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XOL. X X X I I I — N O . 22 W A S H I N G T O N S T A T E N O R M A L SCHOOL, A C O L L E G E O F E D U C A T I O N , B E L L I N G H A M , W A S H I N G T O N Friday, March 15, 1935
Normalite
MORONS
MORONS
MORONS
By Fat Allan
Why is it that young intellectuals
in our colleges insist upon inter­preting
everything they see in terms
of economics? The dollars and
cents view of things may be funda­mental,
it is true, but fundamentals
are so drab and colorless that they
are hardly worth our consideration.
It is its nuances, not its broad bases,
which make life worth living.
Long long ago thinkers who lived
in .an age much wiser tha nours, set­tled
upon goodness, beauty, and
t r u th as the truly worth-while
things. To them the exquisitely con­toured
whiteness of an egg was vast­ly
more significant than the pleas­ant
sensation it aroused in the
stomach.
W.S.N.S.
But the worKings or the eco­nomic
mind, Waylett's whinings
and Pierron's precocious penny-precepts,
are interesting and im­portant
to the extent that they
someday may be dictating the
amount of tax we pay on our
cigarettes.
So it is disappointing to note
that the feature page question­naire
indicated very few people
who read these columns, while
many publicity puppies searched
avidly through the back-door
gossip of Keyhole, trying to find
their own names.
W.S.N.S.
Frisby Fresk again comes front
and Center with a letter from his
aster which reads, "Brother, you
have made a horrible mistake. Our
iomcal had kittens"
W.S.N.S.-
Lincoln Colcord in his "Conver­sation
in a Garden", reprint in "Es­says
of Our Times", describes a sit­uation
as follows:
"'Look how the standard of liv­ing
has been raised'.
" ' I am more concerned with the
standard of thinking. And what of
the standard of dying? From all
that I read, this standard was high­er
in your past generations.' "
But Colcord was wrong. How
many a noble human in modern
times has cried in truly deathless
tones which ages hence will still
re-echo down the corridors of time,
"I'd die for dear old Communism!"
W.S.N.S.
/ / Karl Marx had. ever attended
Normal school it would be much
easier to understand his ballyhoo
about "the struggle in the classes".
W.S.N.S.
Rec Tourneys
Discard; Start
Second Round
Allan, Carroll, and Waylett Show
Skill At Chess; Richardson
Beats Fisher
New Challenges Listed
Bridge Game Play-offs Scheduled;
Pinochle Match Slack
We learn here that education is
for the child, that it must satisfy
his needs.
Oftentimes we wonder if the cur­riculum
builders at this school are
practicing exactly what they preach
A number of courses do not satisfy
the students who take them. Many
duplicate the work already covered
in previous classes.
At the end of each quarter ques
tionnaires could easily be given out
in the various classes concerning the
manner in which the course was
taught, its educational value, its
professional value, calling for sug­gestions
relating to possible im­provement.
Soon, we think, the Normal would
be turning out better college pro­fessors
W.S.N.S.
Speaking of the legislative jam
at Olympia, thank Heaven some of
the profs here cant slop the clock
at the end of the quarter and go
on teaching!
W.S.N.S.
BOOK REVIEW ,
(in the accepted N.Y. manner)
If you haven't read Alduous Hux­ley's
"Brave New World", don't. It
isn't worth the intelligent reader's
consideration. (Isn't that clever,
making you out to be intelligent?).
Furthermore, the thing isn't well
handled at all. The social satire is
awkward. The style is clumsy. May
I say further that the author came
to the wrong conclusion. He should
never have written the book. He
should never have been' born.
Furthermore, t h e publishers would­n't
give us any fee for reviewing the
book.
With one round of games complet­ed,
champion card wielders are
emerging from the ranks of recrea­tion
enthusiasts who nightly con­vene
in the corner of Edens hall
dining room. A survey Tuesday re­vealed
that Wilson Waylett, Leon­ard
Carroll and Pat Allan have with­stood
preliminary chess duels.
Checker victors Don Richardson and
Bill Alexander are scheduled for a
playoff match. Richardson defeat­ed
Vene Fisher and Alexander de­feated
Bob Stuart.
Results of the bridge intramurals
show the following triumphant
teams. Lindsley-Lahtonen defeated
Van Hise-Victor; Bell-Johnson, Nor-ris-
Lindquist; Bailey-Kendall, M.
Nelson-Weeks; Borgen-J. Jabocson,
Hartley-Robinson; Campbell-Wilk­inson;
Crimmins-Richardson. Lola
Bailey and Clyde Kendall will meet
Bob Lindsley and Harold Lahtonen.
