Weekly Messenger - 1927 October 28

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IttsSlllliS W^HINSTXEWSIV^ Friday, October 28*
Tri-Normal Cham^nship Qame to
be Big Future: on^the P i ^ i uu
| for the; Homecoming Graduate,
jGAME CALLED FOR 2:00
Annual Serpentine Thru Town,
V JBi|sf Pep Rally and Bonfire on
Waldo Field Starts Celebration.
/ T h e fifth; annual Bellingham;;N6r-mal
Alumni^Hpmecom^v'W^^'teld
November 5, with the Vikdng-Eiiena-
Jrarg Tri-Normal Championship grid
battle as:/jHar < to^ppBcrfc; ir^a^iMci|y_;a^ip;9»ia^_
promises to^b^;thjB largest
event of the F ^
moist important .alumhi^tudent; gath-,
erihg "-in .the/history -of .^the. schppl.
Undfr^he^ &• '^Happy"
Fisher, president of the Alumni As­sociation,
and the student Hdmecbm'r
ing Committee headed by. Gladys
Green, a program for the big affair
including a" succession of events for
-Friday evening and \ Saturday has
been planned. .-.•.:
s Pep Rally Friday
•Friday evening November 4, at
6:30 o'clock, the train of events" will
begin with the annual serpentine and
pep rally through town followed, by
the big bonfire on Waldo Field:
"Ace" Sherwood, yell king, is pre­paring
a snappy program which he
: says will open the Homecoming fes­tivities
with a bang.
Immediately after the bonfire the
students will adjourn to the auditor­ium,
where a stunt program will be
given.
Saturday Big Day
-Saturday morning the Alumni will
return to find the-Campus-and -yjr
cinity of the school gaily decked out
as it is only once ^ach year. Regis­tration
at the President's Office dur­ing
the forenoon is scheduled for the
"old grads". ,
The all-school luncheon Saturday
at noon in the Edens Hall dining
room and the Cafeteria will be Sat­urday's
first feature. The Frosh and
Soph classes will be busy all next
week selling tickets to students and
faculty members. A luncheon which
.will bring students and alumni to­gether
and foster a good spirit is
the aim of the committee. A pro­gram
of several high class acts is to
be presented by the various school
organizations. Tickets are 35 cents.
;"'..'.. Vikings-Ellensburg Clash
In the biggest football game of the
year in Bellingham, the Vikings clash
with" Ellensburg Normal at 2:00 p.
m. on, Waldo Field with the State
;Tri-Nonnal Championship as the ob­jective
of both teams. This game
between probably the best teams that
either Bellingham or EHensburg has
: ever developed is what, will bring
back the Alumni and is making the
1927 Homecoming the biggest and
best ever. \_
At 6:30 in the evening comes'the
Alumni banquet at Edens Hall, open
only to alumni of the school. The As-socaition
has a highly worthwhile oc­casion
in store for the old timers,
according to President "Happy" Fish­er.
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'.'•-/;• Then The Mixer
• ; Capping the whole program is the
dance, to be held in the State Ar­mory
from 8:30 to 11:30. A beau­tiful
scheme of-decorations has been
worked out by lienore White and her
assistants who compose the dance
committee This plus a high class
;jqrchestra_^will provide the huge
^crowd of ""old grads"_ and "under-grads"
with an enjoyable evening to
bring the 1927 Fall Homecoming Java,
jclose.-
^Notice! • N6J;ice! Notice!
' Students who expect to grad­uate
must make application and
:pay a fee of one dollar ($1.00)
I at: the registrar's office before
November 5th; ; .•r-Vr^^v"'
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v25rinch^ split; drain tile -has ^been; de-;
vUyered/; to ytt»e: new Hbrary i recently
f by itheTAmerican Concrete Works . of
;thiscity/' Work wjth te
::begin in,tlw /
; The "best and jiosJ; originally^
decorated house for . Homecom­ing
i s t P receive aprize not yet
definitely: determined but guar­anteed
to be suitable and worth­while.
Clara Morgan is chair.-:
man of the committee which is
arranging this work. It is hoped
to sthnulate activity along this
line and make the'.Campus -dis­trict
assume a gala air. ;;
; Judging; from last year's dec-:
orated houses, the competition
will be strong. Original ideas
will,1- no doubt, -be;-many and
varied.
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Of FACliTY
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Washington Educational Associa­tion
Holds Meeting at Longview,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Fifteen members of the Normal fac­ulty
are; at Longview, Washington,
today, representing this school at the
annual meteing of the Western di­vision
of the Washington Education
Association. The delegates are: Pres:
ident C. H. Fisher, W. J. Marquis,
Harold B. Smith, the Misses Mary E.
