Northwest Viking - 1937 February 19

              VOL. XXXVI—NO. 19
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, February 19, 1937
Live
And
Learn
-By Don Gooding.
Jumpin' fishes! When the House
of David's bearded wonders depart­ed
from Bellingham last Tuesday
they left on the wings of a mighty
tumult. During the night this
mighty tumult got a little out of
hand and "the winds blew and the
rains descended." By the time
Wednesday morning had put in an
appearance, it was possible to go
wading in the new gym, and swim­ming
in the deeper spots. So vio­lent
was the breeze that it had
.blown through windows, walls, and
what have. you. No damage result­ed.
Under the caption of "Pickpocket
Gets No Mercy," a fact concerning
the angelicness of wayward cops
was revealed this week to a conn-try
of wondering victims of legal
entanglements.
Some industrious pickpocket in a
rash frame of mind stole a rosary
and two-bits from a New York po­liceman,
poor man. When the cul­prit
was presented to the presiding
magistrate, that lawful gentleman
explained the seizure by stating,
^Yon have no right to steal prayer
beads from a police officer. You
see, that is his only way to get to
heaven."
So cops really do go to heaven,
after all, eh?
* * * • *
In trend with the times! Exhib­iting
a typical "Wimpy" hamburg-hcr
trait was one honest looer of that
succulent dish who, after ten years
of non-payment, finaRy came
through and paid for a \ 0-cent ham­burger
he had eaten ten years be­fore.
Which proves that to he who
waits, fortune will always come- .
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For two hours a thoroughly im­pressed
audience listened thought­fully
to Nobel prize winner (1922)
Dr. Niels Bohr labor over the intri­cacies
of "Light and Life" in To­ronto,
Canada.
Two hours after, the start, not a
person could repeat a word of what
had been spoken. However, to make
up for this embarrassing deficiency
the listeners agreed that Dr. Bohr
was indeed a great man and that
even if they didn't hear him it was
a privilege just to see his "speech."
Poor acoustics was blamed for
sending his words bouncing from
wall to wall without allowing them
to reach the ears of the 300 specta­tors.
4 * 4 * *
Down in gay old Rio (not Grande)
they celebrate things in a Big way.
This particular occasion started out
as the three-day Carnival Carioca,
but as merriment waxed hotter and
hotter it turned into a regular
brewers' brawl. By the time they
got through and the police had se­cured
a measure of calm in the
city, 18 were dead, 1021 injured, and
1500 arrested.
Now that either reminds us of
the Spanish war or our Barn Dance,
somewhat.
1 * U 4 *
About twenty of Normal's football
gladiators are now showing off their
nifty hew sweaters given to themas
a result of laborious work on the
gridiron last falL Hurry, hurry goils,
before they're all gone.
Comitlg Vv
Friday, February 19
8:00 p. m.—Rec hour, Big
gym.
Monday, February 22
8:00 p. m— Basketball, Lin-field
college, New gym.
8:15 p. m.—Civic Music as­sociation
concert, Raya
Garbousova, cellist, Normal
auditorium.
Tuesday, February 23
11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Lud-wig
Lewisohn, lecture.
8:00 p. m.—Basketball, Lin-field
college, New gym.
Wednesday, February 24
8:00 p. m.—-Faculty Chat,
Miss. Piatt, Edens Hall Blue
room.
Friday, February 26
11:00—Assembly, Dr. Y. T.
Wu, Chinese.
Vikings Face
Tough Foes
On Road Trip
Cheney, Eilensburg Games Will
Decide Tri-normal Winner;
Cheney Is Favorite
Cheney Has New Gym
Lappenbusch Predicts Hard
Battles From Both Teams
An exciting and rough bas­ketball
game went the way of
Eilensburg last night as they
threshed out a 46 to 31 vic­tory
over the Vikings from
Bellingham. In spite of im­provement
in the foul shoot­ing
department, the Vikings
were unable to hit the basket
often enough to make up the
deficit created by Boersma
who sunk 12 for Eilensburg.
Dziedzic countered with seven
for the Vikings, while Carver
and Nelson were only able to
put in six apiece. The half-time
score was 24-16 in favor
of the winners.
Six Delegates
Attend
Youth Meeting
Friedman, High, Toms, Seelye,
Kluge, Byl Attend
Qlympia Conference
Roosevelt Supports Bill
Provisions Will Double Work
Given NYA Students
By Dick Fowler
Having played Eilensburg last
night in the first game of their El-lensburg-
Cheney trip, the Western
Washington Vikings take on Coach
Red Reeve's Savages tomorrow eve­ning,
February 20, in the newly
dedicated Cheney gymnasium.
