Wagoner New Regional Head

Large Attendance At Week-end Youth Retreat

The Youth Retreat last weekend witnessed a large attendance of young people, with registration figures at 169. “Brotherhood"

was the theme of the retreat.

Paul Wagoner was elected president of the Western Region BYPD for the coming year. The other officers are as follows: Dorris Murdock, secretary-treasurer; Russell Jarboe and Barbara Hol-derread, work camp representatives; Mary Metzler and Joyce Birkin, co-editors of “News and Views.” The retiring adult advisor. Paul Miller, has been succeeded by Ed Crill.

Approximately 250 young people were present at the Brotherhood Banquet in the church basement Saturday night. The speaker for the occasion was Don Snider. pinch-hitting for Dr. Karl Downs, who had not yet arrived.

Toastmaster was Kent Naylor, president of the BYPD of the Western Region for the last year. Kent has done an excellent job in unifying and building up the young people’s organization, and his efforts did much towards bringing the large number of young people to this year’s retreat. Paul Wagoner, our newly elected president, gave a short talk in acceptance of his office. Musical selections were presented by Miss Ann Krehbiel on the piano and Mr. Paul Sollenberger on his violin.

The theme of Don Snider's address was “Christian Brotherhood." The world, which is bleeding because of a lack of brotherhood, is "fed up” with so much talk about peace and brotherhood. Me gave a number of examples of the cut-throat living taking place every day. Young people are tired of it and have grown cinical. To them war seems almost the only way differences can be settled.’ In conclusion Mr. Snider went on to say that brotherhood is not found in big things, but in the host of little things we do. These little things, however, are not always easy; but they will in time lead to the bigger tasks cut out for us.

Miss Doris Crumpacker had charge of preparing the banquet. She did an excellent piece of work.

On Friday morning February 21, Dr. L. Avery Fleming presented an account to the trustees of McPherson College. Following is a brief summary of that Dean-Registrar’s report:

There are 165 veterans enrolled for the year 19 47. There are 17 civilian Public Service students enrolled.

There are 276 college men and 142 college women, a ratio of almost 2 to 1. Fifty-five married couples are registered the second semester. The average age of college students, (excluding 22 ages of 28 to 38) is 21,5 years.

Last years enrollment was 24 9. This year it is 453—a gain of 82%.

Distribution of students by states:

Kansas ....................................27 5

Iowa ........................................ 4 4

Idaho ................................. 26

Oklahoma ................................ 17

Nebraska .................................. 15

Minnesota ................................ 10

Colorado .................................. 8

Missouri ......................... 7

California ................................ 6

Texas ........................................ 6

North Dakota .......................... 5

I have taught in high school for ten years. During that time I have given assignments, among (others, to a murderer, an evangel-ist, a pugilist, a thief, and an imbecile.

The murderer was a quiet little boy who sat on the front seat and regarded me with pale blue eyes;

the evangelist, easily the most popular boy in the school, had the lead in the junior play; the pugilist lounged by the windows and let loose at intervals a raucious laugh that startled even the geraniums; the theif was a gay-hearted Lothario with a song on his lips; and the imbecile, a soft-eyed little animal seeking the shadows. The murderer awaits death in the

state-penitentiary; the evangelist has lain a year now in the village churchyard; the pugilist lost an eye in a brawl in Hong Kong; the theif, by standing on tiptoe can see the windows of my room from the county jail; and the once gentle-eyed little moron heats his head against a padded wall in the state asylum.

All of these pupils once sat in my room, sat and looked at me gravely across worn brown desks. I must have been a great help to those pupils—I taught them the rhyming scheme of the Elizabethan sonnet and how to diagram a complex sentence.

Taken from “Student Teaching’’ by Schorling.

This week the “Pulse of the Public’’ is featuring the following Questions: Are you in favor of World Federation of Nations? And Do you think it would have any advantage over the present U. N. organization?

One hundred thirteen persons form the basis for the tabulations this week. Figures show that 53.1% of them answered positively. 15.9% of them answered nega-atively, and 31.0% of them answered undecidedly to the former question. In other words, just a bare majority favor a World Federation of nations. In answer to the second question, 32.7% answered positively, 23.0% answered negatively, and 43.3% were undecided. One can easily see that the undecided group is the largest. It seems that almost a majority of, the students polled had no idea of the distinction between U, N. and a World Federation.

