Weekly Messenger - 1928 May 11

              TRI-NORMAL MEET
"Track, Baseball, Tennis Teams
Contest with Rivals for Three
: Flags at Ellensburg on May 19.
VIKINGS FAVORED
Cinderpath and Net Artists Doped
to Capture Honors Again; Dia­mond
Aggregation is Uncertain
When the three State Normals
swing into action on May 18 and 19
at. Ellensburg, the championships
• for two major sports will be decided
and the determining factor of the
i;hird will be the feature of the two-day
athletic melee.
A Track and tennis will be the two
major sports in which the Tri-Nor-mal
championship will be decided up­on,
on said date, with a three-game
baseball series between Bellingham
and Cheney which will be a deter­mining
factor in the Tri-Nornial
baseball title. The final series will
~be played off in Bellingham the fol­lowing
week-end.
The Vikings are favored to take
the track and tennis titles and stand
a good chance of repeating their last
year's performance of taking a clean
sweep of the baseball series.
The Vikings have never in history
lost a tennis title to either of the
two normal schools and have always
made a creditable showing in track
and baseball.
In track the Vikings should garner
six first places, Cheney and Ellens-
"burg each four. Five, seconds figure
in Bellingham's favor, while three go
to Cheney and six to Ellensburg. The
third places figure three to Belling­ham,
six to Cheney, and five to El­lensburg.
This would make the fi­nal
results of the meet read some­thing
like this: Bellingham 48;
Ellensburg 43: and Cheney 35. These
figures are far too close to allow
anyone to sit back and think the
meet is a Viking cinch—it is not.
Figuring by events, the 100-yard
dash rests between Hemmi of B. S.
N. S. and Seigert of Cheney. Hemmi
nosed out Seigert last year and is
doped to cop the century event and
possibly the 220. The 440-yard
dash finds an Ellensburg man in
for first place with Jewell a close
second. Jewell is favored to crash
the tape first in the half mile while
Norman Bright is a decided favorite
in the mile, after his sensational
4:31 performance at the Relay Car­nival
last week.
The low and high hurdles arc more
or less of a toss-up among the three
schools. Reeves and Korsboen should
be able to give a good account of
themselves in the events however.
Jewell and Arnett have the best
heaves on record in the shot-put but
will be hard pressed by the Ellens­burg
entry, advance dope says.
The javelin will be a walk-away
for Erickson, who broke the Normal
field record with- a beautiful throw
of 185 feet against C. P. S. on April
26. The pole-vault goes to Cheney
with Ellensburg taking second. The
high-jump is also between the Sav­ages
and Wildcats with either one
liable to win first place. Belling­ham
is rated third in this event. The
broad-jump goes to Cheney, with
Ellensburg and Bellingham battling
for second place.
Each school will be represented by
a 12-man team. The men from the
Viking team to compete May 19,
will be picked from Hemmi, Jewell,
Axelson, Gallanger, Norman Bright,
Brinkman, Reeves, Korsborn, Arnett,
Thorsen, Erickson, Mi 11 e i*,, Cox,
Thompson and Marsden.
Prices Fixed By Publishers Are
Charged for Textbooks at G)-op
Therefore Students, Not Knowing Facts, Protest
Against High Cost of Texts, When Prices Charged
Are Those Specified by Others Than Book Stpre.
"Forsooth, Hepzibonius, I must now desist from the use of milk­shakes,
motion pictures and other sundry necessities, for verily, the time
for ransoming textbooks from the greedy clutches of the Co-op has now,
arrived." - ' S '
"Yea, verily, Avaracientious, thous speakest wisdom, though you
know it not. The dog robhlers in the Co-op now hold the books we wish
at prices far above those of pearls and rubies—scoundrels that they are!"
And then, in a calm voice, the Sage said: "You're all wet!"
Among the woes of the world has been for interminable years that
of the high cost of textbooks. The men who sell them have been blamed,
the educational system which requires them has been denounced in all
the tongues known to man, and the writers thereof have been consigned
to all the conceivable tortures man can in his mind perpetrate.
