WIN HIGH RATING
Ratings soon to be pub
fished show the 1938 Edda,
year book, to be among the
best in the nation. Editor
Georgia Reed ( upper right)
reveals that critical survey
gives extra points on art work
by Marian Utley (upper left)
and informal photography by Orval Mickelson ( lower right ) . Business
Manager Melvern Halverson ( lower left) made the book a financial suc-cess
to gain further high marking.
Second Part of Pledge
Arouses Great Deal
Of Discussion
Honor System continues to be the
bone of contention in the student
body as speakers for both sides pre-sent
aspects of the question.
The plan put forward by the
committee headed by Karl Bracker
has been defended by Scott Lovald
and Luthard Eid in chapel periods
to date.
Opponents of the plan have been
heard in Kenneth Raschke ant,
George Rudolph.
Before the issue goes to a vote
it is expected several more studen.
body meetings will be held.
Argument at present seems to re
volve around the second part of
the pledge which reads, "Nor have
I seen anyone give or receive any
aid."
Student opinion is rife with con-troversy
as this goes to press.
Faculty members are also divided
on the issue.
It is thought that the Honor
System will go to ballot next week.
Mission Union Discusses
Religious Work In China
Junis Lovseth was leader at th
Mission Union meeting Sunday
morning. The theme of the year
Chinese Missions, was discussed.
Genevieve Fiedler led in the devo
dons and Bernice Jensen sang
solo.
EEvveeryry two weeks, the discussion
group presents a program at the
Old Folk's Home on Sunday after-noon.
Aivind Sellevold was speaker.
Nov. 6 Esther Haroldson lead in
devotions and Bertha Ellison played
a piano solo. Appearing on the
program also were Helene Wang-berg
and Bertha Ellison who sang
a duet. Officers of the Mission
Union are Virgil Bjerke, president;
Aivind Sellevold, vice president; and
Helene Wangberg, secretary-treasurer.
Oldest Augustanan
Receives Recognition
Andrew J. Berdahl, oldest Augus-tana
alumnus, received special no-tice
in The Argus-Leader special edi-tion
which was published last week.
Mr. Berdahl's picture and achieve-ments
in early state government
were mentioned. Approaching his
ninetieth birthday, Mr. Berdahl was
nevertheless the oldest member of
past classes to attend the Viking Day
Homecoming this fall.
Score Above Average On
Five Out of Six
Points
All Factors Considered
Book's Financial Condition
Helps To Secure Top
Rating
Ratings for 1938 year books as
determined by the all-American Cri-tical
Survey will be published in the
November National Scholastic Ma-gazine.
Georgia Reed, editor of the
Edda, has revealed that the Augus-tana
book was given a first class
rating. Thirty-four year books were
entered in the class composed of
schools with 500 or less enrollment.
785 Points Scored
Given 785 points the Edda was
only 40 points from the All-Ameri-can
rating. Average -score is given
as 700. Graded on six points the
Augustana book was rated above
average on five.
Planning and Sections of the book
were given 20 and 25 extra points.
Ranked especially high were pho-tography
and art work. Orval Mick-elson
and Jack Kahler were the
Edda photographers, Marian Utley
did the art work and informal
write-ups.
Notations in the survey give
praise for the types of pictures used
and extra credit is given for the
informal views shown.
High On 19 Counts
Two hundred and twelve schools
were judged and graded by the Cri-tical
Service this year.
Write-ups on organizations and
activities were given 60 points of the
total score.
The cover and engraving came in
for extra points also as did the
physical appearance and personality
of the book.
Versatility was evidenced in the
fact that the Edda received 19 rat-ings
which were average or above.
Melvern Halves-son, business man-ager,
helped the book receive points
with a positive financial condition.
All factors of year book production
are taken into account in are effort
to improve the year books of the
nation.
Students and Faculty
Honor Prof. Hilleboe
Professor H. S. Hilleboe, Emeri-tus,
was honored on his eightieth
birthday by the faculty and students
of Augustana college Friday morn-ing,
October 28, when a program
in his honor was presented in the
gym-chapel.
