Northwest Viking - 1934 April 20

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VOL. XXXII—NO. 27 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, April 20, 1934
Editor Asks
For Klipsun
Shots Again
Yearbook Will Sponsor Snapshot
Contest This Spring; All
Students May Enter
CONTEST CLOSES MAY 10
Valuable Prizes Will Be Given
For Best Shots
"If you have any ambitions to be­come
an amateur photographer,"
said Gordon Richardson, "now is
your chance, as the Klipsun snap­shot
contest is now underway." En-tris
should be placed in the box
located in the lower hall. The con­test
closes on May 10. This is an
annual event and in past years has
stimulated much interest.
Any student is eligible to enter
and' pictures of all sorts are de­sired.
Picnics, bicycling, parties,
sports, or funny pictures of students;
any kind of picture you wish to
take. "The snapshot section of the
Klipsun is larger than ever before,"
said Gordon Richardson, "and stu­dents
are urged to contribute as
many pictures as possible to add to
its interest."
Judges Chosen
Judges of the contest will be Miss
Anna Ullin, faculty advisor for the
annual; Jane Kindall, associate edi­tor,
and Gordon Richardson, editor.
The requisites of the winning snap
will be clearness, appeal of subject
and novelty. First prize will be three
dollars, second, two dollars, and the
third prize one dollar.
At present a good share of the
book is in the hands of the printer.
The cover is finished in a modern­istic
fashion; having as its color a
bright blue with silver letters:
Members of the staff are: Editor,
Gordon Richardson; business man­ager,
Victor Dickenson; associate ed­itor,
Jane Kindall; sports editors,
Ralph Shenenberger and Bob Linds-ley;
art staff, Alice Jean Donoway,
Don Norlin and Margaret Chester;
school life editor, Louise Schulz and
Nancy Jane Smith, assistant; or­ganizations,
Mary Fisher, editor,
and Katherine Bowden, assistant;
administration, Wenonah Peck, edi­tor,
and Beth Hankins, assistant;
Mary Jane Holden, special writer.
The probable date for the Klip­sun
distribution will be June 2.
Painter Pays Visit
Nature Pictures Predominate
In Ross Gill Exhibit
Illustrating his talk with his own
paintings in temper* style, Ross
Gill, Seattle painter, lectured to an
audience of students and others in­terested
in painting, in the art de­partment,
on Thursday afternoon at
4 o'clock.
Mr. Gill brought about twenty of
his pictures with him. There are
many nature and waterfront scenes
in his collection. Some of the.paint­ings
are made on colored paper.
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Party Makes Trip
Nine Faculty Members Visit Grand
Coulee Dam Project
Hobby Club Will
Construct Planes
For the purpose of Nthe construc­tion
of solid and flying model air­planes
a new Hobby club has been
organized for the. children of the
training school.
The lower grades are making solid
models which are somewhat easier to
construct than: the flying models
whch are being made by the sixth,
seventh, and eighth grades. Some
of the models are for indoor flying,
while others are for outdoor flying.
Long flights are possible with out­door
models.
Balsa wood and Japanese tissue
paper are used for all construction
which is made to scale. All designs
and color schemes are' chosen by the
individual.
Nine faculty members were guests
at Wenatehee's apple blossom fes­tival,
and the Grand Coulee dam
site on their trip east of the moun­tains
last week-end.
The party, composed of President
C. H. Fisher, Edward Arntzen, Vic­tor
Hoppe, Thomas Hunt, Sam Car­ver,
H. C. Ruckmick, Dr. C. H. Hicks,
Dr. E. A. Bond and Dr. C. C. Up-shall,
left chere Friday afternoon,
going over Stevens pass to We-natchee,
where they were met by
the editor of the Wenatchee daily
paper and shown the sights of the
festival.
On Saturday the party was taken
to Quincy, where they joined Mr.
O'Sullivan, the secretary of the
Columbia river basin project, who
accompanied them up the coulee to
Coulee* City, and on to the dam site.
The party was astonished by the
fast growth of the town rising at the
dam site with all its characteristics
of a typical mining villa of the early
days. The fast dirt-moving pro­cess,
which is being done by large
shovels and scrapers run by such
few men, was also interesting. Dirt
is being moved to change the chan­nel
of the river in order to pour
concrete for the first part of the
dam, which was given an appropria­tion
of $63,000,000 by the federal
government.
