Weekly Messenger - 1928 May 4

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VOL. XXVII—NO 28 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON
OPENING BALL GAME
Blue and White Diamond Outfit
to Play First of Year's Contests
on'Waldo Field at 2:30 P. M.
Friday, May 4^1923
RANGERS ARE STRONG
7s
Dope Favoring Vikings in Spite of
Last Week's Defeat at Hands of
Laceyites; Lorang Will Oppose
With a 3 to 0 defeat staring tliem
in the face, at the hands'of the St.
Martin College nine last ^Saturday,
•the Normal Vikings will again cross
"bats with the Hangers here this Sat­urday
on W.aldo field at-2:30 o'clock,
in a return game, which has all prom­ise
of being one of the best exhibi­tions
of baseball that will be played
here this season.
Two errors and a passed ball, which
netted the Laceyites two runs cost
the Blue and White the game, played
at Lacey last Saturday. If playing on
the home field has anything to do
with it ,the hilltoppers have a fine
chance to cop the game here this Sat­urday.
Vikings Favored
•Despite the fact of last week's de­feat
dopesters have picked the locals
to emerge victorious in the coming
contest and "unless the dope bucket
receives another severe upset the
game is bound to be a close one. In
the game last week-end the Lacey­ites
Avere only able to secure three
bm'gles from the offerings of Thor-lakson,
while the locals were only to
get four singles from the offerings
of the St. Martin left-handed mound
ace, Lorang, who is favored to op-pose
"the Vikings on the mound here
Saturday.
First Home Game
.The Saturday contest will be the
first home game of the year and a
large crowd of students and out­siders
is expected to turn out to see
it.
Possible Eiveups
Wingard will probably start on the
mound for the Vikings, with the rest
of the lineup as follows: McClurken,
ss; Odell, 2b; Clark, ef; Smith, c;
Johnson, rf; hTorlakson, 3b; Thor-sen,
lb; Bailey, rf.
Go-op, Through Serving Gritical
Buyers, Carries Quality Goods
College Buying Group, Being Most Critical of Any
Such Groups, Causes Co-op to Carry Merchandise
of Only Highest Quality to Supply Students' Wants
Because the college buying group is the most particular in the coun­try,
and because it insists on the highest quality and prices which' are
right, the Student's Go-op, a store designed primarily to serve this group,'
is therefore one which deals only in articles which are of the highest
quality and are likely to suit the demands of the critical • clientele which
it serves, states manager Sam Ford.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Messenger .appears an advertisement for
the Co-op, in which the students are asked what certainly widely ad­vertised
terms associated with high grade merchandise mean to them.
The results of such an inquiry, if it was carried out, would show that,
by the reading of advertisements and actual contact with the articles
through use of them, members of the college group have become accus­tomed
to ask for and accept only the highest quality merchandise.
This has led to one end only. The
AND FACULTY TAKE
TOGETHER
Campus Day Celebrated by Work
During Forenoon and Contests;
Vodyil-Dance End Attractions.
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Arthur Johnson,
Tenor, Appears
Here on May 8
Dr. Frye Speaks on
Biological Station
in Friday Assembly
Dr. T. C. Frye, head of the Botany
-department at the University and di­rector
of the Puget Sound Biological
Station, presented an informal talk
regarding the work at the Friday
Harbor station during last Friday's
assembly.
Slide pictures of the station and
the surrounding country illustrated
Dr. Frye's- subject. Hi's motive for
coming before the students was to
give them a better idea of what the
school is like and what is expected
of those that attend. According to
him good, strong, willing workers
are needed..
. The slides, which were made from
snaps taken by students there, show-
. ^ed the.girls as well as the boys wad­ing
out into the water for specimens.
Beautiful winding trails, with ferns
on either side higher than one's head,
' makes for an ideal place in which to
study nature. According to Dr. Frye
when the students from the east see
these tall ferns for-the first time,
they marvel at the sight. Sunday
trips are planned for those who care
to go. On these trips picnic lunches
are taken along and served by the
girls. The school rents a gas boat
for about twenty dollars a clay for
~ the purpose of studying the sea ani­mals.
