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THE BETHEL CLARION
Volume XVI, No. 3 BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. November 4, 1936
BETHEL WELCOMES Y U, ALUMNI
PRAYER AND
MISSION DAY
IS INSPIRING
Rev. E. 0. Schugren Unable
To Attend Activities
Beginning with a combined Chapel
service in the Junior College, Prayer
and Mission Day offered a full day of
Mission information and inspiration end-ing
with a missionary rally in the Col-lege
Chapel in the evening Wednesday,
October 28.
A spirit of informality was evident
in the rally in the evening. Dr. 0. L.
Swanson, graduate of the 1892 class
of the Seminary, and retired mission-ary
from Assam after forty-three years
of service, told of the great Jubilee
held in Assam in 1936. One great
achievement of the Jubilee was the prep-aration
which included a huge tab-ernacle
without aid from the Mission
Society. After a description of the
Jubilee, Dr. Swanson showed two reels
of scenes among native Christians and
workers in the field.
Departing from the customary pro-cedure,
the committee had arranged
for simultaneous men's and women's
meetings at 1 1 :00 A. M. The women
met in the College chapel and listened
to Miss Fern Rold and Mrs. Erle F.
Rounds. Dr. Swanson spoke before
the men's group. Taking a text from
John 4:35, Dr. Swanson emphasized
that we need to lift up our eyes and
look and see what is about us and after
we have looked, the next thing is to
pray, "Lift up your heart to God".
Rev. Erle F. Rounds began the ser-ies
of missionary addresses at the
morning chapel. A missionary to the
Philippines, the Rev. Mr. Rounds gave
a history of the missionary work in that
field. In the afternoon session, he told
the group of his calling into the mis-sionary
service. Time for questions
was given at the close of his message.
Miss Fern Rold appeared as second
speaker giving a message on "The
Light of the World".
Rev. E. 0. Schugren, missionary to
South India, was unable to be present
for the day. Also, Rev. L. A. Love-gren,
who had been called in to speak,
was prevented in fulfilling his engage-ment
because of illness.
The sessions were led by Faculty
members and a number of students
sang and led devotions.
Bethel Pianist To Play
For Minneapolis Chorus
Clarence Olson, accompanist for the
Male Chorus and Mixed Chorus, was
recently appointed pianist for the re-hearsals
of the Minneapolis A Capella
Chorus and also the Odin Male Chorus.
The A Capella Chorus took first
place in the Chicagoland Music Festival
held at Chicago last summer under the
auspices of the Chicago Tribune. The
Odin Male Chorus is an organization
of Swedish singers of the Twin Cities.
Professor George G. Hultgren is the
director of both Choruses.
WOMEN'S FEDERATION
HOLDS FRUIT SHOWER
The Bethel Institute Women's Fed-eration
held its annual fruit shower at
Bethel Institute Tuesday afternoon, Oc-tober
27. Pierre Tangent, Steward of
the boarding club, led the afternoon
meeting. The message was brought by
Everett Backlin, Seminary senior. Dr.
0. L. Swanson who was a guest speaker
at the Prayer and Missionary Day ac-tivities,
spoke a few words at the con-clusion
of the meeting. Among the
things he said was the statement that
"as long as you have the women be-hind
you, you will go ahead". Since
it was Dean Karl Karlson's fifty-ninth
birthday, the group sang "Happy Birth-day"
to him. Dean Karlson closed the
meeting with prayer.
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
BEGIN YEAR'S WORK
The Student Volunteers, under the
enthusiastic leadership of President
Donald Peterson, began their extensive
program of the year by taking charge
of devotions on Prayer and Mission
Day last Wednesday.
Their first Wednesday night meeting
will be held on November 18, and after
that there will be a meeting once every
two months. Some chapel services will
be conducted by the Volunteers. At the
first of these, opportunity will be given
for all interested students to join.
Donald Tanquist is vice-president and
Florence Lindstrom the secretary-treas-urer
of the group.
SOPHOMORES CREATE
PLANS FOR PROGRAM
The annual program of the Sopho-more
class of the Junior College will
be held Friday evening, November 20.
Everyone is asked to keep this date
in mind and to journey eastward in
miles and backward in years as the
picturesque and significant events cen-tering
around the first Thanksgiving
Day are again recalled.
Remember that the Sophomores have
an interesting evening in store for you
on Friday, November 20.
