Weekly Messenger - 1924 July 3

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Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL: XXHI-^NO. 36 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOI*, BBLLDW5HAM, WASH. Thursday, July^; 1924
JBCMMPAP
Announcement of Sticker Candi­date
Proves Fatal,
POYHONEN IS ONLY MAN
The feminine politicians of the Nor­mal
quietly engineered an overwhelming
victory, for all their candidates. The
girls were seemingly annoyed by the
late consecutive victories of the boys,
and under the cover, of gym classes,
club and league meetings they prepared
the mass of the women voters for a
straight feminine ticket. Previous to
the announcement that the Women's
League were to run a sticker candidate
the election of the men appeared fairly
certain. While certain of the young men
were congratulating themselves on their
political abilities the girls were prepar­ing
to turn the tables on them. The
final masterstroke' of genius was the
distribution of the posters "Shall 100
rule 1000?" on the morning of the elec­tion.
With the opening of the polls it be­came,
evident that the women meant
business and were aroused to their full
strength at last. They made a few mis­takes
in permitting electioneering at the
polls but these were for the most part
overlooked in the novelty of the situ­ation.
Many "girls voted for the three
H's alone. In all 986 votes were cast.
This shows an increase in school spirit
above the last election. Pauline Hutchi­son
received the highest number of
votes. Warner Poyhonen was the only
boy elected.
Pauline Hutchison" 892
Daisy Howard .:> - 786
Vivian Holcomb 752
Warner Poyhonen ,: 458
Don Tunstall .'. 151
Stanford Clinton _ 187
Frank Katterinan , -.. 252
PRESIDENT WALDO OF
KALAMAZOO HONORED
President D. B. Waldo/of the Western
State Normal at Kalamazoo, Mich., was
honored at a luncheon held on June 17,
1924, by the members of the Rotary,
Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange clubs at
the banquet hall of the Masonic Temple
at Kalamazoo. The occasion was the
twentieth anniversary of the Western
State Normal Shcool, of which Mr. Wal­do
has been president since its founding.
The different speakers representing
the various clubs expressed high appre-ciaton
of the sincere efforts and devote?
ness of Mr Waldo in placing the West­ern
State among the ranks of the lead­ing
normaT schools of the country. It
was said that twenty > years ago the
Normal was only a sand hill and that a
great deal of the sand was not in the
I hill but in President Waldo.
It will be remembered by the students
of W. S. N. S. that Mr. Waldo was
'president of this iformal for one
year preceding the, arrival of President
Fisher.
FRIDAY—July 4.
Y. W. O. A. picnic at Whatcom Falls
park. '
Party hiking to Austin Pass, Skyline
Hidge, Church Mountain and Glacier
for week-end, leaves early Friday
morning
SATURDAY—July 5.
Hike to Mt. Chuckanut, starting at
.9:00 a., m.
TUESDAY—July 8.
Assembly.
Hike to Inspiration Point,, 5:00 to
8:00 p. m.
THURSDAY-^July 10.
Women's League electons in the aft­ernoon.
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ARMORY IS SCENE OF
NORMAL PARTY DANCE
Students Are Recovering From
Dance and Ma Jong.
A fair-sized crowd of Normalites gath­ered
at the Armory Wednesday evening,
July 2, to participate in a "get together
party" of the summer. Ma Jong was one
of the big features of the evening. To
see the Ma Jong hounds haunt the
tables was indeed interesting, and to
hear them plead for just one more
chance to be "East Wind' was a keen
source of amusement These sharks
would be able to break the bank at
Monte Carlo in one night, they ran up
such huge scores.
Games were another source of amuse­ment,
but of course dancing was the big
hit of "the' evening. It was a successful
affair and no one that atended regret­ted
the fact that he came.
POPULARSTUDENT IS
PLAYERIN[RECITAL
John Monroe Plays Violin.
John Monroe, prominent in student
musical circles, and Mr. Gunnar Ander­son
were presented Monday evening in
a recital at the Garden Street Methodist
Episcopal church. Mr. Monroe has
studied the violin for five years with
Albert Bensen, head of the Bellinghara
School of Music and Art. Mr. Anderson
is a pupil of Mr. Charles Bowen, teacher
of piano in the Fine Arts Studio.
