Northwest Viking - 1937 January 22

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VOL. XXXVI--NQ, 15
Live
And
Learn
-By Don Gooding.
Shades of Grandpa! Reminiscent
of better and older times was the
hdrse-drawh cutter taking advan­tage
of the icy condition of down­town
streets the other day. Years
ago the place was swarming with
them, and.unless you had the agili­ty
of an adagio addict, your life
was at stake out-of-doors.
* * * * *
Some industrious, downtrodden
politician should take advantage of
the present session of the state's
legislature and introduce a measure
which would ultimately cause street­cars
to chase potential riders in­stead
of vice versa, as the system is
now run. Then we could be sure
in saying that politics are worth­while.
One not-too-well known col-league
of yours has estimated his
chasing distance at two miles per
month, a goodly ^average. During
tlito tlnje, Jtwo local sprint records
were fatally; hent,. along.; w i th
three garbage, cans, a bunch of pe­destrians,
and sundry other objects
unavoidable at the time. And all
because of a girl. Goodness!
* * * * *
Detroit moralists were given a
seoere jolt one morning when they
read of a judicial scandal whch
somehow had escaped their notice.
Two bedraggled prisoners had been
led before the court and asked to
take the usual oath. At the point
where their hands were in.the air,
the two gentlemen's trousers, pants
to you, slid, downward, sending the
courtroom into hysteria. The de­partment
was commended for its
diligent searching but was requested
to leave all belts, suspenders, and
other supports on the immediate
persons of all future defendants.
* * * * *
Speaking of legislation, it might
be well to note that a bill has just
been introduced in the halls of the
state Congress which will change
the names of the three Washington
Normal from WSNS to Western
Washington College of Education for
our Normal, Eastern Washington for
Cheney, and Central Washington for
KUensburg. Headed by Whatcom's
Senator Roland, 16 other lawmakers
are united in an effort to force this
measure through.
* * * * *
The movement was given impetus
last Homecoming game when Gov­ernor
Martin made some remark
about Coach Lappenbusch's College
of Education posters which set
the pot boiling. So, getting
together with the other Normal
heads, President Fisher, who has
been in Olympia this week,, began
the task of convincing legislators of
the merits of such a change, and
judging by the present results, he
was highly successful.
WSCE, is here we come!!
* * * * *
YE OLDE CONGRESS
They dined a bit, and wined a bit
Adopted many motions
The chief thing they accomplished
was
To scatter kindly notions.
They differed as to methods
They disagreed on ends
The happy termination Was
They parted wiser friends.
As a result of Governor Lehman's
last minute leniency, seven more
prisoners will board at the expense
of the State of New York, for the
remainder of their lives. These
same commutations of sentence will
also save the taxpayers over $1000
in execution fees.
Instead of $900 for six executions,
official executioner Robert Elliot re­ceived
but $300 for two, in place of
$600 for four, only $150 for one.
The question is, did the state gain
anything?
Perhaps some of you noticed the
hne in last week's story of "Much
Ado About Nothing,'' in which some
industrious reporter tried to launch
Monday into a lengthy rehearsal
session lasting until late in March.
He jaeant well, anyhow.
Vander Griend, Zylstra Win In Primaries
Lund* Tomco
Ate Selected
un Reps
Annual Representatives. On the
Campus Voted Wednesday
In Elections
Big Percentage Votes
Prizes Awarded Victorious Pair,
Subscriptions To Life
Florence Lund and Ed Tomco
have been elected most representa­tive
woman and man in Bellingham
Normal's student election held last
Wednesday in the Men's club room.
This election is sponsored yearly by
Normal's annual, the Klipsun.
Miss Lund, prominent in school
affairs, was president of the student
body last quarter. She was also
student body vice-president for four
quarters and is one of those whose
influence has put the Blue Triangle
on the map. Miss Lund graduated
from Everett high school in 1932
and is now in her ninth quarter at
Normal.
Tomco, the most representative
man, is a two-year letterman on the
football team and was this last seas­on
elected captain by his mates.
Hailing from Seattle and a junior
at present, Tomco attended the Uni­versity
of Washington as a fresh­man
where he made the Frosh foot­ball
squad. He is the second of the
Tomcos to attend Normal, his broth­er
Mike having played football un­der
Lappenbusch three years ago.
The men candidates nominated
were: Ed Tomco, Chet Ullin, and
Dick Carver; the women candidates
were Florence Lund, Kathryn
Hatch, and Margaret Thon. Of the
410 ballots cast in the election 385
votes were polled in the popularity
contest.
