Thanksgiving
Wed. at 4
Vol. XXI.
Our Cause For Gratitude
T1-'P nirc to the Puritan founders of the vation
the cusl,m of observing a day of thanksgiving.
This (lay reminds us that our•blessings hare been
obi( n (I ant :
We hare escaped scourge and pcstitcnce.
lre have been spared the tragedy of invasion
and defeat.
For many of us the depression has merely
meant the curtailment of our luxuries.
In many ways our lives have been enriched in-tellectually
and spiritually.
On this Thanksgiving dag e , pray:
That God will miry(' us from boastfulness and
pride.
Tha! Ile enlarge our hearts to forgiv( one
another:
.That Ile will crown our good with a greater
i'ea! for justice, righteousness, and peace through-out
the world.
elemens 9ranskou
Barbara Davies, Dramatic Reader
SOPHS HELP DEFEND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team In Meets
At U. of Omaha,
Gust. Adolphus
Augustana debaters are opening
their '39-'40 campaign by attend-ing
two debate tournaments the
first weekend in December. The
first is at Gustavus Adolphus, St.
Peter, Minn., on December 9; the
second at the University of Omaha,
December 8 and 9.
Coach Hugo Carlson states the
purpose in attending is to get a
number of', veterans and as many
as possible of the freshman de-baters
started on the season.
Augustana debaters will attend
a number of important midwest
tournaments during the year, wind-ing
up with a defense of their Pi
Kappa Delta championship at
Knoxville, Tenn.
Three veteran girls and two vet-eran
men will debate in a pre-sea-son
non-decision tournament at
Gustavus Adolphus. Bernice Jen-sen,
Hazel Johnson., Avis Bekke,
Glenn Bragstad and Ken Raschke
c:mpose the squad.
Augustana will compete for the
first time in the Midwest Tourna-ment
to be held at Omaha. Two
teams, Scott Lovald and Wyman
Wumkes, veterans, and Don Gross
and Don Thompson, freshmen, have
been selected to take part in this
event.
Although the season's schedule
of events is not complete and defi-nite
Coach Carlson announced two
new events which he has arranged.
Late in the season a convocation
debate with the University of
South Dakota debaters will be
held at Vermillion. Plans are also
under way to bring to Augustana
the debate team of William Jewel
College of Liberty, Mo.. for a
chapel debate. This debate had
been arranged for last April but
had to be postponed when the Wil-liam
Jewel debaters made a trip
to Europe.
Orchestra Will Go
To Black Hills
;VEsi,1 alid
Black Hills will hear the Augus-tana
Symphony orchestra on its
spring tour this year. First con-cert
of the tour under the direction
of Prof. Richard Guderyahn will
be at Mitchell on March 17. Pierre
will be the host city on the 18th,
and the March 19 concert will be
at Rapid City.
Black Hills cities will hear the
greatest number of the programs
as the orchestra will play at Stur-gis
on the 20th, at Spearfish on
the afternoon of the 21st, and at
Belle Fourche in the evening of
that same day.
March 22, the group will be in
Lead and Deadwood. On the 23rd
they will leave the Hills for the
concert at Faith. The 24th they
will be at Philip.
Chamberlain. Miller and Platte
are other bookings which may be
filled before returning to Sioux
Falls.
Drama Students
Give 3-Act Play
"Gold in the Hills" or "The Dead
Sister's Secret," a new nineteenth
century melodrama in three acts,
will be staged here on the evening
of Dec. 13 by Betty Thomp-son
and Vivienne Archer, student
directors. They will be aided by
Jean Smith as stage manager.
While a burlesque in the sense
that the melodrama contains all
the absurdities of plot, situation
and language of the nineteenth
century "thrillers" it assumes an
attitude of heroic seriousness and
is played in much the manner of
a road repertoire company of the
1860's.
Two stage settings are required
for the play; one a farmhouse
interior and the other the interior
of a Bowery cafe and dance hall in
the old wicked city. All the cos-tumes
of the play are of the per-iod'
of 1890-1895.
Prologue, in the Wycherley-Con-greve
style, written by the play's
author, J. Frank Davis, will be
given by Juel Jorgenson, dramatic
club president. Harmond Halvor-son
will act as company manager.