Sometimes they capture in­teresting
prizes; for instance a devil
fish and a young seal. This boat
takes classes from the school for the
entire day. ,
; . Station Well Located
The Puget-Sound Biological Sta­tion
is located on San Juan Island.
The work here consists of laboratory
work, lectures, field trips and dis­cussions.
The island affords, an ex­cellent"
place in which to study dif­ferent
kinds of. plant and animal life,
.; their environmental conditions and
.adaptations to these conditions.
Normal to Build New Laboratory
The annual operating cost is about
#15,000.00 a year. , Several labora­tories,
a library, and a dining hail
Arthur Johnson, tenor, wil sing at
the Normal assembly next Tuesday,
May $. Mr. Johnson appeared here
last year and was especially well-liked
by the student body. He; pos­sesses
a clear ,and beautiful voice,
nice diction, and an exceptionally
pleasing personality. His program
is sufficient proof of his versatility.
Those who remember the delight­ful
way in which JMr. Johnson sang
the Russian sleigh song last year are
looking forward with eagerness to
the number by Kountz. The artist
has a light and merry way Avith the
gay numbers which never fails to ap­peal
to student audiences.
In common with many of the
younger artists Mr. Johnson is a col­lege
graduate. More, he is a mem­ber
of that most exclusive scholar­ship
organization. the Phi Beta
Kappa.
One of the interesting points re­garding
Mr. Johnson's performance
is that both he and his accompanist,
Miss May Van Dyke, play entirely
from memory and carry no music
with them upon their tours. This
does not mean that their repertoire
is at all narrow for they are able to
give about 150 songs from memory.
Mi-. Johnson's program on Tuesday
includes:
Deep River, arranged by IT. T. Bur-liegh:
Varvunder Friska, Swedish
folk song, arranged by Gustav Hagg;
Me Suis Mise en Danse, French folk
sonk, arranged%by Arnold Bax: Liz­zie
Linsay. arranged by Fritz Kreis-
!er.
Aftousanning, evening song, by
Angus Korling: Den Store, Hoidc,
(great white host) by Edvard Grcig:
Tak for Dad Rad (thanks for your
counsel), by Edvard Grieg.
•Onaway Awake Beloved, (His wed­ding
feast), Coleridge: The Sleigh.
Richard 'Kountz: In an Old, Old Gar­den,
Harvey B. Gaul: Love Went a
Riding, Frank Bridges.
store which serves such a group must
necessarily cater to such a line of
merchandise, making the average
quality of all the stock on its shelves
of a considerably higher quality than
the stock which would be in a sim­ilar
store but serving a different
class of people.
The Students' Co-op created for
the sole benefit of the student body
which owns it, has made a study of
the demands of the students in all
fields, with the result that today
there is scarcely an article of wide
use which cannot be obtained at
the Co-op, if students need it.
The result: The Co-op. serving
the most critical buyers of the en­tire
nation, and being pledged to
meet the neds of the student body
which owns it, has one of the most
complete stock of quality merchan­dise
on its shelves of any store of
its type. It is this which has won
it a rank as a Class "A" store in
the bluebook of College Bookstores.
In the past the Co-op has told the
student body that it takes its hat
off to none, because it is a class "A"
store, and that if the class of 190S
should come back it Avould find a
much different store. Now the
Co-op. is telling the student body
that it takes its hat off to none
because the stock which'it carries is
of the highest quality and meets the
demands of the student body and
that it is much different from the
infant store of 1U08 because in the
past twenty years the taste of the
college group has heightened and
widened until now a college book­store
is the supply headquarters for
the aristocracy The College Buying
Group,.
FACULTY WOMEN WIN
Keller, McPherson and Ullin Star
in Annual Tilt Between Women
of Faculty and Student Body.
