Weekly Messenger - 1927 February 18

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^SHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, l^brua^lfd^f 927-
(ByDVite)
The robina and butterflies and pigs
and things are beginning, . t o - H it
^around o'er the .meadows.. .Spring is
here. (Joke).--V.-'-
Bellingham Civic Opera Company
to Present Popular Light Opera
^ Production by Gilbert-Sullival.
S T U D E N T S P A R T I C I P A TE
Appropriate Scenery, Gay Costumes
Catchy Tunes, and Comic Lines
to be Featured in Light Opera.
John J. Blackmore, Piano Teacher
at Bush Conservatory, to Play
Two Assemblies Friday A v M*
In the spring a young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thots of love—-
For even our Miss Jones, she
Can t put out die moon abooe.
He was a little off—a nut—but he
had lots of dough. A regular dough­nut,
you might say. So she sugared
i im "with, kisses.
(To be Continued)
Speaker: "TJp to the year 1900
women did not have mnch to say."
Ha! Ha! Hal Ha!
_ SECOND HAND
D E P A R T M E N T
"Wanna spoon?"
"Waddaya mean?"
"WelU those'couples peer there
'tare spooning."
: "Hat Hal If that*s spooning,
2eCs shovel."
— I O W A FRIVQL
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H A S N O GAS N OW
Once a woman of her age had
:to be careful. Today, she eats any­thing
she can find! A chew of Cop­enhagen—
and after eating distress
V A N I S H E S .
Gorge yourself if you want to, and
r~with Copenhagen smile at indiges­tion...
Stops all gas and breathing. ..„
Full Box FREE
Write directly to the factory for
a sample. Get a small box of Cop­enhagen
for the pocketrj Young" and
'old find Copenhagen a boon and a
blessing!
C O P E N H A G E N
Must Be Taken
' Little boys' and big words some­times
get mixed. A small chap in a
training school class had been very
bad and coming up to "the instructor
^afterwards he timidly inquired, "Am
I in disrepoop, teacher?" ..'„•"
, A colorful group of 18th century
singers will visit the Normal Friday
and Saturday evenings, February 25
and 26. The Bellingham Civic Opera
Company will present "The Gondol­iers,"
one of the popular Gilbert and
Sullivan light operas, under the di­rection
of Mr. Jou-Jerville and Lois
Holt Brown. The production will
have not only gay costumes and ap­propriate
scenery, and a gondola, but
will be accompanied by-Benson's or­chestra
with Miss Lois Wilson at the
piano.-
Selections Familiar
Students wil remember a selection
from this opera sung by the quartet
in a recent assembly. Lois Holt
Brown has the leading soprano part,
Doris Smith, contralto, Wallace Fer­guson,
baritone, a.nd Mr. C.Pelland,
tenor. The quintet includes John
Kerr, who plays his part in a most
charming manner,. Ruth McCullough,
Paul Engberg, Inez.Douglass and Mr.
Jones.
Synopsis of Story
. "Two jolly young Gondoliers are
married during a public celebration,
but a short time afterwards are noti­fied
by the GrandVInquisitor of Ven­ice
that one of them is the King of
Barataria, and that both of them
must go to Barataria. In the mean­time,
the old duke of Plazo-Toro, a
grandee of Spain, comes to Venice
with his attendant, Luis, his wife,
the Duchess, and his beautiful daugh­ter,
Casilda. Casilda is in love with
Luis, but soon learns that she has
been secretly married by proxy while
John J. .Blackmore, pianist, ex-,
ponent of Tobias Matthay, and piano
teacher of the Bush Conservatory of
Chicago, will play in two recitals at
the Normal School .Friday, February
25. He will play for" the training
school at 9,o'clock, and at the regular
assembly at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Blackmore-introduces the prin­ciples
of Tobias Matthay, the great
English pianist - pedagogue. Long
years of study with Matthay and
other great teachers of Europe and
America have well fitted him to in­troduce
this work.
