Northwest Viking - 1935 March 22

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:'i*fts ImoL. XXXIII—NO. 23 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, A COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON .Friday, March 22, 1935
Normalite
POLITICS
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PICKPOCKETS
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PECULIARITIES
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By Syd Lines
If you pay much attention to what
newspapers and magazines are say­ing
about the man from the South,
Huey Long, you perhaps have no­ticed
the changing attitude toward
the Kingfish. He is no longer re­garded
as the unofficial court fool
but is decidedly a potential threat.
And every magazine article, news­paper
item, and editorial designed to
pooh-pooh the gentleman serves on­ly
to multiply the threat. For in­stance:
this paragraphic attempt.
W.S.N.S
Freak weather for this country in
March? Heck. Guess you don't
remember the fourth of July, it got
so cold that the air wouldn't expand
to let the kid's firecrackers pop. And
then when it did warm up two days
later, all the firecrackers the kids
lit on the Fourth went off at once.
You don't believe it?.. Well, just
ask Mr. Hunt—he can explain it for
you—precisely.
W.S.N.S.
Pickpockets wouldn't thrive
on the University of Michigan
campus. A scholastic survey (fea­ture
writers dote on surveys)
revealed that the average Mich­igan
student's pockets would
yield only $2.98. One wealthy
senior was discovered who had
$7.05. The plutocrat! Here's
what was found in one co-ed's
purse, powder, rouge, one hand­kerchief,
a pencil stub, a de­partment
store approval return
slip, three bent cigarettes, an
empty match holder, and $1.55.
W.S.N.S.——
• We had kept our nose in books
all afternoon but there was still time
to take some fresh air before dark.
The sun had been out but it ap­peared
cold so we pulled on a
heavy sweater. Just outside it felt
even colder so we went back and
bundled into a coat... All set.
Two blocks from home We had
the shock of our life. Goodnight
Grade! Here were three of 'em,
no socks, no coat, nothing but
shorts, blouse, and skull cap. Twelve
bare white legs and arms driving
three wobbling bicycles—and ap­parently
enjoying it. How these
fans can stand the cold! Egad!
That was too much—we went back
to study.
I hope those three cyclists read
this.
W.S.N.S.
PE Building
Bill Is Passed
By Legislature
Amount for New Athlete Field
And New Roof on Building
Is Appropriated
Upperclassmen Submit Opinions
Honor Councils To Be Presented in Junior-Senior Class Meeting;
Svarlien, De Gallier, Fisher Write Views
Revenue Bill Is Cut
Appropriation May Raise Salaries
And Increase Faculty
The building appropriation bill,
providing for a Physical Education
building for Bellingham Normal, is
the last of three bills passed by the
state legislature, affecting Normal
faculty and students. This bill was
passed by the state senate last Wed­nesday
evening. It was approved
by the house last week.
Repairs Included
The bill provides for $200,000 for
the Physical Education building, de­tails
of which are given on the sport
page of this paper. It also includes
$6,000 for completion of the new
athletic field, and $12,500 for a new
roof for the main building.
Earlier in the week the general
appropriations bill was passed. This
included $438,900 to operate the
school for the next biennium. This
is $95,900 more than was allowed
for the past biennium. The addi­tional
amount will enable the school
to pay salaries for twelve months in
the year rather than nine months,
and will mean the restoration of
some of the salary cuts. It may
also enlarge the present teaching
staff.
Revenue Passed
The revenue bill, which provides
for the raising of this money, was
passed Tuesday. The total amount
included was $32,000,000, which is a
cut of about 18 per cent from Gov­ernor
Martin's budget.
Usually at about this time of the
year feature writers get their mitts
on a convenient list of fool ans­wers
made to some questionnaire
Here's a couple of intellectual come­backs
Miss Burnham of the Dean's
office bumped into—In filling out
bis registration blank one person
admitted he was born November 25,
1817. Another claimed August 16,
1935, as his birth date. Miss Burn-ham
says the queerest thing about
it is that neither of the freaks look
their age.
W.S.N.S.
One of the duckiest jobs we can
think of is this talk of grinding out
a feature column on the last week
of the quarter. A last look at the
pocket book showed it wouldn't
stand the expense of inducing some
one to go out and bite a dog, so
you see, we're out of news.
W.S.N.S-Pads
come and don't stay long.
The latest that has hit the
Viking office and prohibits sane
thought when trying to beat the
deadline is this idea of pro­nouncing
all conceivable ways
the longest words in the diction­ary.
Try this one:
~ Antidisestablishmentarianism!
Resulting from the faculty deci­sion
informally approving the sen­ior
honor court council, the junior-senior
class will discuss and defi­nitely
decide upon the court docu­ment
at the junior-senior class
meeting the first week of spring
quarter. If the class votes favor­ably
the charter will be discussed
at the faculty meeting the second
week of the quarter.