As prizes for the winners sub
scriptions to the Life magazine will
be presented. Their pictures will
be featured in the 1937 Klipsun.
This is the fifth annual most rep­resentative
man and woman contest
sponsored by the yearbook.
The winners were in past years
as follows: 1933, Doris McElmon and
Vernon Leatha; 1934, Harriet Rick-erson
and Otto Pinley; 1935 Chris­tine
Albers and Tony Zambas; 1936,
Joan Hoppe and Bud VanderGriend.
Sea Salts Extraction
Told at Rotary Club
Luncheon by Philippi
"Useful products," said Professor
H. C. Philippi, of the Bellingham
Normal school chemistry depart­ment,
before the Rotary club meet­ing
in the Leopold hotel last Mon­day,
"are being extracted from the
sea for man's use in large quanti­ties
at the present time."
"Of the 60 quadrillion tons of salt
in the 450,000,000 cubic miles of wa­ter
that covers the earth's surface,"
he continued, "three-fourths is
common salt. Magnesium follows
with two and a half quadrillion tons
and then, in brder, are calcium,
potassium, and bromine.'
"The running short of bromine
was the cause of scientists starting
after materials," Mr. Philippi went
on to explain. In 1924 the total
amount of bromine used was 2,000,-
000 pounds per year, chiefly con­sumed
in photography, dyes and
drugs. By 1924 consumption of
bromine, due to the increased use
of Ethyl gasoline, had gone up to
9,000,000 pounds per year, ethyline
dibronide and lead tetraethyl being
used in preparing the gasoline. Up
to this time all bromine was taken
from salt wells in Michigan.
Dupont's Experiment
Since 1934 the Ethyl Gasoline
corporation and the Duponts set up
a floating experimental laboratory
and, though their engineers were
very poor sailors, they proved bro­mine
could be extracted from the
sea. Another company, the Dow
Chemical Company, put up a plant
on land. With the help of the
United States 'Geodetic survey they
finally built a plant to extract 15,000
pounds per day. This plant, built
to extract bromine and then manu­facture
ethyline dlbromide, was fin­ished
in five months. The only
other industry of this kind in the
United States is on the coast south
of San Francisco and produces
Vienna Choir Boys
Valentine Informal
Headed by Pulver
Women's League .. Choosts Hotel
Leopold for Informal
Sponsored by the Women's league,
the annual Valentine informal will
be held in the Crystal ballroom of
the Hotel Leopold on,the evening
of February 6. Martha Lou Pulver,
general chairman of the dance, ap
pointed committees and the list was
posted on the Women's league bulle
tin board.
At the meeting of the committee
chairmen Tuesday, it was decided
to use the valentine motif and to
make the dance a yearly tradition.
Decorations will; carry the Valeh
tine idea throughout. The commit­tee
also decided that the women will
invite the men and purchase the
tickets.
Appointed by Miss Pulver were
the following committee chairmen:
Marian Rhodes, publicity; Alma
Carr, programs; Pauline Barnes,
decorations; Arlene Dickinson, re­freshments;
Lili Brown, patrons;
Katherine Kobervig, entertainment;
Helen Masters, properties.
"In order to arrange for the per­fect
dance, it is necessary for the
girls to sign the list on the bulletin
board as soon as possible," Miss
Pulver stated.
The orchestra has not been select­ed
as yet.
YWCA Conference Set
Back Until Next Week
Scheduled for the latter part of
this week, the annual Normal school
Bible Institute sponsored by the
YWCA has been postponed to next
week, January 28-31 inclusive. Post­ponement
was due to weather con­ditions
which made it impossible
for speakers to make the trip from
Seattle.
Meetings next week will begin
Thursday at 4:00 p. m. From then
on the meeting schedule will be as
follows: Friday, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30;
Saturday, 2:30; and Sunday, 2:30.
Among the outstanding speakers in­vited
are Mrs. Kenneth Colman, of
Seattle, a leader of state Christian
Endeavor work, and Mrs. J. Addison
Campbell, who has lived in Korea
two years and has been in active
contact with the Christian missions
there.
-©—
Miller Heads Officers
. Of New Forum Term
At the January meeting of the
Faculty Forum, which was held last
Tuesday, the following were elected
as officers for the coming year:
president; Dr. I. E. Miller; vice-president,
Miss Mary E. Rich; sec­r
e t a r y - t r e a s u r e r , Miss Miriam
Snow; elected-member of the exe­cutive
committee, Herbert C. Ruck-mick;
delegate to the legislative as­sembly
of the WEA, Dr. A. C. Hicks.
