The Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 8, Ed. 1 Monday, January 13, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LONE STAR LUTHERAN
Monday, January 13, 1936
The Lone Star Lutheran
Published on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month of the
school year by the Student Body of the Lutheran College.
“Entered as second-lass matter October 28, 1929, at the postoffice
at Seguin, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.”
Address all communications to “The Lone Star Lutheran,”
Lutheran College, Seguin. Texas.
Subscription Price: One Dollar per Year
BOOKS
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WORTHWHILE
By Irene Liberty
EXCHANGE
AS A MAN THINKETH —
SO IS HE
(Newspaper j
(Member)
MSSOOPi
PERMANENT STAFF
Committee of Editors----------------------------------------
_____________Marie Duelberg, Valerie Lambrecht, Ruby Simon
Managing Editors____________Chester Braun and Glenn Anderson
Business manager ______________________________ H. F. Ander, Jr.
Advertising Manager'_______________________________Milton Gerhard
Assistant Advertising Manager--------------------H. C. Huebner
Circulation Manager ____________________________ Mildred Pfluger
Assistant Circulation Manager------------------------Alice Hohn
Reporters: Hulda Knipling, Alma Geiger, Eleanora Range, Vera
Schroeter, Isabel Klein, Julia Scrivener.
No man would feed himself
upon strichniine day after day
and expect to live a long and
happy life. For we all know that
MY MUSICAL LIFE | we can’t feed poison to the body
By Walter Damrosch j and get away with it. We all
The autobiography of this great j know that poison eats away the
American musician, Walter Dam- tissues of the body, undermines
EXAMINATIONS
Final examinations begin Friday, and the scores re-
ceived on them determine to a great extent what has beer
accomplished by each student. If students have been
studying spasmodically or not at all, the results of ex-
aminations will naturally be unsatisfactory. However
even if students haven’t studied much to date, it is noi
too late to begin now. He cannot hope to derive the fuL
benefit from his studies as has the student who has con
sistently kept up with his work; nevertheless he can assimi
late a great deal of information even in this short time
and will receive the visible reward of a much better grade
DEAD WEEK
Sunday night, January 12th, “Dead Week” began
“Dead Week” means that no students are allowed to go
anywhere at night until after all examinations have been
completed — Saturday and Sunday night, included.
« This rule is for the benefit of the student body as a
(whole. For the benefit of the students who have kept up
their studies, a “dead week” will give them extra time to
leither devote more time to their studies, or for outside
reading they otherwise had no time for. For the student
who has let his work slip “dead week” offers that last extra
minute to make it up and make a passing grade.
Let us help to make this the nicest “dead week” we’vi
ever had — “dead” in so far as lots of hilarity and non
sense is concerned, but most specifically alive where stud}
is concerned.
rosch was written upon the con-
stant urging of his friends, who
felt that the many and varied
events in a long musical life would
prove interesting and education-
all to American musicians and
readers. But the author in his
reminiscences has presented even
more information — he has told
of the musical field in general,
particularly in America and of
the artists in that field the world
over.
The life of Mr. Damroch, as the
book presents it, is an extremely
interesting account of the man’s
aspirations and struggles and best
of all, his accomplishments. Al-
ready as a child we see his inter-
est in and knowledge of music as
instilled by his musical parents,
particularly his father. It is in-
teresting to note his rapid prog-
ress after he came to America
from Breslaw. Very soon we see
him with the Oratorio Society, a
tissues
its strength and sooner or ,'ater
deprives it of life itself. But now
few of us recognize the disast. us
effects of poison thoughts on i—
mind!
So many of us daily feed oui
minds with poison thoughts,
thoughts about failure, thoughts
about discouragement, of doubt,
of fear—and yet we irrationally
expect our minds to be whole-
some and keen and successful,
never dreaming that we can’t
persistently feed poison thoughts
to our minds and get away with
it.
A man soon becomes like the
picture he keeps before himself.
If he constantly looks at pictures
of failure, of defeat, of hopeful-
ness, of discouragement, he can-
not expect to find strength and
courage and optimism for his
day’s work, because in looking at
his somber pictures he soon for-
gets about success and victory,
and instead, relives the pictures
WHO’S WHO
Eleanora Range
WALTER WILLMANN
choral union, and the Symphony j he has been seeing.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
“Why make New Year’s resolutions?” They were
made to be broken. The person who expressed this view
certainly can see many facts pointing to this conclusion
People start the new year with so many high-sounding
phrases and noble resolves to leave behind all the old weak-
nesses and failures and embark upon a new, efficient career.
Within a few weeks, or even days, they forgot their re-
solve or reluctantly break them, saying, “Well, I guess 1
ought not to, (or I ought to) because I make a resolution
to that effect, but I may as well forget that.” It seems to
me that this breaking of a resolution with a full knowledge
of breaking it is even worse than a break caused by mo-
mentary forgetfulness.