Dick Bell and Clifford Johnson will
meet Jerry Jacobson and Bernice
Borgen. Ruth Beeman and Ruth
Carmichael are scheduled to play
Elizabeth Nelson and Wynne Camp­bell.
"I don't know what's the matter
with the interest in pinochle," re­marked
Dick Newlean, recreation
director. "With the exception of
Russell Stockton, no competitor has
tried his mettle."
Deft Play Expected
Coming up are intellectual squab­bles
between Leonard Carroll and
Wilson Waylett, Pat Allan and
Ralph Shenenberger. The next
elimination will leave the chess fin­alist.
Harry Winsor's napping jolt­ed
predictions, according to dope-sters
when Waylett attempted the
seventh game of his career and upset
the veteran. Carroll took Oscar
Starlund.
New challenges are being posted.
The bulletin board reveals that Vene
Fisher is summoned to two games
of checkers. "We shall be forced to
cut out matches when the partici­pants
wait too long to play off their
challenges," emphasizes Louis Shaf­fer,
promoter of the recreational
program.
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Special Assembly Will
Be Called Monday for
Member of Parliament
Vacation Is Near
Spring Quarter Classes Begin on
Monday, April 1
Spring vacation for Normal
school students will begin March
22. Examinations for winter
quarter are being conducted
Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri­day
of next week.
Pre-registration for the spring
session was completed March 6.
Classes begin Monday, April 1
at 8 o'clock. Little variation in
enrollment between spring and
winter quarters is expected.
Those who filed schedules for
enrollment but who do not pay
their fees on April 1 or 2, will
pay the late registration fee* of
one dollar.
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Committees To Be
Chosen Next Week
According to Orloff
Campus Day Plans Are Begun;
Students Work in Morning,
Dance at Night
Ford Reports
On Book Store
To Committee
Miss Jennie Lee, Scotch parlia­mentarian,
will speak in a special
assembly Monday at 10:40 on the
subject "Decline of English Liberty".
Classes meeting at this time will
meet on Tuesday.
Miss Lee studied at Edinburgh
university, where she won several
scholarships and prizes. While pur­suing
the teaching profession she
became active in the Independent
Labor party. In 1929 she was elect­ed
to represent that party in the
Houes of Commons as a member
from North Lanark.
Having completed her studies for
the law degree, she has been ad­mitted
to the English bar.
Mon Orloff, general chairman of
Normal's annual Campus day, an­nounced
Wednesday that the com­mittees
for the event would be chos-on
some time next week.
The date of Campus cay which is
not as yet definitely decided upon,
will be early in May. The possible
dates are May 10 or 12.
A general assembly in the morn­ing
will begin the day's activities.
Following the assembly everyone will
be assigned some duty. All workers
will be under the supervision of the
paddle squad. At noon everyone will
adjourn to the playfield for lunch
A varied recreational program will
be held in the afternoon, including
athletic events At the conclusion of
the day, a dance will be held in the
evening.
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April I Is Deadline
For Story Writers
Students who intend to enter the
short story contest sponsored by the
Story magazine must submit.their
entries by April 1. This date should
enable participants to perfect their
manuscript during vacation.
"I feel that the contest will be
worth while. Creative ability often
requires the spur of a contest to
bring it out. I encourage students
to compete if they are interested in
short story writing," urges Dr. A. C.
Hicks. The two stories adjudged
the winners in the Normal contest
under sponsorship of the Northwest
Viking will be submitted to the nat­ional
contest for prize awards.
Harry Goheen, Glen Greseth, Wil­son
Waylett, Ralph Hofman, Dor­othy
Baker, and others already in­dicated
interest in the contest.
o
IR Club Members Plan
Their Quarterly Social
International Relations club mem-,
bers will hold their quarterly party
at the home of Mr. L. A. Kibbe 215
Twenty-first street, at 8:00 o'clock,
Saturday evening.
Anne Matheson, program chair­man,
has planned many games for
the evening. All club members are
invited.
No Quorum Meeting Is Declared
Committee To.Hear
Co-op Report
Application Considered
Seven Viking Pins, Seven Basketball
Awards To Be Made
For the second time this quarter,
no quorum was present at the Board
of Control meeting last Wednesday.
In order that the time would not be
entirely wasted, President Gordon
Millikin created a committee of the
members present to hear the report
of Sam Ford, manager of the Co-op,
on conditions in the book-store.
This report will be brought by the
committee to the next Board meet­ing.
Other business on the calendar for
the March 20 meeting concerns the
Northwest Viking . and basketball
awards. The Board will consider the
applications of Ralph Shenenberger
and Victor Dickinson for re-election
to the positions of editor and bus­iness
manager of the paper respec­tively.
