Northwest Viking - 1930 April 11

              VOL. XXIX—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCH OOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, April 11, 1930;
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Nonnalite
NEW DESK
"WHAT'LL I DO NOW?"
NIGHT TENNIS
YE DIARY
—Bob Walters
SWING ELECTION TO
DARK HORSE ENTRY
Eleven Candidates Divided Offices.
Groups Will Vie for Positions in
Coming- Election.
Oar Business Manager has fallen
heir to a new and larger desk, and
we now have control of the old one.
I t doesn't happen to be quite large
enough, but we can clump our feet
on it and it does add prestige to
the job. Which reminds us, that
the Bus. Mgr. is also the concoctor
of "Ye Diary" each week.
W. S. N. S.
An article "What'll I Do Now",
by Rita S. Hale, is appearing in the
April issue of McCall's magazine. It
is based on an interview with a big
corporation executive.
I t brings out the fact that we
have come to look on colleges as a
high type of employment agency.
The graduate no longer has to go
from door to door looking for a po­sition,
as the corporation* represen­tatives
now come to the colleges for
employees. Those that are selected
for the bigger jobs are usually in
the upper 15 to 20%, but as grades
are not all that are concerned the;
per cent usually increases. The|
sought ones are not only judged by
' .their scholastic records, but by their
all around standards, including per­sonality,
activities, and looks.
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Which is in keeping- with the fact
t h a t those now hiring teachers, feel
that they want teachers who are
active, energetic, and., who show
nice qualities of personality. An­other
thing that counts is personal
appearance. We believe that ap­pearance
is often neglected by Nor­mal
students, and that it would be
wise, to keep this in mind when we
are job seeking.
W. S. N. S.
SUMMERS MAY RUN
Election Had Been Scheduled for
Today,.but Was Postponed Owing
to Change in the Point System.
Achievement Tests
For New Students
Come Next Tuesday
A number of colleges are now
placing flood ilghts about their
tennis courts so that night tennis
can be played. Some would like to
see that done here, but in view of
the drawing power of the courts in
the day time and the fact that night
study is most conducive'when there
are no outside attractions, it prob­ably
would handicap most of us if
such lights were installed here.
-W. S. N. S.
M. K. M. started., a., near., riot
among the boys with her scathing
"student opinion" against the men's
lounging room. We are all for the
club room, and as the former Nor-malite
chef also pulled strongly for
it, we take this opportunity 'to in­form
Miss M. K. M. that Normalite
is club-room minded.
:—W. S. N. S.
Just as various groups were be­ginning
to prophecy the outcome of
the coming student body election,
an entirely new light was thrown on
the situation by the nomination of
Lyle Summers to succeed himself as
president.
Whether he will ignore the Cool-idge
policy of not wanting to
change a precedent, or whteher he
Will take the "I do not choose to
run" attitude, Mr. Summers did not
state in an interview following the
nominations.
The election was tentatively slat­ed
for today but the date was
changed at a special meeting of the
Board of Control.
The candidates were to have been
approved on the basis of grades and
the point system. The board plans
to make some changes in this sys­tem,
and in the means of weighing
the merits of the various officers. It
was impossible to get this settled
this week, as the faculty meeting
was postponed on account of the
absence of President C. H. Fisher,
and well as several other faculty
members.
At the close of the nominations
last Tuesday there were eleven list­ed
to enter the race for the three
offices, namely, that of president,
vice president, and a four quarter
representative to the Board of Con­trol.
Out of that group there are five
students seeking the presidential
chair. Owing to the large number
of nominees for the comparatively
small numbers of voters a little or­ganization
and .campaigning on the
part of the individual candidates'
boosters, may swing the lead to a
dark horse.
Several of the candidates had
backers grouped together and bid­ding
strongly for the vote of the un­decided.
Posters and signs are also
slated to make their appearance.
Those who have been nominated
for president are: Quentin Quick,
Charles Gerold, Curtis Bell, Charles
Dowell, and Lyle Summers; for vice
president, Mary McDonald, and
Chloris Fischer, and for four-quar­ter
representative, Arthur Grav-rock,
William Kendrick, and Earl
Hutchins.'