The World Federation would be an organization, whose members would be, more or less, upon an equal basis, similar to the equality between states in the U. S. Government. The U. N. organization has its so-called favored nations.

Several people gave advantages they think the Federation would have over U. N. One of the advantages given is: that more countries would have a voice in it; it would include all nations

The Pulse

of The Public

Reported by John Firestone

Results Show Indecision

whether they were formerly Axis or Allied nations. Another advantage was that more soverignty, which often is a barrier to international relations, would be given up in a Federation than is in U. N. Other people suggested that peace would be more easily preserved by a Federation. Still-other people thought that a Federation would be more democratic. Finally, several people felt that a Federation would have more power to direct, control, carry out plans and problems than U. N. is able to profess.

The results of the first question stood as the following table indicates:

Last Sunday night at church, Dr. M. R. Zigler, the Executive Secretary of the Brethren Service Committee, reported some of the conditions existing in Europe. He observed them on his recent trip to that continent.

The speaker lamented the fact that it is a sad picture. He reported that every day of his sojourn abroad, he encountered and travelled with people who were hungry, cold, and ill-clad, people who were fortunate if the calorie ration they received were half what Americans receive. Dr. Zigler stated that even if UNRRA is being disbanded, the need of the European people has not been relieved to a great extent. He regretted that several rumors have lessened the amount of materials given for relief. One rumor is that the situation has been met. In most foreign countries the women must do the farming. The women have little chance for making a home, for the ratio of women to men is five to one. Seventy-five percent of the students at the Warsaw Agricultural College are women.

Peace Program

In his second speech which he gave Monday afternoon, Dr. Zigler presented the formula of the Brethren Service Committee for attempting to prevent the next war.

The primary objective is the promotion of the good life. His connotation of the good life was that one goes out to serve because he is Christian. He stated that the BSC interprets the position of the Church of the Brethren to other churches.

The speaker outlined several plans the BSC has in mind to help prevent the next war. First, we must feed and clothe as many of the hungry people as we can. Second. we must strive to get all Christians to declare themselves against war. Third, we must spread our missions out over the world. We must let our light shine two ways, to the pagan world and to the Christian world. Whenever one person dies. It is someone’s fault. Fourth, we must prepare for anything that happens in the future, even if it be a depression. Agricultural Men Needed

Monday night Bro. Zigler gave another talk on conditions in Europe. He proposed that we as a church try to send heifers to any place that needs them. We need to help to rehabilitate those refugees who have been expelled from their homeland. The basic need of the people is agricultural im- provements, Bro. Zigler gave a call for agriculture men to act ns | missionaries in the needy coun-tries.

The speaker stated that there are Mennonites in every country and that there are members of the Friends’ Church in every country, but the Church of the Brethren has no specific place in Europe to which to go. By that he implied that we have plenty of room for mission work.

In closing Bro. Zigler asked,"By

what right do wo hold hack when the kingdom of Cod is at stake?"

The most welcome guest is the one who knows when to go home.

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Peace Contest March 9

Orators entered in the local peace oratorical contest will give their orations March 9. The contest will he held during the regular BYPD period in the church auditorium. Professor Hess is coaching several orators who plan to enter the contest. The public is invited to attend the meeting.

Downs Challenges Large Audiences

“We are not in a position to talk peace of nations until we have peace in our own minds. We cannot deal with the prejudices of the world until we are free of our own prejudices.” Dr. Karl

Downs, President of Samuel Houston College. Austin, Texas. in speaking to the B. Y. P. D. Sunday evening, stressed the import-ance of Christ in our lives.

Dr. Downs* described vividly a recent communion service which he attended in Amsterdam, Holland. In this service, youth from about sixty countries participated, including Japanese, Jew, and a Negro hoy from Mississippi. All though the participants each had suffered race persecution, they had become Christian, and in that communion service there was created a unity which even war could not blast.

