Western Viking - 1938 July 29

              VOL. XXXVII—NO. 39 WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 29, 1938
By Charlies Kilbourne
DOPEY
The League of Nations secretariat
reports to the narcotics advisory
committee that legal production of.
morphine throughout the world in
1937 jumped six tons above the year
before. The excess morphine was
manufactured as military reserves
to be used to allay the coming pains
of the coming wounds of the coming
war. Happy thought!
In Des Moines, Iowa, a women's
club held a "crazy hat contest." It
Was the old story. The winner
didnt know that she Was playing.
COMING THING?
Pour or five years ago Technoc­racy
was the main topic of conver­sation
before the people. Then
something happened. It more or
less disappeared from the news.
Many people thought it was dead,
never to rise again. But in the in­tervening
years, its leaders have
been working tirelessly, and now, in
the face of a .decaying economic
system Technocracy is coming to
the front once more. Few people
know the extent of this organization
as it exists today. There is at least
one "section" as they are called, in
every city in the United States and
Canada with a population of twenty-thousand
or over. You can bet that
we'll be hearing from the Techno­crats
before long.
So far this season, enough tim­ber
has been burned to build over
five thousand five-room homes, or,
in other words, nearly enough to re­house
the city of Bellingham. And
the joker is that the number is "go
ing up" all the time.
OLYMPICS AGAIN
The decision of the Japanese gov
eminent to cancel plans for holding
the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo insti­tutes
another kind of contest. Im­mediately
there is a rush of bids for
the event. Grover Whalen, presi­dent
of the New York World's fair,
announces that he will take steps to
invite the Olympiad to the fair site.
Officials of the Golden Gate expo­sition
are also in the running. They
have declared that they will shoot
the works/if necessary, to get the
Games held there. There are other
bids too. One from Finland and
one from Sweden. However the
officials have made it clear that
they have made no decision as yet
and that the bidding is still on.
(Bellingham Chamber of Commerce
please note).
The people in this country who
make such a terrible fuss aboui the
millions spent on national defense
should pause and. consider the plight
of the English taxpayers who have
to fool an annual rearmament bill
of over $2,000,000,000.
CORNY
We musn't forget to put in our
weekly Kitchen Krew anecdote,^ The
boys have been rather quiet this
week. However, Tuesday night they
indulged in a jam session. Six
members of the Krew procured a
trumpet, a baritone horn, a bass
drum, a snare drum, and cymbals.
After too little preparation, they all
piled into the redoubtable Gertie
and set off to serenade the girls in
the Dorm. The effect was awe-inspiring,
to say the least. A few
irate citizens are still reported to
be after the boys. ]
Fisher Speaks
To Settlers,
Prexy Speaks on Contributions
Of Pioneers to Education;
Picnic Is 43rd Annual Event
An address by President C. H.
Fisher will be featured at the Old
Settlers' picnic, Pioneer Park, Fern-dale,
tomorrow afternoon. "The
Pioneers' Contribution to Educa­tion,"
will be his topic. In prepar­ing
his talk, President Fisher has
looked up various information con­cerning
prominent men and build­ings
in connection with education.
His speech will cover schooling in
the state of Washington and here
in Whatcom county.
President Fisher's address is one
of the many events arranged to
complete the program for the forty-third
annual picnic of the Old Set­tlers'
Association of Whatcom
county. To open this yearly affair,
Thursday, July 28, was devoted to
registration and a general get-to­gether.
In fulfilling their aim to have a
well-rounded picnic, this year's com­mittee
has arranged a full program
consisting of speeches, sports, en­tertainment,
and dancing. The days
set for the annual event are Thurs­day,
Friday and Saturday.
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Rich to Visit Relatives
In New York State
Planning to. spend her vacation
with her mother in New York state,
Miss Mary Rich, Director of the
Campus Elementary school, left
Bellingham by train Saturday even­ing,
July 23. Miss Rich makes this
trip every year, if possible, visiting
her relatives in New York. With
no definite side trips in view, she
plans to remain with her mother
until the return for the opening
of school in SeptemDer.
Coming Tuesday
WOODWIND TRIO
Solo Artists From Seattle Symphony
Furnish Program For Assembly
Composed of recognized solo ar­tists
and members of the Seattle
Symphony orchestra, the Wood­wind
Trio, of Seattle, will furnish
the chief musical treat at Tuesday
mornings assembly. In addition to
the trio, Mildred Eyman, leading
coloratura soprano with the San
Carlos Opera company and the
Seattle Opera association for sev­eral
years, will team up with one
of the woodwind artists in a pro­gram
of songs.
Tustin Here With Orchestra
The personnel of the trio consists
of Frank Horsfall, flute; Whitney
Tustin, oboe; Ronald Phillips, clar­inet,
and Gladys Bezeau Phillips,
accompanist. Tustin, it is recalled,
formerly played with the Western
Washington college orchestra at its
assembly appearances.
Individually the group is likewise
talented. Phillips has been with the
Martha Graham dancing group on
two coast tours, and has also par­ticipated
in numerous National
Guard concerts. Tustin is a com­poser
of oboe compositions and a
member of the Portland summer
Symphony orchestra, Horsfall is
distinguished as a veteran musician
on the Seattle Symphony. He is a
noted flute teacher and the highest
point in his career came last winter
when he accompanied Lily Pons in
a Seattle concert.
Trio on U Faculty
At present the trio are members
of the music faculty of the univer
sity summer school. Their program
will consist of classic and modern
music, much of it specially arranged
for woodwind instruments.
The assembly next Friday will be
visited by Dr. David Snedden, of
Palo Alto, a retired professor of edu­cation.
