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VOL. X X I X — N O r 26 W A S H I N G T O N S T A T E NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, W A S H I N G T O N /. Frcfcv, T?nu'4ry 1 7, :1: 9 3 0 a | ; # l |
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VALIDICTORY
EDUCATION AS INSURANCE
A REBUFF
AND AN OUTLOOK
By
—G. W. L.
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OF CONTROL
FAVORS PEP BAND
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• The present writer and founder of
the column "Normalite", which has
somehow existed in The Viking far
five quarters, wishes to balance a
few old accounts, close the books,
and cast them in the direction of
Ray Craft, who has attained quite
an eminent position in campus cir­cles—
politically, socially, and jour­nalistically.
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: And Mr. Craft will have to go
seme, should we wish to carry on
With the same pace that—(and with
a blush of modesty I'll drift over in
the world of education).
W. S. N. S.
- It often "burnt me up" to see
how sacrilegiously some journalists
could write. For instance,. Mr.
Sundstrom, who took over "Nor­malite"
during my leave of absence
would peck quite mirthlessly at the
way the campus was run. He main­tained
that if attendance at the
Normal was not required, few, if
any would show up in classes. Per­haps
Sundstrom was right, but in a
slightly different sense than he" an­ticipated.
It happens that in 1930
we are not ready for the ideal Nor­mal
school. And should one be in­stigated
now we would have prac­tically
no use nor appreciation for
such an institution .
We still like to get our education
by contract, rather than by direct"
purpose. Like insurance, we pay
quarterly premiums in form of reg­istration
fees.
So, summing educational activity
•up quickly, it seems logical to still
use the clock, the curricula, and the
orderly ways of doing things, be­cause
the school is a center for the
group and not as yet for the indi-
•yidual.
Report on Students' Co-Op. Proves
Favorable; Sam Ford Will Attend
Manager's Meeting at Pullman.
BOND FACULTY ADVISOR
Control Board Will Budget Money
Apportionment for Next Term
at Regular Meeting, Monday.
NEED FOR MORE MEN
IS URGENT IN CHORAL
CLUB FOR "CREATION"
Now, let's get down to a few pres­ent
problems.
After attempting to make reali­ties
of the School song contest, ..a
constitutional amendment (now for­gotten)
a men's glee club, and
whatnot, Normalite would., bate ..a
breath toward a problem that will
be a real problem when you begin
ycur student teaching.
• It's the problem of discipline.
One writer in these columns re­cently
reprimanded me when I stat­ed
that a course which would take
up everything concerning the tech­nique
cf discipline is a felt and par­amount
need in our curricula. Child
interest was the main factor in the
argument: that if child interest was
taken care of, discipline would be­come
natural.
I t should be repeated that this is
still 1930... Isn't it possible that we
may be just a little ahead of times
and practice in the above painted
ideal?.. What is the situation out in
the teaching field?.. It is for the
most., part., discipline—it probably
shouldn't l>e—but yet just this sit­uation
exists right now... Scores of
courses here offer to strengthen the
interest side—courses which are ex­cellent
for the present, but which
as our psychologists tell us do not
transfer over for future practical
use.
We are a Christian nation;., but
how few of us practice real Chris­tianity.
I t is well to have ideas and ideals,
but let's get them working for an
appreciable betterment of the pres-
.ent. While all kinds of theories
might be true if carried to their
ultimates, • human needs' might be
met best if they were cared for right
now by a present panacea, instead
of being fed by an opiate of theory
—educationally, at least.
The Board of Control will budget
its money apportionment for the
coming quarter at its next regular
meeting next Monday. This an­nouncement
was made by Lyle Sum­mers
following the meeting of last
week.
Considerable business was taken
up at the last meeting. The Board
stated its stand on hiring student
musicians for "rec" hours as "favor­ing
them providing that they can
satisfy the demands of the student
in general". The. newly formed
student five-piece dance band will
be given a trial at today's danced
which •will take place per usual.
