Western Viking - 1937 October 29

              V-VOL.
XXXVII—NO. 5
WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, October 29, 1937
Board Grants
Commission
To Eckert
Curtis Foils Dance Committee;
Appropriation Voted for Frosh
Bonfire; Dance Class Discussed
Janitor Under Fire
At the Wednesday Board of Con­trol
meeting, Earl-Eckert, business
manager of the Western Viking,
•was granted a bonus of twenty per
cent on all ads obtained over 70
inches,, providing the money for the
additional ads is collected. 70
inches is the minimum number of
ads necessary, to keep the paper
on a paying basis, and Eckert has
obtained advertising, considerably
in excess of this amount.
Since Jay Curtis has already en-
•gaged the Armory for the evening
of November 20. the question of a
place to hold the Homecoming
dance was discussed. Because of
the fact that the gym at the Col-ege
is too small, the Armory is the
customary and logical place for the
Homecoming dance. Negotiations
are under way by which it is hoped
that WWC students will be able to
have that building for this event.
An appropriation for the Fresh­men
Bonfire was voted by the
Board. The bonfire is generally
considered one of the outstanding
features of the Homecoming ac­tivities.
The matter of obtaining someone
to do janitor work for dance classes
was brought up and arrangements
are being made for this.
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Music Association 6
Selects Programs
Artists for this season's Civic Mu­sic
Association concerts have been
selected, Mr. Nils Boson, secretary
of the association, announced last
week. He states that an enjoyable
and successful year is anticipated.
Heading the list is John Charles
Thomas, the well known American
baritone who has been featured on
radio programs for the past few
years; Jacqueline Solomons, a youth­ful
French violinist; Lubashutz and
Nemennoff, who will present a re­cital
on two grand pianos, a style of
ever increasing popularity; and
Marjorie Lawrence, an Australian
soprano who has been with the
Metropolitan Opera company for
the past two years.
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O-so-peachy Opens
Road To
Shangri-la etc.
This week and every other
week you feel in the mood is
Buy O-so-Peachy Week, in
honor of the Viking O-so-
Peachy Homecoming booklet.
There's some ' nonsense about
a football game or whatever it
is connected to this big cele­bration
week, and you're sup­posed
to patronize the O-so-people
and buy one. Buy two.
After buying it go to this
thing that they play and look
up the stars in it, especially if
you're a girl (don't tell me
you're not!—my! what a waste
of time), as you can look up
the captain or quarterback or
watefboy and date him up if
you've got enough on the ball,
etc. 'The management of this
booklet (the O-so-Peachy
booklet) guarantees one, at
least, O-so-Peachy friend for
the great big shindig in the
armory. Be sure and wear
your armor.
Perhaps you say to yourself
that you are liable to run into
trouble and other undesirable
things in this act. No. You
won't. Editor Soukup and his
imported Turkish harem and
all his little soukups, etc., will
furnish a O-so-Peachy escort
in case it rains or snows or
things. That is really a nice
bargain isn't it O-so-Peachy
fans? O r . ..
New Place To Chow
Now Eat in Comfort,
Spend. Nothing at Edens
Students! A new eating
place—Edens hall. The din­ing
room is capable of holding
a great number of people, so
don't hesitate to go over there.
Boys as well as girls are in­vited
to eat. their lunch in the
dining room. It is an ideal
place for those who bring their
lunches. One may sit at any
of the tables, except the facul­ty
table. It is not necessary
to buy anything to be a diner
in the hall.
"Outside people are always
welcome to eat at the dormi­tory."
says Miss Gertrude
Longley, Edens hall dietitian.
The dining room at Edens
hall has been opened to the
students because many people
have been eating their lunches
in the halls and in the locker
rooms, which gives the school
a slip-shod appearance.
Prexy Has Busy
Week-end
Four Meetings Attended
By President Fisher;
Bicentennial Discussed
Four meetings were attended by
Prexy Fisher this week-end. Fri­day
evening he attended a meet­ing
of the University of Pennsyl­vania
alumni at the Seattle College
Club. The bicentennial to be held
by the University in 1940 was dis­cussed.
It is planned to hold a big
celebration similar to the tricenten-nial
recently held at Harvard Uni­versity.
The founding of the Uni­versity
by Benjamin Franklin will
be commemorated.
Stanley F. Atwood, state super­intendent
of public instruction,
spoke on the subject, "Rewriting
the School Code", at the meeting
of the Saturday Night Club that
Fisher attended that evening.
The membership or this organiza­tion
is made up of men working in
the schools of Seattle and vicinity.
