Weekly Messenger - 1917 November 17

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1917 NO. 8
Announcements
Girls come to the Y. W. C. A. Wednes­day
at 4:10 and hear the talk Miss
Sperry has for you. Mrs. Frank Whip­ple
will sing.
The Sisters' League will hold its next
meeting at seven o'clock Friday night in
the sewing room.
All applications for Edieor-in-chief and
Business Manager of the Klipsun must
be written and handed to Miss Van
Syckle before 4:10 on Tuesday.
In order to be sure that all announce­ments
reach this section in safety they
should be addressed to Willard Yerkes,
announcement editor, and slipped into
pigeon hole Y in the registrar's office.
All material for the Messenger except
the report of Thursday's assembly must
be in by Wednesday at 4:10.
Mr. S. H. Hamer is to be the speaker
at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Wednesday,
November 21, at 1:45 in room 203.
Mr. Hamer is one of the most influen­tial
men iii the government service in
the northwest. He has efficiently ser­ved
his country for several years as im­migration
inspector with headquarters in
Bellingham.
It is desired that all who can will find
it convenient to be present.
MISS BAKER GIVES
It was particularly appropriate that
Miss Baker, who helped in no small
measure to secure equal suffrage in our
own state, should discuss the suffrage
victory in New York at the regular
Thursday assembly of last week.
Miss Baker traced the history of the
struggle for equal suffrage from its hum­ble
beginning seventy years ago to the
present day. The only occupations giv­en
to women then were housework, sew­ing,
fruit picking, and if married, so fee­ble
were their rights that they could
not collect their wages against their hus­bands'
wishes. The father could dispose
of children without the consent of the
mother. Finally, however, women were
granted the equal guardianship law,
which granted to women an equal author­ity
over the children. When the Civil
War came suffrage agitation was drop­ped
and women devoted their energies
to their country. They did great work
for the negroes but after the war was
over, the negroes secured suffrage, but
not the women.
The struggle for equal suffrage has
been long and hard for the courageous
leaders and brave workers. Today in
eighteen states women have full presi­dential
suffrage. A wonderful victory
has been won in New York, due to its
influences, the foreign population, and
the terrific opposition there.
NEXT LECTURE COURSE
Rollo McBride, a unique figure in
American life, will appear as a number
of this season's lecture course, on the
evening of Wednesday, Nov. 21, at 3
o'clock. His subject will be "Making
Crooked Men Straight."
Himself, a reclaimed product of the un­derworld,
Mr. McBride is at present do­ing
a great work. Almost within the
shadow of the western penitentiary of
Pennsylvania and the Allegheny county
workhouse, he has established an insti­tution
where released convicts are given
an opportunity to face life again, and
where they are treated not with suspi­cion,
but confidence and respect. The
record of his results has been amazing.
So successful has he been in analyzing
the causes of poverty and crime, Mayor
Armstrong of Pittsburg appointed him
the city's public defender. As counsel
for the defense, Mr. McBride appears
each morning upon some one of the po­lice
court benches, aiding the friendless
and poverty-stricken and seeing to it
that no one who has undergone arrest
shall suffer unjustly because unable to
secure able attorneys to undertake a de­fense.
Some of Mr. McBride's quotations,
which follow, suggest his policies:
"To reform a man you must treat him
like a man."
"When a man comes from jail he does
not want to be preached at and told to
be good; what he wants is a place to live
and a job."
"There is never a day passes in our
police courts but that a $10 bill stands
between a man being called a criminal
or a respectable member of society."
No member of the Normal School ca:i
afford to miss hearing this man who is
doing such a significant work in our
world.
STATE ADMISSION DAY
Admission Day, in honor of the day
twenty-eight years ago, that Washing­ton
was admitted to statehood, was cele­brated
in assembly Monday. This very
interesting program, under the auspices
of Miss Sumner, was given:
Song, "Washington, My Washington"
By school
Remarks on the Meaning of the Day
Dr. Nash
Song, "Four Leaf Clover"—Higginson
. Mrs. Nash
Retiring address of our last Territorial
Governor—Miles C. Moore, Mr. Booman
Reading, "Washington Beloved"—
Meany Miss Ober
Inaugral address of our first State
Governor—Elisha P. Ferry..Mr. Edson
Song, "Washington"
Junior Double Quartette
ILL WITH APPENDICITIS
Miss Virginia Mathes, daughter of Dr.