The Board decreased some of the
worries of the Pep band leaders by
authorizing the purchase of a bass
drum.
Ford Goes to Pullman
There was an auditory report
made en the Student's Co-Op, and
proved favorable. In connection
with the Co-Op audit the Board
will send Sam Ford, manager, to
Pullman next March for the Co­op
managers' convention.
Mr. E. A. Bond, of the Mathe­matics
department was unanimous­ly
elected as faculty advisor to the
Student Board of Control for four
quarters.
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CLUB PLANS DANCES
The.Choral club tryout, held last
Monday afternoon, resulted in the
appearance of. some seventy stu­dents,
sixty of them being girls and
the remaining ten, boys.
Credit is given in this class and
and it is listed under Music 20a and
20b, its purpose being to aid the
student in learning and performing
oratorios. There will be regular
meetings every Monday at 4. o'clock
and work will begin immediately on
Haydn's "Creation';.
To be at its best this class should
have about 150 members and right
now the need for more boys is ur
gent-''
T-OT
Moroni Olsen Players Will Present
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DEEP, DARK SECRET WILL BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT
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Play in Normal Auditorium January 24
J^NUTSON DISCUSSES
FUND FOR TEACHERS „
AT FACULTY MEETING
D
TWO-YEAR GOUR
Diplomas to Be Granted Early
When Graduates Find Positions
Before End cf Spring Quarter.
Plans Made at Pep Club Meeting
to Raise Necessary Funds by a
Series of Afternoon Dances.
-W. S. N. S.-
But foresight has its place. Es­pecially
when it is pointing to a va­cant
spot in the curricula of the
nation's schools. It is safe to pre­dict
that within the next five years
every school child in urban Ameri­ca
will carry home two report cards
instead of one. The added card will
rate the student as to character
values: application, fairness, etc.
After all, what is, t he .real goal of
education?—the latter mentioned
qualities or ability in Chemistry of
^Colloids for example?
With plans for the adding of color
and pep to the coming Varsity
games as the main topic of discus­sion,
the nawly organized Pep club
held a meeting Tuesday night in the
auditorium. vi
Regulations for an advisory board
were drawn up. In addition to the
officers the board for this quarter
will include Lou Griffin and Will­iam
Ward.
Shirts Selected
The type of sweat shirts to be
worn was selected after much dis­cussion.
The members will mostly
buy these themselves but funds are
bo be raised to help with their pay­ment.
Music for the dance will be fur­nished
by the newly organized stu­dent
five-piece dance band that will
make its second appearance at to­day's
"rec" hour.
On February 7 the club will
hold an initiation for the 50 new
members that are being selected this
week.
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Those who plan to travel, to the
Orient are offered a new course at
the University of Washington ex­tension
service that will give a
broader' knowledge of the people
and customs of the far east. The
course, under the direction of Prof­essor
Eldon Griffin of the Univer­sity's
department of Oriental stud-,
ies, metes in the Henry building at
8 o'clock each Wednesday evening.
WOMEN TAKE LEAD
Twenty-one students completed
their studies in a two-year course
with the close of the fall quarter
and of these three have already se­cured
positions. Diplomas will not
be granted to the rest until the end
of the spring quarter unless the
graduates receive appointments be­fore
that time. This 'makes the
time limit of the diploma longer.
Women in Lead
Women, as usual, greatly outnum­ber
the men and Bellingham has
the greatest number of graduates.
The three now teaching are: Mel-vin
Omeg, Toledo; Opal Jenkins,
Seattle, and Ruth Bump, Wenat-chee.
The others are:
Ruth .Bradley, Burlington; Ellen
Chapman,' Tacoma; Ted* Clarke,
Bellingham; Edith Coffman, Cen­tralis
; Ethel Dahlman, Castlerock ;
Charles Erickson, Marysville; Or-leane
Fitcha, Astoria, Oregon; Ruth
Herman', Everett; Louise Jonas, Ab-ardeen;
Hannah Jones, Twisp; Gor­don
Leen, ' Bellingham; Richard
Louis, Seattle; Hazel O'Connor.