Rich, Augusta Pragst, Anna J. Bies-wenger,
Marjorie" E. Dawson, Fanny
J. Ragland, Orpah McPherson, Ruth
G. Strickland, Mildred Moffatt, Pearl
Crosgrave, Bertha M. .Keller, and
Mrs; ^Barbara. Ewell.- In addition to
these E. A. Bond and V. H. Hoppe
are in Wenatchee attending the meet­ing
of the eastern division of the
organization.^
Miss McPherson, who is the Super­visor
in Rjiral Schools for the Nor­mal,
is chairman of a group at the
conference, which is discussing new
departures in the making of suitable
programs for rural schools. Mr. A.
D. Foster, superintendent of the Me­ridian
district -which is affiliated with
the Normal School, made the chief
address in this group. Mrs. Ethel
Barber, of Laurel, discussed the ap­plication
of these programs to schools
of her type.
Other papers were read by Mrs.
Alice Nurnburg, Jefferson County
superintendent, and Mrs. Jean Todd
Fredson, former superintendent of
schools in Mason county. "We hope
to have a live discussion of a very
vital problem" said Miss McPherson,
before leaving for the convention.
"This subject was chosen because of
the numerous requests for it from
the field," she added.
Miss Dawson, primary supervisor
in the. city schools, is chairman of a
committee on~kindergartens and pri­mary
grades. The discussion in this
group'took place this morning. Miss
Ruth G. Strickland, of the Normal,
read a paper at this meeting. Others
who took part in the program were:
Miss Helen M. Reynolds, director of
Kindergarten and Primary Education
in Seattle; Miss Ceatta E. Larrick,
superintendent of Cadet Teaching in
Seattle, and Miss. Josephine ~Ed-wards,
teacher in the city schools of
Longview. : ,
Miss/ Fanny J. Ragland spoke on
Junior High School Geography at the
(convention. -Miss Ragland - stressed
the importance of periodicals and
other: current;: literature, including
Jthe newspaper, in her discussion.; She
quoted Babbett's. Curriculum Inves­tigation
to -. bear but her statements:
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Assembly on Music
Karl Kruegar, director of the Se­attle
Symphony Orchestra^will de­liver
a;lecture .on symphony and:
opera music/at the/regluar assembly,
Friday, November 1. Mr? ^uegar,
the/conductor of J;he now f amous Set'
attle<• Symphony Orchestra, was for­mer
ely with Vienna Imperial Opera.
His chief, Frank Schalk wrote; of
him: -"I have/no doubt that he will
play an; important role among; the
leading 'orchestra chiefs, of his time.''
Mr. Kruegar also conducted the fam­ous;
Conservatoire Orchestra in Paris
of which the London Express gave
him a high compliment,^ • saying:
"Karl Kruegar is a great conductor.
—He holds the orchestra in bis hands
Alt', is truly/ an.unusual tiight/fo/Bee
the orchestra lay down; their instru­ments
and applaud the conductor."
Mr. Kruegar. will also lecture be­fore
the Bellingham Women's Music
club three of whose members recom­mend
him highly. They are Mrs. C.
H. Barlow, Mrs. Abbie Raymond, and
Miss Edith Strange. . .
DR J O HN LECTURES
ON CURRENT TOPICS
Makes Four Appearances at School
Before Students, Faculty and the
People of Bellingham.
Dr. Frank Bohn of the New York
Times, entertained several.groups of
students and town pfeople in a series
of lectures delivered in the Normal
School auditorium on Monday and
Tuesday of this week.
Due to not being able to meet a
train, Dr. Bohn was unable to speak
to the students at 10 o'clock, Mon­day
morning, as had been planned.
He arrived in time, however, to
speak to the students at two o'clock
that afternoon; "United States and
the World" was the subject of his
talk on Monday afternoon. The main
purport of the talk was the growth
of our modern imperialism. He gave
examples of how American capital
was more or less ruling the economic
world.
In his lecture, Tuesday night, he
stressed the necessity of checking the
spirit of jazz in the United States.
Jazzy press, jazzy music, jazzy cheap
magazines, and jazzy youth are the
predominating features of the pre­valence
of jazz in this country.
In iregard to the jazzy pressj he
declared that it is known by its
"screaming headlines, its preference
for the sensational and its disregard
for truth." Recent specific instances
of the tendency of some newspapers
to write up stories, in order that
they might sell the paper, that are
nothing but lies was alluded to by
Dr. Bohn. In. answer to a question,
Mr. Bohn said that a newspaper
should be judged by its presentation
of news.