For' many years Mr. Blackmore
has been an outstanding figure in the
development of music in the -North­west,
and has made frequent trips to
the coast. During his three-days' Btay
in Bellingham he will give work to a
class now ' being formed, which is
open to all players and teachers. He
will also give a lecture recital at
Whatconi High School Saturday
morning at ten for grade and high
school students. "
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NEW INTER-NATIONAL
CLUB IS ORGANIZED
Students interested in inter-nation­al
relations • met Monday noon and
organized an international Rela­tions
Club, the purpose of which is
to study questions of national-and
international import. The club is or­ganized
following directions propos­ed
by the International Relations
Society in New York City;
Temporary officers were elected in
Monday's meeting, until the consti­tution
shall have been approved.
Tuesday noon an election was held
for club sponsors. Nora/B. Cummins
and "Edward J. Arntzen of tike facul­ty
were elected.
Hilda Helseth, who has been active
SOPHOMORES PLAN
NOVEL WINTER HOP
Plans are rapidly nearing comple­tion
for the Sophomore winter par­ty,
to be held Friday, ^February 25,
in the Big Gym. "•
The object of the party is to por­tray
a Greenwich Village street
dance. The decorations and features
will carry out the village scheme.
The girls are' asked to wear colored
smocks, if possible, .and the men, to
wear shirts and windeor ties. Artists
caps will be furnished.
• Features Planned
Several f e a t u r e s have been
planned to be given at intervals
during the party. There will be a
cartoon studio, artists quartet, and
a feature dance.
At a meeting held Waduesday at
12:30, the Sophs voted to invite the
faculty, all third -and fourth year
students, and frosh men.
Gwendolyn Shakespeare id acting
as general chairman.
Those on other committees are:
Decoration: B l a n c h e Hamilton,
chairman; Phil Sisk, Talmadge Gray,
Arthur Adamson, Harriet Hudno,
'Ruth Quaife, Rachael Adams, Mar-,
garet Burke; Feature: Kirvin Smith,
chairman; Irene Schagel, Mary Mar­garet
Doyle, Bill Mock, Estelle Mar­tinson,
Helen Babcock; Publicity:
Esther Cooper, chairman; Earl O'-
Grady, Ralph Johnson, Earl Hemmi;
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MUNSON A C C I D E NT
Plans for New Washington State
Board of Education Outlined
by Pres. in Forum Address.
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS
D O Y CHAPMAN ANDREWS found thrills and absorbing adventure in
•** far-off Mongolia, seeking the bones of primitive man. Last year
he astonished the scientific world and the world at large by finding the
first dinosaur eggs, estimated at from eight to ten million years old.
Andrews heads the third Asiatic Expedition, his party consisting of
forty-one men, seven motor cars and one hundred forty-three camels.
Remarkable scientific findings have been made and Mr. Andrews has
caught the spirit of romance in remarkably fine motion and still pic­tures
which^will be shown during his lecture here, t " .
TO
IN H A L SCHOOL ALIDITORIiJM
Edna Miinson, while visiting at her
home in. Everett, over the week-end,
suffered a painful scalp, wound caused
by. an auto accident. Miss Irma Pelz,
m organizing the club, is the presi- physical director of the Everett
dent protempore. schools, suffered a broken nose.
ASSEMBLY SONG.
i •'• (By B.C.)
~Now I lay me down to sleep;
For joyous pleasures I shall reap.
Cares and Worries, I banish all; .,
Free as Eve before the Fall., .
I sit up in the balcony '
And Morpheus brings sweet rest to
X-Me. ;\^W//'V:^.•;•::.->-•
Far above the droning hore
.Sometimes I can even snore;
Exarmnations ar theclever 'iin-vention
of some genius of the Span­ish
Inquisition. Like women, they
liave to be taken by soft, well chos­en
answers to innumerable xjues-
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Manufacturer Attempted Industrial
Education in Former Assemblies
Roy Chapman Andrews, renowned
scientist and head of the Third Asiat­ic
Expedition, will make two appear­ances
at the Normal School auditor­ium,
Thursday, February 24. He will
lecture to the students at three
o'clock in the afternoon and to the
general public in the evening.
