hunters on that island. But now dared, a dispensary and small schools are serN'1 0!Ie In the is C1 lands eg...are i6. members. 0.• ,„ c Of' 14 0 % 0 ,1' 44 de- er of people. church Fiftieth Anniversary Edition-- LO IL% 'HU ftlf WER --Golden Cords Special VoL. XVI LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 NUMBER 12 Forty Students Make up Fiftieth Senior Class Presented in Chapel To President Rulkoetter By Sponsor Ogden Forty Union college seniors of 1941 were presented to President A. H. Rul- koetter by their sponsor, Dr. E. B. Og- den, in chapel February 28. Ephesians 6:10-18 was read by class pastor Clyde Kearbey, who offered prayer. President Rulkaetter, in recognizing the class, pointed out that education pro- vides the difference between living and merely earning a living. He quoted Mrs. E. G. White: "Every man and every woman should feel the obligation rest- ing on him to reach the highest intellec- tual attainment posible." "Education clarifies and magnifies the view of life," said President Rulkoetter. "As the lens through which one looks, sa the life. However, intellect alone does not make the man. The use of it deter- mines the right of one to claim to be a man." The seniors were referred to as the eldest sons of Union's family, whose future achievements will be anticipated with interest. They were exhorted to uphold Union's family name and bring honor to it as past sans and daughters have done. Jesse Dittberner, president of the class, gave in response a brief resume of the trials and pleasures of becoming a senior. He expressed on behalf of the class re- gret at leaving the school, but exhorted their courageous acceptance of the life that commences at graduation. He ad- monished lowerclassmen to uphold the principles of the great Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth. Junior president, 'Clarence Duffield, ac- cepted the challenge, saying that the seniors themselves had suceeded in meet- ing the challenge in classroom, indus- tries, and extracurricular activities. Celia Johnson presented in statistical form a number of facts regarding the class of 1941. There are in it fourteen religion majors: James Aitken, Floyd Byers, Edmund Clifford, Jesse Dittberner, Harold Hampton, Theodore Herr, Clyde Kearbey, Byron Lighthall, Russel Mc- Mullen, Melvin Wahl, Walter Will, (Continued on page 4) Sydney R. Montague To Tell of Mounties Sydney R. Montague, ex-member of the Royal Canadian Mounted police, will discuss two topics, North to Adventure and Tales of the Mounties, in his ap- pearance in the college chapel the night of March 8 as the fourth number of the lyceum course. Mr. Montague, who served six years as a Mountie, two and a half years among the Eskimos in the Eastern Arc- tic, in addition to recounting his personal adventures and experiences will cover such instructive subjects as the role of the police, Eskimo language, primitive law, and life in the North. The program will begin at 8:15 p.m. CALENDAR March 7-15 Spring Week of Prayer: Elder J. W. Christian March 8 8:15 p.m. S ydney Montague, lyceum number March 15 Open March 22 8:15 p.m. Piano recital by Mrs. H. C. Hartman and Mr. Perry Beach, lyceum number April 10-14 Thursday, 12:15 p.m. — Monday, 6:30 p.m., Spring vacation. April 15 Wendell Chapman, the hunter with a camera Union's Opening Portentuous By EVERETT DICK On the afternoon of September 24, 1891, a number of Adventists from Ne- braska and surrounding states, the vil- lagers of College View and many visi- tors from Lincoln filled the chapel to overflowing at three o'clock to dedicate the new institution. There were still piles of lumber in the halls. Chairs for the chapel had not yet arrived, and seats were improvised from planks supported by nail kegs and boxes. Ladies from Lin- coln furnished flowers for the rostrum. Representatives from the educational institutions of the city were invited to take part in the dedication exercises. Most of them responded gladly, although some were prevented from doing so by other arrangements. The program was carried out a., ar- ranged with two exceptions. Chancellor Creighton was detained by duties in con- nection with the Methodist conference in session in Lincoln at the time, and Elder 0. A. Olsen, President of the General conference, offered the invocation. In the absence of Mr. Hewitt, Elder W. B. White, President of the Nebraska con- ference, offered the benediction. President Prescott gave the main fea- ture on the program, an address on Christian education, stating that Union college was a representative of a school system founded on the principle that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." The text appeared in large red letters in a stained glass panel above the main staircase seen as one left the building by the west door. Some of the teachers and prospective students worked all night before the open- ing day of school getting the halls and classrooms cleared and all the litter of construction cleaned up so that the build- ing was clean and shining that morning. At 8:30 a. m. the dinner bell was rung, and again it rang out at 9:00 summoning students to Old Union's doors. (Continued on page 2) Junior Class Gives M. V. Program The junior class of the college pre- sented the program in the Missionary Volunteer meeting last Sabbath, stress- ing the origin, the value, and the dan- gers of propaganda. Mary Sue Huffhines, vice-president of the class, was in charge. Gladys Moore read the Scripture: Genesis 3:1-6, and Melvin Beltz offered prayer. Neal Becker pointed out the origin and history of propaganda, saying that a mixture of truth and falsehood may become malicious. Mary Hindmarsh showed the dan- gers of propaganda when it is used promiscuously. That the third angel's message may be spread 'by the proper use of propaganda was shown by Har- old Unsell. He urged his listeners to summon all their resources and use them in the cause of God. Neil Rowland, Curtis Barger, Elmer Wasemiller, and Martin Bird, accom- panied by Norman Krogstad, sang fol- lowing the talks. WHY WE'RE HERE About the time Union college was built, a land boom was being sponsored for southeastern Nebraska. Eastern news- papers contained the following bit of propaganda, which was intended to draw settlers to the middlewestern state: "Things are moving and maving rapid- ly—The western people all appear run- ning to catch a train about to pull out. The eastern millionaire is like the man who has caught it and takes things easy. "Today Nebraska is full of men who in the near future will safely land on that train, or in other words, the for- tunes of