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VOL. XXIX—NO. 20 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, Nov. 22, 1929$
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* I HOMECOMING
SMOKER
FOOTBALL
FORUM
—Roy Sundstro•m I
. Well, that's over. Another Home­coming'
has passed and the Old
Grads have been here and gone.
Handshaking, backslapping—a foot­ball
game—a dance. The lost game
—the mournful weeping, wailing
and gnashing of teeth by t he Grads
—an unreal sort of sentimentality,
queerly out of character for grown­up,
adult individuals such as these
people are supposed to be.
Old acquaintances assuming the
guise of friends in the hysteria of
t h e moment; people who had nver
liked one another suddenly bursting
out with protestations :.of extreme
pleasure at meeting. Torchlight pa­rades,
milling crowds, frenzied yell­ing—
songs—emotion—savagery and
childhood bursting through the
t h i n crust of civilization and man­hood.
Dear old Normal—The White
and Blue—the old Campus—the
Old This and t he Good Old That—
Alma Mater—Homecoming. Heh-
Heh! Heh!
W. S. N. S.
BEUINGHAM HIRE
SYMPHONY ID
ITS SECOND SEASON
Concert on Next Tuesday Evening
in Normal Auditorium Is to be
of the Highest Type of Music.
THIRTY MEMBERS OF
SCIENCE CLASS MAKE*
TRIPS TO TIDE-FLATS
EIGHT NORMAL STUDENTS
Orchestra Was Organized by Harold
B. Smith Last Year. Three Con­certs
Have Been Presented.
That isn't at all the way I feel
about it, of course, but I am a cynic
(or so they tell me). And what
good is a sentimental Cynic who
forgets to sneer?
W. S. N. S.
And this evening, ladies and
gentlemen, we have the biggest
dance of the year. The Mens Club
Informal. If I have exchanged any
dances with you who read this—
kindly tip me off. I have mislaid
my program again.
-W. S. N. S.-
After the dance—the deficit. But
this time we may break even. How­ever,
just in case the Men's Club
finds itself in the hole when all is
over? it is putting on a smoker in
t h e near future. It is going to be a
very good smoker, too (though, of
course, there will be no smoking).
"'Young Firpo" will head the card
with some boy who can give him a
battle. In addition to the main
event, there will be three other box­ing
bouts and three wrestling bouts,
all of which will be well worth see­ing.
And t h e admission will be
only two-bits.
"Modern Football Becomes Splotch
on College Ideals" reads a head in
the "Business Chronicle". Blah!
This matter has been viewed with
alarm for so long that it seems
high time to do something about it.
The article I have mentioned points
out that the average football coach
receives $949 per year more than
the average professor. Now, this is
indeed a deplorable situation and
something should be done about it.
My suggestion is a state bounty to
be paid for the ears of newspaper
and magazine writers who continue
to scrape out discords from this
worn string. For my part, I'd rather
not hear any more about it.
The Bellingham Little Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of
Harold B. Smith of the Bellingham
Normal Music department, will open
its second season with an evening
concert in the Normal auditorium
next Tuesday evening, November
26, at 8:20.
Forty-Seven Members
The orchestra now consists of
forty-seven musical artists, and has
been holding regular practice in
preparation for this concert for
some time. Since it now possesses
a full symphonic instrumentation,
it is prepared to offer a program of
the highest type of music, and to
do full justice to' t he difficult num­bers
included, among which are the
famous "Symphony in G Minor",
by Mozart; and Beethoven's beau­tiful
"Egmont Overture".
The orchestra was first organized
by Mr. Smith at the beginning of
last season, and under his direction
presented three very successful con­certs.
It was established as a civic
organization, and has grown stead­ily
in size and quality since its start.
At present its membership includes
eight Normal students.
The charges for admission at
Tuesday evening's "concert will be
fifty cents for students, and seven-ey-
five cents for those outside the
school.
Last Sunday evening, Leona M.
Sundquist of the Science depart­ment
and about thirty members of
her elementary science class, made
a trip to t h e tide-flats below South
Bellingham to study sea life. They
made their trip at this time in order
to take advantage of t h e unusually
low tide and absence of wind that
distinguished the evening.
Almost three hours were spent in
splashing and slipping about by the
light of flashlights, searching for
interesting types of sea life. Miss
Sundquist reports that their quest
6th Annual Homecoming Summarized
BOND'S—"I THINK WE'LL WIN" HOMECOMING THEME
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Spirit Reappears in Week-end Thrills
The sixth annual Homecoming, in
spite of mother nature's protest in
the form of rain, was one of the
most successful ever presented by
the Bellingham Normal.
