Northwest Viking - 1936 November 13

              Orchids To
Jean Hatch
For Classy Cuts lhe4 THA WINNAH!
Dear MAMA,
Bless Her Heart
VOL. XXXVI—NO. 7 w ASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHUOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
Friday, November 13, 1936
Rec Hour Today
Erickson, Merriman, Philippi
Sponsors
"Instead of letting this rec
hour be a let-down after last
week's festivities, let's make it
bigger and better," says Italka
Runge, student sponsor this
week.
Miss Emma Erickson, Miss
Pearl Merriman, and Herbert
C. Philippi will be faculty spon­sors
for the affair.
Jack Rauch's orchestra will
play from 8 until 11 for the
dancing.
Guest tickets may be secured
before 4:00 o'clock in the Dean
of Women's office. However no
high school students will be
admitted.
The members of the stag
line may be many but their
popularity is few so why not
get. out and make this rec hour
a staggering success.
Plays By Rice To Be
Discussed At Regular
Vanadis Bragi Meeting
Group Discussion To Be Lead
By Ross, Daley, Toms
Two plays by Elmer Rice, an Am­erican
playwright, who is to be the
assembly speaker next Wednesday,
will be reviewed at the regular
meeting of the Vanadis Bragi club
Monday evening in the Edens Hall
club room.
"Street, Scene" will be reported on
by Francis Daley. Ethel Ross will
discuss "Cock Robin," the play Mr.
Rice wrote in collaboration with
Philip Barry. Some reviews of his
plays that aren't available in the
library will be reported on by War­ren
Toms.
All _ furniture is selected and
placed in such a way that it will not
block the audience's vision. Imag­inary
windows looking through into
outer space are actually filled with
spectators. If a fireplace be used,
only a foot or two of brick back­ing,
plus andirons and firescreen
may be shown. Actors enter through
aisles of the auditorium and all
changes in the set are made in full
view of the onlookers. There are,
of course, no curtains and no
scene changes.
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Alkisiah Club Hears
Reports on Alaska
Alaska was the subject chosen for
discussion at the regular meeting of
the Alkisiah club last Monday.
The informal discussion was led
by those who had either lived in or
spent a long time in that section.
The main interest was centered on
the customs and living conditions of
the natives of the various districts.
A very vivid description was given
of the Matinuska valley by Ethyl
Ross. Mrs. Ross was one of the
members of the welcoming commit-tss
in this colony.
Besides the regular meeting, the
group sponsored a luncheon for Sig-mund
Spaeth, on Tuesday.
The regular Thursday afternoon
tea in the Women's League room
was also under the direction of this
organization.
Thelma Curtis was in charge of
the arrangements for this affair.
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Board Rules No
Co-op Inventory
Ford To Buy Racket Stringing
Machine for Student Use;
Angel Reports
At the regular meeting of the
Board of Control held in the Asso­ciated
Students' office at 4:00 p. m.
yesterday, manager of the Co-op,
Sam Ford, suggested that no inven­tory
of stock be taken this year.
This was acted upon and passed.
Such an inventory would have cost
approximately $100. Mr. Ford was
given authority to purchase a ma­chine
for stringing tennis rackets.
This machine will be placed in the
Co-op for student use.
A request was received from the
WAA that the ping pong equipment,
now lying idle in the basement of
Edens hall, be placed in the recre­ation
room of the new gym.
Ed Angel gave an itemized report
of the football expenses and re­ceipts
for the year. Ruth Kulle
was appointed to investigate the
possibility of having individual stu­dent
boxes built in one of the rooms
that will be vacated when the PE
instructors change their offices to
the new gym.
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Normal Heads
Attend Meeting
This Weekend
Men To Discuss Appropriations;
May Change School Name;
To Attend Game
NW Viking Staff
Makes Promises
Viking staff members, male
and female will sponsor the
weekly tea to beheld in the
Women's League room next
Thursday, November 19, begin­ning
at 2:30 p. m. They invite
everyone in school to attend in
company with nis relatives,
friends, friends' friend, friends'
friends' friend fetcetera ad in­finitum).
The masculine element is
particularly urged to attend.
The Viking staff promises to
have its stronger members
presen^'even if it means lash­ing*
them to the tea tables.
i*he editor states with solemn
intimations 'Fear not, o shrink­ing
ones, thou shalt not be
a/lone in thy hour of timidity."
