Your diploma w i l l say1-
/that your deportment /
' xvas c o rre c t. Can t o /
honestly give you one? /
--M. T . B .
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E ditor 1
Russell Baer
A ssociate Editors s
Margaret Martin
Miriam Lehman
T ypists j
D a n ie l M ille r
Colleen Barton
E ls ie Lehman
A r t i s t s ;
Buth Martin
Janet Weaver
Sponsor:
M. T . B rac k bill
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February 2 5 , 1942 E a M» S 1 V o l . I l l
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No. 2
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EDITORIALS
The following in tere stin g remark was made by
one of the 3 . M. S . students a f t e r looking for
m a il , "A s yet the a ir in my mailbox h a s n ’ t
been displaced by a le tte r or l e t t e r s , therefore
i t is f i l l e d w ith a i r , ” That ia q uite a
lo g ic a l conclusion, i s n ft i t ?
W h ile wo are making conclusions, or theorems,
or whatever name you want to give them let us
make some more.
I f you w r it e a lot of letters you can expect
to get quite a number in re tu rn . I f you f a i l
to remember your frien ds by not sending them
le t t e r s , you cannot expeot your mailbox to be
f i l l e d w ith le tte rs bearin g your most respeota-able
name, M r . , Mrs®, or Miss , and
the honorable address of E . M . S . , Ha rrisonb
u rg , V i r g i n i a .
Ju st remember that w rit in g and receiving
letters i s n ’ t a one-sided a f f a i r .
— Martin
"T he lines are fa l l e n unto ms in pleasant
p la o e s; y e a , I havo a goodly heritage®n The
Lord saw f i t for us to be born in America
rather than in the darkest part of A fr ic a or
China »
The Menncnite Church is awakening to the
need of increased c hild evangelism-—"s a v in g
our childreno" Read the 1942 handbook of the
Mennonite Commission fo r C h r is t ia n Education
and Young P eo p le 's ?Jork* * * * *
A thought for the week--'1 In s p ir a t io n in
presentation ia larg e ly the resu lt of persp
ira tio n in p r e p a r a t io n ."
" I th in k I can make it"- "
An occupant of third flo o r is h u r r ie d ly gettin
g ready to go to the d in in g h a ll fo r bre akf
a s t . According to the watoh on the bureau he
has one minute in which to comb his h a i r , t ie
his shoes, open the door of hia room, run the
length of the h a l l , and descend the sta irs by
e ith er run nin g, jumping, or perhups f a l l i n g .
But he f a i l s to make i t ; h® fin d s that the door
is c lo se d .
A speeding automobile is approaching a r a i l road
crossing* The d riv e r looks to his l e f t
only to see a monstrous locomotive bearing down
upon him* A fte r thinking fo r a s p l it second
the fo o lis h young man resolves to make i t » But
the attempt results in a tragedy.
Five v ir g in s are buying o il to attend a midn
ig h t w e d din g . I t is now 1 2 :0 1 a .m . They
f u l l y intend to witness the marriage, in ether '
words, they hope to make i t . The needed o il ia
purchased and © m y they go to fin d that the
door ia sh u t. I n v a in the cry ascends, "L o r d ,
Lord, open to u s .'1 '
"Watch th e re fo re , fo r ye know n e it h e r the
day nor the hour wherein the Son of man coneth„"
— Baer
OFF THE] RECORD
As we a l l know, g ir l s are now the "h o s t s ’*
and boys the "h o s t e s s e s ." A v i s it o r was very
much amused as Benjamin started c learing the
t a b l e .
Brother K r a y b illj "D o you wash the d is h e s ,
too?"
B enjam in» "H o , but I might have to sometime.'
— He"*en Trumbo
BY THE FIRESIDE ,
This pine wood b' jrns in lovely style . A
frie n d roooramended t certain woodsman who
obtained i t fo r me.
tion»
You know there are florae of you lik e that®
FOT* GinLS OITLY
Tho box v;os f u l l , y es, f u l l and overflowing.