In denouncing the sensational mag­azines
he said that they were
"either filthy or silly."
Decentralization is the problem to
..be" faced by the United States is his
claim. There is too much of Chicago,
ami New-York, well, it is three times
as large as Chicago. "The curse and
blight of being led by a city, civi­lization"
is the problemj / he says; He
suggests a return; to the ivy covered
cottage. "/•',..
In ending this lecture, he says, no
matter how things seem to be now,
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Calendar of Events
FRIDAY, Oct. 28--Recreation:Hpur, Big Gym
^TURDAY, Oct. 29—Vikings vs. Sti Martin's College^ Waldo Field,;
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TUESDAY, Nov. i^-KarLKruegeiy'le^rels in a. m.
FRIDAY^ j ^ ^ ^
FRIDAY and SATUllDAY^^omeco^
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jFootball Booklets are Attractively
D e s i g n e d and Contain Much of
r Interest for Homecoming Game.
With Homecomiig-but' itjreekoff,
the.; Souvenir Football ^program,;? ac-cording
to the publishers isipractical-ly
readjr; for ;the ^ress.;; These, pro­grams
are published annually for the
big Homecoming game and make an
attractive souvenir of the occasion.
Similar in design to previous book­lets-
but. containing;• several new fea­tures,
the editors are. optimistic for
the success of theiprograms, claiming
that this Keditipiik w^U eclipse all for*
met efforts;-and^j^ectirigV-tha^ih
popularity, among the students, it
will also reach new heights. Their
aim has been to produce a program
of , superior • workmanship- and
organized in a more effective manner.
A strong attempt/has been made to
secure uniformity/-of pictures.. In ad­dition,
one of the. more pleasing fea­tures
will *be the larger sized pictures
of the football players.
The programs will go on sale in
assembly next Friday morning. The
price of the programs i8 twenty-fiye
cents' per copy and work sent put by
the sales managers is that students
should not forget,their two-bits Fri­day
morning as it is a strictly cash
proposition. A large sale is expected
from the Alumni 'and game attend­ants
as well as among ^the" students.
TRAINING CLASSES
WILL HOLD PARTIES
Training School Students Prepare
for Celebration of Hallowe'en.
-Groups Plan Separate Programs.
Hallowe'en parties for the coming
week have been planned-by the var­ious
-training school classes. The
seventh and eighth grade classes are
to hold a luncheon in the Cafeteria
dining room, Monday, October 31. It
is planned to have readings given by
members of the faculty, and also
musical numbers.
The fifth grade has planned an en­tertainment
for -Monday from two
till three o'clock.; The program speci­fies
games in the little gym and
later. refreshments-to be served in
the dining room. These refreshments,
which will consist-of cider, drop cakes
baked by the students, and apples,
will be prepared : by a student com­mittee.
All the other details.of the
party are in the care of entertain­ment,
decoration; and invitation com­mittees.
Other items oh the program
include typical^ Hallowe'en games,
fortune telling, story telling by Mrs;
Ewell, librarian of children's litera­ture,
and music.:"'" ••-• --'i.
The "first grade will hold a joint
party for the morning and afternoon
groups. The walls of the classroom
have been decorated by the students
in keeping with the holiday spirit.
The children at present are busy
making caps to wear during the fes­tivities.-
The refreshments to be
served will remain ;a surprise until
the party is held. .Typical Hallow­e'en
games will furnish the amuse­ment
for the event: ;
of Student Body
SOURDOUGH GLUB
The Sourdough Club is planning to
reorganize forVthe year and is asking
all; pereohs; who- are eligible and who
wish to become members' to sign' on
the Oub'Bulietin Board in the main
hall. Haying[lived or > taught in
Alaska ^constitutes^eligibility for
membership.;"-.•.":\ ;.-'^V :';-;*.<-^
'Joel GudmUhdson was elected Vice-
President of the Students' v Associa­tion
as a result of the vote last Fri­day,
October:: 21. Other candida.tes
in the field were Madeline , Bos shard,
Lenore White, Dorothy. McCool, and
Theo Norby. Gudmundson and Nor-by
led the race with the former win­ning
by a sato margin.: ,'.-.;':T
.With the filling of this post, the
Board of Control r°8ter is complete.
The personnel of the Board includes
Robert Fisher, President; Joel Gud­mundson,
vice-president; Carrie Tuck­er,
Asa Sherwood, and Dean Edmund-son,
student representatives; E. A.
Bond and E. J. Anitzen faculty jrep-resentatiyes.
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, The Board meets weekly on Wed­nesdays
at 4 p. m..in the Students'
Association room, on the second- floor.