Still there is much to be said in favor of new year’s
resolutions. It causes the individual to sort of “Take In-
ventory” of himself, to realize and analyze his weaknesses
and bad habits. Merely a search of his character and the
resulting faults brought to light will be distinctly valuable
to him. He will have a better knowledge of himself and
his weaknesses, which of course is necessary.
If he makes a sincere resolution to correct certain ele-
ments in his make up, even if he deviates from a perfect
adherence to his resolve. I believe he will come out ahead.
A new year gives the feeling of a fresh beginning, and
this feeling gives the resolve a little extra push toward
its ultimate strength.
Why make resolution, indeed? They were made to be
kept, and if we sincerely try, we can stick to them with a
fair degree of consistency, and reap at least the benefit
of having tried.
Society of New York, both of
which his father conducted. Al-
ready at seventeen he was an ac-
complished pianist, for it is then
that he traveled with August Wil
helmij, a noted violinist, as his
accompanist. Shortly thereafter,
we see him conductor of Metro-
politan Opera House and as such
he was interested particularly in
the production of Wagner operas.
At the same time he was made
conductor of the two musical so-
cieties which his father had es-
tablished. In connection with
this work there were tours to
make. We find that he made con-
cert tours devoted to various
great composers not only in
America but also in Europe. But
he was not only interested in
these large musical projects. He
wrote a series of music books to
be used in public schools, he gave
lectures in the interest of music
in numberless small (towns, he
helped establish a large number
of music societies in schools. But
while he was performing.all these
duties, the greatest of all his work
was being carried on; namely, the
composition of music. More noeed
not be said of Mr. Damrosch as
an artist in the musical field —
we are convinced.
After having read this book,
one comes to the conclusion that
it is probably the most interesting
book one has ever read. One re-
alizes that much has been learn-
ed not only of Mr. Damrosch, but
of music in a very enjoyable
manner. As one reads the book
the reader often finds himself
thinking hard to understand some
of the terms used, but the next
minute he finds the reading very
easy as he glides from one humor-
ous incident to another. The
book is indeed a moving, convinc-
ing story told in parts with hu-
mor and in parts stirringly and
vivaciously. One also notices and
appreciates the well arranged
material. One, after reading the
book, considers the author not
only an able musician but an able
writer as well.
Since My Musical Life by Wal-
ter Damrosch can not be over-
estimated for its educational value
and since it is very interesting,
each one should read the book.
It is worthwhile.
Mrs. Pfennig’s grandfather, Mr.
Pat Sowell, passed away January
9, 1936. He resided in Elgin,
Texas. The Lone Star Lutheran
expresses condolences.
Johnny: “I wonder why a dog
hangs his tongue out of his
mouth.”
Blanton: “To balance his tail,
you imp.”
Yet, how often we continue to
hang pictures of defeat and fail-
ure upon the walls of our minds
and day after day, and week aft-
er week, we continue to stare at
those pictures—and then wonder
why life is so hard.
Take care of what you think,
for surely you will become what
you think. This is an ancient
law of life, and even if we forget
it, it still remains in effect. Ig-
norance of the law- does not les-
sen its power over our lives.
Thought by thought, we build
our future. Each thought leaves
its impress on our minds and the
total of these impresses becomes
our character.
So place a stern watchman at
the door of your mind. Instruct
him to bar all thoughts that are
negative, all thoughts of defeat,
all thoughts that would make you
sullen and downcast.
And if a few thoughts of fail-
ure should occasionally sneak past
the guard, oust them immediate-
ly. Refuse them room in your
mind. Do not nourish and warm
them.
Cast them out immediately,
for the moment we harbor
thoughts of fear, of failure, of
doubt, these thoughts weave their
way into our lives and become a
magnet which attracts the very
things we feared.
Truly, as a man thinketh—so
is he!—Selected.
Lone Star Sponsors
Another Contest
The Lone Star Lutheran may
sponsor another contest for the
best poem submitted about Easter
with a year’s subscription to the
Lone Star Lutheran as the re-
ward. A similar contests was held
Christmas and was a success,
many good poems having been
submitted by students.
Following are the opinions of
several sophomores on the mat-
ter :
Irene Liberty: “I think it would
be a very good idea, because it
encourages the students to write
poetry.”
Alice Hohn: “It creates inter-
est and competition between the
students.”
Glen Anderson: “A person can
never tell just what he is capable
of doing until he tries something
new.”
Evelyn Gustafson: “I think the
contest should be repeated. It
certainly brings out talent along
the line that we students might
not otherwise derive any benefit
from, if it is allowed to remain
hidden.”
Therefore ye students of T. L.
Walter is one of our town students who comes out to
seek knowledge at Texas Lutheran College. More can be said
about Walter than can be written.
