Northwest Viking - 1934 December 14

              VOL. XXXIII—NO. 11 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, December 14, 1934
Liners
MENTAL CAPACITYLEADS
JAMES, THE COMIC STRIP!
BOND DIDN'T OKAY THIS
SIC 'EM, TIGE!
LOW DOWN-VIKING GANG
By Lines
It was a painful blow to us to
learn that we weren't the smartest
boy on earth; our teachers had been
kidding us all this time. Rather the
papers claim that some little 7-year-old
-back East has that distinction.
His highest intelligent quotient—230
—they tell us, doesn't necessarily
mean that he knows that much, but
just wait—he ain't never been to
college yet.
A thought persistent from last
Week's Campi column needs airing.
It seems that the student body of
Ashland college, in a most demo­cratic
fit, abolished editorials from
their publication on the grounds thai
the editor's ideas are no better than
any one else's. Fine. But we'll bet
it didn't stop the editor from think­ing
what he pleased. Nor did it help
anyone else to form an idea.
Enlarging still further (and we
hope ye ed. doesn't mind this):
how would you compare the opin­ions
of the person who sits three
seals to your right and one row be­hind
in any class you wish with
those expressed in the editorial col­umn
of the Viking?
Tough Varsity
Hoop Schedule
Ready for '35
Veterans Are Lacking As Basket
Artists Train For Heavy
Scheduled Season
Dunigan, Sollie Expected
New Men Will Enroll Next Term
To Strengthen Squad
Lest ye forget, there are
eight more shopping days until
Christmas. Don't throw it, I
won't say it again!
Yes, it's easy to estimate how near
the final exams are. According to
the unofficial statistician who sits
merrily in the Viking office window,
pecking at a typewriter and war­bling
gaily at pretty maidens on the
sidewalks below, the number of va­cant
seats in the reserve room for
any given period decreases in an
inverse ratio corresponding to the
square of the number of days until
the end of the quarter. This means
that if you were able to bee line
across the campus from the front
entrance, thus completing the hy­potenuse
of a right triangle, you
have theoretically doubled your
chances to get the book you want.
In other words—allee samee—the
early worm gets the book.
We see by the papers that WSC
and the U of W column writers
are having a verbal scrap over the
theoretical ability of their respective
schools to capture and maintain tro­phies.
According to the Seattle
gentleman, the schools are even up,
each having a score of three. But
the enthusiast from east of the
mountains claims there is a glaring
mistake in the computation. It seems
that two years ago there Was a
free-for-all in which a stuffed cou­gar,
captured, from the Pullmaniles
and held 16 years, was badly man­gled
and its remnants scattered
hither and yon over the landscape.
The easterners claim that they gath­ered
up the greater portion of skin
and tail while the University stu­dents
kept only a small part of the
stuffings in the battle. Therefore,
WSC argues, they should be given
a score greater than the Huskies.
Apparently the Washington Staters
care more for their precious skin
than what's inside it.
When Prexy Messegee comes to
tabulate his private statistics in so­ciology,
will that fatal 7.2 per cent
of idiotic answers appear? Suggest
we that he should have perused the
questionnaire cards in the Viking
office that were filled out during
registration where the usual per­centage
of goofy answers took a sud­den
boom. Should he be at all gul­lible,
he would find that several
notables and notorieties including
the long dead and near dead all
have registered and attend dances
nightly and spend $40 for dance
dresses and eat their meals at home
in Peoria, Kansas, and so forth.
BUT, here's the rub: Most of those
phoney cards were filled out by
members of the Viking staff them­selves.
We wonder if Messegee's poll
of the Vikinglets will reveal the same
percentage of irresponsibles.
Pacing one of the hardest sched­ules
in years and with only two
regulars back so far, Coach Lappen-busch
will have no easy task build­ing
a winning Viking basketball
team. While prospects at present
aren't any too bright, the opening
of next quarter will probably see
two or three veterans back and also
several new men.
Ray Dunigan and Gylf Sollie, vet­erans
of last year's squad, will likely
answer roll at the beginning of the
quarter and there is a possibility
Harold Fitzer, who led the Vikings
in scoring last year, will also return.
New Men Expected
Dumbroski, a guard from Aber­deen,
is expected to report at school
next term as is Kiester, a 6 foot, 6
inch center from Oak Harbor. These
men, along with several other pros­pects
who might decide to take up
their studies here, should help con­siderably
to bolster up the present
squad.
While the schedule at present is
only tentative, it nevertheless gives
warning that once the season gets
underway there will be no letups.
