Christmas Vacation  
Closes  
At 7:45 a. m. Dec. 31  
COLLEGE VIEW STATION, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER  25, 1930  No. 12  

No CLOCK TOWER  
During  
Christmas Vacation  
VOL. V.  
PRESIDENT BACK  
FROM TRIP WEST  
Sees  New Hydraulic Electrical  
Plant Now Being Built at  
Mountain Academy  
MEETS OLD FRIENDS  
Visits Points of Interest Including the  
Mormon Temple and the Home  
of Brigham Young  
President Thompson's recent trip to  
the coast terminated Monday. The west- 
ward part of the journey, over the north- 
ern route, through Colorado and Utah,  
was broken by several intervals which  
served to offset the tedium of travel, he  
said.  
His first stop was made at Inter-Moun- 
tain academy, where the week-end was  
spent.  - The school seems to be in a pros- 
perous condition," said President Thomp- 
son, "with a very good spirit discernible.  
Professor Knowlton and his colleagues  
are carrying the burdens of the school  
well. I was pleased to see here as precep- 
tor one of our Union college men, Ben  
Butherus.  
''A project they are putting through  
there interested me very much. It was a  
hydraulic electrical plant. Up on the side  
of the mountain they have made a reser- 
voir from which the water power for the  
electricity is derived.  
"On Sunday a few hours' stop was  
made at Salt Lake City. Here I visited 
the Mormon temple and once more lis- 
tened to the pipe organ accompaning the  
hundreds of singers. At this place I also  
took time to visit the house once occu- 
pied by- Brigham Young, his nineteen  
wives, and fifty-five children.  
"Then I went on again, across the lake  
and west to Pacific Union college, where  
I spent five hours, meeting a number of  
Unionites.  
"The last lap of the journey west was  
from Pacific Union college to Los Angles,  
and here I visited the Glendale sanitar- 
ium. It was a privilege there to spend a  
hit of time with old friends among whom  
were Pastors Watson and MacElhaney."    
President Thompson returned by way  
of Kansas City.  
Custom of Giving  
Gifts at Christmas  
Of Early Origin  
By  FANNIE JONES  
Christmas is essentially a home festival.  
There are few memories concerned with  
the home dearer than those which cluster  
about the Christmas tree and the giving of  
gifts which mean love and solicitude more  
then they mean intrinsic value.  
The custom of presenting gifts has  
come down to us from early Roman days  
when "men gave honeyed things that  
the year of the recipient might be sweet- 
er, lamps that it might be full of light,  
silver and gold that wealth might attend  
them."  
In the different countries gifts came  
from different sources. Of course, in  
America they come from Santa Claus , a  
derivation of the Dutch legend that gifts  
are from Santa Nikalaus, the patron  
saint of mariners, children, and maidens.  
In Italy presents are taken from a sort of  
grab bag, or "urn of Fate." Silician chil- 
dren believe that their gifts come from  
their ancestors. A large package known as  
Julklapp contains the Swedish gifts, the  
presents being hidden in this, in much- 
wrapped bundles and boxes. The Christ- 
Inas elf, Julnissen, who lives in the attic,  
brings a gift to the Danish youth as well  
as leaving food for cattle and birds. A  
sheaf of grain is always tied to a stake  
for the birds. The German and the French  
children believe they receive their Christ- 
mas benefactions indirectly from the  
Christ Child.  
In northern England the Christmas visi- 
tor must bring something to each home in  
which he stops, even if it is only a piece  
of coal. It is hoped that the first person  
to enter a home on Christmas morning  
be dark-haired. Superstition says that  
the light-haired and giftless visitors both  
bring unhappiness.  
Back in Roman days, the custom of gift  
giving was not only a Christmas event  
but the end of the harvest season was  
marked by rejoicing and bestowing of  
gifts by one friend to another. There is  
an even earlier instance of the custom. In  
the time of Xerxes and Queen Esther  
when the Jews were delivered, they cele- 
brated the occasion by giving gifts and  
rejoicing. When Jesus was born in the  
lowly manger in Bethlehem, the wise men  
traveled from afar to take Him gifts and 
to worship Him. "And when they were  
come into the house, they saw the young 
child and Mary his mother, and fell down  
(Continued on page four)  

Former Dean of Men Is  
Speaker at Men's Club  
Professor G. C. George spoke to the  
young men of South hall at their regular  
clUb meeting Thursday evening. He spoke  
of business and how the Adventist young  
man should relate himself to it under the  
changed economic conditions of the pres- 
ent time, showing that it would in some  
cases be necessary for young men to en- 
ter the business, because of the near sat- 
uration point having been reached in  
many departments of the denomination.  
"The young men of today," he said, "will  
be the supporters of the denomination to- 
morrow, and they must hold their place  
in business by increased efficiency if they  
would overcome the handicaps under  
which they must work."  
0  	   
Moral training involves the society as  
well as the personal. It concerns itself 
with all types of conduct that influence  
true happiness.  

Requests Cause Bewilderment to  
Weather Man As Many Go  
To Distant Homes  
By  REINHOLD BIETZ  
There is at least one. time during the  
school term when most of the students are  
especially interested in the weather. They  
get in touch with almanacs, ca:endars.  
and weather prophets, trying to find out  
something about the weather. Will it snow,  
rain, or storm? That time of inquisitive- 
Less ren es  r. couple of nays before Chri a-- 
Inas vacation. Remarks like the foll ,,wing  
are quite common, "My, I just hope it  
won't snow, because it may spoil all my  
plans for the vacation. - - Wouldn't it be  
agorm...1.9 to see a _ha, ge in the we"`her  
now?"  - If this nice weather will only  
last till the first of January, then let the  
snow come; I won't care." Those going  
west hope it won't snow; those going  
north hope it won't get cold; those go- 
ing south hope it won't rain, and those  
staying here don't care—just so it is  
warm in the gymnasium for evening en- 
tertainments. Wherever the vacation will  
be spent we can rest assured that each  
student will spend it in a way that he  
enjoys most.  
Ada Williams plans to go to her  
home in Fairmont. She says there are just  
three hundred and seventy-two things to  
be done during vacation, and she plans  
to do one-fourth of them, or ninety-three.  
Besides doing the one-fourth she also  
plans to get physical exercise by horse- 
back riding and skating. Miss Williams  
asserted that a vacation is necessary for  
every student.  
Katherine Lutz seems to have a  
similar idea. She said, "Christmas vaca- 
tion is absolutely essential to put new life  
and vigor into one's work. It may make  
it hard to get back into the spirit of study,  
but it refreshes us and gives a much 
needed rest." Miss Lutz plans to put in  
outside reading for Epistles class while  
ar home in Kansas. That's once when it  
really can be called outside—reading it in  
Kansas. Besides reading, she plans to  
sleep and eat. She did not say whether  
she was going to spend more time in  
eating or in sleeping.  
(Continued on page four)  

PEACE ON EARTH  
) 

T  THIS time in thousands of churches scattered over this  
great country the hymn that rang out over the little town  
of Bethlehem almost two thousand years ago is being re-echoed:  
"Peace on earth, good will toward men."  
At the same time that their voices raise the hymn of peace  
the worshipers know in their hearts that "peace on earth" is  
not a present reality; but that fear is present, though suppressed.  
and that what is called peace is no more than an armistice. They  
share the fear that is voiced by statesmen the world over; the  
fear that world peace is an ephemeral thing, built on founda  
tions too fragile to endure.  
What is the answer? Is the hymn of the angels only an in- 
congruous and bitter irony, a promise for which men grasp as  
for the fruit of Paradise, but which turns to ashes in their  
teeth? No, facts need not give the lie to hope. Sinister though  
the outlook may be, hope abides—and peace, in the individual  
heart now and in the universal scheme of things when the prom- 
ise of the angels find its consummation in the kingdom of the  
Prince of Peace "which shall never be destroyed."  
A calm trust and an abiding peace are the heritage of him  
whose life is in tune with the music of the ages. the great har-  
mony of the divine plan.  	 H. B.  
Students and Teachers Long at Union  
Recall Festivities of Early Holidays  
By  ESTHER JOHNSON  	 •  
It is in prayer and its answer that the I He who will not labor for his brothers  
interchange of love between God and man I v.  	 soon cease to pray for them, or  
takes place  	 love them either.  
CALENDAR  
Friday, December  26  
Sunset  	   5:05 p.   m.  
Sabbath, December  27  
Men's Prayer Club (church)  8:00 a.  m.  
Sabbath School Song  
Service  	   9:45 a.  m.  
Sabbath School  	 10:00  a.  m.  
Church Service  	 H:00 a. m.  

OF EVENTS  
Wednesday, December 31  
Union College Glee Club .... 5:45 p. m.  
Young Women's Club  	  6:40 p. m.  
College Orchestra  	  7:30 p. m.  
Village  	 Prayer  	 Meeting  	 ....7:30 p. m.  
Thursday, January  
Young Men's Club  	  6:40 p. m.  
Vocal Ensemble  	  7:30 p. m.  

