Weekly Messenger - 1927 April 29

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V O L ^ X ^ I ^ N a 27 ^ASOTOTON^A^ Friday, April ;29i1927
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General Construction Contract
Awarded to Martin-—Work
Begins Soon.
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Contracts for the construction of
the new $260,000 Normal Library
were awarded Thursday, April21, at
a" meeting of the board of trustees.
The sum of the contracts awarded
for general construction, plumbing,
heating and ventilation, electrical
work, "finished hardware, the eleva-
' tor, and the book lift, amounts to
$188,746.15. The painting and fur­nishing
awards will be made later.
C. F. Martin, of Seattle, who was
low bidder with $157,313.13, received
the contract for general construction.
Mr. Martin has had wide experience
in construction work, chiefly-for the
governmentj and is welL equipped to
do big work. He has an unusual list
of sub-contractors. Recently, he
built the Cowlitz county courthouse,
at Kelso.
The plumbing award went to the
A. J. Blythe Plumbing and Heating
Co., of Bellingham, which was low
with $3,943.50; F. M. Haskell's $17,-
152.52 bid, earned him the heating
and ventilation contract; the Le
Page-McKenny Co., of Seattle, will
do the electrical work for $4,795.00.
The Northwest Hardware Co. was
low bidder for installation of fin­ished
hardware, with $1,727. The
. -Otis Elevator Co.'s bid of $3,220 for
the elevator was accepted, as was
A. H. Cox's $595 for the book lift.
Because of too great a discrepancy
5n the painting bids, it was thought
iidvisable by the Board to re-adver­tise.
This contract will be awarded
within a few weeks.
The total of $188,746.15, is several
thousand dollars lower than was ex­pected,
so the school will have ample
funds to provide^ all new furnish­ings-
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General construction will start in
& few days, and the library will be
completed between January 1 and
April 1, 1928.
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Diploma Applicant
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Going Ahead
R^fwklly
A general committee on Campus
Day under the leadership of Estelle
Martinson is already busy laying
plans for one of those "bigger and
better" affairs. Mr. Berg of last
year's fame, will assume charge of
the day's cleanup program. Others
on the committee besides the chair­man
and Mr. Berg are Miss Kellar,
George Allez Mr. Ruckmick, Gladys
Green, Dorothy Irwin, Bob Fisher,
and Bob Wagner.
A tentative date of Thursday, May
19, has been set. This is meeting
decided approval as the cleanup will
just precede the tri-Normal athletic
meet of the 21st. . The time can be
valuably spent preparing the track
and field for the contests. A monster-pep
and advertising rally will be in­cluded.
The day's program will be modeled
somewhat after last year's plan with
a cleanup in the morning and athletic
contests of all kinds in the afternoon.
Several alternatives are open for the
evening's fun and the committee will
decide as to its nature next week.
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Sophs To Hold
Peter Pan
Party
Peter Pan Will Cast Magic Spell
Over Soph Party on
Saturday Night
S h a k e ^
I Ghosts" Cast
Roles Are Given to
New Members of
Drama Club.
Students expecting to receive di-
""plomaa in June must make applica­tion
before May 7th.- File your ap­plication
and pay the dollar ($1.00)
Fee in'the Registrar's Office at once.
No application will be accepted
after May 7th.
Under the magic spell of Peter
Pan's Pipe the sophomore class will
stage a most unique and charming
party in the big gym Saturday evert­ing,
April 30. The decoration com­mittee,
under Phil Sisk, is planning a
most miraculous change in the com­monplace
drab walls of the familiar
gym, until the whole room will look
like a fairy dell.
The orchestra will be a decided
feature of the occasion, as the Ar­cadians,
who gave such a good pro­gram
at the Viking Vodvil, will play.
The punch, besides being utilitarian
in its temperature and quantity, will
add something new and different.
The general committee under the
direction of Elsa Pearl, has already
planned for a big feature number
and many delightful favors for the
guests.
Normal students who attended the
sophomore Greenwich«Village Hop
last quarter know how efficiently
the class works as a whole, and are
already "dated up" for an evening
with Peter Pan this week.
Several changes have been made in
the cast for "Three Live Ghosts,"
Drama Club play to be presented
June 6 and 7, in order to" fill va­cancies
created =by students who
have been forced to drop the work.
The leading role of Mrs. Gub-bins,
known as "Old Sweetheart",
has been given to Olive Hardan, who
will be remembered for her excellent
character portrayal in the Drama
Club play for -the winter quarter,
"Milestones.'' This very interesting
and difficult part of an old cockney
woman will be very aptly portrayed
by Miss Hardan, according to the
coach, Miss Madden.