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Next Tuesday from four to five
o'clock the Stanford Achievement
tests in Arithmetic Reasoning,
Arithmetic Computation, Spelling,
and English Usage will be given.
The following day, Wednesday,
tests in History, Geography, and
Penmanship will be given.
It is necessary to take and pass
all of the tests to get into the
Training school. With the excep­tion
of Penmanship, students are
given four chances to pass the tests.
A small charge is to be paid at the
third and fourth trials. A failure in
Penmanship requires the student to
obtain a passing grade in one of the
Penmanship courses.
These tests are graced according
to a new scale which was made out
in the fall quarter.
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TUESDAY ASSEMBLY
TO BE SPONSORED
BY SCIENCE DEPT,
IN DRAMA CLUB PLAY
Philippi, Quick, Du Bois, Dewey,
and Howell Also Rate Parts in
Drama at Last Night's Tryout.
WILL PLAY "THE YOUNGEST'
Play by Philip Barry, Is Genuinely
American. Dreaming "Youngest"
Is Thwarted by Practical Family.
Appointment Bureau
Places Nine People
^ In Teaching Positions
Sundquist Will Deliver Lecture on
Activities at the Friday Harbor
Camp Slides Will Depict Life.
STATION IS FAMOUS
BOARD HEARS PLANS
OF TRACK PROGRAM
Final Arrangements for Souvenir
Programs Made;. Price Not to
Exceed Twenty-five Cents.
Tuesday morning, April 15, the
regular assembly hour will be de­voted
to an illustrated lecture by
one of the members of the Science
department, Miss Leona Sundquist.
Her talk will be on the work done
by the Normal School in connection
with the University of Washington
at the Puget Sound Biological Sta­tion
at Friday Harbor. The slides
used will show scenes of the camp
life led there by students during the
summer, of classes in action, and of
the buildings maintained by the.
Station.
Every summer a group of students
wo are ntereted n the work of thes
who are interested in the work of
the Science department and who
are doing third-year work, with in­structors
of the department, attend
the sessions. The Puget Sound Sta­tion
is known throughout the Unit­ed
States as one of the foremost in
the biological field. Many inter­esting
specimens of marine life have
been discovered there, and each
year the station is visited by men
prominent in the scientific profes­sions.
A lecture of this type .is given at
intervals to stimulate an interest in
and to enable those students who
are doing advanced work to know
something about activities at Friday
Harbor.
Tryouts for the spring quarter
Drama club play "The Youngest"
were held last night and with the
cast chosen rehearsals will begin
immediately.
Philip Barry, the author of this
delightful comedy, is one of Ameri­ca's
young playwrights who has
been ever moving towards the pln-acle
of success. His play are gen­uinely
American, his dialogue to the
point, witty, with a spicy touch of
slang. In "The Youngest" he has
with ease and humor portrayed the
continued repressions of the young­est
son whose aspirations to become
a writer are scoffed at by a prac­tical
family. He stands much, but
when they put him out of his room,
lock up his manuscripts, and cut
off his allowance, well—the worm
turns, and things happen. There is
another reason though; behind him
is Nancy, cleverly pushing him on
and manouvering the whole family.
The youngest finds her-out, misin­terprets
her real motive, and then
—perhaps more things happen.
No less than nine people have se­cured
teaching, positions during the
past, week, according to reports of
the Appointment Bureau. Mabel
Knapp is teaching the third grade
in Greenacres, Washington; Nellie
Olson has the Otter Creek school, a
rural school in Lewis county; Shir-ley~
Brown is teaching grades one to
four in the Evalina school; while
Marjorie Coventon is located in
Port Angeles.
Dawn T. Goodnough and Olive
Goldman have been placed at Long-branch,
teaching grades 5 to 8 and
grades 1 to 4, respectively. Thelma
Mears has the intermediate grades
in Anacortes, Charles K. Erickson is
teaching in Snohomish, and Verna
Scrimsher has the primary grades
at Guemes.
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WOMEN'S ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION DANCE
IS GREAT SUCCESS
Spring Showers Idea Is Feature
in Decorations Through Medium
of Rainbows and Umbrellas.
LODGE TO BENEFIT
Viking Scores Second Placet
In Nation-Wide Press Contest
Held At Columbia University
Judges at the Columbia Sdholastic Press Association
Meet Put Viking in Second Position Over Papers
from All Over the United States.