YOUNG MEN PRESENT  
THE 'REVUE OF 1930'  
Familiar Campus Figures, Situations, and Incidents Are  
Shown in Caricature. Rise, Decline, and Fall of  
`Bachelors' Club' Shown by Non-Members  
SUB CAMPAIGN WINNERS FETED  
In a series of good-natured burlesques of familiar incidents, organ- 
izations, and people, the young men of the college in  - Revue of 1930"  
at the gymnasium Saturday evening entertained the young women,  
the winners in the CLOCK  TOWER  subscription campaign.  
"The Annual Tragedy" depicted the closing of the subscription  
campaign, first, a glowing victory for the boys as dreamed by Ned  
Bresee who lay sleeping aloud over his chemistry, second, as it  
occurred in reality.  
A presentation of "one of the most famous organizations of Union  
college -   was next announced by Walter Howe, master of ceremonies.  
The "bachelors' club," a recent organization of five young men in  
South hall, was represented by five non-members. They depicted its  
organization, decline, and fall. Walter Howe, Harold Lincoln, Alten  
Bringle, Bert McBroom, and William Barclay, the members, were -7:4 , - - "'  
shown in the closing scene deciding on an amendment to the consti- 
tution limiting any member's dates to six in a week, the amendment  
not to be adopted "till after the Santa Claus season" according to  
Mr. Barclay's suggestion voiced with a very characteristic scotch ac-  
	 Ocent.  Those impersonating the members  
STUDENTS REVEAL  	 
were David Eickhoff, Jess Storrs, Walter  
Carroll, Roy Brebner, and Kenneth Pur-  
VARIETY OF PLANS  do,   Fathers  of Men -   showed somewhat of  

FIVE IN AUTO WRECK  
Several Receive Minor Injuries When Car  
Goes Over Bank Into River  
A group of former students and gead- 
uates of Union suffered a serious auto- 
mobile accident Friday evening near  
Wood River, Nebraska, when they were  
driving from Colorado to Lincoln for the  
holidays. Those in the car were Carmie,  
Loma Linda, and Avalo Owen; Helen  
Foreman; and Verd Nell Rice, the first  
and last mentioned being teachers at Cam- 
pion academy.  
The accident occurred when the car  
dived from the road into the Wood river  
where the bridge was out. The occupants  
said that no warning light or signs were  
visible, there being only a long saw-horse  
across the road, which the driver could  
not see until the car was practically upon  
it. The car struck several hillocks in its  
descent before it struck the water. Two  
of the girls were completely under water.  
Mr. Owen was able to open the car door  
and pull the others out. Almost immedi-
ately they attracted the attention of a  
passing car which proved to be that of  
the owners of the farm house near the  
river. In this home the injured were given  
first aid and were cared for during the  
night. They were able to continue to Col- 
lege View the next day when Mr. and  
Mrs. Owen drove to Wood River to  
bring them back, the car being a complete  
wreck.  
No one was seriously injured, although  
all the occupants of the car were severely  
shaken, and some painfully cut.  
THREE PHASES OF  
CONDUCT ARE SHOWN  
"Culture Week" Progresses With  
Street, Home, Restaurant  
Conduct Enacted  
The second program of ''Culture  
Week," which was presented in chapel  
Wednesday morning under the direction  
of Miss Rees, consisted of three differ- 
ent scenes showing how one should not  
and how one should conduct himself  
on the street, in the home, and in a rest- 
aurant.  
In the first scene it was shown that loud  
laughing or talking, eating, pointing at  
people or objects, or attracting attention  
in other ways is entirely out of place;  
and that while on the street one should be  
quiet, attend to his own business, and ex- 
tend the proper courtesies to both ladies  
d gentlemen—for cultured people do not  
chew gum, eat, giggle, look around and  
wave at some friend, or carry on a loud  
conversation while on the street.  
The second scene was a demonstration  
of the improper and proper way of re- 
ceiving and entertaining guests in a home,  
showing how the quests should conduct  
themselves as well.  
It was shown that it is rude to chew  
gum, to sit whenever or wherever. one  
pleases, to carry on a conversation about  
anything only the one speaking wishes  
to talk about, and to respond improper- 
ly to introduction. The most impressive  
point was that courtesy should always be  
shown to the mother of the home or the  
hostess.  
The third and last scene helped one to  
understand that it is not good form to en- 
ter a restaurant loudly, and in a hurry as  
though the enterer is starving to death;  
but it is good form to enter a public eat- 
ing place as pleasantly and quietly as  
possible. It was shown that the young  
men are not to be seated until after 
the ladies are seated. When ordering the  
food the ladies make their wishes known  
to the gent,emen and they inform the  
waiter or waitress what each desires.  
After the last scene Miss Rees advised  
everyone to "stop and give some thought  
to how ridiculous things look when they  
are not done right. We should see our- 
selves as others see us."  
Former Union Students  
Succumb to Fire in Home  
Word was received here Thursday that  
Mr. and Mrs. Birdzel Jenkins, of Worth- 
ington, Ohio, and former residents of  
College View, were suffocated by a fire  
in their home Wednesday night. They  
were alive when taken from the house and  
were hurried to a hospital but neither  
lived more than a few hours. Mr. Jenkins  
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Jenkins,  
46th and Stockwell streets, and Mrs. Jen- 
kins will be remembered as Melia Nicola,  
daughter of Mr. D. Nicola, a former resi-
dent of College View and now living in  
Washington. Mr. Jenkins' relatives from  
here have gone to Ohio to attend the  
funeral, which is to be held there. Both  
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have been students  
of Union college.  
People are liable to disdain what they  
cannot do.  

Truth, religiously speaking, is as much  
a matter of the spirit as of the head. The  
Spirit of Truth leads men into all truth,  
not in the sense that it reveals all facts, 
but in the sense that it leads into saving  
and spiritual attitudes. He who has the  
Spirit of Truth not only has a hunger for  
facts but he has also a deeper desire to  
be a true man in all things. To know that  
we are all brethren, regardless of creed or  
ace, is to know a truth that even the  
heathen know also. But actually to feel  
ri.at way toward each and every individ- 
ual is to live the spiritual essence of that  
great truth-- - all ye are brethren." The  
heathen do not have that, even heathen  
who pass as Christians. The knowledge  
of truth is factual and lies in the head.  
The Spirit of Truth is spiritual and lives  
in the heart.  
While walking down the hall the other  
day, I overheard two of our teachers talk- 
ng about Christmas vacations spent at Un- 
ion college, and among other remarks the  
following one was made:  
"What a glorious time we used to  
havel"  
I began to wonder what they did to  
have such a "glorious time." I don't mean  
to imply that we don't enjoy our vaca- 
tions now, but did the entertainments of 
the teachers and students of ten or twenty  
years ago differ from ours? One cannot  
find out anything without asking ques- 
tions, so I decided to do so. The first  
person I met was Professor H. U. Stev- 
ens.  
"Professor Stevens, what did you use  
to do on the Christmas holidays that you  
first spent here?" I asked.  
"Around 1901 and 1902 we didn't have  
any vacation except Christmas day," he 
answered after a moment's hesitation.  
"Christmas was thought a pagan insti- 
tution and we could not celebrate it, but  
some attended the Chistmas of Lincoln. A  
few years later, however, we spent the  
time skating, coasting, and sleigh-riding,  
especially on moonlight nights. Sometimes  
the boys would hitch a horse to two or 
three bobsleds and drive through town,  
or some would put on skates and hold on  
the tugs harnessed to the horses and allow  
themselves to be pulled over the then un- 
paved streets. Snow forts were built by  
the boys and then followed some hard  
battles."  
The next person I met was Mrs. D.  
G. Hilts. In response to my query she  
said that most of the vacation of 1917  
was spent skating at Salt creek. A group  
took their lunch with them and skated  

To be right as to facts and points of  
doctrine does not even keep one from be- 
ll g a bigot. Bigotry also has to do with  
spirit rather than with facts or theories.  
A bigot is anyone who is so sure he is  
right that he is intolerant of any other  
belief, and will not hear opposition fairly.  
A man may be bigoted about the  truth.  
All scholarship has its hypotheses. The  
Christian student takes for his hypthhesis  
a belief in God, and in His Son, Jesus  
Christ, and in the Bible as His Word. He  
strives to achieve a fine balance between  
savage and intolerant bigotry on the one  
hand, and a spineless, flabby, uncertainty  
and weak tolerance on the other hand. He  
knows  but he is not a  know-it-all.  
The Spirit of Truth keeps a man  
humble.  
during the whole of New Year's day.  
She also told of a "progressive" supper  
given by the resident students to those of  
the school homes. The guests were sep- 
arated into ten groups and told that they  
had to go to ten homes before they  
got their complete supper. They were  
directed to one side of the town for soup,  
to another side for potatoes, back again  
for pineapple sherbert, etc. A ten-minute  
entertainment was furnished at each of  
the homes and Mrs. Hilts said that she  
was "worn threadbare" by giving ten  
times the reading, "I ain't gwine cry  
no more."  
"We had taffy pulls too," she added,  
"and most of them were at the home of  
our Bible teacher, J. N. Anderson."  
Here come Professor and Mrs. E. D.  
Dick. I wonder what they did.  
"I worked hard during the day," said  
Mr. Dick, "and skated at night. We  
skated the old year out and the new year  
in. On Christmas eve in 1924 the pro- 
gram in the dining room consisted of a  
girls' kitchen orchestra with the dishpan  
drum and the potato masher baton, also  
some readings, songs, and games. Santa  
Claus (Mr. Dick) came down the chim- 
ney and brought each a small gift,  
such as talcum power, shoe polish, combs,  
horns, candy, etc."  
Mrs. Dick said she was just learning  
to skate that year and had the misfortune  
of straining a tendon in her foot, making  
it necessary to resume her school work  
on crutches. She also told of the taffy  
pulls in North hall and the parties in the  
spread room.  
I glanced through the old  Messengers  
the English people to spend Christmas  
(Continued on page four)  