Rev. S. 0. Storvick, Professor
Hilleboe's pastor, gave the address.
He paid tribute to Professor Hille-boe's
home life and service both to
the college and church. President
Granskou led in devotion. Dr. H.
J. Glenn, as president of the Augus-tana
board of directors, brought
greetings and felicitations from that
board and the church in general.
Dr. J. A. Froemke presented greet-ings
from former students and in
behalf of the faculty. He also
presented Mr. Hilleboe with a purse,
a gift from the faculty.
Music was furnished by the Au-gustana
concert choir. They sang
"Beauty In Humility," Christianson;
and "Beautiful Savior," Christian-son.
The words of "Beauty In Hu-mility"
were written by a daughte.
of Mr. Hilleboe.
Professor Hilleboe gave a short
response of appreciation.
Professor Hilleboe was professor
of education at Augustana from
1917 -33. He graduated from Lu
cher in 1881 and lacer attended the
Chicago Lutheran Theological sem-inary
and the Luther Theological
seminary.
He taught at the Indiana Nor-mal
school, Wilmar seminary, and
at Luther college, where he was the
head of the preparatory depart-ment.
National Education
Week Is Held Here
In view of the fact that this is
National Education week the
osophy of education clan is spon-soring
a program in chapel Tues-day,
Wednesday and The.
morning, Nov. 8, 9 and 10.
Tuesday morning Rolf Mickel-son,
Harold Froslie, and Carl Sand-beck
are broadcasting the March of
Education. Wednesday morning
Supt. S. S. Shaw of Lennox, S. D.,
will speak to us on education and
Thursday morning the entire class
will depict one of their typical class-room
scenes. The March of Educa-tion
was prepared by the members
of the program with Rolf Mickel-son
as chairman. The committee
preparing the classroom scene was
composed of Margaret Allen, Gladys
Brevick, with Marian Utley as chair-man.
The properties committee—
Carl Sandbeck and Harold Froslie.
THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Vol. XIX
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Tuesday, November 8, 1938
No. 12
Reed's 1938 Edda Receives All-American Survey Rating
New Artist Series Begins Season Pre-Football Battle
Staged by Augie, SFC Clever Art Work, Informal Photography
With Presentati on of E i on Pe tr i Receive Special Recognition of Critics
Plays Tomorrow
Egon Petri
Over Seventy New Books
Added To College Library
More than seventy new books
were added to the college library
this last week, according to Miss
Selma Hogenson, librarian.
Among these are such books as
the "Land of the Burnt Thigh,'
by Edith E. Kohl; "Free Land," by
Rose Wilder Lane; "The Life of
And'-iv Jackson," by Marquis James;
"Franz Shubert," by Newman
Flower; "Through Science to God,'
by Nathan Smyth; "A History of
Scandinavian Literature," by Gio-vanni
Bach; and "The Political
Guide," by Dorothy Thompson.
Verse by U. S. D. Librarian
"Killdeer," a collection of verse
by Mabel Kingsley Richardson, the
librarian of the U. of S. D., is also
included.
"Pedlar's Progress," another in
the group, by Odell Shepherd, tells
the life of Bronson Alcoa, from
peddling to transcendentalism, from
rocky hills of West Connecticut to
the Concord school of philosophy
Outstanding also are "Middle-town
in Transition," a study of
"midland America as it faces an
uncertain future," by Robert anu
Helen Merrell Lynd; "John of the
Mountains," the unpublished jour-nals
of the poet and scientist John
Muir, by Linnie Marsh Wolfe; "Au-gustus,"
a revealing book on the
famed Octavius Augustus, by John
Buchan., and "The Modern Ibsen,
a recent interpretation by Hermann
Weigand.
Abbot's "Handwork on Broadcast-ing,"
together with Lyons' "Six
Soviet Plays," Linthicum's "Cos-tume
in the Drama of Shakespeare
and His Contemporaries" and "The
American Theatre As Seen by Its
Critics," edited by M. J. Moses and
J. M. Brown, were added to the
dramatic section.
