Northwest Viking - 1934 March 9

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VOL. XXXII—NO. 22 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Friday, March 9, 1934
A. W. Herre
Sends Letter
From China
Former Member of the Biology
Department Tells of Trip
in the Orient
VOLCANIC ACTION SEEN
Writing from his temporary resi­dence
at Lignan University, Canton,
China, Mr. Albert W. Herre, former­ly
of the biology department of the(
Normal school, describes in great de-j few present. The clubs seem inter
Inter Club CoiAicil
Holds Last Meet
Of Winter Qurter
New Ammendment Is Made to Go
Into Effect by Spring
Attedance Required
The Inter-Club Council met last
night in Miss Nora B. Cummins' of­fice
for its last meeting of the
quarter. Only part of the clubs were
represented, making it, according to
the tatement of President Victor
Dickenson, "very difficult to ac­complish
anything with only such a
Hindus Airs Views at Friday Luncheon
Noted Russian Author ancj Lecturer Talks to Informal
Group on Conditions in Modern Russia
tail his trip among the islands of the
south Pacific in a letter to Mr. Hunt,
Social Science instructor. Mr. Herre
was also head of the department of
fisheries in Manilla, P. I., and is
now curator in the museum of Stan­ford
university.
Mr. Herre and his wife left Cali­fornia
last September.
. Of Canton, Mr. Herre writes,
"Canton is of very great interest to
the tourist, the shopper, the seeker
after the quaint and curious, the
delver into ancient culture and cus-
.. toms, the student of mankind. To
the naturalist the country round­about
is of very great interest too,
while the adjacent province on the
west is almost a terra incognita as
far as its animals are concerned."
"After five weeks in Yokohama,"
says Mr. Herre, "we sailed south past
the Bonin Islands into the region
named by the Japanese 'South Sea'.
Nature kindly provided a volcanic
eruption at Uracas, first and north­ern
most of the Mariannee just as
we were passing between 3 and 4 a.
m. It was a lovely sight, the vast
shower of flame and sparks, the
cascade of fire down the steep sides
of the volcano, and the incredible
column of black vapor which stood
out even against the darkness of
night."
Mr. Herre writes regarding his
stay at Yap: "No restrictions were
placed on my movements in Saipan,
Tinian, Yap, or the Pelews, nor was
there any restraint on taking photo-
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Blast Furnace Will
Be Built by Class
A special problem of which is the
building of a blast furnace to melt
aluminum and bronze, is now being
constructed by a class of Herbert C.
Ruckmick's industrial art students.
Heretofore their foundry work was
limited to melting lead alone, be­cause
of no way to obtain such an
• intense heat to melt other metals.
One of the chief desires is to keep
expenses down and show the Normal
school teachers taking that type of
work that they do not have to pay
so much for shop equipment of that
kind.
The class secured an old tar drum
and lined it-with fire brick, and they
will have an old washing machine
motor hooked up to a fan so it will
spray Diesel oil into the furnace
chamber by means of a pipe. Mr.
Ruckmick figured this will be the
cheapest fuel and method to use
after studying the different fuels
and the way they are used.
The class visited several local
business places where blast furnace
work is done, and received informa­tion
that will prove valuable.
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ested in the Inter-Club Council but
only a few of their representatives
are present at the meetings."
An amendment, made to go into
effect next quarter makes it com­pulsory
for all Inter-Club Council
representatives to attend if they
wish to have their clubs recognized.
All clubs which fail to have repre­sentatives
at the meetings will lose
their social standing as clubs. Only
two absences are allowed the repre­sentatives.
As the plan of sponsoring lunch­eons
this quarter seems to have
been successful, the council approved
of carrying on the same system next
quarter. Miss Sarah Jamieson was
reappointed to head the luncheon
committee.
It was decided that all club dates
for next quarter should be in by next
week so that a club calendar may
be made for next quarter.
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Pat Smith Coming
World Famous Speaker to be Here
for Tuesday's Assembly
Honeymqoners Race
Bright and Lundberg Give
Nuptial Interpretations
Bang! Not a, shotgun mar­riage,
but a honeymoon race.