Leave of absence slips were jammed i n , pushed in,
I t burns up to i t s raputa- and crushed in—-hundreds of then I R e lie v e, and to
take them out and place them on a neat pile was cy
job a At f i r a t the ta sk appeared to me as dry but
You are d a i l y liv in g right up to the to eline of soon my idea was changed and I found my task inter-your
good reputation among ue© The other day e sting as vrell as p erp le xin g . Just whore, g i r l s ,
a c ertain o f f i c i a l in our school here wanted me are these places— "Eden P i k e ,” "Hocks G a p ,"
to rooommend a boy for a c ertain j o b . I had o n e "G r o tto s ," and "P ik e M issio n?" 1 ho are the fol-fo
r him® He f i t the requirements . "C a n we
depend on him?" Most c e r t a i n l y . He is a good
student, c o nscientious, arid r e l i a b l e . "T r u s t worthy?"
Undoubtedly. I ’ d trust him a mile
away or a thousand ini.lea away. I ’ d trust him
low in g : "Tinda K e t z l e r ", " M . S . 1”" , "Marie rjlossr" ,
and Mrs. K e r t s t s le r "? V.'ho is the Miss Hartzler
who gives permiscions on second flo o r? Perhaps
another task is mine— to get acquainted with
everyone and everyplace around here or is it to
on the other side of the world or the other sidemerely consider your haste and pass on. One sweet
lass was conveyed to her destin ation by — "shoes"r
Another gave as her reason fo r absence— "d r e s s maker",
and so on. A':ain I was reminded of the
nice spoken." D o n 't re c all anyone saying he ia vast differe n c e in our p ersona lities and the ways
e s p e c ia lly handsome; but you knows "handsome is vre do th in g s . Here we a r e , a ll one 1 ig fam ily ,
of the u n iv e r s e . He i s n 't the haw-haw-behind-your-
back kind» And he is a gentleman. A
c ertain old lady said of himj "He is very
what handsome d o e s ." I t i s n ’ t decorations on
an instrument that make i t valuable or u s e f u l ,
but the q u a lity and strength and adjustment of
the parts that comprise it= I f this wood had
been shaved arid painted i t might have looked
b e t t e r , b ut it wouldn’ t burn any b e t t e r .
I t is the joy of my eoul to note tho merit
i n my sons and daughters and to recommend them
without any i f a* b u t a , andnaybes, and per-hapees.
Several months remain in th is year for
you to strengthen, e s t a b lis h or r e e s ta b lis h s
good re p u ta tio n . Engage a l l your moral, in te
llec tu a ls and .s p iritu a l reinforcements in the l i f e ?
liv in g together day in and day out and yet we do
not a Iveys understand each other. Fowever, do ve
r e a lly lenow the lives of our neighVors, thoir
hardships, th eir bnckground, their proTloms, thoir
joys and sorrows? Let us not misjudge, but in
standing fo r the ri<ht let us >e firm in love to
those about u s .
•— ’'jdno "e r t z l e r
iP Q ’in-iK's cow:
’ hen you havo teen livin g in sin fo r about two
y ea rs, does that mean you w i l l reap four y ea rs,
or w i l l there be reaping from that sowing a l l your
e f f o r t . And may God give you success*
Your Alma Mater
CONFERENCE ECHOES
Let us have more liv in g that is a matter of
conviotion and not p o lic y .
Yfhen C h rist comes i n , everything bad must
0 OUto
Sometimes we should sing e m p t y me now, in stead
of f i l l me now®
Jesus Christ could not s i n , because he
would note
T’e ought to want to be where the Lord wants
us to b e .
The- scriptures give us no sp e c ific answer
regarding the proportions of sowing a n ! reaping.
Soma acts of sin may cause life-long rer.ping.
Othars may not involve physical suffering or
physical handicap* I t depends upon tho s in .
Under tho .law, some sins rjq>'ired fouri'old restorat
i o n . Other sins involved the death penalty 0
The Apostle Paul was forgiven for his persecution
of the C h ristian church, Jut he could never forget
it» The remembrance of it seemed to spur him on
to greater service constantly with the hope of
"redeeming the time" that ha had so wrorgly used
in the p a st . I n the case of David, his sin though
Our c ollectio ns are too often ju st offerings fo rg iv e n , carried w ith it a whole tr a in of reaping,
and not s a o r if i c o s . not only during his life t im e , Vut also the genera-
Looking fo r a “lavior is on incentive to holy tions that followed were affected by i t . V’o should
l i v i n g .
