Weekly Messenger - 1918 February 23

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, FEB. 23, 1918 NO. 19
UKULELE CLUB
Mrs. Samson is calling for ukulele
players. Those who are skilled in the
art are requested to respond. A goo:i
time is anticipated and much can be
learned from Mrs. Samson as she learned
how to play her uke from the Hawaiians.
By the consent of Miss Ormsby, the
recipes given in War Cooking Class will
be printed in the Messenger. This is not
expected to have any effect upon the note
book work. It will still be necessary to
take notes on account of the fact that
in class many side explanations will be
made which will not appear in the Mess­enger.
This action is taken for the bene­fit
of the four hundred and fifty Mess­enger
subscribers who are not students
here.
YOUR MONEY CAN A ID
E—Reason Rightly.
E—Eagerness Enters Easily.
S—Sensitiveness Soon Surrenders.
P—Promptness Pays; Please Pay
Promptly.
0—Overseas. Oppression Overpowers.
1ST—Nonsense—"Now - or-Never."
S—Selfishness Saps Senses.
I—Insist in Insuring Intentions.
B—Bear Burden Bravely.
I—Imagine Inconveniences Incurred.
L—Light-heartedness Lifts Loads.
I—Include Interest.
T—Take Time Today.
Y—Yield Your "Y. M. Fund."
—Cales, '18.
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK AT
IE
The Rural Life program committee has
received word that Governor Ernest Lis­ter
will be present and open the confer­ence
with an address. In a recent letter
he said, "I am glad for the opportunity
of talking to teachers regarding the
great problems of country life."
The committee is especially pleased to
announce that the governor has taken
time from his busy life to come to us
with a message.
The public as well as the students
should hear Governor Ernest Lister on
March 2, at 9 o'clock.
I . SEATTLE'S OFFER
J Seattle is making a new and most
j splendid offer to the graduates of
| this institution this year. She pro-
[ poses to take from five to twenty of
j our best students into the schools
j of the city without the customary
| two years experience. The salary
j will not be as much as that of the
j present teachers, but the promise of
| a raise in one or two years is given.
THE KLIPSUN STAFF
IS
The Klipsun staff is now well organ­ized
and the various departments are
hard at work. We feel confident that
with Miss Edens as censor, Mrs. Con­verse
as editor-in-chief and Miss Juul
as an associate this will be the best
Klipsun we have ever had. Other mem­bers
of the staff are:
Mr. Rosch. Business Manager.
Cassie Cales, Circulating Manager.
Wynona Graham, Art.
Bessie Windley, Faculty.
Ruth Petite, History and Alumni.
Mary Lathom, Organizations.
Fannie Abbey, Senior Class.
C. A. Frisk, Literary.
Albert Booman, Oratory and Debate.
Stacy Tucker, Junior Class.
Georgia Springer, Training School.
Florence Busch, Dramatics.
Jean Coates; Extension.
Herbert Davis, Men's Athletics.
Ruby Morganthaler, Girls' Athletics.
John Miller, Student Life.
FORMER STUDENTS
Dr. Nash spent last Friday of his trip
in Bremerton and Charleston visiting
schools. He found that the Normal was
well represented in both places. In
Bremerton*he met the following: Ma­mie
Davis, May Wall, Dorothy Yates,
Verne Smith, Jessie Mason, Myrle Rog­ers,
Mrs. W. Ellis, Mrs. M. Rea, Margar­et
MaeKechnie, Agnes Iverson, Maude
Wahl and Ratchael Vandevander. In
September, Miss Winnie Sallow became
Mrs. Ellis and February 10th Mabel
Bragden became Mrs. Rea. Miss Van­devander
has a sister here at Normal.
In Charleston he met Pearl Lenherr,
Frances Starks, Lillian Nelson, Lorine
Carrol, Phyllis Seymore, Miss Olson, El­sie
Ridlen, Golda Ridlen, Lee Merriam,
Ida Pierson, Lottie Crawford and Mrs.
Ora Hinnes.
E A S
Tuesday morning in assembly, Rev.
Mr. Wilson addressed the student body
on the topic of service. He referred to
what Dr. Nash had just said concerning
the Salvation Army at the front. It is
doing so much along with the Y. M. C
A. and other organizations in connection
with the great war. Boys and men over
there lie over a bleeding heart.