N. Y. A. GIVES WORK TO
20 BETHEL STUDENTS
Several new projects are being car-ried
out at Bethel through the National
Youth Administration. Through a
monthly allowment of two bnndred and
forty-seven dollars, twenty students are
working at school and thus earning
part of their expenses.
One student has been assigned to
collect birds and mount them for the
Zoology department. This work is done
under the supervision of Dean Johnson,
Zoology instructor. Another student is
sorting and labeling the articles in the
missionary collection. Still another is
collecting pictures of missionaries to be
placed in panels on the chapel walls.
Other projects include making his-torical
notebooks, cataloguing new
music, arranging a possible itinerary
for the male chorus tour, and improv-ing
the tennis courts. Much work is
being done in repairing, painting and
varnishing woodwork.
Journalists Frolic at
Tuesday Evening Party
Gathered around the fireplace of the
Seminary dining hall Tuesday evening,
October 20, the Clarion staff held a
unique social, an indoor pow-wow.
Such a pleasant evening was spent
that the change from an outdoor to
an indoor pow-wow, which was neces-sitated
by the weather, was not re-gretted.
Many amusing games and
stunts were engaged in during the
course of the evening after which re-freshments
were served.
Carl Lundquist was in charge of the
games for the group. Helen Larson
and Dick Werner served as the refresh-ment
committee. .
INSTRUCTOR'S MOTHER DIES
Mrs. Carl Sabel, mother of Miss
Esther Sabel, instructor in the College
and Seminary, died early Friday morn-ing,
October 30, in Chicago. Mrs. Sabel
had been ill a short time with bronchial
pneumonia.
Immediately upon receiving the news,
Miss Sabel left for Chicago.
"GET A 'B. A.'
DEGREE" ON
NOVEMBER 6
Well Rounded Program Arranged
for Homecomng Alumni
"Get a B.A. Degree." This is the
slogan for Bethel's Homecoming fest-ivity
to be held November 6 on the
Bethel Campus. Aspirants for the B.A.
Degree will receive it after completion
of only one hour's work beginning at
6:00 P. M. and culminating in a Com-mencement
Banquet at 7:00 P. M. at
which the "degrees" will be awarded.
Wilbur Sorley, student body pres-ident
and chairman of the program
committee, made the statement that
"Beginning with the registration and
ending with the awarding of diplomas,
the program will carry you by leaps
and bounds through the entire course
of the 'school' ". Everyone attending
will work for his degree. Mr. Sorley
said "the only entrance requirements
that will hinder anyone will be prompt-ness".
After completion of the work towards
a "B.A. Degree" the homecoming
group will gather for the "school"
banquet. This will be featured with
musical entertainment. The annual
business meeting of the Alumni will
be held after which the commencement
exercises and presentation of "B.A."
degrees will take place.
HOMECOMING PROGRAM
Afternoon-
3:00-5:30—Open House in Dormi-tories.
3 :30—"Kaffee och dopp" in the col-lege
cafeteria.
Evening—
GET YOUR "B. A." DEGREE
5 :45—Registration.
6:00—Classes begin.
7 :00—Banquet
Annual business meeting of
Alumni.
'Alumni association.
Commencement exercises
and presentation of "B.A."
degress.
Homecoming activities will begin in
the afternoon with the annual open
house in the Men's Dormitory and this
year the Ladies' Dormitory on Como-
Phalen Avenue. Dormitory roomers will
open their rooms to friends between
3:00 and 5:30 in the afternoon. Those
desiring their mid-afternoon coffee will
be served "Kaffee och dopp" in the
Cafeteria Coffee Shoppe at 3:30.
The Alumni undergraduate basket-ball
game will not be held this year.
Instead, the committee hopes to arrange
for a period of inter-class and inter-department
competitive sports.
Planning for the day's activities are
four committees: The Faculty commit-tee
with Professor C. E. Carlson, chair-man,
Professors Adolf Olson, Miss Alice
Johnson, Reuben Nelson, A. J. Wing-blade,
and Deans Johnson and Karl-son,
ex-officio, assisting.
The Program committee: Wilbur Sor-
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FROM OUR MASTER
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1866
Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never-ebbing sea!
We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For Him no depths can drown.
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still its Olivet
And love its Galilee.
The healing of His seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.
Through Him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.
0 Lord and Master of us all!
Whate'er our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by thine.
-:- Quiet Meditation -:-
BY EVERETT E. BACKLIN
"Behold, the Bridegroom! Come ye forth to
meet him." Matt. 25:6.