McCall Expresses Appreciation
Andy McCall, manager of the Vi­king
Vodvil. wishes, to express his
appreciation to all who participated
in this performance and lo all others
who gave their assistance toward
making it .perhaps the most suc­cessful
Vodvil staged in our local
auditorium. McCall states that the
co-operation afforded- him. was un­usually
hearty, and decreased ma­terially
the number of difficulties
with which a manager is usually
confronted.
History of Picture "Laughing Cavalier"
Feretted Out by Messenger Reporter
One of the most successful events
of the school year, Campus Day,
held with the Viking Vodvil Tues­day,
was declared to have been the
best eA'er held.
From early morning until late in
the evening, faculty members and
students toiled, played and laughed
until the event went down in the
history of the school as perhaps the
most-outstanding held for some time.
The Viking Vodvil resulted in a
win for the Freshman class which,
in the estimation of the audience,
which awarded the prize by its ap­plause,
presented the best of the
eight acts. A mixed chorus, direct­ed
by Naomi Smith, and. composed
of the following; Helen Stine, Fran­ces
DeLong, Kathryn Rood, Jerry
McKee, Rose Brooks, Naomi Smith,.
Joe Hermsen, Keith Rumrey, Kelly
Hammit, Dave Turnbull, Johnny
Byrnes and Earle Swanson, was the
prize winning stunt.
Other colorful and novel stunts
featured the vodvil, which was man­aged
by Andy McCall. Before an
audience of 800 persons, the Edens
Hall girls, the MacDowell club, the
Sehome Serenaders,- the Men's club,
the Thespians, the Philos, the Fresh­men,
and the Faculty performed, put­ting
on a group of varied acts which
brought forth much applause and
laughter.
Campus Day itself, the successor
to Sneak Day, was responsible for
the discovery of what is estimated
as o0 new muscles per capita, four
hours of honest work improving
both body and school grounds. Dur­ing
that time, under the direction
of student officers, students and fac­ulty
members alike toiled with pick,
shovel and rake, doing the many odd
jobs Avhich would not be done -with
the small staff of caretakers and
janitors.
A picnic lunch and field games in
the afternoon finished the Campus
Day proper and made way for the
Vodvil in the evening. Prominent
among the events of the day was
the football game between the wom­en's
team and the team composed of
women faculty members. Stars for
the latter squad included Miss Or-pha
McPherson and Miss Ullin, botli
of whom were bulwarks in the line.
As signal barker. Miss Keller put up
a very -creditable performance^ guid
ing her team to a 12 to 0 victorv.
Northw est Viking'' Is Selected
To Succeed " Weekly Messenger
view Name will Grace Messenger in Another Month;
Committee Chooses More Meaningful Title for
Paper; Hibner Winner of a School-wide Contest.
By VERNON V. V I NE
From the picture fades an old fellow of twenty years standing, and
to take his place enters a lusty, red-cheeked infant. Bid farewell to
"THE^ WEEKLY MESSENGER/" All hail the "NORTHWEST V I ­KING/"
For a tradition, a hoary, respected institution, has passed, and
an innovation; long to wait before IT becomes a tradition, has taken its
place.
In response to repeated demands for a name more symbolic of the
school, its students and its location, a new name has been selected to
replace that which has for many years conjured up pictures of "The
Official Organ of the Students' Association.v And so, the "NORTH­WEST
VIKING"., prize winning name submitted by Mary Hibher, after
June 15, will be at the masthead to carry the name of the Bellingham
Normal-more effectively to the fafplaces which it visits.
Several weeks ago it was aiven out
Whatcom County
Will Celebrate Its
Annual Festival
Tulij) Festival week, May 10, 11,
and 12, gives promise of being one
of the most colorful weeks of enter­tainment
and display in the history
of Bellingham. This vear's festival,
featured by the dual reign of a'
king .and queen, will be brimful-of
novelties and new features, which
should arouse the interest of Nor­mal
students.