The program was as follows:
I. Sonata No. 5 (F Major) Op. 24
Beethoven
a. Allegro
b. Adagio molto expressivo
c. Scherzo
d. Rondo
II. Polonaise in A Op. 40, No. 1
_ Chopin
Gunnar Anderson
HI... Polonaise in A Wieniawski
John Monroe
IV. A. The Rosary (left hand) ....Nevin
b. Prelude C Sharp Minor
_ Rachmaninoff
V. a. Ave Maria Schub'ert-Wilhelini
b. Romance Spohr
c. Folk Song and Dance :
„ Mme. Davenport-Engber»
Shakespeare's Question
Is Finally Answered^
There are 1247 students enrolled in the
Normal Shool for the summer session.
Of this number 175 are men All of the
students are now catalogued; the women
in the Dean of Women's office and the
men in Mr. Davis' office. Twenty-five
Normal students are at the Friday Har­bor
Biological station.
Shakespeare said, "What's in a
name?" Much has been found in the
names of the Normal students. That va­riety
is the spice of life seems to be
proven on the campus; for not only are
-there school teachers but with them are
' found three Bakersj two Cooks, two But­lers,
six Millers, a Farmer, a Barber; a
Porter, a Tanner, a Plummer, a dozen
Smiths, a Shepard, some Kings, several
Marshalls, a Copp and a Driver.
Immigration laws have .not barred
Poland, Sweden, and a Scott from enter­ing-
this institution Neither has prohi­bition
put the Brewer put' of business.
Bottles are scarce but there are two
; Corks.
Tbi Noyes that breaks the silence of
<the study hours is due to the rattling
Fords and the' speeding_Mitchells, Max-j
-wells and Aliens. In the large library
there is not much to Reed as only one
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'Die number of Rings found is prob­ably
due to the fact that this is leap
year. No diamonds are seen but Pearls
and Rubies are popular, and there is
Joy, nevertheless. Two Temples and a
Church and hardy—should anyone want
to know.
In the Orchard are Bartlett Pears,
Olives, and an Almond Busch. The flow­er
garden consists of Myrtle, Margue­rites,
Lilies, Violets, Roses, and Daisies
in abundance with only one Pansy. Black,
Blue, Brown,"Gray, Green and White are
the predominating colors, the Bright
ones having faded in the Hott Wethers.
The zoo is not advertised but it is
noticed that the Ramm, Roe, Staggs,
Wolff and Parrott are thriving well,
probably'due to the supply of Oates and
Rice. No Doe is to be ound but Cash is
on hand, so why worry ?
One fellow student is in the Ward- in
Paine with .Burns while another is en­joying
Comfort. A Wiseman and three
Sages are among the. Young of the
school. Even Faith, Hope and Charity
abide in the Halls.'
The surrounding beautiful scenery con­sists
oF"Hilis .that are Rockey, Woods,
Dales, Leesj Meads and Lanes from
North to;West and Southard;
SOCIOLOGY LECTURES
Professor Dealey, Lecturer and
Author, Will Be Speaker.
Professor James Quayle Dealey, of
Brown University, will begin a course
of lectures to last for one ' week, next
Monday. Hs first lecture will be on
"Dreams or Visions in Social Progress,"
at 9 oclock, in the auditorium.
Mr. Lawson's 9 o'clock class in Eco­nomics
will attend the lecture en masse,
and any other teacher who has a class
at this period which is in any way re­lated
to' this phase of the curriculum
may permit the students to attend the
lecture instead.
Students who have this period vacant
are also invited to attend
Professor Dealeys next lecture will be
at 3 o'clock in tne afternoon on "Fun­damental
Problems of American Civi­lization."
Mr. Kinneman's class in So­ciology
will attend, with the other con­ditions
the same as mentioned above.
The assemblies on Tuesday and Friday
will also be given over , to Professor
Dealey.
He is the author of many textbooks,
among which are:
"A Textbook of Sociology" (with Doc­tor
Lester Ward).
"Sociology, Its Principles and Appli­cations."
"Our State Constitutions"'
"Development of the State."
"Ethical and Religious Significance of
the State."
"The Family in Its Sociological As­pects."
"The State and Government."
He has ben president of the American
Sociological Society, vice-president of
the Amrican Political Science Associa­tion,
and an exchange professor from
Brown to the University of Shanghai,
China. He is and has been a lecturer
at the U. S. Naval War College, New­port,
R. I., and at the U. S. Army War
College, Washington) D; G., Gn --Foreign
Relations and International Diplomacy.
He is in constant demand on the pub­lic
lecture platform.
AUTO PLUNGES OVER
BANKS INTO SAMISH
Ford Takes Tunstall Into Lake—
Rest of Party Not in Car.
There are exceptions to all well found­ed
rules and Mr. Don Tunstall is a fine
example. It is not definitely stated
that Don goes directly to sleep each
night but nevertheless he drives a Ford
and still Iooks"well and happy. There is
still that spring of youth in his step and
his countenance wears a becoming smile.