New Durant Book Listed
Science books, among them "The
Advance of Science" by Davis Wat-son;
"The Religion of Scientists"
by C. L. Drawbridge and "Electric-ity"
by Prof. W. L. Bragg, topped
the new collection in number.
In the new "South Dakota Guide,"
compiled by the Federal Writers'
Project of the S. D. WPA, can be
found the history, folklore, scenery,
cultural background, racial factors,
and social and economic trends of
the state, together with the meaning
of the official name in Sioux, "an
alliance of friends."
Noteworthy also in this group are
Will Durant's "On the Meaning of
Life" and Angelica Balabanoff's.
"My Life As a Rebel."
Books of history, education, phy-sical
training, foreign trade, psy-chology
and philosophy complete
this outstanding collection of new
books added to the library.
Peace Leader Confers
With Student Leaders
Robert Burgess, field secretary for
the student peace service section of
the American Friends Service Com-mittee,
was in Sioux Falls last
Thursday and Friday. Visiting
Sioux Falls college and Augustana
college he met with student leaders
of the two campuses in regard to a
South Dakota Intercollegiate Peace
council to be held soon. The place
where the council will take place
has as yet not been established.
The American Friends Service
Committee carries on peace programs
through 500 colleges. Every spring
they sponsor the annual anti-war
strike.
The student body expresses
its sincerest sympathy to Dr.
Tonning in the loss of his
mother.
With a flareup of old the Viking
and the Brave student bodies swung
into action Friday as the Augus-tana
rooters whipped into frenzied
loyalty by a pep meeting, topped
it off by a snake dance invasion of
the Sioux Falls fortress. An unpre
pared student body soon worked into
a compact cheering section. The
two groups met on the lawn of the
Baptist institution and had a battle
of yells. Then action of the Sioux
Falls collegians in coming to the
Augie stronghold brought both
groups in the Viking buildings in
more or less order and disorder
where another group of cheer fest
was held.
Mostly good natured jostling the
crowd narrowly escaped violence
several times when Sioux Fallsite
began an effort to push the Au
guscanans from their campus bod-ily
and again when a water hose
was turned on the invaders at Au-gustana.
Rotten eggs appeared out
of a clear sky to enhance the ola
time atmosphere.
It is expected that the abortive
uprising will result in suppression
of the petition for Armistice Day
freedom which was chosen as a
school day by the students in pre-ference
to Nov. 3, the National
Cornhusking date. A subsequent pe-tition
urged the suspension of school
on Armistice also.
President Granskou expressed re-gret
that the students had gone as
far as they did, lamenting the loss
of time which the students are
bringing upon themselves.
Eidsness Speaks To L.D.R.
On Nursing Profession
Opal Eidsness, former school
nurse, spoke at the LDR meeting
on the subject, "Christ as a Life
Investment in the Nursing Profes-sion."
Ramona Opheim accompanied
by Helen Ytterness played a flute
solo and the Sioux Valley nurses
sextette sang two numbers—"Prayer
Perfect" and "Come Thou Almight
King." Verna Hesby sang a solo.
"With Thee, 0 Master Let Me
Walk." The program was planner
by Viola Sagge. Connie Larson,
delegate to the LDR convention a.
Lennox, brought a report back tc
We girls at the clof., of the meet-ing.
Brawny Lighweights,
Star on Honor System
As this issue goes to press, a
fierce, see-saw battle is being waged
between the New Dealers and the
Rebels for the right to say whether
or not Augustana shall be repre-sented
on the Honor System roll.
It is half-time, the score 2-0 in
favor of the Rebels, and during
intermission both teams are re-organizing
their forces for a ter-rific
last half battle. The game
thus far has featured powerful
offensive tactics by the Rebels and
sensational goal-line stands by the
New Dealers. Referee Eid called
the game at ten o'clock Monday
morning and it has continued
throughout the week.
Outstanding first half players
were Bracker, spindly end; Lovald,
long-legged All-American quarter-back;
and Eid, pint-size tackle, for
the New Dealers; while for the
Rebels, Raschke, scintillating tail-back,
and Rudolph, new hard-driving
fullback, have been out-standing.