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I "The Northwest Viking" will J
| take the place of "The Weekly j
f Messenger," Wednesday, June 6, j
= the last day of school, when a =
I special library edition of our i
I school paper will be edited. '
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The committee that chose the j
= name has finally decided that |
i the article "The" will be placed i
1 before the name "Northwest j
I Viking," as was Mary Hibner's I
I original idea. The committee |
j changed their decision after see- j
j ing the two possibilities in j
I print, and after noticing the f
| names of other school papers, i
I A great many of the other 1
I schools of this country have j
I "The" placed before the name I
| of their paper. Examples of j
J this are "The Normal Advance" I
f Terre Haute, Indiana's , paper, ?
- and "The Exponent," Aberdeen, |
' S. Dakota's paper. ' i
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"Craig's Wife' Comes
Next Friday, May 18
Noted Novelist Gives
Data About His Life
A happy inspiration was carried
out recently by Olive Hardan when,
after a vain search for data concern­ing
the life of Floyd Dell, a novel-,
ist who recently lectured at the Nor­mal,
she decided to write to him for
the information. (Miss Hardan has
•chosen Floyd Dell as the subject of
an oral talk in American Literature.)
In his prompt reply to the letter,
Mr. Dell answered this question
among others: "How have you been
able to so realistically portray the
characters in some of your novels ?"
•M& said that he had tried both mar­riage
;and "free love," and used his
Jtiwn^ experiences, as their basis.- : ''•-.
"Craig's Wife," Pulitzer prize play,
for 1926, will be presented one week
from tonight, May IS, in the audi­torium
by the members of the Nor­mal
Drama club. It was written by
George Kelly, a playwright who is
interested in character rather than
plot.
Mr. Kelly is a student of Ibsen and
has been referred to as "The Ameri­can
Ibsen.'' "Craig's Wife" might
easily be compared with Ibsen's
'•Doll's House."
Every incident in the play is mere­ly
used as a device to bring out Mrs.
Craig's character and personality.
Experienced People Play Leads
The people who are playing the
leads in the play have had a great
deal of dramatic work. Glen Gibbs,
playing Walter Craig, had his ex­perience
at W. S. C: Margaret Green
who plays Mrs. Craig, belongs to the
''Red Domino," an honorary dramatic
society at the University of Wash­ington,
and to the "All University
Players," a national organization.
The tickets for the play will go
on sale Tuesday, May ,]o, on the
main landing. The price for stu­dents
will be: General Admission—
Student Activities tickets; reserved
seats, 25c plus Student ticket. For
the general public tickets will be 35c
and 50c respectively.
To no avail, however. For years
and many more years, long after
the class* of '28 has passed out of
the picture, Freshmen (gullible crea­tures
that they are!) will be laying
down hard earned dollars in large
number's to receive back dog eared
thin volumes of things no one wants
to know about. I
However now protests come from
the wrong end of the line. "You
are jumping on the wrong man" says
the seller. "Look at the facts and
decide for yourself."
"The average novel will have a
sale well above 10,000 copies. The
average text book will have a sale
in all likelihood, far below that fig­ure.
In both cases tlie original cost
will be the same, granted they are of
the same size and therefore demand
the same amount of printing costs.
Btu most textbooks are usually
larger than average novels and are
printed on papers of higher quality
for long wear.
'"The more copies printed of a
book, the less is the unit cost, allow­ing
a lower price. Therefore, it is
poiiited out," the novel ^ can be
sold for $2.50 but the text book for
not less than $5.
"Not only that, but the publisher
names the prices for which the book
are sold by the retailer, who pays
his own freight. Therefore, the book
sold in Bellingham for $5 may be
purchased in New York City, where
it is published, for $5. Thus the
discount that may be offered by the
Co-op as a student-operated shop is
therefore necessarily less than that
at a store which is oloser to the
shipping point."
So the chronic knockers, Hepzi­bonius,
Averacicntious and their
pals, arc advised by the Co-op, in
an advertisement piibished elsewhere
in this issue, to look at the invoice
to find out why textbooks are high.
237 GRADUATES TO
EDII
E
Number Includes One Four-year
and Five Three-year Certificates.
Dr. Woolston to be the Speaker.