Almost two million of our men have
gone away to perform a kind of service.
There are so many opportunities for all
of us, and so many appeals for aid
which we might answer.
The great teacher said that he was
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E
TERNITY SAYS WELCHMAN
Dr. Arthur Walwyn Evans delivered
his instructive lecture, "What America
Means to Me," at the Normal auditorium
on last Monday evening, to a large and
responsive audience. He was briefly in­troduced
by Mr. Philippi, after which
the noted lecturer lost no time begin­ning
with real business.
Dr. Evans was born and educated in
Wales where he made a record as a
preacher and lecturer. He came to Am­erica
to take the pulpit formerly occu­pied
by the distinguished author and
preacher, Dr. Edward A. Steiner, at
Springfield, Ohio. Here his work at­tracted
the attention of Lyceum Bureau
managers and calls for his service be­came
so insistent that he resigned his
pastorate to devote his entire time to
lecturing. In the past four years he has
filled almost 1,200 engagements. His lec­ture
bubbled over with wit and humor,
but it was none the less thrillingly pa­triotic
and should have been attended
by every resident in Bellingham.
In part, he declared as follows:
"We are face to face with a worid
crisis. We are in a world struggle
which will determine for the immediate
future whether principles of democratic
freedom or principles of force shall dom­inate.
The decision Avill determine not
only the destiny of nations, but of every
community and each individual. No life
will be untouched. We have passed the
period when any one nation can main­tain
its freedom irrespective of other
nations.
Civilization has closely linked nations
together by the ties of commerce and
quick communication, common interests,
problems and purposes. The future of
free nations will depend upon their joint
ability to -devise agencies so that the
greatest opportunities for life, liberty
and happiness may be assured to all.
"The common people everywhere are
hungry for wider opportunities to livi.
Fraternalism, or universal brotherhood
must come in order to save the world
from monarchy and our United States
is the nearest to that goal. That is why
[ took up my residence among you."
THESPIAN PLAY READY;
NEXT FRIDAY IS DATE
Next Friday night the first play of
the season will be offered to the stu­dent
body and the public at large. The
name of the play is "Mary Jane's Pa,"
and it is being given by the Thespian
club under the direction of Mr. Glenn
Hughes.
The audience must not be mislead by
the play's title. It sounds like a nursery
rhyme or a comic supplement. But in
reality it is far from being either. It
is a live, dramatic comedy of suburban
American life, written wtih an excellent
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CALENDAR
TUESDAY—
8:50—Assembly. Rev. Fredrick
Engebretson will give a brief
address, followed by a musi­cal
program under Mrs.
Thatcher's direction.
WEDNESDAY—
12:55—Choral.
2:35—War cooking.
THURSDAY—
10:30—Assembly. Glenn Hughes will
entertain students with his
poems.
7:30—Thespian club meets.
FRIDAY—
2:35—War cooking.
THE STORKS FLAP BY
IN TWOS AND THREES
We had become used to an occasional
single addition to the many families in
which the Normal is interested, but now
it has become almost an epidemic. Mr.
Thompson has been swinging his Palmer
Method pen with unusual elation for the
last few days. Of course we all know
why. Who wouldn't if he had just be­come
the proud papa of a pretty baby
girl? And then again we understand
that a robust young gentleman (very
young) has just declared himself to be
the brother of one of our students, Miss
Edith Hardin, daughter of Superior
Judge Ed S. Hardin of this county.
Lastly, it has only been a short time
since we learned of the birth of a baby
daughter to Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hulse.
In all the Normal feels unusually fav­ored.
TELLS OF
TRIP TO BREMERTON
On his return from Bremerton, Dr.
Nash gave a short talk in assembly on
certain interesting experiences he had
while away. He had the pleasure of
hearing the pastor of the Moody church
in Chicago, the Rev. Mr. Reagor, who
has just come back from the front.
Seven hundred officers of the Salva­tion
Army are working right up to the
firing line in the trenches. In the army
there is the greatest interest in God.
Every man wants to take God out there
with him. As the appeal to the men
was finished in one meeting, the speaker
said, "Now men, I want to know how
many of you want to take God with
you?" and there was such an unanimous
response from them that he thought
that surely they could not have under­stood
what he had said. And he tried
again with the same result.
Just before he returned from Seattle,
Dr. Nash had the opportunity to hear
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