| Summary: | VOLUME XXV. OONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, MINN., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933 NUMBER 7. Concordia Will Sponsor Red River Valley Debate Tournament in February Nine Colleges Are Invited To Be Participants In Contests On Campus Here TO BE FIRST SUCH MEET Each Institution May Enter Two Teams In Competition With Others Nine colleges have been invited to participate in a Red River Valley In-tercollegiate Debate Tournament, to be held at Concordia college on Friday and Saturday, February 9 and 10, it was announced today by Dean Paul A. Rasmussen, coach in forensics. "Hie inauguration of such a tournament is due to Dean Rasmusscn, with whom the Idea originated, and who has been in correspondence1 with other debate coaches in regard to the plan. Schools invited to take part include: the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N. D.; North Dakota State col-lege, Fargo; Jamestown college, James-town, N. D.; Valley City State Teach-ers college, Valley City, N. D.; May-ville State Teachers college, Mayville N. D.; South Dakota State college, Broo kings, S. D.; Moorhead State Teachers college, Moorhead; and Con-cordia college. To Use National Topic Question for debate will be the na-tional Pi Kappa Delta question, which reads: "Resolved: That the powers of the president of the United States should be substantially increased as a settled policy." Each institution may enter one or two teams, as it prefers, either men or women, each team to consist of two members, Each team will change sides from round to round. Four elimination rounds will be held, tke teams which win at least two of those rounds continuing, and the others dropping out Teams which have lost two of the four opening rounds will drop out on losing one ad-ditional round after the fourth; teams which have lost but one or none may lose two debates thereafter before be-ing eliminated. Judges Will Bo Secured Expert judges will be available, ac-cording to Dean Rasmussen, although visiting coaches will also be asked to serve in that capacity. Debates in the early rounds will be judged by single critic judges; in the late debates from three to five judges will be used. The opening assembly of the tourna-ment will be held in the college audi-torium at one o'clock on the first day of the tourney, at which the rules of the tournament will be given out, and the opening schedules. Four rounds of debate will be held on Friday, Febru-ary 9, and as many more rounds on the following days as will be necessary to compete the tournament. This will be the first extensive de-bate tournament held at Concordia. Upon the foundation of this tourney, it is thought that a Red River Valley Intercollegiate debate tournament will become an annual project Class Leaders Meet In Checker Tourney With class champions determined already, the two highest players in each of the four classes are now meeting each other in match play in the Concordia all-college checker tournament. Each entrant plays each of his opponents twice. Man-fred Ohnstad and Harold Nohre, seniors, and Peter and William Hol-ten, freshmen, are leading the scor-ing. The tournament is sponsored by the Concordia Bookstore. Omicron Tau Delta Hold Club Dinner Home Economics Group Installs New Members; Plans For Christmas Meeting The Omicron Tau Delta held its Thanksgiving dinner meeting in the home economics rooms on Tuesday evening, November 28. Installation of the pledges Lois Hal-lftnger, Portland, N. D.; Irene Larsen, Moorhead; Astrid Knoff, Hoople, N. D.; and Ethel Roos, Hitterdal, took place. A program was presented which con-sisted of a Thanksgiving skit by Mar-garet Hilde and Catherine Rygg, the O. T. D. paper given by Belle Haugen, and a piano solo played by Avis Las-seoon. The hostesses were Emma Eide, Olive GilberUon, Tina Midboe, Helen Sellie, Catherine Rygg and Florence Myster. A Christmas .dinner meeting will be given at the O. D. Hilde residence. Margaret Hilde and Clarice Fedje will be hostesses. Number On Lyceum Nil Sigma Rho, Delta Rho Give Public Program Literary Societies Offer 'Double Crossing*of Columbus,' A Musical Comedy Holvik Examines Rock? Discredits Viking 'Writing' Concordia Professor Declares Tracings In Boulder Are Results Of Elements CALLS WORK FORGERY Norse Authority Spikes Opinion That Stone Has Runic , Characters "Double