miss Anderson where the records of all criminals are kept and explained to her the system by which this department keeps every section of the United States in touch with each other. The women's department of the bureau revealed such descriptive names as Dirty-necked Mabel and Bow-legged Annie. "Easterners are fun," said Lois, "even though they think Concor-dia college is a seminary in St. Louis, Mo."—J. V. O. Keep Informed! Flashes Of World Wide News JUSTICE JAMES CLARK McREYNOLDS TO RETIRE. Justice James Clark McReynolds, opponent of much New Deal legislation, no-tified President Roosevelt yesterday he would retire from the supreme court Feb. 1 after 26 years of service. Attorney General Jackson has been mentioned as a possible appointee to the first vacancy of the court. This will be President Roosevelt's sixth appointment to the nine-man court. BRITISH FORCES STORM TOBRUK. According to British reports thousands of Italian prisoners were taken at Tobruk in Libya as British, Australian and "Free French" forces advanced through broken defense lines. Tobruk was reported reduced to ruins by big guns of the British fleet. SENATOR McNARY TO FIGHT LEASE-LEND BILL. Senate Re-publican Leader McNary declared his intention to fight the Lease-Lend bill when he said yesterday, "It grants extraordinary and total powers to one person"—referring to President Roosevelt. GREEK MAJOR MARGARET Barth, mid-year graduate at Lu-ther college, enters the Lutheran Deaconess hospital in Chicago the second semester this year, pre-paratory to sailing to China as a missionary. World conditions caused Miss Barth to change her original plan to study at the Biblical seminary in New York. She will secure nurse's training before stepping on to the mission field. Miss Barth, one of the most ac-tive and capable students of the campus, was included in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities," was a member of Honor Society and has been sec-retary for the president and dir-ector of admission at Luther for three years. ENTHUSIASTIC IS BERNICE Jensen, program director of th<* L.S.U. at Augustana. During the past year she has staged eight parties, including one in which she commandeered for an evening all of the facilities of the million dol-lar £ioux Falls YMCA building, handball courts, two gymnasiums, including the swimming pool, ping-pong rooms, bowling alleys, and the little theatre. NOW ON ITS TWENTY-two city eastern tour is the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir. This time it is Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway who have written to director F. Melius Christianson for special reserved seats at the concert to be given in Washington. They also request-ed that the choir sing "Beautiful Savior" in Norwegian. Among the sight-seeing tours of the group will be one to the White House in Washington, D. C, where they will have an oppor-tunity to meet President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR is proud of the fact that all of the work on the paper from edit-ing to the final printing is done by students exclusively. Only one of the students isn't from August-ana. He is Bob Good barn, linotype operator and pressman, who is six-foot, six and one-half inches tall and is a star basketball player with the Sioux Falls college Braves. Cobbers Favor Limited Aid To Britain When Previewed On Coffee Conference Topic As a prelude to the next cof-fee conference which will be on the topic, "Aid to Britain," the Concordian surveyed the students on the same topic, found that the majority of students questioned favor aid to a limited extent. Of those who answered nega-tively most contended that aid to Britain is a sure step toward involving the United States in con-flict. Following are the answers given by students when asked: "Do you favor President Roose-velt's attitude toward aid to Great Britain?" AUDREY ZUBE, Sophomore: I agree with President Roosevelt that all possible aid should be given to Great Britain if the United States is to be protected. However, the president has a tendency to take the word "given" too literally. The United States cannot af-ford to spend millions for war-ships and then give them to Groat THE CONCORDIAN weekly daring the Mbool year except daring raeaUon, holiday and exarainatloa perfode, by the itudenta of Conoordla Coll***, Hoarhead. Entered M Moond OUUM matter at th« poetofflee erf afoorbead, Minn. Alt-American Honor - Eating In ACF . 1MS-40, IBI&-H STUDENTS UNION ASSOCIATION Britain which Is practically what the Lend - Lease bill means. There must Always be enough war materials around the United States to protect It if German bombers shouldn't stop at England on their flight west. WARREN JOHNSON, fresh-man: I believe that Roosevelt is sticking his neck out a little too far. Great Britain still owes us a debt from the last war, so I see no reason for giving aid again. If we spend the money on our country's defense, we wouldn't have to worry about the Nazi scare. LORRAINE H. PETERSON, sophomore: I think that we arc giving too much old to Great Brit-ain. Next we will have to give them our physical aid. MARGUERITE EICHLER, sen-ior: I believe that we should give aid to Great Britain, but this aid should be regulated by Congress or at least a committee elected from Congress. If Great Britain falls, Hitler will not stop there— we have learned that from pre-vious experience. MYRON HOFF, junior: I be-lieve that it is O- K. to a certain extent, but I believe that the pres-ident has taken too much into his own hands. That is, in some cases he has acted without consulting anyone or without telling the Am-erican people what is going to be done. OLIVE JOHNSON, sophomore: Roosevelt has taken too strong a stand in his aid to Great Britain policy. There is no need for Amer-ica to become involved. We are supposed to be helping to ward off and prevent dictatorships, but wasn't the last war fought for practically the same cause? Let America keep out of European wars and let those nations in-volved fight their own battles. EILEEN BAEVERSTAD, fresh-man: I think that all possible aid should be given to Great Britain because if Britain loses the United States will soon be in war. I think it is better to give aid with money and machines than with men. Aid to Great Britain now is the only way to insure the victory of the democracies. ELIZA THOMPSON, freshman: I agree with President Roosevelt on giving aid to Great Britain, but I do not think we should build up a large number of factories which will fall into depression at the close of war. JOHN DYSTE, junior: Britain is America's front line of defense. Wo should give her aid as suggest-ed by Roosevelt But X think the methods which he is using are going to lead us into war. GORDON RASMUSSEN, fresh-man: I do not regard aid to Britain as an absolute necessity to western hemisphere welfare. I believe that aid is a gift from us and we need not expect it re-turned. Since we are giving aid we have the right and responsi-bility to aid in drawing up the peace. SdHor-ra-ofatef Manarlng editor. Ae»cndate editor—. Sport* mMt^tr Boattr eeltar V editor -Robert H. Jeluuen Ceraten Brim Jean Oftfcy , HareM P*Ur Rath Batik* Sralck* BuaineM manaa-er— Advertlilna- manager Circulation manacer- Edltorlal adrtaer Lloyd Larsoa —. Otto Ber* ~D«FIoran Rode L Ty*t«land The famous POWERS COFFEE SHOP downtown rendezvous for the smart set is now featuring with Lloyd Collins, staff electric organ artist KAY DOYLE Bualneat advlier Norman Verdstraad
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