Arlington; Ray Odell, Bellingham;
Mary Morrow, Bellingham; Clar­ence
Ragen, Bellingham; Rhcda
Sumey, Anacortes; and Oscar Well-man,
Seattle.
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Music Instructors to
Confer at U. of W.
. ' Second of the plays of the 1929r
30 season of the First Circuit Rep­ertory
Company of the Moroni Ol­sen
Players, Karel Capek's "The
Makropoulos Secret" will be pre­sented
here on January 24, under
the-auspices of the Bellingham
State Normal School.
The subject matter of "The
Makropolous Secret" is subject mat­ter
with which philosophers, and
fabulists and dramatists have
played for countless years—the sub­ject,
of perpetual individual exis­tence.
It is the subject matter of "The
Wandering Jew" and the subject
matter of "The Flying Dutchman"
and of the legend of the Fountain
:f Youth and innumerable other
basic human legends.
But in the hands of Capek it re­ceives
a new treatment and is
'a-ansmuted through the fantastic
imagination of this great play-vright,
into a new and amazingly
fascinating thing.
Secret Hinted
The secret, hinted at in the very
opening of the play, hangs darkly
mplied over. the whole progress of
;he action. The reader or audience
:egins to share with the characters
In the play, the combined feeling,
of eagerness for the last mask to
be striped from the face of Emilia
Marty and of almost panic at the
premonition of whai that unmask­ing
will reveal. ,
Then the secret is fully disclosed
and Emilia, this woman who has
lived and been youthful for 350
years, until existence and human
experience inall its phases has flat­tened
to the monotony of an oft-told
tale, faces that from which
she has flinched through the time
of nine generations of normal, life.
Secret Perishes
She makes her decision, the se­cret
disclosed is permitted to perish,
and humanity is saved from the
horror and the burde nof possible
immortality.
Pure fantastic material, one is in­clined
to say in advance, but when
one reads the play or witnesses it
in production, Capek's skill as an
artist, succeeds in turning the fan­tastic
material into something of
astonishing reality and vitality.
The First Circuit Repertory Com­pany,
in presenting this play, will
bring back on the circuit several
members who were not with the
tour of "Twelve Thousand", the.
first play of the season, in which
the cast was limited.
FACULTY
RETURN FROM TRIPS
Many Still- en Absence Leaves
Are Studying in Schools in the
East and South, or Traveling.
•Several of the faculty members
who have been on leaves of absence
returned at the beginning of the
present quarter to resume their ped­agogic
duties. They are: Mr. V. H.
Hoppe, who was resting at his home
in Bellingham; Mr. T. F. Hunt, who
has been studying at the University
of California; Mr. L. A. Kibbe, who
took a trip through California, stop­ping
at several schools to visit, and
Miss Marie C. Druse, who traveled
and visited in the East and Mid­west.
Then there are those who taught
here a few years ago or are still
on leaves of absence. Among these,
Miss Hilda Rosene is attending the
University of Texas, Miss Alma G.
Madden is in attendance at the Un­iversity
of Southern California;
Miss Olive Edens, who has an ex­tended
leave of absence and has
been traveling around the world, is
now in New Yrok, and Miss Gert­rude
Longley and Bertha Crawford
are studying at teacher's college,
Columbia University.
MEN OPEN DEBATE
FEB. 17
Quentin Quick and John Thorpe
Will Argue Negative of Questitn
Against Weber College of Utah.
Tomorrow the instructors in the
Music department will attend a con­ference
at the University of Wash­ington
which will deal with the
problems of musical education. The
representatives at the meeting will
be from the three Normal schools
and the college of fine arts and
school of education of the Univer­sity.
The object of the conference is
to discuss the relation of work in
Normal schools to work offered at
the University in music and if pos­sible,
to. make some adjustments
regarding the.transfer of students
from Normal schools to the Univer­sity.,
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A British firm has received a con­cession
for $50,000,000 to-use in re­claiming
palins in Greece and Thes-saly.
