Weekly Messenger - 1919 June 25

              Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XVIII. BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919 ; No. 36
JULY 10TH DATE SET PROF. C A.
FOR THESPIAN PLAY
i July 10 has been, set as the date for
the Thespian play, "Green Stockings."
The following cast has been chosen:
Admiral Griee John Miller
William Faraday Mr. Nobles
Colonel Smith Mr. Hoppe
Robert .Favver Mr. Petite
Henry Steele C. U. Tee-Garden
James Raleigh Jim Barnett
Celia Faraday , Bernice Ober
Madge (Mrs. Rockingham)
Miss Hamilton
Evelyn (Lady Frerichard)
, Miss L. Parlette
Phyllis ..: Miss Phillips
Mrs. Chisolm Farady Ruth Leyshoji
As a good many parts are taken by
the seniors who appeared in the play
before, the rehearsals are expected to
be carried off with much speed and few
interruptions. Mr. Hoppe, who coaches
the play, says it is like starting in all
over and the members of the cast will
need to do some fast and heavy work
to. produce it at the early date set upon.
TO
SPEAK AT CONVENTION
The District Epworth League is holding
a convention at the Garden Street Meth­odist
church Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday of this week. Dean Woodard will
speak Friday afternoon at 3 p. m. on
"The New Social Service." This topic
will interest many girls and all who can
should do their best to attend.
Miss Minna Dorsey, of Sedro-Woolley
visited with her sister, Mrs. Crane, here
at the Normal, the past week end.
CALENDAR
Thursday, June 26—Y. W. C. A.
meeting at 2 P. M.
Friday, June 27—Guy Manners
will lecture, on Educational Cur-..
rent Events.
Saturday, J u l y 28—Alkisiahs
Club House' Party at Lummi
Island.. : •_.";•
Studio Art Club Picnic.
Monday, June 30—A musical pro­gram,
is being planned by Mrs.
Thatcher.
Wednesday', July 2--Lecture by
Mrs..James Gaul on "Experiences
in" South America."
E
Following the singing of "U. S. A.
Forever" by the student body at the
Friday morning assembly, Professor
Bond gave a short talk on "Why We
Should Educate Against the Cigarette."
He remarked on the' rapid progress
which is being made at the present time,
and of the almost unheard of reforms
which are becoming realities. He spoke
particularly of the ratification of the
prohibition amendment and said that it
was his hope and the hope of all edu­cators
that the cigarette would soon
go to the same end as John Barleycorn
has.
The chief reasons which Professor
Bond gave for the removal of the cigar­ette
menace were:
First. That as a result of cigarette
smoking, the latest developed brain tis­sues
of the yoimg person are attacked
and he loses his moral viewpoint and
his idea of other people's rights.
Second. That the habit reduces a
pupil's capacity and that extended in­vestigations
proved that nearly all cig­arette
smokers were in the lower 30 per
cent class of scholarship. He also said
that the reason for the increasingly
large number of girls in the upper
grades, high school and institutions of.
higher learning was that so many boys
smoke cigarettes
He said that investigations had
proved that boys do not learn to smoke
when they are in school, when- they are
at play, or at work. This habit is ac­quired
when the boys have nothing to
do, and are loafing in alleys or other
out of the way places.
He next took up the proposition of
getting rid of the cigarette evil, and
said that the only method was the same
that had been pursued with intoxicating
drinks, namely thru the schools. The
education against cigarettes must be in­troduced
into the lower grades, because
most of the boys who smoke learn in
the third and fourth grades and that
they drop out of school before they
reach the seventh.
It is, said Professor- Bond, the chief
duty of the teacher during the next few.
years to conduct a vigorous campaign
against the cigarette menace, and to em­phasize
the moral and ethical laws which,
the cigarette destroys. ;
Following Professor Bond's talk, a
number of, announcements were read by
Dr. .Nash, and the assembly was then
dismissed for club meetings.
Miss Bertha Crawford is in Belling-ham
from Tacbma. .'
