Weekly Messenger - 1928 January 6

              HEAR
DR. MURPHY
B A S K E T B A L L ; ^
COMING
VOL. XXVII—NO. 12 WASHINGTON S T A T E NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
Viking Varsity Will Meet Fast
Five at the Whatcom High Gym
Saturday Night; Squad in Trim.
O P P O S E
Keplinger, Benson, and Isaacson
Comprise Veteran Lettermen;
They will be Mixed with Subs.
Coach Sam Carver's varsity hoop
squad will open its 192S schedule Sat­urday
night at 8 o'clock, in the What­com
High gym against the fast
Heater Glove five., leaders in the Se­attle
City league, and rated as one
of the best independent teams in the
Northwest. The Vikings are doped
to have an excellent team—one at
least equal to last year's state Tri-
Normal championship outfit—a n d
should put up a strong fight against
the fast Seattle team.
Coach Carver will have a squad of
nine men in suits Saturday and will
probably shove all of them into the
fray in an effort to find the best
combination. Three lettermen, Earl
Keplinger, Art Isaacson and Harry
Benson, together with six supers—
McClurken, Harper, Erickson, Ray
•Jewell, Clarke and Anderson—will
form the tentative varsity. With
several new men of promise out the
past week, and George Benson, letter-man
of two years ago, back in school,
the permanent personnel of the first
string will probably remain undeter­mined
for some time.
Heaters Have Fast Men
The Heaters will have witli them
some of the classiest hoop men in Se­attle.
Although still undefeated in
the Seattle City League, they have
been completely revamped sin.:e theii
last game. Their probable iine-up
against Normal will have Ciiet Duett,
who almost made University of
Washington varsity, at the tip-off
berth, with Larry Kamm and Johnny
Gaffney at the forward posts: Kazis
Krauezunas and Ron Bekine to fill
the guard positions.
Hard Schedule Arranged
Following the Heater Glove clash,
the Vikings will engage in hard cam­paign
of at least one game a wceki
all during January and early Febru­ary.
The Washington Pros], will
clash with the Vikings January 20 in
their game away from "
big home games of
Ellensburg on Jamsarv 2(
Cheney, January ;jf.—will follow.
Early ni February, Coach Carver will
take his men east of the mountains
in pursuit of Ellensburg, Cheney and
W- S. C, on their hi
ter.
Jr. James ?
World-Wide
Friday, January 6 , 1 9 28
rphy, Lecturer with
eputation, to
urn
)r. Murphy, Well Known Writer and Speaker on
Subjects of Wide Political Interest, Will Address
Normal Audience on "The Destiny of Democracy".
The plan for the general development of the Normal School to cover a twenty-five year period will soon pass a definite milepost with the
completion of the new library building. The next unit will be the new gymnasium, to be constructed on the Athletic Field, where the baseball
diamond is now situated. A new athletic field across the road from the present one is another unit which will be undertaken in the near future.
Two Student Delegates Return
Home From Detroit Convention
Normal Representatives, Milton Fields and Grace
Lytle, to Student Volunteer Convention Held Dur­ing
Christmas Vacation, Arrive Last Evening.
OF CONTROL
SELECTS MANAGER
Milton Fields, sent from the Normal as a delegate to the Tenth
Quadrennial Convention of College and University Leaders, which was
held in Detroit recently, returned to Bellingham last night. Crayce
Lyllle, the second delegate, slopped in Ellensburg to spend a belated
Christmas with her parents.
Milton slates, "We had a fine time. I was fully pleased with the
conference." This meeting Was attended by over four thousand college
and university leaders, delegates from foreign schools, missionaries, and
authorities on various subjects which were brought up before the group.
The subjects which were discussed, according to Milton, were the
possibility of outlawing war, the treatment of the foreign student on the
the American college campus, armed foreign intervention, and the mis-sioondry
problem. Milton slated that no effort Was made to come to a
definite conclusion with any topic, the aim being mainly to arouse a
consciousness of ils existence in the student bodies of American colleges,
so that the students might work out
Golda Abel Will Fill Vacancy on
Staff of Year Book. Bob Waters
Heads Committee of Research.
Educative Lecture
on Electricity to
be Given Tuesday
Madeline Bosshard, Dale Annis
Elected Student Representatives
in Last Assembly of Quarter.
home. The
the year—with
and with
ig trip of the win-
The schedule at present is:
January 7.—Heatbr Clove, here.
January 20.—U. of W.' Fresh at Se­attle.
January 21.—St. Martins,, at Lacey
January 26.—Ellenshu
J) ere.
January 31.—Cheney Normal, here.