The little accident which occurred out at
Lake Samish last Sunday did not have a
woman connected with it. The reason
the car which- Don was driving ran off
of the road and plunged into the lake,
was that the radius rod broke and con­sequently
Don lost all control over the
car. As further evidence, the maidens
were not near the . car at the time of
the accident. They were preparing the
lunch while Don was turning the car
around. Mr. Tunstall is none the worse
for his unexpected dip in the lake. The
car, has been hoisted out and soon again
will be running on all fours.
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BILL OF SALE F
PRE-WAR DAYS FOUND
jate (Very Late) Free Advertising
Run in Mesenger.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Diza
March we have an opportunity to print
the contents of an old sale bill reprinted
recently by the Anderson News. This
bill was first pTinted in 1849. Some of
its items are amusing as well as inter­esting.
It reads:
• "Having sold my farm and I am leav­ing
for "Oregon Territory" by ox team
will offer on March 1, 1819, all of my
personal property, to-wit:
"AH ox teams except two teams, Buck
and Ben and Tom and Jerry: 2 milk
cows, 1 gray mare'and colt; 1 pair of
oxen and yoke; 1 baby yoke; 2 ox carts,
1 iron foot of popular weather boards:
plow with wood mole board; 800 to
1,000 three-foot clan, boards;' 1,500 teh-foOt
fence rails; .1 60-gallon ;soap- kettle;
85 sugar, troughs made of white ash
timber;v 10 gallons of maple syrupv 2
spinning wheels;: 30 pounds of mutton
MARY EATON WILL
Only Woman Who Has Ever
Accomplished This Feat.
Mary Eaton, student at the Normal,
who will graduate in August, will swim
Guemes Channel at Anaeortes" on the
evening of July 4. Miss Eaton will take
off on the Guemes Island side 7:30 p. m.
at slack water, high tide and expects to
make the crossing in thirty minutes.
Last year, she swam the channel in
a wider place.and the time for crossing
was 36 minutes. Miss Eaton was the
first woman to, accomplish this feat, and
only two men out of many who have
tried it have made the crossing. She
also swam across Hoods Canal, a dis­tance
of 2x/2 miles, from Coyle to Sea-beck.
This swim was made in 59 min­utes.
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Guemes Channel is about a mile and a
half wide. The difficulty of the feat
lies not so much in the distance as in the
cold, swift current which tests the en­durance
of the swimmer.
STUDENTS SUPERVISE
CITY PLAYGROUNDS
Children Are Enthusiastic Over
Novel Pet Parade.
The Park Board of Bellingham has
given Miss Dorothy Young, Physical Ed­ucation,
teacher'in Whatcom High school,
arid her assistant, Mrs. Mary Boggan,
general supervision in the five city
parks of the children's play hours, 3:30
to 5:00 and 7:00 to 8:30 p. m.
About nineteen Normal student teach­ers
are helping carry on this recreation
work for the summer quarter. Child­ren
are taught to play widely and well^
with such games as baseball and volley­ball
for the olden, and hiking, sewing,
hand-work, and story-telling for the
younger children.
At Squalicum Beach and Whatcom
Park pool children from ten to fifteen
are taught to swim. No.class may have
more than fifteen members. When these
have learned, a new class is formed.
These classes are in charge of Miss Mary
Eaton. ^
Pet Parade Coming.
This afternoon children and teachers
of all the playgrounds are staging a Pet
Parade. The parade will form in front
of the Y. W. C. A. on Forest street,
niarh down to Holly; down Holly to Bay,
thence to the City Hall. Turning there
to the right, it will march down Mag­nolia
to Dock street; then to Liberty
Hall, where prizes will be awarded for
the best sustained characters.
Prizes Donated by Merchants.
Prizes for girls .are: First, Japanese
parasol, donated by Montague & Mc-
Hugh; second, photo album, donated by
Deerwester & Button Stationery store;
Third, bathing cap, donated by The Red
Cross Pharmacy.
Prizes for boys are: First, jack knife,
and chain, donated by Northwestern
Hardware Co.: Second, baseball, donated
by Jenkins-Boys Hardware Co.; and
Third, a book "Boy Scouts in Italy."
Two of the five judges are Mrs. Ralph.
Loomis and Mrs. Tlenrj' Hyde. The names
of- the three gentlemen who will act
could not be learned.
tallow; 1 large loom, made by Jerry
Wilson; 300 poles; 100 split hoops.