Activities began Friday evening
with a serpentine in which over 500
students participated. Led by t he
Viking pep band, the crowd\of en­thusiastic
students left Edens Hall
and paraded through the city cen-was
gratifyingly successful, and that j ter. Carrying flares, laughing,
cheering, the group gathered on the
corner of Cornwall and Holly
streets, where yells and. pep songs
were led by Lyle Markhart and Jack
Musser, then all returned to t h e big
bonfire on the new athletic field.
Here the students heard speeches
from President C. H. Fisher, Mr. E.
A. Bond, Coaches Sam Carver, Roy­al
E. Gunn, Mark Saunders, and
Don Stickney.
Saturday noon, a luncheon was
held in t h e Edens Hall dining room,
which was pronounced a decided
they discovered a most unusuai
number of starfish, considering the
space they covered.
Since the evening was ideally
clear for star study, some time was
spent in that occupation, in noting
the disappearance of the summer
stars and t he appearance of the
winter stars.
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PROMINENT LOCAL
ARTISTS TO OFFER
RECITAL OF SONGS
success under the direction of Ethel
Boynton, general chairman, and her
two assistants, Mildred Kent and
Gladys Smith. Following the
luncheon, the football game between
the Vikings and Ellensburg- was
called in Waldo Fild at 2:15. On a
field suddenly transformed into a
lake by a steady downpour of rain,
the teams battled for. three and a
half quarters without scoring when
finally a blocked punt put Ellens­burg
in scoring territory which re­sulted
in a touchdown on the next
play by means of a triple pass.
Dance Follows Banquet
At 6 o'clock,. Saturday evening,
the alumni banquet was held at
Eden's hall. The main address was
given by President C. H. Fisher and
the banquet closed in time for all
the grads to attend the Homecoming
dance at the Armory.
The festivities were well-managed
by Joe Hermsen, general manager,
and his assistant, Dorothy Sasse.
THREE FROM NORMAL
HEAR DR. MOTT TALK
ON "WORLD MISSIONS"
Tuesday Morning's Assembly Will
Feature Katherine Myers Hess
and Marion Wheaton Pomeroy.
Eight New Members
Join Scholarship Club
-w. S. N. s.-
Last' week this column was
written by Sverre Arestad and Jack
Cudmundson.' Remember that yell
which they picked out to ridicule}
And it turned up as one of the
prize winners in the Yell Contest.
Thai's a joke on someone—but I
can't decide whether it is on Sverre
find Jack or the Student body.
W. S. N. S.
Do you realize how much goes
into the making and printing of a
paper? To even enumerate the
many industries that contribute
their share to the Viking would r e ­quire
more space than there is in
this column. '
Does it not seem almost criminal
then, to prostitute all this human
endeavor to so trivial an end as the
publication of trash like this?
(Printer's Note: I think so, too!) '
-W. S. N. S.
And here's something I had near­ly
forgotten. The Student Forum,
meeting at the Y. W. C. A. every
Sunday evening between 7 and 8
'/o'clock, invites your attendance. It
is just a little group of serious
thinkers getting together to think
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Eight new members were initiated
into the Scholarship Society, Mon­day
evening, November 18, at Rock
Point Inn.
Following an attractively served
dinner, Mr. Edward Arntzen, advis­or
of the Society, acted as master of
ceremonies, and the initiation was
conducted. Not following the usual
initiating custom of "riding the
goat" this ceremony consisted of
psychological tortures, and required
extremely nimble brains. It was r e ­ported
that all of those initiated
proved themselves quite worthy of
being members.
Guests from the faculty were:
Miss Emma Erickson, and Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Ruckmick.
The new members initiated were:
Mildred Kent, Dora Caldwell, Mar­garet
Sheppard, Jean Philippi, Eliz­abeth
Ellis, Bessie Huntamer, Kath­erine
Hunt, and Elsie Canfield.
FACTS REVEALED BY
DIPLOMA RESEARCH
PUPILS OF RAYMOND
Mrs. Katherine Myers Hess, so­prano,
and Mrs. Marion Wheaton
Pomeroy, contralto, will present a
program of duets and solos in the
regular 11 o'clock assembly next
Tuesday morning.
Both Mrs. Hess and Mrs. Pomeroy
are local artists, and Mrs. Hess is a
graduate of Bellingham Normal.
Both have received all their vocal
training under the direction of Har­rison
Raymond, who maintains a
studio in the Fine Arts Building of
this city.