a departure from the recent pageant  
"Mothers of Men" presented by North  
hall girls in that the characters shown in- 
cluded brigands, outlaws, and—a New  
York governor.  
In a scene announced as "Getting what  
you want, as witnessed by a well-known  
faculty member," humorous incidents re-
lated in President Thompson's chapel  
talks were dramatized. Clarence Johnson,  
straight and dignified and wearing spec-  
(Continued on page four)  
Early Records  
Show Unusual  
Christmas Customs  
By  BESSIE MCCUMSEY  
The statement that "there is nothing  
new under the sun" applies to the ob- 
servance of Christmas, among other  
things. Indeed, we find that December 25,  
was celebrated as a sacred festival hun- 
dreds of years before the birth of Christ.  
Bede records that the Angles began their  
year with December 25. Among the Ger- 
man tribes this season was devoted to the  
worship of the sun, which at this time  
begins to turn again to the earth. The 
heathen Germans believed that their gods  
were upon the earth during the period  
from December 25 to January 6. Because  
of this belief they made Christmas eve a  
special occasion for offering human sacri- 
fices. It was on one of these sacrificial  
services that Boniface, a Christian mis-
sionary of the eighth century intruded,  
and cut down the oak sacred to Thor.  
Boniface told them the gospel story, so  
the legend goes, and pointed them to a  
young fir tree as the sign of the new wor- 
ship. Tradition also records that this mis- 
sionary, who originated the idea of the  
Christmas tree, was later killed by the  
heathen Germans for his teaching.  
To the heathen Romans may be traced  
the origin of the present custom of Christ- 
mas giving. The period from December  
17 to December 24 was for them a festi- 
val to their god, Saturn, and was spent  
in the giving of presents and in• feasting.  
Authorities do not agree as to when  
the Christian church first began to ob- 
serve Christmas on December 25, some  
placing its early observance in March,  
others in April or May, and still others  
in December. It is stated by various his- 
torians that the feast of the martyrdom of  
Stephen; the massacre of the innocents in  
Bethlehem; and the feast of Epiphan on  
January 6, the festival commemorating the  
baptism of Christ—all preceded the offi- 
cial adoption of the Christmas festival by  
the church. One reason given for this is  
that in the early days of the church, only  
the deaths of great men were celebrated  
rather than the dates of their birth.  
As Chistianity spread over the Roman  
empire, the Roman church retained cer- 
tain heathen customs, strengthening them  
by the addition of Christmas carols and  
pageants. The lighting of the Yule log,  
and the use of holly and mistletoe, held  
sacred by the heathens, are relics of pa- 
gan customs. Indeed, the Long Parliament  
of 1644 in England prohibited the ob- 
servance of Christmas as "papistry" and  
"human inventions." The act commanded  
(Continued on page four)  

The Spirit of Truth  
By P. L. Thompson  
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CHRISTMAS  
Once more the symbolism, good cheer, and sentiment of Christmas, the grand- 
est of holidays, pervade the atmosphere. Even the children grown tall enjoy the  
stories and traditions of the Christmas season and forget the daily cares as Christmas  
carols are broadcast over the land.  
During childhood Christmas is the day of days, and, no doubt, as Christmas  
eve approaches, many older folk silently say,  - Backward, turn backward, 0 Time,  
in your Bight; make me a child again just for tonight!" Pictures of a Christmas  
long ago rise vividly before us; in fancy we see the gaily tinseled tree upon whose  
branches hung the longed-for toy. Thoughts of vanished yesterdays remind us of  
the thrill we experienced when we hung our stockings and waited for St. Nicholas.  
But we need not live in the past, for Christmas is coming again. What will  
it mean to us this year? What will it mean to others? It does not mean the  
birthday of Christ, for it is now pretty generally known that December 25 is not  
the birthday of the Saviour, although, since the fifth century, it has been cele- 
brated as such. It matters not what the true date is, although it is the only holiday  
which is kept the whole world round. What does Christmas mean?  
The true spirit of Christmas arouses a love for one's fellowmen and draws  
an individual into closer companionship with Him who was a gift to the world.  
He who lives to himself cannot enter into the Christmas spirit.  
"No one could tell me where my soul might be,  
I sought for God, and God eluded me,  
I sought my brother out, and found all three."  
The Christmas season should be given over to lovingkindness and all the  
better emotions of the heart. These emotions will help extend the spirit of  
Christmas all through the year, and will strive to put the Chrismas spirit  everywhere.  
There is "no palace too great and no cottage too small" to receive the blessing of  
the Christ-child, who went about doing good.  
"Then let every heart keep its Christmas within,  
Christ's pity for sorrow, Christ's hatred of sin, 
Christ's care for the weakest, Christ's courage for right, 
Christ's dread of the darkness, Christ's love of the light.  
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!"  
IDEALS AND THE NEW  YEAR  
Webster defines  ideal  as a stand of perfection, beauty, or excellence; a perfect  
type. Used as an adjective, ideal means "existing as an archtypal idea." Etymologi- 
cally, the word carries with it the thought of existence in the mind as a concept.  
Most of the things we do which we have not learned to do from habit exist  
first in the mind as ideals. They usually point toward perfection. We often forget  
this and in our thinking come to consider ideals as strictly mental concepts entirely  
impossible of realization. If this were true, what would be the use of ideals? And  
why should we permit them to exist in our minds? There are plenty of useful  
things to do to exercise the brain without using up perfectly  bood energy on some- 
thing admittedly vain and useless.  
It seems that the only excuse for the existence of ideals is that they may be  
patterns for future realities. The only kind of ideal worth having is that which is  
worthy of one's effort to make into reality. God's ideal for His children is high.  
Certainly nothing could be more stagnating to the Christian religion than for 
Christians to assume that God's ideals are impossible of realization.  
Sometimes we really try to build after the pattern of our ideals. This is es- 
pecially true on New Year's day. Nearly everyone makes  "New  Year's  resolutions. '  
These resolutions are nothing more or less than a statement of one's ideals and his  
intention to make them realities. In spite of the multitudes who declaim the futility  
of New Year's resolutions, we go on making them—and breaking them—and who  
would want to .come to a New Year's day when no one made resolutions?  
In one respect New Year's day is like examination day, a time when we re- 
view our past errors and determine not to commit them again in the future. We  
should find it hard to believe that no one ever corrected any of these errors as  
a result of examinations and, likewise, it would be hard for us to believe that no  
one was ever successful in carrying out his New Year's resolutions just because  
the majority do not.  
To be content to make New Year's resolutions just to write on paper and  
look at is not enough. One must form resolutions in his mind as patterns (ideals),  
and then build after these patterns for better manhood or womanhood, better  
scholarship, better manners, better morals, and cleaner and nobler character. The  
new year will reveal which course is followed.  

G. M.  

PAGE TWO  	 THE CLOCK TOWER  
Humorous Program Given  
For Reformatory Inmates  
Miss Lillian Meyer, a former student  
of Union college, and who has received  
considerable notice as a soprano singer,  
occupied an important part of the secular  
program held Thursday evening at the  
Nebraska State reformatory by the Gos- 
pel Workers' seminar.  
It is the custom of the seminar to con- 
duct a secular program about once a  
month in addition to the weekly religious  
service. These are known as "humor  
nights," and aim to show that a Christian  
can have as much fun as anyone else,  
and that his fun is of a higher type.  
The program last Thursday was  
opened by singing humorous parodies on  
well-known songs, and continued by  
Marie Olson, who gave a reading,  - Min- 
nie from Minneapolis, -  portraying the  
problems of a young man who wished to  
rise in the scientific world.  
The "shadowgraphs" by Charlie Rob- 
inson, Harry Turner, Haskell Baker,  
Harry Winters, and James Gaitens  
evoked much applause.  
A type of music new to many of the  
audience was introduced by Harry Win- 
ters, who played a number of selections  
on his accordian.  
As Miss Meyer was unable to be pres- 
ent for the first part of the program, she  
sang two numbers near the close of the  
program, "That Tumble-Down Shack in  
Athlone, -  and "A Rose for You."  
Among the visitors at the program were  
Norma HiIde and Mr. A. G. Ortner.  
"Get the pattern of your life from God."  

Students of Expression  
Appear in a Recital  
A program of Christmas readings was  
given by the students in expression on  
Sunday afternoon. This was the third  
studio recital to be given.  
Mary Mason read "The Gift of the  
Magi," by 0. Henry. "The Laughter  
of Leen," by Richter, the story of the  
Christmas of a little Belgian maid during  
the World War, was read by Marie Ol- 
son. "Jest 'fore Christmas," a poem by  
Field, portraying the general attitude of a  
michievous boy who turns good just be- 
fore Christmas, was read by Lucile Kir- 
stein. Dorothy Aultfather gave "A Pres- 
ent for a Lady, -  by Kelly, in which were  
given the difficulties of a first grade of  
Jewish children to get gifts for "teacher."  
"A Fiddle Told," by Franklin, the story  
of the successful appeal of a prisoner to  
the governor for clemency at Christmas 
time, was given by Eleanor Hahn.  
The program was concluded by  
"Christmas Day in the Morning," by  
Richmond, the story of repentant children  
who had let other things keep them away  
from their aging parents at Christmas  
time, but who, seeing their mistake, plan- 
ned a great surprise for their parents. The  
reading was given by Hazel Brebner.  
The Home and School Association will  
give a program in the chapel Saturday  
evening at 8 o'clock.  
When God comes to man, man looks  
around for his neighbor.—George  Mac- 
Donald,  

