Northwest Viking - 1934 April 13

              Th. Established
1899
VOL. XXXII—NO. 26
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, April 13, 1934
Board Accepts
Spring Budget
Men's Athletics Receive a Large
Share of Appropriation
C L U B ISSUE SETTLED
Papers Drawn Up By Mt. Baker
Club President Okeyed.
President C. H. Fisher presented
the balanced budget for the spring
quarter to the Board of Control at
their meeting last Monday. The
items are as follows: Men's athlet­ics,
$1.50 per student; women's ath­letics,
18 cents; drama club, 7 cents;
The Northwest Viking, 50 cents; so­cial
life, $1.15, and miscellaneous, 10
cents. After some discussion the
budget was accepted by the board.
It was reported that the paper
budget for the year was set at $1350.
Some organizations will undoubtedly
have a surplus left over after ex­penses
are paid and this will help
balance the deficit of others. At the
end of the spring quarter football
will be in the red over $500. Presi­dent
Fisher stated^ however, that by
fall this deficit will be wiped off
the books and that the football sea­son
will start out with the books de­void
of any red marks.
Cabin Question Settled
The long debated question of
ownership^ of the Kulshan cabin has
finally been settled. Vaughn Brown,
of trie Mount Baker club, drew up
papers of ownership and it was de­cided
that the cabin would be shared
by both clubs. AH expenses or prof­its
incurred will be divided equally
between the two clubs. This cabin,
located in the Mount Baker region,
makes it an excellent overnight
stopping place for mountain climb
ers and others.
The proposed' party of the Board"
of Control will be held April 28-29
at Loganita Lodge, on Lummi Island.
Otto Finley, chairman of the ar­rangements
committee, was given
more time in which to make plans
for the affair. At the meeting next
.Monday, Finley will make a definite
report on the progress of the plans.
WAA President
Donna Mae Aisted
'Choir of the West'
Gives Performance
Pacific Lutheran College Sponsors
Beautiful Concert
Tenors And Bassos
Needed in Chorus
Several Chinese poems set to mu­sic,
and "Landsighting" by Grieg,
with orchestra accompaniment, are
being used by the Chorus this quar­ter.
More tenors and bass singers
are needed.
Members of the Chorus are: So­pranos—
Julia Christensen, Marga­ret
Hammer, Lorene Smith, Marga­ret
Harlow, Helen Dickenson, Doro­thy
Draper, Lilli Bargmeyer, Phyl­lis
Cole, Gertyde Schultz, Genevieve
McKellar, Elizabeth Pratt, Virginia
Paulson, Catherine Moss, Helen Cry-er,
Lois Schuett, Catherine McDon­ald,
Winnifred Claypool, Marjorie
Shay.
Altos—Megan Price, Margit Ot-tem;
Margaret Davids on, Grace Fin­ley,
Helen Scott, Erma Monke, Cath­erine
Mueller, Beryl Krafft, Alva
Slagle, Katherine Bacon, Molly
Pearl, Florence Hany, Mildred Hen-drick,
Myra Van Winkle, Sara Dav­idson,
Betty Jock.
Tenors—George Lovos, Joe Mc
Farland, Herbert Wilkinson, Robert
Hartley.
Bassos—Jack Joly, Roger Mullen,
Roy Johnson, Vene Fisher, Harry
Goheen, Francis Fisher, Clifton Per-ryman,
and Harold James.
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"The Choir of the West," noted
A Capella Chorus from the Pacific
Lutheran College, directed by Jos­eph
O. Edwards, gave a concert
Thursday, April 12, at 8:00 p. m., in
the Normal school auditorium.
The choir used mostly works and
anthems arranged by Christensen.
The mixed chorus has a membership
of fifty well trained voices. This
choir is similar to the famous St.
Olaf's Choir at Northfield, Minne­sota,
and compares very favorably
with that group, it is said.
The program was exceptionally
well given and the performers were
all attired in uniform dark robes.
