Weekly Messenger - 1918 February 2

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1918 NO. 16
Friday evening at 8 o'clock Edward A.
Steiner will be with us on a lecture
course number. It is said that Mr. Stein­er
is an aducation all by himself, and
certainly no student can afford to miss
hearing him.
In case any difficulty arises concern­ing
diplomas, students will save no time
by writing to the State Superintendent.
All matters concerning diplomas are
dealt with here.
The regular time of Messenger staff
meeting will be at 9:40, or following as­sembly
on Tuesday. Staff members may
assume that there will be a meeting un­less
a meeting is announced for the Klip-sun
staff at that period.
A call has come from the Cushman
Training School of Taeoma for a gradu­ate
of our Domestic Science Department
to serve as Superintendent of the Cook­ery
work here.
MEN Slu¥IS0
STUDYJ/VAR COOKING
The proprietor of one of our restau­rants,
a man who is trying to carry out
honestly and loyally the regulations for
conservation of food, said to me the
other day: "I think the restaurants
ought to be licensed."
I looked blank. I didn't see his point
and he went on to illustrate.
"Yesterday a man who has been tak­ing
three meals a day here before we
went on a war basis, asked for more,
white bread. When the waitress ex­plained
that he could have all the brown
or rye bread he wanted, but he had al­ready
received the limit of white bread,
according to the Hoover regulation, he
was angry. The waitress called the pro­prietor,
who went over the explanation
again in his most gracious manner, but
the man was furious. He hasn't been in
the restaurant since."
"Why!" I exclaimed, "That man is a
traitor; he ought to be spotted!"
"There is some restaurant where he
is getting what he wants," the proprietor
continued. "The public can hold us up.
That is why I think restaurants ought
to be licensed. Of course most people
are loyal and ready to take what is
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I Miss Wilson, when she speaks be- j
fore the State Library Association at |
I the University of Washington in j
| February, will emphasize the Normal |
j school library as the newest type of |
I library to be developed, and its fu- j
I ture possibilities. Miss Wilson has |
a number of original ideas concern- j
I ing normal school libraries, their use- |
|. fulness, correlation of different de- |
| partments, etc. I
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BIG GAME OF YEAR
WILL B [ l TONIGHT
What will probably be the hardest and
perhaps the best basketball game of the
season will be played this evening when
Normal tangles with the boys from the
College of Puget Sound.
The boys from down-sound are com­ing
full of confidence and expect to clean
up on Normal in return for the many
defeats they have received from Normal
teams of past years. In a recent game
with the U. of W. they came so close to
defeating the purple and gold that the
university students haven't got over the
scare yet.
The big best bet of the coming "sKy
pilots" is Captain Martin Askey, elon­gated
center, who starred with the
championship team of Whatcom High
School last year. In the game with the
university he played rings around his
man; not only on floor-work but es­pecially
in the matter of shooting bask­ets
did he excell.
Thus it is that Howard Hughes will
have his hands full this evening, but we
believe he will be equal to the occasion
and play a strong game. We have no
doubt as to the ability of our forwards.
Kennett. Miller and Aplin and expect
them to slip away for their usual large
quota of baskets. Speaking of guard3,
we have three in Fry, Bartruff and Da­vis,
who will make any forward believe
he has earned his basket if he be so for­tunate
as to shoot one.
Coach Sam Carver considers it a mat­ter
of do or die, for he thinks that the
showing made by the boys tonight will
o-ive a good idea of how they will come
out when they take their little trip in
about two weeks.
NORMAL Y I C . A. TO
HOLD BI|EJNSTITUTE
Wednesday, February 6, the tenth an­nual
Y. W. C. A. Bible Institute will be­gin.
The speakers this year will be Mrs.
Campbell of Seattle and Mrs. Neth of
Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. Campbell is a
well known Bible teacher of Seattle and
comes to us this year for the eighth
time. Each year many girls have great­ly
appreciated the splendid messages
which she has brought to them. Mrs.
Neth is connected with a Bible school in
Vancouver. She was trained for her
work in the Los Angeles Bible Institute.
The Bible Institute has meant much to
girls who have been here before and
many returning to the school have
looked forward with great anticipation
of the help and inspiration to be gotten
from another Bible conference with such
women as Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Neth.
The program as arranged is as follows:
Wednesday, 4:10
Leader, Olive Pope.
Solo, Nellie Dick.
