| Summary: | Page 2 THE CONCORDIAN October 13, 1950i Editorially. EC'S OVER, BUT THE FLOWERS Bouquets of the week go to the committees that made our Homecoming a success. All but the memories and a few scat-tered posters are left of the activities. The events of last weekend were carried out in the outstanding Cobber spirit from the originality of the decorations to the sincerity of the queen's acceptance. Congratulations go to the Nu Sigma Rho and Delta Rho societies for taking the prize winning float awards and to Fjelstad and Cobber halls for the prize decorations* Compliments to all the students who saw to it that our campus, chapel and cafeteria had perhaps the finest decora-tions in Homecoming history. Whispers from left over Cobber enthusiasm indicate that we can be proud of our team and band. Although the game was lost, enough praise couldn't be given our team. AN AXE TO GRIND While we congratulate the band on their marching routine during the half time at Saturday's game, we realize* that their performance was without perfection. Criticizing the band's marching and playing ability wouldn't find the solution, be-cause band members clad in makeshift uniforms fail to qual-ify for an excellent college marching band. We have the makings, we need the finishing touches. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION A band uniform drive is being coordinated for this year. Discussed at senate meetings, the plans are soon ready for student acceptance. The activities will not only provide funds for the uniforms, but create all-college entertainment. The plans need student support. Without it, plans for the possible realization of new band uniforms and an organized social program would go out the window. It can be successful. This was evident last year. It could be a more successful program this year. It can be enjoyed by all and supported by ail. This was also evident and should be possible again* Next year our band could march with a sign of near per-fection. (C. F.) "From Dusl To Dust" By Alice Mae Young O wicked, woeful world! Must we needs pass, as seniors, out of these leisurely domains, denied of the ordinary pleasures of Cob-ber- hood? Will the turbulent, murky waters of Prexy's Pond, •main tributary of the Red River, never be ours again to imbibe with the thirsting, panting lips of Freshmen? We lived well, we did. Time ' was when the book-scarred np-perclassmen used to tack wel-come signs for us on all the campus vegetation and flashed their Pepeodent smiles each time we lumbered past them upon the winding by-paths of the college. Gone are the days when those sages assembled their aged wrinkles in the clas-sical expression known as "the-frown - upon - jeans - on - the-campus." Now we have inherited those shadowy, haunted eyeballs, sun-ken from perusing Concordia's 35,000-volume book bin. Now it is we who tack up the annual wel-come signs for the frosh and, just a short time later, cough from the dust rising from the shaking of the Homecoming welcome mats. So, when we have gone out to fight the dragons, remember that we have not been passed in vain. And then, from dust to dust, we may return. THE CONCORDIAN Published weekly during the school year except durinsr vacation, holiday and examina-tion periods by the students of Concordia College, Moorhend. Bnt*red as second class matter at the post office of Moorhead, Minn., Dec 9 1920 under the Act of March 8, 1879. CO-EDITORS . „ MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR _ DESK EDITOR COPY EDITOR _ FEATURE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER ADVERTISING STAFF ___. STAFF ASSISTANTS „ Joan Thue Sally Ann Warner Albert Anderson _ _ Wilmi Perila „ Robert Narveson Hans Dahl „—„ Jean Meier . Roy Nielsen .—— ,__ . Ralph Hauirer ~_._Georse Calhoun and EJden Mohr Morse and Allan H. Bjertncu. Marlene Haugcr, Delphine Hedlund, Stanley FEATURE WRITERS Robert Arnegard, Warren Smerud, Paul Solem, Alice Mae Young, Nonna Grant, Marlyce Jacobson, Orville Sanderson, Haxel Lovdokken and Raymond Ramsey. STAFF ASSISTANTS _ — Stanley Morse, Allan H. Bjertness and Roger CornelluBsen REPORTERS Joyce Brenden, Georgia Helgeaon, Dale Husc, Nancy Moller, Joyce Spoonland. Audrey Helbing, Ruth Rudser, Janet Stenson, Evelyn Dahl, Ralph Thrane, Eileen Vaughan, Maria Jean Peterson, Pat Geldcr, Marjorie Podall, Ilia Mae Stevenson, Arlys Sommer, Sister Phyllis Larson, Zora Houkom and Nonna Wickstrum SPORTS WRITERS : „.