Christ stands above nation, race, denomination, even above all. Borrowing from the quotation “He who would bring the wealth of the Indies must bring the Indies with him,” Dr. Downs said that “He who would carry Christ to others must carry Christ in himself.”

Monday at 10:25 in the chapel Dr. Karl Downs presented a very challenging message in his last address at Regional Conference.

The audience, which completely filled the room, responded enthusiastically as Dr. Downs led them in the singing of a Negro spiritual, entitled “Amen.” This simple little song consisted of five “amen’s." three going up the scale and two going down. In between the "amen's" Dr. Downs sang the verses.

Dr. Downs began his address by giving the illustration of an old woman asking for alms. Upon being asked who she was, she replied, “Just an old struggler.” He applied this maxim to our own lives. We are strugglers, too. struggling that this world will become one world.

Dr. Downs then went on to a discussion of the church. There are too many people who are not willing to accept the responsibilities of the church. In conclusion he said that one must share one’s religion with others in order that he keep it himself.

Beginning Monday morning at 8:55 and ending Thursday morning at 9:50, Dr. Burton Metzler conducted a Bible hour in the McPherson College chapel. The daily program was in coordination with the Regional Conference and proved to be very inspirational to both visitors at the conference and students and faculty of the college.

Monday morning Dr. Metzler chose as his theme. "The Interpretation of the Scripture," painting a most vivid picture in common words and illustrations. In introducing the subject, he insisted that when one sees a portion of a picture, they cannot tell by looking at that portion exactly what the picture as a whole will be. When you see the picture in its entirety you know what it is, but when you see only a portion of it you can only guess what it may be. He compared this with the Bible; you can take a scripture from the Bible and try to fit it into its proper place. But without knowing and without having seen it in its entirety, you can only guess where it belongs.

Dr. Metzler offered a remedy for this uncomprehension—an interpretation of the scripture, in

four comparatively simple steps:

1. Fit the portion of the scrip-

ture into the sentence.

2. Fit the portion of the scrip- , ture into the paragraph.

3. Fit the portion of the scrip-

ture into its book or historical setting.

4. Fit the portion of the scripture into the total message of the

Bible.

As a last suggestion for the in-

terpretation and study of the

scripture,, he informs that the | Bible contains continuity and we cannot adjust the New Testament to the Old Testament, but that we must learn to adjust the Old Testament to Jesus and test the scripture by the spirit of Jesus.

Enlarge Faculty

In their expansion program, the trustees, by unanimous vote, approved increases in the faculty staff. Five full-time, and probably several part-time teachers will he added, with the possible addition of more if the enrollment demands it. A full-time assistant will be added to the Physical Educational Department. He will assist in coaching and teaching. A well qualified person has been employed to teach psychology and act as co-ordinator of counseling. Full-time teachers will be added to the English and Science departments. A full-time teacher in music is being added. An alumni Secretary and a Secretary to the President are under consideration and are much needed.

Cost Increases

Increases were voted in both tuition and room and board. How great an increase was not, announced, but Dr. Peters said it would be a "minimum in comparison to the increases being made by many schools. The increases are general throughout the country in all colleges and universities.”

Salaries for the college faculty will be raised and a revision of the facility retirement plan also was approved. A faculty leave plan was approved whereby staff members will get one semester leave with half pay for each ten years of consecutive service.

W. H. Yoder Re-elected

W. H. Yoder of Waterloo, Iowa, was re-elected chairman of the trustee board, with the other of-ficers; E. A. Wall, vice-chairman and J. H. Fries, both of McPher-son, being re-elected. Twenty-two out of the twenty-three trustees were present for the annual meeting.

Contract for Moller Organ

A contract for a Moller organ for the college chapel was approved. The organ will he a welcomed addition to the chapel and will strengthen the facilities to provide lessons for organ students.

In approving the securing of an architect to draw plans and estimate the costs of the building program, the trustees took steps to alleviate the shortage of dormitory rooms for boys and the inadequate kitchen and dining hall facilities. A bulletin will soon be published and a drive started to raise funds for the building program.

At the close of the meeting the trustee body drafted a resolution in opposition to compulsory military training. Each trustee will send a copy of the statement to his senators and representative.