Tuesday Date For
Achievement Tests
Achievement retests in arith­metic,
English, and spelling
will be given Tuesday, Novem­ber
17, at 4:00 p. m. in the
auditorium. They will be given
under the direction of Dr. C. C.
Upshall, of the Department of
Research.
The tests are given to enable
students who neglected to take
them at the beginning of fall
quarter to take them at this-time.
All students who have re­ceived
scores which were be­low
certain established stand­ards
on these tests are re­quired
to meet such standards
before they will be permitted"
to do student teaching or re­ceive
a diploma.
No credit is given to any
student, regardless of classifi­cation,
for work done in this
institution, until the entrance
test requirements have been
met.
Annual tri-Normal meeting of the
trustees and presidents of Belling­ham,
Cheney and Ellensburg will
be held today and Saturday at the
Olympic hotel, in Seattle. This is
an annual meeting, prescribed by
state law.
The discussion will consist of
matters pertaining to the requests
to made to the legislature in Janu­ary.
The appropriations requested
are for salaries, operation, and capi­tal
outlay which covers all new im­provements.
Each school will make
individual estimates to fit its own
particular needs.
A change in the names of the
three Normals is to be considered.
Faculty vacations and teacher's
certificates also merit quite a lot of
time at these meetings.
After the meeting the mentors
will relax by attending the Univer­sity
of Washington-University of
Southern California football game
at the University stadium, Saturday
afternoon.
Cummins Heads
Local Women's
AAUW Branch
History Instructor Holds Important
Position in Bellingham's
Most Active Club
Friedman President
Of Discussion Club
Miss Nora B. Cummins, acting
dean, and head of the Social Sci­ence
department at Bellingham
State Normal, was elected president
of the Bellingham branch of the
American Association of University
women and chairman of its Interna­tional
relations committee, in a
meeting last April.
The purpose of the AAUW is to
establish a forum for public discus­sion
of current problems and sub­jects,
social, economic, scientific, hu­manitarian,
by a group of special­ists
in their field. In this way it
hopes to provide the opportunity
for non-partisan all around discus­sion
of subjects of interest to the
public, and promote higher educa­tion
for women.
Organized in the fall of 1918, the
AAUW is one of the most active
women's clubs in Bellingham. It is
affiliated with both the National
and International Federations of
University Women. An important
interest is taken in International
relations and adult education; their
program has been worked out along
this line.
Harborview Wins
Decorating Contest
Harbourview for the second suc­cessive
year won the banner for the
Homecoming decorations. The ex­hibit
featured a model of the PE
building, above which was printed
in large letters, "Poor Grads! Born
30 years too soon.'
The second prize was awarded to
Edwards hall for its exhibit, a large
electric clock with the words, "It's
time to beat Cheney." The judges
gave Daniels, Davis, and Downs
honorable mention.
The judging committee consisted
of Dr. E. A. Bond, Miss Virginia
Bever, Ruth Kulle, Joan Hoppe, and
Ed Angel.
Exhibits were judged on the basis
of originality, cleverness, amount of
work apparent, and appropriate­ness.
Ralph Friedman was elected pres­ident
of the Wednesday Evening
Discussion club at a Tecent meeting
of the organization held in the
Edens hall club room. Other offi­cers
elected were: vice-president,
Ed Angel; secretary, Margaret Per­kins.
Herbert C. Philippi, of the
Science department, was elected as
faculty advisor.
Because of the conflict with danc­ing
class on Tuesday evenings the
name of the organization has been
changed to the Wednesday Evening
Discussion club in place of its for­mer
title, the Tuesday Evening Dis­cussion
club. At the meeting held
last Tuesday the subject, "Are
Teachers Free?" was discussed from
all angles in a symposium style,
with every member giving his own
viewpoint on the subject.
IRC Will Discuss
Five New Books
Wednesday, November 18, the In­ternational
Relations club will dis­cuss
five new books which have
been received by the library from
the Carnegie Endowment fund.
The books are all 1936 publications.
They are: "On the Rim of the
Abyss," by Shotwell; "Propaganda
and Dictatorship," by Childs; "A
Place in the Sun," by Clark; "Liber­ty
Versus Equality," by Russell; and
a text book, "American Diplomacy,"
by Williams.
The club has many new pamph­lets
concerning every phase of Na­tional
and International peace, arm­aments,
and embargo. After discus­sing
the books, there will be a gen­eral
discussion of the National elec­tion
and the situation in Spain.