Crossing of Columbus," a musical comedy in two acts, comprised the public program presented by the Nu Sigma Rho and Delta Rho literary societies last Saturday evening. The setting of the first act was laid in the modernly furnished office of Queen Isabelle of Spain (Evangeline Quam) in the year 1933. The three servants to the Queen (Olaf Anderson, Olaf Stoeve and Magne Syvrud), tak-ing advantage of the queen's temporary absence sang, and a little later enter-tained royally Christopher Columbus (Sterling Rygg), a dreamer from Italy, who has had a vision that the earth is round, and that another world lies to the west waiting to be discovered. While the servants made sport of Columbus, the queen entered, demand-ing that Columbus state his purpose for appearing before her. After hear-ing his statement and due deliberation, she sent him off with her zeppelin and a few thousands dollars to the discov-ery of America. The court musicians, (a clarinet quartet) played for the queen during part of the scene. The second act opened with an In-dian brave (Joseph Hoversten) playing the xylophone. Another Indian brave (Magne Syvrud) depressed because his sweetheart (Beryl Jensen) was re-ceiving the special attention of the "Big White Chief sang "Indian Love Call" with his mother (Cornelia Gjes-dal). All was fine for Columbus until Queen Isabelle, who had decided to follow him in her airplane, entered the scene to discover that Columbus had double-crossed her. In anger she dragged him off by the ear. The In-dian brave and his sweetheart were hapily reconciled. A men'fe trio, a quartet of Indian girls, a mixed double octet, and an Indian fantasy furnished entertainment during the second act The program closed with the singing of "Not Many a Stormy Wind Shall Blow Ere Chris Comes Home Again," and the society songs. Grace Blomquist gave a musical reading "The Death of Minnehaha" be-tween acts, and music was furnished by the Nu Sigma Rho-Delta Rho or-chestra. ' TTie theory that "inscriptions" on the face of a boulder found recently in the Winnipeg region had been inscrib-ed by Vikings more than a century before the voyages of Columbus was discredited by Prof. J. A. Holvik, head of the Norse department at' Concordia college, after a personal examination of the stone last Monday. Professor Holvik was convinced after his investi-gation that the tracings in the rock were wrought by the elements and not by the hands of men as had been sup-posed previously. Excitement Exhibited Considerable excitement was exhibit-ed among scientific groups at Winni-peg three or four weeks ago upon the announcement of the find made near Sandy Hook, a summer resort on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Representa-tives of the Manitoba Museum, the Natural History Society.of Manitoba, and the University of Manitoba were among those who were held in check for several days by blizzards and im-passable roads before they succeeded in reaching the vicinity of Sandy Hook to view what was believed to bo the runic records of early Norsemen. The rock in question was found a mile and three-quarters from the shore line of Lake Winnipeg. It is grey in color, badly weathered, and about five feet long, three feet high, and roughly, three feet in width. The stone bears interesting traces which were thought to be characters of the runic alphabet, a set of characters employed by the tribes of northeastern Europe before the arrival of book learning. These characters were especially adopted to carving in wood and stone. Linked With Other Stone Attempts had been made to connect the origin of the inscriptions with the Kensington stone, unearthed in 1899 near Kensington, Douglas county, Min-nesota. The. latter stone bears record of a journey of exploration in 1362 by men from Vinland and was deciphered by Hjalmar Holand of the University of Wisconsin. Although this stone is still regarded as authentic by many who would use it as proof of the ex-istence of early Norse settlements in America, recognized authorities on ru-nic inscriptions, among them Professor Holand and Professor Holvik, believe it to be a forgery. They base their conclusions on the presence of inaccur-acies in certain characters with respect to the time at which they are purport-ed to have been inscribed. Regarding the Manioba stone, Pro-fessor Holvik stated that he found no evidence that the characters in ques-tion were the work of men. He recog-nized them as being merely natural craeks, the result of erosion. This opin-ion was also held by a geologist from the University of Manitoba who ex-amined the "characters." The Sandy Hook stone is at present in tho possession of the Winnipeg Tri-bune. Christmas Festivities Will Take Place Before Start of Vacation Students Present All-College Play Well, Says Critic Mrs. Norma Gooden Ostby Director Of Concordia Presentation Is Randolph Completes Series of Ten Bible Lectures on Book of Romans Pastor H. G. Randolph completed a series of ten lectures on the book of Romans Tuesday evening, December 5, in the college auditorium. Continuing and completing the out-line on being holy by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, he discussed the three last parts of the eighth chapter of Romans under the headings hope, divine power, and the final triumph of sanctification at his last lecture. "Sanctifiqation,* Pastor Randolph said, "is not only working for the pres-ent, but is also working toward its fi-nal objective, our glorification, which is its hope.'" He said that In hope are we saved for a present and future life. Sanctification has hope because there is no corruption on the basis of Christ's redemption. Under the heading of the divine power of sanctification he said that we £ h d f £Vd on the grounds of PI IS P o s t p o n e d our glorification, for the spirit meets the hindrances with the intercession of Heel's String Quartet which was to the Holy Spirit fee presented tonight as the second ly- Final triumph was Pastor Randolph's ^ m number baa been frnV*nH»iy last division of chapter eight We have no separation on the ground of justifi* oeum number postponed. cation which is made permanent by ! Christ's intercession. Our duty is to abide in Christ In exchange^ for op-positon we will have security; we will have triumph over everything, we will have the glory of the ultimate or final triumph, and we will be inseparable with Christ Holiness by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit was the theme outlined and discussed from chapter eight of Romans by Pastor H. G. Randolph Tuesday evening, November 28. Pastor Randolph pointed out that there were at least eight possibilities ol holiness in the first eleven verses ol the chapter. Sanctification, delivering us from condemnation, gives to us a spirit filled life because we are in Christ and not under the law and its condemnation. Though we could not be holy according to the law, yet this new life is possible, since God "Send-ing His own Son in the likeness of sin-ful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Continued on Page 4, Cot 2) By MARGARET NORDLIE Interesting charactemation and de-lightful conversation marked the pre-sentation of tuThc Importance of Being Ernest," by Oscar Wilde, the all-col-lege play given November 24 at the high school auditorium. Mrs. Norma Gooden Ostby directed the cast. Petite modern Gwendolyn (Af ton Moe) decides to marry a man named. Ernest; incidentally John Worthing (Rolf Daehlin) has adopted that name while in town. Complications arise when Mr. Worthing and his friend Al-gernon Moncrieff (Gerald Lygre) go "bunburying" too often, that is, select-ing imaginary persons to visit and talk about In the country Mr. Worthing con-tinually talks of his brother "Ernest" until his young ward Cecily Carew (Leatha Ridenour) falls in love with said "Ernest." When Algernon poses as the brother "Ernest" she accepts him at once, in fact has already done her dreams. Both girls now they are engaged to a man so in think named Ernest. The matter is finally settled satisfactorily and Mr. Worthing is found to be really named Ernest La Verne GUbertson as Lady Brack-nell, the superficially educated mother of Gwendolyn, played possbly the most difficult role, a role which required considerable affectation. Incidental humor was provided by the love affair of austere Miss Prism, Cecily's governess, (Evangeline Quam) and the prim Rev. Mr. Chasuble (Jack Pettit). Servants in the play were Mr. Lane (Edgar Westbeng) and Merriman (Harlowe Johnson). Mrs. Ostby is to be congratulated on her_ choice of characters and her suc-cess in making the cast live their parts. Students To Edit New Publication 'Collegian' Planned As Vehicle Of Expression For Local College Thought "Hie