Lawyer: What's the idea of

painting your car red on one side and blue on the other?

Client: It's a great idea. You should hear the witnesses contradict themselves.

Sold!! To Eloise Brooks for

$21.50! So went that beautiful cake which was baked by La-Vona Thralls. It was good, too, just ask almost any girl in Arnold. Sold! To the highest bidder were many items of interest to students and faculty. Everything from a pie to a late leave and a breakfast in bed to a ride in

the Deforpch deluxe Buick were cleverly auctioned off by that master of the auctioneering art. Marvin Krehbiel The proceeds, of course, went to the WSSF.

That Prentice boy is in a fix. As you may recall, he bought the privilege to stay in the girl’s dorm until 10:30, but after he did so, Rolfs asks him what he was going to do after she went upstairs She might be surprised No one said what part of the

dorm he has to stay in.

The auction brought a total of $154.07 into the WSSF you

might like to know that Mrs. Kag-arice made the monkey bean hag. Mary Jane Freeburg made the cream puffs. Mrs. Krehbiel donated the donuts. Bernice Lind-strom was responsible for the cookies, and Nina Kagarice made the pie. Doris Coppock and Mary Jane Freeburg directed the drive end they would like to extend special thanks to all who contributed in any way to make the drive a success. To the faculty, speech class, town girls’ organization, Marvin Krehbiel. Rip Ferguson.

those mentioned above, and all who contributed to the drive dc serve the gratitude of the committee. Of course, It was all done for students in other lands, so all were more than willing to give

their little

The total brought by all the

activities., of the week was ap proximately $270.00.

The Time For Action!

“IT IS EASIER FOR A MAN TO DIE FOR HIS PRINCIPLES THAN TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THEM.”

Dr. Karl Downs must have stirred every soul that heard him last week end. There were many gasps of shame and disgust at fellow members of the Caucasion race as he told of true experiences in which his race has been humiliated and even killed. These stories were not unusual, we have heard of others like them; we know that such conditions exist.

Other people must have been impressed as I was that through all these humiliations there are still many Negroes that do not become bitter and strike out with force to right the wrongs that exist. Instead of judging us all by individual experiences they are able to say that you cannot judge a whole race by individuals.

This is a problem that strikes home—-that hits our campus. Recent humiliating incidents to a student of the Negroid race in our college has caused some discussion and a little action—Very Little Action. Last spring the Political Action Commission with the cooperation of the City Youth Council took a poll, but no action.

We owe it to our fellow students to take action, to work for racial equality. There is no excuse for the traditional prejudices that exist in this city and state. They are ridiculously outmoded traditions of a Civil War era.

Every McPherson College student should work for the privileges that he enjoys for his fellow students and be ready to back up his demands with action. We cannot expect our fellow students of other races to enjoy their work here if they are made to feel inferior everytime they step off of the campus. A straight forward policy on this issue may cause the loss of some friends, even some advertisers to this paper, but the time has come to stop rationalizing, to stop procrastinating, and put our beliefs, our discussions, into practice.

“There is no sense of going any further.” The time is past for the wrongs that have been committed to our brothers to be righted.

“IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS LONG AS WHAT YOU BELIEVE DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.”

By-Line

Little did the staff know that some of the copies of the Spectator have spanned an ocean and arrived safely in China. Following is a letter from Mrs. Olivia D. Ikenberry. expressing her gratitude and that of others for having received those copies:

Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China Office of the Field Secretary 169 Yuen Ming Yuen Road. Shanghai. China February 7, 1947 The Spectator McPherson College,

McPherson, Kansas Dear Editor:

We have enjoyed more than we can say the copies of the Spectator that have found their way to Shanghai. They have been as good as a letter from the children and sometimes we see things they did not tell us!

May we add our congratulations to Donnis for her good work and wish for the new editor the good paper we know he is capable of producing.

From the above heading you can see that now instead of trying to help one college, I am doing what I can for thirteen. The Field Secretary, Dr. W. P. Fenn, is in America for a few months and I am doing what I can till he returns.