YOUTHFUL CANADIAN
Eleanor; Agnew, Margaret Wilson
Unusually Well Received Here
at Two Concerts, Last Friday.
Eleanor Agnew and Margaret Wil­son
two youthful violin^virtuosos of
Saskatoon, Canada, gave two very
fine concerts at the Normal school,
last Friday. morning.
These two children, accompanied
by Miss Millicent Lusk, played for
the Training School at nine ojclock.
Tt"was" tlfe'cohcehsus ;of opinion that
this was the most charming program
ever given before "the Training school.
More "was done for the cause of mu­sic
by "these two small girls than
could have been done by a host of
professional performers. The recital
acted as a great stimulus to all
music-students.
At the eleven o'clock, assembly, the
girls played an artist program- and
showed themselves well equal to the
task. They showed a remarkable
grasp of form and interpretation for
their age. This was displayed to a
high degree by their rendition of the
Bach Concerto for two violins. Bach's
works are not for the amateur and
the melodic outline was well brought
out in this composition.
Miss Agnew displayed her virtuoso
technic to fine advantage in the Bal­lade
and Polonaise of Vieuxtemps. In
the Song of India a surprisingly
beautiful tone was revealed.
Miss Wilson was at her best in the
AUegro from Mendelssohn's Concerto.
This was a very difficult number
which seemed to be handled with the
greatest facility.
Here were two young girls un­spoiled
by the adulation they- were
receiving and which is certainly their
just due. .Their simplicity and nat-uraliness
was" a delight—(two qual­ities
so seldom seen in musical per­formers).
;
. If these girls progress as much in
the next ten years as" they have in
the past seven there is a wonderful
future ahead.. They should become
internationally known artists.- Their
teacher, Florence McNair Hanson, is
to be highly praised for the wonder­ful
work done with these two thir­teen
year old girls; ;. _
MR FOWLER HEADS v
ENGLISH COMMITTEE
Mr. Herbert E. Fowler has' been
given chairmanship of a committee on
English in higher teacher-training in -
stitutions 61 the InlandP Enapire. Thp
committee will make^ a" study of the
teaching of F^nglish ; in ";r ;Normal
schoolsi and^TJiiyersities.; The Eng­lish^
Council;;is a; bra^h; of! the;rlri-land
Empire • Teacher's >A^sociationy
which meets .in Spokane every spring.
It ;coviers; the: %four .northwestern
states JpfOreg^^Haho, Mbntaioa,
and; Washington..; ;;-p;; '; i.. '-;>:•• '^ K- '•:^H ^
Nprmal Squad in F i i ^^
Battle fr<Mn Undefeated Rangers, bikings Are
Delerimneci to Avenge Last Year's Defeat)
Sophomore Mixer to Celebrate the
Spirit of Hallowe'en .with Party.
Musical and Vodvil Acts Slated.
Ghosts, goblins, bugaboos, and even
ballyhoos will be there in combined
force tomorrow evening! Will you be
there, sweet, blushing Sophomore
girls" and- you, handspme, manly,
Sophomore men? Yea, verily, and.to­gether
we will bring the .cute little
Frosh "men". Y-A-jL-M, We'll be
there in person and in that good old
Hallowe-en spirit!
Members of the St. Martin's Col­lege
football-team will be the. guests
of the evening, coming from Lacey,
Washington early in the day for the
purpose of playing the Viking squad
on Waldo Field. ,
Saturday night, November 29, is
the date of the annual Sophomore
dance and mixer given in the audi­torium
and the "big gym". The pro­gram
for the evening will start in
the auditorium promptly at 8:15, in
the form of two musicals given by
Vera Ginnett and the Normal School
orchestra.:,Carri€i Tucker, andVBar,hey
Chichester will' give -a short one-act
comedy "A .Pair of Lunatics." A
men's trio will sing. -
The main feature of the evening's
program will be the big Soph dance,
(which uncludes also the Frosh
'men'). It is hoped that masks, cos­tumes,
and other effects will not
keep anyone away who has not the
time to procure them. Go to Holly
and F streets, Saturday for costumes
and masks will be sold at the" en­trance
of the auditorium.
The dance will be a masquerade.
Refreshments will be served later in
the evening.
Miss Bertha Kellar is_facuity ad­visor
of the Sophomore class, and is
assisted by the several Sophomore
committees who are in charge of the
following: Publicity, Catherine Law­rence
; decorations, Dorothy McCool;
invitations, Olive Hardan; program,
Beth Coghlin; and, costumes, Eleanor
Bosshardt.
