| Summary: | PAGE 4 THE OONOORDIAN Friday, October 17, 1947 Editorial , Alert Alumni Deserve Gratitude All Cobbers should be encouraged that the dream of a student union building at Concordia may become a reality in the not-too-distant future. The college alumni, at their annual homecoming meeting, adopted a resolution urging the construction of such a build-ing. The alumni not only passed such a resolution but elected a committee to work out definite plans for financing the project. In the past there have been much talking and much wishful thinking about a student union building. Now for the first time this much needed project has been launched by a group well able to see it through to a successful conclusion. That of course is on the assumption that the group who sponsored the resolution are able to mass the weight of all-out alumni support behind the undertaking. Some may say that this is an inopportune time to launch upon another construction program since college authorities are even now in the throes of completing three projects each of which entailed a greater expense than had originally been contemplated. In addition to the urgency of completing the construction now under way, the administration has a com-mitment to build a new physical education building, a new library, and a new music hall. Each of these proposed struc-tures is a major project and will strain th£ college building budget to the utmost; Despite this seeming overload of building projects already under construction or in the planning stage, the possibility of financing a union building is not fantastic provided its spon-sors, the alumni association en masse, are really serious about it and marshall full strength to carry out this laudable under-taking. The union building drive is the first major building project officially launched by the Concordia alumni, and we hope there will be no weakening in the line of this group to press on to a smashing victory. It is not a job to be done in a few months. It will take hard and consecrated effort. We believe the members of the graduating class of '48 are convinced that it is a worthy cause and that they too will add their enthusiasm and support to this alumni project. Gyrenes' Concert Is As Brilliantly! Colorful As Their Scarlet Uniforms Was 1st Los? Each Student Needs God's Word By EARL REITAN The 1947-48 * Lyceum" series opened Monday night with a sparkling concert by the far-famed U. S. (^arine band. Playing to a packed house, the "gyrenes" pre-sented a brilliantly executed pro-gram of popular concert hall fav-orites, modern works, novelties, marches, and swing music as bright and colorful as their scar-let uniforms. Led by Maj. William F. Santel-mann, the band demonstrated the great technical skill, solid mu-sicianship, and the dashing style which has made them one of the nation's top-flight musical organi-zations. The program was one of great popular appeal, designed to satisfy as many musical tastes as possible. Judging from the enthusiastic re-ception which the band received, In this they were eminently suc-cessful. The armory has un-doubtedly seen many programs of greater musical worth; for exam-ple, Isaac Stern's superb recital last winter; but one can safely say *that seldom has a Lyceum concert been so universally enjoyed. The members of the band are living proof that the golden prom-ises of the recruiting posters do occasionally come true. (Scoffing vets take note.) Membership in the band is a career job; most of the musicians have served for over ten years, are married, and have their own homes in Washington. The rigid routine of a military post is not for them. The men also double in strings, and during the winter season form a symphony orchestra giving regu- • lar concerts. Except for the tour each summer, they are stationed in Washington where they serve at official functions, receptions, and other formal and informal af-fairs. Because of these duties they have received the name "The President's Own," a title of which all the members are very proud. Oldest member of -the band from point of service is a short stocky French horn player, Sgt. Raggo-zino. He came from his native Italy at the age of 14 and has played with the 'band for the past 28 years, serving five presidents. When asked about his experiences, he told of colorful diplomatic re-ceptions, inaugurations, and other official affairs in which he had taken part during his long term Of service. Highlights in his ca-reer were a private concert for Roosevelt and Churchill, and the ceremonies when the King and Queen of England visited the United States. Before foe left, Sgt. Raggozino had one word of advice for the many aspiring musicians at Con-cordia. That one word was, "Practice!" Psychology Club Organized An organization meeting to form a psychology club was held last night at 6:30 in Room 15. Officers were elected and plans were made for the organization. A student must have taken one semester of psychology to be eligible