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COLLEGE VIEW, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER  19, 1929  VoL. IV .  
Flashes of News of National Interest  
BY HAROLD LINCOLN  
Clock Tower Outgrows Office ; Moves  
PLANS OTHER IMPROVEMENTS FOR FUTURE  
Spacious Room Now Occupied by Staff  
BY KENNETH CROUSE  

APPEALS T 0 YOUTH  s/  
Asks Students  to Open Hearts  During  
Week  of Prayer as  Move  
To  Higher Ground  
Why have a week of Prayer? and  
What is the goal of the Christian for  
this week of Prayer? were questions an- 
swered in the first vesper service of the  
week of prayer by President Thompson.  
We need to take an inventory  of our  
lives, he said, and examine our  souls,  
so that we may know  the condition of  
our Christian experience. He read  the  
admonition given in Eccl. 12:1:  	 Re-  
member  now thy Creator in the days of  
thy youth. Many men who come  to God  
in later years bewail the fact  that their  
youth was wasted, for it is in youth  that  
great things are accomplished for God, he  
continued.  
The second question Professor Thomp- 
son asked was the same question that God  
asked Elijah when He found him hiding  
in a cave: What dost thou here?  The  
voice that spoke to Elijah was not in the ,  
wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in  
a still small voice. That still small voice  
continues to speak to the hearts of men  
and will speak to every student during the  
week of prayer, the speaker said.  
President Thompson gave several ways  
in which this question might be answered,  
bat  the real answer, he  said,  was a yearn- 
isj  in the heart for better things. He  
continued by saying that when Elijah  
was asked this question, he began to  
complain; this is a natural human trait  
and a good reason why Christian people  
need a Week of Prayer.  
FOLLOW JESUS AND  	 k   -  
BE INDIVIDUALISTIC  
Being Christian Only Freedom  
From Being Sham, Asserts  
Pres. Thompson  
President Thompson based his talk  
for the first chapel in the week of Prayer  
on the individualism of Jesus. "Jesus  
was the only man who was really in- 
dividualistic," he said. "There is nothing  
in the whole world that Jesus hated so  
much as a sham—he preferred harlots ,o  
hypocrites.  
"I  believe every man needs forms and  
rules, but he also needs determination to  
do the things he professes. Many a man  
can give up a job to keep the Sabbath,  
but it is not so simple for a man to give  
up a temper to keep his patience."  
He continued to say that if a man has  
a clean heart  he  stays away from un- 
clean things, not because of rules or re- 
quirements but from an honest desire for  
clean living. Every man needs to have  
certain things he will do and certain  
things he will not do, but even when this  
is so, he will be powerless unless he has  
Jesus  in his life.  
"A Christian is a man who has so  
fought  this out that  sin becomes so ab- 
horrent and repellent that he hates sin; 
he has a  rule  for life. If a man comes  
to the place where he is living for others,  
he has acquired a unique thing."  
(Continued on page 4)  
N. HALL CLUB MEETS  
Improvement Program Includes Musical  
And Literary Numbers  
To open  the  North hall young women's  
c I u b, Wednesday, Dorothy Aultfather  
and Ada Williams presented a humor- 
ous little sketch illustrating two differ- 
ent methods of packing a suitcase before  
vacation. Ruth Wiest then read the  
"Guess Who" article, telling of the life  
of Professor Walther.  
"Little Gray Home in the West" was  
the vocal solo by Clara Culver. Rose  
Hutchison then gave the current event,  
in which she discussed how the radio  
was confusing people in the correct pro- 
nunciation of the English language.  
After the reports of the critic and the  
sergeant-at-arms, the meeting was ad- 
journed.  
"Whatever the number of a man's  
friends, there will be times in his life  
when he has one too few, but if he has  
only one enemy he is lucky indeed if he  
ha; not one too many."  

CALENDAR  
FRIDAY, DECEMBER  20  
Sun sets  	  5:01 p.  
Gospel Workers' Seminar  	  6:45 p.  
Sunshine Band  	  6:30 p. m.  
Vesper Service  	  8:00 p. m,    
SABBATH, DECEMBER  21  
Men's Prayer Club  	  8:00  a. m.  

OF EVENTS  
Teachers' Meeting  	 9: 15 a. at.  
Sabbath School  	  10:00  a. rn.  
Church Services  	  11:00 a. rn.  
Village M. V. Meeting .... 3:30 p. n,.  
Oratorical Contest Finals ..8:00 p. m.  
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23  
Christina, Vacation .... 12:15 p. in.  

Essays in Wednesday and Orations to  
Be Given Saturday Night  
The final contest for those who are  
taking part in the prohibition oratorical  
contest will take place December 21, at  
8:00 p. m. in the college chapel. No  
admission will be charged and every  
one is invited. Those in charge of the  
contest request that babies and small 
children should not be brought because  
of the nature of the program. The judges  
will lie chosen from Lincoln and the  
vicinity.  
The speeches will be twelve minutes  
long, and those taking part are: Dorothy  
Aultfather, R. F.  Cook, Stanley Hilde,  
Theodore Howard, Huldrich Humann,  
Donald Madison, A. K. Phillips, and  
Ellis Storing. Of those who took part  
in the essay contest, the following will  
receive their themes back for minor cor-
rections before final judgment is passed:  
Marjorie Bonniwell, Glora Bruce, Ken- 
neth Krouse; Ben Dupper, Ernest Han- 
sen, Donna Nelson, Gladys Merkle,  
Sonnenberg, Mary Hannah Thompson,  
Ellen Vogel, Glen Wood, Mildred  
Rhoads and  Ina Wren.  
PROFESSOR WILCOX  
TALKS IN WORSHIP  
Former South Hall Dean of Men  
Discusses ,the Progress of  
Intellectuality  
Former dean of men, Professor Benton  
H. Wilcox, spoke to the Young  Men's  
club in South hall, Thursday evening. His  
subject was, "Why is the United States  
what it is today?"  
The topic of the evening was opener'  
by the question, Why is the United  
States enjoying the period of intellectual  
progress and prosperity that it is enjoy- 
ing today? "Is it because of our famed  
politicians and leaders?" "I think not,"  
said Professor Wilcox, pointing out the  
fallacies and corrupt features of several  
administrations in our federal government  
administration governed by men whom  
we idealize and whom we rate heroes  
today. -  That which is directly respon- 
sible for our  country's  apparent success  
lies in the fact that the United States once  
had a frontier. Not a frontier as we  
usually think of it, not one of intricate  
boundaries and restrictions; but a front- 
ier where man could move on to earthly  
paradise and leave behind him his mis- 
takes and failures; a frontier to which a  
man could go and begin life over again  
with everything in his favor."  
(Continued  on page 4)  
LITTLE GIVES REVIEW  
Jewish Doxology, 'God of Abraham Praise'  
Feature of S. S. Program  
Sabbath morning at ten o'clock found  
a majority of the students in Sabbath  
school.  
' Pastor E. J. Lorntz, who has been a  
missionary in Central America for a  
number of years, gave the mission talk.  
He said, "Plan how to work for your  
Master twenty-four hours a day. This  
is possible by giving of your means to  
help those on the other side of the goal.  
In this way you work for your Master  
in the day time and your money works  
in the night."  
He said that Catholics are harder to  
work with than heathen, yet the message  
must be given to even those.  	 Then he  
told of a Catholic boy whose name was  
Pedro. His mother was in jail and the  
boy had no place to sleep. He was to 
be killed at the governor's request but  
shortly before this he became a Christian  
and a changed young man, who is now a  
missionary to his own people.  
The speaker continued saying, "There  
is something in our message that changes  
men. Just as the silver is extracted from  
the black veins in a rock and converted  
to pure silver, so the Lord refines people.  
Professor Little pointed out in the re- 
view that God is very particular in hav- 
ing His instructions strictly followed. He  
said that even though the children of  
Israel did not understand why some re- 
quirements were necessary they had to  
do exactly as they were instructed in  
order to make their deliverance from  
Egyptian bondage possible. He brought  
out that God's people today may not al- 
ways understand, but in order to make  
possible their deliverance from the bond- 
age of sin, God's Instructions must be  
strictly followed.  
The regular order was carried out in the  
remainder of the program, which consisted  
of the following features: the secretary's  
report by Fae Cowin and the scripture  
reading by Professor Ledington, who also  
told the history of the Jewish doxology  
which the Sabbath school choir sang.  

