| Summary: | Page 4 THE CONCORDIAN October 7, 1949 Edibrially. THE MARCHING BAND We were filled with justifiable pride at the performance of the Concordia band during the Homecoming festivities last weekend. The band's five appearances were characterized by a superior quality of musicianship made even more striking considering the short time available for preparatory rehear-sals. good band doesn't just happen. It's the result of a great deal of hard work—work which deserves thankful recogni-tion from both students and faculty. The band's half-time performance at Saturday's game again made us aware of its potentialities as a marching unit. But a marching band needs uniforms and uniforms cost money about $5000 in fact. We shake our heads sadly and say, "My, but it would be nice if the band could get new uniforms," but as far as we can learn, nothing tangible has yet been done to lift this sympa-thetic talk to the level of an active project. The old proverb says "If you want something done, do it yourself." At present it is doubtful if the administration, hampered as it is by-budget slashings, could alone finance such a project. If our dream of a smartly dressed marching band is going to go beyond the talking stage the initial move will have to come from us students. Providing uniforms for a marching band at Concordia would be an excellent student project. With the students working together with the administra-tion there is no reason why our dreams cannot become a re-ality this year. SCHOLARSHIP Our hearty congratulations to seniors, Athenians and de-baters who once again have won laurel wreaths for top scholas-tic averages. Estonian, Latvian Students Join Ranks With Cobbers By Alice Mae Young With all the charm and grace of the Old World there now dwell among us Cobbers two displaced persons who have recently come from Europe to study here at Con-cordia college. Both of them have .feeen alienated from their home-lands along the Baltic seaboard; both have lived as strangers in Germany for five years. Last year while Raimonds Miesnieks was assisting David S. The remaining Latvians deter-mined to remove themselves from the Communist pressure and to flee to Germany, where they have since lived as exiles until the or-ganization of DP camps by the American occupation forces. In Germany Miesnieks contin-ued his high school training, which had been interrupted by his exile, in a special Latvian DP school. Later he entered the University oJ Tucbinsen and a theatre RAIMONDS MIESNIEKS AND EITLA EIN discuss theii new courses at Concordia, Halbakken, a former Cobber, in Lutheran World federation work ' in Germany, his chief encouraged him to try for a German displaced person's scholarship to Concordia college. Miesnieks won, and here he is. . But things have not always hap-pened so fortunately for Mies-nieks. In 1940 his native land, Latvia, was taken over by Com-munist influences—an event quite distasteful to the Latvians since the Russians were notorious for their severity. Then, in 1944, the Russian oppression became un-bearable; the Communists in a single day deported 1400 Latvians to the slave camps in Siberia. school where, besides dramatics, he studied Latvian, English, Ger-man, Russian and Latin. Toge-ther with this background and the learning which he will gain here at Concordia, he will some day in his hopeful future teach the dra-matic arts. A similar story was related by Eitla Ein, our student-friend from Estonia. In 1944 her father, a pro-fessor of law at the University of Tartu, Estonia, was blacklisted by the invading Communists and trailed by the Russian political secret police. The only hope for the family to escape the tenacles from behind the Iron Curtain was a hurried flight by sea to Danzig Austrians, French Impress Halvorson By Georgia Helgeson Although Miss Thelma Halvor-son has studied abroad before, she readily agrees that this past sum-mer has been the most enjoyable and profitable. She went with the Concordia Choir on its tour of Norway, and then on to Austria, Switzerland, France and England. In Austria she attended the In-ternational summer school at the MISS HALVORSON Mazarteum in Salzburg for six weeks. Besides the operas, ballets, oratorios, and chamber music which were constantly given, there were three concerts a day. She also attended a seminar for ad-vanced music critics, at which they listened to concerts or operas and then discussed and criticized each one. "The Austrian people were very kind and polite, and would go out of their way to help you,*' she stated. "When I left, they came to see me off and brought me a large bouquet of flowers." "America" is a magic word in Austria; they especially think our green dollars are so wonderful. They consider us wealthy people with new cars. Food is rationed, but meals are good. Austrians live more leisurely than we. Stores are locked every afternoon from 12 to 3. In England she visited the homes of Dickens and Shakespeare. The French architecture impressed her. Miss Halvorson couldn't get used to the fact that French cafes were closed after 8:00 in the eve-ning. "The music played in the restaurants," she said "was most-ly classical". Miss Halvorson arrived back in the United States September 17. Free City of Germany. They have remained in Germany since then. When the United States army schools for DP's were set up, Eitla enrolled to finish her high school training. Afte? graduation she at-tended the University of Frank-fort, where she specialized in chemistry and the history of art. Now Eitla is studying in the fields of her special interests—music, drawing, and dress designing. Incidentally, the most thrill-ing picture of these United States which I have ever heard was drawn for me by something Eitla told. She said that when the ship on which she came to this country entered New York Harbor, she gazed upon the sky-line of the city with great disap-pointment. The towering