| Summary: | Page 4 THE CONtJORDIAN Friday, January 21, 1949 GREETINGS— To students, faculty, and other friencjs from the revised staff. With the change of semesters has also come a change in the line-up of The Concordian personnel. We congratulate Mark Gravdal for the many improvements which The Concor-dian has made under his stimulating editorship. No doubt many of our readers are curious about the editor-ial policy which will be pursued by the new staff. We'll take time out this week to delineate our aims, purposes, and goals, and the principles which will govern our publication. 1. First, last, and always — The Concordian is issued by the students of a Christian college. Any paper naturally re-flects the aims and ideals of the institution in which it orig-inates. In the past there have been those who have criticized The Concordian for being too concerned with Christianity. If such critics still exist, we hope they will find ample reason to complain. 2. The Concordian is a newspaper, and as such, aims to maintain a high journalistic standard. We purpose to present the news accurately, and as completely as possible under our present limitations of space and equipment. Reports of errors will be appreciated. 3. The Concordian exists primarily for the students of Concordia. First preference will be given to campus events, .and any happenings likely to be of interest to a large number of students. 4. Letters to the editor are invited, with one stipulation: they must be signed, although upon request the name of the letter writer will be withheld. Any other contributions will be given prompt consideration. 5. We will call the game as we see it. When constructive criticism is in order, we will not hesitate to criticize. Likewise, we will give praise where we think praise is due. Co-operation among all concerned with the desirable—students, faculty, ad-ministration, and constituency. BUT — we do not wish to be a soapbox for the airing of pet gripes; neither will we be led around on a leash by any group, student or otherwise. If our considered opinion does riot meet your approval, disagree strenuously. The Concordian exists for all of us, not only for a few stu-dents who toil eight or ten hours a week to publish it, or for any certain segment of the student body. If you don't like the pa-per, let us know, and we will see what can be done about it. We are your servant^—this is your Concordian. Soli Deo Gloria By Ruth Oas "Santify them in thy truth; thy word is truth." John 17:17. "But speaking the truth in love may grow up into Him in all things which Is the head, even Christ" Ephesians 4:15. These are familiar words, but what do they imply to us who pro-fess to be open to the truth? His WORD is truth-—His word comes to us as commands, not merely suggestions. Do we dare behold. His truths and do nothing or do we dare to play around with this thing called Christianity? Where is the power that this faith claims to possess but fails to reveal in our daily lives ? What is wrong, or am I assuming too much to imply that there is something wrong? "May grow up into Him in ALL things . . ." We tend to treat Christ as a dumping ground on which we unload our sins at the end of the day and go to sleep assured of forgiveness. Then we awaken and go through the same rut again. Christ doesn't want our filthy sins, He wants us, every bit of us. This implies growth, the daily putting off of sin and putting on of Christ. The plant that doesn't grow will die and so will the Christian who persists in living after the flesh. Let the person of the Holy Spirit fill your being, sway your life, and direct your paths. God doesn't want anything less than Holy Spirit controlled lives. This means change; it means death to sin and self. "How shall we who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?'1" Why don't we have Spirit-controlled lives? Why don't we feel led of the Spirit? Do we really want to be? Do we really want to obey Him? We want to think and run our lives OUR way, not God's way. We excuse sin. Do we want to give Him ALL of our pet sins? Practice Teachers Reach Climax Via "Limited, "Study Hall By Margaret Waage Editor's Note: Margaret Waage, feature writer, is practice teach-ing in Climax. She has sent The Concordian the following report. Puddle-jumpers that insist on leaving at six-thirty ayem on unpredictable February mornings aren't particularly conducive to bright and cheerful thoughts in the first place. But when the Climax ("Better take a drink now girls; it freezes up half way .to Moor-head.") Limited died a gasping death some miles from the nearest wide .spot in the road, the above inferable bitterness forced itself on yr. obdnt. servnt. "Minnows in the water tank," I surmised, after which canny observation I settled back to drink in the scenic value of endless gray snow, table-topping in every direction. Eternal minutes and much-floundering-in-the-snow later, we pulled our thumbs in and boarded a passing bus. Now I feel better . . . Recovering from my initial chagrin at hearing my name in-disputably linked with such un-ambiguous phrases as "the crabby one," I settled down to the riotous business of practice teaching. Lit-tle tow-headed boys with rather obvious Norwegian ancestry bring their "minister lesson" to study hall; down the corridor the band ambitiously t a c k l e s "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (having al-ready mastered "Lightly Row," you understand!) Twerp ties Punk to his chair while Joey dodges Volume N and I rush out to call the riot suad. Oh, yes — there's the second grader who cried ex-citedly "Teacher, I thought you said they'd only take pictures of our head! Look, the sign says 'Pictures Will Be Taken of the Entire Student Body!'" "Cheer, cheer for old Climax High-." World News In Two Minutes By Myron Hylden MINDSZENTY GETS LIFE For attempting to overthrow the Communist government of Hungary, Cardinal Mindszenty has been given a sentence of life im-prisonment. He used money ob-tained from the Vatican and