T
E
Mr. Hunt is offering a course in War
Geography that is attracting a great
many students and is proving most in­valuable
to our present day and coming
day teachers.
The course consists in a study of
the' races, religion, political questions,
economics, and the commercial geography
of Europe, Asia, and the world as far as
they relate to the war. A survey is
made of the relief, cliinate, vegetation,
soil, and products of the various coun­tries,
together with the uses made of
these resources, and the effect of the
same upon the development of the coun-;
try. An intensive study is made of,
each country as far as possible, and in:
particular of Great Britain and Ger­many.
;
The value of such a class can be esti­mated
from the fact that the course
aims to show that the roots, of war lie
in economic and geographic conditions.
Especial attention is given to books
dealing with economics in the countries
concerned, and with the histories of
those countries in the nineteenth cen­tury,
from which a careful compilation of
statistics affecting each of these features,
is made. These statistics, whenever possi-'
ble, are put in graphic form, so that
their value may be quickly and easily
seen. Much is made of the rivalry be­tween
Great Britain and Germany in
manufacturing and in commerce.
Much r^fsfareh work and a br-bad;
reading is necessarily required, but books
that are overdrawn, such as were writ-)
ten during the heat of the war are
avoided because of the fact that judg-i
ments derived from such books are apt
to be warped. At present a sane dis­cussion
of the peace terms is being
made in order to promote a healthy in-:
terest in every day topics. TheMea
is to keep up with the times, and pro­mote
a sane attitude toward topics of
the day. \
The origin and cause of war has been
located partly in geography and not
wholly in ambition, spread of power, or
animosity. A partial bibliography of
good books used by the class on the
subject is '
Ripley—Races of Europe.
Mills—International Geography..
Lyde—Continent of Europe.
Howe—The British City.
Day—History of Commerce. ' * .
Cramb—Germany and England.
Hauser—Germany's Commercial Grip
on the World.
Hazen—Europe Since 1815. ''
' Holt and Chilton—Europe Since 1862.
GIVEN BY MR. HOPPE
The' principal feature of Wednesday's
assembly was a speech by Mr. Hoppe
on "Making Our Worlds."
Mr. Hoppe first pictured some of the
beautiful scenes of nature, a sky scrap­er
of New York and other big things of
life. Then' in contrast to the impor­tance
of these showed us that another
great interesting fact is the power of
human thought. "We may change our
worlds without by making our worlds
within." As an illustration he asked us
to look back on the United Sates in
the year 1914, and then to look ahead
in the years that followed and note the
great things done by America.
There are two kinds of thinkers. "The
constructive thinker is the man who
responds to his world within. All great
things are done by the constructive
thinker. Th$ destructive thinkjer is
the one who fears, shuns, and hates his
environment.". Here in his lecture Mr.
Hoppe quoted that wonderful poem,
"The Optimist," by Ben [King.
"We should make our worlds within
so that our worlds without would be
worlds of service." The story of the
man who builded barns was applied to
one of the nations in the great World
War. We lose a great deal in life be­cause
we do not see in ourselves the
thought of human sympathy and service.
The debt which we owe to the world
is a debt of service. The debt' which
we owe to the ones who have died for
our country is a debt to be paid, in
human service.
In closing, Mr. Hoppe left us with
the thought that the dawn of tomorrow
was made possible by the cost of the
service to mankind. To remember, as'
we go on to: new effort and new activ­ity,
that we are audited by the ghosts
of those who lie in "Flanders Fields."
During the lecture Mr. Hoppe read
two more poems, "All for Each and Each
for All," and "In Flanders Fields."
This wonderfully helpful lecture was
greatly appreciated.
Mr. G. Van Horn '17, has been a fre­quent
visitor at the1 school for the past
two weeks. Mr. Van Horn is the princi­pal
of the school at Wapato, Wash.
Schurman—The Balkan Wars.
Gibbons—The New Map of Europe.
Ashley—British Industries.
J. R. Smith—Industrial and Commer­cial
Geography.
Partsch Central Europe.
Barker—Modern Germany..
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