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Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XXV—NO. 15 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, Jan. 29, 1926
VIKINGS CLASH WITH CHENEY TOMORROW
Hard Lines
"SMILEr BOB"
Well folks I The bad penny' is back-after
consideration—and re-consideration—
I have decided to—stand by for the rest
of the quarter—so with my staff—of
giggle' chasers—I have cornered a few
gags—that are offered' for your approval-today—
I've left this introduction—go until
the last thing—and now I've written—
pardon me—now I've thought so much—
about editorials that—well as I was say­ing—
then \again here I'm filling all this
space—with nothing—I mean I'm putting
—my brain into it—oh, what do I mean-
Anyhow I am still—holding my amateur
standing —(old line)—and by wishing
you all—a fond good night—I'll conclude
—our program.
JOKE?
Gray: "Everytime I see my Grand­father's
sword I want to go to war."
Annis: "Well?"
Gray: "But every time I notice his
wooden leg I cool down."
SUNRISE EDITION
L HALL IS
OF
Hall to Keep Emblem Awarded
by Women's League Until
Won by^ Some Other House.
M'CORMICKS' IS SECOND
MANAGER WANTED
FOR VIKING VODVH.
Achievement Lists Are Made on
Which McCormick Hall Wins
First Place, Thomas' Second.
Cock a Doodle Doo, 1. Twitchell Hall. 6. McCollums.
I'm in This Paper, too!
2.
3.
MeCormicks.
Jenkins.
7.
S.
Vikes.
Kagans.
4. Wetzels 9. Hills.
* * * * 5. Wilkins. 10. Edens Hall.
HOW TO SAY IT WITH—
Dear Lily:
I Rose at Four O'clock in the Morning
Glory to Penn a Royal line to you so
you'd Forget-me-not. Last night I Violet-ed
the speed law of our U. S. the Carna­tion,
and1 when he cop Daffy Dill caught
me, I had to do some Dandelion to the
old Snap Dragon. He barked at me as
a Dogwood, and I had to Lilac Poppy
did when ma found a hel of a Lady
Slipper in the car.
K. O. now and will be around soon with
my friend, Jack-in-the-Pulpit.
Your own
Johnny Jumpup.
LUCKY DOG.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
And he had one or two,
He never in his life received
An E minus I. Q.
(By MAMIE ENGBRETSON)
At a meeting of the Women's
League today a large pennant of blue
and white, bearing a B. S. N. S. mon­ogram
and the word Scholarship, was
awarded to Twitchell Hall for the
fall quarter. Eunice Balch, president
of the Hall, accepted the pennant,
which will remain in that house until
some other domicile surpasses it in
average scholarhip during any suc­ceeding
quarter.
The Scholarship Committee of the
Women's League, with Louise Mu-maw
as chairman, has endeavored to
encourage high standards of scholar­ship
among the organized houses, or
all houses accomodating five or more
girls where student officers assist
the housemother in house govern­ment.
There have been thirty-five
organized houses', including Edens
Hall, during the fall quarter. The
following is a list of the ten houses
averaging highest in scholarship:
Hear! All ye brilliant and witty
students, hark to the call of the -.
Viking Vodvil. In the month of
May, in the year of our Lord
1926, all maids and men who can
act or sing, and those who can
neither act nor sing, will appear in
Viking Vodvil.
All clever students who are tal­ented
in dramatics or the man­agement
of dramatic productions
are urged to apply for the posi­tion
of manager of the big show.
Applications should be left in the
Student Association box in the
main office, or at the Student
Association Office, on the second
floor.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye All!
TO BE NEXT
Students Will Have Individual
Conferences With the Aim
of Better Bureau Results.
ASSEMBLY ENJOYS
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Training School Pleases Its
Audience with a Three Act
Play; Pupils Plan Costumes.
Abilities Not Considered.
Since this list takes no considera­tion
of the abilities of students an­other
scheme has been worked out
which shows the comparative effort
put forth by students according to
their abilities. This is called the
achievement list. The houses repre­sented
on this list have not been idle
and deserve much credit for having
received this honor. At some later
date, the Women's League may con­sider
awarding an Achievement Pen­nant.
