NEW RESOLVES RECOMMENDED The Christian Should Not Admit Discouragement, Says Pres. Thompson URGES INVENTORY Good Intentions Not Acted On Are Weakening to the Soul, He Emphasized In looking over the past Paul said he . would forget his mistakes and press for- ward, stated President P. L. Thompson in chapel Wednesday. While we may have fallen short in the past year of ful- filling our hopes, we should look on the coming year as a time in which we may fulfill them, he said in emphasizing that a Christian should not have the word discouragement in his vocabulary even if every hope is not attained, for no one is defeated until he admits he is. While the first day in the year is intrinsically no different from any other day, yet it is good for us to have a special time to take an inventory of our achievements and our shortcomings, said President Thompson. In all history there have been days set aside to com- memorate signifiicent events, he said, and we consider New Year's day as a time to check up accounts and see if those books we have read or other things we have done were of profit. It may be suggested, he added, that it is of no value to make resolutions, since they are never kept anyway. Though the road to hell may be paved with good intentions, he stated, every stone in the paving is a cracked one. Good resolutions not acted upon are weakening to the soul, he said, and so if a resolution is made, it should be made a part of the life as soon as possible. A good resolution to make, he insisted, is to decide to enjoy the humdrum of the coming year's work. Not a desire for ease, but a desire to be able to do more and to do it more effectively is a good motivating power, he said. at once, yet we can have a new leaf from the Master if we accept His for- giveness, were his concluding words. NEW SABBATH SCHOOL FIELD PRESENTED Wilbur Essig Asks Questions On Philipines and Manchuria; House Reviews The first Sabbath school service of 1930 at Union was attended by the ma- jority of teachers and students. Pastor A. G. Youngberg gave the scripture reading and prayer. The spec- ial music was a number by President and Mrs. P. L. Thompson entitled, "Rock of Ages. - Walter Carrol read the secre- tary's report for the meeting held two weeks previously and called on those who were present during vacation to volunteer information regarding the Sab- bath school of December 28. Slips had been placed in every row of seats and Wilbur Essig gave a quiz on the work in the Philippine Islands and Manchuria, where the coming thirteenth Sabbath offering will go. Each one was permitted to grade his own paper while Mr. Essig read the correct answers. Past- or B. L. House gave a brief review of the previous week's lesson, dealing with the earthly sanctuary in connection with the heavenly sanctuary. After the classes had returned to the chapel, Lloyd Cowin, the superintendent, read a letter from his old roommate, C. D. Nichols, now in China. The let- ter stated that war is going on in their section of China and that there is also some persecution. Mr. Nichols and his wife, who was formerly Mabel Adams, are both Unionites. They say that they love the Chinese and their work for them. SOUTH HALL CAMPAIGN CLOSES The drive for funds for the improve- ment of South hall technically ended Sun- day evening with a total of one hundred ninety seven dollars in cash, twelve dol- lars in unpaid pledges from College View business men and a seventeen dollar set of the testimonies given by the Colorado conference. The campaign was won by first floor with an average per capita of more than two dollars. Dormitory improvemennts has already been started and other plans are being laid whereby the fund can be swelled to the five hundred dollar goal. "Do the thing that ought to be done when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." CALENDAR Thursday, January 9 Oratorical contest Weslyan University 8:00 p. Friday, January 10 Sun sets 5:17 p. m. Gospel Workers' Seminar 6:45 p. m. Sunshine Band 7:00 p. m. Vesper Services 8:00 p. m. Sabbath, January 11 Men's Prayer Club 8:00 a. m. Teachers' Meeting 9:45 a. m. Sabbath School 10:00 a. m. Church Services 11:15 a. m. Men's Glee Club 6:00 p. m. Lecture—Lew Sarett ........ 8:00 p. m. OF EVENTS Sunday, January 12 Registration for second semester March in Gymnasium 8:00 p. m. Monday, January 13 Registration for second semister North hell Open House 8:00 p. m. Tuesday, January 14 Spanish Club 6:00 p. m. Wednesday, January 13 Village Prayer Meetings 7:30 p m. Young Women's Club 6:40 p. M. Thursday, January 16 Young Men's Club 6:40 p. M. Orchestra Practice 7:30 p. M. • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••• Girls' Open House Monday, 8 p. m. • • • • • • • • • • • L ER •••••••••••••••••••••••• • • Registration For Second Semester, Jan. 12, 13. • •••••••••••••••••••••••• VOL. IV COLLEGE VIEW, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 9, 1930 No. The Man LEW SARETT GOLDEN CORDS HUNG Missionary Life is Represented I n Y. M. P. V. Musical Program A program preceding the hanging of the Golden Cords was given in Young People's meeting Friday evening in the form of musical numbers representing the missionary from the time he lived in the homeland until he finished his work in the mission field. An individual in the homeland was symbolized by a violin solo, "The Flower Song," by La Merne Walker. The call was given in the form of a piano solo, "There's a Cry From Macedonia," by Ada Williams. A duet representing the farewell was rendered by Ferry] Gar- vin and James Meade, who sang - Fare- well, - from the cantata Esther... A med- ley composed of "America," "Star Span- gled Banner," and "Home Sweet Home," by Elsa Emery and Leon Baker, showed the missionary leavinc,. the homeland. The first view of the mission field was shown by a record, "The Persian Mar- ket," played on a phonograph. Alten Bringle sang "My Task" to depict the work in the new field, and Clara Cul- ver sang the "Prayer Perfect," showing the completion of the missionary's work. Mildred Rhoads spoke on the history and meaning of the Golden Cords. Golden Cords were hung for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are working in Gitiue, Ruauda, Belgian Congo, just two degrees above the equa- tor. Mr. and Mrs. Turner are in Vene- zuela. Mrs. Johnson was formerly Lela Warner and Mrs. Turner was Winnie Walters. Ministerial Seminar Efforts; Messrs. Banik and Miller Speak At Friday Evening Meeting The Friday evening meeting of the Ministerial seminar was one of the most interesting meetings thus far this year. Robert Lynn offered prayer, after which the secretary's report was heard and the roll call read. A nominating committee of four members to work with the fac- ulty advisor in nominating officers for the coming semester was selected. The speakers for the evening were Allie Banik and A. A. Miller. Mr. Miller spoke first, using as his text the well-known proverb---"The Fear of tne Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom." He compared this idea to the religion of the Romans and Greeks, and then to that of Bible times. He closed his talk by saying that true wisdom is from God. Mr. Banik used as his text the third Psalm. He stressed the point that God hears prayer, and used the illustration of one friend calling to another, who may know by the answer that he is heard. "God answers prayers simulta- neously with appeals, although He does not necessarily work them out until later. Press your petitions to the throne until God hears you. We should take our religion from God and not from man", the speaker concluded. The ordinances of communion and hu- mility were held in the church Sabbath for teachers and students. Pastor B. L. House presided, assisted by Pastors Baer, Stevens, and Thompson. 0 A report collies from the Canadian Watchman press that during the first eleven months of this year tnere has been sold throughout Canada 88,400 Canadian Watchman magazine. Alberta takes the lead in this report, having sold 31,000. The great and lowly extended personal New Year greetings to President and Mrs. Hoover on January 1. When the day was over a tabulation showed that the chief executive and the first lady had shaken hands with 6,348 people. William S. Vare announced that he is still a candidate for the United States senate and that his name will appear on the republican primary ballot in May. Mr. Vare was refused a seat in the sen- ate last month on the ground that his primary expenses in the senatorial cam- paign of 1926 were excessive. Tokyo dispatches saying the national- ist government's refusal to accept Tori- kichi Obata as Japanese minister to China has resulted in a "delicate situa- tion" between the two countries, presag- ing Japan's possible severance of diplo- matic relations with China, were received with reserve in official circles. The restriction excluding as candidates from the 1930 party primaries those who opposed the democratic executives com- mittee will be removed before February 1. Attending a mass meeting on January 3, Senator J. Thomas Hefflin declared that "if this is not done the voters will be given their chance to act." Six thousand prisoners will be released from confinement and have their sentences terminated when Princess Marie Jose of Belgium marries Humbert, Prince of Pied- mont, January 8. An amnesty procla- mation made by King Victor Emmanuel in connection with the wedding provides liberation