He will talk on a. subject
pertaining to his profession.
Play Under Hoppe's Direction Liked;
'Petticoat Fever' Is Pure Farce
(Continued on Pa** Three)
Buddy Rogers Here
Wednesday
By Arthur C. Hicks
Victor H. Hoppe's fourth Penthouse production, "Petticoat Fever," by
Mark Reed, opened Wednesday evening for a run of three nights in the
Edens Hall Blue room.
Like its predecessors, "Three-Cornered Moon," "The Late Christotpher
Bean" and "Personal Appearance," "Petticoat Fever" with its lightness of
tone and brisk pace is well adapted to the intimacy and informality of
Penthouse presentation. The play
is pure farce throughout and carries
the audience from one amusing sit­uation
to another to the tune of
crackling, highly seasoned wit. The
audience Wednesday night roared at
the amorous frenzy of the wireless
operator, Dascom Dinsmore, ma­rooned
in Labrador, as he wooed
Ethel Campion, Sir James Fenton's
fiancee, by resorting to one absurd
ruse after another.
Cast Well Chosen
The cast, which was well chosen,
romped through ihe farce with in­fectious
gusto. Tom Evans as the
woman-hungry Dascom and Fran­ces
Evans as his inamorata, Ethel,
played an hilarious love duet cul­minating
in a surreptitious arm­chair
wedding. Charles Meredith as
the pompous and fussy Sir James
converted the duet into a merrily
discordant trio, and Winifred Kriet-er
as Dascom's old fiancee, Clara,
who woos first Dascom and then Sir
Wednesday is the big night for lo­cal
dance patrons as Charles (Bud­dy)
Rogers brings his talented or­chestra
to the Bellingham armory.
This will be the third "name"
band to appear here under the
auspices of the genial promoters,
Jay Curtis and George Porjiss. The
hundreds of dancers who enjoyed
Eddie Duchin and Fletcher Hender­son
will not be disappointed Wed­nesday
because Rogers' band has
enjoyed a long run of triumphs.
Rogers recently broke the all-time
record at the Palomar, outdrawing
Benny Goodman among others. Fur­ther
proof that the Rogers style of
swing is tops lies in the fact that
his orchestra was the only one to
be invited twice to the late World's
fair.
Instructor to Receive
Doctors Degree
Paul R. Grim, junior high instruc­tor
in the Campus Elementary
school, has departed for Columbus,
Ohio, where he will complete the
work for his doctor's degree at Ohio
State university. It is a rather
noteworthy fact that Mr. Grim is
only twenty-six. years old.
Before coming here, he was with
the Research department at Ohio
State. He will return here in the
fall to resume his teaching position.
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Trip To Hannegan
Scheduled
"Friday, August 5, marks the date
of the most enjoyable as well as the
most beautiful trip of this summer's
recreation program — the trip to
Hannegan Pass," announces Dutch
Wilder of the Recreation office.
Students and faculty members
who are taking the trip leave the
campus at 1 p. m. and drive fifty-five
miles to the end of Hannegan
trail. Abandoning their cars they
hike about five miles to the camp at
the pass, where they cook over
campf ires and sleep under the stars.
Trips from camp to Ruth mountain
and Goat mountain are high spots.
WWC Students
Excursion
Party to Heather Meadows
Leaves at 7:30; Vancouver at
8:30; Many Places of Interest
Vancouver or Mt. Baker—parties
headed for these destinations will
leave the school grounds Saturday
morning for an all-day outing.
The recently instituted bus trip to
British Columbia's outstanding city,
offers opportunity to visit China­town,
Stanley park, the Baleek shop,
linen and china shops. The group
will leave at 8:30 a. m. from in front
of the campus.
See Mount Baker
Planned for those not caring to
hike great distances, the Mount
Baker excursion will leave at 7:30
a. m. from the P. E. building. Cars
will take the group fifty-eight miles
to Austin Pass. From there, short
side trips may be taken, to Lake Ann
or Chain lakes. The members of
the party will take their own
lunches and cups and eat in the
Heather Meadows setting.
Fare for both trips is $1.50. Tick­ets
may be secured in the Co-op.
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Cotton Constructs
Speech Booths
Continued on Pace Three
Sound-proof booths in which stu­dents
may practice speech correc­tion
are being constructed for Dr.
Jack Cotton's speech clinic on the
third floor.
An interesting feature is the
speech recording machine which en­ables
one to hear his own voice and
note the defects. By means of
small lights and mirrors students
may see how words should be form­ulated
in the throat and mouth and
practice accordingly.
In the fall quarter Dr. Cotton is
offering a course in remedial speech
for students who have speech de­fects.
These students, may go into
the sound insulated booths and prac­tice
privately, but at the same time
be supervised by means of the loud-speaking
system. The class will
meet five days a week, thereby giv­ing
the students ample opportunity
for practice.
It is the hope of Dr. Cotton that a
clinic may be completed here simi­lar
to the one at Ohio university,
considered by him one of the best
in the country.
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On The
tfon*°n
Friday, July 29
8:15 p. m.—"Petticoat Fever,"
by Division of Drama,
Edens Hall Blue room.
4 p. m—Rec hour, Training
school gym.
Saturday, July 30
7:30 a. m.—Trip to Mount
Baker and Heather Mead­ows,
from P. E. building.
8:30 a. m.—Vancouver bus
trip. Meet in front of
campus.
Tuesday, August 2
11 a. m.—Assembly, Seattle
Woodwind trio.
5 p. m.—Sailing trip to Cy­press,
island, from Belling­ham
Yacht club.
Friday, August 5
11 a. m-—Assembly, Dr. Dav­idSnedden,
lecture.