In previous games, the low-hang­ing
girders of the Cheney gym have
given the Vikings no little trouble,
keeping them at a decided disad­vantage,
but on the new floor this
handicap has been removed.
Owing to the fact that there
is no hotel in the town of Che­ney,
Coach;Charles F. Lappen-busck's
squad is staying in
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Scholarship Group
Initiates
Banquet Held at Leopold Hotel
Thursday Evening
At the initiation banquet of the
Scholarship society last night, the
following six Normal students were
taken into the honorary: Kathryn
Hatch, Patricia Green, Margaret
Perkins, Winfield Leach, Clayton
Knittel, and Percy Maddux. The
banquet was held at 6:30 in the
Rose room of the Leopold hotel. A
yellow color scheme predominated in
the decorations.
Reviving an old custom, each ini­tiate
defended a thesis and was
bombarded with questions by the
other guests and faculty members.
Each new member also gave a brief
autobiography.
The Scholarship society has a lim­ited
membership. Those who are in
school at present are Alfred Brandt..
Loreen Hovan, Beverly Holiday,
Ethel Ross, Zenne Burrough, Jim
Martin, Marguerite Winterhalter,
Jim Barnhart, Lynn Hughes, and
Virginia Bever. Miss Emma Erick-son
is the faculty adviser. Among
the faculty members present at the
banquet were: Mrs. C. H. Fisher,
Miss Ruth Piatt, Miss Nora B. Cum­mins,
Miss Lucy Kangley, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Ruckmick, and Mr.
Thomas F. Hunt.
Interested in passing the Emer­gency
Youth Bill that was presented
to the State House of Representa­tives
this session of legislature, a
delegation of students were selected
from the Western Washington col­lege
to be sent to Olympia for the
forthcoming conference to be held
Sunday, February 21. The delegates
elected were, Ralph Friedman, chair­man,
Bill Byl, Harry Kluge,
Warren Toms, .ton High and Don
Seelye. Funds for the pilgrim­age
were solicited from students and
teachers interested in the youth
movement.
Provisions of the bill provide for
more N.Y.A. money in this state, by
the process of the state of Washing­ton
matching all Federal N.Y.A. as­sistance
dollar for dollar. At pres­ent,
the Federal government is fi­nancing
all appropriations of this
kind. The bill would also prohibit
any cuts in the present salaries. It
also provides that students may ob­tain
such jobs without their families
being recipients of relief.
Saturday noon the local delegates
will leave for Seattle, where they
plan on staying for the night, and
will proceed Sunday morning to
Olympia, where they will register
for the conference at 10:30. The
conference proper is scheduled for
11.00 a. m. After lunch, greeting
will be made the delegates by prom­inent
state officers, religious, labor,
and youth leaders of the state.
The conference will come to a
^closp^vidth the election of commit­tees
and the drawing up of resolu­tions.
In support of this type of legisla­tion,
President Franklin D. Roose­velt
said, "To the American Youth
of all parties I submit a* message of
confidence: Unite and challenge!
It is for the new generation to * * *
give strength and spirit * * * to our
national life.
Lewisohn Featured
By Vanadis
Four of Ludwig Lewisohn's books
were reviewed at the regular meet­ing
of the Vanadis Bragi club in
the Edens hall club room Monday
evening. "Up Stream," an autobi­ography,
was reported on by Mar­garet
Bertrand. This was followed
by a review of "The Last Days of
Shylock" by Jeanne Richards. Eliza­beth
Cardwell discussed "This Peo­ple"
and the program was concluded
by a report on "Stephen Escott" by
Frances Daley.
The reports were followed by a
general discussion of the . books.
The theme Mr. Lewisohn ex­pounds
is the return of the Jews to
Palestine because of racial preju­dices.
From prejudices against
the Jews the conversation turned to
race discrimination in general
against any minority race. Our
own problem of the Oriental and
the Negro were touched upon.
Maid of Salem Thrills Scribe;
Is Veteran of Radio
By Don Gooding
Devastation in the person of love­ly
Mildi Roberts, concert violinist,
struck a surprised Normal assembly
last Friday noon. Miss Roberts, a
native of the Northwest, born in
Salem, Oregon, was interviewed by a
slightly stunned reporter who man­aged
to retain sufficient equipoise
to enable him to glean a scattering
of facts concerning her rather ex­tensive
career.