Elaborate plans have been made
for two coronation ceremonies,, o'ne
for King Pete Snyder and the other
for the Tulip Queen.
The annual Tulip parade, to be
held Friday afternoon, will be one
of the longest and most gorgeous
pageants in the history of the festi­val,
it is reported.
that our school paper was to receive
a new name. People wishing to sub­mit
names would have the chance
to receive five dollars worth of mer­chandise
at the Co-operative store.
Scores of names were handed in,
some people turning in from ten to
twenty different titles. On the whole
the entire school got behind tlie en­terprise,
and their co-operation
in a name that has a significant
meaning.
Traditions have been broken down
but as Miss Edens says, "I would
rather take part in establishing new
traditions than to conform to old."
BE O I K S
TO BE GIVEN MAV19
Gibbs and Green head Drama Club
Cast at Work on Production;
Hardan, Chichester Have Parts.
HOPPE IS DIRECTING
Play Portrays Old Theme of Hen­pecked
Husband and Domineer­ing
Wife; Husband Revolts.
"Craig's Wife," tlie Drama club
play for the spj-ing quarter, is rap­idly
taking form. The east has been
working hard since.'the first of the
quarter, holding three rehearsals a/
week. • '
. The play is a portrait of a nervous,
domineering woman and the weak-willed
man she married. Margaret
Green, is playing the' neurotic Mrs.
Craig, who rules her husband with
the hand of a'tyrant; •Glen'Gibbs"is
taking the part of 'Mi-. Craig* very
much suppressed.
All of the action of the play trans-,
pires between five-thirty in the eve­ning
and nine o'clock the next morn­ing.
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The tension of the play gradually
rises from the first ten minutes, un­til
the climax in the second act.
Craig's aunt, Mrs. Austin, played by
Olive Hardan reveals Mrs. CVaigV
rm . . ,, character to her husband. Mrs. Aus-
Uns is the sentiment of the entire +;„ cn-r= <njonril> •, v + ' *,
no complaints wn says: People who live, to them-regarding
the
school, and as yet.
have been handed i
choice.
Over 100 names were submitted,
and they were judged by a commit­tee
made up for Robert Fisher, edi­tor
of the.Northwest Viking; Harry
Appleton, business manager; Herbert
E. Fowler, faculty advisor: Dean
Edmundson, president of the Student
association; and Miss Olive Edens,
of the English department.
FRESHMEN TO DANCE
IN BIG GYM TONIGHT
"It's going to be more fun," says
the committee in charge of the Spring
Quarter Frosh mixer to be held to­night
in the. big gym.
Bill Reeve's heads the work as
Chief Executive. He also has charge
of rooms, orchestra, and requisitions.
"'The ''Polychrome" idea of many
colors worked out from plans made
by Jean Marquis and her committee,
will brighten the scene.
TUDENTS COMPETE
N SPEECH CONTEST
'Three centuries ago, in the sleepy,
thriving town of Haarlem, Holland,
there roved a band of three, carefree
rogues who sayled themselves '"Phil­osophers."
A chance earned coin
would make them rich, and the eve­ning
would be spent in revelry over
foaming mugs, but penniless they
rose with the dawn.
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The philosophy of the lowless trio
was spotlessly pure. Never a lady
distressed without assurance of re­lief
when the philosophers chanced
b y . . •• '•>
One day when the leader of the
band was on a mission of abducting
a lady, a thoroughly business affair,
he remembered that he had promised
to pose for a portrait. He was many
icy miles from the studio of his old
friend, the 'artist.
What meant the -treacherous- guard
that threatened his/life in punish­ment
for his abducting the fair one,
to so wary a fellow who knew every
bush and frozen detour on the rivers
and streams? What meant the cut­ting
wind to his hardy'"-nnike-iip ?