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Board of Control
l_ookii_g|w
suit ager
At the weekly-meeting of the Board
of Control, Wednesday afternoon,
November 19, discussions to; who
would be given the post of Business
Manager of the 1928 Klipsun :was
given much attention. Applications
arie required to have two. quarter's "6f
residence work, which stipulation has
eliminated a number of applicants;
No; action was taken,; and the Board
stated it .was- still receiving applica­tions
fpr the position^ :
Asa; Sherwod- brought up>;-;the
^question. of .having the Recrea­tion
Hour with more formality^
It was decided that a questipnaire
concerning Rec-hour should be made
up and: submitted to the. students to
learn their views.
, Uniform blue and white jerseys ifpr"
Viking; yell ^leaders. wjis;"the:ifhial
subject for discussion .but ho formal
action was.taken. " •::;":-;". .^•'•;^-::'^
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:?Saii Jose ^Statei. Teacher's College
will hot enter the ihter-collegiatei X?e-;
bating; .conference:; this year, _ bepaueie
thesei is^ a lack of interest in the anabr
ject/ Students also fail to 'attiend-.ie::
batos>:.>;;;:;;;,;V';::.-):-''.U':;.;;?;"'-:
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I,- ^With the ;pelt: oL Ellensburg Nor^
mal in her possession, the; powerful
undefeated ;St^ Martin's ; eleven wilit
attempt to add the scalp of another
Normal team to her string-when"thy
gridders from Lacey clash witli Sam
Carver's band of Vikings on; Waldo
field, Saturday afternoon.
St. Martin's^ i8 the toughest as­signment
that Carver's charges Aave
had this season and a.-Viking, victory
would be somewhat of an upset.
.Taking comparative scores as a basis
the Laceyites have the edge pyer the
Blue and White. Defeating Ellens­burg
a rteam that a week before
trimmed the University; of Washing­ton
Frosh/ St. Martin's displayed
ppwer, in both their backfield and
line. -. "';'.';:;:'"?^.-
It is possible that "Saturday's fray
may develop into -a; battle between
two strong forward walls The Nor­mal's
line has; yet to meet its; equal
and the /Lacey backs will. find a>
stonewall defense that Will "be : hard
to penetrate. "••""• '""•• ' -;
On. the other hand the Blue; and 1
White ball carriers to date have not
demonstrated any exceptional line
plunging ability and it is highly pos­sible
that both squads may be forced
to take tp the air. An aerial game
will either make or break the" Vi­kings.
If Coach" Carver can polish
his overhead attack and make it
function as smoothly as it did in the
final, period, of-the^^^Frosh game, a
Normal wih will be in order/ but if
the secondary defense crumbleB.un­der-
a barrage of St. Martin's forward
passes, the Irish will win. - •"~-':
For the purpose of getting a line
oh his Saturday's -opponents, Coach
Carver attended the Ellensburg-St.
Martin's contest at Lacey last Fri­day
and saw "the Eastern Washing­ton
aggregation fall beneath a de­termined
offensive attack, featured
by power plays, cross and criss-cross
bucks. If a rating were to-he made
of all minor college teams in the
state the Lacey outfit would probab­ly
rank first.
Although the hill-toppers, were
somewhat batered in their mix with
the froshj they suffered; no perma­nent
ill-effects, and Carver "expects
(Continued on Page Three)
Home Economics v
Department Has
New Instructor
Mrs. Aiice Sherfy; Houston former­ly
of the University of Washington
faculty, is now teaching in the Home
Economics department of the Normal
school. She teaches four classes of
Normal school nutrition, the eighth
grade training school home: economy
ics class, and the St. Luke's nurses,
who are in training and come to this
' school to study dietitics: • : f A.; ;
Mrs. Houston was. graduated from
the Lewis Institute in Chicago, DX,
received Ker: "B. S.! degree from.; the;
Ohio State University; ahd;her M. S.
degree-ffbin^^ the Uniyersity'pf Wash-,
ingtpn • ;where; she; majored in nutrir;
tibn"v.'ahd niinbredih;^education; For
! one I semester f she ; worked: with child-;
ren of pre-school: age at the Merral-;
Palmer School of I ^ e ; M a ^ g ^ i nt
Detrpit, Michigan. She also studied
atvttestl_iver8ity oi Gtitiian^^u^
the University of Southern Califor-
:-'^i_: additionvtp^war, service;;% lee
turing and demonstration on use of
food, Mrs. Houston did Chautauqua
work in the Middle Weat. She has
taUghfc^in^a:;;im
leges. ;::v.;"Her i las^.^wprkl^^sj5&;;;tiM»
Home Economics department of the
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