Following are opinions of the
senior honor court, students have
submitted:
Francis Fisher.—
I favor the idea, of a senior honor
court. There is definitely a need for
such an organization and I believe
the creation of such a court will
meet this need and will be of great
value to the student body at large.
The charter, as outlined by the
committee, seems to me to be very
complete. I am glad that the mat­ter
is going to be submitted1 to jun­ior-
senior class students, for vote.
Marie de Gallier.—
I fear such a court would find
great difficulty in carrying on a
continuous policy. Each year would
bring an entirely new court entirely
ignorant of the actions of the past
years, since the court's investiga­tions
and actions are secret and
unrecorded, with the necessary lack
of that background, I know of no
student whom I could credit with
such broad judgment as the posi­tion
would demand.
Oscar Svarlein.—
I fail to see any advantage
gained by the creation of a senior
honor court for the following rea­sons:
first, the final decision in
cases involving violation of school
rules will continue to rest with the
administration of the school; sec­ond,
I don't think there is enough
difference between seniors and low­er
classmen regarding peace and
dignity to justify placing in the
hands of the seniors such powers
of reprehension and jurisdiction as
the court would give.
Rec Tournaments
Near Completion;
Many Eliminated
Richardson and Stuart To Decide
Checker Champ; Bridge
Nearing Finals
Paintings Due In
Spring Exhibition
Ruckmick To Display Photographs
Duncan Phillips To Speak
On Art Views
President Returns
After Short Trip
Klitpp,s un Club Fees
Smaller This Year
Reduced fees for the Klipsun will
be collected from all clubs by Don
Richardson, business manager, early
next quarter. These fees, which
have been lowered to $5, are to pay
for the club pictures in the annual.
All pictures have been taken this
quarter. They have been sent to
the engravers in Seattle. Several
engraved plates have been returned.
President C. H. Fisher was re­elected
president of the Northwest
Council of Y M C A at an all-day
session of the council at Seat­tle
last Saturday. At this meeting
representatives from associations
throughout the Northwest, attended
On Sunday morning Mr. Fisher
attended a breakfast sponsored by
the club of Bellingham Normal stu­dents
attending the university.
James Campbell, president, intro­duced
Mr. Fisher. Deborah Al-tose
was chairman of the meeting.
Other students who spoke were Dick
Albert, William Fisher, Wenonah
Peck, and Eddie Duyff. Beatrice
Doty and Ruth Shumway, former
faculty members, were also present.
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Campus Day Aids
Selected by Orloff
Preparations for the annual Cam­pus
day, to be held sometime next
May, are rapidly taking form. At
a ^meeting held last Wednesday,
Monford Orloff, Campus day chair­man,
named his assistants and as­signed
their duties.
Stuart Fresk and Pat Allan will
work on plans for the assembly,
which will contain a large variety
of entertainment. Cliff Johnston
and his committee are preparing a
series of games and track events, to
add to the pleasure of Campus day.
Tony Zambas heads the work sec­tion.
Included in this work will be
the cleaning and repainting of the
tennis courts. Bill Frender will
keep order with his paddle squad.
Phyllis Greely will head the com­mittee
which will feed the hungry
workers.
During the spring quarter the Art
department will sponsor an exhibi­tion
of modern paintings. Some of
the noted artists will be: Cezanne,
Chirico, Dogas, Daumier, Manet,
Renoir, Sisley, and Van Gogh. The
prints are mounted and matted.
They will be sent to the school by
the American Federation of Arts, a
national organization for the culti­vation
of the arts, located at Wash­ington,
D. C.
A display of photographs will be
shown by Herbert Ruckmick, Indus­trial
Art instructor, sometime in Ap­ril.
Many scenes around the cam­pus
will be presented.
Different points of view and
methods of painting will be present
in "The Artist Sees Differently," a
lecture given by Duncan Phillips,
director of the Phillips Memorial
gallery at Washington, D. C. He
will illustrate his talk with slides.
Chinese Maiden
ToDia nce Here
Theater Guild To Give
Early English Satirical
Comedy, April 24, 25, 26
Insecurity Blamed For
British Labor Trouble
Bringing up-to-the-minute in­formation
da the labor situation in
Great Britain, Jennie Lee, former
member of the British House of
Commons and graduate of Edin­burgh
university, addressed the
student body in a special assembly
last Monday. The subject of her
speech was "The Decline of Eng­lish
Liberty."
She blamed the present-day econ­omic
insecurity on labor troubles,
and stated that it was this problem
that led to fascism.