Down the hall they dashed—
Elmer Bright representing Bar­ton's
hall and Albrey Lundberg
as the spirit of Daniels. Suit­cases
in hand, they hurried to
the far end of the gym, where
they opened their luggage and
donned the garments. A howl
came from the crowd. With the
care and adeptness of males
each donned a stunning model
corset and a still more ravish­ing
gown. Hurriedly, w e l l -
shaped legs were thrust into
silken hose and dainty feet
were encased in high heeled
shoes. Chapeau tilted to one
side and coat thrust on, frantic
packing of male garments be­gan.
And then, the filial dash
to the goal. The blushing
bride of Daniels won in a walk,:
a nice ambling one. Into the:
waiting arms ,of the Knighte
j$ Daniels^ she flung herself,
who carried her away on their
shoulders as a sign of victory.
Captain Gypsy Pat Smith, world
famous traveler, soldier, adventurer
and lecturer, is now making his
fourth American tour, and on Tues­day,
March 13, the student body will
have the opportunity of seeing and
hearing him in the auditorium.
Born in a Gypsy camp on Vinegar
hill, the mecca of the Romany folk
and show people in Glasgow, Scot­land,
Captain Smith will speak on
"The Romance of the Romany
Camp."
Gypsy Pat, as he likes to be called
despite his world travels, speaks
with a rich Scotch burr that would
make Harry Lauder envious. He has
crossed the Atlantic nineteen times
since the armistice, sailed across the
Pacific four times, and has lectured
all over America, Canada, Australia,
South America, South Africa, West
Indies, England, Scotland and Ire­land.
More than 9,000,000 people on five
continents have thrilled to his sto­ries
and his hold on an audience is
uncanny. In the famous bowl at
Hollywood, Cal., it was estimated
that some 40,000 people were present
to hear him speak.
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Manniche Will Speak
In Blue Room Tonight
On Folk-High Schools
Peter Manniche, well known Dan­ish
speaker in this morning's as­sembly,
will be guest speaker at a
dinner to be, given this evening in
the club room at Edens hall. The
subject of his talk will be "The
Social Consequences of the Danish
Folk-High Schools."
Mr. Manniche has been intimate­ly
associated with the Danish folk-high
schools, (people's colleges),
which is the oldest form of modern
adult education. He has carried cul­tural
education one stage farther
when in 1921 he founded the Inter­national
People's college at Elsinore:
Members of the faculty Forum
who are sponsoring this dinner in­vite
others who are interested in
adult education. Dinner will be
served in the club room at 6:30
o'clock and the lecture will be given
informally in the Blue room im­mediately
following the dinner.
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By Philip T. Campbell
That the industrial revolution is
being stubbornly but futilely fought
against by the older generation of
Russia was the opinion expressed
last Friday at a luncheon for Mau
rice Hindus'held at Edens hall. "The
machine is there to stay," he said,
"and the young people of Russia
are willing to give anything to have
it stay." * . "
Russia at the present time is tak­ing
rapid strides in modernizing it's
country. It is setting aside many
of the old ideas that have been
handed down for generations
and is adopting new and up-to-date
methods.
In the past few years athletics
have come in for a prominent part
in Russia's recreational program.
Soccer football seems to be their
most prominent sport, while bas­ketball
and golf are being intro­duced
at the present time. Women
also-have their sports as well as the
men, and at present an intensive
program for recreation is being
worked out.
Women in Russia, are now consid-feired
on an equal basis with men,
was the opinion expressed by Hin­dus.-
They take their place in in­dustry
right along with the men.
The' children are put in day nurser­ies
and at night are taken back to
their homes by their mothers.
- When the question of religion was
brought up Hindus said that it was
dead, theologically speaking. Emo­tionally
it is very much in evidence,
he commented.
It was very interesting to note
that for his lunch Mr. Hindus chose
sauerkraut and cold ham, along with
black coffee. He probably has got­ten
quite used to eating kraut by
this time as cabbage seems to be a
favorite dish in his native country.