The cast also includes Bill Mock,
Ralph Johnson, Dwight Bunnell,
Donald Stickney, Rella Ebeling, War­ren
Boynton, and Norma Johnson,
all of whom have appeared in other
Drama club performances and whose
ability is well known to the student
body. Irene Schagel, who plays the
important part of Peggy Woofers,
and Barney Chichester, as Briggs,
new' members of the Drama Club this
quarter, have appeared in several one-act
plays during this yeq^ and are
proving valuable additions to the
cast.
With such a fascinating story as
the play affords, and with the stage
production in the hands of Miss
Dew.ey^s efficient committee, "Three
Live Ghosts" promises to be a most
interesting performance.
The cast, as it now stands:
Mrs. Gubbins, "Old Sweetheart"
...,; :....'. Olive Hardan
Miss Woofers Irene Schagel
Bolton, of the American Detective
Agency Warren Boynton
Jimmie Gubbins Donald Stickney
William Foster, alias William Jones
'. ..Ralph Johnson
"Spoofy" ;. Bill Mock
Rose Gordon Norma .Johnson
Briggs „Barney Chichester
Benson Dwight Bunnell
Lady Leicester ...Rella Ebeling
The entire play takes place in the
home of "Old Sweetheart", in the
poorer quarters of-London.
GERTRUDE BERG,
Tulip Queen, 1927
Coronation of Queen .
To Be Gala Affair
Miss Druse Writes
Of Personality
In Clothes
Women Entering Men's Sacred
Field of Sports - What Now?
Every now and then the~"niale spe­cies
is sorely disturbed by a chal­lenge
from the weaker sex. One of
the latest is in the field of manly
•sports. This time a young woman
boldly enters the lists branded as a
crack swimmer, and - demands to
compete witlx all comers at the Nat­ional
Olympic Games.
What is. to-be done? . Are women
to be given an equal footing with
men in the sacred and exclusive"field
of sports? It the field of sports,
where physical skill arid endurance
are at a premium, to be touched with
. femininity. Are he-men glorying in
their physical prowess and perfection
to be weighed in the balance with a
.woman on the other end, and per­haps
be found lacking?
. / : Equality! Certainly! In this land
of non-discriminating and broad-minded
men, woman represents the
apex of this; equality. There is no
office to which women can, aspire
without a good chance of getting it.
•We have women lawyers, women
governors, women legislators, women
professors, and women mayoi's,
There are women golfers, women
Ijull-fighters, women grid fiends arid
,. women channel swinrniers.' Tliey are
h .lauded to; the skies for their, many
:: achievements, encouraged by pulpit
$ a n d press; iand ;• pushed ^eVer\ onward
by the plaudits of the nations. -
But every now and then some in­dignant
soul breaks and tells of
man's inhumanity to women. What
a brute is this man! If she drops her
handkerchief he allows her to stoop
to recover ' i t ; he opens doors, and
most ignobly enters himself: in the
hallways, tramways, highways—he
jostles her! His injustices and cruel­ties
are as the sands of the sea. Con­sider
the mill worker. He boards the
homebound 5 o'clock trolley, he lets
the "hello girl" stand at Ids side and.
offers her not- a seat. Hat lifting
reverance is on the decline, and men
have been known on hot days to re­move
their' coats in a woman's pres­ence.
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Bowing, handkissing and other
symptoms of mature respect . have
almost been relegated to the ash can,
while the modern lover is of all peo­ple
the most unreasonable. Occas­ionally
one is uncovered who. among
numerous other atrocities hints that
she return , his theater, night club,
dance, flower and chocolate, invest­ments,;
by asking him to a fudge
party sponsored by herself.
'•'" Something must be'done! If some
action is not speedily taken, this
species called man wil^ wander away
froin the wqrshipping stand and beat
her in' swimming the Atlantic Ocean.;
Training School Girls Make
Dressmaking and Design
Notebooks.
After one of the closest contests
in the history of the Tulip Festival,
Miss Gertrude Berg, candidate of the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com­pany,
the North-side service clubs,
the Realty board, and the Belling­ham
Business and Professional Wom­en's
club, was elected queen of. the
1927 Festival". More votes " were
polled than' in any of the previous
festival, Miss Berg's winning number
being 251,300, to Miss Louise Ryan,
Whatcom High School candidate's
220,100, and 132,800 for Miss Vivian
Groot, who was supported by the
Eagles, Union Labor, the Eagles, The
Washington Club, and Fairhaven
High School.