C h r is t ia n it y is rot a work for i d l e r s .
I t is by the lives of professors that
C h r is t ia n it y is ju d g ed.
Su ffering w i l l do for the C h ristian Church
what nothing else v i l l .
r e are l i v i n ' in a super ag e , so r e 'n e e d
a super r e l i g i o n .
Youth for notion} old age ."or eotmael
C h r is t ia n love has common sen sea
Lord, tea oh us to prayi
—•Herman S . Ropp
!
tx\ 1 or that which is e v il and cleave to that which
is good u IIo sin is l i t t l e in the sight of Tim with
T.'hom we havo to do® There is a Saviour from s in
and therefore it is most dargjrous for a C h rist ia n
to tamper any sin whether it Ve p r id e , v a n ity , fool
iahness, p ro fa n ity , v u lg a r ity , s t e a lin r , or immoral
i t y . ’There sin has beer, con-iilted, thor8 needs to
bo repentance and confessior. possibly r e s t it u t
i o n . Then look to God for grace to live v ic t o r iously
and allow the S p i r it of God to load in your
l i f e .
— Jo L e Stau ffer
February 525* -3-
During the past week end i t was my p r i v i lege
to wait fo r several hours in one of the
large railw ay stations of the East where people
I N Q U I R E S C OIK UR
VJhat i s wrong with a person who would ju st as
soon stay on this earth fo r a long time?
I am not so sure that there is anything nocessar-by
the hundreds wpro e n te rin g , leaving and wait- ily wrong w ith him. I f the person referred to is
i'Ag. Since "watching the crowds" is one of my a C h r is t ia n , and ho enjoys h is work for the Lord,
hobbies the hours passed r a p i d l y . I t was inter- has good h e a lt h , gets a t h r i l l out of liv in g and
e stin g to no tic e the expressions on t h e ir faces
— some of jo y , some of exo ite n en t, some of d i s couragement
and d e jo c t io n , and others were hard
and c o ld . Most of the people wore in a hurry.
The lad ies with th e ir cigarettes and latest
styled hats were d is g u s t in g . Put the most
impressive part was the presence of dozens and
dozens of army boys who apparently wero going
home for the weekend. They were manly and robust
in appearance. Their neat- fittin g uniforms
made them good to look upon. From a natural
standpoint they are our country’ s b e s t . As I
watched them walking vaok and fo rth through the
station I thought of what lay before them. I t
may be long hours of exposure, sleepless n ig h t s ,
pangs of hunger, losu of numbers of t h e i r bodies
and even loss of l i f e i t s e l f . Y e a, they are
w i l l i n g to fa c e it a l l , and are doing i t gladly
fo r t h e ir country's sak e. As we th in k of th e ir
consecration, what a challenge i t prosents to
C h r is t ia n youth to give a l l , and bo w i l l i n g to
su ffe r a l l fo r the greatest cause the world has
ever known— the cause of C hrist and ITis church 1
— Lester Shank
"A S ITBEHS SEE US”
T v i s it e d my old haunts in ths libra ry again
this morning. r'as 1 surprised? The >ood old
room had changed its fu rn ish in gs in an amazing
f a s h i o n . Hew desks, new p ic tu re s, lockors_,and a
servin g, why should he not be content to stay here
as long as the Lord wants him to? There are many
legitimate pleasures in this world that make it
a ttrac tive to the C h r is t ia n , and the Lord meant
them to do t h a t . T h a t ’ s why ITe made the rainbow
so p retty , and the flow ers, the su n rises, the cloud
4ho grass and the f r u i t s so a t t r a c t i v e . T h a t ’ s
why he made food taste good and water refre sh in g,
and music stim ula ting. T h a t ’ s why the nose enjoya
perfume.
On the other hand there is so much heartache and
su ffe rin g and disappointment and discouragement;
there is so much fo u l weather, so much s in , so mucb
wickedness, so much personal abuse, that one who
has a large share of these or t h e ir e ffe c t s may not
be condemned for sighing for "t h a t other w o r l d .”
So long as the Lord wants us h e re , we should
strive to be content to stay without w in c in g . And
i f one has a good stomach that makes him enjoy
V ir g in ia or Chester County apples wh-r should ho
pine for f r u i t s from "C an aan "? I f the Lord is precious
to the C h r is t ia n here, and fe llow sh ip is
sweet w h ile s t i l l hangs the v e i l between, why shou?
he waste tears in impatient longings for what at
the most is not fa r off?