How startled the ten virgins must have been
when they were awakened out of their sleep by the
cry "Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to
meet him." The time had come for them to trim
their lamps in order that they might be ready for
for the march back to the bride's home for the
wedding feast. But alas, five of the virgins had ne-glected
to make the proper preparations for this
march for their oil soon gave out. What a pathetic
situation! What a pathetic request! "Give us of
your oil, for our lamps are dying out." "Right here
we can see the difference in the ten virgins. Surely
all were nominal Christians for they all bore the
lamps or torches symbolic of a mouth confession
and testimony; they all went out to meet the bride-groom.
Yet they were not all ready to meet him!
Five of them were unsaved, unregenerate, for the
bridegroom told them that he never knew them.
It was too late, for the door had closed. "I don't
know you."
Should not such a scene as this challenge our
hearts in a special way so that we might go out and
point such who are not known as children of the
living God to the Master? A certain man tells us
of a wonderful dream he had some time ago. In his
dream he seemed to hear the midnight cry, "Be-hold,
the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet
him." He with several of his friends gathered at
the shore of a beautiful lake, waiting with hands
clapsed, and with eyes toward the distant horizon,
waiting for the coming of the Christ. They were
all dressed in white garments. As he was watching
and waiting, he was gripped with the realization that
there were others in that assembly who were not
ready to meet the bridegroom for he could see that
they were dressed in straw. The sight pierced his
heart so he spoke to his own friends, "We must
not be satisfied with being ready ourselves for
there are others who need Christ too. Let us scatter
among the crowd and tell them that the blood of
Christ will cleanse them from all sin so that they
too can be ready to meet the bridegroom?" Those
who were dressed in white scattered and brought
the glorious message of redemption to those who
were dressed in straw. One by one their garments
became as white as snow for they too had found the
Savior and now were ready to meet Him.
May God so pierce the heart of everyone of us
with that challenge to go out and win others so
that they might be ready with oil in their lamps .. .
ready for the coming of the blessed Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ.
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The Bethel Clarion
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Harold Wilson Managing Editor
John Bergeson
Alrick Blomquist
Phyllis Bohne
Clayton Bolinder
Everett Johnson
Hilding Lind
Carl Lundquist
CONTRIBUTORS
Florence Lindstrom
Norma Newstrom
Olga Shenning
Winston Sherwick
Maurice Wessman
Muriel Johnson
Everett Backlin
Raymond Martin
Carolyn Nelson
Sophy Parfin
Edith Person
Stanley Rendahl
Hazel Rossander
Samuel Schultz
BUSINESS STAFF
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Ralph Holman Assistant
ADVISERS
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Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at the post-office
at St. Paul, Minnesota under the act of March 3, 1879.
COME HOME, ALUMNI
On Friday, November 6, the faculty and students of
Bethel open wide their hearts to Bethel's friends and
alumni. We are anxious to see many of the grads return
to revisit the familiar and well-loved haunts of their
alma mater.
Every effort is being put forth to provide for the enter-tainment,
edification, and fellowship of every visitor in
order that this homecoming may be a never-to-be-for-gotten
day in their lives.
There is only one thing necessary to make this annual
event a success. Without your cooperation in this matter,
Bethel's homecoming will fail. This one thing is your
presence. November 6 is your day here at school. It is
your opportunity to visit old friends and make many
new ones.
May we count on you to come home to your school on
your day?
LOOK OUT AND SEE
"Look out and see." This statement, expressed by
Dr. 0. L. Swanson on Prayer and Mission Day, is one
that should provide much food for meditation and thought
to the earnest student. It is a compelling statement. Dr.
Swanson declared that there are "seventeen million
children in the United States who are not in Sunday
School". Then he asked the question of great import,
"How about the other fifty-four nations in the world?"
Nevertheless, the spirit toward Missions is re-trench-ment,
the spirit of many professing Christians is resig-nation,
the spirit of too many people is that of with-drawal.
But the facts tell us that the work is only begun. The
seed which has been sown midst persecution, stress, and
even death is now bearing hundred fold, some sixty fold,
some thirty fold. Our action in behalf of the Master's
command to "go ye into all the world" has simply be-gun.
Jesus Christ says "Go!" and His promise, "Lo, I
am with you always" is with us. Yet we rationalize
and criticize, and the fulness of our Lord's command goes
unheeded.