Pre-Volstead ays.
"One hundred' empty barrels; 1 32-
gallon barrel of Johnson Miller whis­key,
7 years old; 20 gallons of apple
brandy; 1 40-gallon copper still; 1 dozen
real books; 2 handle hooks; 3 scythes
and cradles; 1 dozen wooden pitchforks;
one-half interest in tan yard; 1 32-cal-ibre
rifle; bullet mold and powder horn.;
rifle made by Ben Miller; 50 gallons of
soft soap; hams bacon and lard; 40
gallons of sorghum molasses;, 6 head of
fox hounds, all soft-mouthed except one.
Sale ef Slaves.,
.At the same time I will sell my. six
negro slaves—2 men, 35 and 50 years
old; 2 boys, 12 and .18 .years* old; 2 mu­latto
wenches, 40 and.30 years old. Will
sell all together to same party as will
not separate them.
. T e r m s of sale, cash in hand, or note
to draw 4 per cent interest with iioir
McConnell as surety. ." ' .
"My home is two mile's south of Ver-,
sailles (Kentucky, on tile McCouhs ferry
pike. Sale -^rns at 8 o'clock a. m.
Plenty to drink and eat; ;;
-"•':•.''.',:,:''•. "J. L. Moss." r<
Y-W. C. A. INVITES ALL
STAY-OVERS TO PICNIC
The Y. W. G. A. has cordially invited
all the students who have not made
plans for spending the Fourth elsewhere
to join them on a picnic at Whatcom
Falls Park. :
They say that the stimulating air of
Whatcom Falls Park is guaranteed to
make a person hungry as a bear. Each
student is invited to look at the an­nouncement
on the Y. W. 0. A. bulletin
board and sign his name below the ar­ticle
of food he wishes to take. Besides
this it is rumored that the Y. W. C. A.
is going to serve an extra surprise.
Games races, songs, and readings are
the features in which all will take part.
To arrive: Take the 11 /oclock Lake
Whatcom car at the corner of Holly and
Elk. A "Safe and Sane" as well as an
enjoyable Fourth is assured.
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WOMEN'SLEAGUEWILL
CHOOSE NEW OFFICERS
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TO E
Miss George Leads Because Mr.
Kolstad Is Scared^
EATS FOUND AT STATE PARE
ummer Quarter Elections A Week
From Today.
The Women's League will hold an
election a week from today to elect of­ficers
for the summer. Those who have
been nominated are; for president, Eva
Carruth and Gladys Goss; for vice-pres­ident,
Cressa Vinup and Wilda Smith;
for treasurer, Pearl Bartruff.
It is probable that still further nomi­nations
will be made.
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MR. BEVER CROSSED PLAINS
IN "THE COVERED WAGON"
Mr. Bever is eligible for a complimen­tary
ticket to "The Covered Wagon,"
now playing at the American. Anyone
that crossed the plains in a, covered
wagon is eligible. When Mr. Bever was
eight years old his family, in the com­pany
of one other familyj- crossed; -via
the route 'of the old Santa Fe trails.
The play itself depicts the perils and
hardships which the settlers and pion­eers
had to encounter in their long jour­ney.
Chief among these was the peril
from the Indians. Mr. Bever's family,
too, had quite a scare from this source.
A group of cowboys came hurrying up
one day, and warned them io keep" going
until they came to the southern part of
Colorado, where they finally settled.
' THE ELIJAH'' COMING
SUMMER PRODUCTION
Mendelssohn's well known oratorio,
"The Elijah" will be presented late in
the summer by a large chorus under the
direction of Mrs. Hedges. About eighty
people, including several faculty mem­bers,
are taking part in the two weekly
rehearsals wliich are being held. Soloists
will be chosen from within the chorus.
Mrs. Hedges is emphatic in her praise
of the chorus as a whole, and is confi­dent
of a successful performance..
The hike to Lost Lake, Saturday, was
taken by about seventy-three Noi nil
students, led by Miss George, cataloguer
of the library.
About twelve oclock the Interurban
depot was crowded with seeming Ama­zons—
girls and women in various as­sortments
of trousers, shirts and' laced
boots, each intent upon securing a. ticket
for Summit JTrail. There was a i'ero-ci6us
struggle to get on the Interurban,
but the little girls were able to squeeze
into seats three or four deep, so only a
few had to stand on their own feet (or
their neighbors' feet) as the interurban,
rounde a curve. -
Mr; Kolstad was searched for in the
smoker, under the seats and on the cow
catcher, but could not be found Many ,
wails and lamentations pierced the air
when it was imparted that he did not
come as the overwhelming majority of.
women had daunted even his fearless''
soul. The only hen pecked men in the
bunch were Frank Katterman and
Charles Van Dorn, but anyway Frank
was among the first to reach tne lake,
and was the first to drink of it, so he
upheld the honor of the stronger sex.