Halvorson and Ausan
standing.
Halvorson and Ausan have
shown sterling work in the
New Deal line which is made up
of: End—cheating; Tackle—the
evil at its origin; Guard—it by
the Honor System. Thus making
the Student Body the Center—of
government at Augustana.
Play-by-play description of the
first half:
Bracker kicked off against the
wind, claim ing the Honor Sys-tem
would eliminate cheating.
Raschke returned the kick deep
into New Deal territory on a sen-sational
run that brought the
crowd to its feet, intimating that
the Honor System as advocated
by Bracker was not a system of
honor but of regimentation. He
was finally downed on the 25
,'ard line by Lovald who, with a
vicious tackle that hurt Raschke
somewhat, informed us of the fact
that Augustana student body had
the freest student body govern-ment
of S. D. colleges and that
the adoption of the Honor Sys-tem
would give it more control.
The inspired Raschke reeled off
an end sweep that nearly hit pay
dirt before being stopped. He
said he'd rather have the profes-sor
trying to catch him cheating.
The Rebels found a couple more
holes in the enemy's line, but the
Ncw Dual second.rry came up fast
(Continued page 3)
Guest Ministers To Speak
Religious Emphasis Week
Final plans are being made for
Religious Emphasis Week—which
will be held Monday, Nov. 28.
through Saturday, Dec. 3. The
speakers secured for the week are
Rev. J. L. Kildahl of Webster, S.
D., and Rev. Joseph Knutson of
Lake Mills, Ia.
Prof. Stanley Olsen is also invi:
ing several students from the Theo-logical
seminary in St. Paul. Reuben
Wangeberg, president of the LSU,
will be one of the guests throughout
the week.
Mighty Eid Crushes
Rambunctious Rodent
By Florence Devick
Who would ever think that the
student body president would come
CO mouse-killing? Or maybe he
was showing his Viking fierceness
when he slew the "monster" who
set the library into a room of
terror.
Perhaps the experience was a
new one for the books too, be-cause
Esther Ekberg, the librarian
on duty at the time, used the
books to stop up all means of
entry, thinking to prevent any
reappearance of the mouse.
But books failed, for the little
fiend, after carefully spying on
attempts to be rid of him scur-ried
boldly across the floor from
his corner, to send Miss Ekberg
to seek safety by standing on a
chair, and to make the other stu-dents
in the library jittery and
slightly panicky.
Here's where "Lute" shone. Late
in the afternoon when the mouse
had been on his spree for almost
a day, he became a bit too brave
with wandering around the li-brary
at will, so that when Mr.
Eid made a quick aim and shot
out his number eights with sur-prising
rapidity, the mouse was
caught unawares between the floor
and the sole of Lute's shoe and
cruelly crushed.
The sympathies of the stu-dents
at hand rose to a high level
and Clarence Erickson, out of
sheer pity, attached a string to
the wee dead creature and led a
procession to the waste basket.
There the mouse was properly
buried. A wreath of garden
flowers, furnished by Margaret
Allan and originally intended to
brighten a corner in the library,
was used to decorate the burial
place.
This should be a warning to
any mice who dare frequent the
Augustana library. We Vikings
are fierce!
Dramatic Club Members
Frolic On Ghosts Night
On the evening of Halloween the
Blackfriars held their first social event
of the season—gathering in the gym
at 8:15—leaving well after 10 o'clock.
Under the general chairmanship
of Astrid Tenning and due to the
help of her willing appointees, the
entertainment—formal and informal
—was enjoyed by all, as was the
lunch consisting of cake and ice
cream (served by an unknown man
with a silver grey mustache) who
probably wished to remain incognito.
Vivienne Archer began the formal
program by telling about "rabbit.
and rabbits." Anyone wishing to find
out about these animals is to sec
Vivienne as soon as possible. "Love
Is So Sweet in the Springtime" fol-lowed
sung by Agnes Overseth.
Ruth Stumley, and Elden Samp, Art
Olson, and Paul Sather were fea-tured
in a comical skit in which
"Napoleon" (Sather) showed true
evidences of creative impromptu dia-logue.