Mr. Andrews has returned to Amer­ica
to tell his own personal exper­iences
of the famous expedition
which he heads for the American
Museum of Natural History^ in co­operation
-with the American Asiatic
Association and the magazine, 'Asia."
In addition to his personal story,
he. is bringing; thousands of feet of
motion picture film, which will be
shown for the first time with his lec­tures.
Hot Races Expected
"Imagine the quest of the real
'Golden Fleece' of China,—the rare
and beautiful golden 'takin', monarch
of Mongolia's highest peaks, brought
down by Mr. Andrews' rifle after
days of disheartening hunt. Imagine
a race.between a modern auto and
the wild ass of, the Gobi desert—a
thirty-mile pursuit while the speed-:
oraeter registered thirty-five miles
per hour at times. Imagine quaint
Mongol villages of shepherds and
their families, watching with half-startled,
inquisitive . eyes the queer
white man and the even stranger
maclrfnes that carried them, while
the ferocious Mongol dogs growled
their warnings in no uncertain lan­guage.
A pardrama of Life—such as it
is in this out-of-the-way corner of
the world—shoppers, peasants, rov­ing
brigands, Lamas, prayer wheels,
innumerable road shrines, yaks
hitched to.carts, caihel.trains of des­ert
traders—so .'primitive, i t . ail seems
that one cannot help but feel that
the rocks of Asia should be the nat­ural
tomb of the oldest man."
Andrews Has Caught Spirit.
Mr. Andrews has caught the spirit
of romantic adventure that goes
hand in hand with such an enter­prise
both'in his own story and in
his pictures, He turned back the
clock a few million years and found
hidden away in the rock strata the
eggs and fossils of dinosaurs that
lived, when the .world was in its in­fancy;
he unearthed the skull, of the
Baluchithirium, the largest mammal
that ever trod the earth.
. . I n the Expedition, which has been
under way more than four years, Mr.
Andrews has combined the,most mod­ern
inventions with the old. The suc­cess,
of the. venture has depended up­on
the automobile and camera as
well as upon many men and camels.
A plan for a new Washington State.
Board of Education was proposed by
President. C. H. Fisher in an address
before the Forum1, an organization of
the faculty," at Edens Hall, Monday
evening, Feb. 14, following the regu­lar
monthly dinner of the club.
According to-his plan the board
should consist of seven.laymen, ap­pointed
by the governor, with the ad­vice
and consent of the senate, each
One serving a term of seven years.
One member should be appointed
from each of the congressional dis­tricts,
and two appointed at large.
This would avoid "getting, too many
representatives from one section and
would bring together the different
representatives with their varied in­terests.
President Fisher said that the pow­ers
and duties of the boards would
be those of the present state board
of education together with the pow­ers
and duties of the joint board of
higher: curricula which -was abolished
in 1925. The board would also have
power over budgets of the five high­er
institutions/ The institutions
would retain boards of regents and
trustees and woujd he^expected to
work with the stateooard of educa­tion.
According' to President Fisher
the present law provides for an­nual
meetings of joint boards of trus­tees
of the three Normal school,
which meetings help in working out
the policies of the different insti­tutions.
He would also provide for
similar meetings of the boards of re­gents
of the. State ' College and Jhe
University.
The present state board of educa­tion
of Washington consists of sev-:
en educators." There is; a growing
tendency throughout' the . United
States toward a board of nine lay­men,
which plan is advocated by
Governor Hartley at the present time.
