Weekly Messenger - 1920 January 30

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XIX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920 NO. 15
ARE GIVING
H. C. L I H E AXE!
COOK YOUR OWN AND GET
SUNDAY DINNER FOR
FIFTY CENTS
REBUILT SUITS ARE O. K.
YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS OF THE
SCHOOL POINT OUT POSSI­BILITY
FOR THRIFT
" Give 'em the axe, the axe, the axe!"
shouted forty of the young housekeep­ers
of the Bellingham Normal at a meet­ing
held Wednesday, January 21 — not
in actual words, of course, for that
would have been undignified, but ac­cording
to the rule that actions speak
louder than words. Old H. C. L. must
have trembled when he heard the dire
plottings against his disastrous reign.
SUNDAY DINNER AT THE CEDARS
A correctly balanced Sunday dinner
for fifty cents! Sounds almost too good
to be true in these days, and yet this
is the feat accomplished by the girls at
the Cedars who not only secured a
dainty and attractive meal, but also one
that contained the number of calories
reguired, to sustain one. o.n„the„.day of
rest. The menu and price list follows:
dALORIES COST
Clear tomato soup 100 .03
Croutons 25 .01
Roast pork and gravy 150 .15
Mashed potatoes 150 .03
Jelly, currant 50 .01
Waldorf salad 150 .08
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MEN OF SCHOOL
E
MINORITY PARTY THINKS THAT
IN UNITY THERE IS
STRENGTH
ELWOOD DAVIS PRESIDENT
Acting upon the suggestion of Dr.
Miller, men's advisor, the men of the
school at a meeting last week adopted
a constitution and elected officers for
the remainder of the year.
Fearing that the young women of
the school might consider this a leap
year protective society, organized after
one month of hazardous trial, the men
wish to state that the organization was
suggested by Dr. Miller at the men's
banquet held in December, 1919. Since
that time meetings have been held and
a short time ago a committee was ap­pointed
to draw up a constitution and
by-laws, which were accepted at the
last meeting.
In accordance with the provisions of
the constitution, the following officers
were elected: Davis, president; Sim-onson,
vice president, and Loree, secre­tary.
Normal Team Wins In
Whatcom Basketball Games
Score in Boys' Game Stood 14-4 End First Half
WHATCOM HIGH FAILS TO FULFILL HER BOAST AND THE NORMAL
SCHOOL TEAM CAPTURES THE CITY
CHAMPIONSHIP
Normal School Girls Also Win by Score of 18-16
MISS MOFFATT'S FAST SEXTETTE DEFEATS CLEVER WHATCOM
TEAM IN A CLOSELY CONTESTED GAME
OF BASKETBALL
On Friay evening, January 23rd, the Normal basketball team
won the city championship title from the Whatcom High School
by a score of 18 to 12. The Normal was on hand with a large dele­gation
of rooters that rivaled the Whatcom rooters in cheering on
their respective teams. Playing a close game in which every point
counted, the Normal girls defeated the hitherto supposedly in­vincible
Whatcom girls by a score of 18 to 16.
; BOYS' GAME FULL OF THRILLS
Interest had run high in this game, the Normal team having
defeated the Whatcom team by one point two weeks before. This
was in the Normal gym, however, and the wise ones had it that
BELLINGHAM STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM
Back row — Davis, Black, Coach Carver, McPherson.
Front row — Sangster, Bartruff, Jenkins, Torkston.
Whatcom was bound to win as they
would be playing on their own floor
and the Normal team was not used to
playing on a large floor. In the down­town
districts the betting dropped from
Whatcom winning by 12 points to
Whatcom winning by 8 points. History
again repeated itself and again the
prophets were wrong. The closest
Whatcom ever was to the Normal score
was during the first five minutes of
play when Whatcom caged a free throw
and the score was 3 to 1 in favor of the
Normal team.
WHATCOM SCOHES MOSTLY ON FOULS
Most of Whatcom's points were made
on foul throws and even then the score
was 14 to 2 until the last few minutes
of the first half when Crum, of What­com,
tossed in a field basket, making
the score 14 to 4, in favor of the Nor­mal,
at the end of the first half.
During the second half Crum secured
one more field basket and six more free
throws were tossed in, bringing up their
total to 12. Meanwhile Jenkins, Yorks-ton
and others, continued to throw field
baskets bringing the Normal score up
to 18 . thereby winning the game. A
feature of the game was the close guard­ing
of Bartruff and Davis, the What­com
forwards failing to get a basket
during the entire game. Both of What­com's
field goals were thrown by their
center.. Cole, Crimson guard, was put
in during the last of the second half
but failed miserably in coming up to the
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DELEGATES REPORT
AT
WEDNESDAY ASSEMBLY IS = DE­VOTED
TO REPORT OF DES-MOINES
DELEGATES
ARE INSPIRED BY MEETINGS
(By CLYDE BANCROFT)
The Wednesday assembly was devoted
to the reports of the delegates from the
convention at Des Moines, who were
representatives of the Student Volun­teer
Movement. Miss Kessler spoke
first, using the topic of " The Composi­tion
of the Convention." She told of
the trip east, the special train, weather,
and of the vesper services held enroute,
finally of their arrival at Convention
Hall.
Miss Kessler mentioned the inspira­tion
that one received upon entering the
Coliseum, and seeing the thousands of
delegates who had gathered from the
four corners of the world, and to learn
that in the first twenty rows alone,
forty nationalities were represented.
The Normal delegates were seated near
the front just' back of the Canadians.
She spoke of the platform filled with
prominent missionaries, among the most
prominent was John R. Mott, chairman
of the convention; Dr. Robert Speer,
Sherwood Eddy and S. Earl Taylor, and
gave some idea of the wonderful
speeches and section meetings. In clos­ing,
Miss Kessler thanked the students
and others who had made it possible
for her to have had this truly "great-continued
on page. 2.)
THINGS WORTH WHILE
McMORROW OF Y. M. C. A. AND
DR. HARPER GIVE STEPS
LEADING TO SUCCESS
Mr. W. B. McMorrow, state repre­sentative
of the Y. M. C. A. and who
spent some time overseas while in ser­vice,
spoke during assembly Friday
morning, and although his time was lim­ited,
his talk was most interesting.
He said in part:
'" We, as young people, have the world
in our hands. It is up to us. When I
left here for work in the service, I was
positive that the world could only be
saved by everybody's believing as :^
did. I have since learned a few things.
As I went through the streets of Paris
on May 1st and saw the mass of peo­ple
being forced off the streets by the
police, and again while in London wit­nessed
the police strike, I said to my­self
it must be that somebody is think­ing
wrong.
" The thing that caused the war was
not the ambition of one man, but the
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