Betty Johnson, the farmer's
daughter, is known as Nellie—a
heroine pure as snow. Roy Rocks-vold
portrays the gallant hero, who
successfully thwarts the evil pow-ers
of the villain. Howard Hillman
is cast in the role of the polished
villain who is cast a villain-mur-
.derer, kidnapper, thief and insid-ious
tempter.
Nellie finds her way to the wild
city. She returns. The villain still
pursues her!
Packed full of laughter, but in-trinsically
a rattling good melo-drama.
It is produced by special ar-rangement
with Walter H. Baker
Barbara Davies
THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR Until Monday
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AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Tuesday, November 28, 1939, Ad File No. 689. No.
Augustana Forensics Squad Begins Preparation For Season
The Campus
(By J. K. Hvistendahl)
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DON'T SELL IT.
▪ A LITTLE LIGHT.
A "THESPIONAGE."
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One fellow who has a correspon-dent
of the opposite sex a safe dis-tance
from the campus is Walt
Isely, Augustana's versatile gym-nast,
drummer, and what not.
Each month Isely shows up with
a letter from his foreign corres-pondent,
impeccably written in
concise French. Because of the
regularity of the letters and the
reputation of the French, one
would suspect an international ro-mance
between the two, but Walt
vehemently denies it, showing a
picture of the girl's fiance to prove
it.
The girl hersel' might easly
pass as an Augustana co-ed al-though
she does not wear those
elongated half-hose that Augus-tana
girls wear, proving beyond
a doubt that French girls use
taste in dressing. The girl's
father, brother, and fiance are
all fighting cn the Maginot line
and she expresses anxiety at
their well-being. She's going
to get married when she be-comes
of age which is twenty-one
for a girl in France.
"France can and must win the
war," she says. Then she expresses
the hope that "douce France con-tinue
sagement a vivre sa vivre
tranquille" or that sweet France
will continue to live wisely its
tranquil life. (How about extra
credit on this, Mr. Blegen?) In
the formal close the French miss
breaks out into English, saying
"Cordial Shake-Hand" which shows
the fate of literally translated
idioms.
Before we leave the languages
we'd like to insert the following
arialoTyr Aman bought z.-;'1-i&Ycle.
Having learned how to ride it, he
sold it because he knew how to
ride it. A student takes two years
of language. Having mastered the
fundamentals, he doesn't continue
the third year because he doesn't
have to. Moral: Don't sell your
bicycle just when you're ready to
start enjoying it.
If last week was National Rat
Extermination week and the week
before was National Washer and
Ironer week, then one of these
coming weeks{ should certainly be
National Lets Put A Light,Between
the Girls Dorm and the Gym week.
Seriously, the walk from the girls
dorm and ad building to the gym
is on the darkest part of the cam-pus
and since the Huddle is open
nights the walk is a much-used
one. At one time there was a
light at the intersection of the ad
building walk and the gym walk
but it has long since been dimmed
by flying rocks. A light placed
there now would lighten the lower
portion of the campus a bit and
serve to locate the side walk for
those who insist on walking acr - ss
Whitmyre's fences. Perhaps the
"beacon" on the porch of the girls'
dormitory could be dedicated to
this new function, thus answering
the question in last issues "For
Women Only" column and insuring
the asker the privacy of a 40 to 60
watt on the dorm porch.
Those who saw the Black-friars'
three plays Friday night
were well satisfied that a come-back
in dramatics is being staged
on the campus. At least six
distinct and different one-acts
were in progress last week, and
for all we know there are that
many more by now. The pro-mise
of several hundred dollars
worth of new stage equipment
enhances the comeback outlook
and eighty to a hundred mem-bers
in the Blackfriars promise
that no stage production is going
to be undermanned.
Especially healthy in the growth
of the college theatre are the plays
written and directed by students.
Two short plays have been written,
the seven scene impressionistic war
play by Rolf Hofstad and "Thes-pionage,"
a Demosthenian produc-tion
by two members of that
organization who wish to remain
anonymous for obvious reasons.
In our estimation, these attempts,
as crude as they may be, are worth
a thousand polished plays by ac-complished
playwrights.