38 FROM BELLINGHAM
CHORUS SELECTED
Harold B. Smith, head of the Mu­sic
department, has selected the fol­lowing
students to sing m the cho­rus
at Baccalaureate, June 3. They
are: Misses Gladys Query, Martha
Gesdahl, Alice Anderson, Elisabeth
Brodt, Ruth Atkins, Ardis Slaven,
Helen Stine, Geraldine' McKee, Swan-hild
Olson, Agnes Lakow, Grace
Clampett, Mary Wren, Ina Otey,
Karin Strom, Peggy Pullar, Florence
Bauer, Ortha Young, Christine Fred-rickson',
Betli Patchin, Elvira Abram-son,
Mildred John son, and Adeline
Tardif. The Messcrs. Kirby Baldrey,
Fay Schemerhorn, Ray Jewell, Will­iam
Kelley, Ray Bright, Don Stick-ney,
Harry Leatha, Vernet Wahl-gren,
Ben Hamilton, Karl Weber,
Al Korsborn, and Harry Grimland.
The chorus will sing the "Gloria",
from the Twelfth Mass, bv Mozart.
Normal Tulip Float Is Exact Replica
of Old Viking Ship Found Near Oslo
An old Viking ship was dug out
of the sand near Oslo, Norway, put
into the museum at Oslo, copied by
expert mechanical drawing artists
and reproduced by the Normal for
its float in the Tulip parade. It will
ride down the street, an exact copy,
precise in every measurement, and
detail of that old Norse sailer.
The color scheme designed by Miss
Fillette Many, is strikingly vivid, a
flash of vermillion, cerise, azure and
amber. The sail is made of scale
units, working out a vermilion de­sign
on 'an amber background. The
brightest colors will be in'the; center
of the ship on the alternated •• azure
and cerise shields, one of which will
cover each oar-lock. Complete with
its oars, the ship is floated on a sea
of several shades of blue crepe.
There will be fourteen -marchers,
all boys from the training school,
who will wear tunics, capes, helmets,
and will carry shields. The domes­tic
science classes under Miss Long-ley
and Miss Countryman, are mak­ing
the costumes, and Mi\ Rvickmick's
Industrial Arts classes ;are making
the shields and the float. Miss
Breakey's art classes''.'"'lireassisting.
June 7 will see a class of 237 stu­dents
graduate from the Bellingham
Normal. Commencement exercises
will be held on that day with Pro­fessor
Howard Woolston of the Uni­versity
of Washington as the princi­pal
speaker. One of the graduates
is Edith M. Miner,-who finishes the
four-year course, while five complete
the three-year work. Thirty-eight
members of the class are Bellingham
residents.
The. graduates follow:
Four-Year Course
Edith M. Miner, Bellingham.
Three-Year Course
Blanche E. Bertrand, Bellingham;
Henry Durr, Everson; Olive F. Har­dan,
Bellingham: Wendell ~"M. Iver-son,
Hobart: Franklin Lock, Bel­lingham:
Andrew McCall, Seattle;
Thomas E. Marsden, Richmond
Beach: Margaret E. Moore, Everett;
Calvin Moser, Bellingham; Astrid A.
Newman, Potlatch; Esther Thomas,
Bellingham.
Two-Year Course
Frieda H. Aase, Astoria, Oregon;
Golda U. Abel, Bellingham; Elvera
J. Abrahamson, Lake Stevens: Lydia
P. Allen, Orchards; M. Seattle Al-vord,
Lynden; Ina W. Anderson,
Woodland; Nina V. Anderson, East
Stanwood; Willena E. Barnhart, Ta-coma;
Esther A. Barnum^ Kathleen
H. Barrett, Bellingham: Wilbur W.
Barrett, Bellingham: Nellie K. Bar­ton,
Seattle; Florence L. Bauer, Ta-coma;
Mary A. Bearss, Oak Har­bor;
Bernard E. Beatty, Ferndale;
Li-zziellen Belcher, Doming; Ada C.
Berggren, Vancouver; Marguerite
Biersner Walla Walla.