CALENDAR
Following is the cast as chosen
last night:_ Charlotte Winslow, Oli­ver
Winslow, Mark Winslow, Au­gusta
Winslow Martin, Alan Martin,
Alan Martin, Martha (Muff) Wins­low,
Richard Winslow, Nancy Blake,
Katie.
Following is the cast chosen at
the tryouts last night:
Charlotte Winslow Jean Philippi
Mark Winslow Lew Lovegren
Augusta Winslow Martin
Mrs. Lou Du Bois
Alan Martin .....Charles Dewey
Martha (Muff) Winslow
Bernadine Brown
Richard Winslow Tom Durham
Nancy Blake Lou Griffin
Katie Virginia Howell
In addition to the people placed
in the cast, Suzanne * Waters, Kay
Berry, Charles Gerold, and Ed Col- I h u r s t - Margaret Sheppard, Helen
McNeil, Sigrid Wiberg, Helen Will­iams,
Marjorie Coventon and Alice
Babcock.
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About 100 couples danced last
Friday night at the Women's Ath­letic
association's Spring Showers
informal held in the big gym. The
money made will go toward the
payment of Viqueen Lodge on Sin­clair
Island.
Brilliant umbrellas hung from the
ceiling and a rainbow at one end of
the floor emphasized the Spring
idea. Coming in lightly flowered
dresses the girls added much to the
dance, giving it color and life.
Programs were effective, with
their purple backgrounds and gold
design. The plate on the front was
designed with a very little girl under
a huge umbrella and drops of rain
falling all around.
Ann Swanson, Chairman
Music was furnished by the "Rec
Hour" orchestra, but because Wayne
Priem, pianist, was ill, the boys had
to play with other piano players and
without organized practice.
Ann Swanson was general chair­man
of the dance, assisted by Ruth
Sammons, Katherin Zeran, Flor­ence
Goodman, Marybeth Park-
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec Hour.
4 p. m., Interclass track meet,
Waldo Field.
7:30 p. m., Y. W. C. A. In­stallation,
Blue Room, Ed-ens
Hall.
TUESDAY^April 15.
11 a. m., Regular assembly,
Illustrated lecture on Friday
Harbor.
WEDNESDAY—April 16.
7 p. m., Y. W. C. A. Bible
Study class, Miss Sperry's
home.
THURSDAY—April 17.
7:30 p. m., Alkisiah meeting,
room 26.
7:30 p. m., Vanadis Bragi
meeting, room 219.
FRIDAY—April 18.
11 a. m., Women's League
and Men's Club assemblies.
FEATURES PRAISED
Dolly Anderson, Editor of Winning
Issues; Honored for Giving Nor­mal
a Good Advertising Medium.
FACULTY FORUM TO
MEET NEXT MONDAY
To Be Last Dinner Discussion of
Spring Quarter; Two Speakers
Will Speak on Investments.
lier were elected to membership in
the Drama Club on the strength of
their tryouts.
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Because of a bullet wound in his
brain fifteen years ago, Paul Kern,
Hungarian, hasn't slept since. Doc­tors
have been unable to find that
his health is being affected by the
situation, which would be an ideal
one for hanging up "A" grades on
the report hooks.
YE PROS DIARY
Ye Prof's Diary
I gett thee inphormashun that
several uv thee gurls dont waunt
thee bois 2 hav a
| lowngin rume £
themselvs. Wot
du thae waunt
thee bois 2. du,
ztand up? Jus lik
Mr. Wettmor Gul-letts,
an rdent
wett leder, wunce
sed "wif awl thee munnie that iz
spent aun pro-ibishun enphorsmeni,
: we ciid bi seetz4 thee standin rmie,
;i|md:;giy;them a gui rest''. ;V.
Little actual business came up at
the regular meting of the Board of
Control Monday, but much discus­sion
ensued.
Gordon Leen and Jack Greaves,
who are under contract for the
publishing of the track meet pro­gram,
will be allowed to set their
own price under the board ruling,
provided that it doesnt exceed twen­ty-
five cents.