Following this short snappy
program Agnes Overseth, committee
chairman, gave over the program to
Aileen McDonald who led the group
in various games.
Miss Helen Farley acted as fac-ulty
guest.
Faculty Members Will
Attend Nebraska Confab
The conference for teachers of
Lutheran church colleges is to be
held this year at Midland college.
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 25 and 26.
Last year the conference met at Lu-ther
college. The Norwegian Lu-theran
church and the Ohio Synod
send the majority of faculty mem-bers.
The United Lutheran church
is also represented.
Miss Hogenson, Prof. Blegen, and
Dr. Hoyem are included on the pro-gram.
Others who are going include
the following: 0. Hofstad, Stanley
Olsen, H. Blegen, J. Berdahl, I. B.
Hauge, 0. Tollevs, Evelyn Nilsen,
Helen Farley and 0. Tonning.
Rev. Glenn To Edit
`The Lutheran Teacher'
Rev. H. J. Glenn, D. D., pastor
of the First Lutheran church of
Sioux Falls, was recently appointed
editor of "The Lutheran Teacher"
by the board of elementary Chris-tian
education of the Norwegian Lu-theran
Church of America.
"The Lutheran Teacher," pu'
lisped weekly in the interests of
elementary Christian education, i
issued directly from the educational
office in Minneapolis, under the
direction of Dr. J. C. K. Preus.
Through the editorial department
Rev. Glenn sets forth what the
Christian gospel is from the Lu
theran point of view and endeavors
to challenge the Sunday school
teacher with a vision of the magni-tude
of his or her task.
Bachelors Mistaken,
Girls Do Have Dates
By Joyce Steinbach
Who said we don't have dates?!
And why do you fellows insist
on taking it for granted that we
don't have dates? Maybe you
confirmed bachelors haven't been
around about door-locking, or ah,
doorbell-ringing time to see just
how many dorm girls do approach
the front door with a satisfied (I
hope) escort at her side.
But in case you still think the
girls are missing the unquestion-able
honor of masculine company,
it's all because of you men and
your lack of originality in finding
something new and different to
do.
Girls, too, know what it's like
to be broke—that excuse is old—.
It doesn't cost a cent to buzz a
girl and have a chat, to get a
little needed exercise walking
around blocks, to go to a foot-ball
game, to chapel or special
programs. Think how beneficial
you could be in promoting our
cultural education! Mr. Shackle-less
thinks, "Who's this guy, Egon
Petri? Hmmm, coming next Wed-nesday—
student activity tickets are
good—I wonder, would she?"
Would she ever! And both will
have enjoyed the concert about
six different ways.
Smedley Butler Comments
On Aids for Eliminating War
"There are only two forces that
can eliminate the curse of war—re-ligion
and education." Thus Smed-ley
D. Butler, retired United States
Marine Corp general and lecturer,
expressed himself as a taxi carried
us swiftly toward the Northwestern
depot at the conclusion of his en-thusiastically
received speech at the
Knife and Fork Dinner club.
"Both the church and the school
let us down during the World war,"
he said. "They succumbed to the
insidious attack of propaganda just
as much as the people themselves."
An earnest Christian himself, the
General declared, "if the church
ever consents to another war, I'm
going to become a pagan, you can't
tell me that Christ, if he were to
come down on earth, would shoul-der
a gun and march off to war!"
"The college," he continued, "is
the vital unit in education for dem-ocracy
and peace. Democracy is the
only form of government that, once
established, cannot run itself. Peo-ple
must be constantly and care
fully educated for democracy."
College Symphony Orchestra
Makes Radio Debut Sunday
The college orchestra, under the
direction of R. J. Guderyahn, will
broadcast a thirty minute program
over the local station Sunday eve-ning,
Nov. 13. The program will
consist of the following four num-bers:
"Scherzade," Part I by Rimsky-
Korsakoff ; "Musical Snuff Box" by
Liadow; "Blue Danube" by Strauss;
"Coronation March" from "The Pro-phet"
by Meyerbeer.
