Weekly Messenger - 1918 March 30

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
1 L BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918 NO. 24
FACULTY MEMBER
CHANGESJER NAME
To say Mrs. Henry W. Spratley in­stead
of Mrs. Jane Bellis Colby re­quires
a second thought and many of
us think only once. As a complete
surprise to her many friends at the
Normal, and many more in Belling-ham,
came the anouncement that
Mrs. Colby had yielded to the ravages
of the little blind God and was now
answering to the name Mrs. Spratley.
The wedding, which took place last
Saturday in Seattle, was of a simple
nature, only a few of the close friends
and relatives of the bride and bride­groom
being present. Dr. Spratley is
a well known dentist of this city and
has a small family consisting of one
daughter and one son.
Mrs. Spratley will be at home to her
friends in the Stevens apartments on
Indian street on May 1st. She will
continue her work at the Normal
school until the end of the year.
NORMAL TO HELP IN
IN WAR GARDEN WORK
(From Bellingham Herald)
The Bellingham State Normal school
is going to do its share toward in­creasing
and conserving the food
supply of the nation during the war
and in accordance with the request
from the commissioner of education,
Dr. P. P. Claxbn, it is going to help
organize the school boys and girls of
Northwestern Washington, enlisting
their services as units in the United
States school garden army, authorized
by the secretary of the interior, and
which, it is hoped, will have a mem­bership
of 5,000,000 boys and girls and
40,000 school directors. This work is
outside the boys' and girls' club ac­tivity.
Organization of this section will be
under the direction of Professor J. V.
Coughlin, head of the agricultural de­partment
at the Normal. It is esti­mated
that if proposals are carried
out fully the result will be food pro­duction
to the value of $250,000,000
and in addition an aducational value
as great.
Mr. Coughlin will this week visit
some of the school superintendents of
adjacent towns and try to learn what
they propose to do, for each has had
the plan communicaed to him. When
he has ascertained what they intend
to try to do the Normal will co-oper­ate
with them in every way possible.
Both faculty members and advanced
students will help. The latter are
asked to. serve as supervisors and their
work will be done in towns and villa­ges
of 200 and more population. It
is hoped to have one supervisor to
every 150 boys and girls.
JOHN MASEFIELD TO
GIVE LECTURE TONIGHT
No Normal student in Bellingham
can afford to miss the lecture to be
delivered tonight at the Garden Street
M. B. church by the distinguished
Englishman, John Masefield, poet and
soldier. It is an opportunity seldom
offered students to see and hear such
a renowned figure about whom they
have studied and of whom they have
read. As an indication of the interest
manifested in the lecture, all Mase­field
books have been out of both Nor­mal
and public libraries for the past
two weeks and many reservations
held for them.
GIRL STUDENTS' LOAN
FUNO AGAIN BOOSTED
Chas. Allen, San Francisco philan­thropist,
has made another loan of
$500 to the girl's student loan fund of
the Normal school, a cheek for that
amount being received from him this
morning. Mr. Allen wrote that he will
loan the fund more money if it is
needed. Professor J. M. Knapp, hon­orary
member of the Normal faculty,
also made a donation this morning to
the general students' loan fund.
HOW INTELLIGENT ARE YOU?
In the Journal of Heredity for Jan-ary
appeared an article by Professor
Lewis Terman of Stanford University,
on tests for intelligence. Of course
there can be no single test for intelli­gence,
but there must be a diversity
of tests in order to get a sufficient
amount of material upon which to
base an estimate. But the popular
periodicals have seized upon a por­tion
of Prof. Terman's article and
have published a list of 100 words
which he has used in his tests.
Under the caption, "A Test for
Your Intelligence," you will find this
list in the Literary Digest for Febru­ary
16th, and in Every Week it was
published week before last. Several
Normalites have amused themselves
by going over the list. One member
of the faculty knew all the words but
the last, while two others each knew
all but five or six. If you know many
words in the list it merely shows that
you have a large vocabulary, and are
probably interested in many diverse
lines; this test alone would be more
a test of one's versatility than of his
intelligence.
According to the periodicals, the
average adult can define 65 of the
hundred words, while if you can de-ine
seventy-five you are a superior
adult. Are you?
STUDENTS URGED TO
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Dr. Nash expresses the desire that
we come back from vacation prepared
to subscribe liberally to the liberty
bond drive which is about to take
place under the leadership of Mr.
Page, chairman of the County Liberty
Bond Drive.
The Germans have invented a gun
that will shoot seventy-six miles. But
we have in the Liberty Bond a gun
that will shoot three thousand miles
and help break the German lines. We
must do our very best as teachers and
students during the next few months
to help the government by saving all
the money we can and putting it into
these bonds.
WAR BULLETINS GIVEN
OUT FREEOF CHARGE
It is very possible that many of the
teachers now in service would like to
know definitely the reason why Am­erica
entered the world war.
The reasons are given quite explic­itly
and in a very readable way in
two bulletins published by the com­mittee
on Public Information, Wash­ington,
D. C.
These booklets are as follows: "The
War Message and the Facts Behind
It" and "How the War Came to Am­erica.
These booklets may be obtained
free of charge by addressing the Rur­al
Department, Normal School, Bell­ingham,
Wash.
NORMAL¥KIOTEN
FOR THE1TIRE YEAR
(From Bellingham Herald)
Believing that it is highly desirable
that such a course be adopted, since
it will afford opportunities for educa­tion
that do not now exist, with the
result that some .persons' education is
delayed or abridged, the trustees of
the Bellingham State Normal school
last night adopted a recommendation
of the faculty that the institution be
open the year round, making it a forty-eight
weeks' school insead of forty-five
school weeks as now. The
board also decided to increase the
Normal's efficiency by reducing the
staff where possible without crippling
the service and increasing it where
needed. It was the consensus of
opinion that war conditions make the
lengthening of the year and the other
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TUESDAY—
8:50—Assembly.
Registration of students en­tering
for last quarter.
Joint meeting of trustees of
three state normal schools
at Cheney will be attended
by trustees—President G. W.
Nash, Mr. Olson, Mr. Smith
and Mr. Barlow.
WEDNESDAY—
Inland Empire Teachers' As­sociation
Wednesday, Thurs­day,
Friday. Faculty mem­bers
in attendance. Dr.
Nash, Miss Ormsby, Miss
Beardsley, Miss Woodard,
Miss Mowbray, Mr. Bond,
Mr. Beaver and Mr. Klemme.
THURSDAY—
10:30—Assembly. Address by Mr. W.
H. Abbott.
A FEWlREClNS
IN MAKINGAPPLICATION
On Tuesday, the 26th of March, in
Assembly, Miss Keeler gave the stu­dents
a few directions in making put
their applications for schools.
It is now time for those who expect
to teach next year to make out their
applications, for the new school
boards have taken office.
If you are inexperienced, it is a
good plan not to apply for a school
too far from home. Your own county
is the best, especially as you are
likely to be homesick the first year.
But do not count too much upon a
position near Bellingham, as not ev­erybody
can expect to be in Whatcom
county.
Always apply to the school board,
working through the office of the
county superintendent. This saves
trouble in receiving a school about
which you know nothing and where
you may not be qualified to render
best service.
Do not write too many applications.
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SOLDIERS MUST
ASK FOR ARTICLES
WASHINGTON, D. C. March |
26.—Shipment of any articles to
troops in France, unless they , •
have been requested by the sol­dier
himself, was forbidden today
by Major General Marsh, acting
chief of staff. They will be re­fused
by postoffice and express
companies unless accompanied
by an approved request from the
soldier.
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