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Women's Music Club
Chorus to Present
Concert In Assembly
The Bellingham Women's Music
club chorus will present a program
in assembly next Tuesday morning.
The chorus, made up entirely of
women, is directed by Lowe Bartruff.
Mrs. Althea H. Raymond is the ac­companist.
The concert is arranged as fol­lows:
"I Have Hung My Tent with
Crimson.... Spross; "The Flower Fair
at Peking", Marsh, by the chorus;
Miss Katherine White, soprano solo-iste
at the First Presbyterian church
at Seattle, will sing the aria from
"Elijah", Mendelssohn, "Hear Ye,
Isreal".
The next number will be by the
chorus, "The Brook," written by Mrs.
C. H. Fisher. Mrs. Anton Buedall
will play three flute solos: "Canzon-etta",
"Mouse Trap", and "Twilight
Dreams"; Miss White will give an­other
solo, "children of the Moon".
Concluding the program, the cho­rus
will present the cantata, "Pan's
Flute", Busch, words by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. In this number,
the chorus will be assisted by Philip
Morey, baritone, and Mrs. Buedall,
flutist.
Howard Scott Offers Modern Utopia
As Solution To Economic Problems
By; KATHERINE BOWDEN
"The only answer for the present conditions in the social and economic
world is Technocracy, a government by science," says Mr. Howard Scott,
founder and chief director of the Technocrats. Mr. Scott believes that the
latest economic malady should not be compared with past depressions.' It
has been the means Of changing the ideas and viewpoints of the American
people and has proved that the present social and economic structure is
on the verge of collapse. Therefore,
the use of a hypodermic needle as a
cure, which was the customary
treatment of former government ills,
will not ease, the pain. It is neces­sary
to diagnose the case scientifi­cally
and make an entirely new pre­scription.
This is what the Tech­nocrats
say. they have to offer.
Mr. Scott states that fie is neither
reactionary or revolutionary, yet the
changes expressed by; ttik! techrio-crafe"
aire radical in-forrii. ^He sala^
rie* of men 'and > wom£n- Would be
paid in different -kind ?'of-'-currency
and.thte;cuirency..:wpuid- not be in-terchangeable.,
Securing of divorces
would be unprofitable, because no
one would be able to collect alimony.
Social administration would be
functional, not political.
"Politics is the natural approach
of morons to something they don't
understand," says Technocracy's
founder. Immigration would be
prohibited and emigration .-facili­tated.
As,soon as this organization,
reaches the membership, of 10,000,000
the army of Technocrats will;begin
their reform' program. According rtp.
Mr.;ScottrtBerle-are only two choices
for, thV American public, either, to
become prominent as a Technocrat,
or to.pass in to obscurity when; the
present economic, system falls .into
chaos.,..,v,. • <Xi •.; .A,*
Board Re-Elects
President Fisher
New Standards Raise Amount of
Preparations of Faculty
President C. H. Fisher was re­elected
to retain ,his position for a
term of three years by the board of
trustees at the regular monthly
meeting Wednesday afternoon. Pres­ident
Fisher has just completed his
eleventh year as chief executive of
the school and under 'his direction
the school has made fine progress.
All of the present members of the
faculty, sixty in number, were re­elected.
Miss Dorothy A. Brosi, now
teaching at the State Teachers' col­lege
at Normal, Illinois, was elected
to fill the vacancy existing in the
sixth grade of the training school.
The board voted to raise the stan­dards
pf preparation for faculty
members. Under this new regula­tion
all instructors must have a
master's degree or better. This
change is necessary for the school
to maintain its rating with the
American Association of Teachers
colleges.
The members of the faculty who
<lo not have the required prepara­tion
will be granted leaves of ab­sence
to obtain the necessary quali­fications.