for prisoners serving sentences of a year or less for civil and military offenses and for failure to pay fines. The tongues of red flames that ,eaped through the roof of the southwest wing of lit I. = the side of the huge white dome le only a small blackened spot on the braiding The blaze, far more spectacular than that which destroyed part of the ea ecu- tive office of the White House Christmas eve, originated in a room occupied by Charles Moberly, an artist, who has de- corated many Senate and House rooms. The loss is estimated at $3,000. Continued "progress and prosperity for 1930" was the official forecast spoken over the young year by members of the cabinet for finance, commerce, and agri- culture. The official forecast predicted a fruitful continuation of the intimate ties between the national government and the forces of business, industry, and farm- ing, an association which the year 1929 saw drawn closer than in any previous peacetime era of the nation's history. Secretary Mellon reported that the sound condition" of the government's finances have placed it in a position to do its part in helping the country to meet and solve the problems ahead. Dail Speaks at Mission Band Says Missionaries Promote Development Of Language and Commerce The change in missions and the prog- ress that has come to the world through missions was the subject of Professor H. Dail's lecture in mission band Friday night. "The missionary'', said Mr. Dail, "is responsible for much industrial ad- vancement, for he teaches thrift, honesty, and business integrity to the native." His own imported articles create a de- mand for the same articles among the natives, he said, and thus stimulates com- merce. The missionary has also done much toward the development of lan- guage, since he often must transform the spoken language to a written one. Lillian Meyer sang I Shall Not Pass Again This Way" for the closing song. Mexico, which usually has balmy win- ters, is experiencing one of the most bitter seasons of its history. The thermometer has registered 28 above zero, Fahrenheit. Science will save the world from war, feed its future inhabitants, and rescue civilization from sensationalism, was the fediction made by Dr. Robert A. Mill- ikan, world famous physicist, of the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology, at the meeting of the American Association for the advancement of Science at Des Moines, Iowa. American engineers are to supervise 40,000 men who are to start a canal next spring, costing $100,000,000, to link Stalingrad, on the Volga, with Kalatch on the Don. This waterway will make it possible for boats to go from the Cas- pian sea to the Black sea and from the latter to the White sea. The Washington government intends to continue the maintenance of American courts for American citizens in China despite any present effort of the nation- alist government to do away with these extra-territorial courts. Eleven thousand American citizens in China look for legal protection and the settlement of virtu- ally all their legal disputes, both civil and criminal, to these American courts. The India national congress dispersed a few minutes after opening of the New Year, with its members crying, "Up with the national flag" and "Down with the Union Jack." The congress voted al- most unanimously approving Gandhi's resolution for eventual complete independ- ence of India, to be attained gradually by means of non-co-operation with Brit- ish governmental machinery. America enters a new decade intent upon perpetUating the international peace that the last ten years have brought, but torn from within by bitter dissention on the ever-controversial sub- ject of enforcement of the prohibition laws. Before the first month of the new year has passed into history, representa- tives of the United States will gather with spokesmen of other great powers to consider the problem of competitive naval building and endeavor to abolish that menace to the friendship of the na- tions. The Farmers' National Grain corpor- ation, with headquarters in Chicago, is now ready to select the physical facili- ties and the personnel necessary to han- dle the 1930 wheat crop, according to a statement made by William G. Kellogg of Minneapolis, general manager of the corporation. He said the corporation would acquire storage and handling fa- cilities in all terminal grain markets of the world and predicted it would be in a position to take care of all grain pro- duced co-operatively next year. Miss McGee Reads For Girls Girls Club Meets For First Time After Christmas Vacation In the North hall club Wednesday, Miss Ruby McGee entertained the girls with a reading entitled "Old Soapy." Edythe Buck played a piano solo, "Rustle of Spring," by Sinding. Mil- dred Jones, in the current event, told of the common usage of improper English by college students. After brief reports by the critic and the sergeant-at-arms, the following com- mittee was appointed from the floor to nominate officers for the club for next semester: Abbie Dunn, Irene Anderson, Bonnie Velhagen, Fae Cowin, and Verd Nell Rice. His History Lew Sarett, poet ranger and woodsman, is to speak at eight o'clock Saturday evening in the college chapel. He devotes two months a year, January and Feb- ruary, to platform work and three months to his professorship at Nothwestern university. The re- maining months he spends in the woods and in writing. Mr. Sarett's decision to spend his life thus, :lose to nature, to "do his bit for wild earth," was made long ago. He once refused an offer of five hundred dollars for one evening's work, because this proposed ap- pointment fell in the month of October. He explains his reason thus: "October is, I think, the most beautiful month in the year in northern Wisconsin; the hard- wood forests are a symphony in scarlet, in bronze, in gold, and green; the ducks are flying south; the forests are fragrant and crisp; the nights are beautiful with frost and crackling stars. October is rich with implications, with subtle suggestions, and beauty. I always grow much inwardly in October." His choice between his wild life and the lecture was merely a choice of values. Mr. Sarett spent his childhood days in the Lake Su- perior country. It was there that he drank in the scenes of nature which became beautiful memories in the darker days that followed, when he worked in Chicago. B. L. HOUSE SPEAKS Life Plans Submitted to God Starts One on Right Course The best approach to the final judg- ment is daily self-examination, just as it is the best approach to examination of scholarship, stated Pastor B. L. House in chapel Friday. God is more interested in the daily check-up, he said, than in the final ont, because daily ex- amination will eliminate all worry. God knows us, he added, but His pur- pose is to get us to check on ourselves as to what we purpose to do in the future. In this connection it is encour- aging to know, he continued, that God has His eye on every one of us and is so interested in us personally that He has a blue-print for each of our lives. Our success, he said, depends on our find- ing God's plan for us. Because God takes a personal inter- est in each one of us He is willing to protect us from all temptation, and be- cause of this He sent His Son to this world, and now has His Spirit here to aid us, and if necessary will send every angel from heaven in order that none of His children will fall, stated the speaker. There may be a question in our minds as to what God's plan for us is, stated Pastor House, but we need not worry, for God has told us through His inspired servant that those who do nothing to displease God after presenting their plans to God, may be sure of the right course. The trouble with most of us, he said, is that we fail to place ourselves in the right attitude, and prefer our own way. Those in school, he declared, who are preparing for God's work will be ac- cepted by Jesus the same as if they were more directly in the work. Girls' Gym Classes Exhibit Melda Ragsdale In Charge; Elsa Emery Reads, 'On Ode to Posture' The girls' gymnasium clesses gave a program in the college gymnasium Sat- urday evening. Melda Ragsdale was in charge of the program. Elsa Emery gave a reading "An Ode to Posture," in which the scarcity of correct posture was emphasized. The rest of the program consisted of gymnastic exercises, "I See You," by all of the classes; bleeking, by the first year classes; anvil chorus— dumb-bell drill, by the academy class; Norwegian mountain march, by the ad- vanced class; clap drill, by the first year classes; marching tactics, by the ad- vanced class; Indian club drill, by the first year class; the seven jumps, by the advanced class; grand march, by the first year classes; and dumb-bell and In- dian club relay races. 