Miss Pauline Mitchell of Mount
Vernon, was elected Skagit queen,
with a majority of 72,500 votes to
42,100 polled for Miss Mildred John­son,
of Rexville.
Elaborate plans are now under
way to make the coronation, the pa­rade,
and the whole festival, a most
gorgeous and colorful pageant dull­ing-
Queen Gertrude's two days of
rule, May 0 and 7.
Miss Berg, Miss Johnson, and a
chaperone, will later embark upon a
ten thousand mile "See America"
trip around the United States."
aried Pr^^
Fe^ures Big
Edens Hall Girls Awarded Cup
for Most Interesting Act.
Audience Pleased.
Appointment Bureau
Continues to
Function
Miss Druse, of the Normal art de­partment
has always taken a very
real interest in the girls of her class­es.
As a teacher of art she has
come into contact with a great many
girls to whom she has been a very
decided help. The girls have not
only learned the principles of draw­ing
and painting but. the principles
of dress. design.
At the present time the eighth
grade girls of the training school are
being given lessons on how to dress
attractively and are making note­books
on dress designing. The fol­lowing
article on clothes Avas written
by Miss Druse and she has had a
number of copies printed for the
training* school girls to include in
'•their notebooks. "
Miss Druse has consented to hav­ing
it printed in the Meesenger in
the hope that Normal girls will find
it helpful and that the subject of
clothes will be taken in a new light:
"Make friends of your clothes,
girls. ' Y o u know they really have a;
personality. Give them care and
thought and they will do the "same
by you.
"They will give you comfort when
with them and they will add Cham
to your' charm. 'Treat them with
disrespect, neglect to care for them
and . there's no knowing how ; they
will make you. look, nor what they
will say about you; • Just between"
ourselves, it's wise to be on friendly
terms with -your clothes." : ^ -
"Where are you going to teach
next year?" is being rapidly decided
during these most important
weeks. The list of "Who's Who
and Where" for this week is as
follows from the appointment bur­eau
:
Margaret Ann Gleriovich, Northwood
School, Primary.
Jessie Kirby, Lynden, (3 and 7.
Audrey Buchanan, "Longview, Pri­mary.
Dorothy Ervin, Seattle, Cadet.
Esther Cooper, Seattle, Cadet.
Estelle Martinson, Seattle, Cadet.
Mary M. Lucli, Seattle, Cadet.
Neva Ruppel, Stevenson, first.
Thelma Butler, Seattle, Cadet.
Ozell Ward, Seattle, Cadet,
The following students have re­ported
signing contracts:
Bryan Hankins, Garard Creek, AVash-ington.
Upper Grades.
Maurine Vander Griend, Lynden.
Valentine Hankins, Garard Creek,
Primary.
Gladys Lois Anderson, Centralis,,
Intermediate.
Virginia White, Avon chool, Mt. Ver­non,
5 and 6.
Josephine Markham, South Bend.
Florence. E. Schmidtke, Elina, Oak-hurst
Sanitorium. All grades.
Carolyn Broyles, Mt. -.Vernon, Rl.
Rural. ' " - ' ' .
Myrtle Rosenquist, Sedro-Woolley.
Primarv.
With an opening number of tanta­lizing
jazz from the "Arcadians,"
the annual Viking Vodvil moved with
pageant-like ease through a series
of some of the clei-erest acts present­ed
in the Normal auditorium this
year. The. music and the lighting
added especially to the program, giv­ing
it an almost professional touch.
The auditorium was miraculously
changed" into a moving-picture thea­ter,
when the famous 'Ham Hamilton'
flashed onto the screen in a two^reel
comedy, "Moving Along." The sec­ond
number, a tumbling act put on
by Louis Gilfillen was quite equal in
its suspense and its thrills to any
circus acrobat act.
The Rural Life Club stunt, "Smith
and Brown at Cornwall Park," drew
many laughs from the audience. The
"Six Growing Girls," from Edens
Hall staged a most charming dance
number assisted by Miss Inez Swan-son,
and Avon the cup donated by
the board of control for the best
number on the program.
The Thespian Club's "Aloha Har-monizers"
gave several charming
numbers, especially featuring Ells-
AArorth Lumley's AAiiistling act.
Members of the MacDoAvell Club
presented "Through t h e Picture
Frame," tableaus of many famous
songs. Donald Stickney gave a hu­morous
selection "At the Photograph­er's"
as a represents tiA-e of the "W"
Club.
"Good Night," a play presented by
Barney Chichester and Carrie Tuck­er,
as representathes of the Frosh
Class, Avas a1 most characteristic
glimpse into the daily lives of the
youth of today, and was very popu­lar
with the,croAvd.