for mem-bership. Chosen to head the organiza-tion were Gordon Heistad, presi-dent; Donald Pederson, vice presi-dent; Ruth Blom, secretary-treas-urer and press agent, Gordon Manternach. Dr. T. O. Burgess will be adviser. A tentative constitution will be drawn up by the officers, the ad-viser, Raymond Wirth and Arthur Tollefson. The next meeting will be held in two weeks on Oct. 29. By MARK GRAVJDAL Things are still tough. . . An amazing number of formerly intelligent individuals read these lines, fugitives from a low-class wastepaper basket, last week. Such a development, surely re-volting, almost blasts one's faith in humanity. We fear it indicates a lack of Superman periodicals in the library all of which leads to a few thoughts on the scholar's sanctum. Theoretically, which means It's in the Student Handbook, the li-brary is for concentrated mental activity. Occasionally the best laid plans of college admissions office go awry and an Intelligent stu-dent, who comes to scliol for pur-poses other than getting married or spending Dad's money, slips into a classroom. To him the library is his kingdom and not his boredom. Our typewriter is of the opinion that we less fortu-nates might well do our calis-thenics, spot our next date, catch up on sleep, (though he's never been caught), practice basketball, and prove that people are funny bunnies at other times an din bet-ter places. Now that the "veakening Viking . veekend" is over and we've "home-corned" for another year; a bit of heretical thinking comes along. Thinking as to what excuse liter-ary societies have for still breath-ing (if they are still breathing). Their present state isn't a very convincing argument. Do they exist merely for social reasons and how we need social life on the campus! Shouldn't they be counted among the living only if they are -positive rather than accidental in their pro-grams? Let's hope someone dis-agrees with this or we're going to have a mass funeral for a slug of Greek letters. Perhaps all that's needed is a bit of artificial in-spiration. Tradition is a wonderful thing. So wonderful ,that Cobbers cah en-joy weiners, meatburgers, (meat of undetermined origin), those spuds we just wouldn't eat before, and various other forms and de-grees of food each noon. No, we're not suffering, but suffering is not the only criteria for improve-ment! The caf's doing a good job. Maybe they could do a better job! These student chapel programs are one fine thing. We've al-ways felt that students did have some ability and some conviction and that students like to hear stu-dents. Only let's not limit them to students of a particular group. No one has a monopoly on ability, belief, or salvation. Wheels are a great thing. At least when they're used properly. Think of the disaster which would overtake the 'baby buggy industry if wheels were suddenly banned.1 However, we're not convinced that "wheels" on a college campus are either necessary or desirable creatures. Student government is something for every student. The Christian campus should wit-ness the real workings of Democ-racy in student relationships. Some Cobbers think our student government could stand some defi-nite changes and with' that in mind a proposal for making every Cob-ber a vital part of student politi-cal life is on the way to the Stu-dent Forum. We've grown up physically, we're growing spirit-ually, we '^ope we're growing mentally, let's also start growing student bodily! Did homecoming 1947 see the beginning of friendly rivalry be-tween CO and the North Broad-way college and the death of so-phisticated gangsterism? Let's hope so! Don't forget the red bullseye. For Daily Consecrated Living By THE REV, OTTO BRATLIE Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." It would be interesting to have a "man on the campus" program and ask passing students the ques-tion "What do we need for a good life?" H. G. Wells gave an answer which most of us would not con-sider complete when he said, "The four things needed for a good life are health, happiness, love, and money." I am sure that you agree that we could take a list of desirable things and cross off one item after the other until very few remained. But one thing you would not let anyone cross off the list. That is what Jesus speaks about in Mat-thew 4:4. More than anything else, you need God's word. In every part of life man needs God's word. The educator needs it. Carl Ylvisaker once said, "If you train men's minds but not their morals, you train clever devils." The scientist needs God's word. It has been said that science can teach men how to cool milk with a refrigeration unit, but it cannot teach young people how to cool the fiery passions of their hearts. Science can teach us how to build skyscrapers but it cannot teach us how to get close to God. Science can teach us how to fly through the air like birds and how to swim through the sea like fish, but it cannot teach us how to walk on the earth like men. Of course we know that