0 "To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being." Who ne'er has wept is stranger to a laugh, He who never doubted, never thought. J. B. GOODS. EVILS IN WORLD NOT MAGNIFIED Pastor Rees Discusses Corrupt Modern City Life In His Sabbath Sermon ' RACKETS ' EXPOSED Great Contrast, In Conditions of Rich And Poor In Cities; Larger Cities Planned "We have two basic principles of faith, one the Sabbath and the other the near coming of Christ, and the biggest argument for the latter is the deplorable conditions that exist in the world, de- clared Prof. D. D. Rees in the Sabbath sermon. Conditions in the world are getting worse and worse, people are be- coming lovers of themselves and pleas- ure, deceiving and being deceived. We have never gotten our eyes opened to the evils in the world, and because we know so little of them we are liable to think, when people speak of the evil conditions, that they magnify these evils. "In the cities we find great wealth and great poverty though we do not realize the great gulf between the two, for when we go to the cities we see only the skyscrapers, the fine streets, and the notable people and things of inter- est." Quoting from Strong, in his book, Our Country, Prof. Rees said, the city is a serious menace to our civilization because it is so full of evil. A peculiar- ly large amount of the foreign element take up their abode in our large cities, adding to the troublous conditions, he continued. In the cities, he said, the contrast between poverty and luxury is proportional to the size of the city. In London, to whose conditions our cities are fast approaching, many times a fami- ly is found to live in a room only eight feet square, with filth and squalor on every hand. There is another deplorable condition, he said, and that is the depredations of tho - racketeer -. in many cities. but at- tribute to it is the cleverly schemed proc- ess of extorting money from those who honestly earn it, by means of demanded (Continued on page four) PROFESSOR NESMITH SPEAKS AT CHAPEL Says Dark is Oppressive; 'Broad- cast Sunshine and Chase Blues' is Club Motto Joy does not just happen; it comes from certain lines and living up to definite laws, said Professor Nesmith in his talk to the students Monday morning. Con- tinuing he said that there is plenty of room in the world for the business f spreading sunshine and happiness. He told of a jolly Monday club that has been organized in England for the purpose of taking the dreariness out of the week. It has for its motto "Broad- casting sunshine, or chasing the blues." "Dark is oppressive," he said, "and as we walk along we see great mon- strosities which as soon as the sun shines on them, become only shadows. Worry is one of the dark things that we should dispel from our lives, he continued. An- cient Germany had a law against jokes, he stated, because the king knew the jokes diverted the minds of the people from war. Some of the ways Professor Nesmith suggested for spreading happiness and contentment are by maintaining an ap- preciative and very sympathetic attitude. He said that nothing warms the heart so much as a few expressions of apprec- iation. He recommended to students the idea of writing letters of appreciation to to parents and of speaking appreciative words to teachers. A few such words will repay parents or teachers, he said, fo all of their hard labor and toil. "Sympathy, appreciation, and cheer- fulness cannot be separted," he reclared. "Sympathy finds its way into the sad hearts while harshness seals them up." The cash value of a smile has been esti- mated at $20,000 he said. "We cannot be stingy with this thing of scattering sunshine." COLLEGE VIEW RESIDENT DIES Katherine E. Suffa, wife of Rev. And- rew Suffa, died at her home, 916 South Fortieth street, Saturday morning. Fun- eral services were conducted at 2:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and internment was made at Memorial cemetery. Music is the essence of law and order and leads to all that is good.—PLamo. Flashes of News of National Interest BY HAROLD LINCOLN THE CLOCK TOWER Published every Thursday during the school year and monthly during the summer vaca- tion by the Student Publishing Association of Union College. Vol. IV January 9, 1930 No. 14 Subscription rate: One dollar a year; five cents a copy. (hose who have their addresses changed should send in both the old and the new ad- dresses to enable us to make the change accurately and q uickly. Advertising rates furnished on request Entered as second-class matter at the post office at College View, Nebraska, April 5, 1911, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. BUSINESS' STAFF C. Paul Bringle President Walter Howe • • Business Manager Lee Thomas - - Circulation Manager Huldrich Humann - - Advertising Fa. Cowin - • • Asst. Cir. Manager Elsa Emery Luella Coleman Bert McBroom Alien Bringle Walter Carrol Secretary Treasurer - - Asst. Adv. Manager - - Asst. Adv. Manager - Asst. Adv. Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Ellen Vogel Staff A E..linore Hahn • - Associate Editor Ada Williams - • - Assistant Editor Maude Reid - - • Assistant Editor Roy Brebner - • Assistant Editor Kenneth Crouse • - - Special Writer Reporters: Mildred Haas, Ada Townsend, Irma McMahon, Herbert Nelson, Sue Russell, Fonda Campbell, Paul Meyer, Mary Thompson, Marie Olsen. Special Religious Writer, E. Wendell Wolfe. Academy Reporter: Myrna George Typists: Dorothy Aultfather, Ella Johnson, Ruth Stohlman UTOPIA Let us take a peek into the Union college homes next semester. Every girl in North hall and every boy in South hall is studying industriously each night from seven o'clock until ten. The monitors are seated at their tables; they pass down the corridors on only the necessary errands. Few students are in the halls during study period. This is what the students are planning to do. Resolutions like these are formulated for study; every lesson is to be prepared each day, note- books are not to fall behind, and outside reading is to be reported on time. Beginning a new semester is like entering a long race. The enthusiasm of the beginning slackens near the middle of the race but is renewed for the finals. The longer we retain that first enthusiasm the more likely we are to win. So it is with school work. The longer we live up to our resolutions the more likely we are to be ready for the final examinations. Not all the resolutions that are in the making now will be kept, but a goal has been set and a desire is manifest to reach it, which is indeed creditable. It is better to make resolutions and break them than to have none at all.—M. T. EFFICIENCY PLUS A professor once related a story. The professor's name and identity are lost in memory, but the story remains. It was a short narrative of one of his students. We shall call his name Cornwall. The story goes that Cornwall was one of these work-your-way-through-school students. Consequently he had little time remain- ing for study. Each moment of this study time had to be utilized to the nth degree. To make his study period more fool-proof, as far as mechanics were concerned, he decided to place himself under a strict regime. He regulated and tabulated the time required for each lesson. Gradually he reduced this time. To get the same length of lesson in a shorter period necessitated doubled energy and applica- tion. But in the words of Guest, "He did it," and did it with A-1 grades. This may be an exceptional case. No efficiency expert could guarantee these brilliant results to every one who attempted to improve his working ability, but each person can raise his percentage of efficiency in work in a surprising way if he will. This is an age of efficiency. It is estimated that by faster and fuller living an average man can in sixty-five years concentrate the experiences of a man twice that age. By improved living methods this period may be extended to one hundred fifty years, the estimate con- tinues. This age requires efficiency. ON DATES January sixth commemorates the birth of Joan dArc, the lass from Donremy 7A-oft riqiicsr , _iv , 1429 .born . _1419, When France was being repeatedly overcome by a succession of ignominious defeats this peasant girl, with unequalled fervor and unexplainable physical endurance, rode clad in heavy mail at the head of the French armies. She was dominated by what seemed to her a divine injunction to save her France. Her name lives with the immortal heroines of this earth whose lives have been sacrified in service for noble causes. Her life is a singular example of the insurmountable and seemingly impossible that can be accomplished when assiduous devotion beckons onward. January twelfth is the anniversary of the Prohibition enactment. At this time there cannot fail to come to each citizen of the United States a realization of the added impetus to America's prosperity that has followed in the wake of the eigh- teenth amendment. The opportunities of increased health, education, and happiness are beyond computation. Though anti-prohibitionists are vigilantly at work we can rejoice at the benefits thus far bestowed on our land at the termination of ten years national prohibition. As the winners in the recent prohibition education contests go to the Anti- saloon league convention in Detroit our well-wishes accompany them. We shall anticipate the reports they bring back. Editor-in-Chief Staff B Hazel Brebner - Associate Editor Marion Christmann • Assistant Editor Bonnie Velhagen • - Assistant Editor Ferryl Garvin - - - Assistant Editor Harold Lincoln - - Special Writer Reporters: Mildred Rhoads, Elvin Atkinson, Lillian Meyer, James Meade, Lilah Baer, Irene Anderson. it in their notebooks as an extraordinary example of talent. The professor said, "I don't know whose lead this is, but I don't like it. What's the matter with it, Miss Wilson I shrank into mousey proportions and murmured meekly, "I don't know, Pro- fessor." Then he began telling us all a je.w little things wrong with it. Wouldn't that spoil pipe dreams? The only consolation I have is that lie other day one of the seniors told rue my hair looked pretty when I washed it. But how can that make up for my lost genius? I must have misplaced 1: when I packed to come to school, be- cause IM not sure but I thought I had a small box of it. I'm going down to the trunk room and dig in the musty corners of my (run!, and see if I left it there. I think I lel, a box of ambition and a jar of will power, too. If von are at all interested let me know, and I'll tell you what I find. You wrote that you enjoyed my silliness and my superlatives. Do be polite and call it "youthful enthusiasm." Love, LUCINE WILSON. 