, Choir Members
They are at present prominent
members of the Presbyterian Church
Choir, and also, upon several oc­casions
have made extremely suc­cessful
presentations before the
Women's Music Culb.
In their concert here next Tues­day
they will be accompanied at t he
piano by Mrs. Harrison Raymond.
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Appointment Bureau
Places New Teachers
Dr. Harry V. Masters and Dr. C. C.
Upshall, of Bureau of Research
Make Study of Life Diplomas.
Miss Elizabeth Hopper, appoint­ment
secretary, reports the follow­ing
recent appointments:
Mr. and Mrs. John Graide, Goot
school, Alaska; Dale Annis, Roose­velt
School, R. F. D., Snohomish;
Dorothy L. Williams, Everson; Mu­riel
Kennedy, Bellvue school, King
county; Edna M. McKee, Okanogan.
J. M. Oliver, Social Worker, Speaks
to the International Relations Club
Last Wednesday evening Mr. J.
M. Oliver spoke to the International
Relations club and the Faculty For­um
on the present situation in Chi­na.
Mr. Oliver has been engaged in
social work in China for 15 years
and is able to give a very intimate
picture of conditions there.
The hero of the recent revolution
and founding of a republic in China
was Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, a man of
great vision and intelligence who r e ­ceived
his education in this country
and also studied political economy
in Europe. Sun-Yat-Sen had as his
platform first that China must be
unified, second that the unequal
treaties must be revised, and third,
that the social- conditions of his
people must be bettered.
Works Out Action Plan
I n order to carry out his platform
he formulated a definite plan of
action, the first step of which was
a revolution to force the Manchu
rulers to abdicate and haying done
this to prepare the people for citi­zenship
through a course of educa­tion,
and to prepare them for the
adoption of a constitution in 1935.
Just as the revolution was brought
to a successful close Sun-Yat-Sen
died. But his spirit lived on through
his followers and served to unite all
China, and he was regarded as a
national hero and the savior of his
country.
Equality for Women
Under the hew regime women are
equal before the law with men, and
socially they are much freer. They
are enjoying equal opportunities for
higher education and positions in
government service • and hi business
are open to them. Education is now
under the control of the govern­ment
and is more widespread with
the objective of eventually stamping
out illiteracy. Quite a lot of adult
education is being carried on.
Christian Church Unite
As regards to the church situation
Mr. Oliver stated that during the
time the missionaries had to with­draw
from the interior, for safety,
sixteen of the Christian denomina­tions
joined to call themselves, "The
Church of Jesus Christ in Vhina,
and carried on the work of* the
schools and hospitals without a
break. Missionaries are now wel­come
back in China, but the.schools
are under the control of the gov­ernment
Dr. Harry V. Masters, and Dr. C.
C. Upshall, of the Bureau of Re­search,
are making a study of some
of the facts revealed by the data
given on t h e cards which all appli­cants
for life diplomas are asked
to fill out. Miss Keeler is chairman
of the Life Diploma committee and
is aiding the bureau in making this
study. Some of- the questions which
the study will answer are:
(1) To what extent are teachers
who apply for life diplomas teaching
grades for which they were especial­ly
trained?
(2) How much work has been
taken by these teachers and at what,
institutions?
(3) How many months of teach­ing
experience have these teachers
had since graduating from Normal
school?
4) Of what professional organi­zations
are these teachers members?
(5) What educational publications
do these teachers read regularly?
6) What is the proposed future
work or field specialization of these
teachers?
The answers to the above ques­tions
are being determined for the
graduates of each of the four two-year
curricula: primary, intermedi­ate,
grammar grade and rural. The
study has been progressing quite
rapidly and will be completed in the
near future, Dr. Masters reports.
This study will be of value in t he
planning of curricula for the train­ing
of teachers.
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! CALENDAR"!
INTEREST SHOWN IN
DEBATE THIS YEAR
With First Tryouts Three Weeks
Away, Eight Students Already
Signify Intention of Entering.
Two Normal freshmen, • Chloris
Fisher and Robert Hayes, accom­panied
by Miss Ruth Piatt, of the
faculty, represented Bellingham at
a conference held in Seattle last
Sunday. Students of the. various
schools who were present heard Dr.
John Mott, former Y. M. C. A. head,
speak on "World Missions".
Dr. Mott, who has made four con­tinuous
world journeys, spoke on
the great need of foreign workers,
and listed the essentials for young
people who desire to become mis­sionaries.
He stressed preparedness
through education, both general and
specific as a necessity.
Following this talk, the meeting
was thrown open to the discussion
of various questions the young peo­ple
wanted answered in regard to
missions.
