Weekly Messenger - 1919 November 7

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XIX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919 NO. 7
H A L FACULTY
i.A.
The thirty-third session of the Wash
ington Educational Association was held
in Seattle, October 29 to November 1,
1619. Each year is held, somewhere in
.the state, the W. E. A. and each year
the Bellingham State Normal is well
represented in this conference.
;; The officers of the W. E. A. for 1919
are Miss Almina George, president,
from Seattle; Mr. J. T. Forrest, vice-president,
from Bellingham; Mr. O. C.
Whitney, secretary, from Tacoma, and
Mr. A. C. Roberts, treasurer, from
Everett.
Prominent speakers of this session,
regarded by our representatives as be­ing
especially interesting, were Miss
Snllie Hill, president National League
of Teachers' Association; Dr. William
T. Foster, president Reed College, and
Dr. Anna Y. Reed, United States De­partment
of Labor, junior division.
Miss Hill is devoting herself chiefly to
^he work of the grade teachers. Dr.
, Foster took for his subjects, "Morale,"
and "Surveying Ourselves." Dr. Reed
dealt with the " Employment System."
She afterwards came to Bellingham and
gave us some interesting lectures bear­ing
on this subject.
The section meetings were begun on
Thursday in which a number of our
faculty members were featuring.
In the county supervision and normal
school section, Mr. James Bever was
president. Appearing on the program
was Dr. Irving E. Miller, who discussed
" Professionalizing the County Superin-tendency."
Mathematics, science section, program
was addressed by Mr. H. C. Philippi on
" Breaking Away from the Traditional
Teaching of High School Physics and
Chemistry."
Mr. E. J. Klemme with " Rural School
Problems," helped to clear up some of
the difficulties in the rural section.
Miss G. Longley was elected presi­dent
of the home economics section for
the state.
Dr. Herre has been named as a mem­ber
of the educational council.
Following is a list of the Normal
faculty members who attended the W.
E. A.: Miss Earhart, Miss Longley,
Dr. Miller, Mr. Bever, Miss Sperry, Dr.
Herre, Mr. Kibbe, Mrs. Thatcher, Miss
Baker, Miss Clark, Mr. Philippi, Mr.
Coughlin, Mr. Kolstad, Mr. Klemme,
Miss Bell, Miss Mildred Moffat, Mr.
Heckman, Miss Crawford, Miss Beas-ley,
Mrs. Mayhew and Miss McDonald.
All who attended report a very
pleasant time. They bring greetings to
us from many of the former Normal
students, a great number being present,
coining especially from Seattle and Ta­coma.
Aside from the banquets and enter­tainments
of various kinds, the football
game between U. of O. and U. of W.
was an attraction to a great number. I
THE TEETH OF THE GIFT
E" IS
Last Wednesday at the regular as­sembly
period a group of students from
Mr. Hoppe's class in community dra­matics
presented the clever farce by
Margaret Cameron, " The Teeth of the
Gift Horse."
Florence Butler (Carrie Whittier) is
almost distracted because the week be­fore
she had sent to a rummage sale a
pair of large, hand-painted vases which
her husband's aunt had sent as a wed­ding
gift, and now this aunt is coming
on a visit. Florence, with the aid of
her friends, Anne Fisher (Jessie De
Line) tries every device to locate the
vases. Aunt Marietta (Mrs. Hartt) ar­rives
and is very downcast because she
does not see her vases. Dick Butler
(Estella Burnside), who adores his
aunt, ignorant of the fact that his wife
has sent the vases to the sale, leads the
conversation into very embarrassing
predicaments. Unable to stand more,
Florence drags her husband out of the
room " to fix a door" and explains to
him.
Katie, the servant (Frances Smith),
is very much relieved to learn that, the
box Aunt Marietta clung to so ten­aciously
on her arrival, does not con­tain
a bomb but merely a present for
Mr. and Mrs. Butler. The present, a
clock, most gorgeous in its decoration of
butterflies and hoomin' birds, Aunt
Marietta explains, matches Mrs. Butler's
vases and is meant to stand between
them. The clock appeals immensely to
Katie's sense of beauty and she thinks
it would look gr-rand between the
vases her sister's mother-in-law bought
at the rubbish sale. Katie describes the
vases as having black butterflies and
blue and grane hoomin' birds and goold
on all the edges. This confirms Aunt
Marietta's suspicions as to the fate of
her vases. Devlin Blake (Narcissa Col­lins),
a friend of the family and a col­lector
of fine pieces of art, calls just
at tea time. He teases Florence about
the brace of home manufactured hor­rors
she sent to the rummage sale last
week. Dick and Mrs. Dick try to cir­cumvent
him but without success and the
situation becomes so painful that Dick
hurries Aunt Marietta off the scene.