0 SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY Keep yourself in good physical condition. Take care of your teeth and eyes. See that the environment, such as light, temperature, clothing, and desk, are favorable for studying. Form a time-study and place-study habit. Prepare advance assignments di- rectly after the recitation on given subjects. Begin work promptly, with an atti- tude of attention. Concentrate while you work. Get rid of the idea that you are working for a teacher. Don't apply for help until it i3 absolutely necessary. Review previous lesson, then make a rapid survey of advance lesson. Form the habit of mentally re- viewing each paragraph as you read it. Carry the learning of all important items beyond the point neces-gary for immediate recall. Don't become fatigued or worried by too long periods of study. In learning a poem learn it as a whole. In committing to memory, read aloud. --Selected. 0 EXCHANGE A rose to the living is more than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.—W. R. THAYER. Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human in ruins.—S. DAVIES. Speak gently! 'tis a little thing Dropped in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell. —T. W. LANGFORD. Only fundamentally careless folks lose their purses or their tempers.— Young People. Happiness cannot be found by look- ing for it. But it has a way of slip- ping quietly into our hearts when we are hunting happiness for others.— Young People. We love our friends for what they are. We hate our enemies for what we think they are. No man was ever as bad as his enemy believed him to be.— Young People. The things we believe and about which we can explain the basis of our belief are the things about which we change our minds. The things we be- lieve though we cannot explain why we believe them are the things we cling to, suffer for, die for, if necessary. Which is stronger, faith or knowledge?—Young People. X Why worry about those dinners? Come down and let us prepare X them for you. Service With a Smile College Cafe LONG'S College Book Store Opposite The University Campus LuEG LOR AND CLEANERS F.2117• pHomes• F0•72 EST. 1894 7.."" E _ •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Capitol Engraving Co. Halftone Zinc Etchings Art Work 319 So. 12th St. B-4178 Lincoln, Nebr. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• FOR HARDWARE. PAINTS AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. co To HORNUNG'S HARDWARE ACROSS FROM CAMPUS PHONE 13.W Have you heard that The new "colyum" called "Sens Pro- pre" means the proper way to do it? Miss Rees refuses to let girls burn mid- night oil to cram for examiziationsl Because of Christmas vacation and the working of plasters, worship in North hall was held in the worship room Fri- day evening for the first time since Dec- ember 23? The cylinder press at the College Press can print two thousand impressions in an hour? On New Year's evening the second- hand car dealers of Lincoln burned 175 cars, all of which were driven by their own power and had four good tires? Swimming classes are meeting in rooms 204. and 404 instead of in the pool? Professor Walther is going back to Geneva next summer? President Thompson was an ordained minister at the age of thirty-two? "God has given us tongues that we may say something pleasant to our fel- low-men."—HEINREm I - IEIN E. 2 THE CLOCK TOWER Blessed is Man Who Findeth Life By E. J. F. "Wherefore are you sad?" inquired the poet. "Because," replied Ernest, "all through life I have awaited the fulfillment of a prophecy, and when I read these poems. I hoped that it might be fulfilled in you." "In shame and sadness I say it, Ernest —I am not worthy to be typified by yonder benign and majestic image, be- cause my life has not corresponded with my thought. I have had grand dreams, but they have been only dreams, because I have lived by my own choice among poor and mean realities. Sometimes I even lack faith in the grandeur, the beauty, and the goodness which my own works have expressed." The poet spoke sadly and his eyes were dim with tears. That evening Ernest spoke to an open assemblage, as was his custom. His words had power, because they were in accord with his thoughts; and his thoughts had reality and depth, because they harmonized with his life. It was not mere breath that this preacher uttered, but words of life because a life of good deeds and holy love was melted into them. When Jesus said "Seek first the kind- dom of God," He wanted us to find that which is most precious of all—Life! And all through His ministry on earth, He tried to point out to suffering mankind the way of life and how to attain it, but coming to the close of His ministry, this perfect Son of Man, the greatest of all Teachers, sorrowfully said that only a few shall find this Way, but added, "Blessed is the man that findeth life." The noblest friendship ever shown The Saviour's history makes known. —Cownit. How do you spend your spare mo- ments? Are you the type of person that' spends all of his extra time running around, visiting with his friends, or do you use the time profitably? Are you one of these persons who do not "have time" when some small service is wanted of them, or do you somehow find the time and way to do it? It is true that we all need pleasant associations with our fellow students, but it isn't necessary to be in the room of a friend continuously, thus bothering him and wasting your own time as well. Are you the type of person who will riot let a second go to waste? Do you spend every free moment with your studies or do you take some time for recreation? Do you miss meals, thereby endangering your health, because you feel that you must have that few minutes in which to write a letter or get part of your French, Spanish, Bible, or Rhetoric lesson for the next day? Do you rush home immediately after dinner or sup- per so that no time shall be wasted, or do you use a short time in which to get a little physical exercise? Some people are always rushing around but never seem to accomplish anything. When a job is started one should stay by it until it is finished, and he will accomplish much more and get all of his work done and still have some time left for recreation and association with others. There's lots of fun in the world if a fellow only knows how to find it. —Eu.io'rr FLOWER. The Mail Box My dear Friend: It was a real treat to receive your good letter. Not until one actually leaves the homeland can he fully appreciate the true blessing of letters from friends back home. We love to hear about Union college and let me assure you, THE CLOCK TOWER is eag- erly devoured. It is a paper of which Union college should be proud, for it is so newsy and well arranged. We look forward to it every month with glad anticipation. Jesus is coming soon and we must car- ry His precious message to this great mass of people within a short time. I love the Chinese and my heart aches intensely for them. The great majority are very hard working and do not have even the necessary comforts for health or happiness. Their homes are made of mud with dirt floors and are almost desti- tute of furniture. Their lives are filled with sin and unhappiness and when they die without any hope of going home with Jesus it so tears at my heart-strings that I can hardly endure it. Among several recent conversions which we had here in Kiukiang was a fine young woman who stepped out from Mohammedanism and is a full-fledged Adventist. There were also two well- educated people, one a man who is the secretary to Professor Carter, one of our foreign Union Conference men, and the other is a lady now doing preceptress work in our Hunan school. It makes us happy to have these dear converts develop into such splendid workers. Trusting this finds you well and en- joying your work, I remain CECIL D. NICHOLS. EDITOR'S NOTE: The above extracts are from a letter written to Lloyd Cowin, formerly a roommate of the writer. Sens Prow BY JUELETTE Editor's note: In this column will be given answers to questions pertaining to etequette problems. Questions need not be signed. Questions may be dropped in the box op- posite the registar's office. Our social heritage has been handed down to us by the early settlers who braved the Atlantic to make their homes here, and the fearless pioneers who, un- daunted, struggled across the continent. Our heritage evolved from fragmentary forms and conventions of England and France to our own typical American frank sincerity and unrestricted class valuation. Contributions of the honnete homme have not entirely disappeared, but they have been submerged and re- conventionalized by the American disdain for shame and artifice, and gradually have been evolutionized into the generous American philosophy. We are living in a nation where