.February 4.—St. Martins College,
here. :
February 7.—Ellensburg Normal
Ellensburg.
February
Cheney.
February
Pnllman..
Games witli the Washington Frosh
and the Lynden town team will prob­ably
be played here, while the Uni­versity
of British Columbia and the
Yakima Generals are still possible
opponents.
Fall Quarter Grads
Already Placed by
Appointment Bureau
their own solutions.
The
nates
been
.Normal,
at
0.—Cheney Normal, at
10.—W. S. C. Frosh. at
first placements of the grad-of
the fall (piarter class have
mnouneed by Miss Elizabeth
Hopper, appointment secretary. Wil­liam
Van Over is coaching athletics
and teaching industrial arts at the
Wish kali school in Grays Harbor
county.
.Hazel Armentrout is in charge of
the fifth grade of the Washington
school in this city. Dell Wade,, who
attended Normal last quarter. re­turned
to her school at Livingstone
Bay, Washington, which had been
held for her while she was in school.
Uldine ITagerman has secured a po­sition
in a rural school at Twisp,
Washington, while Mirjorie Cape is
teaching at Neah Bay.
Miss Hopper expressed hope that
additional placements can be made
for the members of the class,' but as
yet no definite possibilities can lie
named.
Flood Brings Out Story of Noah
as Normalites Splash to School
Lo and behold, a turkey rose
out of the gravy and fluttered twit-ieringly,
bearing in its beak a branch
of mistletoe, uttering excited tweet-iweets
as he circled' above, and
Noah climbed ou{, scrubbed the
mud off his ark and bought a can
of valspar.
And 983 Normal students crawled
out of the upper windows and put on
their boots, galoshes arid whatnot to
wade through the flood to thejlorm.
• •: • Yea, verily the storm had':, abated,
tlie Waters were stayed yfrom the
earth and the second cokl-speli, darn
it anyway, had passed away from the
face of the earth.
'"Broke" people who can't afford
Lindy-coats, galoshes, etc., 'may re­joice
in the passing of the weather,
as a symbol of the passing of all
time—for yea, in their time, the
Lindy coats, arid the boots arid the
blue "W" slickers shall pass and the
tin airplane babies of tomorrow will
twitter oyer a, different civilization,
if evolution continues to evolnte. \ ;
The plan of the conference was:
the subject to be presented by some
authority, after which the meeting
divided into discussion groups,
where each delegate had an oppor­tunity
to express his or her views
on the matter at hand. Rather than
these meetings being forum in type,
they were called "colloquiae", a
term coined at the meeting.
The greatest benefit of the meet­ings,
according to Fields, is found in
the improved relationships and un­derstandings
between colleges, na­tions,
and races, insofar as the stu­dents
are concerned. He cited a
specific example of the latter, tell­ing
of a delegate from Alabama
who had never seen either a Chi­nese
or Japanese person. Updn
this delegate's return, her report
will undoubtedly point to this new
knowledge, probably being favor­able
to the Oriental nations.
The entire treatment of the sub-,
jects taken up was more than sat­isfactory,
according to Fields, who
stated "We looked at things from
a different angle.. We adopted a
world outlook on these matters, rath­er
than restricting our outlook to the
confines of one college campus. Ev­erything
was taken up with a broad-minded
viewpoint."
When asked whether he consid­ered
the convention - to have justi­fied
its existence, Milton declared
that he was unable to answer, saying
that he was sure that it had been
beneficial, but that a, direct reply
to the question was impossible, it
being something one felt, but could
not express.
The delegates from the Pacific
Coast went to the conference on a
special train, but, because many
stopped off on the return, only two
special coaches comprised the added
conveniences of the .group, one, a
Pullman, being for general use,
while, an ordinary "day-coach^ was
provided' for:discussibrisi; : ;^^^', <•'
Golda Abel, recently elected busi­ness
manager for the 1!)2S Klipsun,
will take up her new duties with the
collection of club payments for their
annual pictures, in the near future.
Faculty pictures are being taken
this week and next, and as soon as
registration closes, sophomores and
third and fourth year students will
visit the photographers. This will be
the final dating for students and all
those who miss their appointments
will not have the (pleasure?) of see­ing
their pictures in the school an­nual.
Bob Waters has recently been ap­pointed
as. the head of a research
committee which will begin action
soon in endeavoring to tabulate the
school activities ench graduate has
participated in.
On Japan Issued
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle, January.—The latest number
of the University of Washington
chapbooks, "The Journal of lvenko,
Musings of a Japanese Qoheleth of
the Fourteenth Century," presented
and commented on by Dr. Herbert IT.