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BUDGET DECIDED ON
AND PASSED BY THE
BOARD OF CONTROL
LATEST DATE
TO ENTER CONTEST
Eight Contestants Already Signed
Up for Extemporaneous Contest'
by Middle of the Past Week.
TOPICS BEING CHOSEN
World Peace Is Favorite Subject as
Students Prepare to Enter the
Preliminaries en December 2. .
Six Dollar Activity Fee Is Divided
Among Various School Activities
at Meeting Held Last Monday.
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec Hour.
7:30 p. m., Y. W. C. A. party,
Edens hall club room.
8:30 p. m., Men's club in­formal,
Crystal room, new
Leopold Hotel.
SATURDAY—Nov. 23.
7:30 p. m., PhilO' birthday
party.
SUNDAY—Nov. 24.
Regular church services.
7 p. rri., Student Forum, Y.
W. C. A.­MONDAY—
Nov. 25.
7:30 p. m., Social Science club
meeting, Edens Hall club
room.
TUESDAY—Nov. 26.
Regular assembly, musical
program, Mrs. Hess and Mrs.
Pomeroy (11 a. mp.
7:30 p. m., Alkisiah club
meeting.
8:20 p. m., Bellingham Little
Symphony orchestra, recital,
Normal auditorium.
WEDNESDAY—Nov. 27.
1 p. m., Thanksgiving. vacar
tion begins.
THURSDAY—Nov. 28.
Thanksgiving.
Although the first tryouts for de­bate
will not be held until Thursday
December 12, when the men's teams
will be chosen, considerable inter­est
has been shown by t he students,
eight having signed up,by last Wed­nesday.
Of the eight signed up, only
one was on last year's team—
Helen Fitzwater. The other vet­erans
in school have not announced
definitely whether they will be out
or not.
Of the eight who have given in
their names, the following are tak­ing
the affirmative side of t he ques­tion
in the tryouts: Lottie Mae
Krumm, Claude Hadley, Charles
Gerold, Eleanor Park, and Berna-dine
Brown. Those who will take
the negative are: Ray Craft, and
Helen Fitzwater. Roger Reed also
signed up but did not designate
which side he will uphold.
Negotiations On
At present negotiations are being
made with various colleges for de­bate
contests, but no definite sched­ule
has been completed yet.
The tryouts for the men will be
held December 2, when two teams
of two men each will be selected.
The women's tryouts will be held
Monday, December 1 , and two
teams will be chosen. For t he try­outs
the student may choose either
the negative or affirmative sides of
the chosen question.
The Question
The question for this year is, Re­solved:
That'' the Nations Should
Adopt a Plan of Complete Disarm-"
DIRECTORY APPROVED
The quarterly budget was decided
upon and passed at the weekly
meeting of the Board of Control
held last Monday.
The Board, with President C. H,
Fisher present, decided upon the
following distribution of the Stu­dent's
six dollar activity fee; $1.00
should be given to the social life at
Normal, $.50 to the Northwest Vi­king,
$2,25 for athletics, and $2.25
for assemblies and t h e fall musical
artist course.
The student directory, edited by
Oren Tarbox and Milton O'dell, was
approved by the Board and they
were officially authorized to draw
their money. The football program
was discussed and approved. It
was also estimated at the Board
meeting that Homecoming expenses
amounted to approximately $275.00.
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Tri-C Members Take
Trip to Local Mines
Educational trips are a part of
the Tri-G club's work this year.
The first of these trips was taken
last Saturday, to the coal mines.
Ten members of the club and two
guests were escorted through the
mines and buildings. More girls
are scheduled to go through t o ­morrow.
With next Wednesday noon set
as the latest date for all contestants
to have signed up for the extem­poraneous
speech contest, quite a
number of students have handed
in their names and selected topics.
By last Wednesday eight had al­ready
signed up for t he preliminary
contest, and many more are expect­ed.
Up to this time World peace
seemed to be the favorite topic,
three out of eight choosing it.
The Contestants
The contestants and the topics
they have chosen are: Eleanor Park,
Modernism in Art; Eleanor Lang-worthy,
World Peace; Claude Had- :
ley, Is Democracy a Failure?;
Charles Gerold, World Peace; Ber-nadine
Brown, Crime; Oscar Well-man,
World Peace; Ray Craft, The
Press; and Helen Fitzwater, Present
Day Russia.
All students signed up will meet
in the preliminaries Monday, De­cember
2, at 7 p. m., in room 308.
The six winners chosen then will
meet in t h e finals in assembly Fri-;
day, December 6. The two picked
as best then will compete with t he
winners of t h e next two quarters in
the spring.