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Educators to Meet
Progressive Education Will Be the
Topic for Discussion
The University of Washington is
the place chosen by state educators
for the next Regional Conference on
Progressive Education for superin­tendents,
principals, and classroom
teachers of public and private, ele­mentary,
secondary, and collegiate
institutions/ State Department of
Public Instruction, Puget Sound
Schoolmasters' club, and Washing­ton
State Council of Administra­tive
Women in Education. This
meeting will begin on Friday morn­ing,
April 27, with a general ses­sion
and continue through Saturday
night, April 28. The Saturday morn­ing
session is in charge of the Puget
Sound Schoolmasters' club. The
Washington State Council Adminis­trative
Women in Education, with
Mrs. L. C. Anderson, state president,
presiding, will be hostesses at the
luncheon to be given Saturday noon.
The main speakers and discussion
leaders of these sessions are Dr.
Frederick H. Bair, superintendent of
schools, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Dr.
Ruth Streitz, professor of elemen­tary
education, University of Cin­cinnati;
and Dr. W. Carson Ryan
Jr., advisory editor of Progressive
Education, Washington, D. C. They
will present progressive education
from the viewpoints of administra­tors,
classroom teachers, and the
problems found in higher institu­tions
of education. Several members
of the Normal school faculty are
planning to attend this conference.
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Lilly Seed Company
Presents Free Show
For Nature Lovers
People from all over Northwest­ern
Washington, including many
students from the Normal school,
attended the sound picture of na­ture
at the Mt. Baker .theatre yes­terday.
The picture was presented
by the Lilly seed company of Seat­tle.
In the pictures, those attending
saw plants and flowers grow, devel­op,
unfold before them. The results
of successful gardening and the ad­vice
of seed and soil specialists were
given. Another feature was the
question box.forum. Questions were
written by the audience and then
answered by Joe Hohl of the Chas.
H. Lilly company in- Seattle.
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Tennis Film to be Shown
In Clubroom Wed. Noon
Board of Control
Discusses Budget
For Coming Year
Shenenberger to Make Report on
Football Letters for Pres.
. -Orvin Messegee
Discussion of the spring budget,
which was recently adopted, and
also of the budget for the coming
year, was the main purpose of the
Board of Control meeting held last
Monday afternoon.
The 1934-35 budget will not be
adopted till near the last of this
quarter, but different questions
which may arise at this time were
temporarily settled.
As Otto Finley was absent the-re­port
on the Board of Control week­end
party which is to be given at
Loganita Lodge, April 28 and 29,
had to be left until the next meet­ing.
Metineg Date Changed
It was voted to change the weekly
meeting date from Monday to Wed­nesday
afternoon to make it pos­sible
for both faculty members of
the board to attend regularly. Con­flicts
in engagements make it im­possible
for one of the,present fac­ulty
members to be present on Mon­day.
Ralph Shenenberger was appoint­ed
by President Messegee to make
a report at the next meeting on the
eligibility of a football player to be
awarded a letter.
Those present at the April 16
meeting were: President Orvin Mes­segee,
Harriet Rickerson, Dick .Al­bert,
Dr. Bond and Ralph Shenen­berger.
Skyline Ridge Will
Be Goal of Hikers
May 5 Is Date for Trip to Scenic
Wonderland
Upperclass Wins
Frosh Lose Track Meet After
Putting Up Good Fight
Asserting their superiority over
the freshmen, the upperclassmen won
at the inter-class track meet Thurs­day
afternoon. The meet was very
close until the last event, a relay
race, which the frosh were forced
to forfeit.
Some good times and marks were
made during the meet. Fife, a
freshman, showed up extremely
well, taking two firsts in the dashes
and tieing for first in the broad
jump. He also placed second in
the pole vault for a total of 17
points. Gillies, with 131/^ points,
and Holder with 13 were next high
Under the direction of Dr. E. A.
Bond, a proposed hike to Skyline
Ridge is. being planned for May 5.
This ridge, overlooking a beautiful
valley, is located about six miles
from Glacier. A trail, starting a mile
beyond this village, leads up to the
summit of the ridge. The trail is
well laid ,out, and leads through
green timber most of the way.
A steep grade leading down to the
valley affords one an excellent op­portunity
to slide, skii, or anything
one wishes to do. As the season is
well in advance of former years,
many flowers should be in bloom
along the way.
Transportation will be furnished
for students at the nominal sum of
fifty or 'sixty cents. For this sum
one may also get his coffee. As the
snow is quite bright when the sun
shines on it, it might be advisable
for students to bring colored glasses.