Biake, unable to appreciate Flo's dis­tress,
treats the affair humorously until
Flo explains to him, then his sympathies
a re genuinely aroused. Shortly after
Dick and Aunt Marietta's return to the
sitting room, Anne Fisher comes in with
the missing vases. She explains that
they have, been to a sort of loan exhibi­tion.
Aunt Marietta's last remnant of
doubt is explained. away. She is again
happy and shows the clock she has
brought. Nobly overcoming the shock to
artistic temperaments, the vases and the
clock finally find a resting place on the
mantel. And Aunt Marietta, beaming,
promises to paint something nice for
each one of them.
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SERIES OF LECTURES
Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Dr. Nash
presented to the faculty and students of
the Normal Dr. Anna Y. Reed, who
comes to us from Washington, D. C,
where she is director of the junior divi­sion
of Employment Service. .
Dr. Reed is a woman of rare person­ality,
and a very forceful as well as a
very entertaining lecturer, and we cer­tainly
feel fortunate in being able to
have her with us at this time.
The bureau of which Dr. Reed is the
director at Washington was formed be­cause
of the fact that after the war was
over in this country thousands of young
men and women, boys and girls not yet
twenty-one who had been employed in
war work, were thrown out of employ­ment,
the older men and women being
given the preference. One day the busi­ness
men of Washington got togther and
.said " we must do something with these
boys and girls," and in five minutes
time they had decided to form this
junior division of the employment ser­vice.
The need of such a service was
first recognized by the business men,
not the high educators. They said, " we
will call on the educators to help us
solve this problem," but what Mrs. Reed
is afraid of is that while the educators
are thinking it over the business men
will become impatient and will take the
opportunity away from us. This is the
type of work in which Mrs. Reed is in­terested,
and through this office boys
and girls throughout the United States
are being handled.
Mrs. Reed told in a wonderful manner
of the various types of young people
who came to her applying for positions.
She mentioned the girl who came well
prepared technically to handle a good
clerical position, with pleasant manners
and using good English, but attired in
such cheap, inappropriate finery that
as she came in the door Mrs. Reed said
to herself: " I wonder who would em­ploy
her? " Mrs. Reed talked with the
girl, and finally was able to show her
how important it was to be dressed suit­ably
for office work, and today that
girl is filling an important position. The
girl had been through a four-year com­mercial
course in high school, but no
one had ever told her what she ought
to wear, so that Mrs. Reed felt that in
that case the teacher was partly to
blame. Other students came wishing
work, but not prepared to offer any­thing
that the business man could pay
for, and some of them wanted to teach
because they were told that teaching
was the most respectable way to make
the most money, and yet many of these
people came from schools purporting to
hfive fine vocational trades teachers.
Some of the points Dr. Reed empha­sized
were these: Teaching is not a pro­fession
of the past, but one of. the fu­ture,
but that the teacher of the future
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The pre-primary room had a regular
Hallowe'en party Thursday morning
last, when they entertained their
fathers, mothers and little friends.
For several days they had been very
busy making favors and decorations for
the tables which were gay with color.
Following the Hallowe'en stories and
games came the refreshments, home
made, dainty, yet wholesome.
The presence of the patrons and their
friends made the party one of great
pleasure to the children as well as to
the teachers.
The first and second grades had their
regular community program with drawn
shades and walls adorned with the work
clone during the drawing periods. The
songs and dramatizations were seasonal,
reflecting the best elements of the Hal­lowe'en
spirit.
The fourth grade pupils bobbed for
apples, which were suspended from
strings across the room, just before the
end of the last period, to make the day
hfive a festive ending.
The third graders had to earn their
owls and black cats by a language drill
which only added to the value of the
prize. It takes but little to make a
child happy, to send him home with joy
in his heart.
IS GIFT TO
Mr. Harry B. Sewell, manager of the
Paget Sound Traction Light & Power
Company has recently given to the in­stitution
a framed map of the Puget
Sound District. It covers the territory
between the international boundary and
Olympia, and from the Cascade moun­tains
to tide-water. It has been com­piled
from data of the geological sur­vey,
the office of the state engineer and
of the engineers of the counties of What­com,
Skagit, Snohomish, King, Pierce,
Kitsap and Thurston and from the sur­veys
and records of the Puget Sound
Traction Light & Power Company. It
shows the routes of the company's trans­mission
lines, the steam and electric rail­ways,
automobile roads and waterways,
as well as the rivers and smaller streams.
It also locates their generating plants,
both hydraulic and steam. This map
is a valuable addition to the map lit­erature
of Western Washington.
NORMALITES IN WHITMAN
COUNTY
The following Normalites were report­ed
as attending the Whitman County In­stitute:
Miss Ruth Leyshon, who sends
greetings to all; Florence Zader, Louise
Vulliet-Bartelt, Mary Newell Miles,
Esther Baldwin Hale, Elva Krause-
Lacey, Edna Stone.