SEMINARIANS SPEAK  
Prayer Meetings and Sabbath Schools  
Conducted at Various  Places  
The meeting at the state reformatory  
Thursday night was under the super- 
vision of Emil Fick. Velma Smouse sang  
two solos and Mr. Fick gave an address  
on the seven laws of life, giving his idea  
as the place that love, wisdom, justice,  
abundance, immortality, habits, and hap- 
piness should hold in the life of an in- 
dividual. He made a comparison of  
these with the seven natural wonders of 
the world. In conclusion he said that  
the only one that could perpetuate these  
laws of life is Jesus Christ and on him  
we should put all our dependence.  
Howard Johnson sang a solo, followed  
by a duet by Mr. Johnson and Miss  
Srnouse.  
Ellis Storing and Walter Howe visited  
the church at Fremont Sabbath.  	 Mr.  
Howe spoke at the Sabbath morning ser- 
vice and was assisted by Mr. Storing.  
Donald Madison met with one of the  
village prayer meetings Wednesday even- 
ing.  
(Continued on page 4)  
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT  
PRESENTS RECITAL  
Students of Music Show Result of  
Faithful Work in Program  
Saturday Night  
A recital by the students in the music  
department was given in the college  
chapel Saturday evening. The program  
was as follows: Vocal solo, "Friends ol  
Mine," by Sanderson, James Meade;  
violin  solo, "Scotch Lullaby,"  by DeLeone;  
Mabel Nelson; vocal solo, "Absent," by  
Metcalf, Grant Stahnke; vocal solo, "M3  
Laddie," by Thayer, Velda Stahnke;  
piano solos, "Three Part Invention in A  
minor," by Bach, "In Autumn," by Mac- 
Dowell, "By a Meadow Brook," by Mac- 
Dowell, Melda Ragsdale; vocal solo,  
"Slave Song," by Del Riego, Ada Town- 
send ; violin solo, "Midnight Bells," by  
Kreisler, Della Kremer; vocal solo, "An  
Irish Folk Song," by Foote, Clara Culver;  
violin solo, "Concerto No. 9," by de- 
Beriot, La Merne 'Walker.  
"The aids to a noble life are all  
within."  
There are not crown wearers in  
Heaven that were not cross-bearers here  
below.—SPURCEON.  
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BRANCHES ORGANIZE  
Sunshine Band Plans for Visits and  
Holiday Gifts and Programs  
In the program given at the Orthopedic  
hospital under the leadership of Elsie  
Mohr,  Theodore Howard told several  
stories bringing out the lesson that it pays  
to do right and that those who do so  
will receive a reward. Mr. Howard also  
sang the song "Lord, I want to be a  
Christian." Olivia Harder played a  
piano solo; Viola Christensen told a Bible  
story; Willie Dee Wilson sang; and  
Chloe Adams told a story about birds, il- 
lustrating by drawing pictures.  
The program at the State Orphanage,  
of which Dorothy Ault father was in  
charge, consisterd of violin selections by  
Hazel Klpp, stories by Ada Townsend  
and Ruth Gardner, and songs In which  
the children took part, led by Eva Parker.  
The Sunshine band will meet Friday  
night at 6:30 instead of 7:00 o'clock.  
Singing bands will be formed under  ,dif- 
ferent leaders to visit the homes of the  
aged and shut-ins in College View. A  
potted plant or flower will be given to  
each person visited.  
A relief band has been organized to  
visit the poor and give them Christmas  
gifts, such as clothing and toys for the  
children. The group leaders are plan- 
ning special Christmas programs for Sab- 
bath afternoon, and are planning also to  
make popcorn balls to give to the chil- 
dren in the hospitals and orphanages.  
Toys being made by the children in the  
training school will be taken to these  
places also.  
An after dinner program is to be given  
Christmas day at the Old People's home.  
Bibles, magazines, and books are to be  
given to each person. The books are  
being donated to the Sunshine band by  
the Central Union office.  
When one is fully emptied of self the  
vacuum is filled by the inflowing of the  
Spirit of Christ."—Gospel  Workers p.  
287.  

PROF. ANDREASEN  
VISITS AT UNION  
Former Executive Dean Leads out  
In Week of Prayer at Scene  
Of Former Labors  
TIMELY ADMONITION  
In an Interview He Reveals Some Person-  
nal Convictions About Young People,  
Education, Etc.  
BY C. PAUL BRINGLE  
Professor Milian L. Andreasen, who  
has been leading out in the week of  
prayer at Union college during the past  
week, is not a stranger here, having been  
for four years the executive dean and  
professor of Biblical exegesis act Union.  
A wide and varied experience is re- 
vealed by the history of his life. Notice  
some of the high points: he was born in  
Denmark; he came to the United States  
with his parents while only a boy; he  
accepted the Seventh-day Adventist truth  
when a young man; for a year and a  
half he attended Battle Creek college;  
he entered the ministry in Chicago, where  
he labored for five years; he was then  
president of the Greater New York con- 
ference for five years; he was president  
of Hutchinson Theological seminary for  
eight years; for four years he was pro- 
fessor of Biblical exegesis and the execu- 
tive dean at Union; he was for two  
years professor of Biblical exegesis at  
Washington Missionary college; and for  
five years now he has been the president  
of the Minnesota conference — n e a r l y  
thirty years of active work. Is there  
any wonder that Union college students  
have had confidence in his admonitions  
during this week of prayer?  
"I have many interesting memories of  
(Continued on page 4)  
KEYNOTE OF WEEK  
SOUNDED SABBATH  
Pres.Thompson Conducts Service;  
. Says Sincerity and Purpose  
Necessary Traits  
The first regular week of prayer read- 
ing was read in the church, Sabbath by  
President P. L. Thompson. The article  
brought out the need of knowing doc- 
trines as well as having confirmed be- 
liefs in them. President Thompson re- 
marked that the driving force in the lives  
of missionaries is the thought of the  
second coming of Christ. He said that  
it is well for church members to review  
the doctrines they are supposed to be- 
lieve and see if they really do believe  
them, believe them strong enough to act  
upon them. While Christ is able to save  
the individual, emphasized the speaker,  
he must not forget that he has a part to  
play, and that part consists to a large  
degree on the proper action of the will.  
Though everyone has responsibilities  
in regard to salvation, stated President  
Thompson, people must not get the idea  
that it is ever possible to achieve salva- 
tion alone, for it must be a work in co- 
operation with Christ. Many people, he  
said, fail as Christians because of pure  
laziness, because they do not place them- 
selves in an environment where they will  
be under the influence of the Spirit of  
God.  
The value of this week of prayer to  
each one will depend, explained Presi- 
dent Thompson, on individual reactions  
—willingness to vary the schedule of  
regular duties in order to have time for  
it, as well as the mental attitude taken  
toward it.  
VILLAGE BANK OPENS  
Unzicker is Cashier of Reorganized  
College View Institution  
The reorganized Farmers' State bank  
of College View opened Monday morning  
at its old location. State Bank Com- 
missioner George Woods approved the  
reorganization plan Saturday.  
W. E. Berkley is president of the bank.  
The vice-president is George A. Framp- 
ton, who has had fifteen years of exper- 
ience in charge of country banks and is  
now with the Lincoln Joint Stock Land  
bank. R. Unzicker, who is cashier, has 
been cashier of the Normal State bank  
for the past ten years.  	 Miss Opal  
Dresselhause is the bookkeeper of the  
bank.  
The capital stock of 125,000 has been  
resubscribed, in addition to $5,000 which  
has been paid in as surplus and $250 as  
undivided profits. Fifteen percent credit  
will be given depositors in the former  
bank.  

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No. 12  
CONTEST NEAR CLOSE SPEAKER URGES  
LIFE INVENTORY  
Alexander Zaimis, who preceded M.  
Venizelos as premier, was elected presi- 
dent of Greece by the Grecian parlia- 
ment. He succeeds Admiral Kondouri- 
otis, who resigned this week because cf  
ill health and old age.  
An application of Prince Carol, former  
crown prince of Roumania, to return to  
his native land was refused by the gov- 
ernment. The decree of Ferdinand, late  
king of Roumania, banishes the errant son  
until 1936, it was said. Carol is father  
of the boy king, Michael.  
Reijiro Wakatsuke and Admiral Takar- 
abe, heading the Japanese delegation to  
the forthcoming London disarmament con- 
ference, will stop in Washington for con- 
ference with Hoover. They asserted  
that their country would go far toward  
reducing its naval force as any other  
power.  
Ben B. Lindsey, former Denver ju- 
venile court judge and advocate of corn- 
panionate marriage, was disbarred by  
the Colorado state supreme court on  
charges of professional misconduct, em- 
bracing acceptance of fees while he was  
judge. The decision of the court was  
unanimous.  
Allotment of $700,000 for additional  
contract work and for advance prepara- 
tion for next season's operations on the  
inland waterways project of the Mis- 
souri river was announced by the war  
department. Of the sum $600,000 will  
be for the work below Kansas City and  
$100,000 for the work above Kansas  
City.  
The frigate  Constitution,  undergoing  
restoration at the Boston navy yard  
through public subscription, is expected 
to be ready for the water again some 
time this month. The navy has spent  
$477,873 in restoring the famous ship  
	  to  	 '•  
at the present rate until the end of the  
year at least. A total of $547,158 was  
contributed.  
Congress provided a $160,000,000 tax  
slash as a Christmas gift to the tax-pay- 
ing public late Saturday, December 14,  
when the senate approved the adminis- 
tration's tax reduction resolution in the  
same form in which it passed the house  
a week ago. The slash will take effect  
January 1 on taxes due next March 15  
as applied to incomes earned during this  
year.  
Patrick J, Sullivan of Cheyenne, Wyo- 
ming, and David Baird of Camden, New  
Jersey, were  administered the oath of  
office in the senate December 9 from  
their respective states as successors to 
the vacancies left by Senator Warren of  
Wyoming, deceased, and Walter Edge  
of New Jersey, who resigned to become  
ambassador to France. They are serv-  
THE CLOCK TOWER is a moving enter- 
prise. Not commercially, but otherwise.  
The four walls and three doors  at the  
zenith of useable space in the adminis- 
tration building will no longer furnish  
inspiration to reporters, poets, and edi- 
tors. Its literary future is contingent  
upon its use as a garret.  
The room that has seen editors in all  
the moods an editor is capable of being  
in is deserted. Its fate is as yet un- 
determined. It may be a music studio,  
it may be a storeroom, or—it may be  
vacant. Whatever its future, its past  
will always be significant.  
The moving of THE CLOCK TOWER  
from fourth floor to a room on second  
just above the main entrance of the col- 
lege building is primarily a result of  
expansion. TIam Csocic TOWER is launched   