Mae Blomberg, Puyallup; Wini­fred
D. Bohr, Olympia; Ruth E.
Bond, Bellingham; Thelma Mac Bor-gen,
Seattle; Eleanor S. Bosshard,
Everett; Madeline G. Bosshard, Ev­erett;
Julia Bouck, Bellingham; Es­ther
W. Broadwater, Kalispell, Mon­tana;
Albert C. Brown, Bellingham;
Hazel I. Buckingham, Kalispell, Mon­tana;
Bertha O. Burkland, Everett;
Rossie M. Burns, LaGrande, Oregon;
Ruth Butler, Burlington; Helen W.
Callenius, Sumas.
Anna M. Carlson, Bellingham;
Lynda Carlson, Seattle: Helen M.
Chervcnock, Bellingham; Jean A.
Chisholm, Suoqualmie; Florence E.
Christiansen Stanwood; Frances P.
Christinsen, Bellingham; Lillian C.
Christofferson, Rolling Bay; Beth
Coghlan, Everett; Ardelle C. Dag-man,
Enderlin, N. D.; Adelaide S.
Dale, Anacortes; Edna B. Deskins,
Lebam; Mildred S. Dickens, Marys-ville;
Lorea I. Dickson, Sedro-Wool-ley;
Myrtle L. Dimmitt, Molson;
Clifford A. Duncan, Camas; Leona
M. Eddy, Blaine.
V. Evelyn Edwards, Prosser;
Emily W. Elliott, Puyallup; Mamie
M. Erickson, Woodland; Vera H.
Erickson, Molson; Florence M. Fil-ion,
Port Angeles; Esther K. Fors-gren,
Brush Prairie;; Ruby L. Fos­ter,
Yakima; Edith ' Fox, Auburn;
Mary B. Fox, Tacoma; Constance I.
Frieling, Charleston; Neta L. Galla-her.
'Mansfield; Martha Louise Ges­dahl,
Bellingham; Madeline Good­man,
Newcastle; Violet M. Graham,
Bellingham; Richard Grainger, Castle
Rock; Jnlia II. Gray, Burlington;
Harry J. Grimlund, Bellingham: Joel
Gudmundson, Bellingham; Robert P.
Guerin, Doming; Helen J. Glimmer,
Seattle; Editli M. Gunderson, Seat­tle.
Esther A. Gustafson, Mount Ver­non:
Harry A. Hale, Bellingham;
Kthlyn M. Hand, Tacoma.;* Hazel E.
Hanson, Vader; 'Evelyn Heideii-stroni,
Seattle; Wanda O. Hendrick-son,.
Brush Prairie; Anna Hicklin,
Mabtoiij Clarence R. Hollenbaugh,
East; Stanwood; Lena J. Hollings-woith,
Arlington; Ruth I. Hopkins,
Bryn Mawr; Agnes M. Hose, Kelso;
Billie M. Howe, Tenino; Arthur Ir-
.wi'n, Custer; DelmaT.- Isaacson,
Normal To Have New Laboratory
On Biological Station Grounds
Board of Regents at the University'Approves Plan
to Build Modern Laboratory for Normal Classes
at Friday Harbor; Construction to Start at Once.
New laboratories for the Normal classes at the Puget Sound Biolog­ical
Station at Friday Harbor have been approved by the Board of Re­gents
of the university, according to a telegram which President C. H.
Fisher received from Dr. T. S. Frye. Excavation has already begun and
it is expected that the building will be in use sometime during the com­ing
session.
Mr. Fisher took up the matter of a new laboratory with President
Spencer of the University, early last fall. President Spencer took the
matter up with the Board of Regents of the University and they became
convinced that the Normal needed and deserved better accommodations
at the Station.
! S T U D E N T S WILL MAKE
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? AIRPLANE HISTORY
I By GORDON LEEN i
J Eight American Eagle planes j
s of the latest type will carry a |
i "Viking Airplane Party" of I
I sixteen, Saturday, May 12, 9:00 I
| A. M., over the city of Belling- |
j ham, South Bellingham, across |
I to Lake Whatcom, over the lake f
f back to the metropolitan area |
i of the city to the landing field i
1 on Lafayette street, -just four I
I blocks to the north of the bridge j
j at the end of the Eldridge ave- |
| nue car-line. |
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There is room for a few more to
sign up at the Co-op, said Sam Ford,
yesterday, and he further remarked
that he,-was sure that there would
1
th
fully sixteen Normal students on
field Saturday at !):()() A. M.