According to her mother, the pe­tite
violinist began playing when
she was seven years old. After be­coming
proficient in the art, she
journeyed abroad to take up more
advanced studies. That was about,
seven years .ago.
"Several years later while still in
Europe," she said, remarking on
the royal blood coursing through
her veins, "we purchased from the
king of Saxony the violin I used to­day.
The king was a little bank­rupt
at the time and was compelled
to auction off considerable of his
property.. . so we got the old family
violin."
After making her debut under the
tutelage of Henri Martoux, of the
Dresden Conservatory in Germany,
Miss Roberts returned to New York,
where she has resided for the past
three years. She has crashed the
radio field, too, having displayed her
prowess via a national hook-up
from Montreal, and; several times
from the studios of KOIN, of Port­land,
Oregon.
It seems that most of her musical
ability has descended from her
mother's side; where her golfing,
tennis, and riding interests came
from she didn't say. Bach, Mozart,
and Beethoven are both lucky and
talented enough to be highly es^-
teemed by the vivacious Miss Rob­erts/
• .
Raya
Gorbousova,
Cellist
Russian Cellist To Appear Here
Monday Evening;
Student Tickets Will Admit
Raya Garbousova To Play In
College Auditorium on Wash­ington's
Birthday Anniversary
Has Varied Career
Civic Music Association Spon­sors
Concert, Third of Series
Raya Garbousova, gifted young
artist, is considered one of the fin­est
virtuosos of the cello appearing
on the concert platform today. She
has had two brief seasons in this
country and remarkable success has
followed in her wake. She will ap­pear
in recital before the Civic Mu­sic
association in the Normal School
aduitorium next Monday evening.
She will perform on her splendid
Gofrilla cello, valued at $16,000.
Miss Garbousova enjoys playing be­fore
American audiences and likes
American cities very much.
Valkyries To Dance
In Leopold
Elsahelle Cruttendear^pjppints....
Committees for Dance
Saturday, March 6, is the date set
for the Valkyrie sport dance to be
held in the Tulip room of the Leo­pold
hotel. Elsabelle Cruttenden,
general chairman of the affair, ap­pointed
as committee heads Martha
Lou Pulver, faculty; Jeanne Borg-stedt.
program; Esther Jones, invi­tation;
Helen Acklen, entertain­ment;
and Clara VanderGriend, re­freshments.
The dance will be for Valkyrie
members and invited guests.
Initiation Held
New Valkyrie members voted into
the club at the first of this quarter
were initiated at a meeting held at
the home of Joan Hoppe last Mon­day
evening. At this time the ini­tiates,
Reva Barr, Rae Crandall,
Betty Swisher, Eleanor Reasoner,
Clara VanderGriend, Helen West-lake,
and Margaret Thon signed the
pledge and received their club em­blems
after revealing some of their
hidden talents, much to the amuse­ment
of the old members.
In a short program Maxine Mol-drem
played a number of violin se­lections
and Echo Oxford sang a
few popular songs, accompanied by
Mary Johnston, who also played a
song of her own composition.
Oregonian Copy
Submitted
rCop^;,and^Phpt.Qgrapb3.jSe.nt Jo
Portland for Publication
Ullin Receives
Four Year
Football Sweater
Football sweaters were awarded
17 WWCE men last Tuesday. There
was no formal presentation, the boys
merely calling at Coach Chuck
Lappenbusch's office.
Those receiving sweaters arid the
number of years they have won one
are as follows: four years, diet
Ullin; three years, Morris Tarte
and Steiner Kvinsland; two years,
Jack Claypoole, Ed Tomco, Ernie
Dzurick, Fritz Chorvat, Peter Na-grodski,
Erman Holtzheimer, George
Smith, and Fred Krueger; one year,'
Andy Maski, Vern Peterson, Russell
Davis, Art Mickel, Henry Bengston,
and Leo Lange.
Though W club officers had
planned an initiation banquet for
the six one-year men who will now
become members, it had to be post­poned
because of illnesses. The
latest report, coming from Ed Tom­co,
president, is that there will be
no initiation now till spring quar­ter.
Tomco said, "As the quarter is
now half over we are going to wait
till later, when we can include the
new basketball men, also."
Pictures of several representative
women students of the school were
sent Thursday and will appear soon
on a special page of the Sunday edi­tion
of the Oregonian. Views of the
campus and buildings will be shown
and information concerning the in­stitution
will be given.