ing only temporarily, as special elections  
next month will fill the vacancies.  
Haiti resumed its normal aspect, confid- 
ent that there would be no continuation  
of week-end rioting, which cost the lives  
of five natives as well as more than a  
score of wounded. President Louis Born- 
eo issued a manifesto charging ambitious  
persons wishing a change in the govern-  
ment with causing the disorders.  	 He  
praised the American forces for the man- 
ner in which they performed their duties.  
With approximately 100 in en and  
women strikers and pickets under arrest  
on charges of disorderly conduct and  
attempts to incite rioting in the central  
Illinois coal field, civil authorities ap- 
peared to be in complete control of a  
situation w hich earlier in the week  
threatened to end in bloodshed. The  
attempted strike was precipitated by the  
National Miners' union Monday, Decem- 
ber 9.  
A delegation  of six men is beginning  the  
task of fashioning the structure of what  
is planned to be the largest co-operative  
marketing organization'ever attempted— 
a $30,000,000 central agency to finance  
the handling of cotton in fifteen southern  
and western states. With support of the  
farm board the organization contemplates  
a loan fund for its stockholding members  
or their subsidiaries to finance the move- 
ment of crops to market or "any proper  
activity necessary to the free delivery,  
handling, or marketing of cotton, cotton- 
seed or their by-products."  
For the second time within six months  a  
desperate group of long term convicts in  
the Auburn, N. Y., state prison mutinied  
and spread death and terror throughout  
the prison, shooting down the principal  
keeper and seizing the warden and seven  
guards. The bodies of eight convicts and  
head keeper Geo. A. Durnford bore mute  
testimony of the marksmanship of the  
New York state troops, who broke the  
i'ock ui the pitSUll'revult, rule  .siVaruen  
Edgar S. Jennings and the seven prison  
guards from the grasp of the mutaineers,  
finally battling the armed convicts to  
death  in their cells. Geo. A. Sullivan,  
sergeant  of the prison guard, who was ap- 
pointed acting warden by the state com- 
missioner of correction, today blamed pri- 
son leniency and the Mutual Welfare  
league for the outbreak.  
Joseph B. Grundy presented himself  
to the senate as the new senator from  
Pennsylvania to take the seat made vac- 
ant by the barring of William Vare. He  
is privileged to use both vote and voice  
in advancing the cause which lies closest  
to his heart—the enactment of high tariff  
legislation. Senator Grundy had form- 
erly been the vice-president of the Amer- 
ican Tariff League and President of  the  
Pennsylvania Manufacturers' association.  
Upon being seated in the senate Grundy  
resigned each of the offices in behalf of  
"not casting any reflections upon my  
state."  
on the biggest year of its history. With  
the enlarging of the paper and an effort  
on the part of the staff to have news the  
predominating feature, the steps to the  
upper floor proved a decided handicap.  
The increased staff and the equipment  
necessary for their accommodation could  
not be provided for in the floor space  
available on fourth floor.  
In its new location THE CLOCK TOWER  
has a better supply and filing room, it  
being completely separated f r o rn the  
main part of the office. The lighting  
system, floors, and woodwork also are  
an improvement over those of the former  
room.  
Other additions and improvements are  
being planned by the staff and will be  
effected as soon as conditions warrant.  

Person Should Know Condition of  
Soul, Pres. Thompson  
Says at Vespers  
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What is the price of memories of  Pres. Thompson  	 
"homey" place?  
Are the memories of the happy years  Gives Summary of  South   hall   to you?  
Elsa Emery  	   
Luella Coleman  
Bert McBroom  
Alten Bringle  
Walter Carrol  

Secretary  
	  Treasurer  
-  	 Asst. Adv. Manager  
-  	 Asst. Adv. Manager  
-  	 Asst. Adv. Manager  
Special Religious Writer, E. Wendell Wolfe.  
Academy Reporter: Myrna George  
Typists: Dorothy Aultfather,  Ella Johnson, Ruth Stohlman  
NO ISSUE NEXT WEEK  
In harmony with customary practice in schools, THE CLOCK TOWER will not  
be published next week.  
HOW WEAVETH THOU ?  
For many years weeks of prayer have come and gone. A week of prayer  
carries with it new beginnings and experiences re-enforced with added blessings.  
Prayer is at the very foundation of these advances in Christian life.  
As one threads the frame of an Indian loom, so this week has meant  
threading a new set of warp strings on the loom of our spiritual philosophy. But, 
though the warp strings may be stronger, may be the exact color and tautness  
needed, the woof threads to be woven over and under these foundation threads  
will determine the perfectness of the final pattern. It is in our hands to throw  
the shuttle, which draws the woof thread through the separated threads, and to  
pull the beam, thus pushing the thread close to the woven part.  
Will you allow the Master workman to guide your hand in the execution of  
your life's pattern? Will you, in your impatience, hastily jerk the beam, break- 
ing a warp thread or fraying the woof thread? Will you forget in the complexity  
and urgency of absorbing daily duties to weave your pattern with clean hands?  
Will your pecuniary soul grudge the thread needed to make the pattern, so that  
places in the tapestry will be pulled and misshapen? Even though discouragements  
an weariness come, will you faithfully attempt the completion of your initial  
gittern?  
Your design need not be as elaborate as the tapestries made by a Jacquard  
loom. Your motif may be puritanically plain, but the steadfast dependability and  
meticulous accuracy that you have exercised under the motivating power of the  
great Workman will determine the excellence of the finished product.  
"GOOD WILL UNTO MEN"  
Christmas! Oh, the spirit of it! '1.';',..0i.rne is here when the sleigh bells ring  
out merrily on country roads and the Yule log is dragged home to be lifted to  
its accustomed place on the andirons.  
As far back as Gawain and the Green Knight we have records of the festiv- 
ities carried on at this merry season. In 1678, after Charles Ii had re-established  
Christmas festivities, a pamphlet was printed in London which contained  - The  
Examination and Trial of Old Father Christmas:' Father Christmas was brought  
before the bar and a jury decided his fate. The story is written in allegorical  
form similar to Bunyan's  Pilgrim's Progress.  Christmas was acquitted, DUE the  
, ss ha ve h e n  t act upon  
you, for the future do think fit to admonish you, that you remember your office  
is not so much to feed the Body, as to refresh the Soul, by thankful and pious  
Meditations."  
Beneath the colorful gayety of Christmas is the beautiful custom of giving.  
Some one has said that the spirit of Christmas is so potent that the most hardened  
cannot escape it. How often gifts express only the monetary value of the gift  
and the financial status of the giver. The intrinsic value of a word of helpful  
counsel, warning admonition, the glimmer in the eyes, a sigh, a caress, or a laugh  
cannot be calculated. But these outward evidences of the goodwill message are  
of inestimable worth. Though one cannot shower his friends with holly-wreathed,  
ribbon-tied packages, one can give that which cannot be purchased at any store,  
at any price. One can give himself in service. No effort to bless some one else,  
to give him greater joy at this season of glad tidings, will be lost. To be more  
kind, more considerate, less selfish, more fair and honest with one's fellow men,  
is the Christmas gift that each can give. Whatever of kindliness, of goodwill,  
or -   of sympathy that has been stored up in the months previous to Christmas, let  
it out at Christmas tide.  
if  Union of Thoughts  
The Clock Tower through this column at- 
tempts to give students an opportunity to  
express their opinions on  subjects  of general  
interest and improvement to the college.  
Those answering are picked at random.  
QUESTION  
Should our brick walks be replaced with  
cement walks?  
ANSWER  
Kathryn Lutz: New walks in ex- 
change for our old serpentine brick ones?  
Well,, it seems a shame to take them a- 
way. It would almost erase all the mem- 
ories they have held through all these  
long years. Would those old graduates  
feel at home on white cement? Would  
we still have that same old college spirit?  
We could hardly get along even today  
without them, for what would we do  
without those bricks to ruin our heels?  
Calvin Gordon: Our serpentine walks  
are not, it is true, in the excellent state  
of preservation they once were; but they  
are by no means dangerous or unsafe for  
human travel. Of course, we must not  
let sentiment hinder progress, but since  
there are so many improvements that must  
be made regardless of sentiment, I think  
we should retain as far as possible the  
scenes that are familiar to Union's sons  
and daughters the world over. These  
walks are as much a part of Union as is  
the administration building, and each brick  
seems to bear some memory or sentiment  
connected with the dim past of Union's  
bygone days. After all, it is not the new  
and expensive improvements that live in  
the memory of the alumni, but the vine- 
covered walls, the memory-filled chapel,  
the rock pile, and the old brick walks, that  
biiid their hearts to Union. Let's keep our 
brick walks.  
Bonnie Velhagen: The old brick walks  
have been here almost as long as the  

school has—at least for over thirty years.  
They are as much a part of the school as  
the clock tower or the• rock pile. There  
is a certain sentiment which attaches it- 
self to such things. For the sake of  
this sentiment, I think the brick walks  
should be preserved.  
Bert McBroom: Replace the rustic old  
brick walks on the campus with glaring,  
unlovely cement ones? And why, may  
I ask? The purpose of a walk is to keep  
one high and dry when the weather is  
damp. 	 Aren't the brick walks nobly  
serving the purpose for which they were  
intended? They are in perfect harmony  
with the brick buildings.  	 What more  
could one ask? I say, if we have money  
to spend for improvements, spend it for  
improvements and not for the distruction  
of these brick walks that so faithfully  
serve us every day.  
Furious gales which have taken at least  
108 lives and wrecked or damaged 69  
ships, still continue to lash the northeast- 
ern portion of the Atlantic ocean.  
On December 14 a group of half a hun- 
dred persons who claimed allegiance to  
the communist party of America were ar- 
rested in front of the White House for  
making a demonstration against the Hoo- 
ver policy in Haiti and the administra- 
tion's business conferences.  
Friendship that flows from the heart  
cannot be frozen by adversity, as the  
waters that flow from the spring cannot  
congeal in winter.—COOPER.  
"One monarch to obey, one creed to own;  
That monarch God, that creed Hi,  
Word alone."  	 —Id.  