Gowen, professor of Oriental Studies
at the University, throws a light up­on
the old social order of Japan and
points to a similarity between the
thoughts of Kenko living in the four­teenth
century and the Jewish writer
of the Old Testament book Eeclesias-tes.
A New York critic of international
standing is of the opinion that this
series of booklets, edited by Professor
Glenn Hughes of the University Eng­lish
department, will take its honor­able
place among the few artistic-ventures
of its kind of which the
country can boast.
The first printing of the chap-books
is limited to 500, as is each
printing thereafter, Professor Hughes
said. The first ten. books are al­ready
in their second printing. They
are on sale in the larger cities of the
United States.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
January—-"Approximately 6,500 stu­dents
were registered in the Univer-.
sity. of Washington for the winter
quarter by Saturday noon, December
31, according- to a. 'report" issued'' by
the registrar's office. This is about
Tuesday, January 10th. under the
auspices of the Puget Sound Power
& Light Co., Mr. Charles M. Ripley
will speak'in the Auditorium at 8:00
p. m.
j\!r. Ripley's subject will be the
"Romance of Power". He is reported
as a very capable speaker and well
informed on the subject of electricity,
lie has been touring the country un­der
the auspices of the National Elec­tric
Light Association, giving lectures
on the subject of electricity. He is
also bringing with him a number of
pictures, and slides which lie will
show in assembly.
Electrical Power
The Puget Sound Power & Light
Co. has brought him here at this time
to lecture before the students on the
subject of electricity which is so
abundant in. Western Washington
Enormous potential energy lies in
the streams and waterfalls of this
state. It has been estimated that
one-seventh of the waterpower of
the United States is in the state of
Washington.
It is the desire of the local power
company to familiarize and educate
people in regard to the uses and po­tentialities
of electrical power which
can be utilized in so many ways in
the lives of people.
Dale Antiis and Madeline Bosshard
were elected as Student Representa­tives
to tlie Board of Control at the
last assembly of the fall quarter held
December 10 on the last da*y of
school.
Dale Annis and Carrie. Tucker were
nominated by petition for the posi­tion
as representative for two quar­ters
to the Board of Control. Carrie
Tucker was an old member on the
Board having served the past quar­ter
filling the unexpired term of Don
Patterson, who did not return to
school the fall quarter leaving; the po­sition
vacant.
Four Quarter Term
Three women candidates were run­ning
for office of four quarters' to
the Board , of Control. Madeline
Bosshard, the winner, was nominated
by petition, while Mae Barbo and Vir­ginia
Bever were nominated from the
floor at the assembly "the previous
Tuesday.
Balloting took place in assembly
Friday, and the official count showed
the final result to be very close.
Men Control
As a result of the election, the
Board of Control still remains heav­ily
masculine, there being only one
girl representative on it, which is
the same as last quarter.
The members of the Board of Con­trol
are.- Dale Annis, Madeline Boss-hard,
Dean Edmundson. Joel Gud-mundson,
Bob' Fisher, Mr. Arntzen,
and Mr. Bond.
Reading Periods at
Harvard University
Now on Probation
Arthur Marsh Speaks
to Normal Students
and Faculty Members
Mr. Arthur L. Marsh, executive
secretary of the Washington Educa­tional
Association, and also the edi­tor
of its Journal, spoke to the stu­dents
in today's assembly, about his
association.
Mr. Irving E. Miller and Mr. Pe
lagius Williams were instrumental in
getting Mr. Marsh here to speak on
the advantages of instituting an af­filiated
chapter of the W. E. A. in
this school. A good many of our stu­dents
are said to be members of the
W. E. A., and a good many will
probably be members of that Asso­ciation
and with that in view, Mr.
Marsh lioped to enlighten the stu­dents
about the organization and,de­velop
the. possibilities of an affiliated
chapter in a teacher training institu­tion.
Mr. Marsh also spoke to the Fac'ul-
CAMBPJ DUE, M a ss.— Harvard's
reading period, during which stu­dents
are free to browse, is now on
trial. Preparatory statements on
what is expected of the students were
issued by various department heads.
The most detailed explanation came
from Dean A. C. Hanford, who indi­cated
that the University has faith
in tlie desire of its students to use
their time to good advantage. Com­menting
on Dean Hanford's state­ment
the Crimson says: "The plan
seems neither revolutionary nor pre­mature,
it appears as the logical
sequence to the general educational
Dr. James Murphy. Lecturer by
Royal Request at Buckingham Pal­ace,
London, a .speaker of internat­ional
distinction will lecture in the
Normal auditorium this coming Wed­nesday
evening, January -Jl; at 8:15
P.M. Dr. Murphy will appear in­stead
of Norman Angell. whose en­gagement
was cancelled due to ill
health.
