Northwest Viking - 1934 March 16

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. ^ ^ T T xrr, oa WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON • Friday, March 16,
Tournaments Are Herald Publishes
Criticised in Talk Communication of
by Superintendent English Teacher
Vote Will
Be Taken
On Sport
Tennis and Golf Under Fire;
Should They be Major
or Minor?
100 STUDENTS PETITION
Assembly May be Held for Open
Forum
By SYD LINES
Again that troublesome old ques­tion
has come up to > bother the
heads of the Board of Control and
eventually the student body: Should
golf or tennis become a major or a
minor sport?
At last Monday's meeting of the
Board of Control a petition was pre­sented
signed by over 100 people ask­ing
for a vote to be taken on that
question. That executive body has
voted to let the student body pass
on the matter. Therefore, an at­tempt
will be made to arrange for
an assembly the first of next quar­ter
in which the student body will
have a chance to hear a discussion
of the pros and cons of the matter.
Student leaders will call for talks
from the floor. ' Following the as­sembly
a ballot will be taken to
decide the issue. A vote of half the
student enrollment for or against
the question will constitute a de­cision.
Asked his opinion on the question.
Dick Albert, prominent upperclass-man,
said: "I am in favor of having
golf and tennis major sports. Tennis
has been for a number of years.
Golf is a major in the other schools
of the state and should be recog­nized
as' such here. I do believe that
under the regulations now set up
that to get a letter in golf demands
more perseverance and skill in pro­portion
to the other sports than is
commonly supposed."
The move is being opposed mainly
by the members of the "W" club—
who are jealous of their glory and
power—and1 so are trying to create
student opinion from their selfish
point of view. Golf as a major sport
costs less than any other major and
has a practical value after grad­uation.
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CWA Teachers
Lose Positions
About 600 teachers employed in
the regular public schools of the
State of Washington as assistant in­structors
have been informed that
their positions were unauthorized
and "should be discontinued."
L. R. Alderman, director of emer­gency
education, has stated that it
will be necessary to conform to the
program adopted last fall, which
called for employment of teachers
in rural elementary schools in dis­tricts
under 2,500 population, so that
their short school years could be
lengthened to normal terms; teach­ing
"adults to read and write English;
giving vocational training to unem­ployed
adults; rehabilitaton training
for physically disabled adults; gen­eral
education of unemployed and
other adults; nursery schools for
pre-school children for the homes
of the needy and unemployed adults.
" The director said Washington ed­ucators
had been advised employ­ment
of the additional teachers was
"entirely outside any authorization
permitting the use of unemployed
teachers on educational projects and
should be discontinued."
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Hicks Reports Change
Survey of English Literature
Will be Given
A change has been made in the
English department for the spring
quarter, according to Dr. C. H
Hicks, chairman of the department.
A course in the survey of English
literature, English 53, will be given
to take the place of one of the pre­viously
scheduled English I classes.
Some recent additions have been
made to the English department's
collection of reading material. "Livy's
History of Rome, in several beauti­fully
bound volumes, is a very in­teresting
and . inspiring account of
Roman life," said Dr. Hicks. Ovid's
poetry has also been added, Mr.
Hicks especially mentioned Ovid's
"Heroine." Daphne's Chloe, a beau­tiful
tale of young Greek love, and
a set of Xioeb classics are otner he«r
additions.
Wort at Normalstad
Progresses Rapidly
School's Lake Property Becomes an
Idyllic Playground
By Katherine Bowden
With each new shovel of dirt that
is slung aside and with each new
tree that is chopped down the work
at Normalstad progresses rapidly.
Under the supervision of George
Dack, school gardener, the C.W.A.
boys are making it an idyllic spot.
All those doing this work out at
Normalstad meet every Saturday
morning at 7 a. m., by the boiler
room where a truck awaits to haul
them out.
Up the hill from the cabin a vol­ley
ball court Is being made—one
of the first additions to this new
ideal playground. All of the under­growth
and old stumps are being
cleared away, and the larger trees
are left standing. This will make
easier walking from the cabin to the
lake.