Daily Routine Is  
Laid Aside During  
Good Cheer Season  
By  LENNIE GEPPORD  
Christmas vacation is here and the  
different ways it is going to be spent  
are the talk of the campus. There is one  
class of students who are homeward  
bound. They are so thrilled with the  
thought of going home and of spending  
Christmas and Christmas vacation with  
home folks that it is hard for them to keep  
their minds on zoology, nineteenth-cen- 
tury English, or what other school work 
they are taking; and if vacation doesn't  
come soon, they may start home a day or  
two early even though each class absence  
will count for two if they go home before  
vacation begins, for how does a double  
class absence compare with a day or two  
more spent at home during the season of  
good cheer?  
Other students, because they are so  far  
from home, plan to visit the homes of  
some of their school friends who are  
more fortunate in living close enough to  
school that it is possible for them to go  
home.  
Then I hear another class of students  
say, "Oh, we are spending our Christmas  
vacation at Union college this year. We  
hope the time will go as fast as if we  
were going home. Dean Rees and Dean  
Nelson will help make Chrstmas and  
Christmas vacation enjoyable for us who  
remain at school. Perhaps we will begin  
vacation by having a Christmas tree in  
the parlor of North hall where the young  
men and women will exchange inexpens- 
ive gifts, where we can sit in front of  
the cheery fire in the fireplace and eat  
popcorn, sing songs, hear readings and  
listen to the Christmas programs that  
come over the radio. After spending a  
part of the evening in this pleasant way,  
we may go then and sing Christmas carols  
to our faculty, friends, and others who  
live in the city."  
All during the week this class of stu- 
dents will find themselves so busy en- 
joying the good times they are having at  
the college, that before they are aware  
of it, vacation will end and they will  
not have had time to think of the pleas- 
ures they missed at home, or to have  
written those long themes they were go- 
ing to write, which would be due soon  
after vacation ends, or to have read those  
hours of outside reading they had planned  
to read.  
To the ordinary Union college student  
these are some of the ideal ways of  
spending a Christmas vacation. At least  
for a week teachers and students will for- 
get the daily routine of school life, will be  
refreshed both mentally and physically for  
the renewing of school work, and will be  
happy that such an ideal time as a Christ- 
mas vacation can come at this time of  
year.  
Members of Island Band  
Tell Story of Pioneers  
Because he was of an adventurous turn  
of mind, William Barclay said in the pro- 
gram given by the Island mission band  
Friday evening, he became interested in  
the lives of men who had experienced  
adventure in their missionary work.  Mr.  
Barclay related the life story of James  
Chalmers, missionary to New Guinea, be- 
cause it appealed to him as a life that  
had much in common with his ambitions  
for his own.  
He said that Chalmers, who came from  
Mr. Barclay's native country, Scotland,  
was to New Guinea what Livingston was  
to Africa. As a youth, it is told, Chal- 
mers was samewhat wild; but because he  
thought much of his mother, his plans  
for running away did not materialize, and  
he became much interested in mission  
work.  
He was so earnest, Mr. Barclay said,  
that he was sent as a missionary while  
he was very young. He reached his field  
seventeen months after sailing from Eu- 
rope, spending many years among the  
cannibal islands with apparent success.  
He was one day attacked by a group of  
cannibals, clubbed, cooked, and eaten.  
Other members of the Island band of  
the Union college missions bands who  
spoke were Gladys Huffman, who related  
the life stories of C. H. Parker 'and Mr.  
and Mrs. Norman Wiles, all island mis- 
sionaries; and James Meade, who re- 
counted the history of John G. Paton. He  
told, about Paton's desire for study, his  
dismissal from a good position because of  
his refusal to let his life plans be changed  
by eminent men, the strong influence of  
rugged Scotch parents, his phenomenal  
rise to good standing with the mission  
society, and his zealous work in giving  
the islanders of New Hebrides a vision  
of Christ.  
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REACHES  $100.00 GOAL  
Secretary's Report Is Given In  Unique  
Manner  
The college Sabbath school goal of one  
hundred dollars for thirteenth Sabbath  
was exceeded by a generous margin Sab- 
bath when the quarterly Sabbath school  
exercises were held a week early on ac- 
count of the vacation which falls on the  
last Sabbath of this year.  
Miss Hiatt in her mission talk compared  
the progress in modes of communication  
as shown in an outstanding advertisement  
to the carrying of the gospel to the world.  
She emphasized the good which may be  
done by much that we spend for unessen- 
tials. We must not be in any way re- 
sponsible for any missionary having occa- 
sion to doubt his calling or God's purpose  
in his work, she said.  
Instead of the usual reading of the  
secretary's report, South American mis-
sion scenes and an appeal for a liberal  
contribution were presented in song by  
James Meade. Mae Matthews varied the  
Scripture lesson by reading several texts  
of missionary import.  
As special music, the string trio played  
"Traumerei," by R. Schumann, and Presi- 
dent and  Mrs.  Thompson sang a duet.  
CHRISTMAS  
By  HAROLD LINCOLN  
We often think of Cihristmas as a mat- 
ter of give and recei .e. We are supposed 
to feel good and be happy by receiving  
these gifts. But is this so?  	 I believe not.  
It is more than receiving gifts. Christmas  
should give to everyone a spirit of happi- 
ness and joy in friendship, in life; and a  
forgetting, for a day, of th ,   trend of the  
world.  
PRELUDE  
Once more we open our hearts,  
And let them glow with love that imparts  
Good cheer and keen delight—  
For Christmas is here.  
JUST FOR A DAY  
Lift  up the care-worn face,  
Erase it with a smile.  
Forget to be selfish,  
Drive bad thoughts away.  
Forget your troubles,  
Wipe away the grudges,  
Fill their places with gratitude  
And good cheer.  
Let's all wear a smile,  
And chat for awhile;  
Chant some jolly refrain—  
For Christmas is here.  
Let's all get together  
And be birds of a feather.  
It comes but once a year—  
This Christmas cheer.  
So forget the old self,  
And be a Christmas spirit elf—  
For Christmas is here.  
Phone 48-W  	 X-Ray Diagnosis  
Res.  15-W  
FRANK T. LOPP  
Dental  Surgeon  
203-4  Hornung Building  
Opposite South  Hall  
A. I. LOVELL, MD.  
Physiotherapy and Surgery.  
Phone FO-46  	 3819 So. 48th St.  
J.  R. EVERETT  
Drugs, Stationery, and Sundries  
Phone 525  
Nebraska Sanitarium and Hospital  
A. B. DUNN, M.  D.  
Physician in Charge  
202 So. 27th  	 Phone FO-727  

TO THE STUDENT  
Let's put away books  
And tired forlorn looks. 
And think of the dinner  
That mother cooks.  
When you get home,  
Wear a smiling face,  
So that mother  
Will be happy—  
For Christmas is here.  
AFTERTHOUGHT  
Oh Christmas spirit, in thee I see  
Humanity as it ought to be. 
How sad the world is made  
By breed and vanity, that raid  
Man of himself, and bring  
Sorrow and shadows into life.  
0! let us forget this formality,  
And find something like true Christianity;  
Let the spirit of Christmas ring  in your  
heart,  
And to others impart  
Peace, and good will toward men.  	 0  	   
Brothers May Be  
An Economic Asset  
By A SISTER  
It has been said by someone, who most  
likely knows, "Fortunate is the girl who  
has a brother. -  But from my own ex- 
perience, I should change this proverb  
slightly, and say, "Fortunate  at times  is  
the girl who has a brother."  
The author of thiselittle adage had cer- 
tainly not just completed a discussion with  
said brotger in the course of which he had  
so brutally, yet so truthfully told her  
wherein  she  was taking the wrong atti- 
tude, or being narrow-minded and selfish.  
Neither had she just recovered from the  
embarrassment caused by her brother's  
narration at the dinner table of some one  
of her childish pranks.  
However, let's not think of these  
things, but for the present consider a  
few of the times when a brother is an  
asset rather than a liability. For example:  
it really isn't half bad when brother's  
friends invite him to bring his sister down  
to dinner with him. And oh, he is such a  
convenient article when the leader of a  
march calmly announces that the next 
march will be ladies' choice.  
Yes, a brother is an advantage econom- 
ically, as well as socially. He can write  
home every other time, and in so doing  
reduce his sister's postage bill fifty per  
cent.  
Very often, a brother is a true source  
of strength and help, spiritually, in the  
life of his sister.  
Then, last but not least, I must add  
that the brother is the best, most under- 
standing and sympathetic friend any girl  
can have besides her parents. It is for  
these reasons and many others too num- 
erous to mention that I consider it a priv- 
ilege to have my brother here seeking  
with me the road to happiness and suc- 
cess.  
Have your eyes examined at  
Dunlap Optical Co.  
"Where you don't have to ask the  
price in advance."  
120 No. 12th St.  	 Lincoln  
Patronize the Advertisers  
The Clock Tower  
JOHN F. AYRES  
OPTOMETRIST  
C.  W. Fleming Optical Dept.  
ACOUSTISONIC  
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Southern Darkeys  
Enjoy Christmas  
By  BEN HASSENPPLUG  
"Well, hit's neahly Cwismus, young- 
uns, en' I s'pose you-all want tuh hear  
Gramper 'late a Cwismus story; so each  
feller git his cheer."  
In many a home among the darkeys  
in the South, states Theodore Howard,  
telling of the holidays in his sunny South-  
land, Christmas evening is spent telling  
stories about, "Duh days of antebellum,"    
when "dot ole Massa's crew ob nigguhs  
akshilly tried theirsel'es. -  
- The sometimes hated 'Big House' be-  
comes a real center of attraction about  
Christmas time for the darkeys on the  
large plantation in Louisana and Missi- 
ssippi," he said. "The proprietor, or own- 
er, of the plantation will give to the over- 
seer, who lives in the 'Big House,' a good 
sum of money and commission him to 
show the darkeys a good time, and a  
good time they do have. At Christmas  
dinner they have big feeds. If you were  
blind-folded and taken into a darkey's  
home just before dinner and had your  
eyes opened when you came before the  
table, you could hardly tell the difference  
between that table and a white man's  
table spread for dinner.  
"As most of the crops are gathered by  
this time of the year, much time is spent  
in hunting, which is a great sport of the  
darkey.  
"In Alabama, the country of Booker  
T. Washington, most of the darkeys are  
observing only one day for Christmas.  
Booker T. Washington showed the peo-  
ple how they could cut wood and do  
many other essential things during these  
days which were spent foolishly by many.  
He taught the value of time. As a result  
of his teachings all of his students are  
now celebrating but one day fol- Christ- 
mas and teaching others so. But in general  
the darkeys welcome the Christmas holi- 
days as much as anyone else."    
Mr. Howard drew one contrast between  
the white man's Christmas and that of 
the darkey. "It is characteristic of the  
white man to worry about Christmas din- 
ner: not so with the colored man. He is  
simply heard saying:  
'Taint no use o' bein' mum,  
Loungin' 'rond an' lookin' glum— 
Got no money?—What yah keer?  
Smile an' smile fum ear to ear.  
Possums climbin' 'simmon trees;  
White folks gruntahs fat as cheese;  
Tu'keys roostin' in duh breeze;  
Keep smilin'; keep  	 "  
Arrangements have been made for  
Jacque Spohn to preach at the Aurora  
church. Conference bretheren have been  
there from time to time, but from now on  
Mr. Spohn will be there on the second  
and fourth Sabbaths of the month.  