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His Recent Trips  spent in old South hall worth a few  
C. Paul Bringle  	  President  
Walter Howe  	 - Business Manager  
Lee Thomas — Circulation Manager  
Huldrich Humann  	 - - - Advertising  
Fa. Cowin  	 - - - Asst. Cir. Manager  
EDITORIAL STAFF  
Ellen Vogel  
Staff A  
Elinore Hahn  	 •  	 . 	 Associate Editor  
Ada Williams  	 Assistant Editor  
Maude Reid  	 •  	 •  	 - Assistant Editor  
Roy Brebner  	 •  	 •  	 Assistant Editor  
Kenneth Crouse -  	 - Special Writer  
Reporters: Mildred Hans, Ada Townsend.  
Irma McMahon, Herbert Nelson, Sue  
Russell, Fonda Campbell, Paul Meyer,  
Mary Thompson.  

"If a person's on the sidewalk,  
Whether great or whether small,  
Is it anybody's business  
Where that person means to call?  
And if you see a person,  
As he's calling anywhere,  
Is it anybody's business  
What his business may be there?  
"The substance of our query,  
Simply stated, would be this:  
Is it anybody's business  
What another's business is 7    
If it is, or if it isn't,  
We would really like to know;  
For we're certain, if it isn't,  
There are some who make it so.  
"If it is, we'll join the rabble,  
And act the noble part  
Of the tattlers and defamers  
Who throng the public mart.  
If it's not, we'll act the teacher  
Until each meddler learns  
'Twould be better in the future  
If he'd mind his own concerns."   

There will be thirty-eight girls in North  
hall during the Christmas vacation?  
The New York city library has one room  
given entirely S. D. A. literature?  
The late arrival of students at meals in- 
conveniences the serving-room workers?  
Mr. Engen thinks December 11 is a red  
letter day because he heard the first  
rising bell that morning?  
North hall has a new gas range in the  
spread room?  
In the dining room, feet are to walk with  
and not to jump with?  
Seventy-eight sweaters were worn in  
chapel Friday?  
A girls'glee club of twenty-eight mem- 
bers has been organized and meets at  
5:30 Thursday evenings?  
The sun shone Friday for the first time  
in a week?  
Sugar and salt containers are made for  
table use instead of room decoration?  
A sixteen-year-old organist, who bids fair  
to being the world's most noted pipe  
organist, lives in Lincoln, Nebraska?  
THE CLOCK TOWER office has moved to  
the first floor of the college building?  
Elsa Emery can fold 1200  Outlooks  in  
an hour?  
Harry Craig says silence at the table is  
painful to him?  
A gentleman doesn't talk about young  
women.—F. C.  
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Holiday Sentiment  
Should Be Useful  
By EMIL FICK  
Once more the holiday season is upon  
us. Everywhere is the quickened pulse.  
Hearts beat more kindly. Faults are 
forgotten. Hates are laid aside. Thrift  
gives way to a tumultous generosity.  
Self is forgotten for a brief few days.  
"\Vhat shall I give?" rises triumphant  
over "What shall I get?"  
The streets and stores are thronged  
with a jostling, crowding, clamorous, ex- 
cited, good natured mass of humanity.  
Bundles everywhere. Miracles of Christ- 
mas! In a world which tends to be all 
too selfish every one seems preoccupied  
and obsessed with the purchasing of a  
gift. Hearts must be made glad for  
Christmas. The world must stop for  
that. The most momentous question of  
life for the time-being becomes "What  
shall be the nature of my gift at Christ- 
mastide?"  
There can be no question that many  
of the presents exchanged are of scant  
value. Even the sentiment behind the  
gift often fails to justify its uselessness.  
Sheer beauty and artistry have their  
rightful place always and everywhere,  
but the question of utility should also  
enter in. The best gift is ever the most  
useful and abidingly helpful.  
It is at this time that "you and your  
idea and your ideal shall conquer. Your  
Star shall outshine them all."  
Whose Idea and Ideal?  
His, of course, whose birth we com- 
memorate. His birth was the infinite  
hope that the Power of Love should kill  
the power of hate. It is strange that the  
world catches that spirit to a small de- 
gree at this time. But what might I  
give that will be most useful? Give  
that which is most in harmony with the  
true spirit of commemoration.  
And what is that?  
"There are loyal friends,  
There are spirits brave, 
There are souls that are good and true,  
So give to the world the best you have  
And the best will come back to you."  
SACRIFICE MONEY TO INDIA  
Sacrifice week is a time in which we  
can all show our willingness to help mis- 
sions. During the past week the students  
of Union college have made willing  
sacrifices—some small and some relative- 
ly large—to swell the general fund which  
is to go to India for vernacular work  
there.  
In North hall the young women were  
divided into groups according to corrid- 
ors, and each corridor had its leader and  
secretary. Many of the ordinary pur- 
chases which are not real necessities were  
being sacrificed, and money which would  
have been spent in that way was given to  
the increase of the fund. The plan was  
that every college student should give one  
dollar, each academy student fifty cents,  
and each church school pupil twenty-five  
cents.  
The vernacular work in India is a  
needy and worthy cause. It consists of  
the training of native teachers who are to  
go as missionaries among their own peo- 
ple. This plan is often more successful  
than the plan of foreign missionaries, al-
though the places of greatest responsibi- 
lity are filled by those sent from our  
shores.  
It was a wonderful opportunity for the  
students of our colleges to show their  
zeal to help in a cause of this nature, and  
they are whole-heartedly taking advant- 
age of it.  
"Happiness gives us the energy which  
is the basis of all health."  

President Thompson, speaking with the  
rapidity and sagaciousness that are char- 
acteristic of him, in an interview to TuF.  
CLOCK TOWER, uncovered the route arid  
objective of two recent trips to the South.  
l'he trips included visits at Forth Worth,  
Texas; Southwestern Junior college at  
Keene, Texas; Boulder-Colorado sani- 
tarium at Boulder, Colorado; and the  
Porter sanitarium at Denver.  
While at Fort Worth President Thomp- 
son attended a meeting of the S. D. A.  
educational board of regents, of which  
he is a member. The board, among other  
things, gave consideration to the estab- 
lishment of an accredited graduate school 
for the training of denominational teach- 
ers. No action was taken, however, and  
it is thought that perhaps some workable  
connection with a university, whereby  
the principles of Seventh-day Adventist  
education might be carried on, would be  
more feasible than the former plan.  
President Thompson also had confer- 
ences with W. E. Howell, educational  
secretary of the general conference, at  
Fort Worth.  
In Colorado President Thompson at- 
tended board meetings of the Boulder- 
Colorado sanitarium and the Porter san- 
itarium, which is a recent gift to the  
denomination and is still under con- 
struction.  
Southwestern Junior college, which  
divides the students of that district with  
Union, is taking the thirteenth and four- 
teenth grades and Union the upper two,  
was referred to as having an exception- 
ally high percentage of potential Union- 
ites for the next year by President Thomp- 
son, following his visit with the senior  
class and the students as a whole.  
Two tons of pecans were ordered for  
the pecan shop by President Thompson,  
while in the South, following an investi- 
gation of the market and a tour of sev- 
eral large shelleries. The quality of the  
pecans ordered is identical with that  
used by many of the larger shops, some  
of which employ as many as 800 workers,  
President Thompson said.  
IMPROVEMENT INSPIRATION  
DUE TO MEMORIES  
How many of you who have visited  
South hall, the boys' dormitory, had the  
feeling that something was lacking?  
When you stepped into we doorway; your  
expectations were a disappointment; it  
seemed the halls were bare, stark, cold,  
and unfriendly.  
Thirty-seven years ago South hall was  
built. In the intervening years many  
have come and gone through its doors.  
The rooms and hallways, the parlors,  
reception room and lounge room were  
home to them. There friendships were  
made that will never be forgotten; there  
decisions were made that have lead  
students to many parts of the world's  
active fields of labor. In their hearts  
will always be memories of South hall.  
Now, South hall is getting old. For  
thisty-seven years she has borne the  
burden of furnishing shelter and comfort  
for her inhabitants. The bor. are seeing  
the need of repair to make the building  
more home-like—to make South hall  
what she should be—a place of smiling 
welcome and comfort. Remodeling of  
the reception room, and necessary furni-
ture for the parlors and lounging room  
are badly needed.  
The boys of South hall have opened a  
campaign which began December 3 and  
closes January 2. The goal has been set  
at $500, which will cover most of the  
expense for remodeling the different  
parts of the building. They are appeal- 
ing to former Unionites and those inter  
ested in the progress of Union college, to  
help accomplish this program.  
They have adopted as a slogan for  
their campaign: "WORTH A MILLION  
IN MEMORIES." Is it worth that?  
EST. 1894  

