Weekly Messenger - 1919 October 31

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XIX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919 No. 6
Normal Observes Roosevelt Memorial Day
Y.W.C.A.SECRETARY
VISITS NORMAL
Miss Brown, student secretary for the
Y. W. C. A., visited the Normal on
Thursday and Friday in the interest of
the Student Volunteer movement. She
spoke at the regular Thursday afternoon
Y. W. C. A. meeting, and also,at Assem­bly,
Friday morning.
She told a portion of the history of
the volunteer movement. At a conven­tion
held in Massachusetts about thirty
years ago, Robert Walder and his wife
were working and praying for 100 young
men who would pledge themselves for
foreign service. Before the convention
closed the desired number had pledged
themselves. This was the beginning of
the movement that has spread all over
the world, having representatives in al­most
every institution of learning. The
purpose of this movement is to bring
students together who consecrate their
lives for foreign missionary service. The
first student volunteer conrerence was
held in Cleveland, Ohio. Fifty-one
schools were represented with 680 dele­gates.
The centennial conference was held in
Kansas City six years ago. Seven hun­dred
and fifty-three schools were rep­resented
with a delegation of over 5000.
This Normal school sent four delegates
at that time.
The eighth convention is to be held in
Des Moines, Iowa, December 31 to Jan­uary
4. One thousand schools are ex­pected
to be represented with a delega­tion
of about 9000. Our quota this time
is five students and one faculty member.
We are hoping that we will be able to
send our full quota.
The following are some of the reasons
Miss Brown gave for the conference.
First—The world needs united think­ing
on world situations, such as the Jap­anese
and Russian jjroblems, the Chinese
revolution, world citizenship, the unrest
in our own country and community
work.
Second—The unique place which Amer­ica
holds in the world No country is so
able to take up the problems of recon­struction
as America.
Third—The world is demanding a new
social order, that shall be fundamentally
Christian. Students must lead in this
movement.
Miss Brown also gave seven reasons
why this school should be represented at
this conference. They were as follows:
First—It will give us an opportunity
to see the world in perspective.
Second—It will be a demonstration of
what church and racial unity means.
Third—The effect on our own school of
the returning delegates.
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This institution
was agreeably sur­prised
at the Mon-d
a y A s s e m b l y,
when it awoke to
the fact that it pos­sessed
among its
number of students a gifted orator
in the person of Herbert Hansen,
who addressed the faculty and student
body at the Roosevelt Memorial Assem­bly
on the subject of "Theodore Roose­velt,
a Typical American." Mr. Han­sen's
address follows:
Members of the faculty, my fellow
students: -The other day I went to my
father's bookshelf and took therefrom
a volume on the life of Theodore Roose­velt.
On the cover I saw emblazoned in
.letters of gold, "Theodore Roosevelt, a
Typical American." And I thought that
one phrase, "A Typical American," con­tains
the essence of all that might be
said concerning this well-known citizen
of our land. You may not have agreed
with the political views of Roosevelt.
You may not have believed all the utter­ances
which he made. But no fair and
Normal Student Gives
Inspiring Address
can! Fearless and
u n d a u n t e d lie
stands out in his­tory
as a man
who would suffer
defeat rather than
foresake principles.
Sixty-one years ago today, the 27th of
October, he was born in New York City.
In his veins flowed the blood of sturdy
colonial ancestors. The Dutch, the Irish
and Huguenot French were blended to
form this American. By nature he was
i< weakling. The rough and tumble
sports of youth were denied him. Conse­quently
he turned to books for a jjastime.
His poor health allowed no regular
schooling and governesses and tutors im­parted
to him the rudiments of an ele­mentary
education. This he enlarged by
a wide reading of heroic tales and natu­ral
history.
At nine he was taken to Europe, and
judging by the childish diary which he
kept at that time, the most enjoyable
thing on the entire trip was homesick­ness.
Four years later he was again
taken to Europe. By this time he had
candid observer could for a moment i become an ardent naturalist, and Egypt
fail to appreciate the sterling patriotism j and the continent were interesting for
of Theodore Roosevelt. He had his own t their birds if not for their antique mon-individual
views—he had his party obli- j uments.
gations, but above all and dominating He was an ardent hero worshiper, his
all, Theodore Roosevelt was an Ameri- | (Continued on Page Two)
The students who attended the mis­sionary
meeting at the Garden Street
Methodist Church, on Friday evening,
had the pleasure of hearing a most in­teresting
account of Christian work in
the Orient, especially in China. Miss*
Kessler, who addressed the meeting, has
worked in Shantung province, China, for
six years. She has been visiting at her
home in Kansas and attending Columbia
University, but is now waiting to sail
back to her labors among the Chinese.
Miss Kessler brought out the fact that
the Chinese, like all other foreign people,
are eager to accept the gospel of Jesus
Christ and thinks of America as a wonder­ful
land of Christians until they come
into our country.
We forget that second great com­mandment,
"Thou shalt love thy neigh­bor
as thyself," and look down upon
them—yes, too often, we despise them.
Are we doing our duty and exercising
cur privileges as Christians in a Christian
nation if we fail to befriend these and
other strangers in our land?
DR. BAGLEY COMING DEC. 9
Dr. William C. Bagley, of Columbia
University, will speak at the Normal
school on December 9. Dr. Bagley has
charge of the training of Normal school
supervisors at Teachers' College, Colum­bia.
He is the author of Bagley's Class
Room Management, The Educative Pro-.
cess, Educational Values, and many oth-e
• books on education. He is recognized
as one of the leaders of education in this
country.
GENERAL SCHOOL NOTES
So many of the students came into
Assembly with the new Messenger tuck­ed
under their arm Friday morning,
and then during the period amused
themselves by reading it, that Dr. Nash
requested that after this the Messenger
not be given out until after Assembly.
Dr. Nash said he knew that this was
one of the best school papers published,
but he was reminded of a man who,
although a Ph. D. lost the opportunity
of a splendid position made vacant by
some withdrawal because he had been
observed reading a newspaper during
the course of a lecture by some promi­nent
speaker.
Mr. Klemme has finished a paper on
"The problem of the Tlural School,"
which will be read before the Rural Sec­tion
of the W. E. A. which will be held
in Seattle this week. He addresses the
teachers of Snohomish county at the
Y. M. C. A. building on "Teachers' Or­ganization."
The institute is held in con­nection
with the W E. A.