Paper Tabulates
Results of Quiz
Students Give Variety in Opinion;
Comment on General Makeup
Of Newspaper
Results of the questionnaire given
by the Viking staff last week have
been tabulated.
General makeup of the paper was
classed as being "all right," al­though
some said that the writing
of stories was good but the head­lines
poor. It was suggested that
the paper should have more personal
interest and color in the stories.
The most popular feature proved
to be "Dear Mama," while "Campi
Coast to Coast" came second and
"Hall of Fame" third. Other favor­ites
were "Forum" arid "Movie Re­view."
Some remarks were favor­able
to the feature page and some
unfavorable. One person said, "I
like our school paper and realize
that our columnists are not profes­sionals."
Other students believed
that there should be more attrac­tions
on the feature page.
Comment on sports was checked
in most cases as "good." Some stu­dents
believed there should be more
room given to sports. Others said
the sports were "good and peppy"
but were "top heavy."
Although there is a circulation of
857, some students complained that
they do not get their paper every
week.
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Townspeople Look
Over PE Budding
Official public opening of
the new Physical Education
building was held Monday eve­ning,
with approximately 1,500
visitors attending. The guests
were met by the faculty receiv­ing
line and were escorted
through, the building by mem­bers
of the Women's Athletic
association. The swimming
pool and the spacious gymnas­ium
floor drew much comment
from the visitors.
Governor Downed
Youthful Autograph Enthusiasts
Mob His Excellency
At last week's Viking-Cheney
game, Governor Clarence D.
Martin,' a spectator, was almost
thrown by a youngster.. About
the beginning of the fourth
quarter the Governor arose
from his 50-yard bleacher
seat to view the game from
the sidelines. Accidentally a
youth, who couldn't have been
more than 10 years of age,
tripped him.
Immediately his goggled-eyed
partner exclaimed, 'Gosh, do
ya know who that is? That's
the Governor!" The first
youth was speechless, but after
gathering his wits he approach­ed
the Governor with an eager
"May I have your autograph?"
This seemed to be the spark
that set the fire. Governor
Martin was immediately be­sieged
by about 550 youthful
admirers and smiling good-naturedly,
went to work.
'Chris Bean' To Open
For Three-Day Run
At Dorm Next Week
Blue Room To Be Scene of
Penthouse Production
While the spectators were
viewing the building the school
orchestra, directed by Don
Bushell, of the Music depart­ment,
entertained in the gym­nasium.
Punch was served to
the guests. At 10 o'clock the
pool was officially opened,
when President Fisher allowed
the girl ushers to have a splash
party.
Opening next Thursday, November
19, for a three-day run, matinee
and night, "The Late Christopher
Bean" will be presented in the Blue
room of Edens hall, under the .di­rection
of Victor H. Hoppe, of the
Speech department. Matinees will
be given Thursday, Friday and Sat­urday
beginning at 2:30 p. m.
The problems raised by presenta­tion
in the center of the theater,
on the ground floor, with the audi­ence
grouped about on all four sides,
are proving very interesting to di­rectors
and actors.
All old traditions centering in the-'
removal of a fourth wall are being
scrapped. The actors move freely
about the room just as if they were
indeed in a room. They must pay
no attention to the impertinent
lookers-on who have paid for the
privilege of peeping through the.
walls.
Tickets for this forthcoming pro­duction
may be secured by presenta­tion
of student activity tickets at
the Co-op beginning next Monday.
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Pictures Done by Art
Classes To Be Shown
In Normal Department
Classes in drawing and design,
advanced design, and Junior high
school art are sponsoring an exhibit
in rooms 303 and 305. The pictures
in one room consist of abstractions
of faces done in different values of
darks and lights, and modern rug
designs painted in greyed comple­mentary
colors.
Students in advanced design have
done lineoleum block prints, most
of which portray life on the water
front. The textiles used were made
by the students in Junior high
school art.
Spaeth Likes Swimming, Tennis, Bridge;
I 'Tune Detecting' Was Originally Hobby
"My hobby has become my profession," said Sigmund Spaeth, the "Tune
Detector," who spoke for last Tuesday's assembly. He smiled and con­tinued,
"It has six possibilities on which I can commercialize; writing
books and articles for magazines, giving lectures and radio programs,
making motion pictures, and recent­ly
I have made several legal ap­pearances
on cases where plagariz-ing
of songs is in question."
Mr. Spaeth spent two years at
Harvard teaching German and as
acting advisor to the music clubs.