Last year about seventy students
took advantage of this opportunity
to play in the snow, Dr. Bond said,
and an even larger crowd is expected
to go on this trip. Hikers should
come with a grubsack full of grub.
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Monitor on Exhibit
Work, Play
Planned For
Campus Day
Co-operation of Students Asked
By General Chairman,
John Lensrud
MUNSON IS ASSISTANT
Track Meet and Baseball
Follow Luncheon .
Game
Piano Ensemble; Solo
Concert To Be Given
By Students of Strange
Tennis movies will be shown to a
limited number of interested stu­dents
and faculty next Wednesday
noon in the Edens hall club room.
The film which will be shown from
12:20 to 12:50, includes pictures of
the Wimbledon matches, Davis cup
matches,, ana of professional players.
The admission price will be 5c-
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Health Address Heard
; Mrs-uRuth' Thornton- field'secfe^
tary for the Washington Tubercu­losis'
Association; addressed the' stu-;
dents at a special assembly called
for Wednesday*: April "IS: Mrs;
Thornton talked on ;healthmeasures
and had something |of vital import­ance,
to offer regarding vthe health
of • students: <*.<:<*:t;
Students of Edith R. Strange will
be presented in an Ensemble and
Solo Concert in a regular assembly,
Friday, April 27.
The students taking part in this
concert are Christine Albers, Mary
Rees Benson, Helen Griffith and
Suzanne Vander Griend. •
The program is as follows: Two
pianos, Prelude and Fugue, Bach-
Bauer, Christine Albers and Miss
Strange; solo, Sonata Op. 10 No. 1,
Beethoven, Allegro Molto e con Brio,
Adagio Molto, Christine Albers; two
pianos, The Ntucracker Suite, Ta
chaikowsky, Suzanne Cissna and
Clara Vander Griend; solos, Ara­besque,
Leschetizky, Smouldering
Embers, MacDowell, Etude de Con­cert,
MacDowell, Helen Griffith;
two pianos, Polonaise in A Major,
Chopin, Tarantella, Rheinberger;
Helen Grffith, Christine Albers,
Mary Reese Benson, and Miss Edith
Strange.
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Scott Tells Idealistic
Plan Of Technocrats
International Newspaper Displayed
Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow the First
Christian Science church, Belling­ham,
is sponsoring the Christian
Science Monitor (International Daily
Newspaper) exhibit, which is being
held in the Bellingham National
Bank building and will be on dsplay
from 10 a. m. till 9 p. m.
This exhibit is open to the public
and students and will be of much
interest to journalism students and
journalists in.the city. The exhibit
will show different phases of the
Christian Science Monitor, such as
the Garden display, the Home Forr
um page, financial page, etc.
According to a statement made by
Mrs. D. Erickson, chairman of the
display, this is the only international
newspaper in the world today.
One feature of the exhibit is that
a late edition of the Monitor will be
given each person who visits the dis
play. Last November, the Christian
Science Publishing Society printed
a progress edition, commemorating
the completion of a four-million-dollar
building and also the silver
anniversary of the Monitor, which
celebrated its twenty-fifth year of
publication in November, 1933.
A number of these have been
printed and will also be distributed
to persons interested. The publica­tions
are all free.
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Archery Class For
Men Open Under
Scoutmaster Childs
One hundred sixty-five working
days a year at $15 an hour is one of
the idealistic pans of the techno­crats,
as': stated by Mr. Howard
Scott, founder' of the organization,
who addressed a large group of stu­dents
and^ townsmen, last Tuesday
evening in the school auditorium. A
group '6f; engineers and scientists,'
under the leadership of Mr. Scott,
have/ 'been making a survey': of the
equipment1 arid resources of the con­tinent
iri -its connection with Teclr-rideracy.;
Mr; -Scott Has;beeri-tour­ing
the' country endeavbringtb Edu­cate
the 'American public i*j th%
great- possibilities of a Technocratic
state. ••XP'.'i ••^y-r-
Archery tackle is featured in a
new class which opened in the in­dustrial
«rts department at 7:30
o'clock last Thursday night. Scout­master
Frank Childs of Troop 19,
Geneva, conducted it.