— Richard Lund. Donald Sponheim, John Grovcn and Sigurd Randa CARTOONIST : Joyce Elmquist MUSIC CRITIC __—_. „ „. Gerald Trett Marlys Benson, Anita Gisvold and Connie Void .Wilma Ringen, Randi Langfcldt, Lola Erickson \ Carl Carlson and Norman Klein i, Erlys Tweeton, Betty Lou Brecto. COPY READERS CIRCULATION STAFF _ Nonna Tvcit, Carole Berg and Charlanne Ward LIBRARIAN - Hunted Expressions And Moaning Fill Local Atmosphere By Paul Solem In searching for a title for this gem of journalism, I have it boiled down to three. You may take your pick. "Where, oh where, is that G. I. check?" or "Why everyone is eating at the caf these days." or "Don't shoot, Mr. Ellickson, I'll get the money somehow!" Have you noticed the hungry, hunted expression on the faces of many male Cobbers lately? They are the vets impatiently awaiting the arrival of this year's first sub-sistence check. Perhaps you've seen them following the postman each morning on their hands and knees crying "Alms, alms." Or maybe you've seen the group out-side the Men's dorm bowing in humility toward #*e post office at sundown each day. The hungry look which I mentioned is caused by their having only meal tickets with which to eat. The hunted look is the result of dodging a mul-titude of creditors. Most veterans, at this time of the month, owe money to nearly every wheat-grower on the cam-pus. After all, one must borrow in order to support the theater tick-et drive, the band uniform drive, the Cobber drive, the fluid drive, etc. You'll be able to tell when those checks come in- You'll see those same wretched speci-mens now walking with heads high (for a couple of days) and looking Mr. Ellickson square in the eye. 3Beo (gloria By Rev. Sidney A. Rand "And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day did any one dare to ask Him any questions." (Matt. 22:46) It makes a difference how you ask questions. People sometimes came to Jesus with foolish religious ques-tions intended not to be honest inquiries into the truth but traps into which He might stumble. Not content to leave Jesus alone in their hatred of Him they sought by fair means or foul to en-tangle him in his talk. But the trappers got trapped. With a thorough understanding of Scripture, a clear grasp of human mo-tives and a delightfully keen sense of humor Jesus exposed the folly of asking questions which are not honestly put. Whose wife shall she be in the resurrection if she has had seven husbands in this life . . . if indeed there be a resurrection? Which is the great commandment . . . and we all know there are many? Jesus listened. And he answered. And his answers shut them up. It makes a difference how you go to Jesus. A chip on the shoulder will shortly be knocked off. Pride which accompanies the conviction that one knows all the answers already is re-buked. Questions raised just to pose an intellectual problem are passed by. ^ ere are some who ask questions of Jesus in earnest. They get straight answers. He doesn't shut such persons up. He leads them on. "How can a man be born again?" "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." "What must I do to have eternal life?"' Questions like that aren't traps for Jesus; they are prayers for help. Such questions Jesus answers with a love that leads to a new understanding of God and life. It makes a difference how you ask the questions. Concordia's Jack Discovers Norway "A Pretty Swell Place w By Don Sponheim Chapel Quotes Rev. Sigvald D. Fauske: "The saved life is not an empty life but a full life . . . a life filled with His grace." Rev. Carl Odell: A definition of grace: "God's riches at Christ's expense." Remember the mythical Jack of "Jack and the Beanstalk," and the seven-league boots he wore? They enabled him to travel great dis-tances in just a few strides, Well, Concordia has a Jack who put his namesake's travels to shame last summer and without any magic boots either. The Cobber I'm referring to is Jack Ren dahl, and the jour-ney which would have out-traveled our make-believe Jack was his trip to Norway. Leaving June 13 from New York on the Stavangerfjord, Jack was one of 150 American stu-dents who attended a special summer session for American stu-dents at the University of Oslo. Jack thought Norway was real-ly great" and that the Norwe- TYPISTS Dorothy Dm, Dorothy Margaret Paulson, Elsie Hoverstein and Dona N us tad ADVISER Prof. J. L. Rendahl gians, quite unlike the Giant atop his counterpart's beanstalk, were "very friendly—a lot like us." Naturally there were a few things that were different. "Burnt bread/' better known to most Cobbers as toast, Is rarely served in Norway. Also missing from the Norwegian diet are such vital dishes as malts and popcorn. Jack had a little trouble get-ting used to one Viking eating habit. While eating breakfast with some relatives he was visit-ing, Jack noticed, and tasted, that all the waffles being served were cold. They were delicious enough, but not the mouth-warming waf-fle to which he was accustomed. Glancing in the kitchen he no-ticed that the cook was cooling the waffles in the window before bringing them to the table. It seems that the Norwegians prefer their waffles cold. "Norway," Jack remarked, "has a shortage of citrus fruits, but does have an abundance of berries which grow wild in the moun-tains." "Ever going back?" I quipped as we parted. "Sure am," replied journeying Jack, "It's a pretty swell place." DR. BURGESS TO SPEAK Dr. Thomas O. Burgess, head of the department of psychology at Concordia college, will speak on contributions of hypnosis to mod-ern dentistry at the fall meeting
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