Members of the cafe society are shown as they line up for their first
meal served in the new cafeteria Monday, January 6. The cafeteria
under the management of Mr.* Barney Ordahl will serve the students
and faculty at meal time, with the Huddle soon to be reopened for
lunches and coffee hours.
The cafeteria was moved to the campus from the Sioux Falls Army
Air Base last fall and replaces the former college dining hall which
has been converted for use by the art department. The past months
have been spent readying the large building for use; checking, clean-ing
and repairing the equipment.
Present seating capacity of the cafeteria is 120 with over a thousand
meals served as an average every day.
I RR 0 B. January 9, 1947 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. VoriXVII, No. 30
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Chow Line at Augustana Wie tquetaSiama
Snook Selects Cast College Debaters
For "Hasty Heart" Begin Season
It's So Depressing
by George Douthitt
It was extremely depressing
this week.
NOTICE!
Augustana students will be ad-mitted
to the orchestra concert on
their' activity tickets and wives of
student veterans will be admitted
at student prices.
Rehearsals for the second pro-duction
of the Augustana College
Theatre were begun this week,
with presentation dates set Feb-ruary
20, 21, 22. The play is The
Hasty Heart, a comedy that ap-peared
recently on the Broadway
stage. It is written by John Pat-rick
and was produced by Howard
Lindsay and Russell Crouse, who
gave the theatre such well known
plays as Life With Father and
Arsenic and Old Lace.
Director Bob Snook has an-nounced
the following cast for the
production:
Orderly Bill Halverson
Yank Dick Stavig
Digger Bob Burleigh
Kiwi George Douthit
Blossom Buss Reaves
Tommy Bob Snook
Margaret
Dorothy Ann Erickson
Colonel Ken Berg
Lachlen Gerry Lofgren
Announcement of committees
and the assistant director will be
made during the coming week.
Orchestra Repeats Concert
By popular request the Aug-ustana
Symphony Orchestra will
give a repeat performance on
Sunday, January 12, at the Coli-seum
at 4 p. m.
The program will consist of the
selections which were played at
the previous concert on Decem-ber
18. The highlight of the
concert will again be the appear-ance
of Miss Ruth Schneider with
orchestral accompaniment in Bee-thoven's
C Major Concerto.
Augustana will participate in
a debate tournament for all col-leges
in the state to be held at
Sioux Falls college Saturday, Jan-uary
11. Augustana will enter
four teams with four rounds for
each team.
On January 18, Augustana will
join with Sioux Falls college to
welcome the other colleges of the
state to a similar tournament in-cluding
both oratory and extem-poraneous
speaking, the latter on
the subject of peace.
The winer of this peace extemp
contest will go to the national
contest.
Members of the Augie debate
squad are Helen Bekke, Dorothy
Pederson, Dorothy Schiager, Nor-man
Olson, Catharine Cashman,
Arthur Utt, Robert Browning,
Jack Mueller and Harold Hauge-j
orde.
College Press Sets
Conference Date
A conference of the South Da-kota
Collegiate Press association
is scheduled at Huron college
April 11 and 12. Wes Sandvig,
Augustana, is president of the as-sociation.
Awards will be presented in the
annual collegiate newspaper con-tests,
round table discussions will
be held, and a banquet will be
served. Plans for the event were
made at a meeting of the execu-tive
committee in Huron during
the holiday season.
Stavig Finds China
Needs Mission Help
by Laurel Gray
None the worse, except for a
bad cold, and tremendously im-pressed
by what he had seen in
the Orient, President L. M. Stavig
took over the reigns as Augustana
college head again here Monday,
after a three-month missionary
tour through China.
"The fast trip by air made a
great impression on me as to the
comparative smallness of the
earth," Dr. Stavig reported, hav-ing
traveled 10,000 miles from
Shanghai, China, to Sioux Falls in
four days.
As president of the church's
board of missions, part of his job
was to further Christian educa-tion
in China and to aid in the
establishment of a Lutheran col-lege
there. As a result of his
five-week inspection tour of the
mission fields and its properties,
he will make necessary recom-mendations
to the foreign mission
board of the church in the near
future.
"Missionary work in China has
been slowed down," Stavig ex-plained,
"because of considerable
destruction to property due to the
war, with the resultant need of
rehabilitation." He also noticed
a definite lack of missionaries for
China's 450 million people, and a
lack of sufficient funds to support
them.
In spite of these difficulties, Dr.
Stavig revealed that he was highly
impressed by the job the mission
workers are doing in Christianiz-ing
the Chinese, and in promoting
good-will between the two na-tions.