Each week the paper, published at
Portland, Oregon, will devote one
page to a different Pacific North­west
college. It will .have photo­graphs
of the co-eds and of the
schools.
The pictures of the following have
been sent: Florence Lund, president
of the Associated Students and also
most popular woman in school;
Joan Hoppe, representative co-ed
last year; Margaret Thon and
Kathryn Hatch, nominees for most
popular woman and prominent in
school activities; Mary Jane Moer-geli,
Women's League president;
Helen Acklen, Anna Padden, and
Virgie Boal, members of the Board
of Control.
Willamette university and Mary-hurst,
a college for girls, have been
featured in the last two editions.
o —
Armstrong Chosen
New Head
Campfire Girls
Under the leadership of Alice
Armstrong, president, the new
Campfire group, Scepter and Shield,
has completed organization. This
club, which consists of thirty mem­bers,
held its first meeting Tuesday,
February 9, in the social science of­fice.
The organization is a continuation
of the Campfire order, specially or­ganized
for older girls. Although it
is connected with the other Camp-fire
groups in the city, the purpose
is largely social. "Any girl interest­ed
may join the group," says Miss
Armstrong, "but to hold office in the
club, a girl must have made at least
her third rank."
Other officers are: vice-president.
Adella Everett; secretary, June
Weckwerth; treasurer, Phyllis Rose,
and scribe, Lois Bernard; Miss Vir­ginia
Bever, history teacher, is the
faculty sponsor.
Meeting dates are the second and
fourth Tuesday of each month.
The next meeting will be a dinner,
and the following one will be held at
the Boy Scouts' cabin.
"Wherever I am, if I make a suc­cess,
I like that city," says Raya
Garbousova with charming candor.
This young Russian cellist is com­ing
here for a recital next Monday
evening in the Normal School audi­torium
for the members of the Civic
Music association. Normal students
can obtain tickets at the Co-op.
As far as she can remember, this
attractive young woman's life has
been interwoven with music Her
father is a professor at the Tiflis
conservatory in Georgia.. She has
four sisters, all. musical, three of
whom play the piano and one. the
violin.
"It was terrible for my mother
when we were young," she remarks.
"Think of having to listen to five
children practicing all at once."
Raya, Garbpusova's first cello,
given her on her seventh birthday,
was an old instrument which her
' father picked up for a dollar. She
had been begging for one for three
years, and the gift was made partly
to humor her and partly as a joke,
since the instrument was bigger
that she was. .-:,'.
The girl was so overwhelmed with
joy that it's broken down condition
made no difference to her. She
practiced all day long, and soon her
family had difficulty tearing her
away from it even for meals. But
they found a way to overcome this
problem. Raya was so small at the
-time that she was not strong enough
to tune the mstrument, herself» and
' a ^ t a n c e ' w^
she had finished her lunch or din­ner.
American people, Garbousova
finds are very comprehending of
music.
"I can always tell if the audience
is really listening," she says. "When
I play pianissimo, I listen carefully
to find out how they feel about my
playing. Many times it is so still
you can hear a fly flying. But,
once, when I was playing especially
piauimisso, I heard someone snore,
so I, made the fortissimo very
quickly."
Ye Barn Dance
Goes Over Big
Trite, but true, that old saying—
"And a good time was had by all"—
certaily fits the junior-senior barn
dance Saturday night. The com­mittee
in charge, which consisted
of: Helen Acklen, chairman; May-nard
Ponko, Margaret Greely,
Marge Osier, Tory Lund, Ed Hud­son,
and Bill Taylor, deserves con­gratulations
and then some, for
putting over one of the cleverest
parties we've seen around here in a
long time. Both student and facul­ty
members are high to tnelr praise
bf the affair. Following are some of
their comments:
Helen Acklen: "The spirit of the
party was more than could have
been hoped for. It was a swell feel­ing
to know that there was still
some pep left in this student body."
Dr. Irving E. Miller: "That the
students had an enjoyable time was
evident all the way through. There
was relatively little standing on the
side-lines."
Maynard Ponko: "Well, we've
found one way to break up the
stag-line. My thanks go to the men
who broke down and entered into
the spirit of the party. They helped
make it a success."
Miss Lucy Kangley: "It was a de­lightful
party. Everyone seemed to
enter into the spirit of it and have
a hilarious time. It was full of fun
and spontaneity."
Pelegren Story Wins
"Modern pictures are-^-". informa­tion
from the art department writ­ten
in news story form by Frances
Pelegren, has been named the pest
story in this issue of the Viking.