THESPIANS TO HOLD THE BIGGEST
PARTY OF THE YEAR IN BIG GYM
Dancing, specialty numbers, eats
and entertainment will feature the
first Thespian party for 1930, to be
held next Thursday, 7 p. m., in the
big gym.
A clever program is being pre­pared
by Joyce Arnold, chairman;
Celeste Kienast, and Naomi Smith,
while Lou Griffin is in charge of
the refreshments.
Specialty Numbers
The program so far, arranged in­cludes
a specialty, dance. by Marion
Bodiker and, Florence Goodman and
a novelty number by Bob Walters
and Earl Hutching. The latter per­formance
promises to reveal some-uiing
never tneu beiure in the his-uOiyoi
musicai bciections.
.baxoara Jtsouau snu present the
~i.Uu,Wicn Uie i-uiuii; i^r cue oiics-a,^
f+«,y uiac \viii ce given SOMMSU»AA.
umxiig uie lacier puri, of ii^s quar­ter,
'iiie casu' Yviii he p^c^ea iruar
the members. Dancing to music
furnished by Wayne Priem, Ciar-snee
Thue and Dorothy Knuppen-berg
will conclude the evening's en-,
fcertainment. ' ' ; v
CALENDAR
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec hour.
4 p. m., Y. W. C. A. Bible
Institute, room 208.
8 p. m., Y. W. C. A., Bible
Institute, room 208.
SATURDAY—Jan. 18.
All day, Y. W. C. A. Bible
Institute, "The Firs".
SUNDAY—Jan. 19.
11:15 a. m., Basketball team
leaves on eastern trip.
3. p. m., Y. M. C. A. Bible
Institute, room 208.
MONDAY—Jan. 20.
8 p. m., Varsity basketball,
Ellensburg ,vs. Vikings at
Ellensburg.
TUESDAY—Jan. 21..
11 a. m., regular assembly,
Ruth Wilson, violinist.
8 p.. m., Varsity basketball,
Ellensburg vs. Vikings, at
Ellensburg.
WEDNESDAY—Jan. 22.
4 p. m., Pep club, rec hour,
big gym.
6:45 p. m., City League bas­ketball,
P. S. P. & L. vs.
Normal Jayvees, at Y. M. C.
A. '.
8 p. m., Varsity basketball,
Yakima Y. M.-C. A. vs. Vi­kings,
at Yakima..
THURSDAY—Jan. 23.
7 p. m., Vanadis Bragi initia­tion,
room 219.
7 p. m., Thespian party, big
• gym.
FRIDAY—Jan. 24.
11 a. m., regular assembly,
Pupils of Edouard Potjes in
recital.
Though definite dates have not
yet been ascertained for all the
debates; the men's debate team will
probably start the season here when
they defend the negative of the
question Resolved: "That the na­tions
should adopt a plan of com­plete
disarmament excepting such
forces as are needed for police pow­er"
against Weber College of Ogden,
Utah, on February 17. Quentin
Quick and John Thorpe will have
the honor and task. Other members
of the men's teams are Charles
Gerald, Lyle Summers, Ray Craft,
and Roger Reed. The latter three
are studying the affirmative.
Heavy Schedule
Other debates for the men in­clude
opposing teams from Oregon
State Normal, of Monmouth, Ore­gon;
Seattle Pacific College; Col­lege
of Puget Sound, from Tacoma;
Spokane University, and tentatively,
teams from the Oregon Agricultural
College of Corvallis, Oregon, and. the
Pacific Lutheran College of Park­land,
Washington.
Louise Lilienthal, Phoebe Shat-tuck,
Eleanor Langworthy, Mrs. Ed­na
B. Finley, and Fern V. Bundy,
who are members of the women's
teams, have a similar schedule,
meeting teams from the College of
Puget Sound, Pacific Lutheran Col­lege,
Seattle Pacific College, per­haps
the Oregon Agricultural Col­lege,
and others.