On the face of the great need and the great results
from the work being done, do we dare to let indifference
and everyday care becloud our vision of the spiritial
needs of the world? Can we shirk our responsibility to
foster a missionary spirit among the people we minister
to, or further, to give our lives for the missionary cause?
"Look out and See."
COMING EVENTS
November 4
College Club meets.
November 6—
Homecoming.
November 11—
Armistice Day.
Alexis Society meets.
November 14-
Mid-semester Reports.
November 18
Student Volunteer meeting.
November 20—
Sophomore Class Program.
MARK TYME
Progress Phobia
At some time the revolutionist lays
down a principle that he has formu-lated
out of an ideal. He dreams of
starting a new and good order that
will have progressive movement for
its guiding principle. He lays down
a foundation of a few elementary plans.
But this rebel gets practical follow-ers
who cannot see beyond the elem-entary
plan. If his dream were to ad-vance
human liberty they see only
general suffrage for the desired fulfill-ment.
That general suffrage is secured
and the practical followers make a
patron saint out of the dead rebel.
They believe that they have secured the
desired goal by achieving the initial
act.
But they are wrong! They fail to
understand the spirit that moved the
rebel, a spirit that saw much farther
than the temporary measure. As monu-ments
are raised to the dead hero by
the ones grateful for what has been
done there is an announcement made
of a failure to see that the struggle
for human liberty is eternal and that
it goes farther than the initial step
advocated by the first rebel. For human
liberty is an eternal struggle! These
followers become vigilant to prevent
any further steps. They invoke the
dead rebel to defend living Toryism.
The rebel spirit has become dead letter!
Do not think that we no longer have
the Tory. He is still here, his deaden-ing
hand is yet dragging the dream of
yesterday's revolutionist to earth and
forcing that dream to take on the
earthy. This Tory is found among all
ranks and opinions of men. Sometimes
the Tory invokes Jefferson, sometimes
Lincoln, sometimes Marx. Always he
clothes himself with progressiveness of
the past and invokes the statutes of
dead rebels. By so doing he still de-clares
himself a Tory and a defender
of the status quo. Here are some of
the principles of Toryism.
"Criticism is permissible unless it is
criticism of essential fault."
"To accomplish too much is perilous.
It is better to be content with medi-ocrity.
"Do not examine a wordy ideal. It
may break."
"It is well to establish a custom of
useless endeavor."
"The best road is safe, sane, and
nowhere."
"Go halfway up the mountain."
"The safest utterances are echoes
from the past."
"Praise dead revolutionists, extirpate
the living."
No moral is needed. Either I am un-derstood
or not understood. I am
neither personal, local, nor sarcastic.
This is the statement of a universal
tendency to echo revolution from the
past in order to defend one's self
from the searching needs of today.
—A. H. L.
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REV. A. E. SJOLUND
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November 4, 1936 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
POLITICAL SPEAKERS -:- CHAPEL NOTES -:-
CONTEST FOR PARTY
Alf M. Landon, the Republican nom-inee
for President, was given a two-to-
one majority over the incumbent
President in a hotly contested political
debate and election held at a recent
Alexis meeting.
The annals of Alexis antiquity hav-ing
been diligently though frantically
searched by the school's most promising
historians, and upon a most loquacious
affirmation of Aleck Olson, who has
been attending Alexis Society meet-ings
for ten years, as well as the ready
confirmation of innumerable others,
qualified to speak because of an inti-mate
knowledge of the subject, or
through sheer durations of time spent
upon the campus, we are brought to
the conclusion that the gigantic political
rally held on Wednesday evening Oc-tober
14 has no peer in the realm of
Bethel's political life.
We have the Republican National
Convention, which meets every four
years. Likewise, there is the Demo-cratic
National Convention which also
meets every four years, but never
before have the two combined in a
joint meeting, and that within the con-fines
of the Institute.
The occasion was a gala one. In-numerable
faces of Landon and Roose-velt,
in their poster-like composure
gazed upon the assembled multitude
from conspicuous moorings on the four
walls and platform of the auditorium.
The key-note was struck by Aymond
Anderson when he insisted that the Re-publican
platform was "very sound—
very, very, much SOUND!!!" The
gathered throng became fired with
the contagion of the occasion, and
provided "much SOUND I I!" even to
the highly organized Democratic cheer-ing
section which was seated en masse,
in a prominent place in the front of
the hall.