"The Rivals," by Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, a classic English comedy
satirizing London society of the
colonial period, will be presented by
the Bellingham Theater guild April
24, 25, and 26 at the Guild play­house.
The play was one of three
famous plays of the eighteenth cen­tury.
It is noted for its brilliant
lines, amusing situations, and color­ful
costumes.
Victor H. Hoppe of the Normal
speech department is directing the
production. He will also play the
role of "Bob Acres". Other roles
filled by Normal actors are: "Cap­tain
Jack Absolute", Randy Ober-latz;
"Lydie Languish", Anne Math-eson;
"Julia", Virginia George. The
leading role of "Sir Anthouny Abso­lute"
will be played by G. Bernard
Chichester, speech instructor at
Whatcom high school. The im­mortal
"Mrs. Malaprop" will be
played by Mrs. Celeste Joly.
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Normal Is Represented
At Northwest Exposition
Interpreter of Oriental Technique
Will Appear in Assembly
On April 3
Accompanied by the clash of per­cussion
instruments playing tradi­tional
Oriental melodies, and dressed
in brilliant and authentic costumes,
Caroline Chew will appear in the
Normal assembly Wednesday, April
3. Miss Chew is the only Chinese
dancer in the United States today.
She has received wide acclaim from
critics wherever she has appeared.
The daughter of a San Francisco
Chinese who founded the first Chi­nese
newspaper in America, Miss
Chew has had extensive training in
the dance. Her usual program in­cludes
Chinese, Japanese, Javanese,
Cambodian, Hindu, and Spanish
dances.
Her dances are reported to be im­portant
for their pictorial as well
as for then- terpischorean value
and include delicate "prints" and
sword dances.
Final matches in the recreation
tournament have not yet been
played, but several enthusiasts have
been eliminated from the contests.
The championship checker game
will be played off by Don Richard­son
and Bob Stuart. Stuart defeat­ed
Bill Alexander last Monday to
qualify for the finals.
Contestants for the chess cham­pionship
are Leonard Carroll, Pat
Allan, and Ralph Shenenberger.
Carroll qualified for the finals when
he defeated Wilson Waylett, who in
turn had scored an upset by defeat­ing
veteran Harry Windsor. The
winner of the Allan-Shenenberger
duel will play for the champion­ship.
Bernice Borgen and J*rry Jacob-son
qualified for the semi-finals in
the bridge tourney by defeating Dick
Bell and Clifford Johnson. Three
teams have 3iet to be eliminated in
the second round of this tourney.
Wynne Campbell and Elizabeth
Nelson are scheduled to play Ruth
Beeman and Ruth Campbell. The
victors will play the winners of the
Bailey-Kindall and Lindsley-Lahto-nen
match.
The winners of the Campbell-
Wilkinson and Crimmins-G. Rich­ardson
contest will play the Jacob-son-
Borgen team to determine the
finalists.
Student Board
Okays Forming
Of Symposium
Co-op Conditions As Satisfactory
As May Be Expected At
Present Time
Viking Heads Renamed
W A A Is To Get Cost of Sending
Delegates to Convention
Address Is Heard by
Anacortes Instructors
Nurse Prescribes
Rest for Students
"Students have lowered their re­sistance
and vitality after a quarter
of hard study. During vacation I
advise them to take a complete rest
rather than to attempt to do all the
spring housecleaning or play all the
spring baseball in one week," pre­scribes
Miss May Mead, school
nurse.
Miss Mead wishes to inform any
student who is interested in a thor­ough
chest examination to see her
regarding the Washington Tuber­culosis
League health clinic to be
conducted in the Federal building,
April 1, 2, and 3. Dr. S. L. Cox will
examine chests.
According to illness reports, Rob­erta
Thyeson and Thea Morford
are the only students confined to
the hospital this week.
Dr. E. A. Bond, head of the
mathematics department at Normal,
went to Anacortes last week to ad­dress
the teachers of Anacortes at
their all-city teachers' meeting.
The subject of his speech was "The
Teaching of Arithmetic".
I n his address Dr. Bond suggest­ed
ways in which mathematics could
be taught so that it would be made
a more living matter to the students.
He also reported on problems that
were discussed at the national meet­ing
of the mathematics teachers
held in Atlantic City last month.
Strike, Millionaire, and
Nazi News Posted on
Social Science Bulletin
Besides routine business of pass­ing
on awards and hearing reports
of various committees, the Board of
Control considered at their last
meeting, forming a symposium and
sending delegates to the WAA con­vention.
President Gordon Millikan sug­gested
that a need is felt among
the students for some kind of ex­t
r a curricular public speaking. The
Board agreed that a movement, in
the form of a symposium, to satisfy
such a need, should be encouraged,
and expressed itself willing to pro­vide
reasonable financial backing.