The first boat of heifers arrived in Shanghai January 21st. We have had the “cowboys" who came with them out to the house for meals. The first group who came were mostly high school boys. After they got back to the boat, they told their ship mates they were all going to McPherson College. Hope they do. as they seemed good material for both academic and athletic honors. Several were from Paul Wagoner’s church in Iowa.

I hope that we will see some more Spectators when the S. S. General Meigs gets in Saturday My husband has come in and says that the noon hour is over, so I must get to work.

Olivia D. Ikenberry Mrs. Ikenberry will be remembered by McPherson College students of last year as the much liked and competent Dean of Women.

QUOTE—

“We can have peace or we can have revenge. But we cannot have both.” (Herbert Hoover).

DEFINITION—

Athletics—The excuse for modern schools of learning.

ORCHIDS—

to the cooks for those extra good meals Regional Conference week end, it made a good impression.

to Prof. Frederick and his choruses for their fine showing last Sunday. It showed a great deal of practice and hard work. We thought it was one of the best performances by the music groups in years.

NUTS TO—

those people who change their actions so much when guests arrive that their fellow sufferers fail to recognize them.

POEM—

At 45 miles per hour sing— “Highways Are Happy Ways.” At 5 5 miles per hour, sing— “I’m But a Stranger here, Heaven is my Home.”

At 65 miles, sing—

“Nearer, My God, to Thee”

At 75 miles, sing—

“When the Roll is Called up yonder, I’ll be There.”

At 85 miles, sing—

“Lord, I’m Coming Home.”

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE— These are difficult times when we have to do without the things our parents never had.

GRIN AND BEAR IT—

“Do you believe in clubs for women?”

”Yes, if kindness fails.” ADVICE—

It is all right to have two faces hut only wear one at a time.

dead-end of our civilization.

There are two ways to face our dead-end. It can he faced as a man who looks out between prison bars and sees mud or it can be faced as a man who looks out between prison bars and sees stars. The stars should he sought after by every man.

Each man has a part to play in life, no matter what his race is. Evil can never be overcome with evil, but with good.

Zigler Deplores Tragic Conditions

“It might have been you.” This was a sign which lines the highways in conquered countries in Europe. This sign impressed M.

R. Zigler very much. M. R. Zig-ler was one of the Conference speakers who told his attentive audience of the things he had seen in Europe.

Here in America, the people are enjoying good health, good food, many luxuries and golden oppor tunities. The people in America should he in thanksgiving all the time. The world is like a seesaw. One part is down and struggling to come up and the other part sits up on top enjoying themselves. America will have a great job to stand in luxury when the rest of the world is in misery. The big need of the world is to have trained minds, straight thinkers, and willing workers. These must come from the colleges. The world needs men who dare to think, who dare to take hold of the gigantic problems facing the world; to take hold of the jobs others have turned down.

More people need to travel the simple road of service. It is a lonesome road as not many travel it. Those who travel it are the great men. “It could have been you.” This road is not a hard road.

The world needs great men to build a world that is worthy to be called ours and a world that is God’s.

West Speaks On Relationships

Mrs. Lucille West, the National Director of the Department of Family Life of the Church of the Brethren spoke on the need for pooling the strength of the people to make more than each person individually can make.

According to Mrs. West, there are three supreme relationships. First, the relationships of families. Kindness, love and all the endearing qualities were not found on the globe until Dad. Mother and child worked them out together. The second supreme relationship is that found in the church, The finest qualities of human life come to the surface and are expressed through the relation of a person to others in the church. Foregiveness, understanding and responsibility were not on this universe until this group created them together. The last supreme relationship named by Mrs. West was that of the world. These qualities created are a global attitude and a global sense of responsibility.

Each individual should strive to express his attitude that he is important; that an idea if it comes from him should remain his idea.

The President's Corner

Last week was “Brotherhood Week ’ under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, In this day of anti-mindedness and hate organizations, it is a paramount blessing that so many churches and civic organizations were willing to participate in sponsoring “brotherhood” meetings and conferences.

The future security of mankind is dependent upon the development and practice of respect and equality among groups meeting together and working together to resolve conflicts and to promote mutual worthwhile interests and responsibilities.