The Republican spokesman, Bruce
Fleming, with a burst of heart-stirring
oratory, convinced the crowd that our
country is about to be endangered by
a red-colored revolution; while the
ardent supporter of the Democratic
party, Hilding Lind, in a mood of grave
sincerity, proved that our nation is
about to cross the threshold of the
Utopia which only such philosophical
dreamers as More, Tolstoy, and Karl
Marx dared to even suggest as a re-mote
possibility.
All this, accompanied by spasmodic,
tumultuous outbursts of approval, and
occasional displays of disapproval, was
brought to a fitting conclusion when
ballots were placed in the hand of all
present, giving each one an opportunity
to express his own opinions, whether
they were the gleanings of political
prejudice of long standing, or the vas-cillating
convictions brought about by
th platform vicissitudes of the occasion.
As previously mentioned, the result was
a landslide for the Republican party.
BETHEL SEARCHES FOR
NEW SCHOOL SONG
Awake ye lyrists, take your pens
in hand and write to the glory of your
Alma Mater. The Student Council is
sponsoring a contest for a school song.
"We want a 'medium' song, - said Wil-bur
Sorley, Student Body president.
And he went on to explain that by "me-dium"
he meant one that would truly
express the religious, educational, and
social spirit of Bethel.
All students and alumni are urged
to submit a poem if they feel poetically
inclined. The entries will be judged
by a committee from outside the school
and a liberal prize will be given to the
winner. Professor Hultgren will set the
poetry to music. All entries must be
in before December 1.
-The Marvel of the Hind's Feet"
was Dr. Glenn Clark's topic of discus-sion
as he appeared before chapel Wed-neSday,
October 14. Dr. Clark, who is
from Macalaster College, talked about
the value of having hind's feet. In
applying it to ourselves he said if we
would believe not only in our front
mind but also rear mind, our hind's
feet, we would be able to go higher
places.
Students Report
During the chapel hour Monday,
October 19, the students who had at-tended
the B.Y.P.U. conference at Du-luth
gave short talks, or statements
about the different sessions held. In
these talks, they all mentioned the great
inspiration and blessings which they
had received.
Former Boxer Speaks
Rev. John Sornberger, former middle-weight
boxing champion of the North-west
and at present minister in some
lumber camps in the North, spoke at
chapel Tuesday, October 20. In the
course of his talk, Rev. Sornberger said
that we should not try to see how close
we could come to sin and still hold our
Christian principles, but we should stay
away from it as much as possible. He
also mentioned different things which
a Christian should do and said that we
should walk carefully and watch out
for the little things over which so many
of us stumble.
Horribleness of Heathenism Described
"Nine million people in Nigeria are
waiting for the Word of God, - stated
SPORT SHOTS
During the month of November, vol-ley-
ball will occupy the spotlight on the
Bethel intra-mural sport card. A sched-ule
of twelve games has been arranged
for the four-team league, which will
run up until just before the Thanks-giving
Holiday.
Last year some hot competition was
furnished in a similar league and
there is every reason to believe that
competition will be even stiffer this
year as the teams are more evenly
balanced than they were last year.
At the conclusion of the league, the
winning team will play an All-Star
team selected from the rest of the
players in a series of exhibition matches.
Whites Lead in Touchball
Sporting a one-game lead in the
"win" column over the Blues with
whom they have waged a nip-and-tuck
battle all the way, the Whites appear
to have the flag clinched in the Fall
touchball League which comes to a
conclusion this next week.
Each team has only one game left
to play. The Whites should easily win
their game against the "unfortunate"
Redswho have yet to register a victory.
The Standings:
Won Lost Tied
Whites 3 0 2
Blues 2 0 3
Greens 1 3 1
Reds 0 4 I
"Get A B. A.' Degree" on November 6
(Continued from page 1)
ley, chairman, Rev. Gordon Johnson,
Rev. Reuben Nelson, Rodger Goodman,
Florence Lindstrom, and Professor C.
E. Carlson.
Decorations committee: Rodger
Goodman, chairman, LaVerne Bjork-lund,
Herbert Franck, Hope Widen,
Carl Young, and Edward Nelson.
Publicity committee: Ralph Johnson,
chairman, Phyllis Bohne, Gordon An-derson,
Bruce Fleming, and John D.
Lundberg.
Rev. Carl J. Tanis, representative of the
Sudan Interior Mission, when he ap-peared
before a combined chapel Wed-nesday,
October 21. Rev. Tanis said
that it was not a case of forcing the
people to accept the Word of God but
that the people were eagerly waiting for
it. He also told about the horribleness
of heathenism and cannibalism in Ni-geria
and displayed a number of articles
used by the headhunters.