sky-scrapers of the Big City seemed so cold and unfriendly. "Here is no heart and soul," she thought. Then she turned and saw for the first time the Statue of Lib-erty, whose lighted torch guides many a traveler into our coun-try. "There Is the heart and soul of America!" she said. From there let us Cobbers take up the light and show our own Latvian and Estonian, friends what is the heart and soul of Con-cordia college. olt 3Deo #lorta By The Rev. Arne Sovik HERE ARE THE TERMS, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE! "Greatness," someone has said, "is to lose oneself In the service of a great cause." And the lives of the giants of church and secular history com-bine to illustrate the truth of this definition. One thinks of a Wash-ington or a Lincoln, consecrated to the cause of freedom. An Alex-ander or a Napoleon Insatiably seeking new worlds to conquer. A gentle St. Francis or an Albert Schweizer irrationally (some would say) devoted to the humble in God's creation. A Kant or a Marx pursuing an Idea through all but endless years of methodical study. An Xavier or a Livingston plodding tirelessly through un-known jungles with the Gospel. Giants all, and their greatness lay not so much in their personal talents, however great they were, but in the way their lives were integrated in the service of an Idea. A psychiatrist presents the same thesis In another way. The cause of almost all mental Illness, he says, lies In the self-oenter-edness of the patient. And the cure for that mental illness is to find for the patient some outside cause toward which he can de-vote his attentions and activities. Perhaps the best statement of all comes from the lips of Je-sus; and it comes not once or twice, but at least six times in the Gospels: "Whosover would save his life shall lose It; and whoso-ever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it." As Christ states It there is more than health or greatness or happiness at stake; life itself hangs in the balance of choice. Christ presents to us the ideal cause, the greatest and really the only cause there Is, for which to lose our lives: Himself. Here is a principle: that life, even to exist, must be dedicated. For as Raymond Lull said: "He who loves not lives not. . ." And here Is a cause: the One who first loved us. For to quote Lull again, ". . . he who lives by the Life cannot die." Cobbers Consider Open Door Policy By Karl Kasberg Open house has come and gone. All that's left are memories, Memories still linger on— Jacks and Jills and Emilys Climbed the stairs and toured the halls, Ate the candy placed in plates; Stared at pictures stuck on walls- Names and numbers brought forth dates! Cobber males are seriously con-sidering an Open Door Policy with Fjelstad, Grose, and South halls after realizing the possibilities presented by the open house last Sunday. The affair was much less formal than the "handshaking" at the First Nighter program and much more informtive. Better yet, the information was much more complete and went down in black and white. Each knock on the door brought forth a new adventure, a look at the unknown, whoever he or she might be. Greetings were much the same throughout the campus: a smile, an introduction, perhaps some candy, peanuts, or "what-have- you"? After the rooms were thoroughly inspected, name and address and often phone num-bers were written on a memo for future reference. The memos were not discarded after the visitors left. They became "X" marked and filed away, so that the resi-dent might take full advantage of all probable clients. Many were the incidents that happened; too numerous to men-tion here. But there was one frosh running hither and yon in Fjel-stad hall, evidently searching for a certain room number. He unin-tentionally stepped on the heels of his English instructor. Turning with a satirical smile, she queried with deadly calm, "Are you going to walk around or climb over?" A student of the so-called learned class, a senior, was liter-ally showered with laughter. While exploring, he tripped as he ascended the wooden steps of Old South. Obviously well-versed in the art of tart retorts, he placed his humiliators in an unhappy po-sition by replying, "Any fool can fall down the stairs, but it takes a very wise man to fall up!" Thus—open house. Men's Dormitory Adopts New Unit LeaderSystem Recently put in operation in the Men's dorm is a system of unit counselors to promote self-disci-pline among dorm residents. The plan involves seven pairs of unit leaders, with each pair responsible for one of the seven dorm units. Unit leaders are: Unit I, James Brooks, Carl Zander; Unit II, John Helgeson, Gordon Haiberg; Unit III, Allen Sortland, Peter Teis-berg; Unit IV, Elmer Johnson, Duane Olson; Unit V, James Dal-ager, Donald Lorents; Unit VI, Jack Mueller, Luther Simonson; Unit VII, George Sanda, Albert Fort man. Elections have been held to choose representatives to the dormitory council. Those elected are Hans Dahl, Wendell Sorenson, Warren Pierson, Lowell Odland, Fred Rivpt, William Vaswig; Bill Umland, Duane Ellertson, Peter Falstad, Karl Brevik, Ger-hard Haukebo, Paul Sponheim, Laurence Schilla, Paul Ahlness, Ray Baker, Milo Mathison; Lowell Swisher, Gerald Collins, Paul Oas, Juri Jurrisson, Winston Rasmusson, Walter Larsen and Donald Jorve. from a Report Notebook er s By Clarice Foss BREVITY Abbreviation for Richard III, found in a Concordia junior's Shakespeare note: "Dick 3." HOMECOMNG 1950 Norman C. Olson, economics in-structor, suggests "Dust the Gus-ties," as a more fitting slogan for another year's homecoming. KEEP YOUR SUNNY SIDE UP The Optimist The Optimist fell ten stories. At each window bar He shouted to his friends: "All right so far." THE TIDES OF LOVE Flo was fond of Ebenezer— "Eb," for short she called her beau, Talk of Tides of Love, great Caesar! You should see them—Eb and Flo. 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