I t was f i f t y - f i f t y to the apostle P a u l, although
he knew to be w ith the Lord was " f a r b e t t e r ." And
he surely had his f u l l quota of the a d v e rsitie s of
l i f e .
I f s in were somehow e rad ica brand new "monitoress." The whole room was decoted,
the earth would
rated with the real th in g , smiling and irdustri- make a pretty f a i r hoaven, and porhaps it w i l l aonu
ous young men and l a d i e s . day, and then te n m illio n years w o u ld n ’ t be too
long to stay hero.
A ll' this made me take an extended f l i g h t to ” DEFIEITIOHS
the second and third flo o r study h a l l s . My heart With the opening of the new wing there has come
—M. T . B rac k bill
sank without a parachute. I Relieve that I f o l t
exactly lik e parents fe e l when th e ir last child
gets married and laaves home. I did get over
the shock before the bell rang and in tin e to
learn that there are new and b etter plans for
the p la c e . So I am ju 3t going to make a tr ip
there every day to see what its a l l going to b e .
* * *
And did you see Room P?
around here over the weekend.
L ite rary so c ieties must bo putting tho ir programs
up on i n v i s i 1 le paper and in k . Our bulle
t in board with a l l its careful planning looks
wretched without programs on i t . And besides
that i t looks very much as i f the q u a lity of the
programs w i l l s u f f e r . Program committees must
have an early attack of spring fever?,-excuse me,
it may be the measles. ." •»
an increase in our school vocabulary, Each day we
hear students ta lkin g about the p erio dic al room,
the mezzanine, the north h a ll loW i e s , and the in firm
ary . I t seems as though the latter term has
caused some oonfusion i n the minds of 3 tridents.
Even before the new wing res in use we spoko about
dispensnry h o u rs; so the word "d isp en sa ry ” is an
old one in the school vocabulary, the word "in fir-
Things r e a lly happenedmary" is a new one. Many are using those two word
synonymously; however there is a d iffe re n c e in
th e ir meaning. A dispensary is a place where modi'
cine is dispensed or where treatment is g iv en . An
infirmary is a place where the sick are lodged and
nu rsed. I n view of these d e f i n i t i o n s , i t is perfe
c t ly proper to speak of the health o ffic e a 3 the
d ispensary, and wo sh all continue to use the terms
" b o y s ’ dispensary hour and g i r l s ’ dispensary hours*
However, the rooms fo r the sick sh a ll I s called th<
in firm ary . Vfe never put people to bed in the d i s pensary.
This department is net an " affirmsry ”
nor is i t a n "i n f i r n c t o r y ", however secluded it may
{ aaonu --Elizabeth S . Erb
■ I " ' TA 'T -4-
Aro you interested in Nature? Here are a
faw items from the February Nature Calendar*
Son?* sparrows are ><3 ginning to sin g * Soma
sunny morning lete in the month, atop and li s t e n
by the pasture, orchard, and hedge.
Look for a boll of red feathers w h istlin g
from the top of o trad,. The c ardinal knows that
tha snov/ is meltings
The e a r li e s t spring flower 1 looms th is month.
About the 22nd search for the blossom of the
skunk cabVaps, standing like a l i t t l e gnome in
its red spattered, curled and pointed cap.
Pussy w illow 1 uds are p uffing out th e ir gray
f u r 0
Venus is a morning star right. now and shines
clear and b e a u tifu l in the east® ’.Then go inn to
a seven o ’ clock class bo sure to look fo r this
bright herald of the dawn above the dark ly sil~
houetted Ma sea nut ten rc.nge.
— Miriam Lehman
ATI All
On Saturday afternoon nine e nth usia stic Avians
with Frother and Sister Kostetter went to see
the -wild ducks on S ilv e r Lake* Our t r ip was
not in v a in fo r we id e n t ifie d s ix s p e c ie s . The
p i n t a i l s , canvatracks, green-winged t e a I s ,
b a ld p a t e s , lesser scaup, and mallards d id their
b e st to show us how thoroughly they are enjoy-ing
th e ir w inter horae® W it h the aid of our
bin oculars we were ab le to look some of them
straight in the eye®
A l i t t l e pied-billed grebe also performed
for us by doing some deep eea diving-
We raa lly hope the duck family enjoyed our
v i s i t as much as we d i d .