The College of Puget Sound at
Tacoma was the scene of a meeting
Monday. This meeting was attend­ed
by College presidents trustees,
and bursars. A discussion of fi­nancial
problems of colleges and
universities was held. The Ameri­can
Council on Education, who
sponsored the meeting, sent a lead­er,
Mr. J. Harvey Cain.
Tuesday, Fisher met with a group
of alumni who were attending the
WEA regional meet in Tacoma. "Re­cent
Changes in WWC," was the
subject of the talk given ny him at
a luncheon there.
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WAA Ghost Party
Pronounced
Social Success
Black foot Indian Attends Lunch
After Stirring Assembly
"The best place in the world to collect real Indian goods is in a second
hand store," said Charles Eagle Plume to a group of WWC students at a
luncheon given for him Wednesday at Edens hall. He elaborated on his
statement by explaining that the old Indian garments were brought to
second hand stores as ornaments to draw trade and that now their value
as advertising has decreased. .. >•
Born on the Blackfoot reservation
in Montana, Eagle Plume was
graduated from the University of
Colorado with degrees in English
and anthropology. He intends to
return presently to get his Ph.D.
in the latter. For three years
he has traveled America and Eu­rope
on lecture tours concerning the
American Indian and his lore.
Has Toured Europe
Speaking of his tours in Europe,
the Indian said: "European audi­ences
are all convinced that Ameri­ca
is still wild and that we are all
dressed as I am—in tribal Indian
clothes. People have questioned me
after lectures about friends in
America and expected me to know
them because "they are white peo­ple".
Eagle Plume compared inland In­dian
tribes with those on the Paci­fic
coast, discussing the difference
with several Yakima tribe members
who attend WWC and were at the
luncheon. "Because the Blackfeet,
Crow and other Indian tribes had a
difficult time to provide food, they
developed characteristics entirely
different from the coastal tribes
who could, without much trouble,
easily find food in clam beds or
rivers."
In an interview after the lunch­eon,
the Blackfoot confidentially
said that, when he can overcome
his laziness, he will write a book
about the growth of primitive man.
Using the development of a boy
through all stages of life as a pat­tern,
he intends to edit an anthro­pological
work from his completed
notes which have taken several
years to compile.
Eagle Plume, who said he disliked
being called "Chief" Eagle Plume
because he is not a chief, left for
Walla Walla Wednesday evening
to speak at Whitman college and
from there will go on lecture tours
in the southern and eastern parts
of the West.
Larger Paper Soon
Helfritz To Deliver
Lecture On Arabia
Land of Sheba to be Subject
Of Assembly Address;
Illustrated Talk
Skyscrapers in the desert; the
Land of Sheba; a forbidden sec­tion
never before entered by white
man! These and many other such
thrilling topics- will be told~about in
the illustrated lecture of Hans Hel­fritz,
who will be presented in the
assembly on Tuesday, November 2.
Mr. Helfritz was the first Euro­pean
to cross southwest Arabia.
This journey of 1200 kilometers was
made by caravan through the Ruba
at Khali desert. Whole caravans
have disappeared while attempting
to cross the boundless sea of sand
and stone. The section of Yemen
has never before been entered by a
white man.
The object of this journey was
the ruined city of Shabwah in the
biblical territory of Sheba. ' He was
able to enter the city only with the
aid of the Bedouins, after he had
encountered and overcome the ban­dits
and robbers.
The lecture is to be illustrated by
motion pictures in color, covering
the ruins of the cities ruled by the
Queen of Sheba, the skyscraper
cities in Hadra'maut, the mountains
whose peaks are 9000 feet above sea
level, the native Bedouins who live
in the oldest "skyscraper apart­ments,"
and many other fascinating
subjects.
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That the WAA Hallowen'en party
held Thursday evening, October 28,
proved to be a great success was the
unanimous opinion voiced by girls
who attended.
A short program featuring ghost
stories with various weird effects
and a folk dance by Betty Swasher
and Virgie Boal was presented.
Girls were divided into groups for a
pumpkin relay and to eat apples
suspended from strings. This was
followed by a splash party in the
pool and folk dancing in the gym.
Refreshments consisted of "rich
brew" and "magic rings."
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National Organization
Requests Paper
Dr. Jack Cotton, of the Speech
department, has been requested to
present a paper on the "Multiple
Booth System for Speech Labora­tory",
at the New York meeting of
the National . drganization of
Speech •Tea^e»---m^':De^ember.
The invitation was first sent to
Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Cotton's for­mer
home, asking him to appear in
person. When it was learned that
he had moved and could not make
the trip, a paper on the subject was
requested by the organization. • >
Nelson Resents Ye
Viking Hounds
Mike Zylstra Promises
Successful Bonfire;
Assembly in Morning
League Holds
Fashion Tea
Preparations are now being made
by the Women's League for the
Fashion tea which will be held No­vember
4. The show will be given
in the Blue room of Edens hall from
3:30 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.
