THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D., TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939
Ad File No. 688. No. 6
Choir Leaves On Eastern Tour; Home Concert Given
Augustana To Play Important Part
In Reception of Royalty Here
At right is shown Director Youngdahl, who left this morning with the
choir, a portion of which is shown above, left to right: front row, Dorothy
Erickson, Harriet Halvorson and Mildred Nelson, soloist, who remains
behind because of a foot injury; second row, Verna Hesby and Donna
Brown; third row, Leonard Lee, Allan Opland and Albert Ordal; back
row, Aivind Sellevold , and James Ausan.
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CETERA
DRAFT IN BRITAIN
GUILDED BAUBLES?
NEW MOTTO
A BIG JOB
By Scott Lovald
Europe th is
last week has
been in a
frankly deplor-able
condition
—and that is
understating the
seriousness of
Europe's plight.
Eight million
men were un-der
arms. For-eign
observers
commented on the relative absence
of war hysteria in England; but
they attributed it not to ease of
mind but to a resignation to the
inevitability of war and a desire to
go ahead and get it over with. Cli-maxing
this sorry state of affairs
came the announcement from Britain
that for the first time in her mod-em
history she will resort to com-pulsory
military service for all
youths over 20 years of age. What
Hitler's reply to Roosevelt's plea
for peace will be is not known at
this writing. But it is safe to as-sume—
from foreign dispatches and
on the basis of past precedent—that
the address to the reichstag will
certainly not reassure those who are
still hoping that some way, some-how,
peace in Europe can be pre-served.
But with the outlook for the con-tinuance
of peace extremely clouded,
to say the least, one begiRs to ques-tion
the motives back of the modern
state. Does the concept of brother-hood
mean nothing any more? Have
truth, justice, love, tolerance been
simply guilded baubles from which
the glaze of virtue is now being
chipped away? Have the metaphy-sical
intangibles that recognize the
spirit and the soul been outmoded
by the modern-day mechanistic and
materialistic interpretations of every-thing
that makes up man's society?
It might be well for a few think-ing
men and women to clarify our
thought on some of these issues,
to redefine the ends of living, to re-formulate
our attitude toward some
of the intangibles that motivate our
living. One of the great necessities
is to get back to the idea that some
virtues—tolerance, love, religion—
must be absolutes in our scheme of
things if the world is not to de-stroy
itself in its own cupidity. The
trouble is that we don't recognize
any absolutes anymore—not even
God.
S *
One of the ironical notes struck
last week with the world ready to
take up arms again was the analysis
in TIME of the plight of American
education. Ohio is anticipating hav-ing
to close some of its city school
systems because of lack of funds.
Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, and
both the Dakotas are on the ragged
edge. Georgia is among the worst.
There, voluntary contributions are
being taken up to keep some schools
open, and other schools have had to
resort to charging tuition. Penn-sylvania
is in a somewhat similar
plight. Good Republican Governor
James—in order to save the state
a bit—turned a deaf ear to pleas
for state aid in keeping the schools
open. After all, the governor rose
to prominence by way of the
mines! Why can't others? Good
American doctrine, governor. But
might we add that your self-satis-faction
is equalled only by your
stupidity.
* * *
The strange part is that the
United States has at least profess-edly—
and perhaps even hypocriti-cally—
held to the idea that univer-sal
education is one of our best
guarantors of peace. But look at
us now. We can afford a federal
outlay of over a billion dollars for
rearmament and another billion for
support of the army and navy. We
had better revise one of our old his-torical
mouthings. MILLIONS FOR
DEFENSE. MORE MILLIONS FOR
OFFENSE. BUT NOT ONE PEN-NY
FOR EDUCATION.
* * *
All this is not intended as a dero-gation
of all things American. But
we might as well admit with com-plete
candor that in the indifference
of the American public lies its chief
claim to infamy. Comparatively, we
are still more fortunate and have
more cause for hope than Europe.