Lappenbusch is at present negotiat­ing
with Roy Sandberg of CPS for
a game and the date on the schedule
is somewhat indefinite.
1935 Varsity Schedule
Ellensburg—January 24, t h e r e ;
February 7, here.
Cheney—January 26, there; Jan­uary
31, here.
Yakima J. C—February 21, here.
PLC—February 23, there.
Other games with CPS, the U
Frosh, Seattle college, and the Uni­versity
of British Columbia are also
scheduled, but no definite dates have
been set.
Gallant Will Appear
Here Next Tuesday
Dorothy Gallant, young Canadian
soprano from Vancouver, is to sing
in assembly Tuesday, December 18.
Cyril Haworth, flutist, also of Van­couver,
will assist Miss Gallant.
Beverly Morris at the piano.
Some of the numbers Miss Gallant
will sing are: "Sunlight," Harriet
Ware; "A Picture," Pearl Curran;
"Answer," Terry; "Care Serve,"
Handel; "Sun's Roses," Hawley, and
"Alleluia," Mozart. Cyril"Haworth
will also play several pieces on the
flute: "Concertino," Chaminade, and
"La Petite Bergere," Debussy.
Miss Gallant comes highly recom­mended
by Leona Torgerson, who
says, "She not only excels with a
beautiful voice and personal appear­ance,
but her production is flawless."
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Bond Expresses Views
On National Conditions
Dr. E. A. Bond, in speaking to the
Kiwanis club last Tuesday at then-weekly
luncheon, voiced the opinion
that the national budget could be
balanced only by inflation or heav­ier
taxes. Of the alternatives men­tioned,
taxation is preferable, said
Dr. Bond.
Referring to the federal reserve
banking system, Dr. Bond said that
it has brought good results.
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Alkisiahs Hold Party
Christmas Presents, Games,
Prove Popular
Christmas spirit prevailed at
the Alkisiah party last Monday,
at Edens hall. A Christmas tree
decorated with candy - canes,
games, and * rish pond pro­vided
amusement for the club
members and their three guests:
Miss Janet Matthews and Miss
Florence Johnson, members of
the faculty, and Miss Nell Bry­ant,
assistant school nurse.
Test Week Looms
Students Park Over Work
Till Late Hours
With test week beginning
December 17, the library has
ceased to be merely a campus
beauty spot and has become a
students' workshop.
Likewise the main halls, erst­while
rendezvous for friendly
chats and platonic flirtations,
seem strangely quiet and de­serted.
The members of the school
social register seem to have
hibernated. One may almost
suppose that the local leading
lights are cramming in as
frenzied a haste as the most
insignificant member of the
student body.
Now indeed is the fable of
the three little pigs in evi­dence;
and those few who have
built their intellectual houses
of bricks, can sit back with
a smug, self-satisfied smile,
watching the frantic scurrying
of those who have good times
but straw houses.
H. G. Wells
To be Topic
Program Is Announced for Final
Meeting of Vanadis Bragi
December 1 7
Discussion of toe works of H. G.
Wells will be the program for the
final Vanadis Bragl meeting of the
quarter. The meeting will be held
in the Edens Hall club room Monday,
December 17, at 7:30 p. m.
The program as announced is as
follows: Doris Condogeorge, "Men
Like Gods"; Sterling McPhail,
"Tono Bungay"; Genevieve Strain,
"Undying Fire"; Clyde Kendall, "Mr.
Bluppington of Blup"; Wilson Way-lett,
"The World of William Clis-sold";
Harry Windsor, review of
Wells' early works.
Educators of State
Discuss Credentials
To decide upon the requirements
for credentials for principals of a
few high schools and colleges for
teacher training was the purpose of
the meeting of the State Board of
Education held on December 10 and
11 in Olympia. President C. H. Fish­er
represented the Normal.
The necessary credentials for
principals of several high schools,
the elementary schools, and super­intendents
of schools were discussed
at a previous meeting. "Requiring
credentials is a new plan beyond
that which was formerly used," says
President Fisher. "A teacher's cer­tificate
was all that was necessary
before."
President Fisher says that statis­tics
show that more teachers, ex­perienced
and inexperienced, are
employed than last year. If this
present condition continues, about
1,000 teachers will be needed in the
next few years, he says.
Assemblies Vary
Winter Quarter
Speakers and Musicians Offer Very
Interesting Program for
Coming Year
Widely varying assembly programs
for winter quarter promise to be en­tertaining
as well as educational.