Publishers Release First Editions of "The Thresher"
Herbert Krause's Latest Novel Depicts Life in the Pockerbrush Region of Western Minnesota
quered it. His people emerge as
living beings, complete with the
third dimension of depth and
reality.
There is a universal quality to
the characters and the story of
In a day when many novels are The Thresher. It is a story of
being written purely for their man's eternal struggle with him-commercial
value it is a rare ex- self, his environment, and the
perience indeed to find a novel forces of nature. With Johnny
that truly becomes an adventure Schwartz, the struggle with him-in
good reading. self is that of a struggle with a
Such a rarity is Herbert wounded ego and with the con-
Krause's new novel, The Thresh- flict between love for Lilice Rose
er, published this week by the and the desire to salve his pride
Bobbs-Merrill Company. With by becoming the best thresher in
this work Professor Krause en- all Pockerbrush. H i s struggle
hances the position he made for with his environment is the
himself with his first novel, Wind struggle against the reputation of
Without Rain. He is an author of his father, a devil-may-care, irre-the
first order, exhibiting a dig- sponsible character who never ap-nity
and power that few novelists pears in the story, but whose repu-possess.
With the publication of tation colors the entire book.
The Thresher it is inevitable that Even more, it is the struggle of a
he will be compared with the late man of strong will against a corn-and
famous 0. E. Rolvaag. It is munity ruled by the fire-and-safe
to say that the comparison brimstone religion and self-will
be a favorable one for the righteous attitude of the German
Augustana professor. farmers. The conflict with nature
As in Wind Without Rain, goes beyond the eternal struggle
Krause is again writing of a terri- of man with the elements and be-tory
and people he knows and comes a battle between man and
loves—the Pockerbrush region of machines for supremacy. The real
western Minnesota and its inhabi- tragedy of the story transpires
tants of German background. His when the realization comes that
characters are not mere products the machines are triumphant. In
of an author's imagination, flat that sense, this book can well be
creations on paper. Readers will called a tragedy of the modern
find in these people something of era.
themselves—their hopes, their Professor Krause possesses a
fears, their desires and their frus- prose style that is poetic in quali-trations.
To convey such charac- ty. It is a style that makes the
ters to the reader is one of the book sing with great lyric beauty.
greatest challenges a novelist It is a style that will probably not
faces and Mr. Krause has con- be acclaimed for its full value at
the present time, but that will in the development of his charac-eventually
be recognized for its ters. For that reason it may seem
real worth, thus placing the that the book begins slowly. But
author in his righful place as the soon the reader will realize that
foremost exponent of the poetic- the narrative is gathering momen-prose
novel. tum as it progresses, and with the
The author takes extreme care inevitable tragic climax in view,
Professor Herbert Krause is shown above autographing first-edition
copies of The Thresher, his second novel, which was published on
January 6th. Later he was also the guest of the Sioux Falls Book and
Stationery Company at an autographing party.
In the past week since publication, many honors have been be-stowed
upon Professor Krause's latest work. It has been selected as
the choice of several book clubs, including the Literary Guild, which
will distribute it as a bonus to its members, and the Junior Literary
Guild which is distributing it as their book-of-the-month.
it rushes with increasing speed
and power to that climax, leaving
the reader exhausted and pro-foundly
moved. It is a reading ex-perience
you'll never forget.
There are many scenes that will
remain in your memory after you
have finished reading. To name
them all would be to reiterate the
entire book. Highlights for this
reviewer were the scenes depict-ing
the conflict between Johnny
and Aunt Phrena, the idyllic pas-sages
concerning the friendship of
Johnny and Snoose, the barn
dances and frightening religious
services, the awakening of John-ny's
love for Lilice and the con-summation
of that love, Snoose's
death, the threshing crew brawls
and, of course, the beautifully
conceived and written climax that
leaves the reader limp. Through
all these, and many more equally
impressive episodes, runs the
chronicle of threshing in the Poc-kerbrush
hills—the conflict of
men and machines told in a man-ner
of overwhelming power and
impressiveness.
The Thresher is not a novel to
be read casually. No phrase can
be skimmed or skipped over light-ly.
Every passage is important to
the final whole. It is not a book
that you will read at one sitting.
It is rather a book to be read
slowly, savoring it as you go. It is
a book to be added to your library
in that special niche reserved for
books which you want to cherish,
books that will be taken down
often and reread. It is a book that
will become a classic of its kind.
Rettiew
The Thresher
by Bob Snook