How long we can maintain that
comparative advantage is entirely
up to us. If there is any truth in
the old platitude that "eternal vi-gilance
is the price of peace," it's
high time we started inculcating a
little vigilance in the dank and un-ventilated
attics of what passes as
the American intellect. We'd better
start giving primacy to education
rather than guns. In short, we'd
better start trying to fulfill the im-plications
in the term we like to
think characterizes us: "Christian
Nation." It's a big job. But it has
to be done.
* * *
We're the babies of one war. One
of us might be the unknown soldier
of the next.
Arrives In America
HENAVMgt16A WARM. D.
Crown Prince Olaf
Augustanan Competes
In Norwegian Contest
Twenty-five dollars and a trip
with traveling expenses to Fargo, N.
D., will be awarded to a Norwegian
student from one of the four Lu-theran
colleges: St. Olaf, Concor-dia,
Luther, or Augustana. Maymie
Holsather qualified as Augustana's
representative to compete with the
other three colleges by writing the
best Norwegian essay on the sub-ject:
"Hvorfor bor vi Norske i
Amerika sere kronprinsparet under
Deres Besok her."
The winner of the contest will go
to the meeting of the Gudbrands-dalslag
at Fargo, June 10-11, where
he will meet the Crown Prince Olav
and Crown Princess Marta and read
his prize-winning essay before the
group.
Miss Holsather's essay, on the
subject which may be translated:
"Why we Norwegians in America
should honor the crown prince cou-ple
on their visit here," was sent to
the president of Gudbrandsdalslag,
an association of people from Gud-brandsdal,
to be judged the first of
May.
May 17, the Norwegian club will
celebrate the Norwegian National
Independence Day with a program
and picnic.
Aberdeen Convention
Invites Professors
Announcement of the annual re-gional
meeting of the American As-sociation
of University Professors to
be held in Aberdeen, S. D., on the
afternoon and evening of Friday,
May 12, and Saturday morning,
May 13 was made by M. E. Nu-gent,
chairman, last week.
Members of the Augustana fac-ulty
have been invited to attend the
meeting.
The general topic suggested for
the discussions is "Raising and
Maintaining Standards in Colleges
and Universities." Outstanding speak-ers
will be on the program.
No Debate of Last Part
Results In Speedy
Passage
Yesterday saw the final passage
of the constitution which was part
of the campaign platform of Wyman
Wumkes, student association presi-dent,
when he assumed his office
this semester.
Composed of six articles the com-pleted
document now awaits final
revisions and posting.
The completed work is the result
of several years of activity on the
part of former student governments.
During the meetings this term
President Wumkes has made individ-ual
readings of each part before
any discussion or vote has been
taken.
In order to make the passage of
the constitution as democratic as
possible no departure from prece-dent
was incorporated in the draft
as presented by the council. All
new or proposed sections originated
on the floor of the student associa-tion
itself.
A. G. A. Elects Officers
For Next Year, Today
Elections are being held today for
the AGA officers who will serve
during the next school year. Can-didates
are those nominated last
night and the following, who were
put up by the AGA senate: presi-dent,
Harriet Wrolstad and Verna
Hesby; vice president, Florence Dev-ick;
secretary, Mae Arlene Rogness;
treasurer, Clarice Natwick; and big-little
sister chairman, Margaret Al-lan
and Margaret Vercoe.
A skit by the Alpha Rhos and a
miniature orchestra directed by Jean
Smith were highlights of the meet-ing
held last evening, May 1. Mu-sical
numbers were furnished by
Doris Iverson, playing a flute solo;
Hazel Stegen, singing a solo; Dor-othy
Erickson, playing popular piano
numbers; and a vocal trio, composed
of Kirsten Svanoe, Jean Kittelson
and Mildred Hofstad, who also sang
popular songs. Dramatic readings
were given by Washington high
school.
Augustana Graduate
Receives Fellowship
Francis Bowen, 1938 graduate,
has accepted a fellowship in chem-istry
at Washington State college,
Pullman, Wash., for the academic
year beginning next September. Mr.
Bowen has resigned his position as
instructor in the Iroquois high
school in order to take the new
position.
