Weekly Messenger - 1917 October 20

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1917 NO. 4
Announcements
Some of the Juniors want the Seattle
Club re-organized. Will some one who
was in it last year please call a meet-ins
of Seattleites ?
Notice to Hyads.
There will be an important business
meeting of the TT.yades club in room
120 on Monday morning at 9:45. All
members will please report.
ALBERTA LEMON, President.
Y. M. C. A. meeting at 1:45 in room
203. An outside speaker is being ar­ranged
for.
Girls who have brothers in training
in the LI. S. service and who are inter­ested
in joining a Sisters' club like the
Fathers' club that lias been organized,
please leave your names with Miss
Mead, Miss Brower or Miss Skalley in
the Rest Room.
A First Aid class will be organized
if there are fifteen or more interested.
We have only eight names so far. Please
leave your names with the girls in the
Rest Room if you would like to join
a class.
There will be no issue of the Messen­ger
on Saturday, October 27. Instead
a special patriotic number will come out
on Liberty Day, October 24. All ma­terial
to be published in this issue must
be in the hands of the critic by 4:10
Tuesday at the latest. Front page ma­terial
should be in Monday.
It should be understood by all of us
that there is a regular place for the
restoration of lost fountain pens, books,
locker keys, umbrellas, etc., to their
owners. The finder of such an article
should promptly leave it at the regis­trar's
office, where the owner can call
for it. If all will bear this in mind,
there will be no occasion for taking
the time of the assembly for announc­ing
losses.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
Wednesday noon eight Juniors under
the supervision of Mrs. Colby formed
a Junior Double Quartet, with Miss
Dodge as pianist. At the election of of­ficers,
Mr. Edson was made president,
Miss Hammond, treasurer, and Miss
Shoenburg, librarian. In list form the
quartet members are:
1'iist soprano, Lillian Shoenburg.
Second soprano, Caroline Hammond.
First alto, Nina Lusk.
f-eiM ml alto, Margaret Burnham.
First bass, William Edson.
Second bass, Reinhart Hanson.
The quartet practices every noon for
fifteen minutes and expect soon to ap­pear
in program. Later they will con­sider
giving an opera.
Miss Marion Simonton was chosen as
first soprano substitute and Miss Hazel
Huntsburger as first alto substitute.
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The American Educational Material
Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., has
asked Mr. Bond to prepare a monograph
on arithmetic. This is to be used in
a new publication known as the "Spe­cialist
Plan," and Mr. Bond is the only
person asked on the special subject as­signed
to him.
The work will consist of a systema­tic
arrangement of material for reading
and study in most of the high school
subjects, as for example, education,
teaching and study. The English lan­guage
and literature, American history
and politics, the physical and the na­tural
sciences, mathematics and religions.
This will be especially designed for
teachers and students. Every paper
contributed will be written by a spe­cialist
in the subject, hence the work
is called ''The Specialist Plan." Each
department will be in charge of a com­petent
editor, a specialist in his partic­ular
field. The editor-in-chief. Garret
Harlow Lampen. A. M. D. C. L., Litt.
D., is a specialist in the English lan­guage
and literature.
The material will be gathered from
all parts of the United States and when
complete will be literally "A Course of
a Thousand Minds." The plan includes
an indexed, subdivided binder in which
the teacher or student will place the
new matter upon each subject as it shall
be received from time to time, thus
keeping all papers on a subject together
and up-to-date. The work is creating a
great deal of interest, and many of the
most prominent educators in America
are contributing to it.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
MESSENGER ITEMS.
Professor 'Klemme recently visited a
tri-county institute in Eastern Oregon,
held at Baker in that state, at which
there were present a half dozen or more
of our graduates. Professor Klemme
took dinner with these students and
they have sent greetings to the mem­bers
of the faculty and to alma mater.
The names of those present are as fol­lows:
Mabel F. Tillman, '17, teaching at En­terprise,
Oregon, and home address is
75G First avenue, Northwest, Seattle,
Wash.
Sue Wilson, teaching at La Grande,
Oregon, and home address is at La
Grade. Wash.
Edith Wilson, '15, teaching at La
Grande. Oregon, home address is La
Grande, Oregon.
Ethel Wilson, '15, teaching at Enter­prise,
Oregon, home address is La
Grande. Oregon.