Nothing, when there arose a duty to
one who once gave him a bowl of
milk and a piece of bread when lie
was hungry. •"'•'-,-
'He donned his skate's and skimmed
over the miles of ice to town, by
Al»a.y of frozen streams, over the
fields, adroitly dropping any chance
of his enemies' success in catching
him. The studio was reached, rag­ged
clothes were changed for .a suit
of satin and embroidery, the plat­form
pose was taken, and the irresis­tible
smile of "The Laughing 'Cava­lier'
was transformed to canvas.
(102*).
The history of this Sir Blake of
Blakeney was not written until 191.1,
when Emmusea Orezy was inspired
to write the intensely interesting
novel, "The Laughing Cavalier."
' W'e of the present generation are
proud possessors of the immortal
portrait---'before which' "countless mil­lions
must, have, in tlie past three
centuries, stood AVe have look­ed
on him many a time, always with
pure joy in our hearts, our lips smil­ing
in response to his, . . . . to the
personality which literally, seems to
breathe, and palpitate, and certain­ly
to laugh at us out of the canvas."
An excellent, large print of " t he
portrait hangs in the outer'hall of
the Dean of -Women's Office; and
Orezy's novel is, on the library shelf.
A look into either would give ojie a
new lease on even an ifksonie- Normal
dav. •'•-.-• ' • • ' .' -'
Last evening at seven o'clock the
third quarter extempore contest was
held in room. 110. A list of twenty"
suitable topics was posted on the bul­letin
board yesterday mornino- from
which the participants could choose
their subjects. The talks, which
were limited to' five minutes, were
given without notes.
The six-best contestants are to give
their- talks, before a cafteria audience
at a date to be set by the committee
in charge. This new idea was intro­duced
to give the students an oppor­tunity
to present their material in
a true life situation of noise, confus­ion
and inattention.
The aims of these contests are to
benefit the student in thinking with
quickness; organizing speech- rapidly,
and standing on his feet to present
material.
Time Element Enticing
Because the student'does not have
to spend miich time in securing his
material, Miss Madden states, many
students should enter, even though
busy at this time. '
.•May IS, the two winners of this
quarter will compete in the. finals
with the four of the. previous quar­ters
for the c.up which Miss >June
AVetherell jiow holds.
A revision of tlie nature, of topics
has been tried so that current school
topics as well as world questions will
lie offered the student.
committee chairmen in
are: Eldred Bechtel, public-
Other
charge
ity: Hose Brooks, refreshments; Frie­da
Massey, sponsor; Eldeu Bond
clean-up.
Einar Moen's orchestra will pro­vide
the music for this Freshman
recreational evening to which the fac­ulty,
freshmen girls, and all the men
of the normal are invited.
ELEVEN CONTRACTS
SIGNED IN WEEK
Eleven people have reported sign­ing
contracts for teaching prositions
to the Appointment Bureau, during
the week past. Four of them have
been directly placed by the Bureau,
while the other -seven have gotten
their contracts in other ways, and
have reported the results to Miss
Hopper.'
The four who have been placed by
the Bureau, are: Ed Dingerson,
Brownsville, upper grades and execu­tive
work: Davie E. Ray, Longview,
primary; Milton Field, Aberdeen, de­partmental:
and Clara Dynen, Red­mond,
fourth grade.
Other people who have signed con­tracts
are: Alma Unwin... Boeder,
Whatcom- county: Myrtle Johnson.
Gravel Point, grades -5-8.;. Helen Lof-tus,
Ozette, rural; Ruth Bond, Elma,
R-2, rural: Frank Love, Kingston,
grades 4, 5, 6; Marguerite Biersner,
Lacrosse, rural: and Ann Fosjack,
Brady, intermediate.
selves, Harriet, are often left . to
themselves." The climax'comes when
Craig, after" discovering the real na-.
ture of his wife, rebels and in doing
so, smashes one of her treasured
china vases on the bricks of the fire­place,
and smokes cigarettes in her
painfully correct parlor.
In the third act the action gradu­ally
goes down again, until the end
pictures Mrs. Craig left alone in her
house she loves better than any other
thing. Everyone in the household has
gone, even the servants.
