Northwest Viking - 1936 July 23

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VOL. XXXIV—NO. 39 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL", BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Thursday, July 23, 1936
Normalite
By A. B. Hicks
"Throttle the clock and wring the
neck of time" seems ot be the mut­tered
words of the nighthawks of
term's end. Really though—we have
had a good time as is proven by the
many first termers who are signing
up for the second term. $
* * * * Are we going back to the good old
days of sixty and eighty scholars?
Hoot Mon! I guess that is what
Arntzen thinks after counting his
sheep and finding eight in one
class. Speaking of sheep though,
have you ever been in the reserve
room of the library on Friday even­ing
long about four! All. of those
in favor of adopting the Piggly
Wiggly style made known their
wishes by the usual sign. WOOPS—
all of you go to the end of the line!
What is a Boy?
"He is a person who is going to
He is going to sit where you are
sitting and when you are gone at­tend
to those things you think are
so important.
You can adopt all the policies you
please but how they will be carried
out depends on him. Even if you-make
leagues and treaties, he will
have to manage htem.
He will assume control of your
cities, states, and nation. He is
going to move in and take over your
prisons, churches, schools, and cor­porations.
All your work is going to be
judged and praised or condemned
by him. Your reputation and your
future are in his hands.
All your work is for him; the fate
of the nations and of humanity is
largely in his hands—SO.
It is well to pay him §ome atten­tion
NOW.
Lower Grades
Display Worlds
Children Discuss Summer Ideas
In Social Science Activities
For Assembly
"Children's Experiences During
the Summer" was the background
from which the second and fourth
grades planned their Thursday
morning Training school assembly.
In the second grade the children
have experienced many science ac­tivities,
and for a part of their pro­gram
"Items in Science" was ex­plained
by a child in the class.
A second grade newspaper has
been a group interest and this was
described. A group of children
dramatized the story of "The Farm­er
and His Three Daughters." As a
final contribution "A Visit to the
Bakery" was discussed by members
of the class.
"People at Work" has been a
fourth grade interest for the past
six weeks. Tours have been plan­ned
and taken to the railroad
roundhouse, the Normal school en­gine
room, the new gymnasium, the
paper mill, and the furniture fac­tory
in order that a closer under­standing
of social science could be
realized.
Pulleys, levers, types of machin­ery,
and speed interested the child­ren
greatly. They have done cray­on
pictures showing the mechanistic
developments, and they alsb enjoyed
doing creative work in poetry.
These were all explained to the as­sembly.
Several musical numbers
were sung by groups from the kin­dergarten
first, sixth, seventh, and
eighth grades.
Difference of Opinion Prevalent During
International Relations Institute at Reed
By Elmer Lindquist
The failure of sanctions against
Italy, as the aggressor, in the Italo-
Ethiopean war made for profound
differences in opinion, as to the
method of securing international
peace, among members of the Pa­cific
Northwest institute of inter­national
relations which met at
Reed college, Portland, from July
6 to 16.
Complete pacifists, who sanction
no violence; isolationists, who insist
that the United States stay away
from all alliances with foreign
errantries; those faithful to the
League of nations, believing that
we must support the only existing
international machinery; those who
wish to reorganize the League of
nations; those who believe that no
true peaceful international relations
can be carried on with our present
economic organization and who
would place the emphasis on chang­ing
the economic order to one more
compatible with internationalism;
all these, and more, found opportun­ity,
in lectures, debates, round table
discussions and bedroom arguments,
to air their points of view.
The institute was so organized
that a maximum opportunity for
the exchange of ideas was afforded,
and the opportunity was seized. Af­ter
each lecture, time was awarded
for questioning, and many of the
meetings were continued more in­formally
and more heatedly during
the free afternoon periods, than was
possible in the lecture hall.
Prominent among speakers were:
Lieut. Com. Stewart F. Bryant
of the U. S. Navy, retired, who spoke
at the Normal school last winter;
Dr. George Blakeslee, professor of
International relations at Clark
university, Mass., who was technical
advisor to the Lytton commission in
Manchuria; Dr. Dorothy Detzer,
peace lobbyist for the Women's in­ternational
league for peace and
freedom at Washington, D. C; Dr.
Y. Y. Tzu, professor of Sociology
at St. Johns university in Shanghai,
China.