Jennie Shepherd, teaching at Joseph,
Oregon, home address is Joseph, Oregon.
Lack two summer schools of graduat­ing.
Frances MacKenzie. teaching at Los-tine.
Oregon, home address Lostine, Ore­gon.
Attended term of 1916-17.
Anna C. Troedson, '12. teaching at
Joseph. Oregon, home address is lone,
Oregon.
The custom of the school in past
years has been for each student to draw
a. name and purchase a ten or fifteen-cent
gift for the person bearing that
name, so that at the Christmas enter­tainment
everyone would be remem­bered.
Beside this, so Mr. Carleton,
president of the Student Association,
told us, from $30 to $50 is spent for
entertainment by the Board of Control
at the Christmas party. President
Carleton proposed that we dispense with
this unnecessary and more or less sel­fish
enjoyment and spend the amount
of money in the filling of boxes
to be sent to the boys at the front at
Christmas time. The school, as a whole,
approved this plan and each person had
the opportunity of being a sharer in
this, by writing his name and the
amount he wished to give on one of
the cards passed around. It being urgent
that the boxes he sent soon in order
to reach France by Christmas, President
Carleton appointed a committee of
twelve to attend to the purchase and
packing of articles. Get your 15 cents
into the outer office!
The student body also voted to give
special recognition to the twenty-five
or more Normal boys who are in train­ing
at the naval militia station in Se­attle.
A reception and banquet will be
given them by the Association in that
city on Saturday evening.
Prior to the business meeting of the
Student Association, Dr. Nash asked
Miss La Verne Knowles, who was a
member of the faculty two years ago,
and who was visiting at the school, to
make a few remarks. They were to the
effect that this was a fine place to be
and that she hoped we would not have
to go away and come back to find it
out.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
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In a ten-minute talk to the student
body on Thursday at assembly period,
Mr. Bever, of the Social Science depart­ment
of the school, told of what he was
pleased to call the change of sentiment
toward our friend. '"The Enemy." A
spirit of intolerance, he said, was be-
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A CORRECTION
An article in the issue of Oct.
13, spoke of Prof. O'Shea as Dr.
M. V. O'Shea. president of the
Wisconsin L'niversity. It should
have read "Dr. M." V. O'Shea,
head of the department of edu­cation
of the University of Wis­consin."
CALENDAR
MONDAY
S:50—Assembly. Mr. Parish talks.
TUESDAY
10:30—Assembly. Music under direction
of Mrs. Thatcher.
Miss Adelaide Steele Baylor, of
the N. E. A., will speak in the
afternoon.
WEDNESDAY, LIBERTY DAY.
1:45—Special exercises.
THURSDAY.
2:30—Assembly.
Dr. Miller will speak.
Clubs meet at 7:30.
FRIDAY.
Field Day, under Smith Carle-ton's
direction.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
GOVERNOR LISTER
Although we are all so busy these
days and occasionally assembly does
seem to consume too much of our pre­cious
time, we feel more than repaid
for the period spent Thursday morning
listening to our governor. Such an
inspiring address did Governor Lister
give, that each one present could not
but feel a deeper interest in the war
and in humanity. He made us see that
it stands for something real and that
the responsibility for the future of this
nation and the world rests upon us. In
our state we have five institutions of
higher learning, the university, the state
college and three normal schools. They
are progressing, and Governor JLister
said he looks forward to the time when
they will be in the foreranks of such
institutions throughout the union. Some
believe that the institutions of higher
learning have for a purpose the educa­tion
of those privileged to attend, but
this is not true. The state provides for
these institutions in order to make bet­ter
citizens of its people, and if these
schools cannot fulfill this purpose it
would be better to close their doors.
We must feel that our responsibility
is not to ourselves alone. We have
a tendency of self-satisfaction, a feel­ing
that the United States can do any­thing
it attempts, and are prone to say,
"Let George do it," but this war will
bring home the fact that no government
can progress if not backed by a united
people.
We must look forward to the future.
We cannot let everything lie undone
brcause we are engaged in war, but
must consider effects of different things
on the country after the war. The Liber­ty
Loan is an important factor, not on-
!v in present but for the future. Peo­ple
are meeting the demands. Al­ready
five billion dollars have been sub­scribed
and before next July this sum
must reach fourteen billion dollars.
These bonds •hjvve been prepared so
that a sum as low as $50 may be in-
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