dollars to help in making it a real  
EXCHANGE  
"If silence is golden, our pre-chapel  
period resembles brass. In place of 'the  
feet that, creeping slow to school went  
storming out to play!' of Whittier, we  
can easily say 'the tongues that answer  
slow in class ran riot in the chapel!' Who  
is to blame? The sedate college student  
says that it is the academic. The digni- 
fied academic student says that is is the  
collegian.' .—The  Lancastrian.  
"Prayer brings the heart into immediate  
contact with the Well-spring of life."  
"It is only through the strength gained  
from heaven that we can hope to meet  
the temptations and perform the duties  
before us."  
"To talk of religion in a casual way,  
to pray without soul hunger and living  
faith, avails nothing. -  
-He who waits for entire knowledge be- 
fore he will exercise faith, cannot receive  
blessings from God."  
"Genuine faith is life."  
"By prayer and confession of sin we  
must clear the king's highway.—Ibid.  
Guess Who?  
By RUTH WIEST  
The subject of this sketch was born in  
Africa, yet belongs to the Caucasian race;  
has moved considerably, yet his education  
has not suffered; is not only a teacher,  
but a student in the true sense of the  
word.  
Born among the Atlas mountains, the  
first four years of his life were spent  
there on a two-thousand acre farm which  
employed many Arabian helpers. High  
walls surrounded the house as a protection  
from the wild beasts so numerous in that  
country. The parents were terrified, in- 
deed, when they lost their three-year-old  
boy for two whole days, and we can well  
imagine their relief when they found him 
in the hut of an Arabian helper.  
While their boy was still a child, the  
parents moved to Europe, where he en- 
tered school. Intensive study was re- 
lieved at one time by a trip to England,  
and at other times by many shorter trips  
within the continent. As a lad, he took  
great delight in winter sports.  
Success attended his diligence of study  
and soon found him teaching the subject  
m which ne was much interested. Both  
his educational and teaching experiences  
were broad and extensive but not com- 
plete until they included the western hem-  
isphere. 	 With this view in mind, he  
started on his longest ocean voyage,  
bound for America. A short time after  
landing in New York harbor, he arrived  
at Union college, where he became  a  
member of the faculty and is still teaching  
his favorite subject.  
Our teacher has had many varied and  
interesting experiences but he states that  
the most thrilling event of his life was  
coming to America. The most distin- 
guishing feature of this character is his  
confession that he has never yet fallen  
in love.  
Burlington announces holiday rates for  
students returning home on sale beginning  
Dec. 20. Call the city ticket office,  
B-2165.  
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I sit on my tall stool behind the bars  
in the office room and watch the world  
go by. Sometimes I look out the window,  
sometimes I look in a book. Mostly I 
study human nature.  
My reverie is suddenly broken by a  
troubled voice asking, "Is the mail here  
yet?" or another voice saying, "Why  
doesn't my mother write to me?" By  
the time a hundred girls have voiced  
similar questions I begin to realize that  
it isn't the kindest thing in the world to  
be impatient. Every person is an indi- 
vidual person who has his individual  
qualities, troubles, and faults; and the  
friendliest, finest thing one can do is try  
to sympathize with each one person as a  
person and not put him into a class to  
be dealt with from stereotyped rules.  
That is one observation I make as I sit  
on my tall stool behind the office bars.  
Sometimes some one comes in and  
notices a visitor in the lobby. She may  
promptly ask in a lowered voice, "Who  
is that?" or "Who'd he come to see?"  
Sometimes she may even call me to the  
door and ask, "Who's in the parlor ?"  
Some one may even go so far as to ask  
if another person got a letter from So- 
and-so. Such questions need to be di- 
rected to an information bureau differ- 
ent from ours. I'm sure there are too  
many other things to remember without  
knowing how often each girl gets letters  
or where they come from. Also it is too  
much trouble to run to the window and  
see who rang the doorbell after the  
lights were. out. As for keeping in my  
head where every girl came from, the  
size of her town, her father's occupation,  
what she intends to do after school is  
out, and of what church she is a mem  
ber—that is too much. Why not know  
her as she is for what she is?  
Oh, it's lots of fun to sit behind the  
office bars on my tall stool and watch  
people go by and wonder what they think  
about and what may be troubling them.  
I learn that the world is full of polite  
people, that they all are lovable, and  
that each one has innumerable good qual- 
ities. It makes me realize that I am not  
the only person in the world, that other  
people are busy too, that they get very  
tired sometimes, and that after all there  
is a good feeling that comes with help-
ing the other fellow. But to keep from  
getting too interested in unimportant de- 
tails and statistics you and I ought to  
sit down once in a while and wonder  
whether it is really anybody's business  
or not.  
"It isn't a carol in the air  
When the Christmas bells are chiming,  
It isn't the trinket on the tree  
When the children's joys are climb-  
ing,  
It is the peace of a loving heart  
That garners the Christmas glory  
In life as tender and sweet and true  
As the babe in the gospel story;  
It isn't a wish for sights and sound.,  
To your eye and ear appealing, •  
I wish you the spell of tranquil thoughts  
Before a manger kneeling—  
Silence that thrills with a starry light  
And glows with a starry splendor  
In a heart made mute like shepherds  
once  
By an infant's presence tender."  
—Author unknown.  
Poets' Corner  
BY HAZEL ELSIE KIPP  
Kneeling at my casement window,  
Looking out across the vast distances  
To the deeps of the sky between the lights 
That Thou hast placed there,  
Seeking Thee, all that is love and beauty.  
The soft blanket of peaceful night,  
Sweet and soothing to my senses,  
The soughing of light wind through  
The snow laden trees,  
The cold breath of it in passing,  
Softly, upon my breast,  
Speaking of Thee from out there  
Across the white expanses,  
Sending peace and ecstasy into my being.  
Feeling Thy presence, Thy nearness,  
Dearness, to my heart.  
Humbly praising Thee,  
Raising beatitudes to the vastness  
Where art Thou, all-seeing.  
My friend, my companion, my God.  