today are being made more rapidly in the west than in the east. Lincoln, Nebraska, particularly offers some striking examples. We here find the former $15 dollar a week clerk of A. T. Stewart able to draw his indiv- idual check for $50,000 and yet it cashed. A young lawyer of Albany, New York, is making his thousands a year by a few judicious investments in real estate, and all who have come to this city with energy, talent, and a little capital are repaying a rich harvest. And why? . . . . . . Lincoln today is a remark- able city and bids fair to outdistance some of its most pretentious rivals be- fore many years have passed. It pos- sesses all that goes to make up a model city. Its broad avenues and palatial business houses proclaim culture and wealth, while its public buildings are monuments of modern architectural skill. Its citizens rank among the most pro- gressive of western towns, being mainly composed of New York and New Eng- land people . . . ." It was no doubt material of this na- ture which helped persuade the founders of Union college to locate their new school at Lincoln, Nebraska. Knights Hold Annual Round Table Banquet The Knights of 72 held their annual "Round Table" February 22 in one of the 'banquet rooms of the University of Nebraska student union. The Knights, together with their "ladies," arrived at the appointed destination and although the table wasn't round this year, each felt the spirit of friendship and good- feeling in the atmosphere. Morris Lowry, master of ceremonies, presented the first speaker of the eve- ning, Herman Kicenske, president of the club, who gave a welcome address. Rolland Olson paid tribute to the ladies present, and Paul Kemper played a clarinet solo, "Variations," accom- panied by Miss Jeanne Griffin. The guest speaker of the evening was a charter Knight, Robert Brown, who is now a graduate assistant in the phys- ics department of the University of Nebraska. Mr. Brown presented a his- tory of the club and stressed anew the principles and aims of the club as written in the constitution--a develop- ment of the mental, social, spiritual, and physical capabilities of the individual. As a pleasant good-night to all, James Stevens sang "On the Road to Man- dalay" accompanied by Miss Genevieve Roth. College Farm A Main Industry By WAYNE MOORE The farm department of our college affords our students opportunities of earning a substantial part of their school expenses, gaining needed exercise, and obtaining a practical knowledge of agriculture. It is one of the leading in- dustries of the school, handling annually business amounting to about $25,000. Of this amount, $7,000 is paid as student wages. The founders of our school realized the importance of the counsel given by Mrs. White, when she wrote, "Study in agriculture should be the A, B, and C of the educational work in our schools." Her whole attitude toward well-balanced education is summed up in her statement that "Manual occupa- tion for the youth is essential. The mind is not to be constantly taxed to the neglect of the physical powers." This standard, set forth by God is the Mr. Gene Stout, Dairy and Farm Superintendent ideal which is sought at Union college. Therefore the founders chose a loca- tion five miles from the city, and they started with a four-hundred acre farm. (Continued on page 3) Church and New Order Discussed by H. L. Rudy "This is more than a war with car- nal weapons; it is a war of spirits," de- clared Elder H. L. Rudy, president of the Central European division II, as he discussed "The Church and the New Order in Europe" at the regular vesper service of the College View church, Friday night, February 21. Despite the elements of the "new order" at war with the principles of the church and despite the disruption of organized church work in Europe, the speaker said, the true spirit of Chris- tianity is spreading rapidly. Six hun- dred Russian soldiers in Finland after it was overrun, upon learning of Christ from the earnest preaching of a staunch Adventist minister in the Finnish army, went back home to face hardship and persecution, but with the grave promise to be faithful to the end. Some countries, he said, actually report more converts since the churches have been closed than in a similar period previously. Significant and indicative of the spirit of the 'believers in Europe, Elder Rudy said, are the words on the notice board in front of an English church wrecked recently by a bomb, Our church is "down" but our courage is "up." 1941 Golden Cords To Commemorate Semi-Centennial Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Introduced By Gordon Zytkoskee The 1941 "Golden Cords," Fiftieth Anniversary edition, was presented in chapel Wednesday by Gordon Zytkos- kee, circulation manager, after a program sponsored by Reynolds Hoffman. The yearbook will depict fifty years of life at Union, stressing the develop- ment of the college from the time the locating committee met deciding on the site of the building until the present year. Particular attention will be given to the ideals and traditions which have grown up around the college during half a century. A frontispiece in full color will be a unique feature of the fiftieth anniversary yearbook, according to Mr. Zytkoskee, who reports that the "Golden Cords" is the first annual in the middle west to contain such a color picture. Heavy cellophane division pages also add to the beauty of the book. In order to obtain the desired number of subscriptions, it is planned that each student dispose of two books. The col- lege is divided into six groups, Fresh- man I, Freshman II, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, and Faculty, for the duration of the campaign. Each group is represented on the campaign goal device by a con- tinent, according to Lois May Shepherd- son, assistant circulation manager. As each group moves toward its goal, the continent representing it will be overlaid with gold. "Golden Cords" staff members will work with the officers of the various classes in promoting the campaign and encouraging members to reach their in- dividual goals. It is planned that during the Spring Week of Prayer, which begins Friday evening, March 7, purely individual work be done in soliciting subscriptions and that on Monday, March 17, the group campaigning begin in earnest. "Tag Day" will be held regularly after that, on which every student will wear a tag indicating the number of subscriptions he has pledged. Far Eastern Secretary Tells of Difficulties Admonishing students to pray for missionary and native workers through- out the world mission