The Forum also drew up a resolu­tion
of appreciation, copies of
which were, sent to Mrs. Ellison,
wife of the late Herbert Ellison, to
the faculty of the Wenatchee junior
high school, and to the WEA jour­nal.
'"••.
Vienna Singers
Due Wednesday
Civic Music Association Gives An
Opportunty To Hear Choir
In Concert
Normal school students will have
the opportunity to hear the Vienna
Choir boys sing in the Normal audi­torium
on Wednesday evening, Jan­uary
27, at 8:15. 375 seats will be
available for Normal school stu­dents.
Tickets may be obtained by
presenting student membership
card at.the Co-op on Monday or
Tuesday, January 25 and 26. The
program is being given under the
auspices of the Bellingham, Civic
Music association.
: Five hundred years a&o when the
members of the Vienna Choir boys
were accustomed to visit the house
of a feudal lord, they traveled along
the Austrian highways in donkey
carts. Today the representatives of
that ancient and venerable institu­tion
speed along concrete highways
from city to city in,a highpowered
bus. Thus will the choir boys arrive
in Bellingham, accompanied by Rec­tor
Schnitt, musical director Gru-ber
and nurse Muhlbacher, who
watches over their food and cloth­ing.
She prepares special food for
the young troopers.
Sports Appeal
The Vienna Choir boys of today
are a healthy, play-loving aggrega­tion.
They are devoted to basket­ball,
swimming and soccer. They
•love concerts, symphony perform­ances,
and chamber music, but they
cannot make out the American
comic sections. They prefer our
American rotogravure section full
of pictures of aviators, ships, and
the modern" inventions in the field
of transportation..-. Although "the
boys recently appeared in a Holly­wood
film under the direction of
Norman Taurog, they do not favor
American movies. The language
barrier is too much for them, but
whenever they are able to find a
German film, they whoop with joy.
The Vienna Choir boys are on
their fifth concert tour of America.
o
Library Will Take Poll
To Find Most Popular
Articles Among Students
What is the best magazine article
you have read during the last two
weeks? You'd better be thinking
about it-, for you'll soon have the
chance to compare it with those se­lected
by other students.
To help all students in the school
become better acquainted with cur­rent
literature on all phases of life,
the library is planning next week to
start a poll to ascertain what arti­cles
appeal to the students.
Appearing on the bookcase in the
reserve room are lists compiled by
a Council of Librarians of the Amer­ican
Library association, with their
selections of the ten best magazine
articles of each month. These may
be used as a basis of comparison, or
to suggest further reading for the
students.
Faculty members as well as stu­dents
are invited to contribute then-selections
in a box which will be
placed in the reserve room of the
library. Every two weeks the re­sults
will be tabulated and a list
posted.
o
Cubs Taken Again
News Hawks Turn On Heat;
Four Initiates Survive
Once more the time rolled
around when the Northwest
Viking cub reporters were sent
through that gruelling ordeal
at the hands of the merciless
news hawks.
Down at the old Miller &
Sutherlen haunt, the hopefuls
were driven through Terror
Gulch and introduced to the
mossy log. Then to the ones
who fetill survived, the chair­man
pulled some other blood­curdling
tricks from up his
sleeve and gave it to 'em.
Betty .Howell, Pat Green,
JanieS Hanson, Gus Gissberg,
and Jack Carver wjere the ini­tiates.
Zylstra, Vander Griend Selected
• * * *•* •**
In Presidential Primary; Will Run
Off Contest In Finals Wednesday
Bushell Receives Only Majority Given Candidates;
Chorvat and Lammers Beat Soukup in Close Race
For Vice-president Nomination; 410 Students Vote
Election Returns
President
Zylstra 184
Vander Griend 98
Siemons 70
Packler :........ 42
Vice-president
Chorvat 159
Lammers 126
Soukup ........106
Representative
Boal - 180
Perkins 130
Hinchliffe ., 77
Representative
Wilson 185
Swisher :........... 131
Reasoner 69
Klipsun Well Under
Way, Reports Thon
Winter Scenes, Basketball Squad
Already Photographed
"The views or the opening section
of the Klipsun.have been taken and;
work on:the irest of the book is wejr
under way," reports Margaret Thon,
editor of Normals 1937 annual.