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it  
to light at one time, we would become so  
discouraged that nothing could induce us  
to persevere; but as each one is shown  
we can go to our Lord and He will give  
us strength to overcome this temptation.  
The lizard may be lying, apparently  
asleep, basking in the sun, when foot- 
steps are heard, and like the proverbial  
greased lighting, it vanishes. The snail  
has no such means of rapid locomotion,  
but as it moves on, it may reach a much  
farther distance than does the lizard in  
his undirected and noncontinuous mo- 
tion. Is it not better to 'make the Chris- 
tion life one of every-day habit rather 
than to put it on for the weeks of prayer  
and while the board may be meeting?  
Christmas vacation is now upon us.  
Many will be the temptations. There is  
a physical law which states that stress  
is proportional to strain, but I am thank- 
ful that as we meet the forces of sin we  
can call upon our one best Friend, and  
the forces of His character will neutral- 
ize these outer influences so that there  
shall be no active stress, and therefore  
no loss to our characters.  
We must keep in touch with this great  
source of stregth. Can we expect any  
friend to help us if he knows nothing of  
our difficulty? God stands with out- 
stretched arms, waiting to lift our bur- 
dens; but he will never aid us if we do  
not ask Him, for it is this which puts  
us in a position to receive His help. Let  
us continue the Week of Prayer into a  
year of prayer, going forward with a  
resolution to devote a certain portion of  
each day to communion with Him, as  
Daniel met with his Lord three times  
each day.  
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Small Coins Tell  
Different Stories  
During Past Week  
BY MILDRED HAAS  
Our interests are sign-boards on the  
road to happiness. Is there anyone who  
can imagine himself utterly devoid of any  
interest in the things constantly happen- 
ing around him, in the things he plans to  
do for himself and others, or in the  
friends he has or hopes to make?  
Every one searches for happiness. The  
only difference between individuals is  
that they go different paths seeking hap- 
piness. Some one will tell you that he  
has at last found it, but if you meet him  
a short time later, you will find him still 
absorbed in the further acquisition of this  
same illusive quality. No one can grasp  
it and say, "I have happiness," because  
by so doing he loses it; he finds that he 
has nothing left to look forward to, and  
happiness can not exist without hope of  
future happiness. It is not the thing  
itself, but the searching after it, that  
brings joy to these wayfarers.  
Our interests merely point the way to  
go and to search. They are guides, home  
bases, from which we may wander and  
to which we can always return. Through  
our interests we keep our hold upon life.  
Common activities draw people to- 
gether. Their correlating ideas give them  
something to talk and laugh about and to  
enjoy. This process of drawing people  
together brings interest in one's fellow  
beings, in their adventures on this thickly- 
traveled road and a comparison between  
their adventures and our own.  	 It is  
human nature to seek with others the il- 
lusive things that make life worth the 
living. So by the interest in our fellow- 
men, we gain new friends; and when new  
friends are gained, it is a sure 'sign' that  
happiness is just around the corner.  
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It has been said that a person speaks of  
that which is nearest  his heart. We have  
all had the opportunity of discoverin g.  
the dearest thin g   to many of our fellow  
students' hearts durin g   the past few  
weeks.  
One day the host at a certain table, to  
keep up the conversation, asked, "What  
is the most important thin g   that has hap- 
pened today?" Immediately some one  
answered, "Oh, I know! I finished writ- 
ing   my oration on prohibition today."  
What a fatal mistake! It was like  
lighting   a match to a kerosene soaked  
shack. Everyone who ever thou ght of  
prohibition or knew of anyone who was  
thinking   on that subject had some choice  
tale to add to the conversation.  
This is just one instance. It has been  
just like that at every meal, in between  
meals, at classes, and even durin g   study  
periods for the past three weeks at least.  
The contestants would say, "I'll be so  
glad when this contest is over. I don't  
think I'll ever want to talk about pro- 
hibition a gain."  
The last  few  days before the elimin- 
ations in oratory seem to be the worst.  
When in conversation with a contestant  
one couldn't  say  more than a sentence  
or two before he transformed into a sil- 
ent creature whose duty it was to appear  
spell-bound at the expostulation of the  
contestant on the subject concernin g    
which I have  gradually ac quired at least  
a temporary surfeit.  
After  the last of the eliminations, I  
thought I could again breathe freely with- 
out hearing any more about ten years of  
prohibition. But, alas, all my hopes faded  
into oblivion when two contestants—they  
were friends of mine, but if they don't  
stop their talking on that one subject,  I  
fear our friendships  will dissolve—started  
to tell how frightened they were when  
they gave their orations.  
I am thankful for one thing, however,  
and that is that prohibition seems to have  
spent itself as a topic of conversation and  
the anticipation of the soon coming  
Christmas vacation has now taken its  
place—a much more desirable subject.  
N'est ce pas?  
"Something like home that is not home  
is to be desired; it is found in the house  
of a friend."  
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The time for the annual Wcek of  
Prayer has come. How fitting it is at  
the close of a prosperous year, while the  
world is still enthusiastically engaged in  
temporal business and _pleasure, that  
Christians should devote an entire week  
to prayer, praise, and thanksgiving to 
the Eternal One for the wonderful bless- 
ings  Ile  has been showering upon us  
during the past fifty-one weeks. How  
we should praise Him also for a glimpse  
into the prophecies that reveal the glori- 
ous future that is soon to be ours, if we  
are anxiously looking forward to that  
home He has gone to prepare for the  
faithful.  
The week of Prayer, a whole week,  
may seem like a long time to spend in  
prayer, for those that seldom pray, or  
those that never pray; but it is a short  
time for the real praying Christian, for  
he is constantly in prayer fifty-two weeks  
in the year. When we have a loved  
one, we love to be in his presence so well  
that a week is a short time for a special  
visit. A week seems only as a day  
when it is in the past. Think how it is  
when you go home only one week during  
the school year.  
Jesus is our Elder Brother. Has He  
done anything for you the past year?  
He has surely done something for which  
you should thank Him. Prayer is talk- 
ing with God. Then talk to Him every  
day during this coming week, and you  
will receive a blessing. Prayer accom- 
plishes much. It is the spiritual dynamo  
that transforms one from the carnal life 
to the blessed state of peace with God.  
It was the secret of the faithful life of  
Daniel. A prayer added fifteen years to  
one man's life. Prayer and confession  
caused David to be called "a man after  
God's own heart." Isaac and Samuel  
were born in answer to prayer. Moses'  
prayer at Sinai saved revolting Israel  
from being blotted out. God sent the  
angel Gabriel to Daniel's side during an  
earnest prayer of heart-searching. God  
heard Jonah's prayer of surrender while  
in the great fish and delivered him upon  
dry land. Prayer and praise unlocked  
the prison doors and released Paul and  
Silas.  
The Lord sent His angel in answer to  
a praying church and released Peter  
from prison even though he was chained  
to two sleeping soldiers. Shall we not  
pray earnestly for some one that needs  
our prayers during this special season?  
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Draws Lessons From Observations  
of Men in Everyday Life  
A trade or occupation is not valuable  
unless it deals with men and is real in  
human experience, stated President P. L.  
Thompson in chapel Wednesday. Many  
times there is more blessing in contact  
with a man not particularly noted, he  
said, than in many sermons that we hear.  
He went on to tell of a minister who  
was called to a higher position in which  
he would have the opportunity of a great  
deal of travel, but declined it because  
he felt that he could not find more noble  
people and better friends than he knew  
at home.  
President Thompson, in speaking of  
men that he had met while tensr.sling,  
mentioned a man who sharpened razor  
blades at a hotel who had made it a  
point to speak to an old paper selling  
man on the street, arid because of this  
little attention the paper man came in  
every day and offered him the privilege  
of reading the newspaper. In talking to  
the palsied old newspaper man, President  
Thompson said he found him not dis- 
satisfied, but happy.  
He then spoke of a  brakeman he had  
met, and in conversation with him, found  
that he was not seeking the type of reli- 
gion that he termed "camp meeting hys- 
teria," but a type that is real in the life,  
and was willing to receive knowledge  
of the gospel. This interesting contact  
was made, the speaker said, because the  
brakeman felt that he had found some- 
one who was a friend. The brakeman  
explained that he thought religion not a  
feeling but a reality of every-day ex- 
perience.  
"Meeting noble, common people, of  
which the school and community are  
full, is a big part of living. This is a  
mighty good world and there is a great  
work for each of us to do," were Presi- 
dent Thompson's concluding words.  

EXCLAMATIONS COME FORTH AT  
SIGHT OF NEW  STOVE  
"Oh how cute!" "Isn't it  the darling- 
est little  thing. -   "How stunning"  Is  
this really ours?" "I want to reserve  the  
spread room for next week."  "I'm going  
to make  a cake." "Did you ever see any- 
thing   so sweet?"  "Wouldn't it be fun to  
keep house  with a little stove  like that."  
"Let's make a play house and have that in  
it."  
Yes, these were all exclamations made  
over the  new three-burner  gas range  
standing   in the North hall lobby Tuesday  
afternoon. Later in the day the little  
stove was taken  to its permanent abode  
in the spread room.  
This completes the work of remodelin g    
the spread room, which the  girls be gan  
last year. Durin g   the summer the walls  
were redecorated, a new ru g   put in the  
kitchenette, new curtains hun g, and a  
new dining  room set bought. Mrs.  J. W.  
Hiatt gave  a complete dinner  set  for the  
room,  
As  soon as the little  white stove is in- 
stalled,  Miss Rees will  probably have to  
hire a spread r000m secretary to record  
appointments  
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A  screech!  A yell! And monitor's  
hurrying   footsteps—fortunately, one can  
usually tell monitor's footsteps. The  
peace and  quiet of the study hour was  
shattered. Doors opened and each pre- 
viously industrious student made herself a  
self-appointed committee of one to locate  
the cause of the alarming out-burst.  
"What'sa matter?" "Anyone hurt?" 
"What happened?" were  queries heard  
from different doorways.  
"Nothin g! Nothin g! Go back in your  
rooms and be  quiet," re quested the mon- 
itor in a sta ge wisper. "La Vona just  
discovered a mouse."  
God's ways seem dark, but soon or  
late they touch the shining hills of day.—  
WHITTIER.  
"One today is worth two tomorrows.':  
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he Use of a Fuse  
By MERRILL SMITH  
Do you know what a fuse is and why  
it is used? Many people do not, or we  
would not find the number of pennies 
we do behind burned out fuses.  
What is a fuse? A fuse is electricity's  
safety valve. Like a steam safety valve,  
it not only warns of trouble but prevents  
damage when trouble occurs. It is a  
device designed to interrupt the electri- 
cal circuit whenever the amount of cur- 
rent flowing becomes abnormally great.  
It is  purposely made the weakest link in  
the system or circuit in order to protect  
by its weakness other more expensive  
parts of the circuit.  
Why is such a safety valve necessary?  
Overloading a wire means passing  
more current through it than what it  
was designed for. The result is that the  
wire overheats, destroys or burns off the  
insulator, and sets fire to any readily  
combustible material that it comes in 
contact with.  
To guard against such a thing as over- 
loading a wire a circuit must be fully  
equipped with fuses. This means that  
whenever main lines are tapped by small  
wires, fuses must be installed. More than  
that, these fuses must not be of a capacity  
greater than that for which the wire is  
designed.  
Now, before replacing the fuse, correct  
the trouble; for, to begin with, the fuse  
would not have blown, if there was no  
trouble, and the replacement of a fuse  
without a correction of the trouble  Nvill  
only blow more fuses. Don't blame the  
fuses for blowing; they are only doing  
the thing for which you put them in a  
circuit—protecting yourself and your  
equipment.  
Don't sidetrack the fuse. Millions in  
property have been lost and lives have  
been sacrificed through ignorance of  
fuses and their proper use. A fuse is  
the only safety valve on the electrical  
circuit. So do not put something else ii  
its place, because such substitute might  
mean fire, death, loss of eyesight, or 
many other accidents, in the event of 
trouble developing on the line. It is  
just as criminal and dangerous to oper- 
ate electric circuits and apparatus with- 
out proper fuse protection as it is to tie  
down the arm of a steam safety valve.  
Don't use too large a fuse. Using too  
large a fuse is just about -as bad as no  
fuse at all, for it will not protect and  
the only excuse for the existence of a  
fuse is to protect you and your prop- 
erty.  
NOTE: A good deal of the material for  this article is taken from a little pamphlet  called "Fusiology," put out by one of the big  electrical concerns of the country.  
Unionites May Have  
A Different Style  
BY IRMA MCMAHON  
The city breeds one kind of society  
and manners, the back country a differ- 
ent style, the sea a third, the army a  
fourth — and Union college "another."  
Each little town and village has its own  
social conventions and precedents tradi- 
tional to the locality. Every society and  
university has its ways, but Union col- 
lege has "another."  
Would not we be proud if the attitude  
and etiquette of Union college were so  
amicable and sincere that visiting guests  
would be impressed by our cordiality and  
could comment, "Oh, yes, the University  
is indeed professional and seemingly  
very gay, but Union college has just  
`another' way"?  
A cheerful and courteous bearing to- 
ward everyone and a spirit of genuine  
fellowship, mingled with good-natured  
tolerance and forbearance, will give  
Union college that "another" way. It  
only takes a smile, a nod, or a word on  
the way up stairs to make a good-morning  
better arid a better day best.  
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OBJECT OF PRAYER  DISCUSSED  
BY E. WENDELL WOLFE  
What is the object of a week of prayer?  
Is it to give a variation to the grind of  
school, or is it to give us motives which  
will really carry us through the stress  
of life? God has an ideal for every  
person, and if we resign our wills to  
Him, He will make of us perfect like- 
nesses of Himself. This is not a passive  
resignation, however. We must not sub- 
mit to fate as does the clay, but must  
definitely decide to become the product  
of His molding. It is not easy to find  
a likeness in nature to this process, for  
man is the only being with a power of  
choice, but in order to fulfil his ideal we  
have to chisel on ourselves, so to speak.  
Many are the habits which we, as  
young people have, that are not in ac-  
cordance with the divine plan for us,  
but we know that sanctification is the  
process of a lifetime, yet perfection is a  
process of only a moment—the act of  
surrendering our wills to Him. When  
we have once placed our plans under  
His direction, then one by one we are  
shown our sins. If these were all brought  