Also meeting at Reed college was
the League college. The League
college is held every year following
the N.E.A. convention, in the same
city. The purpose is to study and
discuss teachers problems. This
year special emphasis was laid upon
the problem of teacher security.
Carl Horthy is something more
than a tenor. Many a man has
carried false pride and prejudice
to his final resting place but not
so with Horthy. Did you notice that
in spite of the fact Horthy lost one
leg in the recent war he hobbled
onto the stage to sing for us the
songs of Schubert and other Ger­man
composers.
KEEP OFF THE GRASS
I gotta shoes
You gotta shoes
All Viking NChilluns gotta shoes
We gotta shoes-^gonna walk all
over Dacks hebben.
Judging by the recent assembly,
I too would say that Mr. Robert
Kinschy has become quite expert
with his puppets. I am reminded
of the following poem by Robert
Louis Stevenson.
PLAYTHINGS
The streets are full of human toys,
Wound up for threescore years;
Their springs are hungers, hopes
and joys,
And jealousies and fears.
They move their eyes, their lips,
their hands;
They are marvellously dressed;
And here my body stirs or stands,
A plaything like the rest.
The toys are played with till they
fall,
Worn out and thrown away,
Why were they ever made at all!
Who sits to watch the play(!
What did you think of tn* 7»o-couver
pageant? That just goes to
show you that no matter how good
the other ones were that you have
seen, there is always some better.
Another topnotcher chalked up tor
the summer.
Tuesday Nite Hike
To Galbraith Camp
Galbraith's logging camp will be
Tuesday night's destination of the
Normal school hike enthusiasts. The
party will leave the starting point
on High street in front of the school
at 4 p. m., in charge of Miss Ruth
Weythman and Coach Charles Lap-penbusch,
and will drive to the Gal­braith
logging road on the Samish
highway.
"This will be an unusual oppor- in fell that gurgling crooner again.
tunity to see the workings of a
modern logging camp, as the com­pany
is operating steadily," said
Herbert Ruckmick, chairman of the
recreation committee, in comment
ing on the proposed hike, i
First Puppet Play
Liked by Shipley
B ozo, the Clown, Steals Show;
Training School Sees
Performance
By Helen Shipley
A splotch of red and black, a
shiny red nose, and a laugh that
gurgled like a listerine bottle—that
was Bozo the clown to his assembly
audience Monday morning. He ca­reened
back and forth, bowed down
with his duties as master of cere­monies.
Bozo, the puppet with that
personality you can't forget. His
laugh got me, and when he raised
his hand to summon his entertain­ers,
I relaxed and said, "Come what
may."
There was Lorenzo, the zyophon-ist.
He had rhythm—the good old
swing type. After Jack the Juggler,
Historical Pageant
Seen By Students
Two Bus Loads Go to Vancouver;
City's History Depicted
In Parade
Cadet Nurses Help
Former Normal Student Here
In Health Office
Assistance has been .ren­dered
the health department
this summer by two cadet
nurses from the University of
Washington. Miss Alma Web­er
of Cashmere, former Nor­mal
student, and Miss Doris
Beeman of Seattle are doing
field work for their certificates
in health nursing.
Of her colleague, now with
the visiting nurses of Belling-ham,
Miss Weber said: "Miss
Beeman received her training
at the Seattle General hospi­tal.
She receives her degree in
nursing very soon." Of her­self
she said, "I got my train­ing
from the San Francisco
hospital in San Francisco. I
am to follow Miss Beeman
soon."
This time he gave us the premiere
danseuse, who tipped her little toes
until the curtain fell down.
What is that thing? It's an old
anemic mule. Will he get up enough
spinach to motivate itself off the
stage?
He finally did, and then Bozo
brought us "The Three Wishes"—a
very meaty drama, if you sausage
what I mean! Finale.
Viking Staff Excursion
Eliza Island on Friday
Ship Ahoy! Come On!
Come all ye Northwest Viking
staff members, who have a yen for
sailing the rough, blue, briny deep.
> Sail Friday from 4:00 to 9:00
aboard the good ship with sea­worthy
Captain Garland, to yonder
Isle Eliza. The paradise of nature.
See nature in the raw, where deer,
birds and man live in harmony with
their island environment.
Leave all , those summer school
books and cares in the refined,
scholastic atmosphere of your room.