He received a doctor of philosophy
degree from the same school.
The "Tune Detector" enjoys giv­ing
lectures and made over 200 ap­pearances
on his tour of the United
States last season. He plans to re­turn
to his present headquarters in
New York before Christmas. After
a brief visit with his family, he will
sail for Honolulu, where he will
teach for a short time in the Am­erican
university.
"My home is in Westport, Conn.
There I rest, swim, play tennis and
bridge. Sometimes I make plans
for a book or a movie. So far Ihave
made eight pictures. The latest was
"The Rhythm Party," released by
Fox films last summer."
Asked if he thought radio had
many possiblities in his field, he
said: '
"Most people need some guidance
in listening to music. I feel that to
the greater number of people tM
average comments on musical com­positions
are too brief_„and too tech­nical.
It is my ambition to give the
finest music in a popular style."
Pre-Registration Open
Now to Students For
Coming Winter Quarter
Registration for Winter quarter
will be November 12 to December 13,
inclusive. Students who expect to
do student teaching in the Winter
quarter will report to Miss Rosa­mond
Barrett in room 122 on No­vember
19 and 20, while those who
expect to teach and are second quar­ter
freshmen, will register as fol­lows:
group seven on November 12
and 13, group eight November 16 to
17 ana group nine on November 18.
to 19. Transfer students who en­tered
for the first time September
28, 1936, register in the IJesn's of­fice
November 23, 24, .aria 30. All
other students register as follows:
primary and tatermeSiiate curriculum
students December .1, 2, and 3;
junior highwDecember 4, 7, 8, and 9,
and al\,-xion-diploma' and specials on
/December 10, 11, and 12.
Fees may be paid "on January 4.
Those who fail to register on dates
specified will be charged $1.00 late
registration fee.
Temporary Change
In Assembly Order
Because Elmer Rice, the featured
speaker, cannot be present on Tues­day,
the usual assembly will be post­poned
until Wednesday at 1:00 p.
m. Classes scheduled to meet at
1:00 p. m. Wednesday will be trans­ferred
to 11:00 a. m. Tuesday.
Mr. Rice, one of the two most
eminent playwrights in America,
will talk about his own work. He
has published such successes as:
"On Trial," "For the Defense,"
"Close Harmony," "Cock Robin,"
"Street Scene" (for which he was
awarded the Pulitzer prize for the
best American drama of the year),
"Counselor-at-Law," and "We, the
People."
Friday's assembly will feature
Vinko Karuza, tenor, accompanied
by Miss Edith R. Strange, ivlr. Kar­uza,
the Vienna singer who is toyr,^
ing this country, sang in Se&*!,u) last
week. He plans to journey to Los
Angeles, California, where he will
appear in several concerts.
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SelancJer Appointed As
President of Lutheran
Conference Gatherings
Pacific Northwest Annual confer­ence
of Lutheran students will be
held in Bellingham during Thanks­giving
vacation. College students
from Oregon, Idaho, Washington,
and Canada will attend.
Normal students who have been
appointed committee chairmen for
this affair, are Kenneth Selander,
president of the Bellingham society,
Phyllis Rose, Ruth Haugland, Helen
j Ulling, and Ruth Hallgren.
c URRENT
ALENDAR
of Happenings
Friday, November 13—
8:30 p. m.—Rec hour, Big
gym.
Saturday, November 14;—
1:00 p. m.—WAA hike to
Chuckanut, meeting place,
main entrance.
2:00 p. m.—Vikings vs. Mon- /
mouth Normal at Mgsi"
• mouth. ir'
Monday, November lfC-
/
7:30 p. m.—Varfedjs Bragi
club meeting, Edens Hall
Club roonv" •
Tuesday^ November 16—
7$C:* P. m.—Blue Triangle
.Jfclub meeting,. Blue Tri-
• angle Clubhouse,, under
leadership of the Public
Affairs committee.
Wednesday, November 17—
1:00 p. m.—Assembly, Elmer
Rice, playwright.
7:30 p. m.—Foreign Rela­tions
club meeting, Edens
Hall Club room.
7:30 p. m.—Wednesday Even­ing
Discussion club meet­ing,
Edens Hall Club room.
Thursday, November 18—
2:30-3:30 -T Women's League
Tea, Women's League
room, Viking staff, spon­sors.
4:00—YWCA club meeting,
room 208.
Friday, November 19—
11:00—Assembly, Vinko Kar­uza,
tenor.
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