Weekly Messenger - 1919 November 14

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XIX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919 NO. 8
SECOND LECTURE OF
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As I told you this morning, this new
national movement is simply an effort
to help those who find that the type of
education offered them has left them
lacking in some two or three things, and
gives them an- opportunity to take a
short course in the line in which they
find they are lacking. Do not feel that
because our normal schools are not full
this year, that it is a sign that teachers
are not going to be in demand. The
wise man buys when stock is cheap and
not in demand and sells when it is high,
so it will be in the teaching profession,
and we must develop and be ready for
the emergency. There is no better time
to enter the normal school than right
now.
Seventy per cent of the people enter­ing
business are misfits in their first
choice of positions. Of course there
must be some labor turnover, but we
find that the average boy or girl
changes positions three or four times in
the course of a year, and thus learns to
drift about from one place to another.
The question that needs our considera­tion
is this: What should a modern
educator be able to contribute to a mod­ern
employment system? What have
we a right to expect an educator to do
toward solving this problem for the
young? . What is the matter with these
boys and girls?
First, we come to the responsibility
of the educational system . to what we
call moral characteristics. That is de­cidedly
an educational one.
Then we have the matter of adapta­bility:
After the war, 2,500 young men
were dismissed from a certain shell fac­tory,
and put at assembling parts of
typewriters; they had been doing as­sembly
work in the shell factory, but
90 per cent of them failed entirely.
Why? Because of lack of adaptability.
Next comes the question of initiative.
The business man asks that we not only
(be -'-technically proficient, but just a
little more. Sometime a school system
may be provided that has the ability to
develop just that " little more." I
think we have more men in business to­day
who have initiative than we have
women. There is no reason why girls
shouldn't have as much initiative, but
we have not been taught to assume re­sponsibility.
We haven't considered
housekeeping as an executive position.
If we don't get the vegetables ready
for dinner in time, we scramble around,
put on a big apron and get something
ready. The responsibility ought to be
just as great whether it is in the home
or in the office. A woman came to me
the other day and said: "I would like
to accept a position, but the trouble is
there are not any such positions. The
trouble with the world today is not that
there is not a place, but that you are
not ready for a place. I know a woman
of a good deal of ability as a secretary,
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B. S. N. S.
WERE IN U.S. SERVICE
Armistice week brings back the mem­ory
of those who served us so nobly.
Just a year ago we were rejoicing that
the terrible struggle for the cause of
humanity was over. We are now re­newing
that joy, and are printing the
names of those who have attended or
are now enrolled in the Bellingham State
Normal. Following is a list of those
who represented us so well in the strug­gle
of the great war:
Astels, Francis
Altman, Clare
Altman, Edward
Altman, Wayne, (gold star)
Anderson, Orrin
Aitken, Victor
Anstett, Leonard
Ashman, Henry
Autrieth, Frank
Baker, Marten
Bancroft, C. A.
Baxter, Kirk
Bay, John
Beaufont, Paul
Beck, Forrest
Berg, Hansen
Breakey, Forrest
Breakey, Dale
Buswell, Howard
Benjamin, Wilfred
Boyd, Russell
Brown, Lee Murray
Brememan, Ray
Beardsley, Will
Beardsley, Floyd
Barrett, Gordon
Bealsford, Melburn
Bayes, Cecil
Bennett,. Earl
Bixby, Vernon
Bozorth, Lynton
Byron, Carlton
Boucher, Vincent
Cook, Clay
Charles, Walter
Carrick, John
Campbell, Clyde
Cramer, James
Crum, Carlyle
Come, Edward
Connell, George
Carleton, Smith
Davenport, John
Davenport, Thomas Henry
Dahlquist, Clarence
Dahl, Ed
Dunagan, Albert
Davis, Hugh
Edson, W.
Emery, Albert (gold star)
Ester, Oliver
Evans, Aaron
Folsom, Cecil
Foster, Bertram
Fisher, Appleton
Ford, Oscar
Farwell, Roy
Follis, William
Flood, Clyde
Freeman, Stanley
Gaffney, Tom
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AI NORMAL LIBRARY
The library has just received an in­teresting
lot of new books ordered
specially for the Department of Hy­giene.