This Fall Fashion tea is an annu­al
event which delights all women
tudents. The clothes, furnished by
he various local stores for this oc­casion,
appeal to the-students for
they represent the last word in
mart lines, new colors, beautiful
fabrics as well as practicality. Va­rious
types of clothes, sportswear,
afternoon dresses and evening
gowns.
Committees have been chosen by
Phoebe Shirk, who is in charge of
he tea. The chairmen for these
ommittees are as follows: Betsy
Navies, decoration; Virginia Wes-on,
service; Alice Molenkamp,
odds; Marjorie Dunning, cleanup;
Mildred Richardson, faculty; Bar-ara
Boothe, publicity; Vivian
Jlarke, invitations; Arlene Dickih-on,
clothes; Ruth Bennington,
hodeling. Each chairman will have
everal'-girls assisting her.
Special invitations are being sent
to all the faculty women members,
and the wives of the faculty men.;
Each .woman will have a student
sponsor. '•"
Homecoming is doing all right,
in fact better than was expected,
but if that darn college paper didn't
ome around every other day want­ing,,
a_statement we might be able
to get a little more done," said -Har­old
Nelson, chairman of Homecom­ing,
Wednesday afternoon.
Plans Progressing
Despite this mutinous statement,
preparations for the most success­ful
Homecoming "ever sponsored are
well formed and under way. The
reshmen are determined to have a
onfire that will not be burned un-il
the night of the nineteenth. It
is to,.be piled back of the new gym-asium.
"It will be built and ready on the
eighteenth," says Mike Zylstra,
president of the freshman class.
"My crew is giving me good coop­eration
and we intend to see that
outclass does not fail in preventing
upper-classmen from destroying our
fire," he added warningly.
Daytime Assembly
"The Homecoming assembly will
be given in the regular assembly
hour. Individual acts are being
worked out with the grad's dreams
as a theme," says Virgie Boal, as­sembly
chairman. This is somewhat
of a change as Other assemblies
have been held at night.
Plans for the o-so-peachy Home­coming
booklet are about half fin­ished.
The color scheme in blue
and white will have the form and
texture of a football.
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WL Informal Date
Changed
Soukup Promises Big
Things With Organ
Beginning with the Home­coming
edition, the Western
Viking will publish a seven col­umn
paper for the remainder
of the quarter. Permission to
publish this size paper was re­quested
of the Board of Con­trol
by Clarence Soukup, edi- .
tor of the Viking.
"We are not experimenting,"
announced Editor Soukup. "We
are returning, with improved
financial conditions, to nor­mal
size and news content. A
school as large and as well
known as WWC rates a seven
column weekly."
Since 1932 the Viking has
been a six column paper dur­ing
the fall, winter and spring
quarters and a five column pa­per
in the summer. Spring
quarter of 1932 was the last
time the seven column paper
was published.
The action was made neces­sary
by decreased fundsv
State School
Superintendent
Speaks at WEA
School Laws Need Reform;
Can Be Done in Olympia,
Says Atwood in Speech
Hot Session
Students Swing
With Band
Wellman's White jackets
Play for Tonight's Informal;
Gala Affair Held at Crystal
By Bill Fowler
Tonight the lilting melodies of
a dance band will blend with the
rhythmic scraping of hundreds of
twinkling feet at the Crystal ball­room
when the first Bandsmen's in­formal
gets under way.
The event promises to be one of
the highlights of the year/ taking
the place of the gone.but not for­gotten
Men's club, informal.
Band Gyps Self
The admission of a dollar a cou­ple
is but a paltry sum in exchange
for the magic of the scintillating
lights, the lure of Harry Wellman's
danceable orchestra, and the excite­ment
of a program dance.
The college band is sponsoring the
affair and a dash of martial pomp
will be injected by the bandsmen
wearing their uniforms.
Percussion Ace Talks
Mike Zylstra, who tickles the
tom-tom in Don Bushell's organiza­tion,
is chairman and promises a
grand time for all who attend. Ac­cording
to Mike it will really be a
wow and absence from this dance
will mean immediate and perma­nent
exile from the college's social
register.
Swim Schedule In
Full Swing;
Mixed Night Too
With Stanley P. Atwood, state
superintendent of schools, as prob­ably
the most important speaker,
the 51st annual teachers' institute
of the Washington Educational In­stitute
met for two days in the
Whatcom Junior high school build-ng
and Mt. Baker theatre.