E. T. Mathes, former president of the
Normal School, is suffering from a very
dangerous attack of appendicitis.
She is a last year's graduate of this
institution and has been teaching at
Hamilton, Wash. We consider Miss
Mathes as belonging to us, particularly
from the fact that she has received her
entire education in this school, having
entered in the primary department and
continued her course here until the time
of her graduation. She is an accom­plished
violinist and is well known both
at the Normal and throughout the city
of Bellingham. It will be a pleasure
and relief to her many friends to know
that, according to the latest reports
from St. Joseph's Hospital to whose
care she is entrusted she is progressing
favorably.
TO
THE BOYS ON IDEALS"
After assembly on Thursday, while
Miss Woodard addressed the ladies Mr.
Bond spoke to the boys on "Ideals."
He said, "The age of materialism, the
worst the world has ever seen, is passing,
and an age in which standards and
ideals are required is taking its place.
Men are no longer judged by their ma­terial
possessions or ancestry but by
what they stand for, the high ideals
they live up to.
Have an ideal even if you never at­tain
it. It is of no good to do what
you can do, good comes from stretching
for that just beyond you.
This is an age of preparedness. Do
everything you do better than it woixld
have been clone if you had not done it.
The work you do, the success you are
twenty years from now is not determined
by what you do then, but by what you
do now. Tennyson on his deathbed
wrote the greatest short poem in the
world. Why ? Because he had a whole
life to put into it. Webster was once
asked a very difficult question. He was
able to answer it offhand. It was no
accident. Years before a similar ques­tion
had arisen and he had solved it.
He was prepared.
Bryan was once called upon to answer
a great speech in a convention. He did
it in the greatest speech of his career.
He had studied every phase of the ques­tion
involved, and was prepared. Pre­pare
yourselves now.
"The age not only demands prepared­ness
and efficiency but clean living.
Guard your afterselves. That will in^
fluence your country, state and pupils,
anything that will in any way tend to
from anything that will in any way tend
to defile them."
Mr. Parish has been on the sick list
but returned to work Monday morning.
CALENDAR
Monday—
8:50 Assembly.
9:40 Messenger Staff meets.
Business club meetings.
7:30 Chorus practice.
Tuesday—
10:30 Assembly. Mrs. Thatcher will
provide a musical program.
Class meetings following assem­bly.
Wednesday—
12:55 Choral.
4:10 Y. W. C. A. Miss Sperry
speaks.
Thursday—
7:30 Club meetings.
Alethian.
Hyades.
Alkasiah.
Ohyesa.
MISS WOODARD TALKS
TO THE NORMAL
In the assembly Thursday afternoon
a film demonstrating the first step in
the making of shoes was shown, that is
the process by which the raw hide is
transformed into a soft, polished leather.
The completion of the story of shoes
will be the subject of next week's film.
The men then went to hear Mr. Bond
speak and Miss Woodard addressed the
girls in the assembly. She spoke on the
importance of our daily life while here
at school as a preparation for our in­creased
responsibilities in the years to
come. She showed the necessity of heed­ing
those things that are often thought
of as merely the mechanics of life, that
is, food and sleep, and of taking time fco
hear good music and plays. By our
personal appearance and conduct we
shorld help maintain the dignity of our
profession. Miss Woodard showed us
that she was not here for the purpose
of reprimanding, but rather of helping
the girls and wanted to be their friend.
MYSTERY IN THREE
ACTS-GUESS WHO
Episode I.
A dark and stormy night.
The telephone rings.
Episode II.
Same night.
A bacon bat on Sehome hill.
Episode III.
Dazzling brilliance!!!!
A diamond ring appears on the third
finger of the left hand of a popular Nor­mal
girl.
Congratulations are in order.
King Cole to Dr. Herre: "Well, you
know, I can't learn a new lesson till
I've forgotten the old one."