fields, Elder F. A. Mote, Missionary Volunteer and educa- tional secretary for the Far Eastern division, told last Wednesday morning in the chapel service of the difficulties prevailing for mission workers in the Far Eastern division. Quoting Hebrews 10:35, he said, "Cast not away therefore your confid- ence, for ye have need of patience." And again, "But the end of all things is at hand, be ye therefore sober." As he pointed out on a world map the localities where he worked, the speaker told of t h e internment of German workers by Dutch officials soon after the invasion of Holland last May. "We are preparing," Elder Mote affirmed, "for what will break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise. Seventh-day Adventists in the Far East realize now what it means to be an Adventist in these days." Although relations between govern- ments and foreigners in that locality are strained, Elder Mote stated, colporteurs and evangelists are continuing their work. At the last count there were 40,000 believers in the Far Eastern division. While he displayed a head axe from the island of Luzon in the Philippines, the speaker told of a young Philippino, baptized in California, who returned to his country and gave his life while carrying Gospel literature to the head Union Shows Progress In Fifty Years Above is the Union college campus of the nineties, showing the old powerhouse, which later burned down. Union as it appears today. The laundry building houses the new power plant and visible expansion in- cludes the gymnasium and dairy salesroom. When the Chapel Was Turned the Other Way Above is shown the old platform which was former ly at south end of chapel. Note figures above doors, and old Golden Cords. Here is a letter, in regard to the very first Golden Cords, written on the occasion of Union's fortieth anni- versary by Mary Hunter Moore, '11 and '14. We hope she will be here for the semicentennial celebration in May. It may be of interest to you to know that I have in my possession the first set of Golden Cords prepared for Union college. I thought it might be of some interest in planning your program for the celebration. You will want to include a history of the Foreign Mission band from its beginning as a prayer band among the boys, with such members as 1M. E. Kern, Guy Dail, C. H. Parker, and L. H. Christian, who became such giants in the land. In 1910, following the attendence of I. F. Blue, Agnes Lewis Caviness, Orrel Graham, and me at the Student Volun- teer convention at Rochester, New York, there was a great strengthening and en- larging of the work of the Foreign Mis- sion band. The mission study groups were started for one thing. For another, some one started the idea of compiling an honor roll of all former students and teachers who had gone abroad. Mertie Wheeler and I compiled that list, going over all the records in the faculty room. That list was then typed on pieces of muslin and cut to shape and sewed onto the corner spaces of a large cloth map of the world. Either Maude Luey (now Mrs. Shrewsbury, who has since been in India herself) or Mertie Wheeler did the typing. Someone suggested the idea of putting onto the map a golden cord for each one of the names. Maude Luey and I made that map. I robbed mother's scrap bag of a hit of yellow cloth, which was attached to the map over Nebraska. Then, from a nickel ball of yellow silk from the corner store, we cut pieces of varying length, knotted one end, thread- ed each into a darning needle, and sewed them around the edges of the yellow circle. The outer ends we put through the map at the proper places and knotted behind. That map is still in my possession. From it grew the "golden cords" idea which has meant so much to Union college. I also have a copy of the printed "History of the Foreign Mis- sion Band," (containing the Honor Roll) which was printed in 1910. I would like to see these used in your program, but I know that I will be un- able to bring myself to part with them, if I can't bring them myself. I have set my heart on coming, but I so seldom leave my work, and cannot count on it. You may be interested to know that Mrs. Alice Sisley White lives here. Her father was the architect and builder who built Union college and the church. Mrs. White, with the family, moved onto the grounds and lived in a shed before there was a building there. I am trying to per- suade her to drive out for the program and take me. She attended the first day of school. Seniors By HELEN CARPENTER It hasn't been so long ago, on a cer- tain Monday morning in the fall, that forty little boys and girls tripped off to their first day of school. Starchy, stiff ginghams, new long trousers, shiny red and blue dinner pails—all the para- phernalia of school were with them. And they learned to play Blackman and Hare and Hounds. After a while the big boys let the little ones be fielders when they played baseball. The girls played jacks with each other. After another while they graduated in frilly dresses and new suits. The girls began to fix their hair, the boys to wash their ears. Then, after a time, they came to Union college. And one of them was Gordon Zyt- koskee. I speak of him first just because he's used to being last. Why, all these years the poor fellow has had to sit in the back row in classes where they were seated alphabetically. "Zyt" likes his- tory. He seems to be good at dressing up as an historical character, also. We'll miss an excellent Sabbath school teacher when Zyt leaves. Della Wiltse is calm, cool, and cap- able. Being like that ought to help her when she enters nurses' training. She works in the laundry and does her best to see that all our clothes get back to us in good condition. Della is very kind-hearted, too. I heard her offer to make all the buttonholes in all the sen- ior girls' dresses. A tall girl striding along as if she meant to get somewhere—that's Zada Erickson. Sometimes I accuse her of looking like a young Communist. But she isn't one. She thinks that everybody should work hard for what he gets. But then, mast everyone from Kansas thinks that. Zada hopes to teach school after leaving here. I can't tell you where and when Phoebe Little first opened her blue eyes, because when I asked her she wouldn't say. Besides going to college long enough to graduate she has done other things. She is an ex-school ma'am. Her children still write to her, although they don't have to polish the apple now. Bonita Dick likes to ride a bicycle, play a saxophone, and hunt jack rabbits. She hasn't decided whether to write a history book, he original and write something