The list follows:
1. MeCormicks.
2. Thomas.
3. Bielbys.
4. McCollums.
5. Nichols.
6. James.
7. Hills!
8. Twitchells.
9. Engers.
10. Davis.
FACTS WORTH KNOWING
....After., flunking a quiz, it usually
pays to study for at least two weeks
or so.
In case of a toothache, the pain
may be relieved by turning on the
gas jet and inhaling deeply.
Ink mark may be removed from
checks by applying a few. drops of
concentrated sulphuric acid.,
Old "Dutch Cleanser furnishes an
excellent way to find out., if., your
girls' complexion is real.
The Women's League wish to ex­press
their appreciation to Miss
Jones and Mr. Kolstad for their ef­forts
in preparing these averages,
which, until today, have been kept a
dark secret.
Pupils from the second grade of the
training school entertained at the
regular assembly on Tuesday with
the play entitled "The Sleeping
Beauty," which had been arranged
into three scenes by the pupils. Scen­ery,
costumes and property had all
been planned and made by the pupils,
also. No lines were memorized, but
each member of the class was so
thoroughly acquainted with the story
that he could act any part.
The play was presented without
any noticeable self-consciousness
among the boys and girls.
Following the play, Mr. J. J. Hand-saker,
representative of the Near
East Relief organization, addressed
the student body. He explained the
extensive work that is being done
accomplished by the Near East or­ganizations.
During the last ten
years, the lives of 100,000 cvhildren
have been saved; 30,000 have been
saved from blindness caused by tra-coma.
A Normal school, with American
ideals is being constructed in Greece,
for the benefit of the orphan exiles.
America has taught Greece tp pre­vent
malaria, one of the two great
reasons for her degeneracy; some day
she may be able to abolish war, that
other road to destruction.
Mr. Handsaker told of Frances
Gage, the founder of the Y. W. C. A.
in Bellingham, who afterwards gave
her life to save fifty girls in exile,
thereby winning a place in the hearts
of thousands. .,
HELD FOR
Of
Fifteen Enjoy Dinner Cooked
by Margaret Black, Elsie
Holland, and Inez Clark.
Plans have been made by Miss
Jenner of the Appointment Office
for meeting all students expecting to
graduate from the two-year course
this year, sometime in.the first part
of February. This includes March,
June and August graduates. Students
will first meet with Miss Jenner by
departments—primary, intermediate,'
upper grade and rural—and at each
meeting arrangements will be made
for individual conferences in order to
get into personal contact with the
abilities and desires of each student
regarding teaching positions.
The main object of these meetings,
according to Miss Jenner, is to secure
a basis for co-operation in obtain­ing
the best results from the appoint­ment
Bureau. Students will register
with the Bureau and be given infor­mation
helpful in securing schools, as
well as explanation concerning the
Appointment Bureau situation.
As outlined by Miss Jenner, these
meetings promise to be of great value
to prospective teachers at the Nor­mal,
and should be taken advantage
of by every student. Exact dates
have not yet been set, but will be
announced later on the bulletin board
and in the Messenger.
QIatenimr
INDUSTRIAL ARTS
BUILDING REPAIRED
Miss Cummins:
of the House?"
"Who is the Speaker
Merl Byrd: "Mother, of course."
Mr. Smith, directing assembly singing:
"We will sing this again. I heard sev­eral
of you who didn't open your mouths.
Mr. Hunt: "Can you suggest a reason
why a nautical mile is longer than a
land mile?"
"Sleepy" Alyger: "Weft-er-you
tilings swell in the. water." '
see,
In order that the work in Indus­trial
Arts ' and Manual Training
should be more fully organized, the
rooms in the Industrial Arts Build­ing
were changed and improved dur­ing
the Christmas holidays. The room
on the third floor formerly used as
the mechanical drawing room, was
plastered and painted and equipped
with new electric lights. It is now
used for all elementary and inter­mediate
wdrk in Industrial Arts.