Kodak and $3.00
The fare, which is the lowest ever
offered in the Northwest, will be $3
for the trip. wTiich will take in near­ly
twenty miles. It is hoped that
everyone in the party will be armed,
with a dvodak. Mr. Sam Ford, Co­op
manager, will take along his "big
camera" to take views of the Normal
campus.
Many Signed Up
Over half of the party signed up
by last Wednesday. They are: Mar­garet
Schupp, George Rogers, Ma-.
Sam Ford, Mrs. Sam Ford, Roger
Beckes, Gordon Leen, Leslie Abshire,
Alta Cole, Edgar Cox and Roy Ar­nett.
New Airport
The opening of Bellingham's sec­ond
airport will be held the first day
of the Tulip Festival on the Lafay­ette
street field, by the Washington
Aviation Company of Bellingham,
whose main offices are in Seattle. It
is no doubt of interest to many for­mer
Whatcom students of this school
that Edwin Jones, '24% graduate of
Whatcom high school, is a co-pilot
of the company and is awaiting his
commission as ensign in the Flying
Service branch of the United States
Navv.
More than fifty people attended
the annual Tri-C banquet at the
Chuekanut Shell last Wednesday eve­ning.
May 2. The guests of the
club were Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Mr.
and Mrs. Foster and Miss Keeler.
Miss Morris was toastmistress for
the evening. Speeches were given
by Mr. Fisher, Miss Mae Blomberg,
Miss Rowena Tarbox, and Miss Ber­tha
Larsen.
During the evening skits were put
Similar to University Labs
The "building will be of concrete,
fiinshed with stucco, and a tile roof,
similar to those now used by the
university. It will be divided into
two rooms, one for animal and the
other for plant biology. A concrete
floor with center drainage will in­sure
sanitation. Table space will
permit a class of about 40 in each
room. The tables will be equipped
with electricity and the sinks in the
center will have running water, both
fresh and salt:
Fifth Year for Normal
This summer is the fifth that the
Bellingham Normal has offered
courses at the Biological Station in
conjunction with . the University.
Previously the work has been done
in tent laboratories which were too
warm when it was warm, and too
cold when it wasn't, and where light
was none too good. The new labora­tory
will do much to make the work
at the Station pleasant for the in­structors
and the students, and
should enable those working there
to do a better grade of work.
This year the classes will be in
charge of Miss Leona Suridquist of
the Normal science department,
plant biology, and Dr. R. II. Wool-cott.
professor of zoology from the
University of Nebraska, animal biol­ogy.
They will be assisted by Ruth
Russell, nature study teacher from
Portland, and Wayne W. Wells, an
instructor in the Southern Oregon
State Normal. Classes will begin
June 18, at eight o'clock.
FACULTY TO PICNIC
Faculty members, their families,
and "their sisters and their cousins
and their aunts," will hold their an­nual
picnic Monday afternoon at
Gooseberry Point. Miss Eleanor Os­borne
and her picnic committee have
prepared a program of eats and rec­reation
guaranteed to penetrate the
reserve of even the most sedate pro­fessor.
Games in the afternoon, a
hugh supper, and a campfire gather­ing
afterward are all listed to take
place. It is rumored that the big
baseball game will again take place,
with •'Chuck" Fisher hurling for one
of the teams; Frankie Salisbury is
scheduled to oppose him.
on by the rural teachers, by the pres­ent
student teachers and by ex-student
teachers. Miss McPherson,
sponsor of the club, was presented
with a corsage bouquet. , The eve­ning
ended with appropriate, songs
and initiation of twelve, new mem­bers.
Among those initiated were
President Fisher and Miss Keller.
Ferocious Insect Attacks Supervisor;
Dean of Men Proves a Gallant Hero
FOnWyEAl
One Year Re-election Policy Is
Broken as Board of Trustees
Offers Him Three-year Contract
MANY GET LEAVES
Leaves of Absence Granted and
Resignations Accepted; Balance
of Faculty Members Re-elected.