The seven students who ap­plied
for Viking pins, having com­pleted
the required four quarters of
writing, are Syd Lines, Robert Thy-geson,
Nancy Jane Smith, Nelson
Ault, Phil Campbell, Arne Johnsen.
and George Lovos.
If the Board accepts the recom­mendation
of the P. E. department,
the following players will receive
sweaters the first of next quarter:
Dick Carver, Harold Fitzer, Marius
Vandergriend, Chester Dombroski,
Sheldon Stutz, Tony Zambas, and
Dan Gagnon.
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New Court Council
Will Be Presented
State Legislature Stops Clock;
Appropriation and Construction
Bills Not Approved by Senate
House Passes Bill for Salaries and Operations;
Money for Physical Education Building and the
Completion of Athletic Field May Be Allowed,
Although the time for the adjournment of the legislature was passed
last night at 12 o'clock, the clock was stopped and the time extended.
Up to the time of publication, the appropriation bill for the Bellingham
Normal school had not been passed by the senate. Early in the week the
bill was passed by the house.
Playday Delegates Ride in Roundup
Cow-Punchers Watch Calico Horse Perform, Ride Wooden
Badminton Exhibition Is Feature of Program
Steeds
By Phyllis Robinson '
Amid shouts of "ride 'em cowboy",
cow-punchers galloped around the
hitching post in the big gym on
dashing wooden steeds during the
"riding the range" feature of the
WAA Roundup playday held here
March 9.
I n response to the call of "come
and get it" and the loud ringing
of a cowbell, cow hands cantered to
Edens hall where they lunched on
wild west grub. An unusual fea­ture
of the luncheon program was
an act by the latest thing in horses,
a calico. This unusual animal
marched to the tune of "Volga Boat­man",
frightened its trainer, and
finally gave way to its poetical na­ture
by performing a spring dance
when the strains of Mendelssohn's
"Spring Song" reached its ears.
After eats the rangers witnessed a
badminton exhibition by the Junior
and Senior class teams and ,then
they romped through folk dances at
the "shindig".
The more serious phases of the
roundup were brought out at the
"gabfest" where girls studied and
discussed the various problems of
womens athletics. The idea of
"playing fun" was expressly empha­sized.
Miss Emma Erickson, Miss Mary
Rich, Miss Mildred Jewell, and Miss
Ruth Weythman poured at the
"last roundup" tea. As the mel-ancholoy
strains of "Home on the
Range" faded in the distance the
last drive began, and the Roundup
was over.
I n order that the senior honor
council could be presented to the
junior-senior class for their approv­al,
a motion informally approving
the idea was presented by Dr. Irving
E. Miller at the faculty meeting,
March 12.
It was decided by the faculty that
the name of the charter should be
changed from senior honor court to
senior honor council.
The revised charter will be given
to the English department for cor­rections
before it is submitted to the
junior-senior class to be voted upon.
Student Body President Gordon
Millikan and Clyde Kendall, repre­sentatives
of the charter committee,
attended the meeting.
o
Former Student Will
Play Leading Role in
All-School Production
Katherine Bowden, former Nor­mal
school student and member of
the Viking staff, who is now at­tending
Washington State college,
will play the leading role in the
WSC all-college play "The Wooden
Slipper". Miss Bowden is to play
the part, "Julie". "The Wooden
Slipper" will be presented April 12.
Miss Bowden had leading roles
in two productions that were given
at Washington State college last
semester.
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Crawford Is Improving;
Visitors Are Permitted
Varied Programs
On Schedule For
Spring Assemblies
Chinese Dancer To Appear Soon;
Music, Plays, and Lectures
To Be Offered
Outstanding in next quarter's as­semblies
will be the appearance of
Caroline Chew, the only Chinese
woman dancer in America, who will
present a program Wednesday, April
3. J. J. Handsaker, of the Na­tional
Council for the Prevention
of War, will lecture on the League
of Nations in assembly April 5.
Tuesday, April 9, the Bushell-
Strange trio will offer a program.
Preston Wright, former student and
now connected with the University
of Washington, will read a play
Tuesday, April 30. Students of
Edith R. Strange will be presented
in recital May 10. Directed by Mrs.
Lois Holt Brown, the chorus of the
Women's Music club will present a
program Tuesday, April 16.
Other programs scheduled will in­clude:
Randolph Rokanson, young
Seattle pianist; Nan Dybdahl Wiik,
soprano; and a lecture by Prof.
Vernon McKenzie, oi the University
of Washington.
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Wife of Chairman
Of Trustees Dies
Mrs. Addie G. Kirkpatrick, wife
of Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick, chairman
of the board of trustees of the Nor-mar
school, died suddenly last Fri­day
evening.