Mr. James Carrell, speech instruct,
tor, says that there seems to be
some misunderstanding about choos­ing
the general topics, and announ­ces
that only one topic need be
chosen. Special phases of t h e topic
will be assigned at 9 a. m. on the
days of the contests.
General Topics
The general topics for discussion
are: Disarmament, World Peace,
Present Day Russia, Tariff and
World Politics, Organized Charities,
Unemployment, Prohibition, Relig­ion,
Education for t he Masses.
Is Democracy a Failure?, A Four-
Year Training Course for Elemen­tary
Teachers, The War Debt, Farm
Relief, The Press, Corruption in
Politics, The Stock Market, Modern
Drama, College Athletics, The
Youth Movement, Modern Ethics.
Crime, Modernism in Art, Literary
Fads, The Machine Age, Vices and
Virtues of Advertising, The Maga­zine,
and Contemporary Poetry.
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EXTENSION WORK OFFERED
Ellensburg Normal school is of- ,'.
fering extension work in Yakima.
Courses offered are: First quarter,
"Organic Evolution"; second quar­ter,
"Recent Developments in Con­temporary
Literature'; and, third
quarter, "Tests and Measurements".
ament Excepting Such Forces, as
Are Needed for Police Purposes.
All who wish to enter into debate
should sign up at the speech of­fice
before Tuesday, December 10.
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WILLIAMS ADDRESSES
MOUNT VERNON CLUB
Pelagius Williams, chairman of
the Social Science department,
addressed the Northwest District
meeting of the Social Welfare
workers at Mount Vernon, Monday,
November 18. Mr. Williams, who is
state president of the State Federa­tion
of Social Workers, discussed the
program and plans of the organiza­tion
for t he coming year.
The Mount Vernon Kiwanis club
was host to the district delegates
at a noon luncheon.
Here Next Year
Next year the state conference of
Social* Workers will be held in Bel­lingham,
and Normal students and
faculty will be invited to attend its
open sessions.
———-o—
The Social. Science department
has been adding new equipment to
its office in the form of additional
book and filing cases and the en­largement
of closets for taking care
of: maps and charts.
Children's Library Prepares Pageant
of Books for National Book Week
In celebration of National Book
Week, Miss Beatrice Doty, Child­ren's
Librarian, has arranged in the
Librai-y of Children's Literature a
pageant of books. Faculty and
students are invited to the room to
see the display and, Miss Doty sug­gests,
solve some Christmas gift
problems.
The majority of the books are
newly purchased by the library.
Deerwester-Button has loaned a
group for the week's display.
Illustrations in the new books are
a distinguished feature from the old
books. Willy Pogany's "Mother
Goose" and the new "Pied Piper of
Hamlin", illustrated by Hope Dun-lap;
"The Wonderful Locomotive",
by Cornelia Meig, illustrated by
Berta and Elmer Hader; Paul Jones'
"Alphabet of Aviation"; "The Pic­ture
Book of Flying", . by Frank
Dubias, are typical of the new
stories written for children.
National Book. Week was organized
eleven years ago by the Book Pub­lishers
and Book Sellers' Associa­tion.
School and public libraries
have always co-operated with this
organization to further the aim of
Book- Week, which is to inform
thbse interested in giving books to
children of the best books of the
year and the new editions of old
books. This year the association isx
featuring, as depicted by the poster,
"more books in the home". The
most famous of these posters is the
one by Brubaker, "After All There;:
is Nothing Like a Good Book". Mr/
Herbert C. Ruckmick has framed
this poster in order that it may be :
kept as a display. .''•.-••':'.'
As is known, each year an award,
called the "Newberry Award", is
given for the best children's book of••'•'•
the year. A committee of children's
librarians select the book and pre-;
sent the Newberry Medal to i t s -
author. N \-
Frederick Melcher, editor of t h e .
Publisher's Weekly, offers this:.,
award each year and these books;;
are featured each Book Week. ; ;: *;
In 1921 the first of these awards.^-
was made to Hendrick Van Loon for
his "Story of- Mankind". ^ f,;
For 1922 Hugh Lofting's "Story of •
Dr. Doolittle"; 1923, "Dark Frigate?,y
by Charles Boardman Howes; .1924,- ?
"Tales from Silver Land", i ^ ^
Charles J. Finger; 1925, Arthur B,
Chrisman's "Shen of the Sea'
1926,-. Will James' ;"Smol^^^'i:4i927^|i;||l^
"Gay-rneck" . b y Dhan ^Gopj&^M^
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of Krakow" in 1928.
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