According to Pi*esideht Fisher this
really applies the city administration
of education to the state. The state
superintendent would be" chosen by
the board within or without the.
state; he would be an executive and
secretary of the board. but not a
member. ,
President Fisher discussed the 'dif­ferent
types of state boards through­out
the United States, six types in
all, showing the lack .of uniformity in
state boards of education. • >
Normal Team Faces Hard Battle
at Whatcom Gym, with Odell
Out and New Lineup Necessary
CLUB ORGANIZED
ROTHSCHILDS STRONG
Leaders of Seattle City League
Have Won Eleven out of Twelve
Games, Expect Another Win.
A new organization -known as the
Girl Scouts was Organized Monday,
February 7, in Room 203. • A demand
for such an organization has been
felt in this school for some time.
The primary, aim of the course is to
cultivate leadership in . Girl Scout
Troops and Methods of Conducting
Scout Meetings. This gives "the girls
an opportunity to become acquainted
with the* work and. organize, it from
the sponsor's viewpoint. Miss Dilley,
reference librarian, has been selected
as the Girl Scout sponsor.
The following have been elected of­ficers:
Chairman, .""Mildred White;
secretary-treasurer, Vivian Tubbs;
scribe, Geneva Rickard.
Minus the services of Ray Odell,:
star forward, the Viking basketeers
run. up against a team doped as the
equal of almost any university in
the Northwe&t-rthe Rothschilds Stev­edores—
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
on the Whatcom High floor.
• The Vikings, with a record of nine
games won and but one lost,' made
against some of the best minor col­leges
in Washington, have their best
basketball squad in years. Regardless
of the loss .of Odell, who is out with
influenza, they still have a line-up
capable.of stopping all but the very
best of opponents. In Lyman Stick-ney
and Art Isaacson, there are two
of the best guards to be seen .often
in action, while Jensen at center, is
at all times a dangerous, scoring
threat, because of his ability to'ring
up long field goals-and tricky, left-handed
short shots. As Odell's run­ning
mate all season, Earl Keplinger
has proved the most aggressive man
on the local team, as well as holding
his own in scoring.,.
Lineup Wot Definite
Coach Carver has not yet anhbunc?-
ed who will start in; the other ;forr
ward position, but Jack Harper, who
has been on the bench all year—will
probably get the call. However, one '
of the guards, either Stickney or
Benson, may be shifted to take
Odell's place.
Rothschilds Have Many Stars.
The Rothschilds outfit has individ­ually,
the strongest line-up ever
gathered together in this part of, the
country. Three former Washington
captains are just a part of this won-.
derful collection of former college
and university stars. It is at .pres­ent
far in the lead in the Seattle
City league, having won eleven games
out of twelve; In addition, it has
dropped games to Washington -jind
Idaho by less than five points.
Rothschilds Powerful -f:'
In the forward positions, the Steve-doves
have DiCk Frayne. and Bob
We will now sing hymn number
174^-That is the way the Monday
assembly started five or six years
ago. -
Some of the old grads who are
back in the institution this quarter
can surely tell some memoirs'about
the assemblies they used to sit
through; When you ask them if they
enjoyed the assemblies they'll ans­wer
very emphatically, "No," and if
you happen to ask a man, he will use
the same, word with probably a few
decorations. Of course if the man
happens to be a member of the fa'c-u
I t £ ; (We have a couple of old grade
on the faculty), he will just use
English: as Mr. ;FowIer uses! it.
iWpuIdn't youJove to attend a*-;.
sembly three t imes a week? Monday >,
Wedne'sday Xnd Friday?.
Monday's assembly was best. Ev- j
eryone enjoyed that, as the feature
•of the gathering was responsive read­ing.
Everyone joined in this: event
and the men vied with one another
in putting real feeling into it. The
girls naturally took a back seat in
this. They had to. The men made so
much noise that it was useless for
them to strain their vocal chords.