He will work toward his master's
degree in addition to his teaching
duties in the chemistry department.
While at Augustana Mr. Bowen
majored in chemistry under Prof.
Froemke and obtained minors in
biology and economics. He was a
four year letter winner in football,
member of the Science club and
the Demosthenian literary society.
Four Of Faculty At
Madison Convention
Four members of the Augustana
faculty were in attendance at the
South Dakota Academy of Science
and Social Science held at Madison
Friday and Saturday, April 28 and
29.
Prof. 0. Tonning, Martin Cole,
John Froemke and Miss Thelma
Erickson attended the meeting.
Prof. Tonning presided in the
social science division at which Dean
Cole read his paper entitled "Con-stitutional
Movements in Provincial
Massachusetts." The latter will also
work with Prof. Kumbin of State
and Prof. Thornton of Sioux Falls
college in making ready for next
year's theme which will be "Prog-ress
With South Dakota."
Next year the social science group
will meet separately at Mitchell.
Twenty-four were in attendance at
this, the fourth annual convention.
Chief speaker of the natural
science group was Dr. G. H. Baily
of the University of Minnesota who
spoke of "Power From the Prairies."
Officers chosen to serve during
the next year were Dr. Scarght,
president; Dr. Landsma, Eastern,
first vice president; A. L. Maxom,
State, second vice president, and A.
L. Haynes as secretary-treasurer.
Social science officers will be
President Clewert, Northern; vice
president, Van Klark, Dakota Wes-leyan,
and Secretary-Treasurer Feber
of South Dakota university.
Sessions were held from Friday
to Saturday noon. Meeting place for
the natural science division has not
as yet been selected for the 1940
convention.
letes honored by the poll which will
decide which is to receive the cov-eted
title of Honor Athlete.
Seniors listed on the ballots in-clude
Helen Brumbaugh, Clara Chil-son,
Dorothy Erickson, Marian
Evanson, Phyllis Hanse, Carol Het-land,
Margaret Hofstad, Edith Hu-gill,
Marit Johnson, Muriel Nuffer,
Agnes Overseth, Georgia Reed,
Ruth Schneider, Ruth Skartvedt,
Hazel Stegen, Joyce Steinbach,
June Stenger, Marjorie Swanson
and Ayleene Tollevs for represen-tative
senior women.
Karl Bracker, Kermit Almos, Ev-erett
Brue, Kenneth Bucklin, Arne
Christianson, Luthard Eid, Norman
Fodness, Clarence J. Hagen, Mel-vern
Halverson, Delbert Hanson,
Delbert Hayenga, Richard Hervig,
Leonard Lee, Arnold Lowe, Robert
Moreland, Evans Nord, Arthur Ol-son,
Albert Ordal, Eldon Samp
and Wayne Shoemaker were listed
for representative senior men.
Student Federation
To Hold Convention
Here May 12 and 13
Augustana and Sioux Falls col-leges
will be hosts to South Dakota
student government leaders here
May 12 and 13 when the South
Dakota Student federation convenes
here for the second annual conven-tion.
Scott Lovald is chairman of
the general arrangements committee
which will be composed of Wyman
Wumkes, and Clara Chilson of Au-gustana
and Dorothy Boardman
and Carl Lundquist of Sioux Falls
college.
Representatives of all colleges in
the state have been asked to attend
the meeting. Executive council
members who will end their term of
office are Dave Pearson, State col-lege;
Joe Robbie, University of
South Dakota; Scott Lovald, Au-gustana;
Lucille Gross, Northern,
and Jack Turner, Yankton. Others
who met with this group in Vermil-lion
last week to formulate conven-tion
plans were Curtis Severson,
State college student president; Carl
Lundquist, Sioux Falls college stu-dent
president; Jack Hagerty, edi-tor
of the State college Industrial
Collegian, and Clara Chilson, Au-gustana.
Registration will be held Friday
morning between 10 and 11, May
12. A luncheon will be given Fri-day
noon and a banquet is scheduled
for that evening.