Read And Blue
Term Paperets
Seem To Rage
Season is Nearly Over;
Teachers Suffer Also
Intent Pains
Poor
No Action Taken
By H. L. Hopkins
Teachers Work Sans Pay, Pending
Confirmation of Plan
No action has yet been taken on
the CWS teacher employment sit­uation,
according to information
given out Wednesday by Miss Eliza­beth
Hopper, of the Appointment
Bureau. Although many wires of
protest were sent to Harry L. Hop­kins,
national CWA administrator,
asking that the twenty-two teachers
in Whatcom county who worked on
the CWS program be provided relief
under CWA authority, school offi­cials
have received no word of ap­proval
of this plan.
Since March 1, the teachers on the
CWS payrolls have been working
without pay, pending confirmation
of the proposal to put them under
CWA or release more funds for CWS
work.
Is Business Worse
Don't Get Hearse
See Arntzen First
Music Department
Presents Concert
Final Assembly of Quarter Given
Friday, March 16
Edward J. Arntzen, whose spe­cialities
are" economics and history
in the Normal school, is having
charts made by means of his CWA
help, that give graphic pictures of
the United States debt structure,
money relationships and other eco­nomic
interests, in the social science
office at the present time.
These charts will be a great help
in showing the actual relationships
of the different factors that cause
nations to rise and decay. The num­bers
in our modern world are get­ting
so large that they have ceased
to have any meaning other than by
comparison and this is the purpose
of these charts, according to Mr.
Arntzen.
The annual assembly by the
Chorus and the orchestra of the
Normal school will be given Friday,
March 16. The chorus is made up
of sixty voices, both men and wom­en,
and the orchestra has twenty-five
members. The orchestra and
chorus are under the directorship of
Mr. Donald Bushell, instructor in
the Music department.
The hour's program is arranged
as follows: Orchestra, overture,
"Merry Wives of Windsor", Nicolai;
chorus, "Weary My Heart", Orlando
de Lasso; "Good-day Sweetheart",
Orlando de Lasso; orchestra, "Cau­casian
Sketches", Ippolitow-Ivanow;
(1) In the Mountains, „(2) In the
Village, (3) In the. Mosque, (4)
March of the Sardar; chorus, "Ave
Maria", Rachmaninoff; "Steal
Away", Negro spiritual; orchestra,
"Aragonaise", Massenet.
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Choice Of Applicants
To Elective Positions
Will Be Made Mon.
By Harlan Jones
• When we fellows write term papers
at this institution, we do it as fol­lows:
\ '"
First, we go and browse around in
the fields of learning over in our
library—gee, how musty some of the
books smell.. I wonder if the auth­ors
who have nurtured each noun
and pronoun, had enough imagina­tion
to realize that even their books
might only be read by the worth­while
people. And • then we start
like this: "Since every literary para­site
sooner or later stoops to making
comparisons, I feel that I am jus­tified
in taking my plunge in this
manner. I have chosen to multilate
Masefield and Chaucer. Gosh, Chau­cer
must have been a great man, to
have spelled as badly as he did and
got away with it all these years
Long pause to be filled with words,
preferably three syllable ones.
And then, in conclusion, I would
be tempted to say that many of
Chaucer's blunders are interpreted
as intentional all down the ages.
Why, even the other day, I heard
certian people say that they bet
Shakespeare wasn't all he was cook­ed
up to be. Gf course I violently
disagreed and told them that
Shakespeare was all cooked up, to
be.
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Playday a Success
Whatcom County High School Girls
Frolic Here
School Men
Have Chance
In 3 Sports
Football, Track and Baseball to be
Offered Students Spring
Quarter
FOOTBALL FOR 3 WEEKS
European Bear Studied
By I. R. C. Members
Short Meeting Held
By The Drama Club
Reports on the expenses of "The
Taming of the Shrew" were given in
the last meeting of the Drama club,
Monday, March 5. Two plays, which
were suggested for the spring pro­duction,
were discussed. They were
"Green Fire," by Glenn Hugnes, a
professor at the University of Wash­ington,
and "Green Grow; the Li-lacjs,"
by Lynn Riggs.