Sam Ford; Manager of the Stu­dents
Co-op store made a report of
his trip to Pulllman, where he at­tended
the Co-operative Store Man­agers
convention. He submitted sev­eral
plans which he had picked up
there. These led the. group off onto
several tangent discussions.
Another discussion came up in re­gards
to Normalstad out on Lake
Whatcom Road. The idea was that
it would be a good plan to have pre­sent
students meet' out there with
alumnus so that they would'both'-be
kept in contact with the. work.
Nothing definite resulted from the
plan.;::."-'. J>/v?.; ^^•'•':.';"'-v' :::.^ ;v.',:^:'
UNIQUE MUSIC BOOK
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
.Of unique and historic interest in
the field of music is a rare book
brought to Miss Maud Slawson's Mu­sic
3A class, in connection with the
study of the early history of music
in the United States. The book was
brought here by one of the students,
Buryl Bailey, was published in
1850 ,and bears the title, "Christian
Psalmist". It was compiled for use
in singing schools and Sunday
schools and was evidently meant
for no instrument other than the
tuning fork. There is no staff used
and notations are represented by
means of numbers, bars, dots and
dashes. The last few pages give a
manual of instruction which in
many ways is quite unlike the in­struction
given today and is almost
uninteligible to one schooled in
modern methods.
EASTER PLAY TO BE
GIVEN BY Y. W. C. A.
Monday-evening, April 21, is the
date set for the next meeting of the
Faculty forum. Miss Keeler, chair­man
of the program committee, an­nounces
that this will be. the last
dinner discussion meeting of the
spring quarter, owing to the many
other activities which have been
planned.
"Investments for Teachers" is to
be the subject of the evening. Mr.
James Gaul, of the Gaul Investment
Service, and Ralph Loomis will ad­dress
the group.
Bellingham Symphony
Concert Is on April 23
Alumna Makes Debut
In Eastern Recital
MacDowell Club Girls Will Furnish
Chorus Music;, Madeline Friese
Directs; Miss Jones Is in Cast.
BULLETIN
As the Viking goes to press,
Jack Musser, prominent flag­pole
painter and man-about-the-
Campus, is about half way
down the flagpole. Mrl Mus­ser
had no comment to. make
the -press, .-v.
A medieval Easter play, ."The Res­urrection
of Our Lord", will be giv­en
next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock
at the downtown Y. W. C. A. This
play is being sponsored byv the city
Y. W. C. A., and is well represented
by the Normal school. The Mac­Dowell
club girls will furnish music
for the drama and have used their
regular business meetings for inten­sive
practice for their three chorus
groups. The Normal will also be
represented with a vocal solo by
Dorothy Walker entitled "I Know
That My Redeemer Liveth", and a
piano solo by Mrs. Rugwell entitled
"Eli Eli". Miss Adele Jones dean of
women, has a part in the cast, the
other members being composed
mostly of business girls of the city.
The play in itself is beautiful and
*with the quaint dialogue carries the
atmosphere of the medieval' -ages.
Madeline Friese, a student of the
Normal school, directs the cast.
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Mr. Arntzen, of the Social Science
department, did not return to school
until Thursday of last week. His
absence' was due to. the serious ill­ness
of his father, who is now rer
ported: to;;be; much improved. C;
This week marks the musical de­but
in New York City of a former
Normal student, Miss Hortense Yule.
Miss Yule, talented Bellingham mu­sician,
is an accomplished vocalist,
pianist, and organist. * She was to
appear in Steinway hall, New York,
Monday evening, in a recital of fif­teen
vocal numbers. Miss Yule was
born, in Bellingham, where she re-'
ceived her early training in piano
and voice. She graduated from the
Normal in '22 and became a music
instructor in an Okanogan school.
She later held a like position in the
Bellingham city schools. Since leav­ing
Bellingham, Miss Yule has stud­ied
in Chicago and New York.
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TO HEAR DANCE PLANS
The Women's League announced
this week that it will give an outside
dance this quarter if an amendment
to the constituion can be made to
allow . more than one off-campus
dance a year.
At a meeting of the student coun­cil,
last evening, it was decided to
recommend the change to the fac­ulty
committee who will hold a
meting tonight.