This was usually followed by more
hymns and after that some more of
them. The close of the fifty minute
"anguish scene" (you'd' have thought
so if you could .have seen.their facr
es) found each and every Normal stu-"
dent off on the; right foot for the
week. Any who had "back-slid" over
the week end by ;goihg: to a dance,
found a great, deal of comfbrtr in this
stupendous Monday attraction.
Wednesday was a Ihriiler!" always
;wwwvwwwwwvw Drama League of America Sets
February 13-19 as Drama Week
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VALUED ART GALLERY
OPENEBATU.OFW.
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Friday, Feb .18.—
MacDowell Club Dance. Fine Arts
. building, 8:^). •
Sourdough Banquet and Dance.
Chuckanut Manor, 6:30.
Scribes Club Meeting. Room 205,
8:00. '"". '
Saturday^ Feb. 19—
Thespian Homecoming D i n n e r -
. , dance. Hotel Leopold,. 6:30.
Tuesday, Feb. 22— ' ••' ,
-Holiday. • '
^Wednesday; Feb; 23— ':•' Z. .': >'..?..
.. .Klyteawo Camp Fire Council Fire.
. Sunset Trail! 7:30. '-;''>•', "'.."
Thursday, FeK 24-^^- ; -.; -> :-"'X
Roy Chapman Andrews; to lecture.
-,/.. Normal auditorium. 8:15.;
Friday^ Feb. :2j&—i-:'^':- :/[-:X:.
( f j j lm .Blackmore, -pianist j \ t o ; give
program. Regular assembly, 11:0b
. National Drama Week, which is
sponsored by the Drama League of
America, is'being observed during the
week of Febniary 13-19. The Drama
League is supported by the American
Library Association,'.various' Church
Federations, Representatives of Pro­fessional
Actors' and. Managers' Ai-sociation,
National Federation of
Women's Clubs and the Year-Round
Bookselling'Committee. '•"'.•
t The Drama . League explains the
jmrpose of National Drama Week by
saying: "A Week devotied to coordi­nation
of .the work of. all associations
and individuals interested -in' educat­ing
iKfe public to 'appreciate and de­mand
-good drama; andTtb.awaken the
public to the importance- of the the>
atre as a' social force" and as a great
eduCatibrial: movement^: " •.; v•'1':
The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery,
valued at $450,000, was formally op­ened
at the University of Washing- \
ton, February 10. The collection of
160 foreign* and American paintings
for the gallery, was donated by the
Seattle banker, together with funds
for building the gallery. The build­ing
is planned as the. center .around
which will be built a distinctive art
museum for the Pacific Northwest.
The museum building, of the Tudor
Gothic, design, is entirely window-less
and incorporates the latest de- •-
velopments of scientif 19 exhibition.
All light for the Six galleries with­in
it, cpmes through skylights in aft
arrangement: Avhich provides, whatdis­considered*
an idea! lighting in which
The program ot the week's activ­ities
as worked out by the commit­tee,
included: ;Religion and Drama,
The Public and Professional Theatre, j to display the coliection.
Drama and the Clubs, The Theatre in I > >V,,+Qr „ \ . ^ ,. . .A
„ .• , _ •>,••• . ' „ •' Outstanding among the 160^ ex-
Pnnt,Drama as Communaty |?Pre«- ; h a b i t 9 are. the works of Corot, Rosa
sion Drama as Education, and Chil- Bonheur; baubigny, *„d others, in
dren's Day. «" ' t ,. t ,. . . • ' , . . -.
- - T i - * ,1 -w :';-n :,.:'., . , eluding both foreign and American
..Last year ihe Draina League held^^^ artists
a contest which led W the standard­isation
of the radio play and -en­couraged
the writing of "plays which
were suitable to present on the radio.
A display of books On drama, as
well a s many of the be^at plays have
been arranged in the main library
ami mayucbe ifouhdb^inS the 'siielyes
just inside the entrance! .Pliys^ suit-able"
for the" Use m; elementary schob
w^prk ar6 dwplayed in*t^Uei-children^
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