Walter Winchelling it: What
professor in what midwestern col-lege
recently had what book
banned from the bookstores of
Erie, Pennsylvania ? Your guess
is as good as mine.
Next Artist To
Physics Dept. Adds
X-Ray Equipment
Addition of an X-ray tube in the
physics department and of an Ar-gus
technoscope in the biology de-partment
are the two most inter-esting
of the recent additions to
the science sections of the college.
Other less spectacular equip-ment
has also been added in order
to give both advanced and intro-ductory
classes better materials
with which to work. Reagents
were recently received in the chem-istry
department which will en-large
the scope of the qualtitative
and micro-qualtitative studies and
others which will be used in the
physical chemistry field.
According to Professor John
Froemke, head of the chemistry
department, necessary replace-ments
have also been. made.
Of especial interest to biologists
will be the fact that among the
new slides introduced in the biol-ogy
department is the Dr. C. P.
Sigerfoos collection of embryology
slides which have been given to
Prof. Orin Lofthus by the famed
biologist himself upon his retire-ment.
They represent the collec-tion
built up over a period of fifty
years.
In addition to the X-ray tube
Prof. A. G. Hoyem has secured an
acoustic filter, for the study of
tone characteristics; a heat con-ducting
apparatus for experiments
involving conductivity of especial-ly
insulators; a fluoroscope, to be
used in connection with the X-ray
tube; a thero couple pyrometer,
for the study of high temperature
readings as used in industry and
the wind tunnel which is to be
used by the aeronautics class.
This last was constructed by Prof.
Hoyem and Russell Bowen, a mem-ber
of the class, to be used as 'a
permanent fixture for the physics
lab.
Organ To Be Moved
To Gym-Auditorium
Under the direction of Mr. Ces-ander
of Strandburg, S. D. the
pipe organ will this week be re-moved
to the Gym-Chapel from its
present location in Old Main. Re-cesses
for the pipes are being pre-pared.
Mr. Cesander who is super-vising
the moving also had charge
of the original installation. The
consol will occupy a portion of the
gym-chapel stage.
Removal of the organ to the new
location will make it possible for
much larger audiences to hear
organ presentations than hereto-fore
has been possible.
Appear
Radio Actress Here
For Shows Dec. 5
On December 5, Augustana col-lege
is to hear a distinguished
actress and versatile dramatic
reader—Miss Barbara Davies. She
will appear at chapel time on, De-cember
5 also and will read a cur-rent
Broadway play. Miss Davies
is well known for her characteri-zations
and with her voice, actions
and gestures she maneuvers her
audiences as she wishes them to
interpret her presentations. She
excells at acting in the grand man-ner,
and can be majestic, yet
subtle, theatrical, but real.
She has spent some time study-ing
under Kathryn Grill of the
New York Theatre Guild and is at
the present time a member of the
board of directors for the Twin
C:ties little theatre. - - *
She has been heard on broad-casts
from stations WCCO and
WTCN in Minneapolis; and recent-ly
participated in the Minneapolis
Star-Journal news dramatizations.
Brcadcasting from Chicago on the
NBC and CBS networks she has
appeared in the "Guiding Light,"
"Batchelor's ;Children," "Lucky
Girl," and "Curtain Time."
At the Schubert theatre in Min-neapolis
she is affiliated with the
Brainbridge Players; she is a
member of Zeta Phi Eta, National
honorary speech fraternity, the
National Collegiate Players, and
the Masquers.
According to Prof. J. Earl Lee,
"This is without doubt one of the
finest of the programs to be in-cluded
in this year's Artist Series
at Augustana college and every
student should avail himself of the
opportunity to see and hear a top
ranking artist in the field of
drama."
Miss Davis will be the fourth
presentation of the artist and lec-ture
series of the present season.
Kraushaar Prepares
Alumni Directory
A complete directory of Augus-tana
alumni is now being compiled
by Prof. R. W. Kraushaar, head of
the department of public relations.
Contact is being sought with all
graduates from the institution
since it was a normal school.
The directory, it is felt, will be
a beginning in establishing a
stronger bond between the alumni,
the friends of the institution and
the college.