For the past eight or ten years,
"The Choir of the West" has been
touring annually up and down the
Coast giving concerts at cities along
the way.
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Tuberculosis To Be
Topic For Address
Mrs. Earl J. Thornton, field, sec­retary
for the Washington Tuber­culosis
Association, will give an ad­dress
in a special assembly called
for Wednesday, April 18. Mrs.
Thornton's address will be the be­ginning
of a survey of students in
the school that will check on ten­dencies
to tuberculosis.
The assembly is called for Wed­nesday
because Mrs. Thornton is
unable to be here for the regular
Tuesday assembly. She will stay the
remainder of the week and a number
of doctors will come up to perform
the tests to determine if a person
has a tendency to tuberculosis. This
opportunity will be given all stu­dents
in school.
Scott Lecture May
Revive Discussions
Technocracy's Founder to Speak
At Normal April 17.
Technocracy, first-hand, will be
right in the midst of Normal stu­dents
• and any of the Bellingham
public which is interested, when
Howard Scott, its founder, comes to
this city next Tuesday, April 17. Mr.
Scott is scheduled to give a lecture
at the Normal school auditorium at
8:15 p. m., of the above date.
Although public interest in tech­nocracy"
is not as marked now as
when the subject was first intro­duced,
Scott is said to be more con­vinced
than ever of its importance,
and desirous of proving its true
worth.
A bulletin published by the Chi­cago
Regional Division of Technoc­racy,
Inc., includes Mr. Scott's own
definition of his plan of organizing
society, taken from his book, "An
Introduction to Technocracy—the
Methodology of the Determination
of the Most Probable."
Mr. Scott is 43 years of age, a na­tive
of Virginia, and a descendant of
early Scotch-Irish settlers. During
his professional life he has held
many positions of responsibility,
such as Chief Engineer of the Tech­nical
Alliance of New York, and Or­ganizer
and General Manager of the
Duron Chemical Corporation of New
Jersey. President C. H. Fisher has
heard Mr. Scott lecture, and rec­ommends
him as an interesting
speaker, and one who will furnish'
the listeners with something to
think about.
Death of Mayor
Sells Is Sudden
Yesterday morning, death claimed
Bellingham's mayor, John A. Sells,
His death came as a great shock
to his intimate friencs and the citi­zens
of Bellingham, since he had
been in relatively good health.
Mr. Sells was born in Canada on
November 16, 1861. He came to Bel­lingham
from Grays Harbor and
Hoquiam; here he established him­self
in the hardware business in
1903. From 1907 to 1909, he was a
councilman in this city. He served
his first term as mayor of Belling­ham
from 1918 to 1920, and he was
elected again in 1933.
Bill Sells, son of the deceased
mayor, was formerly a student in
this school. He was a sports editor
on the Viking staff, and a com­mendable
tennis player. He now at­tends
the University of Washing­ton.
Ross Gill Paintings
Will Be Displayed
N o r m a l Students "to Sponsor
Affair of Artist.
"Ways of Handling Tempera
Painting," will be the subject' of the
lecture by Ross Gill, noted Seattle
painter, in room 305 of the art de­partment
on Thursday, April 19.
Many of his paintings will be on
display at that time. Mr. Gill will
speak at 4 o'clock, and tea will be
served from 3 until 5 o'clock.
Since the tempera painting is
studied by both the methods and
children's classes at this school, it
•will be of particular interest to stu­dents
here.
The following people will be spon­sors
of the affair: Billie Mills, Flor­ence
Smith, Florence Hany, Emrose
Corbin, Anne Schenking, Jane Mil­ler,
Leora Graham, Margie Law­rence,
Mary Evich, Marguerite Can­non,
Thelma Bloom, Beatrice John­son,
Agnes Bailey, Mary del Conrad,
Keith Sanford, Leslie Williams, Law­rence
Bodtke, Joseph McFarland,
Marvin Allan, Orvin Messegee, Vene
Fisher, Donovan Reeve, Leslie Low­ell,
George Lillegaard, and Ralph
Hofman.
Art classes 60a and 60b, under the
supervision of Miss Hazel Plympton,
have been making Easter cards and
small posters to illustrate characters
in children's stories. The 60c class
have prepared for class room illus­trations,
characters in story books,
by the making of silhouettes.
WAA Secretary
Marie De Gallier
Works of American
Playright Reviewed
Vanadis. Bragi Plans Interesting
Program for Meeting
Art Photographs
Shown Last Week
Photographs taken by Henry Ber-ger
Jr., of Portland, Oregon, have
been on display in the Art depart­ment
during the past week.
Mr. Berger has made several series
which include waterfront views,
pictures of Reed College, views of
the Jewish Synagogue of Portland,
and a set of thirty-six industrial
pictures.
Having been greatly interested in
photography for a number of years,
Mr. Berger has won many prizes and
attracted many admirers before it
became his profession^
During the opening of the Colum­bia
river highway, the Portland
Chamber of Commerce sent Mr.
Berger to the East on a lecture tour
with an exceptionally fine group of
photographs he had taken of the
waterfalls and vistas along the
Columbia river.
Since that time Mr. Berger has
gained much recognition and won
many prizes along the Pacific Coast.
'English Newspaper,
New Book Received
Students Examined
El Nida Lodge Given First
Prize For Efficiency
Sixty new students have been
given health examinations. The
women were examined by Dr.
George Cook and Dr. S. R.
Boynton. The men were ex­amined
by Dr. Cook yesterday.
El Nida Lodge, 335 North
Garden, was awarded first
prize for efficiency and neat­ness
in housekeeping for last
quarter.
Helen Dickenson and Willy
Smick are in the isolation hos­pital
with flu. Theresa O'-
Malley, Virginia De Priest, and
Betty Jock are home with the
flu.
Phyllis Turner returned to
school Monday after an attack
of appendicitis. Feilder Beall
has been home for the week to
take treatments for an infec­tion
in his mouth.
"The English Newspaper," a book
of interest to the English and news-writing
groups, has recently been
received by the library.
This book, by Stanley Morrison, is
an account of the physical develop­ment
of journals printed in London
between 1622 and the present day.
Throughout, there are cuts and il­lustration
of various pamphlets,
journals, and newspapers.
Other books have been ordered by
the English department arid are ex­pected
to be in the library as soon
as they are catalogued.
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Bird Story Contains
Incorrect Statements
Last week's Viking contained an
item concerning a donation of a col­lection
of mounted birds to the
Normal school. Some of the state­ments
made therein were not cor­rect,
and shall now be clarified.
First, E. Edson, who donated this
collection, is a resident ofLynden,
contrary to the report that he was a
Bellingham citizen.
Secondly, the, major part of the
school's array of mounted birds has
been loaned to them, and continu­ously
added to, by J. M. Edson, who
lives on the Marietta road near Bel­lingham.
That the report concerned
two different men should now be
clearly understood.
Salt Water Aquarium for Northwest
To be Built From Historic "St. John"
Says Schmoe of Academy of Science
The St. Paul, one of the last of the old-time square rigged, sailing ships,
is soon to be fitted out as an aquarium for the Puget Sound Academy of
Science and opened to the public for inspection. This is the latest and
largest of the projects to be promoted by this institution, according to
Floyd Schmoe, executive secretary for the Academy. Mr. Schmoe will be
remembered for his illustrated lecture, "Down Through the Ages" in last
Tuesday's assembly.
This romantic old vessel is' now
being equipped with tanks of var­ious
sizes with glass sides in which
they will house specimens or marine
ilf e of the northwest. Flowers, plants,
and animals of this region will be
displayed in this floating museum.
Of particular interest will be the
largest tank they plan to install,
which will be eleven feet wide and
eighteen feet long. This is being
built to accomodate a shark from
Puget Sound waters—Mr. Shark
will be very much alive. All tanks
will be equipped with apparatus to
continually change the salt water.
"The ship will be anchored at
the government locks at Ballard,"
Mr. Schmoe said. "Although this is
about three miles from the Univer­sity,
we think it is an ideal location
because there are about three hun­dred
thousand persons who come to
visit the locks every year and there­fore
we expect that many will visit
the aquarium."
Lecture courses carried on by the
Academy will be continued at the
University campus in addition to
others they plan to establish aboard
the St. John. The academy also is
carrying on a series of field trips
for their students of natural his­tory.
Constitutional Change
Discussed by Couecil
The matter of changing the sec­tion
of the constitution pertaining
to eligibility for presidency and
vice-presidency of the Women's
League was discussed at a meeting
of the Women's League Council held
last Thursday in the Women's Lea­gue
Room.
Now that the Bellingham Normal
school grants degrees for four-year'
work, the council agreed that any­one
nominated for president of the
Women's League should have had at
least five quarters work in the
school and the vice-president, two
quarters.
The decision will be made by a
vote in a future assembly.
Ruckmick Present at
Teachers Convention
"The Works of the American
Playwright, Eugene O'Neill," will be
the subject to be reviewed at the
Vanadis Bragi meeting which will be
held Monday, April 18, at 7:30 p. m.
in the Edens Hall club room.
Six plays will be reviewed by
members of the club. O'Neill is well
known for his successful plays.
"Marco Millions" will be given by
Kenneth Bernet, Beth Hankins will
review "Great God Brown,' and
Mary Elizabeth Brock will present a
discussion on "Mourning Becomes
Electra." Both plays, "Days With­out
End" and "Ah! Wilderness," will
be reviewed by Bill Pierron. Gene­vieve
Strain will give a report on
"Strange Interlude." O'Neill's plays
have been having steady perform­ances
in New York and other cities
for several years.
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Local Trio Gives
Assembly Concert
Three selections were given this
morning in assembly by a local trio
consisting of Arthur Thai, violin;
Edith R. Strange, piano; and Don­ald
Bushell, cello.
The first composition was the
famous Arensky trio in three move­ments,
by the Russian composer of
the same name. The miniatures by
Frank Bridge, a contemporary Eng­lish
composer who favors the clas­sical
form of composition was of­fered
as the second number. This
also was in three movements.
Lastly the trio played the Novelet-ten,
a« composition written in the
Romantic style and also from the
same period. The composer is Gade,
who is of Danish birth. This selec­tion
was in a longer form than the
two preceding and had five move­ments.
Reps. Return
From Meet
Approximately Ninety Delegates of
37 Western Colleges at
Conference
OLD MISSION IS V I S I T ED
Schwartz, National Secretary of
A F C W Gives Address
Rumor Mentions Dill
As New U. President
Rumors that Senator Dill, Demo
cratic representative of Washington
to the United States senate, is ''fish­ing"
for the position of president of
the University of Washington was
emphatically denied by Mr. Dill in
Washington, D. C. "It is absolutely
ridiculous and without foundation
whatsoever," declared the senator.
The report hinted that Dill would
take office at the university at the
close of his present term of office,
L. B. Schwellenbach, present presi­dent
of the board of regents. Mr.
Schwellenbach has been mentioned
as a candidate for Dill's post.
Donna Aisted and Marie De Gal­lier
returned Wednesday afternoon
from Santa Barbara where they
have been attending the tenth West­ern
Sectional conference of Athletic
Federation of College Women. Af­ter
leaving Bellingham March 31,
they went to Seattle from where
they boarded the Ruth Alexander
for San Francisco. From there
they took a bus to Santa Barbara.
Noted Speakers Present
The conference dates were April
5, 6, and 7. The headquarters for
the meet were established at the
Samarkland hotel. The morning of
the first day was spent in registra­tion
at which time approximately 90
delegates from 37 western colleges
were enrolled. The meeting was op­ened
that afternoon with welcoming
addresses by Cathryn Kitley of San­t
a Barbara, conference president,
and Miss Lois Bennrnk, dean of
women, Santa Barbara State col­lege.
Several noted speakers ad­dressed
the group including Miss
Esther Ansel, former member of the
National Scout Council, Miss Mar­guerite
Schwartz, national secretary
of A.F.C.W.; N. P. Nelson, chief, di­vision
of Health and Physical Edu­cation,
state department of Educa­tion,
and Dr. Elizabeth Bishop, di­rector
of Research, Santa Barbara
State college and member of the
California committee of the White
House-conference. The program al­so
included discussion groups and a
debate: "Are Awards Necessary to
W.A.A."
Entertainment Provided
Social entertainment was provided
in the form of a theater party, the
delegates being guests of the Pox
Arlington theater, a box luncheon
served in the Persian Gardens of
the Samarkand hotel, a tour of
Santa Barbara, including visits to
the old mission, court house, and
the Montecito estates, and a formal
banquet held Friday, April 6, at the
Samarkand hotel.
Klipsun Slated to
Come Out June 2
The Teachers convention of the
Inland Empire was held at Spokane
last week end. Herbert Ruckmick, of
the Industrial arts department, was
present.
Proofessor Essix, of Oswego, New
York, delivered an address on the
topic, "The Tendency Toward In­forming
the Public- on the Values
and Advantages of Industrial Arts."
He stated that-forty per cent of the
drop-out of teachers in industrial
arts.was due to the fact that the
subject matter did not line up with
the curriculum demands, rather
than the depression. The fact was
pointed out that- the good teachers
still remain. -
Nature Study Class
Assembles at Park
Yesterday morning, arising with
the dawn, those registered in nature
study met out at Whatcom Falls
park to make a study of the tiny
animal life in the creek and pools
around there. The nets used in
Rapturing the victims were unique
makeshifts but constructed to serve
'the purpose. Wired on the end of
long bamboo poles were sieves such
as are found used in the culinary
art. One. fruit jar completed the
necessary equipment. The wigglers
found remaining in the-sieve after
each scoop in the creek were - placed
in the jar. The specimens will be
examined in class! next Tuesday.*
"The best yet,' said editor Gordon
Richardson, when giving his opinion
on the 1934 Klipsun. It is slated to
come out June 2, so all big and
mighty Seniors had better to be pre­pared
to sign their John Henry's on
that day.
More campus life pictures than
ever before are shown in this
year's Klipsun. Mr. Ruckmick has
been taking many pictures this
quarter, which will add to the con-"
tents of the annual.
Pictures of the girls' spring ath­letic
teams were taken Wednesday.
The boys' athletic pictures will be
taken as soon as the teams are pick­ed,
which will probably be the fol­lowing
week.
Freshman and Sophomore pictures
will be taken over again Monday,
April 16, due to the fact that so
many students didn't get in the
pictures before.
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Play Cast Chosen
Howell and Butler Get Leads.
Competition Close;
The Cast tor "Death Takes a
Holiday" has been tentatively
selected by Victor Hoppe, direc­tor.
In selecting this cast, the
committee gave preference to
those having fairly light- loads
and open hours, to. avoid the
necessity of students drop-:
ping classes in which they had
already spent over two weeks.
In most cases this was the de­ciding
factor.
, ,The cast is as follows:
"Cora," Evelyn Larson; "Fe-dele,"
Ken Bernet; "Duke
"Lambert>' Victor Dickenson;
"Alda." Ann Matheson; "Duch­ess
Stephanie," Nancy Jane
Smith; "Baron Cesares," Ralph
Hofman; "Princess , of San..
Luca," Sara Jamiesoh; "Rhoda
Fenton," Marye Louise Harri­son;
"Eric Fenton," Pat Allan;
.Carrado," Jack1 Joly; "Grazia/'
Vaughn Howell; "Prince Sirki,"
James t Butler;/ and.- '"Major
Whiteread," Marshall Bacon.