the United States, the Court said; and on this basis Hungary accused the United States of being a meddler in Hungarian affairs. RUSSIA WANTS UN TO LIST A-BOIVIBS By the end of next month, Rus-sia wants the United States to report to the UN the number of A-Bombs in stock. Jacob Malik, Russian delegate, had more to say. Also, he wished the UN to approve a resolution which would amount to a formal denunciation of the North Atlantic security pact. SWEDISH AIRLINER CRASHES Reports from Sweden indicate that a Swedish airliner with 28 aboard crashed near the Swedish coast. The crew consisted of five men. The passenger list included the other 23. All are believed to have been killed. NORTHWEST BATTLES SNOW Wednesday, Gov. Luther Young-dahl of Minnesota offered a C-47 from the Minnesota State Guard to aid the haylift operations from the Minot airport. The Fifth Army reported their bulldozers have reopened operations against the mountains of snow but that strong winds had closed 2000 miles of road within the 24-hour period ending Wednesday. LLESE AND The band on Its way. Concert Band Encounters Trials and Tribulations Editor's Note: Co-editor Helen Narveson, now on tour with the concert band, sent us this account of the activities of the band mem-bers. Grafton, N. D. Hiya slaves! (To coin a phrase.) While you are toiling away on this week's Concordian Chris and I are touring North Dakota in style. Starting at the beginning of the tour last week—Monday, Jan. 3L MONDAY: Time of departure from Moorhead was set at 2 p.m. At 2:15 most of the baggage was loaded and everyone had staked a claim on seats, but a few people were missing. Five minutes later in dashed Eugene Carr and Kenny Johnson — their story was that they were held up at the regis-trar's office. Two minutes later vice-president Stoelting strolled in and off we went. At Elbow Lake there was almost a Cobber homecoming, as six or seven grads are teaching there. The newest addition to their facul-ty is Phil Prindle, who had started teaching only the day before we came. Mr. Holvik scheduled a rehears-al for 7 p.m., just before the con-cert, but he waited in one room and the band in another, so—no practice. It was discovered that the second and third cornet music had been left in Moorhead. This seemed to unnerve everyone so that the first half of the concert went very badly. Wagstrom had put in a call to Moorhead, so Don Frokjer arrived with the music during intermission. Some of the fellows found an onion and were playing catch between halves of the program, so if the second half had an odor, it was of a different sort from that of the first half. Glenn Sjolander was assigned to sleep in a house where all he saw from the time he came until he left was a little black dog. TUESDAY: Kathy Quam had a toothache and went to a dentist be-fore we left Elbow Lake. He pulled the tooth, or so she thought, but when we arrived in Osakis she went to another dentist who pulled the rest of the tooth. We had all afternoon to our-selves, so we opened the bowling alley in Osakis. Ronnie Johnson, Erling Linde, Otto Bakken, Edgar Baseman, and Bob Hanson acted as pinsetters. WEDNESDAY: In Staples the Men's Civic Chorus served us a cafeteria-style supper which they' had cooked themselves. We pre-sented our concert in the largest gym in the state. The audience was sitting so far from the stage that they were barely visible. THURSDAY: The Staples high school band under the direction of Erling Lian, former Cobber, put on a concert for us. It sounded Con-cordian- band style to us—almost. A very interesting letter ad-dressed to Kenny Johnson and Phil Franze from two Staples High girls was found. Kenny and Phil were puzzled; they had never seen the girls. They soon discovered that Eugene Carr and Norman Engh had walked the girls home Wednesday night. Gene and Nor-man fed the girls lines under the psuedonyms of Phil and Kenny. We still get mail from Staples- FRIDAY: Back to Moorhead to see the Alpha Zete-Athenian pro-gram. Sunday: At Thief River Falls we were entertained at a Family Hour in Trinity Lutheran Church. Erling Linde and Mity Johnson played solos, and John Helgeson and I spoke. Bad luck plagued us before the concert. Doug Stoelting discovered he had left his cornet in the prac-tice room at the conserv; the bass stand was missing; the tympani stand fell apart; Jerry Trett had to borrow a flute. On top of, or rather on the bottom of it all, Jer-ry Skyrud found that he had left his tux trousers at home. During "Stars and Stripes" Ann Gand-rud's bass drum stick flew into the air and came down on unsuspecting Kenny Johnson's shoulder. "Duke" introduced Edd Egger-myer, composer of the number played by the trumpet trio, to us. MONDAY: We had to travel to Hoople via Grand Forks because of blocked roads. On the way some of the fellows took up knitting. John Murphy kept contented with a big, black cigar until several an-noyed persons voted to throw it out. The Grafton Rose Bowl band and their director, Joe Birkeland, came to Hoople to hear us. TUESDAY: Now we're leaving Grafton. Be home Friday. Greetings to all, Helen NEWS NOTES FACULTY ADVISOR Miss Geneva Mauaeth CIRCULATION MANAGER Shirley Viker CIRCULATION STAFF: Adeline Groven, Avis Knutaon, Eleanor Midboe, Ruth Satre, Betty Schroeder, Marian Swenson, Jean Wetteland, and Joanne Wold. REPORTERS: Paul Ahlneas, Nancy Barr, Ann Beck, Doris Benson, Corrine Blikatad, Paul Eidbo, Louise Fins tad, Clarice FOBS, Correne Gabbert, Harold Klefsaas, Dorothy Larson, Ingemar Larson, Walter Larson, Hazel Lovdokken, Connie Lunde, Nor-ma Lunde, Ruth Lykken, Bob Narveson, Lucille Njus, Elaine Olson, Doris Ottaon, Ada Ramage, Alice Rasmusaen, Arlo " Rolnnelson, Bob Sande, Orvllle Sanderson, Avia Septon, Joyce Spoonland. Rod Stalley, Lloyd Svendsbye, Laura Titua, Wayne Ulestwood, Clarice Undhjem, Donald Vigen, Harold Void, Sally Ann Warner, Paul Gab taken, and Marvin Holt TYPISTS: Elaine Bry, Virginia Groven, Evelyn Klyve, FriioUla Peterson.
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