(By Doane Fessenden)
Herbert Krause's "Wind With-out
Rain" has recently been re-viewed
extensively by foreign
critics. "Die Literatur," a Ger-man
publication, says "As a pic-ture
of the unhappy lot of the emi-grant,
'Wind Without Rain' is
strongly affecting and rich in de-tail."
It is interesting to note
that the German reviewer calls the
author a "Deutsch-stamminen
Amerikaner" (German descended
American), implying very close re-lationship.
"Yes," says Mr.
Krause, "close relationship of
about three generations." The
German critic says "Wind Without
Rain" pictures the hard life of the
emigrant "under a joylesg Ameri-can
sky."
Of the English reviews, perhaps
the most interesting appears in
Shown looking at some of the
. trophies which have been won by
the Augustana s:ieech teams in
competitions thrcughout the na-tion
are three sopl- omores who will
be counted upon by Coach Hugo
Carlson to cont -ibute to the
Augustana Concert
Band Makes Plans
For Benefit Carnival
Confetti and the .oices of barkers
will fill the air why 1 the Augustana
band sponsors its carnival some-time
after the Thanksgiving
Ali CU 11AS '.C11C UC hie
made to include all of the typical
concessions and booths.
Louis Monk is the chairman in
charge of all arrangements and
the overseer of the various com-mittees.
The concession comntittees
have been appointed as follows:
booth. Alfred Iverson, chairman
and Norman Reynolds; dart booth,
Helen Yttreness, chairman, and
Ardis Kylling; bingo, Glenn Brags-tad,
Max Johnson, Roger Oyan
and Keith Miller; fortune-teller,
Ramona Opheim, chairman, Betty
Reiley and Thelma Conway; kan-garoo
court, Eudora Johnson,
chairman, Althea Knutson, Rex
Bahnson, and John De Roos; food,
Orval Mickelson. Milo Sjolseth, Eu-nice
Johnson and Darlene Thomp-son;
basketball throw, Norman
Sampson, Darrel Marker and Mor-ris
Bly; ring throw, Roger Halvor-son,
Quindrid Frahm and Melva
Munkvold; haunt, Lucille Halver-son,
Margaret Stende and Gertrude
Regness; telegraph system, Everett
Zellers, Annie Muters, Palmer
Loken and Allen Truax; and guess-ing
game, Bernice Stadum.
Ticket sales are to be handled
by Bill Gles and Dorance Ensberg.
Walt Isely heads the program
committee with the aid of Mei--
lene Gregeson, Lois Monk and
Marvin Skonen The decorating
committee is composed of Howard
Hillman, 'Roger Harvorson, Belle
Avery, Avis Bekke and Lyle Lien.
The members of the advertising
committee are Lucy Weesner and
Betty Dempster.
Admission prices at the door will
be ten cents. Later in the evening
a door prize will be given to the
holder of the lucky ticket.
the 'Manchester Guardian. It says,
"The outstanding virtue of the
book . . . is less its characteriza-tion
than the very high standard
maintained throughout, of Mr.
Krause's writing, imaginative,
graphic, and sometimes powerful,
the writing of one who says 'When
a man can't dream any more he
might as well die.' "
John O'London's Weekly, the
largest English review, paper and
probably the largest in Europe,
has this to say, "The notable thing
about this book is the closeness of
the texture, both in thought and
writing."
A third English review appears
in the New Statesman, perhaps
the most critical of all English pa-pers.
They attribute the secret of
Mr. Krause's effectiveness to the
fact that he writes like a poet.
They call it "highly readable."
• winning of more such cups. From
left to right they are Hazel John-son,
Glenn Bragstad and Avis
Bekke. This trio will meet stiff
competition from the veterans of
several seasons as well as from
PIC-CAMPUS
Editor Kenneth Sandvig an-
.nounces that the first issue of
Pic-Campus, the South Dako-ta
collegiate picture magazine,
will be off the press the week
after the Thanksgiving recess.
Engravers are now making
the cuts which will appear in
the book. Mr. Sandvig changed
original plans for a litho-graphed
production when it
was felt that engraving would
be superior. The magazine
will be released at all cooper-ating
colleges by December
11, according to Mr. Sandvig.