eti- quette is wholesome and free, permitting us ease and simplicity in our social in- tercourse. This new etiquette introduces a practicalness which can not fail to ap- peal to those who are weary of the stiff, stilted formalisms of the past centuries. But with all its liberation this etiquette does not uphold those who refuse to con- form to the rules and conventions which have been established by good sense and experience, and which are observed by well-bred people. The popular interpretation of this word etiquette is certain petty rules and re- gulations which are relative to proper conduct; but fundamentally, etiquette is more comprehensive than a mere con- formity to trivial rules, it is the root of true courtesy developed from human as- sociation. It is more vast than any code of manners—it involves the instinctive consideration for the feelings of others. Manners are only secondary; it is your manner that counts. Manner is the spirit while manners are the expression of that spirit. But how can your manner be right if you are not sure of your manners? How can you be well-poised, at ease, free from self-consciousness, a n d embarrassment when you do not know the proper thing to do or say? 9.4.1 &d O. ? Long visits, long stories, long essays, long exhortations and long prayers sel- dom profit those who have to do them. Life is short. Time is short. Moments are precious. Learn to condense, abridge, and intensify. We can bear things that are dull if they are only short. We can endure an ache and ill if it is over soon, while even pressure grows insipid and pain intolerable, if they be protracted be- yon the limits of reason and convenience. Learn to be short. Lop off the branches and stick to the main facts in your case. If you pray, ask for what you believe you will receive, and get through; if you speak, tell your message, and hold your peace; if you write, boil down two sen- tences with one, and three words into two. —Ed. Messenger, June 24, 1909. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." ON WITH 'THE WORK' Writing a note to the African Division Outlook, M. E. Kern said: "flow marve- lously God has worked since that first beginning thirty-five years ago, not only in Africa, but in all the world ! I know of no better evidence of the fulfillment of the prediction that the message would go quickly to the dark places of the earth than the reports g i v en at this African Division council. At the end of 1928 the church membership in the divi- sion stood at 10,029, while the numbers in hearers' and baptismal classes bring the total adherents to 22,085. The total number of adherents, we were told, is ten times as many as there were eleven years ago." In various lands our brethren are giv- ing special attention to the religious lib- erty issue. The Central European Divi- sion issues a magazine, Kirche and Stant (Church and State). Down in South America, we are told: "The first large scale of religious liberty experiment in South America was recently launched in the form of a religious liberty supple- ment of iltalaya. Tremendous enthusi- asm was stirred up by this publication, and nearly 200,000 copies have been dis- tributed. It goes to every public man in the Austral union, besides thousands of h o rn e s of the people "—(Review and Herald, Dec. 12.) About 250 people were baptized as the result of a tablernacle campaign held in Spokane, Colorado. The campaign lasted for nearly five months. 'cite n u mber of baptisms was nearly as many as were baptized during the year in the first effort there. On October one, the second commence- ment exercises of the Shanghai Sanitar- ium Nurses' Training school took place. Of the sixty-four nurses now in attend- ance seven have graduated and are tak- ing up work in connection with our sev- eral sanitariums and hospitals. In a letter to the General Conference office, C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing association, speaks a cheering word of progress: "The Lord is greatly blessing our work. The sales from our book department for the first ten months of the year were more than $60,000.00 above sales for the same time last year, and 1928 was a good year for us." `Cedric' Meets Near Disaster In Fog By HAZEL KIPP W'e were steaming slowly up St. George's channel bound for Holyhead, at half-speed, the fog horn sounding at regular intervals becauSe of the dense fog. One or two boats had passed rather close to us as we heard their horns an- swering ours through the morning air. I was at the window in the first class waiting room to get some traveler's checks cashed, idly listening to an or- chestra playing on the landing above. A young ship steward, a boy of perhaps twenty, came running in from the deck crying, "There is a boat right up against us!" I slipped through the swinging glass doors to the deck and saw the boat just as the crash came. It was the Scythia, a Cunard liner, as I afterward learned, a boat of twenty thousand tons, carrying eight hundred people on their way to New York. She had gotten off her course and was head- ing for the rocks when the flash from a lighthouse was caught on her starboard beam that should have come from the port side. Turning at once she had come straight out the way- she had gone in, crossing our course at right angles. Both steamers stopped their engines at mice, and tried to steer past each other, but the collision was unavoidable, as the Scythia was very close before she was discernable. Our prow struck Tier side in the fore- deck, making a hole eight by fifteen feet deep, but well above the water line. The blow tilted her, almost creating a panic on board. After the first impact, the two steamers held together, slowly swing- ing around, our boat pushing the other up at an alarming tilt before it could stop. The Scythia then shouldered down onto us broadside. The steward wasted no time getting back inside, panic on his face, and I followed, as the huge bulk came down against the side of our liner. The fresh impact pushed our boat down, and there was the crash of fall- ing glass, the screams of frightened women, rending timber, cries, the slide of loose furniture; then we righted again by slow, grinding jerks. Iron lugs were swept off the side of our steamer, a life boat crushed, and a cable snapped so that the foremast leaned over, and our wireless was torn down. The steward ran down the aisles be- tween the staterooms shouting, "Get into your life belts." Then I began to won- der if this exciting adventure wasn't really a serious matter, and started be- low r,t full speed to find my sister, who had .Been sleeping. The Scythia gave us a final rap with her stern and steered off, being almost at once swallowed up in the drifting wad' of fog. Limping back to Liverpool in our wake, she tried for several hours to get in touch with us. Since our wire- less had been swept down we could not answer, and they finally gave us up for lost, thinking we had gone down. We were in the heavier boat, the Cedric of the White Star line, having a cargo of nine thousand tons, which had been shifted a bit by the crash. Our prow was crushed in, the steel rivets of the point being cut from the top to far below the water line, the iron plating spread about two feet apart. Only our watertight compartments saved us from sinking. The fog hung heavy and damp all of the afternoon and into the night. We barely crept along. Every half minute the liner quivered to the low blast of the fog whistle. But with the dawn, when we came out on deck, the world had changed, the sun shone and there was left no vestige of fog. White gulls circled and flew about at our wake, call- ing to one another in the still quiet of the morning. Hardly a stone's throw away, our eyes were gladened by the sight of land. We saw New Brighton with its red brick houses and their myriad chimneys and tile roofs, nestling in the green background of the hills. "A statement has been made by some wise man to the effect that if all the troubles of the world were thrown into a heap, and individuals were given choice of what they would take, each one would sort out and take his own back in preference to any others." o The Super Student Falls From Perch Dear Louise: Oh, clear! I used to think I was a literary genius until I got to college. At the academy I proudly stalked about, queen of the English department, as thought—and everybody expected tile to be editor of the Youth's Instructor as soon as I finished school. But the other day in journalism class when I came in, I saw one of my per- fectly good leads to an article scrawled all over the blackboard. I knew im- mediately that it was up for criticism and I secretly hoped it would be praised and that the class would be required to put Some Recreation Or One Big Rus BY SUE RUSSELL the medium of expression — speaking, singing, or playing. Arthur Hartmann, a violinist with a personality, has given nine beatitudes for violinists as follows: "Blessed are they who early in life approach Bach, for their love and ven- eration for music will multiply with the years. "Blessed are they who remember their own early struggles, for their merciful criticism will help others to a greater achievement and furtherance of the Di- vine Art. "Blessed are they who know their own limitations, for they shall have joy in the accomplishment of others. "Blessed are they who r e v ere the teachers—their own or those of others— and who remember them with