One of the laborers said that it
would make an ideal setting for
Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's
Dream". Why not "Romeo and
Juliet"?
This C.W.A. work at Normalstad
probably will continue until the end
of spring quarter.
Too Strenuous on High School
Athletes and Time Lost
for Studying
After completing a schedule of
county games, the state and district
high school tournaments were crit­icised
as being too strenuous on the
young athletes and taking too much
of their time from school, by Sup­erintendent
C. Paine Shangle, in a
talk before a group of men school
teachers from different parts of the
county.
The high school schedule starts in
early December and does not end
till after the state tournament in
the later part of March. With turn­outs
every night and games once or
twice a week the players soon be­come
stale and physically sluggish.
In colleges the games, are played
in just as short a time as possible,
the whole schedule lasting only six
or seven weeks. With a longer sched­ule
and even younger players it is
easy to see why Superintendent
Shangle criticises the tournaments.
By having a shorter season the high
school players will be much better
off in the future.
Instructor Questions the Editorial
Policy of Publication
in Letter
In a communication to the editor
of the Bellingham Herald Thursday,
Dr. Arthur C. Hicks of the Normal
school fasulty, questioned the edi­torial
policy of that publication with
regard to the recent editorial pub­lished
scoring the Roosevelt admin­istration
and its action on the "air­mail
graft". Dr. Hicks wrote, "You
admit that ' in some instances there
probably were questionable, if not
reprehensible, practices.' That is,a
very damaging admission for you
to make in spite of your lame
after-comment: 'Nobody has been
sued. Nobody has been indicted.
No accusation of criminality has
been sustained!'"
Comparison was also made to the
case of the notorious Teapot Dome
scandal of ten years ago.
When publishing the communica­tion,
the Herald writer quoted sev­eral
prominent commentators on the
case, including Lindbergh and Far­ley.
Lindbergh claims that the of­ficers
and a number of the organi­zations
affected have not been given
the opportunity of a hearing and
improper acts by many companies
have not been established.
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Pick Seats Mar. 30
Friday's Assembly will be Devoted
to Seating Students
The first official get-together for
the spring quarter will be held
March 30 for the purpose of select­ing
permanent seats for the term.
President C. H. Fisher will talk
to the students on factors affect­ing
new students. Although there
will be an assembly Tuesday no spe­cial
seats will be required on that
day.
As usual, this assembly will be
devoted to getting acquainted with
the school songs and details of the
Blue Book, which will be handed out
to the new students who haven't
already received them. The students
will be asked to pick any seat they
prefer for the quarter, where they
will be checked on their attendance.
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I. R. C. Delegate;
To Attend Meet
Friday and Saturday, March 16
and 17, the Internatonal Relations
clubs of the state will meet at the
College of Puget Sound for the an­nual
conference. Delegates from
Bellingham Normal, Washington
State college, University of Wash­ington,
Whitman college, Seattle
Pacific college, College of Puget
Sound and Gonzaga university will
attend.
The delegates from Normal are
Eunice Dinsmore and probably Ju­lius
Dornblut Jr. and Kenneth Ber-net.
The latter two are still un­decided
as to whether or not they
will attend the conference.
Sir Herbert Ames*will be the
speaker of the occasion. On Friday
night he will talk on "The Role of
the Little Entente in Modern Euro­pean
Politics." Saturday night at
the banquet he will speak on the
subject "The Covenant of the
League of Nations—Should It Be
Materially Altered?"
Sir Herbert is a prominent figure
in world politics, being at present
financial director of the League of
Nations secretariat.
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County High Schools
Give One Act Plays
A plan to create greater interest in
dramatics is being tried among high
schools throughout the county. A
one-act play program has been ar­ranged
so that each high school will
put on a performance along with
two others at a specified time. Three
one-act plays will be given at.each
high school.
The first plays were presented at
three different places in the county.