As an expression of confidence
in his administration of the af­fairs
of Bellingham Normal, -the
Board of Trustees has re elected
President C. H. Fisher for a term
of three years instead of for one
year as has been the policy in the
past. The trustees feel that much
of the improvement which has come
to the Normal during President Fish­er's
administration, has been direct­ly
due to his untiring efforts and
they have taken this means to" assure
him they are supporting him in all
that he does.
Most of the present faculty was re­elected
for the coming year, several
leaves of absence granted, and some
resignations accepted at the meet­ing
of the Board of Trustees of the
Normal, held Tuesday afternoon, in
Dr. Kirkpatrick's office.
. Many Granted Leave to Study
Miss Olive Edens is granted leave
of absence until the Fall of 1929 to
make a trip around the world. She
plans to spend most of her itime in
the orient. Miss Maude 3VL Slaw-son,
Miss Anna J. Peterson and Mr.
E. A. Bond have been granted leaves
of .absence to study at Columbia uni­versity.
Miss M. Theresa Peters,
instructor in physical educationi has
accepted a position at Columbia uni­versity.
Miss Bertha M. Keller will
teach next year at the University of
California, and Mrs. Barbara Dixon
Ewell, Children's Librarian, resigned
because of marriage. The remain­ing
members of the faculty are re­elected,
retaining the positions they
now hold.
Miss Gunther will return to her
position in the Industrial Arts de­partment.
She has been spending a
leave of absence at Columbia univer­sity.
Miss Kathleen Skalley, who,
has been attending the University of
Washington, will return to her posi­tion
in the Physical Edication de"-
partment.
Women's Chorus Will
Appear In Assembly
Program on Tuesday
(Continued; on Page Two);
The first casualty due to adding
a swarm of bees to the training
school has been reported. It is none
other than Miss Marjorie Dawson,
primary supervisor in the training
school. .
Here is the deep, dark secret—Last
Monday a certain well known teach­er
was observing the bees and Miss
Dawson happened by and stopped,
and the conversation went some­thing
like this:
"How are'the'bees getting along?"
'•Oh, just fine."
"It seems they are too crowded."
'';Yes...it really does'1'.
hTe teahcer, whose name will not
be disclosed, thereupon opened the
corner of the box just a wee bit to
further - investigate •"•'tlie..'.' matter of
being over-crowded. V
•Now; bees are-; a ;| funny j race v.of
winged insects and accirding to re­nowned
scientists they have a par­ticular
dislike for the color of black.
Alas! Miss Dawson was garbed in
a black hat and coat. The crack
left open in the box wasn't large
but nevertheless one alert bee ob­served
the situation and made a bee
line for the, opening and also for the
head of Miss Dawson. The blow
was swift and fatal, catching her
in the middle of the forehead. A welt
soon rose and the whole training
school was thrown into' a panic.
Then who should show on the scene
but Mr. Marquis,l who played the
role of a hero and : extracted the
mighty stinger; A little ammonia
was applied to the attacked area
and hope is held for the recovery of
Miss Dawson. A: :0v' ,•'.•;..:
The Women's Chorus of Belling­ham,
under the direction of Harrison
Kaymond, prominent music director
of this city, and under sponsorship
of the Bellingham Women's Music
club, will present an attractive and
varied hour of song in the auditor­ium,
regular assembly, Tuesday,, May
15.
Ernest Caldwell, a noted Canadian
soloist, - of Vancouver, will render
several numbers and in addition; the
Women's Chorus consisting of thirty-five
members will give the cantata,
"The Highwayman." The cantata
dramatically ends as a tragedy and
is from,the poem of the same name,
written by the poet, Alfred Noyes; *
music is by Deems Taylor.
The assembly for Friday, May 18. •
will -hear the final speeches of the •
extempore speakers, winners of the ,
fall, winter and spring quarters, who'
are: Freeda Massey, Margaret Hill,'.
Bertha Altose,-Eldred Bechtel, vOren :
Tarbox, and Fay A. SchermerhornA
The winner, will receive the cup",riow's;
held by Miss June Wetherell, last A
-year's -.winner.;.:- . ^'i''-&
Miss Alma Madden, of the speech 3
department, will give out; the topicsiv
the preceding evening. ; \ They: will^ -
consist of- school subjects -as^{well^as^
toj>ics:.:pn/w6^1d^af^
unit
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