Collegian," a new publication designed to give the college students of Moorhead and Fargo opportunity to express their ideas creatively, will be issued under direction of Leonard Eid and Rueben Reiersgord, Concordia col-lege students, according to an an-nouncement made this morning. First issue^ is planned to be issued during February. Mr. Eid is editor-in-chief of the publication, and Mr. Reiersgord is business manager. Plans arc under way to choose an associate editor from each college, whose duties will consist of editing material and supervising subscription sales from the college which he represents. Contributors will be selected from the three colleges of Fargo and Moor-head, all students being eligible, ac-cording to the staff. Such a policy ifl expected to present to all a chance to learn how and what college students of the northwest are thinking, and may also aid in promoting a spirit of co-operation and unity among the col-leges. "Because we have enfidence in the potential writing ability of college stu-dents," says Mr. Eid in explaining the purpose of the publication, "and be-cause we believe that creative thinking and writing should be encouraged, we publish "Hie Collegian/ hoping to satisfy th students' desire for personal expression, and so stimulate the growth of inner resources through the devel-opment of skill in creative writing." Wollan Returns From Cosmic Ray Studies Ernest Vfollan, '24, who has for the past year been studying the cosmic rays in Switzerland and Spitzenbergen, 'Next War' Is Topic For Club Discussion "Will another major war take place within the next two years?" was the subject for discussion at the regular meeting of the International Relations club here last night. For-mal debate' by Bertha Okland, Lu-cille Oehlke, Everett GUbertson, and Allen Hanson, was supplemented by a period of free discussion. Adop-tion of a constitution for the or-ganization also took place. Studio Broadcast Provides Public Program Setting Lambda Delta Sigma and Alpha Epsilon Sigma Present First Entertainment Lambda Delta Sigma and Alpha Ep-silon Sigma literary societies presented their public program in the form of a broadcast from their modernistic studio in the Concordia chapel November 25 with Graham Crackery (Harlowe Johnson) announcing. Paul Blackman (Arthur Borstad) and his orchestra composed of Carvel Johnson, Merrill Pederson, Evan Sil-ness, James Korstad, Robert Korstad, Thomas Silness, Howard Nelson, Cath-erine GUbertson, Norma Hauge, Ar-thur Myrom, and Einar Husby opened the program with the selection, "Stor-, my Weather." I Other popular radio stars who ap-peared in the studio to broadcast were: Uncle Ned telling "Hie Gingerbread Boy" (Einar Husby); Klate Smith singing "Old Pal" and "When You Leave the World Behind" (Sibyl Dahl); Purns and Allen (Leatha Ri-denour and Rolf Daehlin); Pills Bro-thers singing 'When Yuba Plays the Tuba Down in Cuba" (Omar Magels-sen, Joseph Lunstad, Alvin Langseth, Howard Nelson); Sway Back Joe sing-ing "Home on th« Range" (Gordon Bondy); Ruth Etching singing "Talk of the Town" and Forgotten Man" (Nor-ma Hauge); Ed Win (Rolf Daehlin); True Blue Harry skit (Agnes Olson, Ernest Langseth, Robert Korstad, Ralph Ness); Peking Sisters singing HSing to Me" (Dorothy Fitzgerald, Doris Sim-mons, Avis Lasseson); Testimonial for Ipsie Wipsie Wash Cloths (Gretel Goss-ee, Margaret Hilde); McCormick Deer-ing singing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (Alvin Langseth); Benny Robin (Rolf Daehlin). While the orchestra played "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Graham Crackery said "Goodnight," ^bringing to a close the Lambda Delta Sigma and Alpha Epsilon Sigma hour of me-lody and mirth presented through the courtesy of the Ipsie Wipsie Wash loth company. Cast Of Play 'Visits' Chicago Exposition All the wonders ef tke "Century oi Progress Exposition" were revealed Monday evening, November 27, when Mrs. Norma Gooden Ostby, entertained the members of the cast of the comedy "The Importance of Being Ernest" 'and the local chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, national dramatic fraternity, at her home in Fargo. The enchanted island, for celibates only, furnished a moon, a swing with room for two and your own entertain-ment. The famous fan dancer, an elec-tric fan, a penny arcade where excur-sions could be taken around the world