The state superintendent gave
an eleven point program pointing
out and explaining the needed
hanges in the state school laws and
saying that these points can be
emedied through the state legisla­ture.
"The state, school laws are
.odgepodge and need changing," he
aid in his talk to the teachers
'uesday morning..
An address by Dr. Holland D.
ioberts, assistant professor of Ed­ucation
at Stanford,-followed Mr.
itwood's message and then a pleas-ng
selection of classical music was
layed and sung by the Bellingham
ligh school orchestra and Girls'
horus directed by John R. Wil­liams.
Legionnaires Disagree
Controversy arose at the panel
iscussion late Tuesday at What-om
Junior high school where the
ubject of "What Should be the
•eacher's Attitude in the Classroom
vegarding the Everyday Threats to
Vorld Peace" was being discussed
nformally by panel members and
udience alike. Several American
Legionnaires were in the audience
and gave definite views concerning
the qustion, and hot words flew
fojr.^-short space of time...
Columbia, Lincoln and Washing-on
elementary schools held open
pecial classes for visitation and
iscussion on Monday afternoon.
Classes in oral English, art, history,
I ..nglish, newswriting and science
were open for visitation at What-om
Junior high school after which
'informal discussion pertaining to
ach individual subject was held by
he chairman present.
Interesting talks relating to
liings important to both student
nd certificated teachers were dis-ussed
by prominent speakers who
Were brought from different parts
f the country by the Seattle of­fice
of the WEA. All of the
peakers were experts in their lines
nd affiliated with the faculties of
well-known universities.
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Bandsmen Put Finger
On Rec Hour
Due to recent action by the Wom­en's
League, the date of their fall in­formal
has been changed from No­vember
13 to Saturday, November 6
Rae Crandall, chairman of the af­fair,
has put a list of the commit­tees
on the main bulletin board,
along with the temporary list for
those planning to attend.
The chairmen of the committees
working with Miss Crandall are: re­freshment,
Clarice Baldwin; decora­tion,
Winifred Krieter; invitations,
Sybil Hinchliffe; faculty, Pat
Green; program, Betty Franklin;
orchestra, Clara Oberleitner,•' and
publicity, Alice Molenkamp.
The chairmen and Miss Crandall
met at a meeting Wednesday after­noon
to discuss a motif and the ar­rangement
of details.
''The dances last year were well
attended: and showed a lot of hard
work, and I hope that this dance
•Will be ias- nice^' said Miss Cran­dall.
The chairman also stated that
she hoped ^thatCtoe girls would get
their dates for trie dance and sigh
the tempOrai^li^jr^ht away.
"The fall swim schedule is now in
full swing,' stated Sam E. Carver,
WWC supervisor of athletics, in a
recent interview.
The men are to use the pool on
Tuesdays and Fridays from 4:00 to
5:20 p. m., and the women on Mon­days
and Thursdays from 4:00 to
5:20 p. m. The pool will be open to
both men and women students on
Thursdays from 7:30 to 9:00 p. m.
Faculty swimming will be from 7:30
to 9:00 a. m. on Wednesday.
The school furnishes the students
and faculty with towels and swim
suits. These are checked before
and after each class.
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Women's League Elects
New Secretary
bly last Friday,
sence at-,i;
"There will be no rec hour this
afternoon," announces Virgie Boal,
chairman of the fall quarter rec
hours.
With the Bandmen's informal to­night
under the auspices, of the
band, and the DeMolay ball tomor­row
night, it was considered un­necessary
to.have a rec hour this
week.
Shirley Rogers was elected Wom­en's
League secretary at the assem-
Because of the ab-of
Lillian Pearson, now
tending the University of Washing
ton,.the position of secretary wajf
left open. <;
Nominations were made at the
Commission meeting and; petitions
were placed on the bulletin board
last week. \ :;;I?
The last half of the assembly was;
taken by Miss Ruth Weythman, whip
discussed and showed her collection
of dolls.',:; "'^ '•.'';" ' ••
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THe Ho f1l *°*
Friday, October 29
11:00 a. m.—Student assem­bly.
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9:00 p. m.—Bandsmen's In­formal,
Leopold hotel,
Crystal ballroom.
Saturday. October 20
, 1:00 p. m.—WAA hike to
Toac! lake.
Tuesday, November 2
11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Hans
Helfritz, illustrated lecture
• on Arabia.
7:30 p. m.—Blue Triangle
meeting, «Biue Triangle
clubhouse. ;
Wednesday, November 3 '
8:00 ; p / r m, ^InteniJMAonal
Relations' club meeting,
Edens nail club room.
.•'Tliursday;.;^^
"3:30-5:30 y^'-'ic^WomBi^iil
• League fashion tea, Edens