As the rule'"stands, only one af­fair
each year can be held off cam­pus
by the. Women's and: Men's
League. A constitutional change
would mean an outside activity each
quarter. ;, • '• , '\^-:- y-.;:''jy(f-^K}'-:>
The third concert of Bellingham's
Little Symphony will be held April
23. These concerts are under the
direction of Harold B. Smith, in­structor
in the Music department
here, and the musicians compose
the best in this section of the
Northwest.. The Little Symphony
concerts keep growing in popular ap­proval
and to true music lovers they
are looked forward to with a great
deal of pleasure. The compositions
of great masters are interpreted with
a skill and delicacy which gives you
music in its purest form, and the
scarcity of such music as this make
these concerts events which cannot
afford to be missed.
A full account of the program and
details will be published next week.
Word was received here early this
week that the Northwest Viking
took second prize in the sixth an- j
nual nation-wide newspaper contest
sponsored by the Columbia Scho­lastic
Press association, Columbia
University, New York. This .is the
second time the Viking has made a
bid for honors in this contest. Last
year the Viking rated fourth.
Three specified issues and a spe­cial
edition, edited by Dolly Ander­son
advised i by Mr. H. E. Fow­ler
and managed on the business
end by Gordon Leen, were sent East.
The judges for the contest were se­lected
from among people of wide
experience in the field of school
publications.
Make-up Scored
The paper was first scored ac­cording
to make up, general appear­ance
and form in which little fault
was found. Secondly, the content, ,
scope, structure, and quality of the
news writing was considered. Some
of the technical phases of the story
were rated as "excellent". The Eng­lish
used was found to be high and
the fact that all the activities ,' in
the institution were covered, brought
favorable comment from the judges.
Sports Writing Perfect
The-sport paige, then edited by
Bert Cole, scored ten points out of a
possible ten. A notation was made
on the score card stating that sport
pages were excellent and that the
"Griditorials" were lively. Also the
general considerations, including the
fact that alumni often contribute,
that the paper showed originality
initiative, that it was representative
of the school, that it gave evidence
of being open to the pens of all t h e '
students, made a perfect score.
Under this department the judges
stated that the paper was "good ad­vertising
for the school and it in­terests
the judges". A perfect score
was made in the last department
entitled "Other considerations", in
which "Normalite", written, in the
three papers submitted, by Ra*y
Craft, Gordon Leen and Roy Sund-strom,
respectively, and "Poetic Pifr
fie", by Barney Chichester, were
featured.
A National Contest
The contest was open to all mag­azines
and newspapers published by
schools, public or private, below the
rank of college but including Teach-,
ers colleges, Junior colleges, arid .
PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS
TO TAKE SNAPSHOTS
Mr. Herbert Ruckmick's class in
photography, which meets Monday
evenings, is well under way on its
program.
The class will run mainly along
the lines of getting good composi­tion
pictures, and will have an ex­hibit
toward the last of the quarter
dealing mainly .with this type , of
work.
Next Wednesday afternoon at 4:30
the class will take a short trip and
picnic, with the idea in mindi-of
getting some good sunset snaps.
Some night pictures:,may,aiso; beVat^"
tiempte^Kf ££:;;>;• .^Si^:];^j\.^^-^^
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FACULTY MEMBERS
ATTEND CONVENTION
Three Normal Teachers Chosen
Give Departmental Speeches
Educators Meet In Spokane.
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as
School representatives to the In- .
land Empire Education Association
convention at Spokane left Tuesday
on the evening train. The conven­tion
is scheduled for April 9, 10, 11,
at the Lewis and Clark high school,
and the Davenport hotel. Those at­tending
are: President C. H. Fisher,
Mr. H. E. Fowler, Dr. Harry V. Mas­ters,
Dr. C. C. Upshall, and Mr.
James Carrell. The two latter and
Mr. Fowler, will be departmental
speakers.
The convention's mam' speakers
are world famous educators chosen-by
the executive committee. They J
are Lewis Browne, author of "Ourl:;
Believing World"; Dean William F.':
Russell, of the Teachers College of;
Columbia University; Dr. James Miy
Glass of Rollins: College, Florida;':
Dr. A. R.Brubacher, presidents ;^tf;;
the State Teachers College at.^Alr;:
bany, N. Yl, who^spoke?here a week^
ago,' and Ruth: P^tle^:presideht|^;|iJ
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