In high school — we mean Seguin High School — Walter
devoted his extra time to football and left the school with
his orange and white sweater and the huge letter “S” on it.
Out here at college Walter is taking the business courses
:n hopes of being a big busniess man some day. Just what
kind he doesn’t know.
Walter was chosen as the king for the past Home-
Coming, escort of Tusnelda Wurzbach.
When you’re out in the world of business, all wish you
the best of lucu and success for your goal, Walter.
C
Ex-Student News
^ By Dora Sauer /
KEYHOLE-IN’
(By L. B. L.)
The first day in the new year!
Everyone appears to be happy.
Hope they really are. It would
have been nice had we been able
to go home for Christmas, but
Texas is kinda fer and our soles
are pretty thin so we decided it’d
be better to stay right here. No
one got homesick as far as I
could see!
Two of the bunch managed to
spend part of the vacation in the
hospital at Milwaukee. John
Pietsch and Theo Sager, both of
’33, let the medicos do some fancy
carving on them. John is back
and feels great! And Theo is
doing nicely. We are glad the
operations were successful.
Roald Braulick also considered
it necessary to keep up the mis-
sionary activity among the medi-
cal profession. He underwent an
operation in Waverly just pre-
vious to the holidays and is now
out and about. Looks mighty
fine, too! Guess the rest of us
guys aren’t in the running” any-
more. Even Leo Simon, ’33,
couldn’t stay away from Milwau-
kee. In fact he was the first to
begin. That leaves the tall and
short of the Texas outfit who
have steered clear thus far of the
“men in white.” Sagebiel gets
his resistence by wading through
the snow drifts while Heye warms
the radiator for his. Quite a
contrast.
Edmund Heye, ’33, tells me he
had a real vacation. I tried to
get him to divulge details but he
wouldn’t. He doesn’t look so
worse for the trip, however!
I heard some time ago that
Ernst Poehlmann, ’25, took a bad
tumble on the ice-covered side-
walks in Waverly. All he receiv-
ed was a hard shake-up, but it
could have been much worse.
We’re glad he wasn’t hurt.
There’s snow everywhere and
more falling. I almost bogged
up to my knees when I slipped
into a drift this morning. The
snow comes down like rain, it’s
so thick. If you want any of it,
just whistle. I prefer good old
T)exas sunshine! Happy New
Year to you all!
* * *
Miss Alma Nierdieck, a student
of Texas Lutheran College in ’30-
’31, was married to Mr. Herbert
Lehrmann on December 22 at the
St. Paul’s Lutheran church at
Saegerton. They will make their
home at Saegerton.
Miss Betty Chrisco and Miss
Marie Grace Serger of Baylor
C. begin carrying a piece of paper
and a pencil around so that if
struck by a sudden inspiration ye
may jot it down and submit it
to the staff of the Lone Star Lu-
theran.
University, were in convocation
one day last week.
Theodore Poss and Jesse Sae-
gert of A. & M. were visitors here
over the week-end.
Miss Leola Usener of Fred-
ericksburg visited on our campus
Saturday.
Mrs. Rarold Black who before
her marriage was Miss Ella Mayes
is now teaching expression in
Austin.
We are very glad to report that
Mr. Alfred Eoerfier of Pfiuger-
ville has recovered from his ill-
ness.
Robert Wenzel of Brenham and
“Swede” Bohls of Taylor are sen-
iors at Capitol University this
year. -
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Doerfler a baby girl on December
26.
Mr. M. L. Bogisch from Fred-
ericksburg visited Mrs. Bogisch
Saturday morning.
On December 31, 1935, two of
last year’s ex-students, Rose Ro-
deen, and Milton Shult, were
married in the Lund church. Mr.
and Mrs. Shult will live at Sealy,
Texas.
Having these six-weeks tests a
day isn’t any fun believe me—
you have to study too hard and
try to sneak through on the other
and end up by sneaking through
on two and standing still on the
other.
The following conversation was
conversed between Mr. Stanley
Jung and June Koepsel:
Stanley: This looks like poetry
I’m typing.
June: Poetry nothin’; that’s
tripe!
Stanley: Aw, don’t spring any
new word on me!
You can laugh if you want to
—the point’s kinda hard to find,
I’ll admit—but come on and laugh
anyway.
Pres. Kraushaar On
Trip North
President Kraushaar will at-
tend several very important meet-
ings this month. First, a joint
meeting of the Board of Chris-
tian Higher Education, and Col-
lege Presidents of the American
Lutheran Church at Dubuque,
Iowa, January 27-28-29. Later,
January 30-31, he will attend a
meeting of the Board of Foreign
Missions at Chicago. We wish
him a pleasant trip and a safe
return home.
By the way didn’t you all for-
get to ask Santa Claus which col-
lege boy goes around giving the
name of Ben to high school fresh-
men girls.
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