else, or not write anything at all. If we checked up a bit we might discover that Bonita does more term paper typing than anybody else on the campus. These are just a few of the seniors of '41. Meet the rest of them, at least a few more, next time. And you'd better start getting acquainted with them, be- cause pretty soon you'll have to say goodbye. (Cont. March 19) • Students Make World Tour By RUTH ANN TRYGG World conditions being what they are today, it is almost impossible to travel from country to country at will, but internationally-minded Unionites braved the dangers last Saturday night to make a Tour of the Nations. The only mishap was slight engine trouble in the vicinity of Sweden. This took fifteen minutes to repair, but the guests were so hospitably received in the old-fashioned home (the speech room) that no one was sorry for the delay. Coming out of the Northland, they stopped in Germany to tour the coun- try by means of picture. The kind host, Dr. Reinmuth, entertained with record- ings of folk songs and served root beer and pretzels. In France the center of at- traction was a street cafe where one could sit all day watching the people pass. While the visitors lingered over their grape juice and crackers, they were entertained with music by Betty Keene, Florence Adams, and Stella Martin. Crossing the English channel, the tour- ists stopped in Scotland. With Blossom Church at the piano, Floyd Byers led the group in such familiar Scottish airs as "Loch Lomond, - "Annie Laurie," and "Comm' Through the Rye." To save the cost of having paid entertainers members of the party were called upon to furnish music. Probably the coldest reception on the trip awaited the guests in Iceland, where they were met by icebergs and were served ice cream and wafers. Following this, they landed in Peru, where Mr. and Mrs. Bernal, Donald Howell, Stephen Youngberg, and Gladys Brown were demonstrating South American customs and costumes. Nearing home, the group stopped off in Mexico to hear Altus Hayes and Edmond Clifford sing and to see a vivid display of native baskets, needlework, and pictures. Safely back in the United States (the chapel) the group still seemed to have the roving spirit; consequently they set out on a tour of their own country. In the West they were entertained by a yodelling cowboy, in the North by a beautiful Indian maiden, in the South by a Negro quartet singing spirituals, and in the East by a farmer playing "Yankee Doodle" on his harmonica. Lois May Shepherdson, representing Liberty, pre- sented all the entertainers and gave the salute to the flag. Approximately forty upper division history majors and minors met at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Dick Sat- urday night, February 22, at a surprise party to mark the publication of Dr. Dick's new hook. Vanguards of the I Frontier. Union's Opening. (Continued from page I) After the prayer and a short speech of welcome by the president, he called for the students of the different states to rise. Iowa had the most, followed closely by Minnesota and Kansas. The three or four men on the platform then stepped down and sat on the front seats while Professor Prescott took a long hickory pointer and called attention to the schedule of classes which was framed on the large blackboard. Professor Wal- ter C. Irwin, with chalk and eraser, made the necessary changes as the knotty problems were solved. The program called for five forty-five- minute periods each session: 8:30-9:15; 9:30-10:15; 10:30-11:15; 11:30-12:15; and 12:30-1:15. During the fifteen minutes between classes all the students were required to march silently in single file to the chapel for announcements and change of books. Then, as the teacher in charge of the study hour struck three strokes on the desk bell, all who did not have a vacant period then marched to the next class. A music student played the piano during the interval, and stud- ents over the entire building keeping cad- ence made the structure fairly tremble. A teacher was stationed on each floor to keep silence and order. Students were not allowed to leave the building during the school session. The school year was divided into three terms of three months each, with a week's vacation between terms. The adjusting of conflicts consumed the entire forenoon, and President Pres- cott was in the act of announcing an afternoon session, when there was a rap on the door. He stepped outside, and when he returned he announced that John Hobbs, the Bible instructor, had just died in South hall. He had gradu- ated from Battle Creek in 1890 and taught the year before at South Lan- caster academy. On his way to Union college he had stopped at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he married Angelia Wash- burn, an old friend from Battle Creek college, on September 23. His death, caused by Bright's disease, was a great shock to all, since his illness had not been regarded as serious. His funeral at five that evening was probably the first service held in South hall parlor. The bride of a week took the loved one to his home at Battle Creek for burial. This sad event, coupled with the relent- less rain, dampened the spirits of the students and spread a pall on all. The work of Mr. Hobbs was divided among the other teachers, and consequently all the schedule arrangements of the day before had to be undone. It took all that day—Friday—to get the schedules ironed out; so that classes did not start until Monday, October 4. Floyd Byers Eva Hallock Assistant Editors Helen Carpenter Bonita Dick Ramon Cronk Mildred Page Wallace Claridge, Make-up Editor Jesse Dittberner, President and Business Manager Secretary- treasurer, Arlene Egger Charles Lickey Circulation manager Mary K. Weaver Assistant circulation manager Typists: Donna Jean Johnson, Alma Olson, Georgianna Spanos. Walter Will Advertising manager Carl Watts Assistant advertising manager CLOCK TOWER Page 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 THE CLOCK TOWER Published biweekly during the school year and monthly during the summer by the Student Publishing Association of Union College Mailed, one dollar a year; unmailed, seventy-five cents a year Change of address should be sent with the old address to enable us to make the change promptly Send communications to THE CLOCK TOWER, College View, Lincoln, Nebraska Advertising rates on request Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Lincoln, Nebr., April 5, 1911, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1897 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized June 17, 1921 HELEN COLBY, Editor