        

  
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Office B-6959  
Dobson Pharmacy  
Pure Drugs, Sundries, Rubber Goods  
and Stationery.  
Best Fountain Service  
WE SELL MAGAZINES  
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NELSON THE SHOEMAKER  
We rebuild shoes, not  Just cobble  
them.  Make them look and wear like  
new.  All  work guaranteed.  4728 Pres- 
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Give us a trial—you'll come back.  
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HARDWARE  
ACROSS FROM CAMPUS  
Phone 13 W  

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DINNER  
COZY CA FE  
Vegetarian and Meat Menu  
Jim Rodney's Filling Station  
Merry and happy I wish you may be  
When at Christmas you go, the home folks to see.  
And to Jim Rodney's station your tank come and fill,  
You'll find that his gas and oils fill the bill.  
4103 South 48th.  

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Chapel Hour  is Devoted  
To Etiquette Questions  
A round table composed of Dean Rees,  
Miss Minnie Olson, and several girls, pre- 
sented, discussed, and answered the many  
varied and interesting questions found in  
the "culture week" question box at chapel  
Friday morning.  
The scene represented a group of North  
hall girls, Arta Parmalee, Mabel Gosnell,  
Emilia Powell, and Ethel Eitel, who  
were seated in a parlor discussing var- 
ious forms of etiquette. Miss Rees and  
Miss Olson, who then entered the par- 
lor, took part in the dialogue and pre- 
sented questions found in the question  
box.  
The programs relating to proper forms  
of etiquette and culture that have been  
presented during the past week have been  
provocative of serious thought in the  
minds of some as evinced by the nature  
of some of the questions they have sub- 
mitted for answers. There were questions  
on conduct in the dining-room, reverence  
in church, courtesy on the street car and  
street, and concerning ushering at pro- 
grams. Answers to others of the questions  
will appear in THE CI.00K TOWER, as  
there was not time to answer them all  
in chapel. 
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Good Resolutions  
May Be Disrupted  
By EDITH BENTON  
"Only one short week of vacation!  
That's hardly time enough to get home,  
stay one day, and get batk," complains  
one student. "But if we had a longer  
vacation I'd forget all I've learned, -  an- 
swers another.  
It is a queer thing anyway that we pay  
our good, hard-earned money for tuition  
and try to get out of studying every  
half-chance we get. But even a Scotch- 
man forgets his nationality when vaca- 
tion time comes around.  
We want long vacations, but when we  
come back to school we wish we could  
remember at least two things we learned  
before vacation. One of the main factors  
that contributes to this forgetfulness is  
the same sensation we feel at our 1:15  
classes after we've had an extrI good  
dinner, only the sensation is two weeks  
more intense. That's the bad part about  
vacation. But what it is good for?  
Those who go home do not need to  
plan how they'll spend the time.  	 Of  
course the family will want to know all  
about Union and the "gang" will be com- 
ing in often, wanting them to go here and  
there. Perhaps they'll manage to get in  
a few hours sleep.  
But those of us who stay here have  
been planning various things to do to 
pass away the time. Christmas vacation  
is an ideal time to catch up on outside  
reading, to get in a few extra hours at  
the pecan shop, to take a two-hour nap  
every day, and to get in some extra prac- 
tice on the piano, besides a thousand  
other things. These are all good inten- 
tions, but my past experience has shown  
me that not many of these things are  
done profitably during vacation. In the  
past I have decided that during this va- 
cation I'll get my history paper written,  
but someone has come along and induced  
me to go to every program. I went but  
kept the unwritten theme before me. At  
the end of vacation I had neither written  
the theme nor enjoyed vacation.  
MERRY  CHRISTMAS  
HAPPY NEW YEAR.  
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Dyers  
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Christmas to all who come within  
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cream centers. 1, 2, 3 and 4 3 A lb.  
boxes.  
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TYPEWRITERS FOR RENT  
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student's machine. Used typewriters all makes.  
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God's Gift To Man  
Inspires Thinking  
On World Needs  
By LEOLA CASTLE  
Outside the snow was falling softly  
and the earth was seemingly at peace.  
Charlotte King sat on a low foot-stool by  
the window watching the feathery flakes  
as they fluttered silently down blanket-  
ing the earth in ermine. But she was not  
thinking of the beauty that met her eyes,  
in fact the tears were blinding her to  
everything but her own disappointment.  
The clock on the mantle ticked merrily  
on, and the cat lay dozing by the crack-  
ling fire, but she was oblivious to all  
about her. Suddenly she heard something  
from out-of-doors, then she pressed her  
face against the window pane and listened  
closely.  
"It came upon a midnight clear  
That glorious song of old- -  
Who could it be? What would anybody  
be singing out in a snowstorm for? The  
carollers came nearer the house and  
stopped for a moment as they finished  
their Christmas hymn. Wending their  
way through the streets of Compton Cen- 
ter the carollers were soon lost from sight  
and hearing.  
Charlotte King was city born and bred.  
For twenty-three years she had known  
nothing but city life with its hurry and  
bustle, its noise and confusion. She had  
been graduated the preceding June from  
a famous old college near Boston. She  
was a girl of keen intellect and the spirit  
of adventure filled her entire being. So  
when the offer came to act as a tutor for  
the children of a well-to-do retired mer- 
chant she hastened to accept. For three  
months she had been supremely happy in  
these beautiful woods of northern Maine.  
But as the holiday season drew nearer  
and the spirit of Christmas pervaded ev-  
ery nook and corner she felt a spirit of  
restlessness come over her. This spirit  
grew on her and tonight it was finding  
an outlet in tears of self-pity, for had  
she not been informed by the station  
agent that she was snow-bound and here  
she must stay?  
She thought aloud —  - What dOes  
Christmas mean to me? Nothing more  
than the fact that I am marooned away  
off here in the backwoods of Maine. I  
don't see why the Hazelton family could  
not have retired to the South Sea Islands  
where at least there wouldn't be any of  
this horrid snow, -  and she cast a disdain- 
ful glance at the sparkling snow.  
It was then that she heard the happy  
carollers. As the voices faded away into  
the distance her eyes softened and tears  
of remorse began to fall. Then she  
reached for her beautiful copy of the  
Bible. As she opened the Book her eyes  
fell on these words: "It is more blessed to  
give than to receive. -  She thought for a  
moment, then rang for the maid. Jane  
soon appeared and stood in respectful  
silence.  
Jane looked rather surprised at the odd  
question, but answered promptly,  - Yes,  
Madam, there are many, but why should 
Madam trouble herself about them?" As  
Charlotte unfolded her plan, Jane listened,  
first with surprise, then with genuine in- 
terest.  
The clock had struck one as Charlotte  
made one last impression of the dozen  
or more well-filled baskets ready for dis- 
tribution on the morrow. She was tired  
by extremely happy, the happiest she had 
been for days. Just before she closed her  
eyes in sleep she heard the faint notes  
of the last song of the carollers—  
"Silent night, holy night,  
All is calm, all is bright."  
"Yes," she murmured softly, "all is calm."  
Earl Van Dorn Writes  
That He is Anxious to  
Be Back at Union Again  
(The following is an extract from a let- 
ter received by Henry Preston from Earl  Van Dorn who was obliged to leave Union  
on account of ill health some time ago.)  
Have been in bed for three weeks. Am  
sitting up a little today. I am feeling  
quite a lot better and hope I can be up  
and around soon.  
I surely am lonesome for old Union  
when I read in the CLOCK TOWER of the  
nice time you are having. I certainly  
wish I could be there to join in the good  
times.  
I am anxiously waiting and hoping that  
I can return to Union next year. My  
short stay in Union has given me quite  
an inspiration.  
THE CIRCUS  
INDORE GOLF  
16th & "0"  
Under new management. All  
Renovated. A Clean Place  
to Play. Union College Stu- 
dents are Welcomed.  
We wish you a  
MERRY CHRISTMAS  
JACK  VOGES,  Manager  

