Weekly Messenger - 1918 March 2

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL XVII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918 NO. 20
The Hyades club will hold a busi­ness
meeting Thursday, directly fol­lowing
assembly in room .120. All
members are urged to be present.
This is important!
Dear old Y. W.!
What do we want done to you?
We want to —why, double you!
Of course. H. S.
What promises to be the 'hardest
contest of the year will be fought out
tonight in the small gym by the Van­couver
Ex-Normal and our boys. Fur­nished
a motive in the defeat handed
them earlier in the season, the local
boys intend to erase the bitter mem­ory
by a decisive victory. Moulded
into a speedy, co-operative five, the
Blue and White will be a hard and
entirely different nut for the Vancou­ver
crackers.
Another feature will be a prelimin­ary
contest between the Normal sec­ond
team and the Ferndale High. As
some of our best players have come
from Ferndale, a scrappy melee may
be expected.
Come prepared to yell and don't
force Tucker to be a soloist as you
have in the past. Tonight's game is
the last scheduled with outside teams
although more may be added. Look­ing
at it-from all sides you can't af­ford
to miss the contest tonight.
NORMAL WINS N0N-Two
victories over the Cushman In­dians
and the Ellensburg High, be­sides
a close second in the marathon
race with the College of Puget Sound,
clinch our claims to the non-confer­ence
basketball championship of
Washington. Behold the conquering
'heroes come!
Although on a strange floor, the
Normal quintet had no difficulty in
repeating its victory over the husky
Indians, at Tacoma, by a score of 35
to 16. No individual stars were in
evidence, each man playing his posi­tion
perfectly. In no other game has
there been more co-operative playing.
While our team has shown itself
capable of enlarging its teamwork, at
a moment's notice, to fit a bigger
gym, there is a limit to its expansion,
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IS LEAGUEJRGANIZED
Last Saturday evening the Belling-ham
center of the National Dramatic
League was organized at the Chamber
of Commerce rooms'. Many Normal
people affiliated themselves with the
new organization, some receiving im­portant
ofices. Mr. Glenn Hughes was
elected President; Mr. Victor Hoppe,
First Vice-President; Miss Olive Ed-ens,
Chairman of the Play Committee,
and Miss Nellie Lee, Chairman of the
Membership Committee. Other mem­bers
from the Normal school are Paul
Waschke, Bernice Ober, Hazel Hunts-berger,
May Armstrong and Miss
Crawford.
By paying the annual dues, which
are $1.50, any student may become an
active member of this very worthy
organization. Bulletins concerning the
newest dramas, study courses, and
the best current dramatic criticism
will be mailed from time to time to
all members. The Bellingham organi­zation
is making-a tremendous effort,
to secure John Mosefield to lecture
here under its auspices.
WHAT $20.00 WILL BUY
An illustration of what $20.00 will
buy of real books on the practical
phases of teaching.
Other lists of equally good alterna­tives
could be made out.
Agriculture
U. S. Department" of Agriculture.
Free bulletins.
State College of Washington—Ex­periment
Station of Agriculture. Free
Bulletins.
Western Washington Experiment
Station, Puyallup. Free bulletins.
Arithmetic
Klapper—Teaching arithmetic—Ap-pleton,
$1.45.
Suzzallo—Teaching Primary Arith­metic;
Columbia University; 60c.
Geography
Holtz—Principles and Methods of
Teaching Geography; Macmillan;
$1.10.
Handwork
Dobbs—Illustrative Handwork; Mac­millan;
$1.10.
History
Johnson—History Method; Macmil­lan;
$1.50.
Hygiene
Gulick—Hygiene series, 4v. Good
health. 40 Emergencies, 40; Control
of body and mind, 50; $1.30.
Language Lessons
Cooley—Language Teaching in the
Grades; Columbia University; 35c.
Methods
Strayer and Norseworthy—How to
Teach; Macmillan; $1.25.
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BURNS SPEAKS ON THE
OVERCOMING OF FEUOS
One of the rare treats of this year,
if not of the past several years, in the
way of a lecture was the appearance
of "Burns of the Cumberlands" at our
own auditorium last Tuesday night.
The simplicity, sweetness, tolerance,
and force of this unique gentleman
left an impression on his hearers that
will never be forgotten.
The audience listened to his slow-spoken
words with unusual attention.
Through this man's efforts the
Oneida Institute sprang up in this
poverty-stricken mountainous district
in 1899, until today more than 500 stu­dents
are attending. Many times more
are always on the waiting list desiring
to attend than the school can accom­modate.
Today in that lonely place in
the heart of the Cumberland moun­tains
forty miles from any railroad,
is a school with property valued at
over $1,000,000, four fine buildings, a
1200 acre farm, a sawmill and a wood
working shop. A community of over
300 persons has grown up around the
campus and for beauty of surround­ings
it can scarcely be equaled. Some
of the earliest graduates are the main
pillars of the institution today, and so
devoted to it that they have refused
much more remunerative positions of­fered
them from various schools of
higher education. The graduates take
with them the Christian spirit of the
school and remain loyal to their
training.
It is our hope that more such
schools may be founded throughout
the length and bredth of this Union.
E
The war is here in earnest. No
one can avoid feeling its deadly ef­fects.
How we got in has no place
in our discussion. How we shall set
out has only o-je answer. How slial!
we carry foiward the war to a. suc­cessful
conclusion is tLn vital ques­tion
before the American, people.
The true answer to ine latter ques­tion
involves the various interest of
farm life and rural cond.tons. Bread,
not only is the staff oi life, but it is
the stuff of which freedom is made.
Every stalk in the wheatfield is a war­rior
armed with the most potent wea­pon
ever used in any conflict.
Cannons may reduce the strongest
forts and batter into dust their walls
and ramparts; superdreadnoughts
may sweep the seas and levy tribute
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CALENDAR
Monday—
3:20 and 4:10—Tryouts for Thes­pian
club; room 308.
Tuesday—
8:50—Assembly. Rev. Ewing S.
Hudson will give a short
talk followed by a musical
program .provided by Mrs.
Thatcher.
Wednesday—
2:35—War cooking.
4:10—Y. W. C. A. meeting.
Thursday—
10:30—Assembly. Mr. Geo. Downer
will give an address on
"Facts About the War."
7:30—Thespian club meets.
Friday—
2:30—War Cooking.
ALL MINING SCHOOL
Owing to the efforts of Misses Ear-hart,
Cummins, Gray, Willoughby,
Mowbray and Graves the entire Train­ing
School has been able to affiliate
itself with the Red Cros;s. Those
who were not able to join and sold pop
corn, both for their own membership
and that of the smaller children. The
fifth grade was proud to be the first
grade to join and receive their but­tons.
The eighth grade helped the
lower grades, so did not join undl
the last. They are now making mar­malade
to sell for a Red Cross fund.
PRIZE OFFERED FOR
A friend who is interested in the
Klipsun has offered a prize of five
dollars for the best cover design for
our annual this year. As this is a Lib­erty
number and the book is to be
dedicated to the boys in the service
the idea of patriotism will be taken
into consideration. Students should
submit their designs to Miss Druse in
pen and ink on paper 10% inches by
15 inches not later than March 15th.
The final design will be worked out
in gold on green cloth. The contest is
open to every student of the institu­tion.
- Any cover designs, other than
the one accepted will be used if suit­able
for another portion of the book
and honorable mention given to the
designer. Miss Druse will be glad to
give any special information and con­fer
with those interested.