In the absence of the club presi­dent,
Peggy McKay, and the vice-president,
Christine Albers, Boyd
Swanson presided. Dick Newlin was
appointed acting secretary.
In addition to an informal dis­cussion
of Russia and its relation­ship
to world affairs, the Internat­ional
Relations club had Bill Hus-sey,
who attended school here last
quarter and has recently returned
from a trip to the Orient, as guest
speaker at their regular meeting,
held Wednesday evening at 7:30 in
the Edens hall club room!
After Mr. Hussey's talk on the
Orient, a brief discussion was held
about the problems of the far east?
The International Relations club
has not yet selected its delegates to
the International Relations club con­vention
to be held in Tacoma, March
16 and 17.
Election by the Board of Control
of editor and business manager of
the Northwest Viking and secretary
to the Board of Control has been
postponed until the meeting next
Monday, March 12. At the meeting
of the board last Monday this was
to have been done, but since the
grade point average of all the appli­cants
for the positions was not yet
known, it was impossible to act on
their applications with the proper
degree of consideration.
The present holders of these po
sitions are editor of Viking, Julius
Dornblut, Jr.; business manager of
Viking, Calista Simonds, and secre­tary
to the Board of Control, Harriet
Rickerson, all of whom are re-ap­plying
for their positions.
Alumnus Obtains Job
Victor DePinto Scores
In Tuesday's Assembly
Playing before his first Belling-ham
audience, Victor DePinto suc­cessfully
entertained the Normal
school in Tuesday's assembly. Ac­companied
by Lowe Bartruff, he
gave a high class performance, play­ing
several of the old numbers com
posed by the early writers of Italian
romantic music.
Another artist on the program was
Miss Gladys Mougin, soprano, who
sang two numbers and was applaud­ed
for an encore. Both Miss Mougin
and Mr. Bartruff are graduates of
Bellingham Normal.
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Action Photos Taken
"It was a decided success," is the
verdict received by Chairman June
McLeod on the W. A. A. playday held
here last Saturday for high schools
of Whatcom county. "The enthus­iastic
response of the guests and co­operation
of the committeemen
made the affair one to be long re­membered,"
declared Miss McLeod
after the last tea-cup had been put
in place.
Beginning with delegate registra­tion,
the playday got under way
about 10:00 a. m. Athletic games and
relays among seven color teams
made up the morning's program.
Teams purple, red, and orange tied
for first place in the contest.
"Winnie-the-Pooh" was the ab­sentee
host for the luncheon served
the 140^ guests at Edens hall. En­tertainment
for the meal was fur­nished
by the double male quar­tet,
a boxing clog by the Neilson sis­ters,
a skit on Winnie and Piglet,
and community singing. The lunch­eon
was followed by badminton ex­hibits
and folk dancing in the big
gym, after which tea was served in
the Edens hall blue room as the
closing event for the day.
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Peter Manniche, Noted
Denmark Educationist
Discusses New Method
Herbert Philippf, Jr., a graduate
of Bellingham Normal, is now teach­ing
English in Lincoln high school,
Seattle.
Mr. Philippt has been in New
York for the past year, and a half,
but gave up his job there as an in­terior
decorator to devote himself
to teaching. He is a former teacher
at both Fairhaven and Whatcom
high schools.
Weather and snow conditions were
good for the speed photography
work, which Herbert C. Ruckmick
took of the ski jumps and races held
at Mount Baker a few days ago. A
graflex special speed camera was
used. These movies, were for the
Mount Baker ski club. T ;
Ski experts from Seattle furnished
the, entertainment and several pic­tures
were taken of them. Some of
these pictures were published in the
Sunday edition of the Bellingham
Herald.
Mr. Peter Manniche, the founder
and principal of the International
Peoples' college at Elsinore, Den­mark,
was the speaker in today's
assembly, March 9.
The college began by Mr. Man­niche
and his first students convert­ing
an old farm into college build­ings.
Today there are modern lec­ture
halls and a fully equipped
gymnasium. Men and women from
all parts of the world attend. The
curriculum includes the essential
study of modern languages, interna­tional
sociology, comparative liter­ature,
culture and history.