The class is limited to sixteen men
who will meet once a week for eight
or ten weeks. H. C. Ruckmick is
co-operating with th eScouting au­thorities
in that all construction of
bows and arrows, and even the
feathering will be done in the in­dustrial
arts department. Yew and
lemon wood will be used in con­struction.
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Thespian Club Plans
Trip to Lummi Island
The Thespian club is making ar­rangements
for a week-end trip to
Loganita Lodge on Lummi Island,
some time in the future. At the club
meeting Thursday, April 12, plans
for- this party were discussed. The
date is as yet undecided, as the dates
suggested were found to interfere
with plans of other school organi
zations.
Former Student Speaks
'••'• Miss Esther Nelson, former Nor­mal
school student, !was the speaker
at the Y. W.' C.'/A.i meetirig held
Thursday; April 19. Miss Nelson has
been a missionary'in Burma for six
years, arid related many experiences
to the" group gathered to hear her.
': A 'Y7 W. C. -Agnominating com­mittee
meetirigl£was 'held in room
208, Wednesday;,3«prll 18.
"Campus Day will be a day of
work, play and recreation for every
member of this institution. The
committee in charge is planning a
full program of activity for every­one.
In order that this day may be
successful, we ask for your most
hearty co-operation." This is the
statement of John Lensrud, general
chairman of the annual Campus
Day program, Tuesday, May 8. •
A full day's program has been
outlined by Chairman Lensrud and
his assistants. The program will be­gin
at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
with an assembly under the direc­torship
of sub-Chairman Melvin
Munson. After the assembly the
work of cleaning up the campus will
proceed under the supervision of
John Rule. Rule promises a spot­less
campus and probably will send
a crew to Normalstad to scrub out
the cabin there.
Following the morning's labor,
Elizabeth Schuele and her hench­men
promise a bounteous, lunch at
Waldo Field, following which there
may be a broadcast from KVOS,
with James Butler as director. At
1:30 Walt Sinko will provide plenty
of entertainment in the way of
track, baseball and field events. The
first series of events will be in the
nature of a track meet, which will
include, 50-yard dash for womeri,
100-yard dash for men, shuttlecock
racet for men and women, fat man's
race for men over 190 pounds, and-a
relay race for both men and
women. * v
A double-header baseball game be1
tween the Faculty Tornadoes under
Donald Bushell and Ralph Shen-enberger's
All-stars, will run conT
secutively with a girls', game be­tween
Edens Hall Hermits and the
Outside Amazons. Field events fol­low
with a sack race, egg race, three-legged
race, wheelbarrow race and,
at 4:00, the climax will be capped
by a water fight between Daniels
and Barton's Halls. Sub-chairman
Sinko promises more fun than a
three-ring circus, with plenty of
chance for every one to participate.
Captain Wilfred Hoban will main­tain
order with a group of paddlers.
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Tuberculosis Tests
To Be Given Free
Students of this school ar? being
offered an opportunity to take a
tuberculin test free of charge. TKi&
lias been made possible through the
facilitiy of the Washington Tubern
culosis association and under the di­rection
of "he Tuberculosis .ommit-tee
of the Washington State M6di^
oal association of which Dr. John E/v
Nelson is chairman. The person to
be tested may appear to be in good
health and still be harboring tu­berculosis
germs. Therefore the
Health department urges chat the
students take advantage of this op-:
portunity.
If the tuberculin test is positive, it-means
only that the living germs are
in the body. How active they are is
determined by an. X-ray test which-is
also given free of charge in case,
the test should prove positive.
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Athletic Award Is
Won by WAA Girl
The honor of being first to win
an athletic pin since the new point
system was inaugurated two years
ago, goes x to Violet: Straridberg.
Membership on fifteen first teams,-
eight of which must be All-star, is
necessary to receive this gold block'
"W."
Sweater awards were presented to
Marie; deGallier and tii&ytti& Mcin­tosh;
last week by the club, president.
In order to win a sweater,.j^;.girl;.
must 'play on: eleven.' first'"teams,
four of; <them being All-star) &s: well
as being approved by the W. A. A.
council. At least two years partici­pation'!
iis:neoeissary • to^earti1' this
award, which is a;-white coat sweair. •
er with a single,bluei s^kr^ar^dj a,,;
blue and white cheniUe'w: