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WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHQ0L. BELL1NGHAM, WASHINGTON^ Friday, April 29. 1^*31
LABOR ON MAY 10
Contest to Re^Name Normalstad
i Will Begin Monday by
Student Ballot
DANCE TUESDAY NIGHT
Xtt&itiOti! %M majors take their
place in the military regime offered
by this ipiiai's C&m.piis day. Major
Hi&fofd Helton, popular athlete who
has a way with the rake and hoe has
charge of the athletic field. It
seems that "Shelf has worked on
the field for an indefinite number
of years.
Marion Grieve, brunette "dorm"
girl, is major for the dance, which
is anftr>"i7*i Campus day .event.
Marion is former social director at
the dormitory. Virginia Carver has
charge of publicity^
Myron Chandler is to handle the
work on north Senome hill while
David Morse takes the south por­tion.
(Someone ventured to add—
they should be acquainted with the
location, at least).
General Rule, hailing from the
Industrial Arts building, is to have
charge of all tools for Campus day.
Catherine Rosenquist has charge of
the field events and Basil Ames
heads the food regiment.
JessSutton transfers his brawn
and a couple of his pals to Nonnal­stad
for a little "heavy" work in
the line of clearing and building.
Dick Albert is major of the en-tertarth^
herit Of the day and Elsie
OTJonnell heads the paddle squad.
Each of the before-mentioned ma­jors
are privileged to choose three
captains to help1 them.
All people Working on Campus
day are to meet in Generalissimo
Bond's room Monday evening to dis­cuss
further plans.
The contest for the renaming of
Nonnalstad will be put into full
swing Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
There will b e a ballot box in the
main hall in which the suggested
names should be dropped. The
name should be suggestive of the
life intended to be there in the
form of week-end parties, picnics
and outings. Students are urged to
co-operate in this contest and to
hand in several suggestions which
would "fit" Nonnalstad.
Pat Allen and Dick Albert have
originated two .songs and are moan­ing
piteously for a few musical at­tempts
with which they can compete
in the contest.
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Normalite
VACATION OVER
• MINUTES
CAMPUS DAZE
ASSUMES ANGLE
SEE COLUMNS
—By Jimmie Stoddard
Weinzirl and Hopper
to Teature in Next
Tuesdays Assembty
Miss Gertrude Weinzirl, Seattle
danseuse, assisted by John Hopper,
pianist, both of the Cornish school,
will appear to assembly Tuesday,
May J.
Miss Weinzirl is a young North­west
artist who made her debut in
1931, following a tear's study to
Europe with Mary Wigman, Lotte
Gossler, Kratina, Truinpey, Skoron-el,
The Laban School, and others.
In America her training has been
under Adolf Bolm, ballet-master,
Michio Ito. Martha Graham, Lads,
and Ronny Johansson.
John Hopper Is known by stu­dents
of the Normal school, since his
appearance next Tuesday will be a
return engagement He has been
soloist with several orchestras, in­cluding
the Seattle Symphony or­chestra,
under the direction of Karl
Krueger, and has traveled and stud­ied
in Europe and America.
The program will contain Polk
Songs of various countries, Design
Interpretations, Debussy, Florence
Schmitt, and a fantastic costumer
number "Schwartz Rot".
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8 Will Lead
Hikers to Samish
Led by Mr. F. A. Childs, scout­master
of the Geneva Boy Scout
troop, a group of W. A. A. hikers
will travel over the unbiased trail
from Geneva to the Lake Samish
road on Saturday, April 30.
First All-Day Trip
This is the first.all-day trip taken
by the women hikers so far this
year. Girls will take the Lake
Whatcom car leaving town at 8:30
o'clock, and all those attending are
urged' to ride both ways as there
will be plenty of hiking done on the
trait
To Bring Lunch
All hikers attending are to bring
a lunch to eat on the trail, and
outside girls may have the same
lunch as Edens Hall girls by paying
Ruth Neal, hike manager, 25 cents
in advance. If possible, hiking boots
and trousers should be worn, accord­ing
to Miss Lillian George, faculty
leader.
Faculty Will Attend
Educational Luncheon
Following a two weeks' vacation
(self-made) from the usual routine
of the journalistic world, we return
like the proverbial black sheep—feel­ing
a wee bit out of place and just
a Utile cloudy in the stratosphere
of the well-known torso as to whose
typewriter we're going to abscond
with to order to produce a column
oomjnriog withl Roy Sundstrum's
and ^Sammy" Carver's. You know
tb^yj^est conducted Normalite dur-u^
oior A. W. O. L. Thanx, Roy
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«nt student b ^ ad-.
y a r ^ ^ ^ ; ^ * ^ ^ 0 ^ 1 * ^ ' fcubiish-;
ing the ;'mtou^^^i*e.;:BoaTd of
Control verbatim. Also, the author
; c * :^rn^|*fa'^6$$M ago pub|
iished a treatise in favor of said
•lank. One of his arguments was
it would/^vldeEditar Chap-with
soiile splendid filler for-t
was ^orin^riy the : editorial
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At- the Hotel Meany to Seattle,
the Washington branch of National
Council of Administrative Women in
Education will hold their annual
luncheon Saturday, April 30.
Miss Rich, principal of the Nor­mal
training school, president of the
organization to this state, an­nounces
that Dr. Upshall, of this
faculty, will give the luncheon talk.
His subject will be "Research to Ed­ucation—
Interpretive Hazards."
Those who have announced their
intentions of attending are: Miss
Dawson, Miss Trent, Miss Wendltog,
Miss Stroud and Miss Pragst.
Dr Reed Commends
Wohlforth Article
Dr. Reed, to her speech to as­sembly
last Friday, referred to an
article to the April Scribner's maga­zine.
The article is "Warriors of
the Campus", by R. Wohlfbrtiii a
graduate of West Point. Students
interested to the R. O. T C. will
enjoy the viewpoint of this gradu­ate.-'*
Mr. Wohlforth examines the
ballyhoo surrounding the R. O. T. C.
and inquires whether it really is
tfhat it clilmS tb^bi/".;^
f The? Social Science -, department
Wishes to draw the attention of the
students ,a^oK to an article by El
.vjra W,^0n,iL..AV^^Aspects
df Chemical 'Warfare, Its PxissimT
iiies ahd ProbabmUei*% This ii to
b^ found to tte international Con
dilation pamphlets of March, 1929;
These pamphlets are to the Normal
John Dewey, Educator, Is Subject
of Talk by th* C, C. Upshall at Forum
Understaiidirig of Dewey's Theories on Knowledge
MA Values, Essential for Appreciation
(By VIRGINIA GEORGE)
,**Johh Dewey'*, one of America's
foremost educators, was the subject
of a paper given by Dr. C. C. tip-shall
at a recent faculty forum.
Dewey's philosophy and criticisms of
education formed the topic which
Dr. Upshall.interpreted by quoting
exerpts from the educator's books.
In introducing his subject he said,
"It will be necessary to discuss Dew­ey's
theories of knowledge and of
values. Ah understanding of these
theories will permit a deeper appre­ciation
of his criticisms of education.
This understanding will also make
possible a more adequate compre­hension
of' his statements of the
fundamental aspects of a new edu­cation
which should replace our
present one."
No Filed Truth
'Dewey's theory' of knowledge is
radically different from that of any
philosophy which presupposes an
absolute or fixed 'truth* towards
which education is directed. Dewey
believes that knowledge is only "pos­sible
when meditation or reflection
results to action, the results of
which solve a situation which before
was problematic. He expresses over
and over again his conviction that
there is no absolute or fixed truth.
We can never have absolute certain­ty
about anything to life/' Dr. Up­shall
continued.
Formula Tested
How we are to proceed to Our
education if we have no "tradition­ally
prized values as our directive
standards'* is answered by Dewey's
proposal,—'«from the findings of
natural science" and his subsequent
example: "A—change that would is­sue
from carrying over experimental
method from physics to man con­cerns
the import of standards; prin­ciples,
rules. With the transfer,
these, and all tenets and creeds
about.good and goods, would be rec­ognized
to be hypotheses. Instead of
being rigidly fixed, they would be
treated as intellectual instruments
to be tested and confirmed—and al­tered—
through consequences effect­ed
by acting upon them. They would
lose ail pretense of finality—the ul­terior
source of dogmatism. A moral
law, like a law to physics, is not
something to swear by and stick to
at ail hazards; it is a formula of the
way to respond when specified con­ditions
present themselves. Its
soundness and pertinence are tested
by what happens when it is acted
upon."
Two Realms Found
After a survey of religion and
philosophy, Dewey divides thought
into two realms "the one higher,
consisting of the powers which de­termine
human destiny to all im­portant
affairs. With this religion
is concerned. The other consists of
the prdsaic matters to which man
relies upon his own skill and his
matter-of-fact insight." Man has
made obvious progress in the latter
realm but has done little to finding
'arts or regulation' for the former.
Dr. Upshall sums up the educa­tor's
philosophy to this connection
(Continued on Page Four)
TENNIS TEAM SHOWS
FINE FORM AT C, P. S.
Racket Men Take Five Matches
to Two from C. P. S.
Exhibiting a brand of tennis
worthy of the fine showing made by
the baseball team the previous week,
the tennis squad from the Belltog-ham
Normal school today met and
defeated the College of Puget Sound
racket wielders in a decisive score
of five matches to two. Although
the weather conditions were not
ideal, the matches got under way at
the scheduled time of two o'clock
and when the meet had ended at
six, the fans realized that they had
witnessed an exhibition of rather
decent tennis. \
In the most spectacular match of
the afternoon, Belltogham's number
1 man, Willy Houghton, rose to the
heights to downing a lanky lad by
the name of Piety. Houghton put
oh the most superb tennis of the
meet, to downing this six-foot spec­imen
of bang-up tennis ability.
The other stogie matches were
won by Lahtonen and Carr. In the
doubles Houghton and Wahl defeat­ed
Piety and Teats, and Fisher and
Lahtonen defeated minis and Nor­man.
The team went down to Sam Car­ver's
car Tuesday at 3 p. m., and
returned late Wednesday night.
Singles
The scores:
Houghton, N, defeated Piety, 0. P.
S., 8-6, 4-6 and 6-4.
Plshir, N.; lost to Teats, C. P, S.,
3-5, 2-6, 1-6;
. Wahl, N.; ffist to inhis, C. P. S.|,
A LShtoneh, N, defMted Normari, C.
1 • Cart, N., defeated SWah, C. *i- ;B..;
; Hbughtbn aid C^;N., defeated
, .lyiteikiMl&imxK± ^..defeated
Innls and Norman, C. P S . , 6-2, 8-8.
DATE CHOSEN FOR
ALL SCHOOL HIKE
Marydel Conrad, Hike Chairman,
Completes Arrangements
May 7 has been selected as the
date for the annual all-school hike
to Skyline ridge, a spur of Mount
Baker. The hike was to have been
held last quarter but was postponed
because of the weather.
Marydel Conrad, who is to charge
of the affair, says '*It will be filled
with the breath of spring and really
ought to prove an inspiration.
Mountain climbing, snow-sliding and
all the sports that 'old man winter'
can give are there waiting for you."
Cars Leave at 6
Cars will leave the school at 6
o'clock and will return at about 8
in the evening. Russell Nyberg will
take his bus and anyone else that
is able to take a car is asked to sign
on the bulletin board next week.
The charge is $1. Coffee will be
furnished by the Normal but the
hikers are asked to furnish then-own
lunch. Lunches can be pur­chased
at Edens Hail.
Tests Are Scheduled
for Advanced Students
Tuesday, Wednesday
Tests are to be given to all sixth
and seventh quarter and graduating
students next week in the Auditor­ium.
Two half-days will be devoted
to these tests, beginning on Tuesday,
May 3, at one o'clock and Wednes­day,
May 4, at eight-thirty.
These examinations are being giv­en
in many Normal schools and
Teachers' colleges throughout the
United States on the same date.
Scores made by Normal school stu­dents
at Bellingham will be com­pared
with those made by students
of other schools to the country. A
report will be made when the survey
is completed.
A list has been posted of those
students who are to take the tests.
This list may not be complete and
any persons whose names are not
included but are to their sixth or
seventh quarter or are graduating
this June should report for these
tests.
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Clubs Will Hold
Election May 6
Election of officers will occupy the
attention of both the Women's
League and Men's Club meetings,
which will be the program of Fri­day's
assembly, May 6.
Petitions will be posted on the
bulletin board Friday, April 29, for
names of candidates to be nominat­ed
for Women's League officers arid
advisor. Mimeographed copies will
be given out containing the proposed
changes to the constitution to be
Voted ^oh during the meeting.
Kathryn Frost is the retiring pres­ident
of the Women's League, with
Miss Ruth E. Piatt as advisor, Kath­leen
Hill, vice president; Edith Jen­kins,
secretary, and Elizabeth Squire,
treasurer.
The main item of business of the
Men's'Club metetog will be the
election of officers, together with a
short program. The present officers
of the club are: Roy Abbott, presi­dent;
Sid Comfort, vice president;
Roland Gissberg, secretary-treasur­er,
and Jimmie Stoddard, Inter-club
council representative.
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Official Schedule is
Drawn for Exams
In order that faculty adjustments
may be made in the proposed as­signments
for spring quarter ex­aminations,
the official schedule for
examinations will not be posted un­til
next week. Devoting the first
three days of the last week of the
quarter entirely to examinations is
a decided change from the way to
which examinations have formerly
been given. School authorities are
expecting this plan to work out suc­cessfully,
and it will? probably be
adopted as a permanent change.
Bulletins for summer quarter have
not yet arrived. Dean Bever ex
pects to receive them next week.
Tony Flick Hates Dill Pickles
And All of the Opposite Sex
(By NAOMI WATSON)
Oh, is she prepared? Normal's
brand new vice president is certain­ly
publicity shy. The lady to ques-'
tion is Theona Flick and she says
she does nothing, sees nothing, and
says nothing about it. . ?j
After much questipntog, Miss
Flick reveaieii tliat she didn't want
to make a fool of herself in this
column.', Welli now, mayte that Is
gpod;psa«sMipg^
'•Tony'' just hates; diUapickles; ito
fact any kind of pickles. Theona,
you're following to the footsteps of
President Butler. Another hater of
the opposite sex. But then they
always say not to mix business with
pleasure and the vice-prexy's Job is
Theona has previously worked to
the Darigold ice-cream plant, where
she wrapped ice cream bars and but­ter,
slie says that is the answer ibr
her iihiisual coldness.
It wis p^sohally told to me that
TheoiiaS is;';;*" ihaster at roastihg
chicken on a stick. *'It all happened
oh a^ hike ^to.;;the-~rbci»';l;Tt^|&;
roasted little frys on a stick &nd put
butter and nibre but^r"^ them.
Gee, it r^:^^^%n^^i^,e^a^-^
dentialfriend ^l:'\y •:'";'-.•-,X:u. .'"([
; Tony Is ani^tarour^.athletic
type of girl and enjoys all sports:
In (^^ you might be wanting her
it is highly probable, to this sprint
setM^, to f ^ her^^^t^^
racket and being awfully well Uked.
COLUMN BY DICTATE
OF CONTROL BOARD
President Fisher Convenes With
Body in DiscusSion of
Viking Busiiiess
ACCEPTS THE BUDGET
That the Northwest Viking shai
be reduced to a six-column paper,
was the verdict of the Board of Con­trol
at their regular meeting last
Tuesday, April 28, with President
James Butler presiding.
A large outstanding debt combined
With the inability to past quarters to
obtain sufficient advertisements;
made it impossible to carry on with
the former seven-column sheet
President Fisher, who was present at
the conclave, was strongly to favor
of reducing the paper to order that
the financial status of the Viking
might be bettered.
Quarter Budget Presented
Distribution of student activities
fees for the spring quarter niade up
a good deal of the meeting. President
Fisher, presented his recommenda­tions
relative to the budget. This is
si distribution of the student activi­ties
fees for which each regularly
enrolled student is made to pay.
Lectures and entertainments re­ceived
the lion's share with $2,75 be­ing
apportioned.
Athletics received $1.50 for the
quarter; This will include awards,,
baseball, track, tennis, and golf.
Social life, which includes rec
hours, school dances and mixers,:
was allotted $1.00, and the the
Northwest Viking $.75.
President Fisher's budget was ac­cepted
by a motion and unanimous
vote of^ the Boards: ntembers.
Tenuis Court Report
A report concerning the tennis
courts was tgiv6n by Jimmie Stod­dard,
who presented the opinion of
Coach Carver that a patrol would
be ineffective to regulating playing
and players on the large courts. He
was also of the opinion that the to-dividual
himself should be made re­sponsible
for the regulations and
rules on the tennis courts. Stod­dard
was also appointed to confer
with Miss Jewell, of the Women's
P. E. department, concerning the
small courts. A plan is to be Worked
out to be in harmony with the
training school recreation hours.
Committees Appointed
A motion was made, seconded and
carried which gave President But­ler
power to appoint a committee
to draw up a revision of the require­ments
for the editors and business
manager of the Northwest Viking.
Elsie O'Donnell and Jimmie Stod­dard
were appointed.
'> Vernon Leatha and Theona Flick
were appointed to devise a contract
and rules for the selection Of rec^
hour orchestra., Also to find a
means to check guest tickets.
Journalists interviewed
Editor Roger Chapman, Bob
Waters and Bob Walters were inter­viewed
by the Board concerning the
present status of the Northwest Vi­king.
A lengthy discussion fol­lowed
and it was impressed that the
paper was far enough to debt to
warrant the most stringent rules
possible in checking the flow oi
money out of the Viking fund. Bob
Waters, present business manager,
Was very optimistic as to the future
of the paper and could see hci reason
why it should hot come but even­tually:
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To climax the meeting a motion
was made to cut the paper to six
columns and that tlie Viking, is
to remato withih their appropriatibh
for the remainder of the quarter.
r^GTRIGITY PAID F 0 R5
The- city >cfluncil Ti'i^::Atffil$&':
and accepted an of fer; of President
p^s for tl^ ciwrenf fu^
Ught stands^ ^ n ^
wuncU recenUy refused to pay th*
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learned that the s i« of the ^^^1^^
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