Rev. Murphy Speaks
Rev. E. C. Murphy, who has been do-ing
evangelistic work in penitentiaries
of the country for twenty-five years,
was the chapel speaker Monday, Octo-ber
26. In his talk he told about his
experiences in bringing hardened crim-inals
to Christ. He read several poems
which had been written by a man who
had lived a life of crime but had found
Christ while he was in prison.
Former Students Address Students
Rev. Franklin Nelson, pastor of the
Minnehaha Baptist Church in Minnea-polis,
was the speaker at chapel Tues-day,
October 13. In his talk he said
that we should not be offended by small
things. "A soft answer turneth away. -
"Just because most people are not
followers of Christ is no reason why we
should not be followers of Christ,"
stated Rev. Eric Anderson of the Cen-tral
Baptist Church when he spoke at
chapel Thursday, October 15.
Assurance in the things of God, was
the theme of the talk given by Rev. 0.
Milton Lind, pastor of the First Swedish
Baptist Church of St. Paul on October
22.
BOARDING CLUB GETS
LIBERAL DONATIONS
During the last four weeks Pierre
Tangent, steward of the Boarding Club,
together with members of the club, has
made trips to various Baptist church
near St. Paul. These students took part
in the services of the church and then
brought back food donations from each
vicinity.
The members of these church were
very kind and liberal in their donations
to the club as shown both by the
great variety and the great quantity
of food brought back. Springvale and
Dalbo contributed mostly potatoes,
while Isle, Opstead, Hillman, Red Wing,
and Lake City gave mostly canned
fruit. Grantsburg, Trade Lake, Wood
River, and Falun donated a very liberal
supply of foodstuffs.
According to Mr. Tangent, a few
more trips will be made. Those places
to be visited in the near future are
Stanchfield, Fish Lake, Harris, Isanti,
and Duluth.
COLLEGE GROUPS SPEND
POW-WOW EVENINGS
The freshmen and sophomores of the
Junior College have each had their
usual class pow-wow this fall.
The sophomores held theirs at Battle
Creek Park, Friday evening, October
9. Here they played games and roasted
hot-dogs around the campfire. Devotions
were in the form of testimonies and
choruses.
The freshmen were unfortunate in
that they chose a rainy evening for
their pow-wow making it necessary
for them to play their games and sing
their choruses in the College gymnas-ium,
and eat their frankfurters in the
cafeteria. This pow-wow was not strict-ly
a class function for when it was de-cided
to meet in the gymnasium the
other classmen were invited.
How Far Have We Come?
by C. L. Newcomb
"In making a march,
it is well to pause
occasionally and ob-serve
the route both
ahead and to the
rear." That's how
Army Field Service
Regulations put it.
At this time of year,
we too may follow
this advice. Now
Buy and Use when the tuberculosis
CHRISTMAS Christmas Seals make
SEALS their annual appear-ance,
we, as citizens, should acquaint
ourselves with what has happened in
the fight against this dread disease—
and what lies ahead.
For thirty years a voluntary army
has mustered itself for duty in raising
funds with which to carry on educa-tional
work in the public health field of
tuberculosis control to the end that a
preventable and curable disease may
be conquered. The march has been
along a well defined route starting with
Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacil-lus
in 1882 and past such important
milestones as the building of the first
tuberculosis sanatorium by Dr. Ed-ward
L. Trudeau and the inauguration
of the first Christmas Seal sale by
Miss Emily P. Bissell in 1907.
For thirty years the battle has been
waged, with ups and downs, until now
we can see victory ahead. We must
keep on. It is not enough that we have
made progress to the extent of reducing
the deaths from tuberculosis by more
than two-thirds. There are still al-most
70,000 people needlessly dying
each year, and most important, the
majority of deaths occur in that age
group, 15 to 45, which is right at the
door of economic independence and
stability.
We can't all be up in the front line
of fighters but we do all have the priv-ileged
opportunity of supporting the
soldiers on the march. We can buy
and use Christmas Seals. They finance
the greatest war the world has even
known—a war that shall go on until
the ancient enemy of mankind is wiped
off the face of the earth.
A long way have we come. We can
look back with satisfaction but we
must look ahead with determination and
with confidence in the tuberculosis
associations of the country who have
led the fight.
Let's all buy Christmas Seals this
year and help in this great fight.