- The time of the birth of Christ is  
not as important as the fact that such  
a thing occurred, -   said President P. L.  
Thompson in his talk in chapel Monday  
morning.  	 want you to turn your minds  
to the meaning of Christ's birth.  
"The wise men were guided by a star  
to the place where the babe lay in the  
manger. One can have the same star as  
his guide in life, no matter what his line  
of work may be. The wise men saw the  
new light and followed it. The principle  
applies to one, also in this day and age.  
-This story of the wise men is but an  
allegory of life. They brought their gifts  
to Jesus—gold, frankincense, myhrr. We  
today are to bring our gifts to Jesus. It  
may not be possible to offer them in the  
same manner that the wise men did, but  
there are plenty of ways in which the  
same principle can be applied. Look in  
the world around us. It is almost impos- 
sible for one to comprehend the needs of  
the people around us in every walk of  
life, and it is one's duty to do all he can  
to help them.  
- Christ gave his life for the world. So  
a Christian in his Christmas giving takes  
thought to his giving. He gives in such  
a way that it will better humanity. So  
in celebrating Christmas, bear in mind  
the One whose birthday it is supposed 
to represent, and act as He would have  
us to act.••  
Field Work Class Take  
Part in Week of Prayer  
Last Sabbath was the last day of the  
Week of Prayer, and the reading by  
Pastor Evans was-given in most of the  
churches visited by members of the field  
work class in homiletics.  
At Cortland Lowell Welch read the  
reading. There was a Sabbath school 
rally, and a number of visitors were pre- 
sent. Union was represented by Paul  
H iugh"v, Vernon D !tin and his brother,  
and Gideon Kruger. In the afternoon  
plans were laid for a young people's  
society, which will be organized soon.  
At Bla!r Henry Preston gave the read- 
ing and was assisted by Mr. Ortner and  
Miss Irene Ortner. Lucille Howe went  
as far as Fremont with them and visited 
a roommate of former years, Miss Irene  
Donnely. Before the church service at  
Blair a visit was made to Mrs. Tremaine,  
an old lady of 92 years old. She has  
not been able to attend services for some  
years. This faithful old sister may be  
the means of bringing several of her re- 
atives into the truth by her consecrated  
life. The Blair church members are still  
working hard on their Harvest Ingather- 
ing campaign.  
Pastor Bresee accompanied Walter  
Howe to Nebraska City and gave a ser- 
mon adapted to the Week of Prayer.  
Ned Bresee sang in Sabbath school as  
well as in the church service. Reuben  
Johnson, who has been an active worker  
in that city, went with them. After the  
service a board meeting was held and  
officers were elected for the coming year.  
Ralph Cash conducted the service at  
the Fremont church. Plans were made  
for a series of evangelistic Bible studies  
to be held in the afternoon when outside  
people were especially invited to attend.  
Several have signified their intentions of  
coming if such a series is conducted. After  
the service a board meeting was called to  
discuss this and other matters. In the  
afternocin a visit was made to a sick man  
who once attended some Bible studies.  
He said he was going to take his stand  
with God's people as soon as the Lord  
gave him strength. The Fremont church  
went over in their Harvest Ingathering  
goal during October and are still work- 
ing.  
At Beatrice William Barclay conducted  
the service assisted by Clinton von Pohle.  
Brother Barclay sang for them and Clin- 
ton von Pohle played the organ. A con- 
secration service was held.  
Canis Lauda asked Pastor House to  
go with him to Fairbury Pastor House  
read the Week of Prayer reading. Mr.  
and Mrs. Lauda sang two numbers in har- 
mony with the thoughts presented. After  
the service, there was the annual election  
of officers for the coming year.  
PRE-INVENTORY  
SPECIALS  
Ladies hand bags $6.00 to  
17.50 Value  Now $4.35 to $12.85  
Three Piece Dresser Sets  Now $3.95, $6.95, 8.35  
Manicure Sets  $1.75, $3.95  
Some Mesh  Bags and  Dorines  
One  Third Off  
$3.50 Ansonia  Alarm Clocks  
Now $1. 95  
Wrist Watches  $9.85, $10.50, $13.00 up  
Watch Bracelets and Straps  $1.00, $1.50 up  
$2.50  Fountain Pens  
Now $1.95  
MORSE'S  
Opposite South Hall  

By EMIL FICK  
Flowing through the kingdom of man is  
a river of love. And the only way any  
life can be a complete failure is to live  
without love. As long as that little stream  
flows within, man is heir to a divine leg- 
acy that descends from the very Godhead.  
The burning fire of love is the most  
energizing force in life. Indeed, if all  
love should suddenly vanish out of the  
world it would leave a horrible trail of  
lethargy and ruin.  
Tolstoi, the Russian philosopher and  
; writer, aptly says, "Man lives by love,  
He lives not through care of himself, but  
by love. All men are kept alive not by  
their own forethought, but because there  
is love in men. In appearance one would  
think he is kept alive through one's self, 
though in reality it is through love. God  
! does not, wish men to live each for him-
! self, therefore he has not revealed to them  
what they each need for themselves, but  
he wishes them to live in union, and  
; therefore he has revealed to them what is  
necessary for all together."  
Strange that such a vital force should  
be so lacking in the lives of men. The  
world is famished for love. Hearts are  
lonely. Lives are desolate, Ugly spectres  
--hate, envy, revenge—stalk the streets.  
The fountains of life arc poisoned by  

	 
the negations of love.  	 •  
The Christmas season is now upon us.  
And strange it is that one festive day  
should turn the thoughts of the world to  
love, that the emotions of men should be- 
come tender, and that the spirit of Him  
who was born in Beth:ehem should per- 
vade the hearts-of men. And yet it is not  
so strange, for is He not the revealer of  
the life full of peace, the life full of abid- 
ing and abounding joy? Has He not dem- 
cr.strated that the amount of love, in  
man's heart measures his nearness to per- 
fection, his closeness to the heart of God?  
Would that this river of love ;is re- 
vealed by Him would flow through the  
life of each of us, and bring us to that  
perfection exemplified in His life.  
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North Hall Club Has  
Parlor Radio Program  
The Young Women's club met Wednes- 
day evening in the North hall parlor for  
a Christmas program. By the fireplace sat  
Mrs. Ellwanger (Dorothy Vogel) think- 
ing on Chrstmas eve of her daughter, Ma- 
bel, who could not come home for the  
holiday. Just then a neighbor (Mae Matt- 
hews) came to spend a little time with  
her friend. She brought a letter from  
Mabel, telling her mother that as a sur- 
prise for her she was going to sing over  
the radio that night.  
Joyously the mother tuned in at the ap- 
pointed hour just in time to hear the an- 
nouncer, Arta Parmalee, state that a  
Christmas program was being broadcast  
from Union college. First on the program  
was a song, "Holy Night," by Ma- 
bel Ellwanger and Mildred Haas. A  
Christmas reading was given by Verna  
Pooler. Then the surprise came, a song  
by Mabel Ellwanger, dedicated to her  
mother. Adeline Voth read "The Night  
Before Christmas." "We have had a little  
snow here today," said the announcer,  
"and probably you would enjoy a sleigh  
ride; so here we go." Leola Castle and  
Esther House then played "Sleigh Bells"  
as a piano duet. A vocal number con- 
cluded the program.  

Then the best way to spend vacation  
is to do what you want to do (if that  
be reasonable) at the time you want tc  
do it. If you want to read, do so and en- 
joy it. Practice for amusement. If you  
want to go to an entertainment, don't  
stay home and study. The idea is to do  
the thing you can enjoy at that particu- 
lar time, and take your time for it. Ther  
when vacation is over you'll be in an at- 
titude to attack new material with inter.  
est and enthusiasm.  
	 0  	   
nify  Idea Of The  
56Cost Unideal Way  
Vo Spend Christmas  
By GLADYS SHAPER  
Oh dear! Christmas day is here already  
and I do not have my outside reading for  
American history. Such a way to spend  
Christmas, but I suppose it can't be helped  
now. Since it was impossible for me to go 
home and I have to spend the other vaca- 
tion days working, it will be necessary  
for me to study today. This reading has  
to be done by the first of the year and,  
anyway, I want to start the New Year  
with a clean slate.  
If I had read a few hours each week  
as my roommate did, I shouldn't have to  
"cram" now. But I didn't see any use in  
it,   then. 0, well! I hope I shall profit by  
this experience and never do it again.  
And ahother thing! I really forgot  
Christmas was so near and I don't have  
anything to give anyone. I know I could  
have enjoyed the day so much more if I 
had planned to do something for someone  
else. But here I am with several weeks  
of outside reading to do and no time to  
help others.  
What a dreary Christmas it will be!  
After this I'm going to study my lessons  
each day, and plan my gifts ahead of  
time, then I shall have nothing to regret  
when Christmas comes again.  

Christmas Spirit  
Should Continue  
By LUELLA COLEMAN  
It is generally understood that Christ  
was not born in December and yet it is  
the custom of our nation to celebrate  
December 25 in commemoration of His  
birth. But why do we do it and why do  
we use this holiday as a time for ex- 
changing gifts and friendly greetings?  
Christmas means something for the  
world which mere words cannot express.  
It is not for America only, but for all  
mankind. It is a universal holiday. though  
time and custom of observance may differ,  
of great significance and importance. Jesus  
gave his life for the world, and it is  
the Christ-spirit that causes men and wo- 
men to sense the true motive of life and  
the idea of living, not for self but for  
others. This spirit pervades many days  
before Christmas and lingers a short time  
afterwards, but all too soon it is gone.  
Someone has said, "It is the mission of  
Christianity to keep the Christmas spirit  
alive, to give it continuity and perpetuity  
in the daily come and go throughout the  
year, all over the world."  
On the night of Christ's birth a host  
of angels sang, "Peace on earth, good  
will to men. -  Christmas is a time of good  
will. It is a time to lay aside hatred, self- 
ishness, and unpleasant feelings: a time to  
do for others that which our better nature  
prompts us to do. This is not always ac- 
complished by extravagance in giving. A  
cheery smile, a kind word, or a thought- 
ful act each play an important part. It is  
these little things that we may each do 
that help to make others happy and in  
turn make ourselves happy. Why not  
d, something each day that will make the  
world a better place because we live in  
itr In this way the purpose of Christmas  
and the mission of Christianity will be  
reaiized.  