The last number AA'as a dancing act
presented by the W. A. A. girls call­ed
the "Clock Shop," a most charm-nig
presentation from beginning to
end.
Much of the credit for the success of
the Viking VodA-il must be given the
general manager, Andy McCall, and
his- assistants, Phil Sisk, Jack Kel­logg,
and Robert Wagner.
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Red Arrow Seeks
Material For
New Edition
High Schools
For Music
Ho
The first _musie contest of the
High Schools of Northwest Washing­ton
will be held in the auditorium of
the Bellingham State Normal School,
May 7th, 1927, at 2:00 p.-in. The
contest is being sponsored by the
Normal School under the direction
of Mr. Smith.
Great enthusiasm and interest has
been shown by all the larger schools
of tlie three NortliAvest Washington
Counties Snohomish, Skagit a n.d
Whatcom. Everett has entered an
orchestra,'band, Boys' Glee Club and
Girls' Glee Club; Sedro Woolley, a
Boys' Quartet, a Girls' Glee Club and
a Girls' Quartet. Mount Vernon has"
a Boys' Quartet, Girls' Quartet, Band
and an Orchestra; Fairhaven, a Boys'
Glee Club, a Girls' Glee Club and a
Boys' Quartet; Anacortes an Orches­tra;
Lynden a Girls' Glee Club and
a Girls' Quartet; Burlington-an Or­chestra
and a Band.
The Bellingham Normal School is
presenting trophies in the form of
silver loAing cups for first and sec­ond
prizes in the folloAving events;
.Orchestra, Band," Girls' Glee Club,
Boys' Glee Club, Boys' Quartet and
Girls' Quartet. Each event is di­vided
into tA\ro classes; those schools
with an enrollment of over 400 in
Class -"A" and those with an enroll­ment
of 150 to 400 in Class "B." The
Normal school will also present a
large loving cup to the largest point
winner in each class.
The purpose of this contest is not
to defeat an opponent or primarily
to Avin the cups but is a friendly con­test
in Avhich each school is to pace
the other on j the road to excellence.
Each organization is to perform a
picked selection and that one Avhich
in the estimation of the judges does
its best is to receive an award.
The names of the judges will be
announced in next week's Messen­ger.
They will be picked from the
outstanding musicians of Seattle.
The contest is being held on Satur­day
afternoon and will allow all the
alumni of the A^arious schools rep­resented
a chance to attend.
President! Epsli
yes FQI
Month
President Plans on Inspecting
• Normals and Securing
Additional Faculty.
PLANS DISCUSSED FOR
OUTSIDE INFORMAL
Associate Editor and Advertising
Manager Named; Articles
Limited in Length.
Plans for the outside girls' in­formal
Avhich Avill be held at Edens
Hall Saturday evening, May 14, Avere
discussed at a meeting of the offi­cers
of the Women's League, Tues­day,
April 26.
The dance is to represent a lawn
fete and decorations will give the
May-time appearance. The commit­tee
in charge are planning to make
the dance an especially attractive
affair. There will be special num­bers,
a good orchestra and refresh­ments.
More definite plans will be
made later.
. On a month's trip to Oregon, Cali­fornia,
and ithe East, for the purpose
of iuteiTieAving prospective teachers
and-visiting other Normal schools,
President C. H. Fisher left Belling­ham,
Tuesday evening.
Pres. Fisher is spending the first.
Aveek of his trip in Oregon, where he
is inspecting the Ashland and Mon­mouth
Normals for. the Washington
State Board of Education, Avhich is
considering their accrediting in ed­ucational
institutions _ of this state.
He will also visit Oregon Agricultur­al
College and the University of Ore­gon-
In California, he AArill spend several
days at the "U" of California and
Stanford, intervieAving candidates for
positions here.
He will then go East to Chicago
to secure additional faculty mem­bers,
and will go on to NCAV York if
necessary.
Included in Pres. Fisher's itinerary
are some of the leading Normal
schools of the country, located at
Greeley, Colorado; Warrensburg,
Missouri; Mihvaukee, Wisconsin, and
Kalamazoo, Michigan. While, visit­ing
these schools much attention will
be given to courses of stndy, organi:
zation, construction of gymnasium
and physical education buildings. A
physical education unit is to be
asked for at the next session of the
legislature in accordance with the
building plan of the B. S. N. S.
Saturday, April 30.—
Sophomore party in big gym at
8:30.
Camp Fire Girls' Conference. Reg­istration
begins at 8:30 at Whatcom
High School.
Grand Council Fire at Armory at
7:30.