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Rev. Walfred Holmberg
Minneapolis, Minn.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION November 4, 1936
Wed. Oct. 21.
Gently laid my books on desk and
tip-toed out of room and off to Alexis
where a political rally gathered steam
and expelled it noisily. Landon liter-ature
literally littered the hall, but poor
Roosevelt seemingly held in disrepute.
Republican orator "split ears of ground-lings"
who responded lustily with, as
Will would say, "inexplicable dumb
show and noise: . Decided that what-ever
outcome of election would be,
Republicans would win a moral victory.
Enjoyed critics comments on usage
of "me" and '`I" although speakers
didn't. And so to bed after signing
Mamma's book at 10:10.
Thurs. Oct. 22.
Down to the gym of the evening for
to wallop villainous volley-ball. Slightly
disconcerted on being rudely separated
from my glasses and on catching up
with them to find integrity of a lens dis-turbed.
Resolved to enter some other
monastery on being unable to borrow
pittance necessary to reestablish lens.
And so to bed muttering over harsh
realities of life, after signing Mamma's
book disgustingly early.
Fri. Oct. 23.
Come evening, borrowed Don Pete's
school suit and off to hard-time party.
Arrived and found him wearing mine.
He took the prize. Had face smeared
with charcoal playing a cute chin
chucking game, but blustered out of
ridicule by claiming to have known
game at start. Had picture taken with
whole motley mob, drank coffee and in-geniously
evaded dishes, but not Mam-ma's
little book which records my hav-ing
come in at unheard of hour of
eleven. (I fear an office appointment.)
Sat. Oct. 24.
Felt Edgar Guests's muse moving me
so composed jingle.
Our Mamma is a teacher, so
There isn't much he doesn't know.
From clever words and learned looks
I'll bet he's read a dozen books.
Our "Daddy" feels that just like
"he"
We all could smart and sturdy be,
If the proper book we all would
sign
Each night by 10:30 on the line.
And so for our own good—how
grand!
He's placed "the book" in Mamma's
hand;
And each "dorm" duffer must beg
permission
To leave; and sign the book on his
readmission.
It is whispered that those who out-stay
that hour
Are called aside by "Dad" on the
mo r row.
Now I only repeat what I have heard
From the bickering beak of a wound-ed
bird.
Sun. Oct. 25.
Day of rest so off to church for to
hear good sermons. And to bed early
ignoring Mamma's book.
Mon. Oct. 26
Resurrected breeches and boots and
off to country for to pursue pheasants.
Paid dollar borrowed from Kermit for
hunting license. Shot at bird same
time as Dickau, but he got there first
so no one believes my story.
Back to Bethel and to bed after sign-ing
Mamma's book at 10:29. (close call
but I made it.)
PENNY-A-MEAL
Everyone is urged to keep in mind
the penny-a-meal boxes on their din-ner-
tables during the month of No-vember.
Don't forget to put a penny
in it for every meal.
1935
Warren Anderson is hoping to com-plete
his studies at the University of
Minnesota this year. He is placing
particularly emphasis on Science.
Atola Benson, besides studying at
the Northwestern Bible School, is assist-ing
in teaching in the religious educa-tion
department.
1934
Mrs. Lucian Oliver (Ruby Theline)
and her infant daughter visited Bethel
a week or so ago.
Evelyn Peterson, stationed at Gheen,
Minnesota, under the Northern Gospel
Mission, is doing Christian work in
a very wicked community. She is the
only alumna of Bethel among the work-ers
there.
1933
Another Bethel wedding took place
at the Central Baptist Church in St.
Paul on October 21 when Eunice An-derson
and George Werner, '32 were
united in marriage.
Sveinung Haukedalen is finishing his
course at the Northern Baptist Theolog-ical
Seminary in Chicago this year. He
writes that "next spring I may have
some information that may be inter-esting."
Mrs. A. M. Bothne (nee Florence
Barker), now located in Long Beach,
California, writes to Miss Sabel that
her son is growing as all boys must do.
He is now three years old.
1932
Early in the past summer, Janet V.
Carlson and Enoch G. Peterson be-came
man and wife.
Alvina Carlson visited Bethel on Oc-tober
23 while in the Twin Cities for
a nurses convention.
Another graduate was married early
last summer. She was Marian Gagnel-ius,
who became Richard Lundholm.
