Weekly Messenger - 1917 November 3

              Devoted to the Interests; of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM; WASH., SATURDAY, NO V. 3,1917 NO. 6
Announcements
Following general assembly Monday
all members of New. Dramatic club meet
in room 120 to complete the work of or­ganization.
All who have signed up and
wish to be charter members must be
present. Important.
J. MERCHANT, Pres.
Seattle Club
There will be a meeting of the Seattle
Club, Monday at 10:10 in room 115. This
will probably be the last meeting before
our party scheduled for Nov. 16. there-come!
FERN LITTERNEAU, Pres.
Don't miss Henri Siott, the noted
singer, who will be with us Wednesday
evening.
Dr. Nash calls for the regular month­ly
teachers' meeting, Tuesday at 4:10.
Important business meeting for all
Hyads Monday at 9:40 in room 120.
Pholi business meeting Monday in
room 226. at 9:40.
All standing committees of the Rural
Life Club meet in room 10S Monday
after assemblv.
The orchestra, which practices on Fri­day
at 4:10, will welcome any new play­ers.
Come, you're needed badly.
GYMNASIUM
All girls in gym classes come pre­pared
for hockey test at first meeting
of class next week. Everyone must be
present.
Everyone expecting to learn to knit
should enroll at once and get assignment
of dates for receiving instruction. A
limited number may enter the beginning
class each Wednesday, 12:55 p. m.
PROGRAM OF HENRI SCOTT
Wednesday, Nov. 7 ,1917, 8:00 p. m —
Third Number Normal School
Lecture Course
PART I.
Le Tambour Major Thomas
De Profundis MacFayden
Song of Joy Douty
Lenore Cadman
By the Waters of Minnetonka, Licurance
Little Mother of Mine Burleigh
On the Road to Mandalay Speaks
PART II.
Berceuse . Thomas
Siege of Kazan Moussorgsky
Torna . . '. Denza
L'olita Buzzi-Peccina
PART III.
The Two Grenadiers Schumann
Babylon, the Great Homer
A Little Winding Road . Ronald
Could I Tosti
Hungarian Folk Songs Korbay
a) Father Was a "Thrifty Man
(b) Look Into My Eyes; Come ~Swiv
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HELP TO WIN THE WAR
Those who are at the head of our
government realize that in order to win
this war, it is necessary to have the
closest co-operation of all the industries
of the nation.
In an appeal issued a short time ago
to teachers and to school officers gener­ally
President Wilson points out some
of the needs of the country which he
believes the schools can meet. In his ap­peal
he says, in part:
"The war is bringing to the minds of
our people a new appreciation of the
problems of national life and a deeper
understanding of the meaning and aims
of democracy. Matters which have here­tofore
seemed commonplace and trival
are seen in a truer light.
•"In these vital tasks of acquiring a
broader view of human possibilities, the
common school must have a large part.
I urge teachers and other school officers
to increase materially the time and at­tention
devoted to instruction bearing
directly on the problems of community
and national life.
"Tii order that there may be definite
material at hand with which the schools
may at once expand their teaching, I
have asked Mr. Hoover and Commission­er
Claxton to organize the proper agen­cies
for the preparation and distribution
of suitable lessons for the elementary
and for the high school classes.
"Lessons thus suggested will serve the
double purpose of illustrating in a con­crete
way what can be undertaken in the
schools and of stimulating teachers in all
parts of the country, to formulate new
and appropriate materials drawn direct­ly
from the communities in which they
live."
AN EIGHT AND ONE-HALF POUND
NORMALITE
The assembly Tuesday morning was
long but interesting. Dr. Nash an­nounced
that we were to have a new
student in the school. Miss ;Katherine
Coughlin. the little daughter of Profes­sor
Coughlin and his wife. Stacy Tuck­er
then led the school in giving nine
"Rahs" for Katherine and if this little
lady could have been present we feel she
would have appreciated the warm recep­tion
awaiting her. Katherine is now
four davs old.
JUNIORS BUY BOND
The student body and members of the
Faculty were pleasantly surprised in as­sembly.
Tuesday, when Stacy Tucker,
acting as representative of the Junior
class, presented Dr. Nash with a United
States Bond of the Second Liberty Loan
of 1917. which his class had purchased
and intended for the Student Loan Fund
of this school. Both students and fac­ulty
expressed hearty approval of this
action on the part of the Junior class.
Dr. Nash hastened to express his pleas­ure
in the matter and commended the
Juniors for doing their bit. The bond
was delivered into the hands of Mr. Ed-son,
the Registrar, for safe keeping.
APPEAL FOR YJ.C.A.
Miss Eva McAbee gave a report of her
trip as delegate to the University of
Washington, in the assembly Tuesday.