Lake Is Found.
Miss George led the way, the rest
followed single file up the shaded, mossy
trail. The lower trail, which is about
five and one-half miles was taken. It
runs along the top of a high ridge, look­ing
down on both sides to small ravines,
now nearly dry. The majority of the
group stayed together, but a few pioneer
souls-broke away and reached the lake
by 2:30, the bulk of^the group arriving,
at 3:00, after jumping over , stumps,
ducking ~under logs, wading through
nettles, and climbing cliffs on all fours.-
Everyone who reached the lake/ (and
all who started reached it,)' agreed that
finding the long-lost lake was worth the
climb, and drank long and thirstily of
its luke-warm water. -
Mr. Bond and Eats at State Parle. ;
After short rests in various graceful
poses the crowd started back in small
groups. Some hardy, Hriflring people
managed to catch the five o'clock inter­urban
for State Park. Mr. Bond had
"done his stuff" well, and a man-sized
bonfire was ready on the ocean. After
feeding sumptuously on toasted hot
dogs, buns, doughnuts and very excellent
coffee—yes, Mr. Bond made it—the
early comers very kindly toasted, hot
dogs, six or eight on a stick, for the
famished horde that came on the six
o'clock interuruan.
When the eats had all disappeared,
the interurban was again invaded, and
a crowd looking rather the worse for
wear, but with an everybody-happy-yea-;'
bo expression headed back for civiliza­tion.:
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Crazed Student Discovered
Wandering on first Landing
There was no denying it; the girl was
mad—stark, raving mad. She sat on the
top step of the landing, staring wildly
at the circle of curious spectators, in­cluding
President Fisher.
"Are you a student here ?" someone
asked.
"Yes, but. my grandmother was a
Hottentot," she answered sadly, and
went on muttering queer, jumbled
phrases, of which the listeners caught a
word now and then.
"Square —2— sodium — percent —
parallelogram- —•
President Fisher looked quite solemn.
"Where do you^live?" he asked her.
"Copenhagen is 6 pints from Main
Street," she moaned.
'"vThe President tried again.
"Do you live at'Edens Hall ?"
®er eyes widened; she half arose, and
her atitude was hostile. It was' indeed.
Pi-esident Fisher drew back.
" I f Miss Jones spent 80% of her in-ome,
is W sillier than or as silly as J?
Answer me that!" she. demanded, fierce­ly,
flinging her hand out. The circle
drew away from her.
"circles—circles," she soliloquized,
quietly. "A radius has six legs; perime­ter,
six; circle^ pie, "cakef—"
At this' she began muttering angrily,
"800—400-^0ri7S^5o^671! • 'A Roman
museum'. cbn^hs.aV skulls oi>'Napoleon
when- he was three yearsold, another;
skull when he was ten years old, and
another when hfe was twenty "^ears old.
Can this^be true?"
Quite to our surprise; she put her
hands on her hips and, throwing hef
head far back, laughed a wild, shrill, si- .
ren laugh, causing shivers and shudders
here and there. The trustee in the pic*
ture frame looked quite shocked. Before" .
the President was aware of the sudden
change in her mood, she fell to., her
knees and began searching the floor.
"Have you lost something?" the doc- /
tor asked, patiently. She nodded as if
she understood him. /" r
"'We are lost!' the Captain shouted.
If test number 8 went out the window;
90 miles an hour, how long does a. man ;
carefully dressed wait in the deserted j
parlor on Saturday evening?" She'
paused. The spectators were non­plussed.
Yes, even that. ^ .-
She was plainly disgusted with them. ' .;
"You are all non-conductors!" s h e - ^ ' '^
shrieked. "Leave, stay; depart," abide;;;
go-^beat it!" This last ! command -•;>;>
cleared the landing quickly./ The girl -;':;-::
was left alorie, tearing her hair -and, ;bit- •/;;.(.;: f_%
ing.her finger., nails. .;'. ;^\,';; ^!v;/3^^-Mi&w
Mr. Kolstad chose -this/unlucky••]jfai0^^
ihenti to come down' the s ^ i r s / ^ l n ^ f i r f | ^ S ^|
unaware of the queer scene which^ had / g | g
just;>taken place•*••'.•'.\::--;j\ ^[^^^-^Ms^jf3^
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