Science Club Gives
First of Talkies
First in the Science club's cur-rent
series of sound motion pic-tures
was given to a large audi-ence
last Wednesday evening in
the gymnasium. Title of the fea-ture
length movie was "Silent Bar-riers,"
starring Richard Arlen and
Lilli Palmer. In addition to the
main picture a short musical car-toon
was also part of the pro-gram.
According to Science club presi-dent,
Kendall Burns, the second in
the bi-weekly series will be given
December 13 in the gymnasium.
A Capella Choir
To Have Canadian
Tour In Spring
Dates for the annual tour of the
Augustana choir are now complete
with the exception of three tenta-tive
appearances. First concert
of the organization will be at De-
Smet on April 18. Huron, Web-ster
and Aberdeen will hear the
singers on successive days. April
22, the group will be at Eureka,
followed by' concerts at Mobridge
and Lemmon on April 23 and 24.
Then the organization goes into
North Dakota for appearances at
Dickinson and Bismarck on April
25 and 26. April 27 is still listed
as an open date. They will sing
at Minot on the 28th before swing-ing
into Canada for a concert at
Regina on the nth of April.
The April 30 program will be at
either Bottineau or Rugby, N. D.
Devils Lake or Jamestown will be
the May 1 concert. Fargo will be
hos.t, to the charges of Director
Carl Youngdahl on May 2.
Last appearance of the group is
now tentatively set for May 3, at
Breckenridge, Minn.
Thirty-six new lockers have been
installed in the girls physical edu-cation
and boys physical education
locker rooms. Twenty-four have
been added for the girls and the
remainder have been consigned to
the intra-mural rooms.
several promising freshmen. The
squad will begin its season against
Gustavus Adolphus next week.
Chief tourney thus far scheduled
is the Pi Kappa Delta title defense
which will be at Knoxville, Tenn.
`Neighbor Boy' Release
Is From Iowa
Herbert Krause, author of "Wind
Wj-,-_0ot..13.1ri" 1, e s..a.vingteneerl that
on December 5, "Neighbor Boy,"
a book of poems will be released
by an Iowa City publishing con-cern.
The new Krause publication is
a collection of from thirty-five to
forty poems centered about the
Pockerbrush country in western
Minnesota—the same setting as
"Wind Without Rain." The poems
are as completely differentiated as
possible. Some are lyrical and tell
of reaction to nature. One con-cerns
the effects of drought on the
farmer and is called "Burned Out."
Others concern the old folk lore,
one, for instance, which tells how
the howling of a dog brings on
death. .
The book is entirely a mid-West-ern
product. Midland House, a
growing Iowa City, Iowa, publish-ing
concern is printing the book,
Syrus Running, a mid-Western
artist will do the etchings, and
Paul Engel, one of the greatest of
the younger poets, has done the
preface. "He has written a very
beautiful preface," says M r .
Krause, "Not because it's about
my poetry, but because its about
poetry of the mid-West."
Syrus Running is a winner of
the Harvard Art Award and was
a classmate and very good friend
of Mr. Krause's at St. Olaf. His
etchings in "Neighbor Boy" illus-trate
the mood and spirit of the
book and not any particular poems.
The poems that appear in the
new Krause book have been writ-ten
over a period of four years.
Some were written in the Pocker-brush
country, which Mr. Krause
calls "home," and six or so have
beep written here in Sioux Falls
this fall. Several have appeared
i
inc
c a lvs.
various anthologies and period-
Symphony Orchestra
Goes To Worthington
Augustana's seventy piece sym-phany
orchestra will make its first
out of town appearance on Fri-day,
December 8, when it will
appear at Worthington, Minnesota,
presenting a formal concert in the
high school auditorium. The pro-gram
is to be sponsored by the
Kiwanis club of that city.
A complete program of sym-phony
music has been arranged by
Prof. Guderyahn, director of the
orchestra. Soloists to be featured
on the program are, Peggy Blath-erwick,
soprano, and Prof. Guder-yahn,
conductor.
Last year the orchestra appear-ed
in Albert Lea, Northfeild, and
Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year
Worthington will be the only stop-ping
place of the orchestra. One
bus and seven cars will be used to
take the musicians to Worthington
and back.
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English, Nazi Critics Make Comments
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Krause s Novel Gets Foreign Reviews
Krause Publishes Book of Poetry ;
To Be Released December 5
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