The mechanical drawing room was
moved to the room on the second
floor, where wood working classes
were conducted. This room was also
plastered and painted and equipped
with new electric lights. All the
work benches were moved into the
room where the machines formerly
were. This brings all the wood work
into one room. A room on the first
floor was equipped for the training
school shop work; namely: Electrical
work, radio work wood work, and
carpentry, photography and cement
work. Rooms. for the last two are
still unfinished but will be ready for
use next quarter.
FRIDAY-^Jan. 29.
Women's League and Men's Club
meetings.
W. A. A. initiation in big gym.
SATURDAY—Jan. 30.
Vikings vs. Cheney Normal, in the
Whatcom Gym, 8:00 p. m.
College Club mixer in big gym at
9:30 p. m.
TUESDAY—Feb. 2.
Williams Trio in the Auditorium.
Vikings vs. Whitworth College in
Whatcom Gym.
THURSDAY—Feb. 4.
Normal vs. U. of W. Frosh, there.
FRIDAY—Feb. 5.
"Pierrot the Prodigal," given by
Cornish Players in Auditorium.
That the members of the Board
of Contr61 can successfully manage
other duties besides ruling the des­tiny
of the school was demonstrated
last Thursday afternoon.
Margaret Black, Elsie Holland and
Inez Clark exhibited their culinary
ability by cooking the banquet that
was served to fifteen members and
guests of the Board of Control, at
six thirty, Thursday evening in the
breakfast room adjoining the cafe­teria.
The banquet is the one social func­tion
of the Board of Control, and is
held nearly every quarter. Since there
was no dinner given last quarter, all
former members of the board that
are still in school, were invited to
attend.
No outside talent was used for any
part of the program, which consisted
of speeches by the members of the
council. Those present at the banquet
were, President Fisher, Mr. Bond,
Mr. Arntzen, Elsie Holland, Ward
Prigg, Margaret Black, all present
members of the Board of Control;
John FitzGerald, Angus Bowmer,
Zeno Katterlee, Guy Bond, former
members of the board; Bryan Han-kins,
secretary to the council; and
Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Bond, and Mrs.
Hankius, outside guests.
APPLICATIONS MUST
BE HANDED IN SOON
Students who wish to become
candidates for Elementary Certif­icates
and Diplomas to be issued
at the end of this quarter, March
19th, should make application im­mediately
at the Registrar's Of­fice.
No applications will be received
after Friday, February 12th.
Applications for the Editorial
Council for the winter quarter
must be in by 12:30 Monday, Feb­ruary
1..
Two quarters' experience on the
Messenger or its equivalent makes
a student eligible.
Written applications for the
three vacancies now open should
be made to the editor, Norman
Burchette, at once.
37 GIRLS WILL BE
INITIATED TONIGHT
AT
STAKE IN
GAMEJDF SEASON
Supervarsity and Burlington to
Precede Main Event With a.
Lively Preliminary Tussle.
GAME CALLED AT 8:15 P. M.
Eastern Squad Has Impressive
String of Victories for the
Year; Vikings Look Good.
REPORTERS PLAN TO
HAVE CO-OPERATION
Vikings
there.
vs. St. Martin's College,
SATURDAY—Feb. 6.
Plans for better co-operation ' of
the reporters of clubs and houses
were made at a meeting held in the
'"Messenger office" last Monday at
12:30. Dorothy Taft, society editor,
presided over the meeting at which
it was decided that the reporters
bring their news to the Messenger of­fice
not later than noon on Tuesday
of each week.
Instructions were given as to the
proper form tha materials should be
in when given to the paper. It Is
hoped that the quality and accuracy
of this news will be improved
through the new system. Incidentally,
W. A. A. Insignas, Letters, and
Class Numerals Are to be
Awarded at the Same Meet.
The W. A. A. Initiation will be held
this evening. The members of, the
committe for this initiation are
Lulu Minkler, Phyllis Crabill, Orlena
Moore, Fomia Wakin, Olive Ramalia.