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Beiswenger ElectecL
New Forum President
Monday evening, at Edens Hall
the regular meeting, of the faculty
forum was held. Dinner was served
in the clubroom, after which they
convened in the blue room for the
program and general" discussion.
Drs. H. V. Masters and C. C. Up-shall
talked on the Bureau of Re­search,
as to its functions, place in
che' Normal school program, ac­complishments
and the plans for
the coming year.
Officers Elected
The election of officers of the
faculty forum was held Tuesday
evening. Miss Anna J. Beiswenger
was elected president. Mr. H. E.
Fowler, the retiring president, auto­matically
becomes vice president.
(Florence Jonnson was elected'sec­retary
treasurer, Miss Emma Erick­son
representative-assembly, and
Miss Mary E. Rich was elected a
member of the executive committee.
K. J. Knutson spoke to the fac­ulty
at their meeting last Tuesday
on the proposed Teacher's Retire­ment
Fund.
The fund is mainly for the pur­pose
of providing annuities for dis­abled
or retired teachers, but after
joining the fund if one wishes to
drop out the. entire amount he has
deposited plus vthe interest will go
to him. In case of death the estate
receives the same.
The assessment rate is to be based
on the age at entrance into the
fund membership, and will be taken
from the member's salary in pro­portional,
amounts to its size.
Since it has been found that
women who retire, live longer than
retired men, the rate for women is
slightly greater than that for men.
PIANO RECITAL BY
POTJES STUDENTS
TO BE GIV J HERE
Louise, Oberleitner, Sue McMillin,
Dorcthy Knuppenberg, Margaret
Morrison Will Play January 24.
First Time in History of School
All Girls Are Eligible to Attend.;
150 Tickets Will Be Put en Sale.
BARNEY'S WILL PLAY
Dorothy Sasse, Social Chairman,:
Announces Intermission Stunts
as a New Feature of the Dance.
VIOLINIST NEXT TUESDAY
The Bellingham School of Music
and Art will present a group of its
talented pupils in the regular morn­ing
assembly on next Friday, Jan­uary
24.
Piano solos will be presented by
the following: Louise Oberleitner,
Dorothy Knuppenberg, Margaret
Morrison, and Sue MacMillan. All
four are pupils of Eduard Potjes,
visiting teacher of the school.
Harry Leatha and Arthur Hoer-egel,
pupils' of Albert Bensen, will
each offer a group of violin solos,
and Frances Young, pupil of Lois
Holt Brown, will present a series of
songs to complete the program.
Miss Ruth Wilson, Los Angeles
violinist, will appear here in next
Tuesday's assembly. She. was the
only Pacific Coast winner in the
national convention of the Ameri­can
Federation of Women's Music
clubs last June.
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Rival Publication to
Contain Fifty Pages
Taking a distinct departure from!
past dances, the Women's League
winter informal on February 28/
will feature the "Night Club Idea'y
using as a-setting the crystal baUr
room of the Hotel Leopold.... . "
ftPlans are being made to sell at.
least 150 tickets, the sale of which
will start next 'Monday and .will;
continue until February 14,. at which
time, if the quota is not filled, the
alumni and outside girls will be
allowed to purchase tickets. It is
probable that all interested will be,
able to go. This Informal is spon­sored
by the Women's League in
the true sense-of the word, mean­ing
that Edens Hall girls as well as".
the rest of the League members
will be permitted to attend.
Barney's Orchestra
Barney's orchestra of Seattle has
been obtained for the night, and,
with the new beautiful crystal ball
room as its setting, the Informal
should be the most select and en--
joyable affair of the social season.
Dorothy Sasse, social chairman;
of the Women's League, said, when
intetviewed, "This is the first time
in the history of the Normal school
that all the girls in the school will
be eligible to attend the League In­formal.