President C. M. Granskou of Au-gustana
and President W. P. Behan
of Sioux Falls college will be fea-tured
speakers before the student
leaders. Round table discussions on
student government problems will be
held during the two day conclave.
Scott Lovald is present vice presi-dent
of the organization which was
founded at Aberdeen last year.
Krause's Novel Will
Appear In Magazine
Rights for the re-sale of "Wind
Without Rain," novel by Herbert
Krause, head of the English depart-ment,
have been sold to the "Omni-book"
magazine, according to offic-ials
of the Bobbs-Merrill company,
Indianapolis. The book will be con-densed
and published with four
other widely-selling novels in the
May issue of the magazine, to be
released soon.
Officials of the Bobbs-Merrill com-pany
also announced the book has
gone into its fourth printing, ex-periencing
unusual sales for a first
novel. The book, recently awarded
a thousand dollar literary award in
Chicago for being one of the best
books in American literature for the
year, is still selling briskly, they re-ported.
Other books included in the issue
are "Leonardo Da Vinci" by An-tonia
Vallentin, and "I wanted to
Be An Actor" by Katharine Cor-nell.
Krause's book was one of the
books reviewed in last month's issue
of the magazine. "Wind Without
Rain" was also reviewed over the
radio in Chicago recently.
Mrs. M. S. Peterson, a former
missionary of and now a represen-tative
of the Santal mission in Kaer-abani,
India, spoke during chapel
Monday morning, April 24, on the
life of the missionary, Lars Olsen
Skrefsrud.
Symphony Orchestra
Gives Two Concerts;
To Play to Royalty
On Sunday, April 30, the Au-gustana
symphony orchestra under
the direction of Richard J. Guder
yahn was heard in two concerts
given at the Sioux Falls Coliseum.
A half hour radio program was
broadcast in the afternoon from
4:30 until 5. In the evening con-cert
Professor Guderyahn presented
the orchestra in the following
numbers:
"Ein fesete Burg ist unser Gott,"
Bach-Damrosch; "Arioso," Bach;
"Herzlich thut mich verlangen,"
Bach-Sevitsky; "Concerto in A
minor for Violin and Orchestra,"
Vivaldi, solo by Donna Brown;
"Pomp and Circumstance, No. 2,"
Elgar; "Concerto in A minor for
Piano and Orchestra," Schumann,
solo by Ruth Schneider; "Symphony
No. 5 in E minor," Tschaikovsky.
As a closing number the audience
with orchestra accompaniment sang
gthi,ein'g'N., etherlands Hymn of Thanks-
The two programs given on Sun-day
marked the last appearance of
the symphony orchestra before it
will be heard again on June 14
when the crown prince and princess
of Norway pay their royal visit to
Sioux Falls. On that occasion the
orchestra will play three times: in
the morning at the gym-chapel, in
the afternoon at Terrace park, and
at the Coliseum in the evening.
Members Listed
Members of the orchestra who
appeared in these final concerts of
the year were: Eloise Aker, Evelyn
Amdahl, Ardis Archer, Belle Avery,
Avis Bekke, Peggy Blatherwick, Mer-lin
Blundell, Donna Brown, Betty
Brumbaugh, Helen Brumbaugh,
Marilyn Collins, Thelma Conway,
Florence Devick, Louis Dokken,
Dorence Ensberg, Grace Erickson,
Marian Evanson, Myron Floren,
Marilyn Girton, Howard Glenn,
Evelyn Granskou, Merlene Gregu-son,
Charlotte Green, Norman Grin-ager,
Yolanda Grinager, Phyllis
Hanse, Betty Hervig, Howard Hill-man,
Esther Iverson, Carol Jenson,
Kathryn Johnson, Yvette Jones.
Jean Kittelson, Lorraine Kittelson,
Geraldine Leach, Howard Lee, Lyle
Lien, Audrey Lier, Bob Mikkelson,
Hubert Mogen, Vivian Muchow,
Melva Munkvold, Muriel Nuffer,
Eunice Odland, Ramona Opheim,
Hazel Otterby, Roger Oyan, Kath-erine
Piaggi, Marian Ray, Kenneth
Reschke, Mae Arlene Rogness, Milo
Sjolseth, Jean Smith, Betty Thomp-son,
Orville Thompson, Barbara
Truxes, Audrey Walstad, Irene Wal-stadH
Helen Ytterness and Everett
Zellers.