W. A. A. hike to Sk3-line Ridge.
Leave at 0:00.
Sunday, May 1.—
W. A. A. breakfast at the Rocks
at 8:00.
Tuesday, May 3.—
Arthur Johnson; tenor, to appear
in regular assembly.
Friday, May G.—
Williams Trio, to giAre concert in
regular assembly.
NOTICE!
The Girl Scouts •will hold their next
regular meeting, ion Sunset * Trail
Wednesday, May 4th, at 6:00 o'clock.
; The evening will be«devoted to
trail blazing, camp cooking,. signal­ling,
compass work and out door
fires. Miss Ruth Dilley is adviser
for the club. - - V ••>
A literary contest to stimulate lit­erary
aehieA-ement among the stu­dent
body at large Avas announced
Thursday by Nelson Robinson, Edi­tor,
of the Red AITOAV. There AAall
be the customary two divisions, poet­ry
and prose, Avith a separate prize
to be aAvarded in each field.
All short stories submitted should
not exceed fifteen hundred Avords in
length,- and essays should be con­fined
to eight hundred Avords. There
is no limit set for the length of
poems. Material should be submit­ted
under a pseudonym Avith the name
of the author and the name of the
manuscript attached in a sealed en­velope.
It should be addressed "For
the Red Arrow Literary Contest"
and left in the Red AITOAV office in
the Messenger room.
Business of Tuesday's meeting of
the Scribes' Club included the elec­tion
of an Advertising Manager and
an Associate • Editor to aid in this
quarter's ..edition of the Red AITOAV.
Barney Chichester, a member of the
Messenger staff and. the author of
one of the weekly publication's neAV
columns,, was elected AdA'ertising
Manager; .v -.;•
Julia Gray Avon the position of As­sociate
Editor after a hot: fight.
Sverre" Arested was appointed
chairman of a committee to revise
the constitution. '; Other business in­cluded
the appointment of assistants
to the Editor and the.,Business Man*'
ager and--.the introduction of a new
plan _ whereby .the Editorial Council
will • judged aU; materialvsubmitted. J
Springtime Lures Admirers
of Nature to Forest Haunts
'With the coming of Spring the
children of the training school hav^e
turnd to the delights of nature
study.
Each grade is Avorking along the
lines of its particular interest and a
definite plan for the keeping of rec­ords
of their Avork has been formu­lated.
After each trip a careful outline is
made describing the excursion in
brief, giA'ing the place, date, time
used, experiences, recognition of both
old and neAV facts and assignments
to individual children.
Experiences for the pre-primary,
first, second and third grades con­sist
of the observations in the field,
of plants, -flowers, birds, insects and
animals. ''They also observe l'ock
formations, Aveather signs and the
stars.
Nature trails on Sehome hill have
been AA'orked out by the children^ in
the fourth grade. They have al­ready
explored three trails and tag­ged
specimens of fifty-six different
plants. ' /
The nature Avork of the fifth grade
centers around the school floAver gar­den
Avhere they are studying the
planting of flowers with reference
to color combinations and the phy­siology
of plants.
A""plan-'for the study; of the hu­man
body in relation to plant life is
being; made by the sixth grade. -,
1 The seventh and: eighth J grade,pu-l)
ils .are'attemptmg; there-prganim-tion
:6f the nature; museum as. well
as beginning a study of plant com­munities
AA'hieh leads to a study of
insects and birds.
An example of the interest "shoAvn
of the children can be found in the
second grade Avhere they have made
a collection of specimens ranging
from apple blossoms to a bottle of
sand from YelloAvstone National
Park. — ' ' ..
They have taken several trips, each
time reArieAAring old interests and dis-coArering
neAV ones." When a new
specimen is brought to their atten­tion
all the infor^nation necessary to
clear up any question or doubt as to
the identity of the_ specimen is pre-,
sented to the children. -
The children are beginning to de­velop
an observing scientific atti­tude
as is manifested in the eager­ness
and enthusiasm of the children
in their desire to discuss and investi­gate
the things they- find on the
way to school and on the Ararious
trips tiiey^ntake with their pai-ents
to the beaches, hills and country.
A respect for scientific authority
is also created for Avhen both- the
teacher and children are unable to
identify a specimen, they immediate­ly
suggest going to a specialist or a
good book; for aid. It is also neces­sary
for. the .teacher to be" familiar ;
in a large degree, Avith the phenom­ena
of nature for she cannot ahyays :•:'•
anticipate.ithe direction the.. interests;.'.'.''
Avill take and every" bit of; scientific ;
knowledge .that can,he acquired, Syill.
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