During the next week the fall andj
winter snapshot pages will be com-j
pleted and students who wish to
contribute collegiate pictures for
this section may do so during that
time. Pictures may be submitted to
staff photographers Mickey Dickin­son,
Warren Toms, and Don Reeves;
assistant editor, Lucille Lee; or to
the editor. A box for snapshots has
also been placed on the main land­ing
for student use. '
Juniors and seniors who were not
in school fall quarter and wish to
have their pictures in the Klipsun
must have them taken as soon as
possible at Sandison's studio, above
Woolworth's store. Appointments
may be made at the studio or in the
Klipsun office.
Individual and squad basketball
pictures were taker*, Monday under
the -direction of sports editor, Clar­ence
Soukup. Shots of the intra­mural
champs and foul shot winner
are the next pictures to be taken to
complete the action.
Valkyrie Dinner To Be
Held for New Initiates
Names of Don Zylstra and Clara
Vander Griend will be placed on the
election ballots next Wednesday in
the final election for president of
the associated students. These two
students won the primary election
with comparative ease over Alice
-Siemons and Mildred Packler.
Frank Chorvat and Louise Lam­mers
were judged finalists in the
vice-prexy race. Virgie Boal and
Margaret Perkins will run off the
woman representative contest, while
the winners in the man or woman
representative election will be Betty
Swisher and Don Wilson. Mr, Don
Bushell received the only majority
and was named faculty representa­tive
to the Board of Control.
Final tabulations revealed that
the primary drew the votes of 60
per cent of the students. A larger
percentage is forecast in the finals
when four new officers will be
named. The total vote numbered
410.
Zylstra Holds Lead
Zylstra polled a substantial lead,
over the women candidates with
184 votes against Miss Vander
Griend's total ,ot 98. / :;' •.;-->,'•'.'-
Evidently the determined opinion
that Chorvat "would find out where
the money went" earned him a way
into the vice-presidency finals.
Chorvat's opponent will be Miss
Lammers, who edged out Clarence
Soukup, the other nominee. This
was the closest contest on the bal­lot.
Wilson Gets Votes
Wilson received the largest num­ber
of votes given any student, al­though
he failed to gain the major­ity
necessary for election. Betty
Swisher will be paired against Wil­son
for the position of man or wom­an
representative to the control
board. Eleanor Reasoner was the
eliminated candidate.
The largest number of votes cast
in the race of woman representa­tive
was received by Miss Boal, with
Miss Perkins exactly 50 votes be­hind.
Sybil Hinchliffe was elimin­ated
by placing third.
Beverly Holiday, acting vice-presi­dent,
had charge of the election and
was assisted by Bertha Smith. The
voting machines were procured
from city officials and were placed
in the Men's club room.
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New Valkyrie club members will
be initiated at a banquet at the
Bellingham hotel next Tuesday eve­ning.
Initiates are: Eleanor Rea­soner,
Helen Westlake, Rae Crandel,
Clara Vander Griend, Betty Swish­er,
Margaret Thon, and Rena Barr.
Mary Johnston, club program
chairman, and Elsabelle Cruttenden,
social chairman, have charge of
plans for the affair. Miss John­ston
will be assisted by Helen
Boothe and Marge Osier. Other
members of the social committee
are Jeanne Borgstedt and Betty
Franklin. The banquet wiil start
at 6 o'clock and will be followed
by a program in which new mem­bers
will take part.
o—
Wilhelmine Docherty Is
Secretary for Hopper
Miss Wilhelmine Docherty was re­cently
appointed secretary to Miss
Elizabeth Hopper of the Normal Ap­pointment
bureau. Miss Docherty
takes the position formerly held by
Miss Allegra Jones who is now sec­retary
to the dean.
Miss Docherty comes from Yelm,
Washington. She attended the Un­iversity
of Washington where she is
a member of the Pi Beta Phi so­rority.
Miss" Docfterty is also a
graduate of the Success Business
college in Bellingham.
Com"lg
UP
Friday January 22
Basketball, Albany, Oregon,
there.
8:00 p. m.—Freshman Party,
Big gym.
. Saturday, January 23
Basketball, Linfield college,;
there.
Monday, January 25 ..
8:00 p. m.—Basketball, Uni­versity
of B.C., New gym.
• 7:30 p. m.—Alkisiah club
meeting; Edens Hall Club
room.
Tuesday, January 26
11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Goeta
Ljungberg, soprano.
Wednesday, January 27
4:00 *p. m.—Interclub coun­cil
meeting.
8:15 p. m.—Civic Music as­sociation
presents Vienna
Boys choir, Normal audi­torium.
8:00 p. m.—Faculty Chat, Mr.
Hunt in charge.
Friday, January 29
11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Wom­en's
league.
8:00 p. m.—Basketball, Uni-
, versity of Washington
1 frosh New Gym. r
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