This was voted the best in Chi­cago
last year, an evidence of its uni­versal
interest.
Victor H. Hoppe, who is directing
the play, saw i t .produced last year
in Chicago under the direction of ;
George Kelly, the author.
The cast is as follows:
Mrs. Craig Margaret Green
Walter. Craig ...Glen Gibbs
Miss Austin Olive Hardan
Ethel Landreth . Helen Stine
Mrs. Harold ..Irene Schagel-
Mrs. Frazier Frances Notz
Mazie ...„ Helen Sullivan-
Billy Bukmere ..; Don Stickney
Joseph Cotelle Randy Oberlatz
Eugene Fredericks N. Burchetite
Harry Barnev Chichester
Beautiful Maiden Infatuates and Jilts
Prominent Student, But She Is Only-
Nothing Wrong With
Collegiate Morals,
Student Body Votes
She was alone when I met her in
the first hall at approximately nine
thirty P.M. I stopped and stared
at her in amazement. AAras it Diana
that I beheld? Never had I seen
such moulding of grace and beauty.
Normal by the mountains and the
sea was indeed becoming an institute
of note, when such extraordinary
beauty could be lured within its por­tals.
Still dazed by her sparkling
exquisiteness I proposed with shaking
voice that she accompany me to the
Campus Day dance which was at
that time taking place in the 'big
gym. The supple young thing" nod­ded
assent, and before I realized that
we had been walking, the dance floor
was reached. However, when we
had "made but a._dozeh turns, I was
awakened from my reverie, for it
seemed that we were both using my
feet to 'walk. on. -'Evidently," 1
thought, •''she has not danced a great
deal," for she was taking upon-her--
self the responsibility of the leading.
AYhereupon I suggested we adjourn
to Baughmans for nourishment. In
iu niiugmuuiis 101 nourisnment. JJ1 lie Clgs
addition to learning of ; her defi-f Vodvil.
ciencies in the art of terpischore I
discovered that she was cursed with
an appetite of unbelievable propor­tions.
She finished her chicken
fricassee and had started to devour
a platter of flank steak, when a
young fellow whom I recognized as
one of the tennis aspirants rudely in­terrupted,
us by addressing my love­ly
companion: "Say Nick," he said,
"when you gonna change your togs?"
I thought this a very ungentlemanly
manner of addressing a lady but
since she showed no consternation at
such familiarity I said nothing. So
her name was;Nick. I thought this
strange, but surmised, it must be
her nickname. But then what is
the use of continuing. I may as
well cut this story short by explain­ing
that it was not until she had
smoked a perfectly good cigar, and 1
had paid the check, that she revealed
her identity. AVho was. she, you
ask? Certainly you must have
guessed by now .that she was none
other than Elden Bond, the coy lit­tle
cigarette girl from the -Viking
The student body, having an-'
nounced by its vote taken in Tues­day's
assebly, that collegiate mor­als
are overwhelmingly go"od, may
voice its opinion uon the matter
of religion, thus: Are college stu­dents
religious?
The result of the last" inquiry
brought forth, in addition to the
answers requested, several'comments
to the effect that the question was
general, and vague. The Messenger
staff feels that this is an indication
that the explanation of the question
which was published in the last is­sue
was not read. The question this
week, if not explained, will fall
heir to the same condemnations;.,..'•'•••'.-,
The vote turned in on Tuesday,
while small in relation to the size of
the student body, is considered to
be a fair estimate of the opinion of
the majority of students. The ver- ..
diet of 244 students is favorable to
collegiate morals, that is,' these' mor-r
als are good. Thirty-eight students :
said the same morals are bad. Two',
said there are no morals in college,
two said the morals, if any, are in- •
different, while three students were
of the" opinion that the morals are
average. , '" ' V :
. Are college students religious?:-
This as did the other question; lenda
itself to" a disintegration- ^ntp a
number-of siib-questioiis, • aiiy of-^
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