Every week should be “Brotherhood Week,” for only when nations, races, factions, classes, families and individuals come to love and respect one another can there be peace and goodwill among men.

E. G. Toland

superintendent of high schools at Durham. Coats, Alexander, and Whitewater, Kansas, and principal of senior high school at Stafford, Kansas.

Extensive traveling in the United States and a one-summer tour of European countries has helped Mr. Toland in his study and analysis of various types of people and their educational disadvantages and benefits. He also holds such honorable positions as: President. Brethren Memorial, Pasadena Church of the Brethren: Chairman of the Men’s Work of the Arizona-Southern California District; and a member of the Board of Trustees at LaVerne College. Cali-fornia.

Mr. Toland now holds the position of Coordinator of Secondary Education. Los Angeles County Schools. He and his wife, Iva (Crumpacker) Toland, who also graduated from McPherson College in 1929. have two children, Dean (9) and Robert (6).

Naturally when there are strangers on the campus and confusion reigns supreme, there are going to be some slip ups. Such "as the case Sunday afternoon, "hen the campus and Its surrounding environments were buzzing with the Regional Conferers and the Youth Retreaters.

(Due to the broken bones and hurt feelings of a majority of the Spectator staff, the names and places of the following episode will be withheld.)

A certain guy spotted a certain gal, who was attending the Youth Retreat, and liked very much what he saw. So, he sent a certain other girl into a certain dormitory to get the certain gal. The certain gal comes out and the certain guy asks her for a date. She is uncertain, then she changes her mind, and says certainly. The certain gal (is this getting montonous by now?) goes hack into the certain dormitory to change her clothes, you know, to

put on the appeal a la belle dame sans merci!

Lo, and behold! when the certain gal came out and looked for her date, she could not spot him. Is that ho wandering around over there with another girl? she thought. The other girl was the other certain girl that had fetched the certain gal from the certain dormitory. When the certain other hoy was confronted by the certain gal. he slowly but surely became hysterical. She had mistaken him for the certain guy and was making a dreadful mistake, He was in a predicament and knew not quite how to get out of it.

Finally, the certain other girl came to the rescue (per usual) and explained that the certain gal had made a mistake in identity, and pointed out her right date who was lurking in the background. So. the certains and the certain others got together and went on their merry way.

Because of the Regional Conference which is in session on campus this week, we deemed it wise that perhaps we should not take time off from the scheduled program to go flying around the country, visiting other colleges to see what the inmates are up to. But in order to keep the presses running, one lone scout was sent cut. and here is the info that he brought out.

The wanderer has reported that it was hard for him to believe that he was not on his own “stamping ground” while he was visiting different campuses, so many activities were going on that happened here at Mac. For example, many of the choirs from the different schools were finishing last minute details or had just returned from their spring concerts. The Juniata College A Cappella choir has just returned to campus after a week on tour. The choir from Elizabethtown College began their trip on Feb.

9. The Women’s Choir from the University of Dubuque have set for their trip the dates March 23-30.

Echos of WSSF drives are in evidence all over the country. The Elizabethtown College drive is being combined with a drive for relief clothing, and is underway at the present time. The Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg starts the drive on March 3.

The peregrinator also brought back with him news of the entertainment. world. Maurice Evans, playing as “Hamlet”, was at the Municipal Auditorium in Topeka on Saturday evening, Feb. 15. On Wednesday of this week the Broadway hit-success “The Glass Menagerie” was also showing in Topeka.

The winner of the Pan Hellenic contest which offered as a prize to the winner $100 and an opportunity to appear with the Wichita Symphonic Orchestra has been announced. Honors go to Miss Frances Oliver of Friends University. Miss Oliver has a brilliant mezzo-soprano voice.

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“The School of Quality"

Constructive Suggestions by Guest Columnist Virginia Harris

Nowadays when one has the choice of thousands of volumes, including a good selection of great books available at the price of a movie ticket, it is disconcerting to learn that reading has been loosing ground in its race with other leisure-time activities. Several years ago a survey was made with the conclusion that the average American buys two hooks a year, borrows two from the public library, rents two from the rental collection libraries, and borrows one from a friend, a possible total of seven hooks a year. A more recent study shows that not one person in two ever reads any books at all, and that those who do, devote less than half an hour a day to reading them. College graduates have been found to be infrequent users of libraries and bookstores, and even doubtful of books as sources of pleasure and profit.