SINGERS IN ALBERT LEA CONCERT TONIGHT NBC To Broadcast
Baltimore Program
The Augustana college a capella
choir, directed by Dr. Carl R.
Youngdahl, left Sioux Falls this
morning for a concert tour of three
weeks, to include appearances in
midwestern and eastern cities and a
radio broadcast from Baltimore,
Md., May 16 over the National
Broadcasting blue network.
The choir presented their home
concert Wednesday evening, April
26, in the college gymnasium-chapel.
The program opened with the
Lord's prayer from the Ukranian
church service, "A Mighty Fort-ress,"
by Martin Luther, with choral
arrangement by Herman W. Mon-son,
"Benedicrus," by E. Paladilhe,
and "0 Lord Most Holy" by An-ton
Bruckner.
The second part of the concert
began with "Der Geist Hilft Unsrer
Schwachheit Auf," an eight-part
chorale for double choir by Bach.
Two compositions by Dr. Youngdahl
followed "A Christmas Lullaby,"
with words by Miss Borghild Dahl,
and "Jerusalem Road," Youngdahl's
own composition.
Soloist On Crutches
Professor J. Earl Lee, pianist,
played by Aria and Finale from
Schumann's Sonata in F Sharp
Minor, Opus 2. The final group
included "Deck Thyself" by Johaan
Cruger, arranged by F. Melius
Christiansen, "Beauty In Humility,"
by Christiansen, with words by El-len
G. Hilleboe, "Jeg Ved En Vei,"
by Sandstrom, and "Wake, Awake,"
by Philip Nicolai. The last two
numbers were arranged for choir by
Dr. Youngdahl. As encore the
choir sang "Softly and Tenderly,"
by W. Thompson, arranged by Dr.
Youngdahl.
A dramatic note was added when
soloist Mildred Nelson appeared
with crutches to sing her numbers
because of an injury which broke
bones in her foot.
Because of the untimely injury,
Miss Nelson did not leave with the
choir. Agnes Overseth and Peggy
Blatherwick will do the solo num-bers.
Doris Iverson fills the vacancy
in the soprano section.
Tonight the choir will sing at
Albert Lea, Minn. Their next two
appearances will be in Wisconsin,
the third at Poynette and the fourth
at Janesville.
Finish In Hudson
Concerts in Newark, Ill., and in
Chicago will follow, on May 5 and
6. From May 9 to May 13 the
group will be in Ohio, singing in
Fremont, Willard, Dayton, Hamil-ton
and Chillicothe.
The organization will present an
afternoon program at Charleston,
W. Va., on May 14. That night
they will stay in a hotel at Coving-ton,
Va., in the Shenandoah valley.
The choir will spend May 15 in
Washington, D. C.
May 16 the group will present the
opening concert of the bi-annual
two-week convention of the National
Federation of Music clubs, at Balti-more,
Md. The program will be
broadcast at 2 p. m., Baltimore time,
over the blue network of the Na-tional
Broadcasting company. It
will be re-broadcast by station KSOO
in Sioux Falls.
The choir will spend the night of
May 16 at a hotel in Greensburgh,
which is a suburb of Pittsburgh,
Pa. May 18 the choir will appear
at Cleveland, Ohio. They will stay
overnight at Valparaiso, Ind., and
will sing in Ottawa, Ia., on the 20th.
The final concerts will be in Mar-shalltown,
Ia., on the 21st, at Ames
on the 22nd, and at Hudson, S. D.,
where Rev. Gronseth has invited
them to sing for the dedication of
the new Lutheran church.
Mirror Receives A. C. P.
First Class Honor Rating
Results of the 1939 Associated
Collegiate Press Critical service re-ceived
this week reveal that the Au-gustana
Mirror, edited by Eunice
Stoltenberg, has been given the first
class honor rating for newspapers
in its division.