— Grace Metzler
STARR YWOODIIOTBS
Mozart and Jenny Mockingbird were lingering
on the lawn the other d a y . They had business
on their mindso I t was the concert season
soon to open « But i t w a s n ’ t new soores or
revisions in th e ir octavos * 1 strongly suspect
they ware disc ussing the site for the
new nest end vhat names they wsre going to
give the new b a b i e s . Fortunately fo r them the
b u ild in g materials are as p l e n t i f u l a 3 e v e r p
despite the scarcity of steel beams and e le c t
r i c a l fixtures:, And they are not discommoded
at a l l that singers are not list e d w ith preachers
and doctors in the t i r e rationing,, Indeed
the war hardly a ffe c t s th e ir needs at a l l „ But
I d id hear Mozart whisper to Jenny the other
day by the porch* " I got a kink in my neck, and
I do wonder i f the rubber is g iv ing out 2"
Mars has been creeping up on Saturn and now
has passed him. He w i l l scon be overtaking
Ju p iter next# You want to follow him as he
says ’’ Goodbye” to Saturn and heads toward his
boas J u p i t e r . They are pleasant and fr ie n d ly
fellows* despite the fa c t that the ancients
accused Mara of a warring c onstitutio n* and Sat-urn
of two-facedness* CynthUu has been giv ing
n r” D i d n ’ t miss i t ,_________
3:’ d Y r'1" ' T
HOW TIME FLIES # 2
" C atherine, did you hear wha"b~happene<’ to
Tod Bla'ce la s t evening?" queried Harry P h ilip s
afte r his return from work.
51 Why, no® T e ll me about i t . ”
"He and Maybel were in an automobile a c c ident
over at Pinebrook* She escaped unhurtt
but he is in a serious c o n d itio n . Neighbor
Adams says that he may not l i v e ."
"How terrible!** Catherine shuddered® "We
ought to v i s i t h im ," she added with sympathy0
’’ Oh, but he is too weak to receive v is it o r s
now®’’
"Y e s , I suppose you are r i g h t . But i f he
gets b e t t e r , we must v i s i t hiia»"
Thus the matter was dropped. Several weeks
passed, and slowly Ted began to recover®
"How we must go to v i s i t Ted B l a k e ," Catherine
remarked one Sunday at the dinner t a b le ,
" T h a t ’ s r ig h t , we w e re n ’ t to see him y e t .
But we oan"t go today booause we promised to g.”'
to Hen ry ’ s . "
That evening aft e r t h e ir return from church
the telephone ran g; Harry answered i t .
"What? - - - It c a n ’ t b e . - - - W a l l , thanks
fo r t e l l i n g us® - - - Goodby."
"C a t h e r i n e ," he s a id , "Ted passed .away at
five-thirty th is afternoon*"
"O h , Harry, I c a r 6t b elio ve it * And we
d i d n 't v i s i t him—-another lost opportunity®
How time f l i e s S "
— J . Leoter Brubakyr
BIPOSSIBILITY
The other day I wendored what I would do
i f I load nothing to d o .
Ho doubt, I thought, I would spend most of
the time sleeping and re a d in g . Of oourse there
are some fo lk s w ith whom i t would be nice to
v i s i t at leisure® Then I should like to play
b a l l— tenn is or b ask etb all— just as much as I
want t o . A hike over the h i l l s would be
p le a s a n t. I might just s it at ny window and
matoh the people go around the campus and write
stories about them.
W e l l , a l l this leads me to conclude that i f
I had nothing to do there would be something
that ought to be done and I would be apt to do
anything I thought o f .
It must be impossible to do nothing and
impossible to have nothing to do*
— Margaret Horst
In JUNIOR CHORUS Brother Mark S tau ffer made'
the following complimentss
Basses— hogged on th e ir tones
Tenors— wrinkled th e ir foreheads
S oprano e--yelied
A lt o s— qua oked
— Helen Stauffer
12 A8TRALITES 11
Thursday at six in Labo