The high schools of Blaine, Fern-dale,
and Custer presented their
plays in the* Blaine city hall. Su-mas-
Nooksack, Lynden, and Merid­ian
high schools entertained at
Sumas-Nooksack, andMaple Falls
Harmony, "and Mount Baker ' a t
Maple Falls.
Frog's Escapade
Proves Waterloo
Frog Evades Grasp of Science;
Love of Water Fatal
The pet frog (Aristophanes, Jr.) of
the Science class created no little
furor when he pulled a Dillinger
and hopped out of the hands of'
Otto Finley and James Barnhart.
However, Aristophanes, Jr., hadn't
the mental capacity of Dillinger and
in his leap for freedom, slipped
down behind the stationery cabinets,
along the wall. This proved to be
unique to both the "scientists" and
to the frog; the scientists couldn't
extricate the frog and the froggie
couldn't do it on his own, as his
accessories do not include wall-scal­ing
apparatus.
The struggle to free Aristophanes.
Jr., was not through a humane mo­tive,
but was actuated by a more
selfish purpose. The scientists ex­plained
that the death of the frog
while imprisoned behind the cabi­net,
might result in putrefaction
which would be most disconcerting
to students accustomed to pulp mill
polluted air. However, the men of
brains together with a practical
minded carpenter, finally evolved
the brilliant plan of cutting a hole
in the cabinet, inserting a pan of
water with a mouse trap in it and
letting nature take its course.
The well known horse could not be
made to drink, but you cannot keep
a frog from taking a bath, so the
plan was a huge success. Only one
thing marred the experiment; in
diving into the water, Aristophanes,
Jr., dove head first as frogs are
wont to do. The trap closed about
his throat. He croaked! v
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Many Newspapers
On Exhibition Here
For News Classes
On the blackboard of the Viking
office this week is a display of old
and new newspapers. Papers that
date from the year of 1833 to the
present day are shown.
Japanese and Chinese newspapers
are on exhibit and may be compared
with our daily metropolitan papers.
The Honk Kong Telegraph, which is
a newspaper printed in English, is
an interesting paper, giving Ameri­can
news to our citizens in China.
The Evening Gazette, a Boston
newspaper that dates back to Feb­ruary
3, 1938, is a good paper to
contrast with ours of today. The
type is much smaller in this paper
and the advertisements are set up
like our wantads.
A few of the other papers on ex­hibit
are: La Prensa, a paper from
Barranquilla. Colombia; a Cincin­nati
daily of 1855; Christian Science
Monitor of 1908; New York Sun of
1833, and a London and a Manila
paper.
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Mixed Chorus And
Orchestra Present
Assembly Concert
Under the directorship of Donald
Bushell'the chorus and orchestra of
the Normal school presented a con­cert
in the Friday morning assembly,
March 16.
The chorus was made up of sixty
students, all members of the student
body and the orchestra with twenty-five
students. Each quarter the cho­rus
and orchestra appear in an
assembly after working together
throughout the quarter as a class.
The program presented was: Or­chestra,
overture, "Merry Wives of
Windsor," Nicolai; chorus, "Weary
My Heart," Orlando de Lasso; or­chestra,
"Caucasian Sketches," Ip-politow-
Ivanow: (1) In the Moun­tains,
(3) In the Village, (3) In
the Mosque, (4) March of the Sar-dar;
chorus, "Ave Maria," Rach­maninoff,
and "Steal Away," negro
spiritual; orchestra, " Arogonaise,"
Massenet.
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Peter Manniche Guest
of Honor at Dinner
Peter Manniche, noted Denmark
educationalist, addressed the faculty
at a dinner last Friday at 6:30 p. m.,
held in his honor at Edens hall din­ing
room.;
Mr. Manniche spoke on. the Dan­ish
folk school. Boys go to school
five montlis in the winter; girls go
three months in, the summer. Be­tween
the ages of JL4 and 18 they .go
back to the farm and learn farm­ing.