Delegates from all the high schools of
Western Washington met there last
Wednesday to discuss the apportionment
of the $12,000, Washington's share, in
the $1,000,000 budget. There were many
good speakers at the meetings, but
probably the principal one was Mr.White-hair,
student secretary of the Y. M. C.
A., Cornell University. He Las been
very intimately connected with the Y.
M. C. A. in the war zone, thiiteen times
crossing those waters menaced by sub­marines
as well as working with the
boys actually in the field of battle. Miss
McAbee told of Mr. Whitehair's stirring
address to the delegates. He told of the
Y. M. C. A. camps and reading rooms,
often under fire. He described their mis­sion
to home-sick boys, whether pro-testant,
catholic or Jew and of their
great need for cheer. He said the hos­pitals
were often very crude, without
even sawdust over the ground, and often
wounded soldiers must lie in the mud
until they can be cared for.
The Y. M. C. A. has a great work to do
among the troops that go into the wick­ed
French cities. They are often home­sick
and discouraged, and are not forti­fied
to meet the temptations awaiting
them there. They drift so deeply into a
life of vise and immorality that they do
not care to go home. They feel that
they are unfit to meet their loved ones
again, and say that they would rather
shoot themselves after the war is over
than face those at home. In many cities
there are no restaurants except the wine
houses with their vicious influences. It
is here that the Y. M. C. A. can supply
a great need by providing clean restu-rants
with good wholesome American
eggs. The boys, after enjoying a good
meal raise their voices to sing, and at
such times the favorite songs are "Where
is My Wandering Boy Tonight" and
"Abide With Me." They are told of the
greatest sacrifice ever made, and they are
ready to accept Christ. The most popu­lar
subject to discuss with these men
is Christianity.
There is a great battle against moral
degeneracy. It is of so great an import
that the success, or failure of the army
depends on it. This is entirely within
the province of the Y. M. C. A. They
stand ready with a cup of tea or cake
of chocolate for the men as with a grave
determination they go into the field to
face death, and they are warned not to
touch the chocolate unless wounded and
lying in cno man's land."
The Y. M. C. A. is also doing an im­portant
work there. There has been no
relief for the nurses in the hospitals from
the horrors of the war and the Y. M. C.
A. is establishing rest rooms for this
purpose. They work with the many
girls in the munition factories who are
far from home, and provide hostess
houses so that the girls may meet the
soldiers in a wholesome environment.
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CALENDAR
8:50-
9:40-
9:40-
10:10-
7:30-
10 ^so­i
l : 20-
4:10-
12:55-
4:10-
2:30-
7:30-
8:00-
-Monday, Assembly. Smith Carl­ton
and Roy Owen will discuss
war work of Y. M. G. A.,
-Club meetings.
-Messenger Staff, room 208,:
-Seattle Club, room 115, ,
-Chorus practice.
-Tuesday, Assembly; musical pro­gram
under direction of Mrs.
Thatcher.
-Class meetings.
-Monthly Faculty meeting.
-Wednesday, Choral.
-Y. W. C. A. meets in association
room.
-Thursday, Assembly. Miss Baker
will speak.
-Club meetings.
Rural Life club.
Philomathean society.
Thespian club.
-Friday, Teachers' meeting.
Dr. Miller opened his address in the
assembly Monday morning saying that if
he wished to make an appeal for the Red
Cross or Liberty Bonds he would use ev­ery
art he possessed to reach oui* emo­tions.
It was rather his idea, he said,
to give us a truer conception of the cause
of the war revealed by the actual or­ganization
of the German government.
He made his explanations concrete by
applying them to such a condition in the
United States. The term Prussianism
comes from Prussia, the state in Ger­many
which is larger than all the other
states together and is able to dominate
all politics there because of its size and
strength. Germany has two houses of
legislature, the upper being composed of
members of the royal families from the
twenty-two kingdoms and states into
which the country is divided, and the
lower house is filled by an electoral sys­tem
that is supposed to represent the
people. The fact is that the people are
divided into three great classes, accord­ing
to their wealth, and the two upper
classes, which contain a very small part
of the people are able to overrule the
eighty-seven per cent of people that fall
into the third class. Thus wealth rules
in this house. Every bill, however, must
originate in the upper house and after
being voted upon by the lower must be
referred to the upper for approval. There
is no cabinet in Germany, as the Kaiser
oversees all post offices, railways and
telegraph systems, makes all appoint­ments,
and in short, is the controlling
power in the whole land. It is well to
study the plan and organization of the
German government at this crucial :period
and fully comprehend what is Ireally
meant by the term Priussianism. It gives
us a clearer view of the situation and
helps us to know our purpose in this war.