Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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 STANLEY NEWELL Tho Croaker should have assigned a special reporter to keep track of all the victories and contests with which Stanley has been connected during the past three years. He has skipped around over the state from one “speak-fest” to another and each time after all the “fuss and fume” has cleared away, we see him emerging from the scene with a new forensic honor for old Iowa Wesleyan. In his freshman year, he was leader of his class debating team, which met the strong Simpson freshmen. As a Sophomore he led the intercollegiate debating team to victory in the triangular debate, also with Simpson. However, it was not until the fall of 1913 that he entered the field of oratory. His thorough analysis of subject and straightforward presentation easily won for him the local oratorical contest, a distinction which every student covets. Later in competing with the eight strong colleges of eastern Iowa, he was awarded fourth place, a still greater honor. But it was in the State Contest that Mr. Newell especially distinguished himself for there he met the most powerful orators from fifteen different Iowa colleges. And yet in spite of such competition, he conclusively proved to the judges that Wesleyan again had the strongest orator in all the colleges of Iowa. Before the publication of the ’15 Croaker, Mr. Newell will have represented us in the Interstate Oratorical Contest, which this year will be held at Earlham College, Ind. We feel confident that our representative will rank very high in the final markings and that he will bear the interest of the Purple and White with credit both to himself and to Wesleyan. s

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..V'N Vs w 11 w.’yiNwimyx.. DANIEL B. HELLER Daniel Boone Heller is a man whom every Wesleyanite is proud to have known, not only because of the great honor which he brought to himself and his college, but because the success which he has achieved was accomplished under almost overwhelming difficulties. Mr. Heller spent eight years at Iowa Wesleyan, graduating from the Academy in 1908 and from the College in 1912. During these years it was his privilege to both hear and take part in many forensic battles. A year previous to “Dan’s” enrollment as a Freshman in College, Mr. Karl Krenmyre won first honors for Wesleyan in the State Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest. While the excitement of the victory was at its highest a strong desire grew within him, and Heller decided then and there that during his four years in college he would leave nothing undone which might make it possible for him to bear the Purple and White to a similar victory. With practically no experience as a public speaker, and seriously handicapped by an impediment in his speech, he resolutely set his eye upon the coveted goal and began work. In order to augment what little natural aptitude for public platform work lie possessed, Mr. Heller not only competed in the many local oratorical and debating contests, but also made lecturing tours each winter to adjoining towns. In this way he added materially to his knowledge of platform mastery, which in the end was to win for him his long wished for goal and repay his efforts. In the local contest Mr. Heller was chosen to represent his school in the Eastern District. Here again his oration “Public Opinion” and his forceful and convincing delivery won for him first honors over eight other college orators. Having successfully gained two of the three desired steps to oratorical fame, he began with a new determination to prepare for the State Contest where he was to meet the fifteen strongest college orators of Iowa. The final contest was a fierce one, but when the last orator had left the rostrum and the last echoes of the battle had died away, the judges announced for a third time that Heller was again on top, Iowa’s best orator. '-X V §vi I ftmmvvA''

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r Y AFTER THE VICTORY olumg Principle of Industry dfeuiell Two powers preside over the productive world; Capital and Labor. These two agents, preeminent, and all powerful in the realm of industry, have undergone a marvelous transformation in the past fifty years. America, once a simple agricultural nation, is now a throbbing center of industry. Mechanical invention and business efficiency have transformed the simple life of our fathers into a complex industrial civilization. Our factories have been consolidated, our industries have been centralized, and the wealth of our nation has been largely appropriated by a few captains of industry. While Capital, the propelling power of industry, has been growing steadily, Labor, the other great agent of production, has not been idle. Men of toil have lost faith in the benevolence of the rich and look with disdain on the crumbs of concession which fall from the tables of luxury. The common man has realized that the only way to cope with combinations of capital is with a combination of labor. Monopoly of money must be counterbalanced by a monopoly of work. To meet this situation the labor union has been organized. In the last, decade uncounted thousands of humble toilers have fashioned themselves into a mighty weapon for social protection. On one hand, America has called into existence great combinations of capital; on the other she has raised up a transcendent host of industrial workers who are now demanding justice. Capital and Labor have built transcontinental railways, pierced the heavens with towering structures of steel and spanned the mightiest waters with herculean bridges. Capital and Labor have tunneled mountains, harnessed rivers, and with the Panama Canal, cut in twain a hemisphere. Yet these two powers which should be co-partners in production are now bitter adversaries. Instead of cooperating, Capital too often scoffs at Labor; too often Labor employs professional bomb throwers to enforce her mandates. Strikes and lockouts are frequent, riots a common occurrence and every legislative act seems only to widen the breach between Capital and Labor. How shall we conciliate these two opposing forces? This is the great and vital question of the hour. This is the bounden duty of responsible government. j “s...............................