With the largest number of en-trants
in the history of the rating
being judged, exactly 401 college
and university papers were sent to
the association for the contest.
In the class composed of college
and university bi-weekly papers in
schools of less than five hundred
enrollment the Mirror obtained the
highest ranking given to any paper
in South Dakota. The College
Chips of Luther college, Decorah,
Ia., and The Eastern of Eastern
State Normal received second class
honor ratings in this division.
The Sioux Falls college Stylus,
edited by Wayne Aberle, received
third class in the same division.
In other divisions The Industrial
Collegian, South Dakota State col-lege,
with first class honors and
The Concordian of Concordia col-lege
at Moorhead, Minn., with All-
American ranking are other high
ranking publications.
Leonard Lee served as business
manager of the paper which now
has a record of four first class honor
ratings to its credit in addition to
three consecutive first class ratings
by the Columbia Scholastic Press
association. Results of the latter
survey have not been released for
this year.
Prince and Princess Will
Arrive In Sioux Falls
June 14
When Their Royal Highnesses
Crown Prince Olav and Crown
Princess Martha visit Sioux Falls
on June 14 during their tour of
the United States, after opening
the Norwegian Pavilion at the New
York World's Fair, they will be
received by a reception committee
of 101 members, in which the presi-dent
and faculty members of Au-gustana
college will figure, together
with Governor Bushfield, Mayor
McKee, congressmen and university
and college leaders of the state.
Committee appointments have been
made by Vice Consul N. 0. Mon-serud,
who is general chairman.
Dr. C. M. Granskou, president
of Augustana, has been selected as
toastmaster for the royal reception.
President Granskou will also serve
as a member of the executive, recep-tion
and entertainment and program
committees.
Ocher Augustana faculty members
on the reception committee are Prof.
H. M. Blegen, Dr. I. B. Hauge,
Rev. Stanley Olsen, Prof. A. T.
Tollevs, Dr. 0. Tonning and Dr.
Carl R. Youngdahl.
Included on the entertainment
and program committee are Dean
Martin L. Cole, Prof. Borghild M.
Dahl and Dr. I. B. Hauge of the
college.
Prof. Palmer Eide is on the com-mittee
for decorating the coliseum.
Prof. Clifford Olson will serve on
the music committee.
Prince to Speak
Dr. H. J. Glenn, Rev. L. A.
Pierson, Rev. Alfred Storvik, Rev.
Edward Nervig and Dr. 0. V. Oph-eim,
familiar to Augutsana students,
are committee members also. Dr.
Glenn, Rev. Pierson and Dr. Oph-eim
were named on the executive
committee.
The Middle West is included in
the royal couple's American tour
because of the prince's interest in
agriculture. He and the crown prin-cess
and their three children live a
simple life on a 500-acre farm. Ac-cording
to Hans Olav, editor of the
Norwegian News and press repre-sentative
for the royal couple, the
crown prince and princess prefer
simple entertainment and have de-clined
invitations to participate in
activities of the society set. The
party will be accompanied by a
member of the federal bureau of
investigations rather than special po-lice.
The crown prince will read all
his speeches on this tour, using both
English and Norse languages.
Their arrival at Decorah, Ia., a
center of Norse culture, is scheduled
for May 6. While there the crown
prince will be conferred with an
honorary degree from Luther col-lege.
He will present museum pieces
to the Norwegian American Histori-cal
museum on behalf of the na-tional
museum organization in Nor-way.
St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn.,
and Concordia college, Moorhead,
Minn., will be included on the royal
party's itinerary before their visit
to Sioux Falls.
Seniors To Receive
Representative Vote
Election of representative senior
men yesterday completes the honor
elections of the year. Friday the
students voted for honor athlete and
four representative senior women.
Results of the elections will be re-vealed
in the final issue of the
Mirror May 16.
Kenneth Bucklin, Robert More-land
and Eldon Samp were the ath-
Acceptance Of Article Five Gives Final
Indorsement To Student Constitution