Circulation records of the college library show that students and faculty do not use to a very great extent the college library as a source of material for leisure reading. This does not mean that a large number of hooks do not circulate, but the majority of books checked from the library are used for the purpose of completing class assignments and not for general cultural or leisure reading.

When the suggestion is made that more background reading should he done, the cry of all is that there is no time. Perhaps faculty and students alike are engaging in too many activities. Would it not be better to do well a few things, than to exhaust ourselves physically and mentally trying to do many things?

Within the last few years a Browsing collection has been started in the college library. As yet it is not a large collection, but each year new books are added. There is a wealth of general reading material in the other collections of the library. McPherson College students and faculty should plan to do more background reading.

“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have pre pared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.”

National Pi Kappa Delta Convention At Bowling Green

Friday, the beginning of Easter Vacation, will mark another “first” for McPherson College. On that day, Professor Hess. Catharine Little, Elsie Schnorr, Carl Stucky, Theodore Geisert, and Robert Yoder will leave McPherson for Bowling Green. Ohio, where they will participate in the National Convention of Pi Kappa Delta. This Convention is scheduled to be held every other year but due to the war has not been held since 1942. The 1942 Convention was held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the local chapter was granted admission.

The first contests will begin Monday April 7 and the last event will be held on Friday evening. April 11. Eight rounds of debate and five rounds each of oratory, extempora, and discussion will be held during the week.

Probably more than one hundred of the one hundred sitxy-five Pi Kappa Delta Chapters will be represented. Each school is limited to one men’s and one women’s team and one entry in each of the individual events.

Thirty-six states have Pi Kappa Delta Chapters; these are chiefly found in the middle west, the west, and the south.

I am 20 ins and 6 foot tall been in the navy 1 zear and a Half. I am reel lonely and want a gurl friend to right too. I heard zou got some nice and purty gurls their in McPherson colledge I would like for you too git a gurl there to right me and send her pitcher sos I could see what shes like i have no gurl nobody rights to me ill be coming threw Kansas 2 months from now im from penn-silvaner. I wish i was like zou still going to school like a dumb fool I quit school in 10 grade.

“Pleze, John see if zou aint got no gurls there to right me. Maebee zou kin fine the right, gurl for me there and we culd settel down and raze pigs when I gits out of the navy.

“Well if the gurl rights tell her to not to forgit to send that pit-sher i want one to put on my mirier. Gosh, sos I wont so lonely.

Tank zou-

Hinry

(Hinry Lisowok F 2/c).

Dear Hinry,

Yes, McPherson College has a rather arrayed assortment of girls. I will furnish your address to the “Spec” so that all the available girls will he notified. However, I have one question. Are you the beautiful but dumb type? We know you are dumb, but are you good looking? If so, you have plenty of chances. I think.

With lots and lots of encouragement to cheer up, I am

Sincerely yours, John

P. S. His address is as follows;

U. S. S. Washington Sub. Div 1 Pacific Reserve U. S. Naval Station San Diego. Calif.

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Class To Wichita

Members of Rev. Miller’s Sunday School class will take a field trip to Wichita next Friday afternoon and evening. The class has been concentrating on the subject of Worship. The purpose of the trip is to observe regular services of the Jewish Synagogue and the Greek Orthodox Church.

Sharp shooting in the clutches and the "never say die'' spirit gave the Bulldogs a 4 4-43 victory over the rival Bethany Swedes. It was the final conference game of the season for the Macmen and gave them a record of 7 wins and 5 losses.

The contest was a thriller all the way. The dogs went into an early 11-6 lead and continued their torrid shooting pace to go off at halftime with a 24-22 margin. Fanny Markham seemingly couldn’t be stopped as he made 4 buckets in four shots.