Among the more important of
them are the following:
"The Care of the Body," by Francis
Cavanagh. This is a readable and very
valuable book with much of interest to
everyone. The chapter on habit will
doubtless be appreciated by students of
psychology.
" The Principles of Hygiene," by Ber-gey.
"A Text Book of Hygiene," by
liohe and Robin, and " Practical Hy­giene,"
by Harrington and Richardson,
are very complete manuals for the use
of students, physicians and health offi­cers.
They contain a large amount of
important facts about such things as
foods, air, water, heating and ventila­tion,
drainage and the ordinary con­tagious
diseases.
" Sanitation Practically Applied," by
Dr. H. B. Wood, is a summary of public
work and the problems with which it is
chiefly concerned. It is of value to
every teacher.
In this connection the little book by
Dr. Simon on " Human Infection Car­riers
" is of great importance in enr
abling one to realize more fully the man­ner
in which contagion is often spread.;
'•The Third Great Plague," by Dr.
Stokes, of the Mayo clinic, is a sane
discussion for everyday people of the
problem of syphilis.
Dr. Hemenway's " American Health
Protection" is dedicated to the women
of America and is a fine resume of the
work done in the past in this country
and a plea for co-operation with dis­interested
men of science in making
sanitary conditions better.
E OAY IS
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IN HONORJOR. REED
A very pleasant social affair was given
in honor of Dr. Anna Y. Reed in the
faculty room Thursday afternoon, No­vember
6. The room was unusually in­viting
with its bright, blazing fire and
the tea table, graced with a centerpiece
of pink Ophelia roses.
The members of the reception com­mittee
were assisted by representatives
of the following school organizations:
Naminee Sherwood and Florence Town-send,
Y. W. C. A.; Elizabeth Umbarger,
Alkisiah; Lulu Rau, Rural Life; May
Roos McMillan, Aletheia; May Ander­son,.
Thespian; Bertha Nemitz, Young
Housekeepers; Ethel Sutherland, Busi­ness
Girls. Mrs. Nash and Miss Sperry
presided at the tea table.
The affair was very informal and was
well attended by members of the stu­dent
body, faculty and faculty wives,
who were as well pleased with Mrs.
Reed's charming, gracious manner as
they had been with her; impressive
worth-while addresses.
Professor Bever gave an address to
the students at a special assembly Tues­day
morning, November 11th. Mr.
Bever frist called attention to the fact
that this date was not only the anni­versary
of Armistice Day, but was also
the anniversary of the time when Wash­ington
was declared a state, it having
been thirty years ago, November 11th,
1889, that Montana, the two Dakotas and
Washington were made independent
states. The name first suggested for
our state • was Columbus, but a Ken­tucky
gentleman thougnt that since no
other state had been given the name of
Washington, it ought to be Washington,
and that was the name given. Mr.
Bever noted a coincidence here, in that
the enabling act which permitted Wash­ington
to become a state was signed on
Washington's birthday.
Mr. Bever was also reminded by Miss
Baker that this day was also the anni­versary
of the day when women's suf­frage
was again given to the new state,
the women having had suffrage while
yet a territory.
Mr. Bever then pointed out that the
signing of the armistice which meant
the cessation of the great world war,
would always be a red letter day in
history. The war had been one of the
great fights between autocracy on the
one hand, democracy on the other, .just
as the French Revolution and others he
mentioned had been. He told how Ger­many,
in particular, had been the ex­emplar
of the autocratic system of gov­ernment.
We had heard so much of the
socialistic movement in Germany that
we believed the people might refuse to
follow thir leaders, but their training
had been too efficient. The ida of the
divine right of kings, the German
"Gott," the propaganda trying to teach
people that the German people were
supernatural in their power had been
bred in them for generations,' but yet
they fell before democracy of right.
In closing, Mr. Bever read several,
poems, one of them the poem " In Flan­ders
Field," which we love so well.
THE SCHOOL GARDEN,
The small plot of. ground cultivated
by the primary pupils, with the help of
lUr. Hendershott, yielded about six dol­lars
in money for the season of 1919.
The educational and experience side
can not be valued. It gave appreciation
as well as some community experience.
Some of the products were eaten, some
carried home, and the balance sold.
The fall work has been limited to
planting bulbs and transplanting some
hardy, early flowers.
Miss Hunt leaves this week to take up
extension work in Grays Harbor County
with headquarters at Montesano.