1930
Ernest L. Danielson, after purchas-ing
the Gamble store agency in Henn-ing,
Minnesota, seems to have things
coming his way, for since entering this
business he has taken unto himself a
wife and has purchased a home for
her.
Since his graduation from the Uni-versity
of Minnesota last Spring, Rus-sel
W. Johnson has been technical for-ester
at E. C. W. Camp S-52 in Hovland,
Minnesota. He has charge of refores-tration
and game preservation.
Fern Rold, a former student in the
B.M.T. department who has spent one
term in Assam, India, was one of the
speakers at the Prayer and Mission Day
services held at Bethel. She plans to
complete her work in the B.M.T. de-partment
after finishing her depu-tation
work this Fall.
1929
Martin Erickson pastor of the Swed-ish
Baptist church in Brockton, Massa-chusetts,
expects to receive his B.A.
degree from Gordon College next
Spring.
Rev. C. Alvin Johnson, pastor in
Prentice, Wisconsin, baptized five per-sons
after a campaign conducted by
Rev. Alphin Conrad, his classmate.
Rev. Johnson is now visiting his par-ental
home in Canada.
1928
Thelma Brandt is grateful for the
opportunity God has given her for
service as secretary and pianist for the
Wisconsin Tabernacle in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. She reports that they have
services every night in the week the
year 'round.
1926
Myrtle Hanson became the bride of
Mr. John E. Brandon during the past
summer. Mr. and Mrs. Brandon make
their home in Minneapolis.
One of the many distinguished vis-itors
on Bethel's campus the past few
days was Dr. Charles Entner. During
his absence from Bethel he has been
graduated from the Tufts School of
Medicine in Boston, and is now pre-paring
to leave with his fiancee for
medical missionary service in the Phil-ippine
Islands.
1925
Edith Jacobson writes that she has
been kept very busy teaching school
and keeping house since her graduation
from Bethel eleven years ago.
Mrs. S. L. Arnquist, nee Florence E.
Bursman, after teaching school for
some time is now active in a Junior
Mission Society in Milaca. This society
is made up of the younger women of the
church.
Mrs. Gordon Hasselblad, nee Agnes
Lindeen, was a visitor at school Oc-tober
12. Several students of Bethel
are members of the Central Baptist
Church of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
of which her husband is pastor.
1924
Malvina Johnson, of the Crow In-dian
Mission, Lodge Grass, Montana,
writes that their 4-H Club received
the ten dollars prize money for club-work
this year. Their exhibit at the
Crow fair won first prize.
1920
Verna Swedlund, after teaching
school for a number of years since her
graduation, annexed Hallier to her
name and is now happy as a housewife
in Ortonville, Minnesota.
1919
Every time we pick up one of our
denominational papers we can find
and read part of C. George Erickson's
writings in those publications.
1915
Dr. Earl R. Carlson, an outstanding
neurologist of New York City, was re-cently
a guest of the Minnesota Asso-ciation
for Crippled Children and Dis-abled
Adults. He conducted a clinic
at the University Hospital after ad-dressing
the society on October 23.
G. W. Hammer, one of Bethel's most
learned graduates, is now Professor
and head of the Physics department of
the University of Idaho. He has his
Ph.D. degree from the California Insti-tute
of Technology.
1914
Edwin L. Anderson is now operator
of a funeral home in Stromsberg, Neb-raska.
Since his graduation from Bethel
he has also graduated from the Kaester
School of Window Display in Chicago.
Thanks, yes, ten thousand thanks,
alumni, for your response during the
past few weeks. We'll be looking for
letters from those who haven't told us
about themselves as yet.
GEN. SHERMAN'S
GREAT-GREAT
GRANDSON ENROLLS
Enlisted in the ranks of the Bethel
Junior College Freshman class is Earl
Sherman, a great-great-grandson of
that famous military leader, General
W. T. Sherman.
Twenty years ago Earl Sherman's
father moved with his family from
New York to Angora, Minnesota, in
quest of a more healthful climate. For
a few years he engaged in farming on
his own farm that he purchased on
his arrival. For the past eighteen years,
however he has been engaged as a
rural mail carrier.
Four years ago granite was dis-covered
on his farm by the tenant.
Of the only four real archaean, green,
granite quarries in the United States,
Mr. Sherman owns two; the other two
belong to his brothers.
Earl's grandfather was engaged in
teaching. For thirty-three years he
served as a high school professor.
The history of the Sherman family
has been recorded down to the third
generation from General W. T. Sher-man.
The records are preserved in
New York.
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