There are thirty-seven new members
to come in which brings the total
membership up to one hundred and
fifteen. It is planned that part of
the initiation be formal while the
last part of the evening will be de­cidedly
informal.
The awards for the last quarter's
work will be given out at this meet­ing.
Those earning W. A. A. Insig­nia
are: Margaret Black, Leslie
Brown, Dorothy • Ervin, Genevieve
Gemmel, Evelyn Harno, Mary Hoyer,
Vera Kreisher, Vesta Larson, Alice
Lingley, Mamie Manberg, Orlena
Moore, Dorothy Norris, Esther Pal­las,
Elizabeth Scott, Josephine Smith,
Verta Templeton, Hortense MaeMas-ter,
Fomia Wakin, Jessie Whitten,
Elizabeth Camp, Benecia Genther.
Those earning letters B are: Evelyn
Clark, Jessie Kirby and Elsa Schu­bert.
Those earning class numerals
are: Evelyn Clark, Jessie Kirby,
Olive Ramalia, Elsa Schubert, and
Bertha Weber.
Women's League dance in Edens t ] , e w o r k °f t h e regular staff and re-
Hall, porters will be greatly lessened.
SCHOOL CLUBS HOLD
QUARTERLY TRYOUTS
Twelve Applicants Are Voted
'for Membership to Drama
Club; New Play Is Chosen.
CANDY COUNTER CANVAS SHOWS THAT SPARE FIGURES HAVE EDGE
Calorie Fanatics Look On And Wish For A Champion To Their Cause
As Others Munch Toddle Bars And Peanuts While Confused Visions
Of Charlemagne, Vitamins, And I. Q's Flit Across The Mental Vision.
Those of spare figure have another
decided advantage over those who
tend to rotundity of form, according
to situations revealed by a canvass
of candy counters about the campus.
The candy trade is brisk, but it is
not materially increased by those
who even suspect that their propor­tions
are a trifle too ample. The
emaciated and normally weighty
students may beguile the sometimes
weary hours by munching their Tod­dle
Bars while confused visions of
Charlemagne's vitamins, and I. Q's.
flit across the mental screens. But
this mild pleasure is denied those
who are counting calories, avoiding
starches, and daily finding them­selves
a few ounces heavier. It is
reported that a demand for non-fattening
candies is evident. Perhaps
some enterprising Normal student
might concoct a delicious bar contain­ing
sufficient thyroid gland extract
to counteract the evil effects of too
much chocolate and nuts." Let us hope
that someone will immediately seize
this worthy opportunity of render­ing
the corpulent section of humanity
a great service.
In their desperate endeavors to be
alluringly sweet, the feminine portion
of the student body expend a con­siderable
share of the check from
Dad at the candy counter—the mas­culine
element considering themselves
sufficiently desirable to select salted
peanuts instead. Exactly why the
boys dsplay this preference for nuts
and the girls for nutty candies is not
quite, clear. Just from casually ob­serving
the behavior of most of them,
it would seem that the / predilection
for nuttiness is somewhat too general
as it is. No doubt the hygiene fa­natic
will account for the peculiarity
by ascribing to it an anti-toxin mo­tive.
"' • t •;
The bracing effect of candy is ap­parently
most desired just before a
particularly grueling period of mental
or physical exertion ,since many stu­dents
fortify themselves by purchas­ing
their favorite edible just before
study hours or some very disagree­able
class period. They may occas­ionally
be seen surreptitiously un­wrapping
a delicious morsel and con­veying
it to their mouth under cover
of sneezing or yawning. The mother
of invention is not always necessity.
A number of students use the con­venient
and concentrated bar as
lunch when their notebook is due and
it is impossible to spend a perfect­ly
usable half hour in consuming the.
regular ineal. There are times when
minutes are extremely important,
and in such pinching extremities it
has been found possible to conserve
time by eliminating the procedure
of going to a specified place and
maintaining a respectable degree of
leisure while partaking of necessary-nourishment.