A heart attack following a short
illness was the cause of Mrs. Kirk-patrick's
death. The immediate
survivors are her husband, who is
a prominent local physician and
surgeon; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Evans, of Olympia, and three
grandchildren.
Rev. James M. Wilson, pastor of
St. James Presbyterian church, of­ficiated
at the funeral services held
at the Harlow-Hollinngsworth fu­neral
home last Monday.
Dr. Kirkpatrick has been chair­man
of the board of trustees of this
school for a number of years.
Amount Is Increased
The bill followed Governor Mar­tin's
recommendation, and allowed
$438,900 for salaries and operations
for the biennium. This is $98,000
more than was received in the last
two years. If this appropriation is
allowed, it will mean that part of
the fifty per cent cut made in the
salaries this last year, will be re­stored.
President Fisher said that
the senate figures will probably be
lower, but not as much as before.
When finally passed, it will approx­imate
the amount agreed upon by
the house, Mr. Fisher said.
Building Bill Passed
Another bill which was passed by
the house included $200,000 for a
Physical Education building; $8,000
to complete the new athletic field;
and $12,500 for a new roof on the
main building. This brings the total
amount to be allowed for building
and improvements, to $218,500.
According to President Fisher,
this appropriation may be indepen­dent
of, or in conjunction with fed­eral
funds, and with the approval
of the governor.
Supper At Normabtad
Given by Luther Club,
Many Students Attend
Although she has been confined to
her room at the YWCA for several
weeks, Miss Bertha Crawford, eighth
grade training school instructor is
now reported to be resting more
comfortably. She left school the
first week in February because of
heart trouble and until the present
time no visitors have been allowed
to see her. Now, however, a few
friends may. call. Mrs. Ina Hughes
Kirkman, former Viking staff mem­ber,
is teaching the eighth.grade
during Miss Crawford's absence.
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Isabelle Hinman was suddenly
called to her hme at Pearson, Wash­ington,
on Thursday .morning be­cause
of the sudden death of her
father
Over fifty Normal students at­tended
a supper given by the Luther
club at Normalstad last Saturday
evening, March 8. Though the se­quence
of courses and seating sym­metry
were sadly lacking, the roast­ed
weiners were enjoyed by all. The
evening was spent in games, among
which were hearts, Hollywood rum­my,
and cootie.
The next regular meeting, of the
Luther club will be held in the
Lutheran church on High street on
Tuesday evening, March 19.
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Play Production Group
Presents Rural Drama
Fisher To Attend Meetings.
President C. EL Fisher leaves to­morrow
morning to attend a meet­ing
of representatives of t h e YMCA's
of the northwest, at the Central
YMCA in Seattle. At present, Mr.
Fisher is president of this group,
which is known as the Northwest
Council of the YMCA. Sunday
morning at ID o'clock, Mr. Fisher is
going to attend a breakfast at the
Meaney Hotel. The breakfast is
sponsored by the club recently or­ganized
by former Bellingham Nor­mal
students attending the univer­sity.
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Temperance Lecturer
Speaks On Scientific *
Aspects of Alcoholism
Scientific aspects of temperance
were presented in the assembly this
morning when Matthew W. Hill
spoke on the subject "Don't Collide
With Science." Mr. Hill's talk re­flected
the opinions of the Scien­tific
Temperance foundation of Se­attle,
of which he is secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Hill, a Seattle attorney, will
also address a gathering at the Gar­den
Street Methodist church this
evening. His topic will be "Good
Government." During his stay in
Bellingham the lecturer will speak
before groups of young people at
the Swedish Baptist church and the
First Baptist church.
The foundation of which Mr. Hill
is an officer distributes pamphlets
showing the evils of alcoholism in
its relationship to science, sports,
aviation, and motoring.
Produced by Victor H. Hoppe's
play production group, and directed
by Sara Jamieson, a one-act melo­drama
of modern rural life was
presented in assembly last Tuesday.
I n the cast of four were Helen Mc­Kenzie,
Ruth Moreland, Randy
Oberlatz, and Herbert Wilkinson.
r^ampus
Calendar
Friday, March 15.
4:00—Rec hour in Big Gym.
Hall clubroom.
Saturday March 16.
8:00—International Relations
^club party.
Sunday, March 17.
5:30—Edens Hall spring tea.
Monday, March 18.
10:40—-Jennie Lee lecture in
assembly.
7:30—Vanadis Bragi c l ub
meeting in Edens Hall
clubroom.
7:30—Dancing class in big
gym.
Thursday, March 21.
7:30—Thespian club meeting.
Friday, March 22.
4:00—End of quarter.