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THESPIANS ANNOUNCE
THEIR I N UAL PLAY
Thespian Dramatic Club finally has
announced its plans for the annual play.
The date chosen is Friday, March 1st.
After a careful consideration of many
plays, it was decided to presented "Mary
Jane's Pa" by Edith Ellis. This three-act
American comedy is, in spite of its
title, a really first-class piece of work.
It is original in style, faithful in char­acter
representation, full of wholesome
humor and dramatic moments. It has a
higher percentage of laughs per minute
than any play presented within recent
years on the local Assembly Hall stage.
The cast, here published for the first
time, is as follows:
Portia Perkins Miss Florence Ober
Lucile Perkins Miss Nina Lusk
Mary Jane Perkins... .Miss Helen Upper
Miss Faxon.... Miss Hazel Huntsberger
Barrett Sheridan.. Mr. Arthur Crawshaw
Star Skinner Mr. Chester Garden
Joel Skinner Mr. John Miller
Claud Whitcomb Mr. Philip Montag
Line Watkins Mr. Paul Washke
Rome Preston Mr. Reinhart Hansen
Rehearsals were begun on last Wed­nesday
and will be held almost daily for
the remaining four weeks before the
production. Prices and details regard­ing
the sale of tickets will be announced
soon. In the meantime the student body
is requested to keep the night of March
first intact so far as other engagement
are concerned.
STUDENTS IN ASSEMBLY
HEAR MRJTCHFIELD
Mr. Litchfield, National Association
Deputy of the Public Service Reserve,
spoke in the assembly Thursday morn­ing.
Last year Mr. Litchfield was on
the committee for the three days' festi­val
in honor of the fiftieth anniversary
of the Boston School of Technology, and
it was through his efforts that a very
unique reunion of the alumni of that in­stitution
was held. By means of a sys­tem
of telephones 6,000 alumni in thirty-eight
centers of the United States were
able to hear the lecture given by the
college president in Boston. This was
very interesting in that it shows how the
genius of man has made it possible to
unite a whole nation.
We are all aware that the co-ordination
of our country at present is one of the
big problems of the war. Before the
war we had no conception of the size or
strength of our country, but now many
new offices and departments have been
created to carefully diagnose every
branch. We had paid little heed to that
great power which provides us with fin­ished
products from raw material until
now we find that in many places where
vitally needed, that great resourse, labor,
is lacking, though perhaps plentiful in
other regions. It was to meet this need
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CALENDAR
TUESDAY—
8:50—Assembly. Short address by
Rev. W. F. Reagor.
Musical program under direction of
Mrs. Thatcher.
Class meetings following assembly.
WEDNESDAY—
2:35—War Cooking class.
Assembly.
4:10—Y. W. C. A. meeting. Mrs.
bell will speak. Special music.
THURSDAY—
10:30—Assembly. General Hazzard
Stevens, a speaker of great local his­toric
interest will speak.
FRIDAY—
2:35—War cooking.
CHANGE IS MADE IN
THE JUVENILE LIBRARY
- The library announces a change in the
location of juveline books. This depart*
ment has been moved to the training
school in order to facilitate the use of
these books and also to correlate closely
with the entire work of the training
school.
Books for the use of the primary
grades are placed in Miss Willoughby's
department, and those for the upper
grades are in room 138. The filing cards
for them are in the files of the main li­brary,
but each juvenile book card is
marked with the letter "J." This ar­rangement
avoids any possible confusion.
It is hoped that all students will make
use of this newly arranged division; its
creation and up-keep are solely for their
use and convenience.
NEW QUARTER ADJUSTMENTS
Normal schools of Washington are con­sidering
calendar re-adjustments and ex­pect
soon to be conducted on the quarter
basis. This means that the school year
will be forty-eight weeks instead of
forty-four, consequently the work will
be organized into four quarters, twelve
weeks to the quarter. If the plan is
carried out the summer quarter of twelve
weeks will be divided into two terms of
six weeks each so that during the sum­mer
term one may take either half or
all the work. Under this plan a student
could, by attending continuously, do
four years' work in three years.
PROMISE OF MORE HEAT!
The last brick on the new smoke­stack
was laid last week and one of the
old boilers has been transferred to the
new building. It is confidently expected
that the fires will be started and that
heat will be coming from the new source
within the next two weeks. Mr. E. L.
Webber, consulting Engineer, of Seattle,
has been in charge of the work and has
reared a very sightly building, as well
as one that will be most serviceable for
years to come.