Mr. Manniche has lectured in
Scandinavian countries, in Great
Britain and in the United States.
The British Broadcasting Corpora­tion
recently arranged for a series
of radio talks by Mr. Manniche.
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Vanadis Bragi Holds
Interesting Meeting
On Monday evening, March 5, at
7:30 o'clock the Vanadis Bragi club
held its regular meeting in the
Edens hall club room. Einar Larson
opened the evening with a short
business^ meeting, following which
individual members of the club gave
special book reviews. The meeting
was concluded with! a general dis­cussion
of the books and authors,.:::
The .program; wasT5aft|utiged:) by
Catherine MacDonald, chairman,
who had as the theme, "Novels of
the Soil," in keeping with the books
discussed.
Football, track and baseball ate
the three major sports that will be
in order when the spring quarter be­gins
March 26.
Coach Lappenbusch plans to call
the first turnout immediately ^for
spring football, and will continue to
drill the men for between two and
three weeks. About 2S men are ex­pected
to be on the gridiron to eith­er
learn the fundamentals of the
game or practice the shifts and pass­ing.
As there will probably be
enough suits available for everyone
that will report, Lappenbusch does
not plan to cut the squal any.
Baseball Nest
As soon as football is over, Lap­penbusch
will focus his attention on
baseball material. He is not sure
just what are the possibilities for a
good team. Intramural softball has
been the closest this school has come
to baseball for the last few years,
and there is quite a difference be­tween
the ability needed for hard
and soft ball. A number of men are
now in school that looked good on
the small diamond last spring and
may be valuable to this season's
team.
Six games already have been lined
up for the school nine. The desire
to play as many games as possible
with the least expense has prompted
Lappenbusch to arrange to play a
double-header at Tacoma April 27,
with a return twin-bill, May 4. The
U. of W. frosh will be met the 11th
and 18th of May, with the first
game at Seattle.
Ellensbnrg Drops Track
Track men have been turning out
already, but will start their train­ing
in earnest next quarter. Either
Cheney or Bellingham will win the
so-called tri-Normal . meet this
spring, as EHensburg has dropped
track from their spring calendar.
Theatre Guild Will
Give Belasco Play
David Belasco's Broadway success,
"The Return of Peter Grimm,";will
be presented by the Bellingham
Theatre Guild. Victor H. Hoppe is
the director of the piece, which is to
be presented next month.
The play centers around old Peter'
Grimm, who is the owner of green;-!
houses which have been in the fam­ily
for generations. His closest friend
is his doctor, with whom he has
many interesting and profound dis1-**
cussions. The doctor believes that
the soul returns to earth after its-owner
is dead, but Peter is a bit
skeptical about ghosts of any. sort.
Finally they agree that whichever
of them dies first will come back
and tell the other what the "outer
world" is like.
Peter Returns
By the middle of the play Peter
is dead, and in* the last two acts he
returns to the house in which: he
had lived his mortal life. There is;
a bit of good psychology here in that
the audience sees and hears old
Grimm's ghost while those on the
stage do not. This makes the au­dience
feel slightly superior and
creates a good feeling toward the
play.
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Russian Books at Hand
Library Has Much Material On
. Russian Affairs
Russia! The library has
much material dealing with
present affairs in that country.
, Since Maurice Hindus lectured
last Friday it might be noted
that three of his books, "Bro­ken
Earth," "Humanity Up­rooted"
and "Red Bread," are
a part of this material.
A very few of the other nu­merous
books on Russian af-;
fairs are: "The Soviet Planned
Economic Order" by W. H.
Chamberlin, and "Social Eco­nomic
Planning;" by; V. V.
Obolenskii, these dealing with
Russian economic : conditions;,
"Red Virtue,^ by JEUa;' Winter
a review of moral conditions ip „
Russia.ri"'.,'/!"-V'' . :'','J, '"'•' '•'..
. Jftussfa! also has ire'at'writers
of her-^wn>The ;libra^,!Kals
books by Ji^sto^^'^IthigHie^i
Gorki Tchekoff and Dostoev­ski