the church worker needs God's word. A native convert in India wrote to E. Stanley Jones to give him a report about the local church work. The native did not know English very well and tried to tell Jones about a revival. What he wrote was, "We are having a great 're-Bible' around here." But he was not so far off the track after all, for if a quickening of Coeds Comment On Russia, Athlete's Foot Of the remedies of mankind's problems, there is no end. In a newspaper there are articles with full directions for stopping infla-tion, athlete's foot, and Russia. Speaking of Russia, this country is qurte an important topic of con-versation these days. Dr. Stefan Osusky gave an exceedingly inter-esting and informative talk on Russia. His answer to what the situation is in that country may never toe specific, but it is pretty certain to come under the head of pressure cooking. Contrary. to popular American opinion, free speech does not exist in Soviet Russia. # The truth is that a Russian can say anything he wants—once. The Russian people must be get-ting a little tired of being shoved around so much. It should teach them a lesson that you either bare dictators in due time or you bear them a long time. Where progress toward eco-nomic recovery is concerned, stal-ling rhymes with Stalin, Uncertain about our future for-eign policy, Russia is pictured as wanting to know what the United States will stand for. Also how much. C. S. and C. A. faith and Jove ever comes in a. church, it comes only through a renewed interest .in God's word. Now there are many reasons. *. why we need God's word. We could list the following: 1. You need it for conviction of sin. Romans 3:20: ^Through the Jaw comes the knowledge of sin." If you spend enough time in a stuffy room, you won't notice that it is stuffy. If you spend enough , time in a sinful atmosphere, you will get used to it, and a dirty show, for instance, won't bother you at all. But if you often breathe the fresh *adr of the Bible, ./ou will keep your sensitivity to the smelliness of sin. 2. You need God's word for cleansing. John 15:3: "Now are r, ye clean through the word which 'If, I have spoken unto you." I will ~ always remember from an English class at Concordia how the in-structor in a characteristic way used the phrase, "all clean inside." Is it not good to know that, using God's word, we can begin each day here at school in just that way, all clean inside. 3. You need God's word for certainty. I John 5:13: "These •things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life." 4. You need God's word for consecration. John 17:17: "Sanc-tify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." Consecration means ' 'setting aside for God's purpose." I believe the story was once told here at chapel of the man who was asked to join three other men on a train in a game of poker. When he replied, "I have no hands with which to play," he was asked, "What are ftihose big red things down on your knees?" "Those are not my own hands," he said, "I just asked the Owner and he said I could not use them for gambling." If «you keep .your Bible V, open, you will learn to say the ^ same when someone invites you to use your eyes, hands, or feet for anything outside the will of Jesus. 5. You need God's word for calling. I wonder if one reason we have about 150 vacant parishes to-day and so many vacant mission stations across the ocean is not that when the Bible is closed, God has very little chance to ^et hold ' of the people whom he could use in these vacancies. In an English hospital during the last war a pastor was visiting with an old mother, the victim of an air raid. She said to him, "Pastor, I've lost everything. I've lost my husband, I've lost my home, I've lost my friends, I've lost everything." And then after a pause, "Pastor, I told you a lie." With difficulty she pulled a can-vas bag from under the pillow and from the bag a worn old Bible. Then she said "I told you a lie. I have this with which to build a new home." You students have God's words with which you can begin and build a life. If your life with its talents and beautiful possibilities is to amount to more than two cents, you need God's word. Organ Dedicated By Berge Miss Ruth Berge of the Concor-dia faculty dedicated a pipe or-gan at the Lutheran church in Nielsville Sunday evening. The Rev. Orlando Lee is pastor of the church. Miss Berge received a four-weeks course this summer at an organ institute held at Andover, Mass. Attendance was limited to 40 organists from various sections of the United States. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR NEWS EDITOR ' SOCIETY EDJTOR ;DESK EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR _"i Jack Nystul Marjorie Mueller Marguerite El I meson Betty Gilbertson Helen N&rveson Joyce Kvaalen Robert Johnson SPORTS WRITERS: Donna Peterson, Jack Mueller, Edwin SPECIAL WRITERS: David Brown, Howard Quisberg, Paul Enger. 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