Associate Editors Jeanne Griffin Marjorie Hight L. W. Cobb, Faculty Advisor AFTER HALF A CENTURY Fifty years ago Union college opened its doors; even before that it existed in the hearts of men. What a wealth of faith the founders must have had to locate a school in a snowy cornfield six miles from the nearest town. What vision must have been theirs to lead out in the establish- ment of a college in such a barren-looking place. What courageous lives they must have led during those first tumultuous days. But now Union college is firmly established; its strength has been proved by the years. This spring it produces its fiftieth anniversary Golden Cords. Every one of Union's sons and daughters will cherish this book; you will be proud of it. Make it your privilege to own one. "PRESENT" OR "SEVEN" While sitting through roll call in a Sabbath school class and hearing individuals answer "present" instead of "seven," I am re- minded of an incident that occurred in one Sabbath school. The teacher read the name of one fellow, who replied, "Present." "I can see that, - responded the teacher, "but I want to know how many times you studied." According to the trend on our goal device, one would conclude that a large per cent of our members reply in a similar manner. Do you study your lesson daily? If you don't, why don't you? Are you forgetful? Perhaps you should check your program to find whether you are crowding out the regular, profitable searching of the Scrip- tures for some unimportant activity. A perfect record is not the goal, it is merely the means to an end. If all of us earnestly study the lessons each day, we cannot help drawing closer to Christ and benefitting in our personal experience from the examples of former times. LET'S SEE IT The experiment which the faculty is making in showing moving pictures during the chapel period is a profitable one. In this rapidly changing world, many things with which one should be familiar are not dealt with in textbooks. Moreover, one remembers what he sees better than what he hears, and he remembers still better what he sees and hears at the same time. Modern moving pictures make this fact a reality, for most projectors have sound equipment with them. Furthermore, moving pictures are more interesting than plain lectures. How many students would sit through a half-hour lecture on the details of air-conditioning without taking out books to read or without letting their minds wander? But no one studied in chapel that day the picture of air-conditioning was shown. And the reason wasn't that it was too dark. The program was unusually interesting. After students have been studying and listening to class lectures for hours, they enjoy seeing life-like scenes of things as they really are. THOU SHALT NOT In one of our history classes we learned that Americans are law- breakers. Not intentional law-breakers, but they just feel that the sin lies in getting caught transgressing, instead of in violating a law. How many of us who drive cars slow down at a "Stop" sign, then shift into second and go on our way? How many of us bicy- clists have taken a passenger on the bar in direct violation of a law? Do we always turn out our room lights at 10:00 p.m., except in an emergency? Do we ever hurry across the street on our library or kitchen cards? Do we stay home from vesper service without permis- sion, try to squeeze a grocery order in on last month's bill, "borrow" a book from the library and forget to return it? The most serious part of breaking these rules, petty though some may seem, is the effect these infractions may have on others. HIDE YOUR TROUBLES "If thou dost harbour sorrow Let not thine arrow know it. Whisper it but to thy saddle bow, And ride abroad with song!" Proverb of Alfred. There—doesn't just reading that make you feel brave and plucky? Don't you feel like straightening up, covering your troubles with a laugh and a light manner. That's how I felt. But when, within ten minutes, a friend asked, "How's everything going?" I told him all about the splitting headache, the overdue term paper, the low test grade, no letter from home--all the whole miserable truth. And my friend had just wanted to be sociable. We need strength to carry our troubles lightly. We need cour- age to say we're "fine" when asked. Story of Peanut Hill In the early years of College View, Doctors Kellogg, Kress, and Paulson, of the Battle Creek sanitarium, made fre- quent visits to the church and college. On the occasion of on of their early visits to Union college they gave some of his recipes to the cook to try out. The nut roasts, sandwiches, protose, nutalene, malted nuts, and other products became popular features on the menus. Many families in the village supplied them- selves with roasters and grinders, and the stores shipped in raw - goobers - from Georgia. A group of enthusiastic housewives formed a club. They used for their emblem tiny parrots made of crook- nosed peanuts dressed with bright-col- ored paper feathers, and they called themselves the "Parrots of Peanut Hill." Peanut butter spreads. For a long time a trolley ride out to "Peanut Hill" to buy nut foods was a favorite pas- time with many Lincolnites. By Elsa Northup Ward One of the "seventy-three." HORNUNG HARDWARE CO. 3912 So. 48th Ph. 4-1312 U. C. A. NEWS Academy class officers, elected at a recent meeting of academy students dur- ing the college chapel hour, are as fol- lows: Senior: Everett Shafer, president; Viv- ian Jensen, vice-president; and Donald Eggert, secretary-treasurer. Junior: Mar- cus Payne, president; Marcelene Hart- man, vice-president; Eddie Shafer, sec- retary-treasurer. Sophomore: Donald Boyer, president; Frances Chamberlain, vice-president; Dwayne Hurley, secre- tary; Bob French, treasurer; and Wil- lard Beaman, sergeant-at-arms. Fresh- man: Jack Lovell, president; Wayne Ochs, vice-president and Anna Lee Lyon, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Frank T. Lopp Dentist Phone 4-2323 3625 South 48th Lincoln, Nebr. r Candy and Gum To make you hum And make your carcass better Davies Grocery and Mr. Gene Stout, farm and dairy superintendent, went to Indiana last year and purchased a sire from the Golden Guernsey farms, one of the out- standing Guernsey farms in the East, at Huntington, Indiana. The dairy also has two other very fine sires. The best herd of cows could not produce as it should without good, properly balanced feed. All of the feed is ground and mixed on the college farm. Our cows get the best of grain, silage, and alfalfa hay. The cows aver- age five pounds of milk for each pound of grain fed. Crops raised