credit. "Blessed are they who, revering the old masters, seek out the newer ones and do not begrudge them a hearing or two. "Blessed are they who work in obscur- ity, nor sound the trumpet, for Art has ever been for the few, and shuns the vulgar blare of ignorance. "Blessed are they whom men revile as futurists and modernists, for Art can evolve only through the medium of iconoclastic spirits. "Blessed are they who unflinchingly serve their Art, for thus only is their happiness to be gained. "Blessed are they who have many enemies, for square pegs will never fit into round holes." "Only in the love we have for others can we truly live." Sunday evening a reception was given at the home of Torval Johnson for Mrs. Alma Johnson-Jobst. Typewriters, Adding Machines, Cash Registers for Sale or Rent Service and Supplies Special Rate to Students General Typewriter Exchange r 4 Phone B-5258 225 So. 13 St. *:< x.x>.x.x.x >lc< x.xx.cciz.z>x<..xce. accaccissExamii A All Makes ii A Engravers for Golden Cords and Clock Tower .C_ LINCOLN ENGRAVING COMPANY Vocational Guidance Is Advised For All BY BONNIE VELHAGEN Some form of vocational guidat.ce- is a part of the program of most if the large colleges and universities ill the United States today. Universities : em- ploy vocational experts or counselors' who do nothing but advise the students of the school, particularly freshmen, con- cerning their choice of a life work, help to solve their college problems, or aid in the solution of college questions which face the administration. Such a pro- gram is undoubtedly impossible f o r Union college, but some form of voca- tional guidance for freshmen should not be impracticable. The required intelligence test, contain- ing prognostic elements, in some univer- sities, offers an opportunity for the first conference with the vocational advisor. The freshman must go to the office of Union College Laundry "Industry of Union College' EVERY ERV ICE Wet Wash—Thrif-T —Rough Dry—Family Finish—Bachelor Service —o— PHONE: FO 44-W THE ADMINISTUATION BUILDING GCLID CCD We Give Breen Stamps aoul/ ei!joy Shopping (J( LINCOLNS BUSYSTORE Corner 11111 and 0 Streets Astonishing January Sale Price Group OF DRESSES Including the New Silhouette Mode Dresses in this group represent the newest modes and color effects featuring the new silhouette and longer models. All beautifully tailored and of splen- did grade of materials. An assortment of smart dresses for afternoon and general wear. At this exceed- ingly low price, only 95 The Dress Event of the Season GOLD'S - Third Floor • Ell=•11111111=MIN11111111 t a, /•.• aM••••••• , ••••• ,41...M.==•••• I — 1 5. . • kr UP FROM THE OXCART "Acceleration, rather than structural changes, is the key to an understanding of our recent economic develop- ments."—From the report of President Hoover's Committee on Recent Economic Changes ( JOIN US IN THE GENERAL ELECTRIC HOUR, BROADCAST EVERY SATURDAY AT 9 P.M, E.S.T. ON A NATION-WIDE N.B.C. NETWORK 95.734DH GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK ESTERDAY; the rumble, creak, and plod of cart and oxen. To-day and to-morrow the zoom of airplanes. Faster production. Faster consumption. Faster communication. Significant of electricity's part in the modern speeding-up process is the fact that during the last seven years, con- sumption of electric power increased three and one-half times as fast as population. General Electric and its subsidiaries have developed and built much of the larger apparatus that generates this power as well as the apparatus which utilizes it in industry and in the home. The college-trained men who come every year to General Electric take a responsible part in the planning, production, and distribution of electric products, and at the same time receive further technical or business training. GENERAL ELECT C THE CLOCK TOWER The Violin, An Instrument of The Immortals By C. C. ENCEL The violin is a majestic instrument. It is capable of beautiful music, the kind that elevates the soul, thrills the emo- tions, vitalizes the spirit and softens the heart. Its sonorous tones can bear a mes- sage of joy, sorrow, tenderness, and pathos. It is the instrument that comes closest the human heart. Although the violin is a kindly instru- ment, still within itself it can do nothing. It is a piece of wood. Then the most important is not the violin but the master who draws the bow. It is he who is joyful, sorrowful, and tender and uses this instrument with which to express himself. If he does not have anything to express, his playing will sound empty like a speech which has words but no message. In order for anyone to become a master on the violin, he must work. Natural aptitude and inherited talent are assets, to be sure, but these by no means are sufficient. Some of the most musically talented individuals have drifted into mediocrity because of a lack of motive power. They were deficient in the mental and physical alertness and driving power that make for success. An individual is not to be congratulated because he has talent. That is a gift. But congratula- tion is due the one who has worked hard. Only by keeping everlastingly at it can one become a master of the violin. The violin is similar in many respects to the human voice. The instrument corresponds to the vocal chords, and the bow to the breath which plays upon the chords and thus produces tones. How- ever, there is much more to violin play- ing t h a n mechanical accomplishment. Music is neither found in the fingers nor in the elbow; it is found within the individual himself. So to be a master on the violin, one must first be a master within oneself. The test of violin mastery is a smooth, colorful tone. A good tone cannot be produced without great concentration of mental energy. Technic is a tool and is not music. The greatest thing in violin playing has already been suggested—personality. A man may be an artist although he may not as yet have attained to heights of technical performance. He can be such by sincerity of expression and delivering a finished product according to his meas- ure of progress. Right here is where personality manifests itself. If a man has a rich, noble, and great soul, it will always appear, no matter what may be the advisor to find out the results of his test. The test gives the counselor some idea of the student's ability and offers an opening for a conversation with the student concerning his future. These ad- visers must be sympathetic, understand- ing men and women with whom young people are willing to discuss their prob- lems. The test has perhaps pointed out aptitudes in the various college subjects. The adviser then has some idea as to what course to advise the freshman to follow while he is in college. Other questionnaires and tests of various kinds given later, as well as other conferences in times of difficulty, further guide the counselor in his advice to students. There is no question as to the import- ance of vocational guidance and the need of it. A large number of freshmen have no idea of what career they wish to fol- low. They have come to college because it is the thing to do, and everybody else is doing it. Or, perhaps, they hope that all inspiration will str i k e them. At least, a large number do not realize the importance of the choice of vocation. Frank Parsons, late di rector of the voca- tion bureau at Boston, always began a general talk to a group of young people by saying: "If you had a million dol- lars to invest, you would be very care- ful about it; you would study methods of investment, and get expert counsel and advice from those familiar with such things, and try to invest your money so it would be safe and would pay you good dividends. Your life is worth more than a million dollars to you. You would not sell it for that. And you are investing it day by day and week by week. Are you studying the different methods of in- vestment open to you, and taking coun- sel to help decide just what investment you had better make in order to get the best returns upon your capital 1" He found that young people fell into two main classes: first, those having well-developed aptitudes and interests and a practical basis for a reasonable conclusion in respect to the choice of a vocation; and second, those with so little experience or manifestation of special aptitudes or interests that there is no basis yet for a wise decision. He asked the latter class to read books and maga- zine articles about various occupations, to visit various industrial institutions, and to talk with men and women in various professions. He might even try his hand at various occupations to broaden and deepen his practical experi- ence and bring to light and develop any special aptitudes, interests, and abilities that might lie dormant within him or be easily acquired. Union college students need vocational guidance as well as students in other colleges, and although Union could prob- ably not maintain a special vocational expert to du nothing else but advise stu- dents, some form of guidance could be employed. Vocational guidance could be a part of the duties of a member of the faculty who had a good understanding of human nature. Tests might be given in a more wide-spread and general way. A wise choice for a course of action at the very beginning of a student's college career might save years of time and effort. When love and kindness cease, all en- joyment is taken out of life.