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— 1  Week of Sacrifice  
Reality in N. Hall  
BY IVIILuRED 11AAs  
A roadside advertisement informs us  
that "small change speaks the 'chink'  
language." This statement is verified  
during the week of sacrifice in North  
hall. In every corridor can be heard  
the "chink, clink, clank" of coins tumb- 
ling into the sacrifice bottles—pennies,  
nickels, dimes, and dollars—all speaking  
the same language.  
They tell of things gone without, of  
abandoned pleasures, of conquered de- 
sires. Into the bottle go the nickels that  
would have been traded for candy-bars;  
into the bottle go the dimes that would  
have been spent for extra sandwiches;  
into the bottle go the quarters that could  
have bought a late breakfast across the  
way; into the bottle go the dollars that  
the sacrifice of a new article of cloth- 
ing has made possible. Each coin could  
tell a story of sacrifice and hardship as  
it finds its way to the bottle.  
And so they come: chink, clink, clank.  
WEEK-OF-PRAYER CHRISTIANS  
BY ELLIS STORING  
As the Week of Prayer is here,  
the  call  is made to you whether you  
are a Christian or not, to decide the part  
you will take in this great battle. You  
cannot lie neutral now. Either you will  
take your stand for God or you will throw  
your influence on the devil's side.  
If you are a professed Christian, do  
you feel as the Apostle Paul did, 'Woe  
is me if I preach not the gospel"? Down  
deep in your heart, do you really desire  
to live nearer to God? Oh, yes, you all  
say that you do, and after a fashion you  
mean it. But are you proving it by your  
actions? Will you prove it during this  
Week of Prayer? Or will you let  
this Week of Prayer pass without speak- 
ing one word to your fellow student  
about the Saviour you claim to know and  
love? Will you let this week pass by  
without gaining a new and deep Christian  
experience yourself?  
If you are to enter that contest and  
accomplish the salvation of souls, and  
the strengthening of your own soul, that  
you say you desire, you must act now.  
You ask, "What must I do? And the  
answer comes back to you, "Get right  
with God yourself." Purify your own  
life. See that the beam is taken out of  
your own eye so that when you want  
to speak to others they will not turn  
upon you and laugh, but they will really  
know that you mean what you say, and  
you are saying what you mean. The  
Week - of - Prayer Christian attitude is 
not something that can be put on and  
taken off as a Sabbath suit of clothes.  
The scribes and the pharisees thought  
that. 	 It is no new idea.  	 But Christ  
gave the stinging rebuke regarding  
them, "Except your righteousness exceed  
the righteousness of the scribes and the  
pharisees, ye shall not enter into the  
kingdom of heaven. -  

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(Continued from Page 1)  
what took place in that room," he said,  
pointing to the preNent history classroom  
"That was your room?" I asked.  
"Yes. You see. I was dean at that  
time." It was interesting to listen to the  
explanations students made of their little 
escapades. 	 But students a r e still the  
same, 1 suppose."  
"Professor Andreasen, just what ad- 
vice would you give to a young man who  
wishes to enter the ministry ?" I ven- 
tured.  
His answer was plainly the result of  
much study of this problem. "There  1  
no prescribed pathway into the work," 
he said, broadening the word "ministry"  
into "work." "But as to education, I  
would tell a young man to get all he  
can of the right kind. When I entered  
the ministry, there was no standard of  
education to speak of. In those days the  
average worker did well to have a com- 
mon school education. Later the stand- 
ard was raised so that most of our church  
members had an education equivalent to  
eight grades. This made it necessary to  
require that our ministry have at least  
a high school education.  
"As it is now, the average person in  
a congregation will have a high school  
education. For instance, if a minister  
goes nut to raise up a church, most of  
those who will attend his meetings have  
finished a high school course. This neces- 
sitates a higher standard, so that now we  
go to our colleges rather than to our  
academies to get workers. I would never  
encourage a young roan to enter the  
ministry until he has completed his col- 
lege education."  
Then he added by way of caution,  
"Of course, there is the danger that one  
inight lose sight of the 'work' in his  
seeking after an education. But this need  
not be true if he is consecrated and if  
the education is the right kind. When  
it comes to the right kind of training and  
a consecrated student, I would say, 'The  
more, the better.'"  
"What is your attitude, as a confer- 
ence president, toward our young men  
who take up medicine?" I asked him.  
"Why, I think that is all right," lie  
answered. "I do not believe that our  
organized work would be able to take all  
our young men into the ministry. In  
fact, there  	 need tor consecrated doc-  
tor. in our work. A real missionary  
doctor in our work can do as much and  
even more good in his work sometimes  
than a minister can. And we need them  
in private practice, too, but I think we  
should have the choice of the best of  
them for our organized work."  