Two bus loads of students left the
Normal school at 4 p. m. Tuesday to
attend the historical pageant given
at Vancouver, B. C.
The pageant was given on Brock­ton
point in Stanley park, and de­picted
the history of the city from
the time the Spaniards first sailed
into what is now the harbor of
Vancouver. All events shown were
accurate as to date and facts.
The pageant was presented on a
huge revolving stage with English
bay and the mountains as a back­ground.
As each succeeding episode
was shown, out in the harbor an
electrical display showed ships of the
corresponding historical periods.
Encamped in the park as part of
the atmosphere of the show were
a group of Indians forming a tribal
village.
The show, lasting from 9 p. m.
until midnight was, according to
some who had seen both, superior
in many ways to a similar one given >
at the Century of Progress expo- f
sition at Chicago. This was the!
-last night that the pageant was
shown.
Teachers Ta\e
Summer Trips
Instructors Choose Many Interesting
Vacation Spots For
Summer
Nova Scotia, Hawaii, and Alaska
are only a few of the interesting
vacation-spots chosen by members
of the Normal school faculty. When
the term ends tomorrow, Miss Leona
Sundquist and Miss Irene Elliott,
will be ready to start their motor
trip to eastern Canada. They plan
to go by way of the New England
states and spend the rest of the
summer at Gaspe Bay.
Hawaii is the destination of Misses
Miriam Snow, Bertha Crawford,
and Linda Countryman. They sail
on the Empress of Japan, and plan
to be gone six weeks. Misses Emma
Erickson and Elsie Wendling have
chosen Alaska for their vacation.
Eastern States Visited
Three faculty members will visit
relatives and friends in eastern
states. They are: Miss Mary B.
Rich, Miss Florence Johnson. Mise
Hazel Jean Plympton will go to
New York where she will study next
year at Columbia, university.
Misses Paula Potter, Katherine
Casanova, and Dorothy Brosi plan
to motor to Lake Louise and Banff
before going to their respective
homes in Kansas, Illinois, and Cali­fornia.
Dawson To California
Miss Marjorie Dawson will leave
Monday for her home in Carmel,
California. Miss Priscilla Kinsman
also plans to spend part of the sum­mer
in California. Miss Pearl Mer-riman
and her sister, who recently
arrived from Colorado, will tour in
California and Utah before return­ing
to their home in Denver.
Fifth Grade Group
Take Library Tour
Library ~ consciousness for the
child was, developed in the fifth
grade children of the training
school, Tuesday morning, when Miss
Mabel Zoe Wilson, librarian, con­ducted
the group on an inspection
tour of the entire library. Mies
Wilson explained the different pro­cedures
that are concerned with
the securing of a book and the
charging of it. The children seem­ed
very interested in the general
organization, and their questions
showed that the information thej
obtained would be of future use to.
them. One child mentioned ttafe
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Main Building of Normal
To Be Reshingled Soon
For years the old building of the
Bellingham State Normal shcool
has worn its old head gear.
When the Normal trustees met
at their monthly meteing, Wednes­day
afternoon, plans were made to
call for bids for the re-shingling of
the main building.
While the building from its* up­per
anatomy seems to havp lost its
dignity, judging from the 458
squares of shingles needed to cover
its top, the structure still seems to
possess a big-headed, upper extrem­ity.
Like women, the best is none too
C URRENT
ALENDAR
of Happenings
Bring along your roving, care-free g o o d f o r a h e a d adornment.
vif with w . «f ™« «!.„• * * T h e reshingling of the Normal
self with lots of pep, plenty to eat. L ^ ^ ^ fc ^ ^ t h o u s a nd
and join the rest of the sea farcrs. dollara.
Friday, July 24, 1936—
11:00 a. m., assembly. Stu­dent
Report of Portland
IRC Conference.
Saturday, July 25, 1936—
12:30 p. nx, leave Belling­ham
for Rockport.
4:00 p. m., leave Rockport
for upper Skagit.
Tuesday, July 28, 1936—
11:00 a. m., assembly. Lecture
"Sore Spots of the World"
by Royal Arch Gunnison.
4:00 p. m.—U. of W.-Viking
basketball game. Little gym.
4:00 p. m., hike to Galbraith
logging camp.
Friday July 31, 1936—
11:00 a. m., assembly. Piano
recital. Christina Tames
and Miss Disney.
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