President C. H. Fisher will be the
speaker for the first assembly after
the holidays. The Friday following
that, the Legion quartet will give
a group of musical selections. The
lecturers for the months of February
and March are: Frederick M. Zim­merman,
a German lieutenant,
Dudley Crafts Watson, Dr. No-YOng
Park, Miss Tony Sender, and Emil
Lengyel.
Musicians Featured
The musicians to be featured are:
Nan Dybdahl Wiik, soprano; Bitten
and Teitsworth, soprano and pian­ist;
Lorraine Foster, soprano; Las
Taptias, featuring a quartet. A light
opera is to be sponsored by Lois Holt
Brown on the evening of March 19.
Dramatic programs are also sched­uled;
Victor H. Hoppe will give a
reading; Miss Dorothy Crawford, of
Seattle, a monologist, will give a se­ries
of dramatic readings.
The last assembly will be given by
the play production class.
New School Club
Has First Meeting
Philosophy-Psychology Group, Has
Eight Charter Members
Eight charter members were pres­ent
at the first regular meting of the
Philosophy-Psychology club held at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Irving E.
Miller, Wednesday evening, Decem­ber
12.
In the course of the business
meeting Walt Miller and Mrs. Mac^
beth were elected delegates to the
nominating convention of the ASB.
Keith Sanford is the club's first
representative to the Inter-club
council.
Pearl Rhodes, Keith Sanford, and
Glen Greseth presented short pa­pers
as openers for discussion, fol­lowed
by comments as to the pos­sibilities
of the organization by .Dr.
Miller. Following the program, an
informal lunch was served by Mrs.
Miller.
Men and Women Meet
In Separate Assemblies
Separate assemblies were held
Tuesday, December 11, by the Men's
club and the Women's league.
Don Richardson and Victor Dick­inson
were elected the Men's club
delegates to the coming nominating
convention.
The women heard discussion by
Miss Nora B. Cummins and Marie de
Gallier of the proposed constitution­al
amendment affecting women rep­resentatives
on the Board of Con­trol.
President's Secretary
Is Recovering Slowly
Miss Ethel Church, secretary to
President Fisher, who has been ill
at St. Joseph's hospital is gradually
recovering. A report from her nurse
says that she had been up Tuesday
and for half an hour Wednesday af­ternoon.
Yah Ho, Ho,—And a Bottle of Milk
If You'll Give Us Stew for Supper
By Harlan Jones
Among the activities of last week-end, one of the most prominent in,
the social set was a bazaar held at Samish island. The guests from
Normal numbered about 20.—Selected.
The rest of this was handed to me by an Old Salt, written on foolscap.
—A bunch'of land-lubbers from Crompton's Scout Leadership class were
waiting at Citizens' dock, last Saturday morning, when up the channel
glided and churgled the King Thor,
Board Meets
Meeting Is Held at Normalstad
13 Are Present
At a Board of Control meet­ing
held at Normalstad last
Wednesday evening, thirteen
persons attended. A turkey
dinner was served and follow-'
ing this an informal discussion
was held during which those
present suggested ideas of im­provement
for the lake shore
property. President C. H. Fisher
was a special guest at this
meeting.
After inspecting the property
several suggestions were made
whereby this property could be
made to benefit the students
more. During the discussion,
student memners and faculty
representatives were called up­on
to express their views on
school policies. All present
were asked to take part in this
discussion.
Committee To
Plan Program
Three Students, Three Faculty
Members To Organize
Recreations
Three students and three faculty
members will serve on a committee
for the arrangement of a program
for the all-school recreational pro­gram
which has gained so much
backing lately. This was the only
business transacted at a special
meeting of the Board of Control at
Normalstad Wednesday. The names
of the committee members were not
available last evening.
As a move toward arousing inter­est
in the mixed recreational pro­gram,
the student members of the
board issued a challenge to any vol­leyball
team that is composed of
three women and three men. If
this challenge is completed satisfac­torily
the board students plan to or­ganize
other teams to represent
them.
Upperclass Elects
Two to Convention
Sea Scout boat.
Vikings without oars at the mercy
of a balky engine. . . . Did you
ever look out of the dormitory win­dows
at the bay's blue waters and
wonder what the foreign land of the
islands looks like? Well, they look
even more like islands when you
get up close.
The old Viking raiders must have
looked like lambs in comparison
with Frender, Ames, Hammond,
Conn, Franklin and the rest of us.
We had dinner;- Much dinner. Then
humped over little candles.
After our supper, we Scouts, with
hearts all full of the milk of human
kindness, decided to go.to a church
bazaar and scare the natives.
What did the fortune teller tell
Guglimo that made about half of
the bunch get their fortunes told?
