| Summary: | CONCORDIAN Published bi-weekly by the students of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. Address all communications to the Editor-in-Chief, and all matters of business to the Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE—?1.00 PER YEAR Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice, Moorhead, Minnesota EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Meinick Bodahl Managing Editor. __ — Lars Larsen Associate Editors Harvey Christensen, Katherine Prindle DEPARTMENTS Athletics Carl Ankhus Assistant - - Oscar Berg Exchanges - Ruth Solberg Locals _ _ Helen Lund Assistant Locals Albert Utke Religious Magnus Dahlen Music Earl Lee, Alice Grover Columns .Christian Simonson REPORTORIAL STAFF Gladys Johnson, Margaret Haatvedt, Theodore Grimsrud, Valborg Bestul, Clifford Bruer, Alice Knudsvig, Clara Holey, Vivian Norem BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager _ Harry Jorgenson Circulation Manager _ _ Sanford Aamoth Assistant _ _ Julian Kjelstrom Advertising Manager _ _ Lawrence Hanson Assistant Deward Schultz Staff Typist _ „ -.Carl Lien FACULTY MEMBER C. E. Bale THE FORENSICS PROGRAM This year Concordia is launched on a well planned forensics program, which should bring to light whatever debating1 talent there is at the college. As was to be expected, the announcing of this program, brought a response from many who desire to try out for places on the teams. However, in view of the benefits which will go to those whose abilities will win places for them, the number was not large enough. Out of an enrollment of about 420 students, approxi-mately 30 have signified intentions to enter the try outs. There should at least have been three times as many. It is needless to go into details about the benefits of debating. It is sufficient to say that no other activity gives such excellent training in sound thinking, correct judging and logical presenta-tion of the subject matter. Then, too, the honor of having represented one's Alma Mater on a debating team should in itself be glory enough for any-one. It would be a decided encoux-agement to the literary board, and in particular to Dean Rasmussen, who is devoting much of his time to this work, if everyone who thinks he has debatin'g ability would enroll his name for the try outs. The more the merrier. What do you say ? CHRISTIAN FELLOWSIHP VILHJALMUR STEFFANSON Vilhjalmur Steffanson is doing a valuable work as a lecturer in exploding a lot of mistaken text book theories about the far North. Having spent years in travelling in the Arctic and in liv-ing among the Eskimos, he is well qualified to speak on his subject. When he tells an audience that that the arctic is neither cold nor barren; that the Eskimos neither live in snow houses nor drink oil; and that the temperature there reaches 103 degrees in the shade in summer, however much of a shock it is to hear it, it must be considered athoritatitive. Mr. Steffanson has the scientific man's point of view. He has learned from actual experience. Because of this his lectures have a vigor and freshness, which leaves a listener untired after a two hour period. Certainly the world needs more speakers of his type. THE MAGNET Oliver Wendell Holmes once said if a dish of sand were set before him, and he were told that it had particles of iron in it, he might search for them a long time with his eyes and with his clumsy finger, and be unable to find them; but if he should take a magnet and sweep it through the sand, it would draw the particles of iron to itself instantly, though they might be invisible to the eye. Then he went on to say that the unthankful heart is like a finger in the sand—it finds no mercies in God's world for which to be grateful. But the thankful heart finds blessings everywhere, and they are very precious; for as the poet said, "The iron in God's sand is gold." Thus, as the Thanksgiving season approaches, every heart ' takes time to count its blessings; but if the heart is truly thankful / i t will have numbered them every day. Thanksgiving should not be a day to lay thanks "in toto" at the altar of God; should not be a day to count blessings, but rather a day to recount them. It will then become the climax of a year of thanksgiving, and thankful hearts will gather before the Giver of All to sing praises and to offer again thanks for His mercies. One of the outstanding features of our Church schools is the spirit of fel-lowship that exists between the stu-dents. There may be periods of dis-agreements, but these soon pass over and the student body becomes one Harmonious family again. * THE LUTHERAN STUDENTS' UNION, knowing the inestimable value of such Christian fellowship, has adopted as one of its aims "To pro-mote a spirit of fellowship among the students of our Church" (Art. II, Sec. 2, L. S. U. Const.) It is more difficult to create this spirit of fellowship between the stu-dents of different schools than be-tween the students of the same school. The students seldom get in personal touch with each other. Each school has its own traditions. The