—CicEso. 0 "He that can hear a reproof and mend by it, if he is not wise, he is in a fair way of being so." 0 "Great men hold fast to their visions; that is why they are great." DENOMINATIONAL NEWS Between November 16 and November 23 four missionaries and their wives sailed from United States parts for mis- sion fields, some returning after furlough, others going out for the first time. A word about how "The World Appre- ciates Our Books," Brother Paddock of the Canadian Watchman press writes: "One letter, received this week, says 'I bought a book from an agent, the name of the book being, Steps to Christ. I like it so well I would like to have three more of them to send out for gifts. Please let price.'" Also the following • "Another letter asks for prices on Steps to Christ, well bound. In another mail comes an order for two of these same books from a large firm in Toronto. We have the best books in the world and should be proud of them." Now the heart is so full that a drop over- fills it; We are happy now because God wills it. —LowELL. EVERY FINANCIAL SERVICE Deposit Boxes Saving Accounts Loans FARMERS' STATE BANK College View, Nebr. EVILS IN THE WORLD NOT MAGNIFIED (Continued from page one) tribute to false protectionist firms and other organizations with gang backing. In the face of this, men are planning to build greater cities, he said 'The New York committee of expansion is spending a million dollars and is planning to double the size of their city. We have one great consolation to look forward to, he concluded, and that is the city of the New Jerusalem in which there will be no wickedness. 0 ON WITH 'THE WORK' Raymond II. Hartwell, writing of the work in the Yunnan mission, says, "Our few church members are zealous work- ers, and are anxious to enter into any line of personal work suggested, and are suggesting new methods themselves. As a result, others have been gathered in. God watered the seed sown and has given this increase."—(Central 11 i 0 in Outlook, Dec. 3, 1929.) Pastor John L. Shaw, in his subject of "Broader Plans for 1930," quotes from a letter from 11. E. Baasch, of Columbia, the last republic of South America to be entered: "In one place, being urged to hold a meeting in a public square, G. C. Nickle addressed a crowd of not less than a thousand people. The subject was the Bible, and for almost one hour that crowd listened in solemn silence to words spoken from a little box that served for a pulpit." Speaking of the need of the world-wide work he goes on to say, "A thrice-trimmed estimate of needs called for over five million dollars, and the Columbia council voted $5,015,000 appro- priation, by far the largest in our his- tory."—(Review and Herald, Nov. 5.) 0 It is an everlasting duty—the duty of being brave.—TIIONI AS CARLYLE. kt•';*;•(;;;XX.X•1‹:>:.•;.<•:4•1"!;:::<•>:•:••:•'.'7'•:•:!:"••"•••:•;:•:'''•:•.:•;,•1••;•:• 7 ,:• ••:€•,::•;•>t:X•XX•X::•:•>::''.‹•;•••:: WANT SERVICE? —One day Two way— Call HOWARD CLEANERS Phone FO-415 LADIES' SILK DRESSES PLAIN—$1.25 H. D. Enslow, Mgr. et4'.•;•:•:K.:1•.:.•:<>1.2K>I.X•;i:•>.:X•>,.:1.‹.€•••:.Y.:+X>:.•.:?:.:X.:K>14XXCKX•:••.•.>,:•.:;;; • ;;XXX•;••.• • ••:•: •• • Second Semester OF UNION COLLEGE Begins January 12 Write for information Address Registrar Union College, College View, Nebr. 4 THE CLOCK TOWER The mothers' society held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Frank Serns Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gordon of Denver, Colorado, visited their son and daughter Calvin and LaVona, since Tuesday. Carl Moyers is recovering from in- juries received when his car skidded into a ditch as he was returning from his holiday vacation. Miss Olive Louise Cummings stopped in College View Friday on her way to Hurley, South Dakota, where she teaches in the public school. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Hansen and daught- ers, Ruth and Margery, returned to their home at Nevada, Iowa, Sunday after spending a week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Habenicht. Mrs. Hansen is a sister of Mrs. Habenicht. Mr. and Mrs. Torval Johnson spent New Year's day in Omaha with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Patty. Both the Andersons and the Pattys were Unionites. Mr. Ander- son was a graduate of the class of '20. Academy Notes Esther House was out of school two days this past week because of illness. Miss Clara Culver sang two song at the Philomathian Society, Thursday, January 2, and Allie Banik played several numbers on his guitar. A fire at the home of Mr. Tom Gilla- spie, Thursday evening, January 2, was extinguished before much damage was done. The contest between the boys and girls to promote attendance at the Philoma- thian Society, is close. At the last meet- ing a tie was reported. Both sides now have an even chance. Come to the next meeting and help your side to win! TEACHERS ATTEND LECTURES Professor Schilling and Professor Jor- gensen attended the American Associa- tion for the advancement of science held December 27 to January 2 in Des Moines. Lectures were given of a non-technical nature for the general public as well as lectures for the association alone, at which time various parts of the field of science were covered. Some lectures were illustrated by lantern slides and motion pictures. Dr. Robert A. Milliken was one of the prominent speakers at the con- vention. MEETINGS AT CORTLAND AND BEATRICE Messrs. Willard Wentland, Walter Howe, and A. K. Phillips conducted Sab- bath meetings at Cortland, Beatrice, and Fairbury. Sunday night Pastor R. W. Leach conducted the regular Sunday night meeting at Weeping Water, where he is conducting an effort. On December 28, Mr. Louis Ferge- son, assisted by Pastor Youngberg, con- ducted the service at Cortland and Pas- tor House, assisted by Pastor Young- berg, conducted the service at Beatrice and Fairbury. LEW SARETT TO LECTURE SAT- URDAY NIGHT Lew Sarrett, poet, woodsmen and for- est ranger, university professor and lec- turer, one of the unique literary figures of America, is to give the next number of the Union college lyceum course Satur- day night. It would require columns instead of the few inches available space to tell the story of his rise from obscurity to nat- ion-wide distinction as one of the not- able poets of this generation. His many- sided life includes his experience as a newsboy, a bundle-carrier in a depart- ment store, a worker in a sweat shop, a life-saver, a teacher of woodcraft in sportsmen's camps, a naturalist, a guide in the Canadian north, a U. S. ranger in the Rocky mountains, and a professor at Northwestern university. Mr. Sarett was unable to appear in the lyceum course at Union college two years ago. Unionites look forward with anticipa- tion to his lecture, "Slow Smoke," which he will give Saturday night. EXCHANGE "When you've work to do, do it with a will; They who reach the top, first must climb the hill." —Campus Chronicle. "One crack ruins the music of the greatest bell. One sin will make life a discord." Mrs. Rose New Vallie of Omaha visit- ed her mother, Mrs. J. V. Petrik of Col- lege View, four days last week. The young married women's M. B. H. club met Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. D. K. Van Divier. Miss Mildred Atwater of Hastings, Nebraska, spent the past week with her cousin, Miss Wilma Johnson of College View. In the girls' self-improvement meeting on Thursday evening each girl of North hall donated five cents for the purchase of culinary ware for the spread room. Rosie Humann, who has been working in Chicago for the past six months, has returned to attend Union the second se- mester. Mr. and Mrs. Axelson Lawrence, of Exira, Iowa, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stout. Mrs. Lawrence, who is a sister of Mrs. Stout, and her husband are moving to Palisade, Colo- rado, where they have purchased a large peach orchard. Miss Rees Speaks to the Boys Standards By Which a Man is Judged Is Subject For Talk The standards by which a man is Judg- ed were related to the young men by Dean Pearl Rees at the weekly meeting of the young men's club of South hall. Miss Rees used as the basis of her talk a pamphlet, "Fineness of a Man," by Dr. Crane, in which he lists qualities essential in the makeup of a "fine man." Spirituality is classed by Dr. Crane as the first thing necessary for a man. Sim- plicity of words, habits, food, and clothes is rated second. The third quality is ser- vice. The superior man likes to serve his friends and takes as his motto the word "others," Miss Rees said. • Dr. Crane lists the superior man as being able to control his pleasures and not let his pleasures control him. The fine man is never bitter and does not ut- ilize every opportunity to show off, she continued. The last two characteristics listed by Dr. Crane are humility and the ability to become familiar with one's friends with- out its breeding contempt. Expressions of ten girls of North hall as to the qualities they liked most in a man were read by Miss Rees to con- clude her talk. NORTH HALL HOUSE COMMITTEE ENTERTAINS The North and South met again, ap- parently peacefully this time, Sunday morning. The young women's house com- mittee entertained the young men's house committee at an eight o'clock breakfast, initiating the new gas range in the spread room. Waffles, fruit salad, and fresh strawberry tarts were served. Those present were Dean Rees, Misses Lulu Blanche Hiatt, Verd Nell Rice, Len- nie Gepford, Mildred Rhoads, Ella John- son, Fae Cowin, Ada Williams, Dean and Mrs. Nelson, Messrs. Harry Craig, Harold Lincoln, Harrison Evans, Herbert Nelson, and Lee Thomas. 