Do you want to buy a duck? See
Jim Hansen. He has one now. Louis
Shaffer has a dog so all of his old
girl friends may just as well try to
forget him. Did Frender swipe that
quart of milk? Johnsen really did
we went on raiding expeditions and; take that girl home, I guess. The
stole the beauties of nature. We had j rest of the note was soaked in sea
supper by candlelight. S q u a t , water, dear reader, and unreadable.
Mike Tomco and Pat Allan have
been elected as delegates to repre­sent
the junior-senior class in the
nominating convention which will be
held soon.
The election took place during a
short meeting of the class in the
auditorium last Friday, December 7.
Two committees were appointed,
one for the junior-senior social func­tion
of next quarter and one to
check up on class pictures for the
Klipsun.
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Club To Have Party
This Saturday Night
The International Relations club
will hold a Christmas party on Sat­urday
evening, December 15, at the
home of Miss Nora B. Cummins, 225
North Garden street.
Christmas decorations will be used
throughout the rooms and the ex­change
of gifts will be part of the
evening's program. Blanche Pearce,
social chairman of the club, is in
charge, and assisting her are Mrs.
Colley and Don Richardson.
Lensrud Writes Article
For Educational Journal
John Lensrud, student at Normal
last year, has written an article for
the Washington Education Journal
for the month of December.
The article is concerned with a
hobby club in the Campus Elemen­tary
school, the Seamanship club.
Mr. Lensrud was adviser of this par­ticular
group, and in his article he
enlarges upon the benefit derived
from these school Organizations, and
the possibility of tying up the club
activities with the curriculum of the
elementary schools. . , :
More Fun for
More Students
Theme of Plan
Banquet At Edens Hall Honors
Badminton Exhibitionists of
Canadian City
Prexy Favors Program
DeGallier, Mullen, and Martin Are
On Working Committee
More fun for a larger number of
students seems to be the aim in the
minds of the committee which Is
working out a plan for a social and
sports program for both the men
and women of the Normal.
To arouse interest in the matter,
a banquet honoring two badminton
players from Vancouver, B. 0., was
held last Friday evening in Edens
hall.
Game Described
The program featured a talk by
Mr. Allan, one of the exhibition bad­minton
players. He described the
game, and the way in which sports
are handled in the University of
British Columbia. The players are
amateur, and the coaches are vol­unteers.
They consider it below
their dignity to hire a coach. Tour­naments
are played within the
school and the city, and-a few games
with outside schools. Besides bad­minton,
they play hockey, basketball,
swimming, lacrosse, tennis, and Ca­nadian,
English, and some American
football.
Dr. E. A. Bond, President O. H.
Fisher, Marie deGallier, and Mike
Tomco gave brief talks concerning
the purpose of the banquet, and the
desirability of an inclusive recrea-tional
program at Normal An in­formal
get-together was held follow­ing
the program.
The banquet was financed by the
Board of Control. The committee
working on the plan including Roger
Mullen, Marie deGallier, Agnes Mar­tin,
Leona Trager, and Louis Shaf­fer.
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Thespian Members ,
Will Give Assembly
The Thespian club will give the
Christmas assembly, Friday, Decem­ber
21. The play, "Hyacinths," will
not be given as planned due to the
illness of Miss Lovegren, club advis­or,
and the inability of the cast to
get practices.
There will be a varied program
consisting of Christmas carols sung
by the entire assembly, a reading by
Randy Oberlatz, piano solos by Hel­en
Griffith, and vocal selections by
Almina Pepper. The remainder of
the program has not yet been defi­nitely
decided. Bill Frender is head
of the decorating committee with
Beth Jones and Arnold Johnson as­sisting.
The meeting of the club, scheduled
for December 20, will be postponed
until next quarter.
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Chorus and Orchestra
Giving Music Program
Choral and orchestral selections by
the chorus and orchestra will be the
program for assembly December 14.
This will be their first program this
quarter. In the past, it has been
customary for these two groups te
play and sing several times during
the year. Donald Bushell and Nils
Boson, of the music department, will
direct.
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Clampus
alefidar
Saturday, December 15
8:00—IRC party at Miss Nora
Cummins' home.
Monday, December 17.
7:30—Vanadis Bragi, E d e ns
hall club room.
Tuesday, December 18.
11:00—Dorothy Baker Gal­lant,
song recital, assembly.
Wednesday, December 19.
7:30—Blue Triangle meeting,
Edens hall.
Thursday, December 20. ' .r
7:30—Thespian; meeting.
Friday, December 21.: .
11:00—Thespian Chri s t m a s
program^ assembly. '