spirit of loyalty to ones Alma Mater may tend to blind a person to the merits of other institutions whose fundamental aims are the same, but whose methods of attaining their goal may differ. Other hindrances might be mention-ed, but these will serve as an example. None of these hindrances, however, are great enough to prevent a spirit of fellowship from developing if we only take hold of them. The Lutheran Students' Union has no definite machinery for accomplish-ing this aim outside of the annual convention. The value of these con-ventions is not to be underestimated, however. The delegates can not spend three days together in the Christian atmosphere of the conven-tion without being drawn closer to-gether. These delegates invariably carry some of this spirit of fellowship back with them to their own campus. But might we not do more in this direction? The answer will depend to a great extent upon the individual student. Each one of us is a member of the Lutheran Students' Union and as such we are each one individuality responsible for the carrying out of the aim of the Union. We therefore submit this as part of your contri-bution to the success of the Union that as such we are each one individually responsible for furthering this spirit of fellowship towards the students of our other church schools. As to how this- may be done, the individual will discover his own meth-ods if he has that Christian attitude of mind of which Paul speaks in his letter to the Philippians (Ch. 2, v. 3): "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." W. O. RINDAHL, President, Lutheran Students' Union. SHUFFLING ALONG He met Her on the Hillside. He met her on the hillside, As the sun was sinking down, He strolled out there to meet her And together walk to town. The twilight, it? was lovely, In the evening shadows dim, And her eyes were meek and liquid, As she raised them up to him. And when he slipped in opening gate She did neither,smile nor laugh— Far he was just a village lad, And she a Jersey calf. A Wide Latitude. A lady walked, into a department store and said, "I want something in oil for the dining room." Salesman—"What will it be? A landscape or a can of sardines?" — Exc. Wifey —"John, there is someone in the pantry and t have just made a pie." Hubby—"Well, it's all right with me as long as he doesn't die in the house." ROBERT RASMUSSEN Barber Shop — Cigars OPPOSITE i POSTOFFICE No! 23 Sixth Street South Moorhead :: :: Minnesota Masses of fallen leaves look invit-ing to everyone. In them are com-bined three great joys: the joy of kicking things around; the joy of making one's way without a great deal of effort; and the joy of making an agreeable noise. Wherever heaps of leaves have gathered in the autumn, there you will find people who shuffle along. Some folks make shuffling along a habit. A tramp shuffles his way through life. To him life might well be a far-stretching mass of leaves, for when he has finished blazing, his trail he looks back only to see that the wind has quietly but efficiently undone his greatest work. A tramp leaves no-thing to posterity, not even a faint and crooked trail. To a student, life sometimes seems nothing more than a great and far-reaching mass of leaves. Of course they are not maple leaves or oak leaves, but the only way to get through them is to wade. The old plan of shuffling along leads only to a tramp's failure and not to a stu-dent's success. A student can never make his way without kicking. To secure success as a student is to save the shuffling along habit for the leav-es of trees, and the work-hard habit for the leaves of books. —Exchange. Very much There "Which is the most delicate of the senses?" asked the teacher. "The touch," answered Johnny. "How's that", asked the teacher. "Well,' said Johnnie, "When you sit on a pin, you can't hear it, you can't taste it, but you know it's there." CHAPEL NOTES Rev. Magnus Notvedt spoke in cha-pel Nov. 5. He took his text from 11 Cor., chap. 7, verses 10—11. Rev. Notvedt interpreted the word "sor-row" found in those verses to mean both Physical pain and spiritiual an-guish. He said sorrow is necessary to true repentence. Rev. J. Walther Johnshoy was the chapel speaker Nov. 8th and 9th. He spoke on the. epistle of St. James. There are many lessons to be learned from this epistle said Rev. Johnshoy. One of them is to be patient. Rev. Henry Westby of the First Lutheran Church of Fargo spoke in chapel the 15th and 16th of November. He took the apostle Paul as his sub-ject, showing how the students can, apply in their lives a lesson from this great man of God. The chapel exercises during the last few days have been conducted by Pres. J. N. Brown. He has stressed the fact that many students are going through college without having a de-finite aim, and the need of a definite aim if a student is to arrive to any degree of distinction. Pres. Brown stated that God has a plan for the life of every individual, and that it is the duty of every one to try to discover his latent powers.
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