Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE ACORN 19 ous youth in the land. Before, he was narrowed, appropriated, shut up to you. Now he is augmented, set free, and given to all. Before he vjas yours: he is ours. He has died from the family that lie might live to the nation. Not one name shall he forgotten or neglected: and it shall by-and-by he confessed of our modern heroes, as it is of an ancient hero, that he did more for his country by his death than by his whole life. Neither are they less honored who shall bear through life the marks of wounds and sufferings. Neither epaulette nor badge is so honorable as wounds received in a -good cause. Many a man shall envy him who henceforth limps. So strange is the transforming power of patriotic ardor that men shall almost covet disfigurement. Crowds will give way to hobbling cripples, and uncover in the presence of feebleness and helplessness. And buoyant children shall pause in their noisy games, and with loving reverence honor those whose hands can work no more, and whose feet are no longer able to march except upon the journey which brings good men to honor and immortality. Oh. mother of lost children! sit not in darkness nor sorrow whom a nation honors. Oh, mourners of the early dead, they shall live again, and live forever. Your sorrows are our gladness. The nation lives because you gave it men that love it better than their own lives. And when a few more days shall have cleared the perils f;om around the nation's brow, and she shall sit in unsullied garments of liberty, with justice upon her forehead, love in her eyes, and truth upon her lips, she shall not forget those whose blood gave vital currents to her heart, and whose life, given to her, shall live with her life till time shall bo no more. Every mountain and hill shall have its treasured name, every river shall keep some solemn title, every valley and every lake shall cherish its honored register; and till the mountains are worn out, and the rivers forget to flow, till the clouds are weary of replenishing springs, and the springs forget to gush, and the rills to sing, shall their names be kept fresh with reverent honors which are inscribed upon the book of National Remembrance. —Henry Ward Beecher. MOTHER, HOME AND HEAVEN. There are three words that sweetly blend, That on the heart arc graven; A precious, soothing balm they lend— They’re mother, home and heaven! They twine a wreath of beautieous flowers, Which, placed on memory’s urn. Will e’en the longest, gloomiest hours To golden sunlight turn! They form a chain whose every link Is free from base alloy; A stream where whosoever drinks Will find refreshing joy! They build an altar where each day Love’s offering is renewed; And peace illumes with genial ray Life’s darkened solitude! If from our side the first has fled. And home be but a name. Let’s strive the narrow path to tread, That we the last may gain! —Mary J. Muckle.

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18 THE ACORN where they can be raised up. Though billboards bear many of these favorable blessings, they are notorious to the general public’s comfort and welfare. To the traveler they serve as vexatious impediments. Often when lie wishes to see some country scenery or some object of particular interest from a car window on passing by, some billboard will pass before his eyes and shut off the scenery from his view just at the moment when he could have best beheld his scene. They arc always a great nusiancc to the tralvel-er. Billboards are very attractive, especially to children. The pictures that the lower classed theaters of to-day post, tend to lead young men and women into a life of sin and degradation. Theaters are, however, not I he only immoral advertisers, but the brewers, cigar companies, in short all trades established on the principle, namely to get all the money possible from those whom they can lure by their en- A TRIBUTE TO OU How bright are the honors which await those who with sacred fortitude and patriotic patience have endured all things that they might save their native land from division and from the power of corruption! The honored dead! They that die for a good cause are redeemed from death. Their names are garnered. Their memory is precious. Each place grows proud for them who were born there. There is to be, ere long, in every village, and in every neighborhood, a glowing pride in its martyred heroes. Tablets shall preserve their names. Pious love shall renew their inscriptions as time and the unfeeling elements efface them. And the national festivals shall give multitudes of precious names to the orator’s lips. Children shall grow up under more sacred inspirations, whose elder brothers, dying nobly for their country, left a name that chanting advertisements. These advertise their products by means of paintings that are very enticing and that tend to incite a craving for those dangerous and demoralizing products. People generally take advantage or billboards, especially those enclosing vacant lots, by throwing debris and rubbish in such places. Here it will be hid from view. It will a!so be shut off from being reached by winds. Under such circumstances germs will thrive and grow. Thus from this rubbish disease is liable to spread and endanger the health and life of the people. Billboards tend to lower the morals, and to weaken the stamina of the young men and women of this country and indirectly to endanger the health, and life of the people. When we see they are doing these things, we know that they are detrimental to our country, and we should do all in pur power to obliterate them. —Walfred Anderson, ’ll. =5 HONORED DEAD. honored and inspired all who bore it. Orphan children shall find thousands of fathers and mothers to love and help those whom dying heroes left as a legacy to the gratitude of the public. Ob, tell me not that they are dead— that generous host, that airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation. Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? Ye that mourn, let gladness mingle with your teais. It was your son: but now be is the nation’s. He made your household bright: now his example inspires a thousand households. Dear to his brothers and sisters, he is now brother to every gener-

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20 T HE ACORN 'The Acorn Entered as second class matter October ’JOlli. ll'OO, nt the Post Office of St. Paul, Minn., under the Act of March 3rd, 1S79. Subscription Price- 50c per Year. All articles contributed to the Literary Department should be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, anu nil business communications to the Business Manager, Bethel Academy, St. Anthony Park. Minn. EDITORIAL STAFF Oscar Freed, ’ll Henry G. Thunell. ’12.... ..Associate Editor Jonas Larson, ’ll—- —Business Manager A- J Kdstrom ’ll Jonns Alilqulst, ’ll.. Religious Dept. Alice Lund holm, ’ll. Joel Anderson, ’ll Joel Burkinan, ’ll .. f Victor Person, ’ll.. Swedish Dept. Mamie Lindblom, 13 Paul Anderson, ’ll.. Walfrod Anderson, ’ll.... ... X ” a .w. j o n h S a — 'I’llis is the last issue over which the present staff will have supervision. We might hand compli-AN EXPLANATION ments to each member individually but space forbids. It wi-ll suffice to say that every one has been active in working for the best interests of the paper. We have felt somewhat discouraged at times because of our inability to publish a larger “Acorn” but this has been due to the financial difficulties we have met. It may be an encouragement to next year's staff, however, if we say that when they come back to continue our school organ all expenses for this year's publication as well as last year’s debt which amounted to about $75, has been cleared, thanks to our advertising manager, and there will he no old accounts for them over which to worry, and we extend to them the best wishes for a successful year. At a recent meeting of the Alpha Beta Literary Society the following members or the staff for 1911 1912 were NEW STAFF, elected: Henry G. Thunell, Editor-in-Chief; Ellen Swanson, Associate Editor: John Anderson. Business Manager; Andrew Edstrom, Advertising Manager; Goorgina Staverfeldt. Religious Notes; Rudolph Crook, Swedish Department; Mamie Lindblom, Society Notes: Gunhild Hagstrom, Exchanges: Peter Oquist. Athletics; Mabel Lind. Alumni Notes; Oscar Peterson, Olivia Johnson, Arthur Hedberg, Locals.