AIL hail the candy bar, probable
savior of many a Normalite's scho­lastic
standing!
Hearty interest was exhibited by
many who participated in the var­ious
club tryouts that were held here
last week.
Out of fifty applicants, the fol­lowing
twelve were successful in ob­taining
membership into the Drama
Club: Mrs. Hazel Bisbee, Norman R.
Burehette, Henry Durr, Mrs. Eliza
beth Forrest, Bennett Howard, and
Harold (Keeney.
Wilma. Nieveen, Josephine Price,
Ruth Sturdevant, Norman Vance,
Elsie Wilson, and Robert Wagner.
These new members will be eligible
to compete for parts in the modern
comedy, "Adam and Eve," which the
club will present this quarter.
Plans' are being formulated for a
get-together in order that the ini­tiates
may become acquainted' with
the rest of the club.
Returns Next Week.
Returns of the MacDowell Club
try-outs will not be available until
next week. Nearly a score vied for
membership last week, and much
talent was displayed. The entrants
included two double quartettes, four
vocalists, three pianists, two violin­ists
and one male quartet..
Chauncey Griffith's "Collegians"
met with opposition last week when
a five:piece orchestra of "Co-eds" at­tempted
to wrest the contract for
.recreation hour music away from
them.
(By BRYAN HANKINS)
The highly touted Crimson horde
from Cheney State Normal School
arrives in Bellingham Saturday aft­ernoon
for its first tilt with the
Bellingham Normal Viking five,
scheduled for tomorrow evening in
the Whatcom High School gymna­sium.
With the state normal school
championship at stake, spectators are
assured of a real Roman holiday.
The main event of the evening will
be preceded by a mix between the
Viking supervarsity and the Burling­ton
high school quintet. This game,
by all dope forecasts, should prove a
lively affair with the opposing teams
well matched. In their last encoun­ter,
the Normal seconds barely nosed
out the prep schoo, and Burlington
will be out to avenge its recent de­feat.
Savages Have Many Victories.
The Cheney Savages have won
many impressive victories this sea­son,
leaving scalps dangling all the
way from their Eastern Washington
lair to the Coast. Cheney has a vet­eran
squad of extremely fast and
clever basketballers, who have yet
to be decisively beaten. Their record
is as long as the distance they have
traversed, and the odds are with
them.
Practically every man is a veteran,
experienced in collegiate play, and
able to exhibit a classy brand of the
popular winter sport.
The power, of the visiting team
may be more easily comprehended by
a survey of its record so far this sea­son.
The win column of the visitors
includes victories with three of the
strongest quintets in the Northwest.
The Savages have taken the measure
of the fast stepping Cougars from
Washington State College, the Col­lege
of Idaho hoopsters, and the
Bulldogs of Gonzaga. These achieve­ments
point to a wonder team from
the eastern Washington Teachers'
College.
Vikings at Full Strength.
When Referee Fisher starts hos­tilities
tomorrow evening, it will be
a stalwart band of Blue and White
jerseyed warriors which strives to
whirl the Crimson Savages off their
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WIEDMAN APPOINTED
TO N. E. A. POSITION
Mr. D. E. Wiedman, superintendent
of the schools of Bellingham, was re­cently
appointed a member of the
National Education Association com­mittee
on community relations. Miss
Mary McSkimmon, president, made
the appointment.
This committee is made up of the
best minds in the nation on this
phase of education. Communication
regarding the committee's activities
will be made to Mr. Wiedman by the
chairman, Dr. G. E. Carrothers.
Mr. Wiedman will leave the city
February 15th, for Eastern cities,
where he will study, the junior high
school system and individual instruc­tion,
and also attend the national
conference of superintendents in
Washington.
At the meeting of the board of
education the efficiency of the Nor­mal
school was praised and Mr.;!
Wiedman stated that it ranks eighth:;
in attendance among the Normal
schools of the United States:;.:;and
that its scholastic rank is even high­er
than that.
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