After considerable study made by
the members at an unofficial meet­ing
last week, the Board decided
that the situation in the Co-op is -
as satisfactory as could be expect­ed
with, the present .number," ,of
students ^employed there.
Shenenberger Chosen Editor
Ralph Shenenberger was elected
editor of the Northwest Viking, and
Victor Dickinson was chosen busi­ness
manager for the ensuing quar­ter.
.
It was voted that a sufficient sum
be appropriated to the WAA to send
delegates from this school to the re­gional
convention which will be held
at Mills college next quarter.' It
has been customary in the past to
send two representatives to the
meeting.
Awards Sanctioned
The usual end-of-the-quarter
awards sanctioned by the board in­cluded
varsity sweaters to basket­ball
players; a manager's sweater to
Harry Winsor; an assistant man­ager's
sweater to Phil Crimmins;
Viking pins to seven members of
the editorial council; and Board of
Control pins to Joe Hager, Maxine
Iddins, Miss Charlotte Richardson,
and Louis Shaffer.
Wesley Randrup's report of the
yell leader's convention was read.
Nancy Jane Smith reported on
the work of the committee on
awards.
Clippings of interest to Social
Science club members are posted
this week on the club bulletin board.
Violence and disorder in the San
Francisco bay region resulting from
a coastwise seamen's strike is the
subject of the longest article.
An account of the seclusion of
the world's oldest millionaire, John
D. Rockefeller explains, "His only
contact with life comes on those
sunny afternoons when sunk deep
in the cushions of a limousine he
rides for half an hour.
The abolition by Germans of
drawn games reveals that the Nazi
tyranny spreads to chess.
"'Captain's House' has now been
completed and sent to the North­west
Print exposition." exclaimed
Miss, Dorothea Mcllvain, Normal
art instructor. The exposition open­ed
March 14, and is being held in
the Seattle Art museum.
Miss Mcllvain's print is fairly
large, about 9 by 12 inches. Her
sketch includes the buildings below
the school, the wharf, the, lumber
house, and neighboring buildings.
The former Charles Heaney block
print display sponsored by the Art
department is being shown at the
exposition.
Lee Tells English Idea of Americans;
Defends Socialism in Viking Interview
By Thon and Jones
That the English idea of the
modern American girl is a cross be­tween
Aimee McPherson and Mae
West, due largely to what the Brit­isher
sees in moving pictures and
reads in American newspapers was
revealed to two Viking reporters by
Miss Jennie Lee, former member of
the House of Commons, last Mon­day
noon within the sanctum of
President Fisher's office.
"Britons symbolize Americans by
Al Capone and Huey Long. News­papers
do much harm to interna­tional
understanding, for if we reach
behind sensational things people are
all much alike," the parliamentarian
remarked. ^
Defending her stand on socialism,
Miss Lee spiritedly expressed her
opinion that Jit is capitalism which
makes us ali the same. Socialism
gives peoplef more personam posses
sions and encourages the develop­ment
of individual personality.
The characteristic physiognomy of
reporters prompted Miss Lee to re­call
her journalistic experiences.
"We organized a paper called 'The
Rebel Student'," she reminisced,
"and were so jealous of our material
we wouldn't allow the printer to set
it up."
Regarding Normal students as an
audience Miss Lee comments, "Your
assembly compares favorably with
other American audiences. I don't
know whether you were interested
or just had the facility for looking
interested."
Not everyone is privileged to in-terview
a member of the House of
Commons, the reporters wish to add
—especially one of such charming
personality.
Handsaker To Talk
Early Next Quarter
J. J. Handsaker, northwest secre­tary
of the National Council for
Prevention of War, will address the
Normal assembly on Friday, April
5. Mr. Handsaker will probably
speak on our relations with Japan
at the present time.
Mr. Handsaker has been publicly
spoken of by President Woolley of
Mount Holyoke college as one of the
coujntry's' most effective peace
workers.. He has appeared at Nor­mal
several times in the past,
speaking on the League of Nations.
The National Council for Preven­tion
of War is working t o curb the
munitions industry, to prevent war
with Japan, to prevent war with
Europe, and to stop the economic-disintegration
of the world.
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r^ampus
Calendar
Friday, March 22.
4:00—End of quarter.
Monday, April 1.
8:00—Classes begin follow­ing
vacation.
9-4—Payment of fees in Busi­ness
office.
7:30—Vanadis Bragi meeting
in Eden's hall clubroom.
7:30—Dancing class in Big
gym. • v.v
Wednesday, April 3,
4:00—Y. W. C. A. Bible study.
7:30—Dancing class in Big
gym.
Friday, April 5.
8:00—Spring quarter mixer
in Big gym.