Rickerson Is
Selected For
Scribe's Job
Four Other Candidates Also Ran
for This Position on
Board Staff
RICHARDSON HAS AWARD
Athletic Manager Will Receive
Sweater for Services
Harriet Rickerson was re-elected
secretary to the Board of Control
at their meeting held Monday after­noon..
This will
I make the second
quarter that she
h a s served in
.
this p o s i t i o n.
Others who ap­plied
were Mar-vyn
Allyn, John
•Lensrud, Grace
Hess and Rich­ard
Newlean.
On the Viking
editorial s t a ff
Calista Simonds
was re - elected
Harriet Rickerson
business manager and Julius Dorn­blut
Jr. editor. Neither was opposed
by other candidates.
It was voted that an exception
would be made in the awarding of
an athletic manager's sweater to
Gordon Richardson. An athletic
manager is to serve seven quarters,
according to the rules, before he is
entitled to a sweater. Since Richard­son
has had only one assistant in­stead
of the usual four or five that
a manager usually has, the board
voted that he is entitled to a sweat­er
at the end of this quarter. It will
be the fifth quarter he has served
in this position.
Dick Albert was presented with
his jeweled pin for service on the
board by President Orvin Messegee.
in Tuesday's assembly.
Plans for the spring quarter mixer
were discussed briefly by the board.
It was decided to have this mixer
in the form of an evening rec hour
instead of the usual plan of having
it on a separate night.
Those present at this, the last
meeting of the winter quarter, were:'.
Ralph Shenenberger, Christine Al-bers,
Harriet Rickerson, Dick Albert,
Orvin Messegee and Otto Finley.
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Educators Will
•Meet In Bellingham
Superintendents and principals of
all the elementary schools in Skagit,
Whatcom, and San Juan counties
were notified Wednesday by Mrs.
Beryl J. Bruff of the state depart­ment
of education regional confer­ence
to be held in the Bellingham
hotel March 24, at 10 a. m. Mrs.
Bruff is the Whatcom county sup­erintendent
of schools.
This is one of the seven confer­ences
scheduled by the department
which are to be held throughout the
different sections of the state. The
conference will seek to arrive at a
"re-evaluation of the elementary
curriculum in the light of present
conditions."
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Sidney Darrah Passes
Death Comes to Normal Girl
Thursday Morning
Sidney Darrah, a Normal student,
passed away at the St. Joseph hos­pital,
Thursday morning, March 15,
having suffered from a general blood
infection. She failed to rally after
being given a blood transfusion Wed­nesday
morning, and became stead­ily
weaker. Mrs. H. H. Darrah, her
mother, and John Darrah, a brother,
both arrived before death occurred.
Miss Darrah's home was at Win-lock,
Wash. While attending school,
she resided at Ragan house, 5l7
Hi£h street. Arrangements are be­ing
made for funeral services to be
held at Winlock on Sunday, March
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"Sidney had a striking personality,
was rather quiet but possessed a
subtle sense of humor," says Dbrina
Aisted, president of W.A.A- /./'She
was musically inclined:, and , very,
much interested in sports,' although'.-,
hindered from participating by" a-weak
heart, Her, loss^witt be-keen­ly
felt by a great number of stu-/
dents."
Tough Tirades Of Terrible Tests
Half Smother Shuddering Students;
Spring Fever Epidemic Complicates
By Harlan Jones
Doctors urge spring vacation, as
students feebly protest that they
thirst for knowledge. Word final,
students must go home until condi­tions
are better. Trustees and fac­ulty
urge close attention to the fol­lowing
passage:
Are you going to drink butter­milk
and stay in thet sunshine next
week and grow fat? Or are you go­ing
to drink cocoa by the light of
the moon and grow thin? Well,
you'd better, according to consensus
of opinion. Rockefeller and I feel,
also, that all young Americans
should grow up regularly and be­come
good citizens, voting after ev­ery
meal. But, seriously, I do hope
you'll not waste your vacation, fel­lers.
Please find out why robins al­ways
sing like robins and good little
children don't talk at all. Do you
want to know the answer? Just
cut out 20 Viking ads and send for
our free booklet.