All the members are urged
to buy their tickets early. Tickets
will be a dollar a couple, as < usual.?
Much Enthusiasm .
A great deal of enthusiasm has
already been shown among ment^
bers and many have, their dance
programs completely .filled already.
There, will be fifteen dances and
one extra, Miss Sasse said, with the
same order, two trots and a waltz,
as previous informals have utilized..
^A new feature will be introduced
during the intermission in the form
of a stunt, the nature of which will
not be revealed until the time.
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Miss Hopper Leaves
To Visit Ellensburg
The Junior Viking the paper of
the training school children was
sent to press yesterday. It will be
distributed the last of next week. .
The paper will be 50 pages of
mimeograph, with a block printed
cover and made up of articles- which
the children have written during the
year.
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KLIPSUN
The art staff of the Klipsun is
experimenting' with sketches of the
campus done in color. If the sketch­es
are successful they will become
part of the 1930 book.. All work is
progressing nicely on this year's
annual.
Miss Elizabeth Hopper of the , ; • ;•
Appointment bureau, left the first' K?
of this week to-visit the Normal -.;"'•-^
schools at Ellensburg and Cheney.. p
Her purpose is to get in touch with " i
the work done by the Appointment i;'^
bureaus in those institutions. .;•;•• V v
During the past summer Miss f
Hopper had the opportunity to b e - / ;,
come acquainted with the methods; .; "';£;
employed by the placement bureaus ^j
of several large colleges among ;>-;
them being the Leland Stanford ';':^4$
University, the University of Call- • -•;:;:;J>
fornia, and Teachers' College, Co-- y
lumbia University. \'^.
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At least 80 per cent of China's-.\;'k§i
400,000,000 residents are^ dependent ' • < - 3|
upon agriculture for their livmg. ,>; v^B;
AMERICA IS CHRISTIAN NATION
IN NAME ONLY, SAYS FORUM
Having reservations of about 11,
000,000 acres; Australia is planning
to reserve 24,500,000 acres of land
for timber; production. .';
Last Sunday evening at the Stu­dent'
Forum at the Y. W. C. A., the
discussion cpntered about the ques­tion:
"To what extent is America a
Christian nation?". It was almost
decided that it was Christian in
name only. -
The facts were brought out that
child labor is still exploited in the
Southern cotton mills, and that the
women's minimum wage law is
evaded in this state by turning off
girls before, their apprenticeship is
worked, out and hiring new recruits
to avoid paying the. minimum wage,
of $13.20 per week, that one cannot
depend on the truth of advertising,
that modern business is based on
the theory of get as much as you
can, and .that the nation is not con­sistent
when it sighs, the Kellogg
Peace Pact' and agrees to renounce
war as an instrument of. national
policy, and a few months: there-' i ^ t li
after refuse citizenship to a' man;-^fe;P||
who conscientiously, objects to bear-^r-J ^y-l;;
ing arms. ' J^::W&-
In the matter of PMlippmeVmde^v||;S|S:
penderice, too, America does not;/fi-Mwr
show that she is a 'Christian nation?;f;-%Sj||
in refusing to give them their n ^ ^ ^ ^ p
dependence on grounds that t h e y ^ ^ f t^
were not able to govern themselves,.;ft&§p;|v
but anyone who has been to - t ^ ( ^ - « i - ;^
Philippines or talked with pe6ple'!f^|!|
who Nhave been "there,r;'knows..''ttiat^!^!!!
the .American sugar and h e m p ; U ^ ^ g | | gj
terests were the factor's spreadmg:^$|||Q
that propaganda. It is interesting %
to note that now there is a i n o v ei
sponsored by the Cuban andi;;Ha^i^|||ii|f;
waiian sugar interests to giye; ffi^i||i||^
Filipinos their independence so;^h|afe||!i!||^
this nation may ' . . r a l s e . ; ' ' a ^ . p r o t e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ i|
tariff against their sugar "'""'"''''"--1,>s""'"'-"--*'
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