on the farm are corn, alfalfa, and some small grain. All of these are consumed by the dairy herd. The pasture area is limited, and all the pasture is artificial. Before the drouth years the farm raised some garden products, but in the last few years only field products have been attempted. All dairy products, milk, cream, eggs, cheese, and ice cream, are sold on the campus at the dairy store. Mr. Stout has held his position of farm manager for seventeen years. After attending Union college four years he completed a dairy course at the Ne- braska Agricultural college. Mr. Stout feels that agriculture is an important field in the Christian educational scheme. Under his enthusiastic leadership the farm has prospered. Its prosperity is reflected in the growth of the herd of cattle from twenty head seventeen years ago to the present 110. Workers in the dairy and on the farm are proud of their work, and they wel- come visitors. Those students working in the dairy building are Bonnie Belle Cozad, Dorothy Thrall, Arlene Flyger, Glenn Davenport, Wilmer Unterseher, Gideon Haas, Dale Aalborg, and Max • BALL BAND FOOT- WEAR MOJUD HOSE TOILET ARTICLES Betts Variety Store Eckert. At the farm buildings Harry Haas is a full-time worker; Clarence Hilliard and Glenn Wiltse do general farm work, as does Gordon Stout, who also keeps the breeding records. Ed Koenig takes care of young stock, David Rose of poultry, and Walter Page and Wayne Moore are feeders. The milkers are Vernon Burgeson, Joel Matthies, James Johnson, Gordon Franklin, Emory Hoyt, Rolland Olson, Richard Anderson, Elwin Dick, and Edwin Gibb. Former Student Competes In Ski-Jumping Meet Einar Haugen, former student at Union now finishing the ministerial course at Walla Walla, Washington, recently placed fourth in the Pacific Northwest Championship ski jumping tournament held February 15 at Mount Hood. His best distances were 118 and 123 feet. Taking fourth place in this match en- titles the jumper to compete in the National Ski tournament at the Mil- waukee Ski bowl, at Snoqualmie, March 2. Students who were here three years ago will remember the ski jump Mr. Haugen and Mr. Orison Brinker, now Medical Cadet Corps leader at Walla Walla, built from the top of the laun- dry building. t s (i.:•X•1‹:::<•:‹X•1!::: :-:•:;;1›:•)<•:‹ " ,;<•:<•";;;.!; Since 1924— Seniors of Union College have secured Class pins Commencement An- nouncements Caps and gowns from B. L. Morse—LI.C.'02 >:•; >Z€K.:::<•X . x•xx€<:.:A r aint!_j, EfoadELS. for wear with spring suits! 1 95 Sheer white batistes that give such a fresh look to spring suits! Dainty fagoting and lace trim. ALSO TAILORED BLOUSES, in long sleeve styles, of rayon crepe. Women's Blouses — Second Floor MII=1111111 111 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 CLOCK TOWER Page 3 Pioneer Adventures On the Campus By M. W. NEWMAN (a former teacher) A donation of 212 acres was worked up by the real estate men of Lincoln to induce the college to locate there. A number of cities competed in this but the Lincoln boosters finally secured the location on a hill southeast of town. David May, a Jewish clothing merchant in Lincoln, owned most of the land in that vicinity, and from the quarter sec- tion to the west of this hill he donated fifty acres with the understanding that at least a part of the college campus should be placed on his land. This small portion is that which lies to the west of the row of locust trees along the street- car line. This explains why there is the little jog in the road as it comes into College View from either north or south, and why that row of locust trees is not on the side Of the road instead of out on the campus. I shall never forget a little experience I had on my first arrival in College View. It was the spring of 1891, and the letter I had sent them telling the time of my arrival got to Brother Sisley a little later than did I. So getting off at the B&M depot and looking around for some- one from the college, I was unable to find a conveyance of any kind. The tele- phone was not yet completed. From the streetcar conductor I found out that the electric line supposed to run to the col- lege was also not completed and that the nearest I could get there on the line was the south end of Seventeenth street. So, carrying my suitcase, which was not a light one, I took the streetcar and rode to the end of the line. I could see the college on a high hill to the southeast, its tower sticking up above everything else. It had been rainy for several days before, and I, of course, had no rubbers or high-water boots, but struck across country, heading straight for that tower of the college building. I finally came to the farmhouse of Noah Hodges. He was well acquainted with my father, and when I told him I was the son of Seth Newton he took me into the house and helped me clean up. I plodded on to the college, carrying the heavy suitcase, and the next day they brought up my trunk. The north outer part of the college and South hall were complete, but North hall had only the foundation laid. The only place I could find in the town for boarding and rooming was at Mrs. Reisman's, two blocks west of the campus. She boarded quite a large number, and every available bed in the house was filled. By putting another bed in behind the one already in a small room, they were able to make room for me. I had to crawl over the top of the other bed to get into mine. As soon as the plastering Nvas done on the top floor of the North hall, before a door or a window was put into the building, I got a bed from Lincoln and slept there several weeks alone. BASKETBALL By JIMMY CRICKETT In the women's basketball game of Saturday night, the Blues won their second game from the Whites by one point, 25-24. At the end of the first half, the score was 18-S with the Blues ahead, but dur- ing the second half of the game the 'Whites rallied when Haziel Clifford made ten points. Until the whistle sounded it was anybody's game, for the teams alternated in making baskets. Between halves of the game Arlene Church and her gymnastic class gave a fine exhibition of pyramid building. The outstanding formation was the pres- entation of the word "Union," spelled out by the team as they stood in var- ious positions. Dr. Dick Called to Head Medical Corps Officers' Training Dr. E. N. Dick, head of the Union college history department, left early this week for the General conference offices at Washington, D. C.. to take up the work of training officers for the Medical Cadet corps. Since last summer he has been field training officer for the central corps area. During