To have been accorded the privi­lege
of addressing the British.royalty
from the steps of the British throne,
the only public speaker .who has ever
done so, is the distinct honor which
Dr. Murphy has received. The invi­tation
to do so was made following
the lecturer's reputation made thru
his appearances at the London Uni­versity
College and in the principle
cities of Great Britain.
Political Writer
In addition to being a speaker, he
is ' a writer on international affairs
of first rank and is best known to
the American public through that
medium, his articles having appeared
principally in the columns of the At-'
lantic Monthly and Nation magazines.
During the congressional debates on
the Italian Debt Settlement, Dr.
Murphy was frequently quoted as a
specialist on Italian questions. An
article by him appearing in the De­cember,
1025, Atlantic Monthly, was
republished in full in the Congres­sional
Record of January, 1926. He
has been actively conected with
journalistic enterprises, having acted
as special war correspondent for
the English Northcliffe Press, later
becoming Editor-in-Chief at the Ital-ion
Government Information office in
London. Following that he founded
a weekly review known as Modern
Italy. In 1925, following three years
of observation in Italy, he established
his headquarters in Paris, the "meet­ing
place of the principal currents of
public life in Europe."
Dr. Murphy speaks in several lan­guages
and has the happy ability of
being able to speak successfully be­fore
varied types of audiences. Audi­ences
that he. has addressed with ob­vious
success have ranged from
groups of British aristocracy and col­lege
professor to Welsh' coal miners
and gatherings of disabled veterans.
He is prepared to lecture on social-political-
economic aspects of tlie life .
of leading European groups and na­tions.
The subjects of his address­es
here next Wednesday evening will
be "The Destiny of Democracy," in
which he points out the new realign­ment
of the masses in Europe along,'
economic rather than political lines. V
He says in short, "Old world politics
are gone and the traditional tech­nique
of government is fast becoming
an anarchronism."
Is Well Received
That Doctor Murphy is an able and
interesting speaker is evidenced by
the approval of listeners. Professor
Thorsten Sallin of the Department of
Sociologv at the UniversitA' of Peiin-sylvania,
says of his lecture on "Cur­rents
and Cross-currents in Present-policies
of the University. Certainly day Italy": " Dr. Murphy's
the pessimistic may now rest easier.' lecture proved to be intensely inter-since
it is seen that the regiment for I esting. It was brilliantly delivered
450 more that were enrolled at the I tv Forum after .their dinner meeting
same time last year.
Students may register from Janu­ary
3 to 9 inclusive by payment of a
late fee, two dollars for the first day
and one for -each: day additional to a
total of seven dollars; / / ;^
last night. Questions and problems
were discussed after his talk.
Mr. Marshhas been iu school work
a good many years and was at one
time .'.superintendent of schools! ;at
Topperiish;; ; >.;•'•; vf'O-''^."'.-'-^? vVr:1-/'
these post-holiday weeks has been
carefully anticipated."
Of—
Professor W., J. Marquis, of the
Normal faculty, delivered a most in­teresting
message to the carriers-and
newsboys St the twenty-third an­nual
Herald Newsboys' banquet giv­en
in the Hotel Leopold; Saturday,
December 24.
Professor. Marquis congratulated
the carriers and newsboys upon their
ingenuity and cited"the qualifications
for an efficient newsboy, stressing
the value of an education. '
and was enthusiastically received by
an audience which showed its appre­ciation
by remaining for half an hour
after the lecture asking questions.
. . . "His fine platform manner, his
splendid control over his material,
and his natural eloquence should
make him a favorite of whatever au­dience
he addresses."
Dr. Murphy is now on a speaking
tour of this continent which began
last October and will be terminated
this coming May. Student Activi­ties
tickets will admit all students
as this is one of the lecture course
numbers. '
Calendar of Events
FRIDAY.
p. m. Vi-
Jaii. 6—Recreation Hour, Big Gym, 4-5 p. m.
SATURDAY, Jan. 7.—Basketball Game, Whatcom Gym,
kings vs.. Heater Glove (Seattle).
TUESDAY,, Jan. 11—Patricia Boyd, pianist, in regular asseniblv aV I I ;
^IlJirIes M. Ripley, lecturer in /Auditorium at 8:00 p. ni: V v ;Y N V
^DNESDAY, Jan.^^?>^raqfr-.= Jamw; ^u^pS»y;:.-iik^;i|r^."- ^&a^i^^j^iSi.iiiiS
;:;:Ji''^. Auditorium:''^ 8^ •f^^-~^'^ii':-/