Says Story of Wise  Men Love In Life Is  Is An Allegory of Life  Test Of Reality  
Of One's Religion


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Ruby McQuerry was called home last  
Thursday because of the illness of her  
mother.  
Marjorie McKale left Saturday night  
for her home in Joplin, Missouri, to spend  
the vacation period.  
Anticipations for a  - white Christmas"  
were shattered when old Sol got in his  
work and removed the white blanket.  
Mabel Ellwanger left Friday afternoon  
to spend the Christmas vacation at her  
home in Weatherford, Oklahoma.  
Mrs. T. A. Little•is expected to arrive  
here the early part of the week to spend  
the holiday season with Mr. Little.  
Pastor S. G. Haughey stayed at South  
hall during the time he was here'assist- 
ing the Week of Prayer services at the  
College View church.  
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Nelson, of Pres- 
cott street, left Thursday evening for  
California. Mr. Nelson is in the employ of  
the federal government and has been  
transformed to Los Angles.  
The College View high school sopho- 
mores put on a Christmas party at the  
high school gymnasium Saturday even- 
ing. Games, music numbers, and dis- 
tribution of small gifts were the main  
features of the party.  
Caesar, Napoleon, Washington, radi- 
cals, chemicals, or buns were not the  
themes for conversation the past few  
days. Rather, such ordinary topics must  
give place to the all-absorbing ones of  
train schedules. vacation, and home.  
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. McMahon enter- 
tained Mr. and Mrs. George Klement and  
daughter, Lorena, Mrs. Anna Wade, and  
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Barcus, at dinner  
Thursday evening at the Paap hotel. The  
occasion was Mr. McMahon's birthday.  
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. McMahon are vis- 
iting Mr. and Mrs. Klement, Pioneer  
boulevard, the latter part of the week.  
Mrs. McMahon has just returned from  
the Denver sanitarium, where she has  
been resting. They are on their way to  
Kansas City to visit relatives there.  
A Christmas program was given at the  
College View high school Friday after- 
noon consisting of some musical numbers  
and readings and a talk by Rev. Paul  
Walker of the Sheridan boulevard Baptist  
church on  - The Christmas Optimist."  
The assembly sang a Christmas song to  
close the program and to begin their two- 
week Christmas vacation. The program 
was fostered by the Girl Reserve and the  
Hi-Y clubs.  
Saturday evening a truck load of Un- 
ion college students left Lincoln to spend  
the holiday season with their parents in  
their respective homes in Colorado. Those  
who went were Hope Bellmire, Virginia  
Corsan, Esther House, Bernice Ludie,  
Margaret Reynolds, Dorothy and Mar- 
garet Vogel, Eva Wilkenson, Lyle Fre- 
meyer, Roger Runk, Dale and Dallas  
Strawn. George Eisenman and Russell  
Holmes are to do the driving and Mr.  
Eisenman is their chaperon.  
When we climb to heaven 'tis on  
rounds of love to men.  
Heaven is a prepared place for a pre- 
pared people.  
Wreckage of the recent earthquake at  
Kona, Japan, cost 250 lives, injured 350,  
and destroyed 8,000 homes.  
Guatemala had its third government  
within a week after an hour of brisk  
fighting in the streets of the capital Tues- 
day in which fifty-seven persons were  
killed or wounded. Dissatisfied mili- 
tary elements are thought to have been 
the cause. The president is Manuel Ore- 
liana.  
In a tempestuous awakening which has  
taken the natives of central Java by sur- 
prise, the volcano Merapi, dormant for  
eighty years, killed fifteen persons and  
inflicted a huge property damage. Those  
killed were at work in a file near the  
volcano's base when an avalanche of  
white hot lava, seventy feet high and  
200 yards wide, slid down the mountain- 
side and overwhelmed them before they  
could escape.  
The League of Nations labor bureau  
gives information about labor conditions  
in Russia. All jobs are obtained through  
government agencies. Any workman can  
quit by giving seven days notice. But if  
he does quit, he is called an industrial  
"deserter," and for six months after he  
quits, although he may be a highly  
skilled man, the government gives him  
nothing to do but manual labor. Then he  
is reinstated.  

•••  	 ZIP>  	 . .•  	 .  
Dorothy and Geraldine Davis left Sat- 
urday evening for the Christmas vacation  
with their parents.  
New curtains arc being hung at the  
windows in the halls and landings of  
South hall. Leota Gibson is making them.  
Aileen Carter's mother was here Wed- 
nesday and Thursday. She left Thursday  
taking Aileen home for the vacation.  
Mr. and Mrs. Harder and son arived  
from Enterprise academy Friday to be  
with Olivia for Christmas vacation.  
Miss Maude McDonald left Sunday  
morning for Wewoka, Oklahoma, to  
spend Christmas vacation with her par- 
ents.  
The clock on the tower, feeling the  
need of rest (or perhaps a vacation), laid  
its cares aside at eleven o'clock Thurs- 
day night. Or does it need oiling?  
Many Union college students and  
faculty members attended the giving of  
the  Messiah  Wednesday evening at Mem- 
morial hall at the Nebraska university.  
Arthur and Harry Winters are plan- 
ning to spend their Christmas vacation  
with their parents at Garden City, Kan- 
sas. Alten Bringle will accompany them  
to Enterprise. The trip will be made by  
auto.  
Union college and especially North  
hall are sorry to have Ruth Bruce and  
Thelma Bundy leave. Miss Bruce was  
called home unexpectedly, while Miss  
Bundy is forced to leave because of ill  
health.  
Miss Ida Johnson, preceptress of the  
nurses' training school at White Memorial  
hospital, Los Angles, visited Mrs. D. G.  
Hilts from Sunday till Tuesday. Miss  
Johnson was for eleven years superintend- 
ent of nurses at the Nebraska sanitarium  
when it was located in what is now North  
hall.  
The College View high school fresh- 
men held a party at the high school Sat- 
urday evening. Readings, dialogues,  
and singing numbers were the chief fea- 
tures of the program. The girls of the  
home economics department served the  
refreshments. Mrs. Brant and Mr. Robson  
are the sponsors.  
After a Christmas program, Santa  
Claus visited the academy students in the  
old academy chapel. To begin the pro- 
gram a Christmas carol was sung by the  
entire group. A reading, "The First  
Christmas," was given by Mildred Wall- 
inder, after which a duet, "Silent Night,"  
was sung by Maude McDonald and El- 
darita Leslie. "The Boy and His Stum- 
ick," was read by Alvin Sonnenberg. A  
cornet solo was the next number, by  
George Emery. Gretchen Van Syoc gave  
a talk, "Christmas in Other Lands." "An  
Old Roundsman's Story," was read by  
Eldarita Leslie. Eunice and Elizabeth  
Dunn sang a duet in harmony with the  
Christmas spirit. At this time bells were  
heard and Santa Claus entered and gave  
out gifts to the different members of the  
society. The closing number was a report  
of the Philomathian society given by Ev- 
elyn Baer.  
Efficiency depends largely upon care- 
ful attention to details.  
Sustained and directed activity has been  
the keynote of progress.  
Washington Luis, deposed president of  
Brazil, arrived at Cherborg to begin the  
exile imposed upon him by the new  
government headed by Getulio Vargas,  
the new president.  
King Alfonso, Spain's 44-year-old mon- 
arch, himself directed the operations which  
resulted in what the• government terms a  
crushing defeat of the revolutionary  
movement of the past week. The govern- 
ment has given no official indication of  
when it will withdraw the censorship and  
martial law.  
According to Mussolini the world is  
preparing feverishly for war. Therefore  
he cannot allow Italy to disarm although 
he would like to save the money and turn  
his thoughts and efforts to peace. Every  
other ruler in t,urope will say the same,  
excepting some Balkan countries. They  
say fighting is the only occupation worthy  
of a gentleman.  
A great man, of whom the world knows  
too little, died one hundred years ago  
December 17. Our southern neighbor,  
Bolivia, is named for Simon Bolivar, who  
was born in Venezuela in 1783, and died  
in 1830, after giving freedom from Spain  
to Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Pana- 
ma, Peru, and Bolivia. Born a rich man,  
his father an owner of much land and  
many slaves, Bolivar interested himself in  
human liberty and fought for it to his  
death.  

Over a period of a hundred years there  
have been few cycles of business stag-
nation from which the country did not  
quickly rally. Only in three instances did  
the depression extend for a longer term  
than three years. Following the War of  
1812 the United States was confronted  
with severe economic conditions for five  
and a half years. Again in 1873, the de- 
pression which followed the panic lasted  
for four and a half years. Twenty years  
later adverse trade levels prevailed for  
six and a half years. The record for the  
country follows:  
1837—nine months, followed by a revival  
which lasted a year and gave way  
to three years of dull times.  
1846—fifteen months. 
1857—fifteen months.  
1866—two years.  
1873—four and a half years.  
1884—twenty months. 
1891—six and a half years. 
1907—slightly more than a year. 
1911—thirteen months.  
1914—one year.  
1920—fifteen months. 
1924—six months. 
1930  	   
The greatest concern at the present  
time is the economic condition of the  
world.  