0 PROGRAM GIVEN AT STATE ORPHANAGE SABBATH A group of the Sunshine band mem- bers under the leadership of Dorothy Aultfather visited the State Orphanage Sabbath. The program consisted of two clarinet duets by Elsa Emery and Leon Baker, accompanied by Ada Williams, a story by Herbert Nelson, a piano solo by Ada Williams, and a Bible game con- ducted by Velvah Smouse. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.—ROBERT E. LEE. '00000 5 :00000.0•00.0000f3 1 00 One 8x10 Photograph One dollar ($1.00) each Teachers' Application Photos 1 Dollar per doz. BARNETT STUDIO 1241 N St. 0000-0000oi.:.Yoc ,c ,c*00000 Modernism Invades The Home Circle BY ENIIL J. PICK It was one of those rare days when all the world is permeated with the divin- ity of sunshine; when human souls put on their wings and take flight into the realms of what it pleases us to call the Sheer Joy of Living; when Rev. Boyd, the pastor of the city's largest church, sat on his front porch silently but eagerly waiting for his son, who had just taken his Ph. D. at a western university, and who was coining first to see "Dad" be- fore going into life's activities. The trees with their new coat of green were waving their boughs leisurely in the warm May breeze. The sky with an un- usual glow of azure blue, decked only with the morning jewel, showed no trace of floating clouds. But to Rev. Boyd all this was not, for he was tracing the life of his son, whom he was so proud of and whom he was expecting so soon. Now that he had finished his course, as a Doctor of Philosophy, what were some of his own opinions and ideas? He was awakened from his meditation by the sound of an auto horn, and there just inside the private driveway was parked a yellow roadster, out of which a man was climbing smiling defiantly. It was his son, Kenneth. Some time later the two were wrapped in earnest conversation. "Dad, I can- not speak as a theologian nor even as a Christian on your question," replied Ken- neth. "There is something appealing about this man Jesus at it comes to us in the Christian Bible, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy, it may even be a myth." "Kenneth, do you speak with sincer- ity?" asked the Pastor, surprisedly. "I do, Dad, but I do say that this Jesus expressed a unique viewpoint, which one cannot find in any other Eastern re- ligion, Judaism, Greek or Roman, Budd- hism, or any of the rest. Even to the people who adopted Christianity, it was so alien in thought that the so-called Christian church has never given evi- dence of accepting it." "True, son, but Christians have al- ways believed that Jesus was God. They have found it easy also, to believe that he performed all sorts of miracles, heal- ing the sick, calling Lazarus from the tomb, and eventually, rising from the grave himself and ascending into heaven, until of just recent years," spoke the older man, with a fixed gaze on the dis- tant trees. Both mused in thought. Kenneth spoke. "That is true also, but it was never easy for them to believe what Jesus be- lieved. History shows that, even fi-om the earliest days to the present, the church has been a continuous negation of 'the mind which was in Christ Jesus'. But what you infer is that there is today growing disbelief. This can only be expected. Naturally when Christians criticize scientists because they cannot believe miracles, scientists can likewise criticize Christians because they do not believe the teachings of Christ." "What do you mean, Kenneth?" "I do not mean some hidden or debat- able text or some single incident of Christ's life. It is rather the central theme of all his teachings. It is in the Sermon on the Mount. It is dominant in all his intimate talks with his disciples and it is in his last recorded words upon the cross. This, I think, most of the Christians have not themselves believed." "Do you mean love?" "Yes, Dad, love. And it is just on this viewpoint, love, that I think the most amazing transition in human evolution is in progress. Religionists and scientists are finding it possible to grasp this 'Jesus view-point'. 'Thou shalt love thy neigh- •••••••••••••••••••••••••• v If you are Bashful Say it With Flowers Kuhner the Florist Call 457 O t ••••••••••••......•oo•oo: •••••••••••••••••••••••••• TEXACO Golden Motor Oil FLOWS FREELY AT ZERO WEATHER Rodney's Texaco Filling Station • ••••••••••••••••••••••••• bor as thyself' . . . . 'Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.' Flis one idea was to organize the human life about this principle of love. But it is hardly to be wondered at that the world did not accept his theory. It seems to me that today better under- standing exists on this principle as a whole." "Yes, son. I know that this gospel which you call a theory was put on ice by the Western world while they went about applying the old accustomed prin- ciples. They put them in a book, which was ever so much less effort than would have required to give the theories a test. They worshipped the cross on which the Son of man expired and proceeded to crucify the sons of men. They set up forms of belief and of conduct by which to distinguish the righteous from the sin- ner while all scrambled to secure the places of honor." "And make the other fellow do the hard work," added Kenneth. "But not only that, son, the worship- pers of the Prince of Peace glorified war, and wealth became the mark of honor among the followers of him who had not where to lay his head. History records 110 other such failure. This Divine Christ was crucified, dead, buried, rose again, only to he placed among the wooden idols of conventional morality while those who cried 'Lord, Lorci' went about in the manner of the Pharisees. I do not see any difference, even today." "Don't misunderstand me, Dad. I don't iay the unchristian world is living out his gospel. But I do say that this unity and oneness in social life is being de- veloped that he advocated. I believe that the masses realize as a whole more fully that life cannot be lived alone. Human life is social in character and consists of an infinite network of human relationships. In a world in which every- body is so intimately related to every- body and everybody's welfare is so de- pendent upon everybody else's welfare, it is only in love for others that one can express one's self." Kenneth and Rev. Boyd became lost in thought because there was something wonderfully fascinating about this man Jesus and his transcendent leading. 0 Education Teaches Orderly Thinking BY R. WILLARD WEN rLAND To have the opportunity to gain a col- legt, education in a Christian school is a rareiprivilege. I am glad it came to me, although it has been hard work for four year5.. Even if I should return to the farm; to live after gradontion, I still woujd not be sorry for the time, money, and hard work a college training has cost, me. Isflost of us enter college with an ex- perience that is real but extremely limit- ed. We have lived in our own back yard and seldom looked over the fence. We need to enlarge our horizon and learn something of everything. But why go to college anyway? I have heard good parents say, "We are going to send John and Mary to school ; then they will not have to work as hard as we do for a living." Such parents have the wrong conception of what an education is for. An education should not be sought as an easier way to earl a livelihood, to earn more money, but to serve humanity in a fuller and better way. Good schools and colleges have never promised money as a reward for their instruction. They were instituted with a far different purpose. One of the greatest things my college training has taught me is the habit of orderly thinking, the necessity of think- ing things through from the beginning tc the end. When we go into the laboratory, we find that nothing in nature happens accidentally. For every effect there is an adequate cause, every' phenomenon depends upon the orderly marshalling of certain forces. The same combination of circumstances will invariably bring forth the same result. When one moves on into the fields of psychology and eco- nomics' he discovers that human beings, like the physical elements, act in accord- ance with known impulses and laws. Produce a given set of conditions and people will respond in a certain definite way. I learned to love books, good books, before I went to college, but college has strengthened this attachment. I find real enjoyment in reading choice selections of prose and poetry. I have become ac- quainted with many ,- ,f the best writers, preachers, and teachers of the past, many of whom I should never have known had I not come to college. I have learned who some of the best writers of today are and to appreciate their works. But above all I have learned more about Jesus, the greatest Teacher the world has ever known, and I have learned to love better the book of books, the Bible. After all, if I should forget every technical thing I have learned at col- lege, I shall never forget the college friendships. The friendships that are formed in college persist as one of the richest assets of one's life. One can en- joy life more because of the things he learns to do and to like in college. 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