that time he has conducted camps in the Lake, Northern. Central, and Southwestern unions. They were purely local camps. In Washington Dr. Dick will have charge of training officers for the entire United States. Officers trained will have charge of future local camps throughout the country. Dr. Dick will make regular trips of inspection to Medical Corps camps in all three sections of the country. Orders that have come so far for him indicate that he is to inspect first the camps of the Central region, next those of the Southwest, the East, the North- west, and the Pacific sections. Dr. Dick was on leave of absence for the first semester, and it was planned that he teach here during the second semester, until the call came. Last week when the college board of trustees met at Boulder, Colorado, they released Dr. Dick for the period of emergency with the understanding that he return to the service of the college in September, if possible. Second Lieutenant George Stone, critic teacher in the elementary school, will have charge of the Medical corps at Union college for the remainder of second semester. Mr. F. E. Bresee, principal of the Union College academy, and Mr. Louis Pettis, Nebraska educational and Mis- sionary Volunteer secretary, will teach Dr. Dick's classes during his absence. Some time ago a woman wrote thus to the Minneapolis Relief department: I have already wrote to the president and I don't hear from you. I will have to write Uncle Sam about both of you. College Farm. . . (Continued from page I) Much of the land, however, has been sold, unfortunately, and now there are only 110 acres lying northeast of the campus. The farm buildings are situated ap- proximately three blocks away from the campus. The site has excellent drainage, the ground sloping gently in all directions from the knoll where the farm buildings are. Cattle are housed in two barns. The larger, a 60x100 foot frame structure, has eighty-six stanchions and three box stalls, and a loft capacity of 150 tons of hay. A new barn, just completed in the fall, is a 60x40 foot frame building housing about forty head of young stock and four horses. The loft capacity is seventy-five tons. In this barn is a 20x40 foot machinery storage room. Adjacent to the large barn are two up- right wood-stave silos with a joint cap- acity of almost 130 tons. The three poultry houses shelter a maximum of 600 hens. At present there are 400 white leghorns. The farm hatches no chicks, but buys from com- mercial hatcheries. At present 1500 baby chicks are on order to be delivered in March. The hens are fed to lay at an average production of fifty per cent the year round. The farm power is furnished by four horses and a Farman 12 tractor. With the tractor is a complete line of tractor machinery. For grinding feed there is a Hammermill driven by a twenty horse power electric motor. The largest part of the farm income, is from the dairy. It has taken twelve' years to build up the present Guernsey herd. Prior to that time Holsteins were kept. As a result of careful selection, the college herd is one of the highest- producing herds in Nebraska, the aver- age production of sixty-five cows last year being 346 pounds of butterfat. The milk has a test of five per cent butter- fat and a very low bacteria count. The year-around average of cows milked is seventy. Since, in importance, good herd sires constitute half of the herd, the best bulls from high producing stock have always been selected. Mr. H. C. Hart- man, business manager of the college, .•> C C: '•:•>.25 Kremer Paint & Supply 'A Building Paint Repairing Glass elh Insulation Roofing • Remodeling Wall Paper *'." 4725 Prescott Ph. 4-2662 X•X X•Y Koop Shoe Service Let Us Solve Your Shoe Troubles 3833 South 48th Street Special Sweetheart soap 4 bars 26c Calvert Street Pharmacy 4740 Calvert 4-2242 Sullivan Lumber Co. 4711 Prescott Ph. 4-2236 OUR ARROW PAPER BAG ENSEMBLE WILL DO YOU UP BROWN! The background color in these shirts closely re- sembles the soft shade of brown found in paper bags . hence the name Paper Bag Brown. On it is woven rich contrasting stripes in vivid colors. It's way out front as the season's smartest brown. There's a specially designed Arrow tie and handkerchief also. A shirt as good-looking as this deserves both, and a pair of matching shorts that have no seams where you sit down. The shirts and shorts are Sanforized-Shrunk (fabric shrinkage less than 1%). SHIRT $2.25 TIE Si SHORTS 65e HANDKERCHIEF 35e 43eftSimett&Sita• Page 4 CLOCK TOWER FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 Trailings Mr. Guy Overlees and his daughter, Rose Mary, visited Camilla Overlees here recently. Doris Beyer, Ramona, South Dakota, has discontinued school. Muriel Pogue, who attended Union last year, visited here the week end of Feburay 15. She is employed in the Missouri conference office. Mrs. M. E. Carlson and Mrs. J. H. Roth accompanied their husbands to the college during the recent board meeting to visit their daughters Marion and Dorothy Carlson and Genevieve Roth. Elizabeth Watt, '40, spent, the week end of February 22 with her sister Miss Irma Watt, instructor in economics and business. Ruth Bumgardner, who attended here 1939-40, is making an extended visit with Arlene Cornell. Among those who visited away from school recently are William Grotheer, at Ethel, Missouri; Donald Nelson, at his home in Oakdale, Nebraska; Ronald Stretter, at his home in Petersburg, Nebraska; Kenneth Berry, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Loyal Babcock, Enterprise, Kansas; Merle Huston and Deward Mil- ler at Hampton, Iowa; James Johnson at his home in Blair, Nebraska; Charlotte McClendon and Elnor Nord, Minne- apolis, Minnesota; and Marian Goad, Foreston, Minnesota. Della Wiltse was honored at a sur- prise birthday waffle breakfast in the spread room February 13. Guests were Delores Wiltse, Ethel Hartzell, Claribel Babcock, Marian Goad, Elsie Mae Dennis, and Mildred Page. Mr. R. A. Nesmith, M. V. and edu- cational secretary for Oklahoma; 0. S. Phie, field missionary secretary for Okla- homa; D. C. Butherus, M. V. and educational secretary for Colorado, and E. E. Bietz, principal o f Campion academy, Loveland, Colorado, visited recently at Union. Mr. J. B. Krauss, superintendent of the College press, addressed the Ben Franklin club, an organization o f Lincoln printers, at a banquet the night of February 24. He also displayed his samples of rare printing from domestic and foreign presses. Marion Carlson was hostess to a party at the home of Mrs. G. E. Nord Feb- ruary 15. The guests included Dorothy Carlson, Marvel