Now, getting deeply sentimental-
It seems that the human race always
Paul Engberg, Young
Baritone Of Seattle
To Conduct Concert
Paul Engberg, young Seattle bari­tone,
"whose concert and operatic
appearances in Europe during the
past five years have won acclaim
from the leading critics and public
alike,!' will conduct a concert of ex­cerpts
from opera at the first as­sembly
meeting of the spring quar­ter,
March 27. The program will
consist of short excerpts from dif­ferent
world famous operas.
Mr. Engberg has recently returned
from an extended tour of Europe,
where, according to reports, his sing­ing
was met with high approval, his
return being delayed six months by
his popularity. He is said to be a
leading interpreter in three fields of
song—concert, festival and opera,
and is credited with the attributes
of youthfulness, charm of person­ality,
a rich baritone voice of fine
timbre, artistic singing of a high
order.
Among other artists participating
in this assembly are: Eloise Horton,
coloratura soprano, who entertained
at one of the winter quarter assem­blies;
Allan Williams, baritone, a
KOL staff artist, and Edith Dick­son,
soprano, an artist with the KJR
radio staff.
Speaker, Explains Life
Of Gypsies in Scotland
Captain Gypsy Pat Smith, last
Tuesday's assembly lecturer, spoke
mostly of incidents in his life during
his youth as a nomad gypsy in Scot­land.
He spent the first nineteen
years of his life in this way. Most
of his speech was on how the gyp­sies
obtained a living and how he
narrowly missed a term in a re­formatory.
He also had many ex­periences
as a soldier in the World
War. Mr. V. H. Hoppe introduced
the. speaker.
Orvih Messegee presented Dick
Albert with ah honorary Board of
Control pin.
is being torn to shreds, under each
other's noses, either by leaving some
outgrown familiarity or by beginning
some new bugaboo. But since all
noble intellects get their learning
by degrees, I suppose we have to
complacently file into business office
every three months and get writ­er's
cramp filling out identification
cards, until one wonders whether he
is being snubbed or eternally mis­placed.
And another thing, why couldn't
we have our tests when we return to
school, instead of pining away like
monks in gloomy cells cramming
knowledge down our throats with
both hands , the last week of school
in order to pass final exams?
It is indeed sorrowful to see rosy
cheeks grow pale and manly steps
falter, instead of seeing aforesaid
cheeks and steps communing with
nature or something and bidding all
farewells with good Normal spirit.
And on Friday a few lonesome
souls flit up and down the lower
hall, which has already begun to
chill with the approach of spring va­cation.
Why couldn't we have had
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City School Board
Raise Pay Checks
Of City Teachers
With a 10 per cent raise in salary
for the city school teachers, the Bel­lingham
Board of Education adopt­ed
its new 1934-35 school budget.
Superintendent of Schools C. Paine
Shangle was awarded a three-year
contract by the board. Restoration
of the 10 per cent pay cut to some
184 teachers will cost the school dis­trict
approximately $30,000. The
raise is the result of the promise
made by the board that it would
restore the cut in salaries as soon
as financial conditions of the district
would permit.
The city school teachers have suf­fered
two pay cuts, the last in April
of 1933. The board will bring sala­ries
back to their former level when
the district has its financial kinks
straightened out. This raise does
not affect the salaries of Normal
teachers or the training school
teachers, as they are paid by the
state.
Richardson Will Go
To Seattle Monday
Gordon Richardson, editor of the
Klipsun, will make a trip to Seattle
next Monday, March 19, to discuss
details regarding the engraving to
be done for the Klipsun with the
Western Engraving Company. At
the same time he will procure some
information concerning the cover
for the book. .
All of the photographs for the
division pages of the book have been
taken. These are.school life pictures
and have been taken under the su­pervision
of H. C. Ruckmick, assisted
by Alice Jean Donaway. The group
pictures, also, have all been taken.
Theoha Flick assisted J. W. Sandi-son
in the taking of the W; A. A.
picture last Monday.