in two minutes, and an electrical ex-hibit were open to the visitors. Moorhead's famous potato together with North Dakota's cream of wheat, cotton, a negro > doll, oranges, and an tpple, representatives of the various bates, were seen in the federal build-ing. Then too, there were the booths where pop corn, money and fruit nec-tars were acquired. The wonder of wonders was the >lanetarium where real stars might )e seen in all their brilliance. Yes, ere the guests found themselves not as they are or will be, but as they were in the innocence and simplicity All-College Party Is Planned Under Junior Direction Music Club Program, Dormitory, Society Events Are Scheduled Gala Christmas festivities are plan-ned to take g|acc °n the campus dur-ing the final days before students go home for Christmas vacation December 20, according to announcements made this week. Literary societies will hold their Christmas meetings at noon on December 16; the music club will pre-sent its annual Christmas program at Trinity Lutheran church December 17; dormitory parties for the women's halls will be held December 18; and the all-college Christmas party will take place December 19. The traditional tableau of the Christ-mas story supplemented by the chorua singing "Holy Night" will be given, on the music club's Sunday program. The choir under the direction of 4Ser-man W. Monson will sing "Beautiful Savior" arranged by H. W. Monson, and "Emitte Spiritum" by Fr. Scheut-ky. Music Club To Give Program Members of the music club in charge of the program are Irene Askegaard, Comstock; Cornelia Gjesdal, Edmore, N. D.; and Edfield Odegaard, New Rockford, N. D. Miss Duca is in charge of the concert. Women of Ladies' Hall and North. Hall are laying plans for their annual dormitory parties, to take place on the night of Monday, December 18. Junior Committees Chosen Members of the junior class, aided by the Sock and Buskin dramatic club, are in charge of the all-college party planned for the final night before va-cation begins. Junior committees se-lected yesterday include: program: Olivia Torvik, Mildred Iverson, Fran-ces Finneman, Carvel Johnson, Evan Silness. Maurice Felde; refreshments: Alvhild Berg, Rachel Johnson, Cath-erine Rygg, Wallace Bakke, Stanton Thorson, Evander Nelson; Christmas tree and decorations: George Lehner, Trygve Runsvold, Leona Larson, and Ann Viken. "The Quest of the King," a nativity play, will be sponsored by the Sock and Buskin on Tuesday evening, De-cember 19. This will dramatize the Christmas story and will present pan-tomime scenes of Mary, Joseph, Angel Gabriel, the three wise men, and the shepherds. Concordia Board Meeting Planned Seven Directors To Be Chosen \ Election of Faculty Will Take Place Board of directors of Concordia col-lege will hold the annual meeting in the school library Thursday morning, December 28. At this time the reports of the president and treasurer will be laid before the board for consideration. These reports will cover the fiscal year ending July 1, 1933, and also the pres-ent school year to date. The election of the faculty for tho year 1934 and 1935 will also take place at this meeting. The board will also arrange at this time for the meeting ol the Concordia college corporation held next June in connection with the bi-ennial convention of the Norwegian Lutheran church. With the meeting of the board on December 28 terms of office of seven directors expire and elections will be hid to fill these vacancies. Reports will also be given covering the work of tha executive and investment committees. It is interesting to note that Mr. Lara Christianson, Fargo, N. D.t has serve* the college continually as director and secretary of its board since Concordia was founded forty-two years ago. Rev. S. G. Hauge, Hawley, and Attorney C G. Dosland, Moorhead, have been mem-bers of the board of directors for oxer twenty years. •Hie present officers of the board are: Attorney C. G. Dosland, Moorhead^ f babyhood, childhood, and youth, president; Rt Rev. L T. Aastad, Detroit Iceland, has returned to the University ' Beneath the stair sat Zelda, the gypsy Lakes, vice president; Mr. Lara Oiria-of Chicago where he U a professor of maiden, who revealed the future of the tiansen, Fargo, N. D., secretary, and physics. stars. Mr. H. M. Dale, Moorhead, treasurer.
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