Curtis, Grace Burke, Ingeborg Nord, Irlys Judd, Mary Nelson, Ruth Ann Trygg, Paul Kravig, Herman Kicenske, Jack Guy, Donald Carlson, Earl Mears, Merrill Thayer, Charles Harris, Miss Irma Watt, and Mr. Perry Beach. Reuben Remboldt was host at a skat- ing party in the gymnasium February 22. In attendance were Charles Perkins, Oscar Heinrich, Victor Lumper, Ronald Maddox, Erwin Remboldt, Jim Keirnan, Wallace Claridge, Anna Larson, Gladys Pettit, Lucile Mitchell, Dorothy Rouse, Arlene Cornell, Dorothy Nelson, Eva Dunn, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Rust. Eleanor Cowles, Esther Ruf, Verna Renschler, Viola Schmidt, Elnor Nord, Rita Trubey, Mildred Cotte, Norman Krogstad, Ed Koenig, Melvin Rich, Ed- ward Nordstrom, Lester Calkins, Emery Hoyt, Donald Howell, Wilbur Bitz, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Howell attended a party given by Ella Schmidt the night of February 22. Charles Hagenberg suffered a sprained ankle February 17. Florence Hash reports that the South hall infirmary actually war empty for several days last week. Senior Recognition. . (Continued from page I) Gordon Zytkoskee, Daniel Offill, and Walter Mazart; six English majors: Helen Colby, Ella May Dyer, Jeanne Griffin, Celia Johnson, Walter Crawford, and 011ie Wilhelm; five chemistry ma- jors: Ray Lewis, Merrill Thayer, Wal- ter Thompson, Leland Loewen, and El- mer Wasemiller; four economics majors: Altus Hayes, Phoebe Little, Nellie Phil- lips, and Ronald Stretter; four mathe- matics majors: Oliver Anderson, Ross Rice, Ed Seitz, and Paul Thompson; three music majors (the first ever to be graduated from Union) : June Lay- man Herr, Evelyn Roll, and Hulda Weng; two home economics majors: Zada Erickson and Della Wiltse; two history majors: Bonita Dick and Charles Krassin; two biology majors: Ray Lewis and Merrill Thayer, and one French major: Jeanne Griffin. The three last named students have double • majors. Eight of the 1941 seniors are from Minnesota. six from Kansas, seven from Nebraska, four from Iowa, four from Texas, two from Colorado, two from Missouri, two from North Dakota, two from South Dakota, one from Idaho, one from Oklahoma, one from New York York, and one from Arkansas. Musical numbers during the program consisted of a string trio by Jeanne Griffin, Hulda Weng, and Walter Ma- zart and a male quartet by Ed Seitz, Theodore Herr, Harold Hampton, and Gordon Zytkoskee. Papini's ''Hope March" was used as processional and recessional. The class was preceded to the platform by junior president Clar- ence Duffield and vice-president Mary Sue Huffhines, and led by senior officers: president Jesse Dittberner, vice-president Helen Colby, secretary Phoebe Little, and treasurer Ronald Stretter. Don't sell your hammer, buy a saw and square and build. Perpetrators of the Fiftieth Anniversary Golden Cords at staff meeting in the office. Left to right: Arlene Church, assistant photo editor; Lois May Shepherdson, assistant circulation manager; Gordon Zytkoskee, cir- culation manager; James Aitken, president and business manager; Celia Johnson, associate editor, and Mary Hindmarsh, editor-in-chief. 72 Rogers Attend Seminary Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Rogers recently enrolled for the first term of the winter-spring quarter at the Theo- logical seminary in Takoma Park. Mr. Rogers graduated here last spring, and Mrs. Rogers, the former Ruth Axt, had attended here for two years. The two Missionary Volunteer program have been living on the Western slope on February 15 was presented by the of Colorado, where Mr. Knights of '72. Vice-president Rolland ministerial intern. Olson was in charge of the hour, and he presented the speakers: Felix Lorenz. Jr., Fabian Meier, Melvin Rich, and James Chase, who discussed the topic, self-exaltation. Special music was furn- ished by a quartet and by an orchestra , conducted by Herman Kicenske. The Rogers was a "When I stand, on a still, clear night, beneath the stars, I cannot comprehend them. But I can believe in them." Mb Mk Mk 'V Typewriters New and Used SOLD RENTED REPAIRED Special Rental Rates to Students BLOOM Typewriter Exchange 125 North 12th Ph. 2-5258 Pruitt's Barber Shop EXPERT SERVICE TOILET SUPPLIES Early Teacher Tells of Bell Raising M. W. NEWTON The college bell was a project which we took up with the residents and stu- dents, and in a short canvass of a little over one day we raised money sufficient for its purchase. On its arrival, of course, the next thing was to get the big thing into the tower. I borrowed a coil of new rope from Baldwin Brothers in Lincoln—there was probably five hundred feet of it. A long gin pole was made fast above the front side of the tower with a pulley. From the end of the pole the rope was let down to the bell, and then through another pulley fastened near the ground. The other end of the rope was passed to the campus. Instead of getting a team to pull the bell up, we had a special re- cess at chapel hour, and the whole stu- dent body went out and took places along the rope. I had no trouble getting orders out to begin pulling, but I had not planned on the shouts of the students when the pulling once started. In fact, they went down over the campus so fast that I saw at once there was danger of pulling down the gin pole, bringing bell and all to the ground. Although I yelled with all my might, the bell banged up against the pulley, but fortunately every- thing held. Fairmont's — fresh Fruits and Vegetables • Caviness Confectionary Mission Band It is the plan of the Mission band that each of the five divisions will present in a program the beliefs and customs of the fields they study. Two of these groups have given such programs, about Africa, and India and Burma. In the future other regions of the mission field will be represented: the Pacific islands, South America, and China. JUST ARRIVED! T HE new Arrow patterned shirts for spring have just come in—and they look great. A very pleasing assortment of stripes . . . a variety of most flattering colors . . . and the latest collar styles. Like all Arrows, they are Sanforized- Shrunk, fabric shrinkage less than 1%! See them today. $2, up. fECee Special 100 index cards 5c Everett's Pharmacy •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • For a Good Home-Cooked Meal try • •• • BUNNEL'S CAFE ,, • 4 Home Made Pies Ei Sandwiches 4, 4740 Prescott • •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Keep down that shoe budget and Keep up that shoe appearance with INVISIBLE HALF Soling and Re-HEELING no "Repaired look" Complete Shoe Service and Supplies Martin Shoe Service