Program Chosen By Lee
Is One of Twelve In
Repertoire
Drama, Lecturets Next
Chinese Monologuist,
Speaker To Follow
Musician
Egon Petri, famous Dutch pian-ist,
will be the first on this year's
Augustana college artist series. Ht
will appear in a program of di
versified piano music at the colleg,
auditorium tomorrow evening, No
vember 9.
The program for the concert to
be given here at Augustana has
been chosen by Prof. J. Earl Lee
from a group of twelve.
Also Teacher
Besides being a pianist of remark-able
accomplishments, Petri is also
a teacher of excellence, primarily
interested in the art of music with
the factor of compensation being a
minor one. He has concertized ex-tensively
throughout Europe and ap-peared
as soloist with all the lead-ing
symphony orchestras and string
quartets of European capitals.
Called the "greatest living expon-ent
of Liszt," he has recently been
honored by Oxford university with
the degree of Doctor of Music.
Egon Petri comes from an old
family of musicians— his grand-father
being an excellent organist,
his grandfather an accomplished
oboist, and his father a prominent
violinist, leader of a string quartet,
and concert master at Gewandhous,
Leipzig, and at the Royal Chapel in
Dresden.
Two More Planned
Two other artist series programs
have been definitely planned.
On January 20, Soo Yong, Chi-nese
actress and dramatic monologu-ist,
will appear on the second pr._
gram of the series.
Dr. James Davis, former profes-sor
of English at Leipzig univer-sity
and professor of German at the
University of Minnesota, will bt
presented in a lecture on the thin,
artist series program.
Programs of interest to all tht
arts, including music, drama, and
literature will be presented on the
artist series this year. Attendance
at the first three programs will de-termine
whether there be other
programs in the spring.
Student President
Guest At Wesleyan
The Blue and White Homecoming
committee of Dakota Wesleyan ex-tended
a cordial invitation to the
queens and student prexies of Au-gustana
college, Sioux Falls col-lege,
and Yankton to attend thei.
homecoming. Due to the unfortun-ate
illness of the Viking quee,
Joyce Steinbach, and the clerking
duties of Tepee Day queen, Miss
Helen Martini, at a local depart-ment
store, Luthard Eid, president
of the Augustana Student associa
tion, and Carl Lundquist, president
of the Sioux Falls Student associa-tion,
were sole representatives o.
their respective colleges. Miss Pio-neer
and the student president of
Yankton college represented the Pio-neers
in full force.
Most gracious was the hospitalit)
shown by Miss Jeanne Kleppin, Mis_
Wesleyan for 1938, and Ronn,
Swartz, president of the Wesleyan
Student association. The represen-tatives
of the three colleges wer
guests at the coronation of Mis.
Wesleyan in University chapel a
11. A delicious buffalo barbecue
was served at 11:30 after which
everyone formed for a Homecomir4.,
parade through the city ending a
the football field where the DWU
"Tigers" played and were defeated
by the Doane "Tigers." At 4:30 an
informal tea was held in the Re-creation
Rooms, and at 6 the guests
attended the Miss Wesleyan-Alumni
banquet at the Methodist-Episcopal
church. A talent program was given
in the DWU chapel at 8.
Drama Class Students
Broadcast Over KELO
Augie students again went "on
the air" Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 7:15
p. m., this time in behalf of the
Red Cross. Four girls and six boys
took part in the skits concerning
disasters in which the Red Cross
has played an important role in
giving aid to the sick and home.
less.
Miss Helen Farley directed the
program which was broadcasted
from KELO studios here in Sioux
Falls.
Those taking part were Roger
Oyan, Baltic; Harold Melemseter
Sinai; Avis Bekke and Audrey Leir,
Canton, all freshmen; Virgil Bjerke.
Slayton, Minn.; Juel Jorgensen.
Trent; Astrid Terming, Volga, so-phomores;
Aileen McDonald, Wes-sington
Springs, junior;; and Arnold
Lowe, Canton; Elden Samp, Spen-cer,
seniors.
School's Ace Speakers Continue Pro and Con
As Proposed Honor System Nears Vote