PROFESSOR WILCOX TALKS  
IN WORSHIP  
(Continued from Page 1)  
Sketching briefly the "frontier move- 
ments -   of United States history, Professor  
Wilcox pictured our land from its earliest  
settements through the famed Cumberland  
gap. "Then in 1850 the vital frontier  
movement began anew, but this time it  
was destined to move on out to the ex- 
treme West, to California. This great  
frontier expanse was halted for a few  
years by the Civil War. After this strug- 
gle was concluded the pioneer movement  
pushed on into the arid regions of the  
great western districts, and here, too, set- 
tlements were established, until today our  
frontier no longer exists. What effect is  
this vital absence going to have on our  
lives? The fact that we no longer have  
a frontier is going to shape what the  
United States will be in the future.''  
SEMINARIANS SPEAK  
(Continued from Page 1)  
At Weeping Water, Pastor Leach is  
carrying on the efforts which were begun  
Sunday night. Emil Fick read the Sab- 
bath reading for the Week of Prayer at  
Fairbury and was assisted by Willard  
Wentland. This article was read also at  
Beatrice by Henry Preston, assisted by  
John Starlin.  	 At the Cortland church,  
Mr. Wentland read the reading, assisted  
by Mr. Fick. Bert McBroom assisted in  
Sabbath school work.  
SEMINAR  
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FOLLOW JESUS AND BE  
INDIVIDUALISTIC  
(Continued from Page 1)  
To those who do not know the first  
steps to take toward a Christian experi- 
e n c e, President Thompson explained,  
"Repent—be sorry for your shortcom- 
ings; confess—admit your sins; then,  
turn around and go the other way."  
As Jesus was the only truly individual- 
istic man, we must follow  Him  closely,  
if we would be individualistic, he said.  
BLUFF DISCOURAGES OTHERS  
By Roy BREBNER  
The desire of people to enjoy being  
lauded and looked to as worthy of emu- 
lation produces a trait in many that could  
be termed bluff. I do not speak of the  
type of bluff with which teachers may  
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Russell Flatten has discontinued school.  
A new radiator was recently installed in  
the regisrar's office.  
William Sheaffer, a former student of  
Union, was the guest of A. A. Miller  
Sabbath.  
Ewalt Fick, Albert Peterson, Ralph  
Reintz, and Alten Bringle were ill for  
a few days last week.  
Mr. Frank Mayne of Omaha visited  
his sister, Mrs. Tom Gillaspie, over Sun- 
day.  
Mr. John Erickson of Chadron, Ne- 
braska, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.  
H. F. Erickson, and other relatives over  
the week-end.  
Irene Anderson and Anne Devnich en- 
tertained Miss Irene Storey and Miss  
Colleen Hillard at dinner Sabbath.  
Fred Zumbaum and family recently  
moved from 920 M street to an apartment  
over the Farmers' State bank.  
The Philomathian society was enter- 
tained at a picnic lunch Thursday eve- 
ning. Games and marches were enjoyed  
in the gymnasium after the lunch.  
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hahn entertained  
for dinner December 2 Misses Minnie  
Olson and Lulu Blanche Hiatt and  
Messrs. Walther and Dail.  
GIRLS BAN SLANG IN HOME  
In their self-improvement meeting  
Thursday evening the subject of slang  
and the methods of overcoming it were  
discussed. Since really cultured women  
endeavor to use nothing but the best of  
English and since all North hall girls wish  
to be cultured, they are trying to elimi- 
nate all slang from daily conversation.  
Some of the most common vulgarisms  
which have received the ban of disap- 
proval are "I'll say, -   "Oh, boy," and  
- Yeah."  
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IOWA COMES TO AID  
Iowa with her horn of plenty has ex- 
tended a helping hand to the boys of  
South hall in the Improvement Fund  
campaign to  make south hall  a more  
homey place.  
Believe it or not, but the most unique  
contribution has been received from an  
Iowa supporter. Two pairs of suspend- 
ers, five pairs of men's socks, a check for  
five dollars, and a poem, which goes as  
follows:  
"Here's to the men of South Hall,  
We hear the roof had a great fall,  
So send you a check and galluses all,  
To answer this 'Missionary Call.'"  
Thanks, Iowa! Let's hear more from  
you. 
Patsy the Shopper  
BY MARION CHRISTMANN  
Outside, the sky was gray, and the  
wind whipped the cold mist stingingly  
into my face as I walked north on  0  
street Tuesday afternoon.  	 A window  
gayly decorated with Christmas tinsel,  
holly, bright cheery scarfs and ties, with  
men's dark suits as a background, and  
over it all glistening artificial snow, held  
my glance as I was passing. I couldn't  
resist stepping inside; so as I opened the  
door, I walked out of this late Ne- 
braska fog into sunshine—as much so, at  
least, as man could make it. The clerks  
were all busily helping other customers,  
so that I had a chance to look around at  
my surroundings. The Christmas spirit  
was apparent inside the store almost more  
than in the windows.  	 From the high  
chandeliers hung red and green streamers,  
and gay Christmas boxes were in the  
showcases and on the tables. No, it is- 
n't a large store, but it has nearly every- 
thing to suit the needs of every college  
boy—from luggage to collar buttons.  
These things are priced so moderately,  
too, that they will fit the purse of the  
young man who is even working all his  
way through college. The standard price  
for overcoats and suits is only $19.50. At  
present, they are making gift boxes of  
neckties at three for a dollar, two for a  
dollar, and one for ninety-eight cents, in  
popular shades and materials which wear  
well. Since the managers of this store  
cater to the college boy's trade, they  
plan to give the lowest possible prices on  
all their stock, and are able to do this  
by running on a cash basis entirely. Oh,  
yes, they have some good-looking shirts,  
too, that they are featuring from now  
until Christmas at the low price of $1.29.  
Just drop in some time soon and see their  
line, and with the help of their pleasant  
assistants, you'll no doubt find just what  
you wish. Oh, I'm sorry, didn't I tell  
you? Why, it's the Guarantee Clothing  
company at 1335  0  Street.  

The laundry is having all of its ma- 
chinery and tables painted.  
Mr. Ortner went to Omaha in the in- 
terest of selling children's toys.  
Doris Lee Ruddle, a Union College  
graduate, visited Katherine Lutz over the  
week-end.  
Marion Christmann left Friday for her  
home in Wichita, to spend the Christmas  
vacation.  
Blanchard Nesmith, who attended  
Union college academy last year, visited  
friends in South hall Sabbath.  
Myrna George and Margaret Gilla?  
pie were ill several days last week.  
Mrs. G. Dewey Nielson and son visited  
her mother, Mrs. George Hoffman, Sab- 
bath.  
North hall girls are contemplating the  
addition of another "week" to their cal- 
endar. Having already sponsored a  
bangless-door-week - they want to  
eliminate other unseemly noises by having  
a "slang-no-more week."  
Because of the illness of Mrs. Frank  
Scares the Mothers' meeting will be held  
at the home of Mrs. Bill Johnson. The  
officers for the coming year are: Mrs.  
E. R. Nesmith, leader; Mrs. J. E. Stout,  
assistant leader; Mrs. Frank Searns, sec- 
retary; and Mrs. Alonzo Cornell, assis- 
tant secretary.  
Pastor  Baer and Wife Honored by  
Church Officers  
The church officers gave a short enter- 
tainment in honor of Pastor and Mrs. R.  
T. Baer at the home of Charles McWill- 
iams Tuesday evening. A short program  
was given, consisting of a violin solo by  
Miss Chase, a piano solo by Mrs. Nes- 
mith, and a vocal duet by Mr. and Mrs.  
Cornell. Short speeches were made by  
Mr. Sparks and Mr. McWilliams.  
Professor H.  U.  Stevens, who was  
master of ceremonies, presented gifts from 
the church officers to Pastor and Mrs.  
Baer as tokens of appreciation for the  
work they have done while in College  
View. Pastor Baer was given a Sheaf- 
fer desk pen and a pair of book ends and  
Mrs. Baer was given two handkerchiefs  
and a five-dollar gold piece.  
STATISTICS TAKEN IN CHAPEL  
Statistics in regard to the educational  
and religious background of the students  
of Union college were taken Friday in  
chapel. Items of interest were how  
many years the students had spent in  
denominational schools and also the  
number of years of Bible they had taken  
while in the academy.  
BABY DIES FROM POISON  
Dr. and Mrs. Brownberger of Asheville,  
North Carolina, recently lost their two- 
year-old daughter by accidental poisoning.  
Mrs. Brownsberger was Elsie Peterson, a  
student at Union from 1906-14. She and  
her husband were attending the funeral  
of her mother when the baby's death oc- 
curred.  
Mrs. Peterson was the widow of Swan  
Peterson, a resident of College View for  
many years. She died at Long Island,  
Alabama, at the home of her son Reynold,  
who with his wife, formerly Lula Musser 
were Unionites.  	 Another son, Frank,  
formerly of College View, now in the  
employ of the publishers of "The Index  
to Periodical Literature," New York City,  
attended the funeral.  	 He remained to  
visit his brother and the families of  
George Noble, former College View re- 
sident, and Lauren Noble, one time  
Unionite and now editor of a newspaper  
at Long Island, Alabama.  
BIRTHDAY PARTY IS GIVEN  
Mrs. Emmanuel D. Humann was hostess  
at a birthday surprise for her mother,  
Mrs. George Hoffman. A Christmas  
rnotif for all the appointments was used.  
The guests were Mrs. Frank Boyer, Mrs.  
W. L. Norman,  Mrs.  Chester Mercier,  
Mrs. C. H. Boyer, arid Mrs. Ben Boyer.  
ERRATA  
Instead of the report that the worst  
roads of this country are better than the  
best in India, Pastor Youngberg stated in  
a recent talk at the State Reformatory,  
that the average roads in the rural dis-
tricts of India are much worse than the  
roads that are considered bad in this  
country.  
Instead of twelve years, as reported  
in our last issue, Pastor Youngberg has  
had seven years of mission service in In- 
dia.  
In a recent issue the statement was  
made that the milk used in the dining  
room was separated before it was bottled.  
This is not true, for whole milk is used.  

have to  deal, but that type which is so  
often found in the every-day relation  
between individuals—that type of bluff  
which  causes one  individ  a I  to explain  
to another in a casual conversation that  
he has accomplished some notable thing,  
has read so many scholarly books, has  
had certain distinguished social oppor- 
tunities that his time would not permit  
him to take part in, or has made some  
preponderous amount of money in a short  
time.  
This type of thing will discourage the  
one to whom it is told or, at least for a  
time, cause him to wonder if he will  
ever be able to carry out his ambitions  
with so many others in the world who  
have done and can do, with equal oppor- 
tunities, so much more than he. I think 
that too often the one who hears such  
.tatements, made in apparent sincerity,  
permits them to lower his aim.  
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WORKERS,  OLD PEOPLE HOME  
By JANIES GAITERS  
A t the Poor Farm we let the old peo- 
ple choose their own hymns and Sab- 
bath afternoon we joined with them in  
singing one or two of their choice. "No  
Not One" they sing whole-heartedly and  
they like "The Haven of Rest." Of two  
stories, they chose the one entitled "Vio- 
lets or Beer" and then after prayer,  
Pastor Youngberg spoke to them about  
India. They were deeply interested and  
all wanted to become acquainted with  
the speaker. One old gentleman told  
him about his travels in India. One old  
lady, as she was being wheeled back to  
her mom, asked another why she had  
not been at the church service and repri- 
manded her somewhat for being absent,  
Mr. Thompson asked about the two  
young men who were in the habit of com- 
ing out there last year, mentioning espe- 
cially Mr. Olsen. It is a pleasure to  
bring sunshine to these dear people.  
Before me, even as behind, God is,  
and  	all is well.  —WHITTIER.  
EVERY FINANCIAL SERVICE  
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Saving Accounts  
Loans  
FARMERS STATE BANK  
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