The Swedes came back deter-mined and used their height to take over. Although the two teams battled on even terms for some time the Hahnmen pulled away to a 6 point lead with minutes to go. At the 4 minute time out Bethany still led 4 2-40. but then things started to go our way. Karsted got a free throw for them but Kasey promptly dropped in a bucket to make the margin l point. Then with 45 seconds to go Vance Carlson netted the winning marker.

The Bulldogs put a big feather in their hat Friday night by putting the Wesleyun Coyotes down in defeat 52-49. This was the second defeat that the Coyotes have suffered in Conference play so far and both have been administered by the Dogs. The defeat knocked Wesleyan out of first and let the Braves take over temporarily on a percentage basis.

Mac took an early lead but soon lost it. Although a good brand of ball was played there was nothing too exciting and when Wesleyan took a 29-26 lead with them at the half, fans were saying that anything could happen and were hoping that it would.

They got what they were looking for, but good. Mac came out and promptly netted S of their first 10 shots and kept hot enough to give them a game percentage of 45%. The first 13 points went on our side of the ledger and the Dogs proceeded to take control. Coach Baer substituted frantically in an effort to get command, but the red and white were not to be conquered. With 7 minutes to go Nordling left the game on fouls, then Fisher, and finally Kasey. But the reserves took up where the regulars left off and held on.

Second Round Of Intra-Murals Start

Quinter and Deforpch have taken the lead in the second round of intra-mural basketball. Seven teams have entered rosters for this round which will be play-ed in the next several weeks. The teams are: Hoodlums. Deforpch, Quinter, Sad Sacks, Dunk-aid Tech, Tri-Staters, and the Chicks.

In the only two games played thus far in the schedule, Quinter squeezed out a one point victory over the Tri-Staters, 23-22. In the game Wednesday afternoon Deforpch, working smoothly throughout the game, scored 43 points to their opponents, the Hoodlums, 31.

Cindermen Work On Spring Sport

Track aspirants have begun to train for the spring sport this week. At the meeting Monday afternoon fifteen boys showed an interest in the sport with several other boys checking out equipment during the week.

Coach Hayden explained the situation to the trackmen Monday and promised several meets if enough interest was shown to field a squad that could make a respectable showing at the meets. Between twenty and thirty hoys are needed to compete in a dual meet. Equipment is scarce, but the athletic department is trying to secure it, if at all possible.

Every boy that has any interest in track, that believes he could develop, or has had experience previously is urged to report next week and begin training. It is hoped that the College can field a full track squad this year.

The boys of the squad really appreciated the support that was given them by the student body up at Salina. Some said it was the best they have had this year.

Just when everything seemed to he shaping up nicely in the Conference race and time about to run out for Kansas Wesleyan, everybody proceeded to upset their apple cart at the same time. We thought the football race was topsy-turvey, but it didn’t hold a candle to this. The final game will, no doubt, decide the champ.

Carl Kopelk. commissioner of the Kansas Conference, will move to Topeka as soon as the school year closes to become Assistant State High School Athletic Di rector.

It is the close of the basketball season as far as the varsity is concerned. But basketball fans will still have plenty to talk about intramurals still have another round to go. The high school tournaments are yet to come and

AAU ball has its season to finish, so if you like basketball, there are still plenty of games to see.

The spring sports, track, tennis. and golf are just around the corner. Although these were the forgotten varsity sports during the war, they should not he neglected this year. They deserve Just as much support and hacking as any other sport and just because they are inclined more to the participants game, than to the fan game, does not mean that they should hot be a part of the school sport program.

Mon., March 10, the Bulldogs will go to Lindsborg for another game with the Swedes. Bethany did Mac the honor of inviting them to help dedicate their new gym. This is one that both teams will be fighting for because in the two games played so far this season, both have been won by a one-point margin, the two teams splitting the spoils.

Vance Carlson

Last, but not least, we "pin-up” the big Swede, Vance Carlson. Vance has been the mainstay of the Bulldog squad all year. He played just anywhere he was needed and did a good job.

He was the star defense man of the Macmen and along with that rates among the 10 leading conference scorers,

A great competitor, he is always out to win, and whatever happens, he seems to come up grinning.

Vance will turn to pro baseball as soon as the basketball season is over but we are looking forward to seeing him hack next year.

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