	 
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Recall Festivities of Early  
Holidays  
(Continued from page one)  
and there I found that in 1910 the stu- 
dents remaining at the school during the  
holidays had an old fashioned maple- 
sugar party. Mr. Osbert Ward, of Ver- 
mont, had receive a large quantity of the  
sugar from his brother. It was boiled  
down, then poured into dishpans of snow  
to be whipped. Making "maple snow"  
was new to most of the students and some  
even tried to mix it after the syrup had  
hardened.  
The holidays of 1916 were eventful,  
as revealed by the  Messenger.  There was  
a taffy pull on the first evening. Mr.  
Smart gave a steriopticon Saturday eve- 
ning on his native land, New Zealand.  
On Christmas eve all gathered into the  
decorated parlor in North hall and a  
school program was presented as part of  
the program, then Santa Claus, covered  
with snow, came in and distributed pres- 
ents. There was a mission field exhibition  
in the church on Tuesday evening. The  
iives of missionaries and natives were  
portrayed. On the next Saturday evening  
a Miss Boeman rendered "Little Merry  
, ..:hristmas -  for her graduation recital. The  
records state that New Year's eve of that  
year was sped) playing games, and a Mr.  
Phillips was interested in the philosophy  
of a spoonful of salt.  
I believe these teachers and former stu- 
dents did have a "glorious time," and I  
think Jack Frost must have been especial- 
ly good by favoring them with more ice  
E.nd snow than he gives us.  
Raymond Kugler left for his home in  
Missouri, December 17, for a long vaca- 
tion.  

Young Men Present "Revue of  
1930"  
(Continued from page one)  
tacles which he removed and replaced in a  
characteristic manner, impersonated Presi- 
dent Thompson; and Clinton von Pohle a  
man eating at the same table in a rest- 
aurant. Marvin Halvorson acted the part  
of the waiter. Roy Morse furnished an-
other humorous feature of the scene.  
In a caricature reproduction of an artist  
course number given this year Miss Hazel  
Kipp, violinist, performed a very "diffi- 
cult" composition and Joe Tucker, the  
"child prodigy" played "with variations!"  
The lad seemed a bit large for his age.  
Jacque Spohn with an eloquent and en- 
thusiastic prelude, presented the "great  
mystery, -  a satire on the credulity of the  
human animal.  
"A Disagreeable Tradition" was a re- 
enactment of the scene taking place in the  
English room when it rains, with ampli- 
fications, particularly in the improved  
methods of self-preservation against the  
dripping ceiling. A class of boys equipped  
with raincoats filed in. Professor Little  
(Vernon Becker) stepped to the long  
table and began arranging his books in a  
haracteristic manner preparatory to open- 
ing class. After a few questions asked  
of several of the aspiring young journal- 
ists, one of them giving an astounding  
example of the "scholarly I-don't-know"  
in a sentence compiling a large number of  
Webster's biggest and best, a roar of  
i thunder was heard, followed by flashes  
of lightning. In an incredibly short time  
the class was transformed into a group  
of waterproofed figures ranged before an  
instructor in black raincoat and the slouch  
hat of unmistakable identity.  	 "Atmos-  
phere" was admirably provided by the  
distinctly audible drip-drip of water into  
the pail placed for the purpose, a touch  
scrupulously true to fact. After repeated- 
ly calling the repair department, it was  
discovered that the leak was a "tradition,"  
like the rock pile for instance, and that  
any change would amount to desecration.  
Another touch of accurate characteriza- 
tion was the assigning of one hundred  
pages in advance, the purpose being to  
provide an effective antidote for "per- 
nicious inertia."  
Santa Claus, in costume and sleigh  
bells, distributed candy kisses. As he 
passed among the crowd asking the "chil- 
dren" if they had been good, Joe Tucker's 
deep bass was easily recognizable.  	 A  
short tag march preceded ''Good Night,  
Ladies" sung in altered wording by a  
group of young men.  
The opening number of the program,  
Professor Little said, had not be sub- 
mitted to him for approval as had the  
rest of the program. That number was an  
extemporaneous speech for which the  
master of ceremonies called upon him.  
A feature which provoked much  
laughter was the unique stage "curtains."  
Two young men with large cardboard  
squares hung from their necks acted as  
curtains, concealing nothing, but parting  
and coming together with regularity at  
the beginning and close of each scene.  

Reveal  Variety of Plans  
(Continued from page one)  
We are glad to know that some stu- 
dents are staying here. Mr. Fickess won't  
go any place. It's quite natural for him  
to stay at home—he's married. He said,  
-I'm going to eat everything in order for  
the day, with all the trimmings, and help  
my little girl break all her new Christmas  
toys."  	 I'm sure he'll have a good time.  
It's about a seven-hundred-mile cold  
drive to North Dakota, but that won't  
keep Ben Harr in Nebraska. He plans  
to visit his parents and relatives. "Of  
course," he said, "I'll have to make a trip  
to Sheyenne River academy to look after  
my interest in the music department." I  
don't know whether Mr. Harr will ever  
be a musician, but he's leaning that way.  
Christmas vacation is also a time to  
make up back work according to Miss  
Fannie Jones, \tho plans to make up some  
work in history. (Don't you suppose Dr.  
Dick will object if you spoil your vaca- 
tion that way?) Some of us may think  
that Christmas vacation isn't necessary,  
but Miss Jones says it's a life-saver.  
Well, I'm sure all Unionites will save  
their lives if it can be done by taking  
a vacation.  
Most people would probably be in- 
clined to think that the Iowa students  
will husk corn during vacation, but Floyd  
Gregerson doesn't say anything about  
it. He plans to spend his vacation at home  
meeting old friends and enjoying some  
winter sports. "Christmas vacation is the  
most enjoyable vacation of all," he said.  
Miss Dorothy Vogel values the Christ- 
mas vacation more than examinations, for  
she said, "Christmas vacation is the best  
part of the school year. It is an oasis  
in a desert." Miss Vogel plans to spend  
her vacation in the heart of the Rockies,  
at Paonia, Colorado. She plans to do  
many things, but on two she won't fail  
—horseback riding and "burning some  
of Dad's gas."  
Mr. Jacque Spohn has been sending lit- 
erature to friends in the St. Paul General  
hospital, and during vacation days he  
plans to give them Bible readings.  
We are already conscious of the fact  
that each student has his peculiar way  
of spending vacation, but it won't be so  
long till we'll all be doing the same  
thing again—writing semester examina-
tions.  
Custom of Giving of Early Origin  
(Continued from page one)  
and worshiped him. And when they had  
opened their treasures they presented unto  
him gifts: gold, and frankincense, and  
myrrh." But Jesus brought the righest  
gift of all to the world, for not only did  
He bring peace and good will but He gave  
His life that we might live. When God  
gave His son He gave the fairest gift  
of heaven, "that whosoever believeth on  
Him should not perish but have everlast- 
ir.g life."  
Only those who get happiness from  
their work really know what real happi- 
ness is.  

Early Records Show Unusual  
Customs  
(Continued from page one)  
day in fasting as an atonement for their  
sins in having observed the heathen cus- 
toms in earlier years. The Puritans held  
the same view regarding the day, and  
some writers say that Thanksgiving was  
originated by them partly as a substitute  
for the Christmas festival.  
Not all of the present Christmas cus- 
toms date back so far, however. The first  
Christmas card was made in 1846. As we  
enjoy the holidays, let us remember those  
early Christians who suffered death for  
observance of Christmas, under the reign 
of Diocletian. It cost them their lives to  
gather in their church on the day they  
thought to be the Saviour's birthday.  
Christmas need not be either a day of  
mourning as in the time of Cromwell, or  
a day of thoughtless revelry, as in the  
Roman festival of saturnalia.  
SOUTHWESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE  
The annual faculty recital was given  
in the college chapel Saturday night,  
November 22. The program was pre- 
sented by Mr. Dortch, voice; Mrs. Ryden,  
violin; Mrs. Ryden, piano; and Mrs.  
Dortch, expression.  
The annual Week of Prayer was held  
at the college November 15-22. Pastor  
K. L. Gant, Missionary Volunteer secre- 
tary of the Oklahoma conference, assisted  
by Pastor A. F. Ruf, of North Texas,  
conducted the meetings which were held  
each evening. Thirty-three students were  
baptized on the last Sabbath of the week.  
A new bronze plate, dedicated to the  
Texico students, was placed on the  
fountain on the afternoon of Thanksgiv- 
ing Day. A plate is given annually to the  
conference having the largest percentage  
of new students remaining throughout the  
year. The plate last year was won by  
Arkansas. The dedicatory services were  
conducted by President Kellogg.  
The students worked in the industries  
on the morning of Thanksgiving Day in 
order to contribute to the Week of Sac- 
rifice. Many of them reached their goal  
in this way.  
The students of the normal school gave  
a Thanksgiving program in the college  
chapel Wednesday, November 20.  
Pastor and Mrs. Gjording and small  
sons, who have spent fifteen years as  
missionaries in the Far East, have been  
visiting in Keene during the past week.  
Pastor Gjording has promised to contrib- 
ute some curios to the school museum.  
E. E. Franklin, who has charge of the  
book work in North America, attended  
the bookman's convention at Keene, De- 
cember 2 and 3.  
The development of ideals is the chief  
work of education.  
Our mind must cease to be the enemy of  
out bodies.  
Weekly Review of World Affairs  
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