The Exponent, 1930-07-03

              WEEK OF CHAUTAUQUA
IS FINE ENTERTAINMENT
PLAYS ARE ESPECIALLY GOOD
Musical Numbers, Lectures, Make-Up
Artist, Magician—All Please
Large Audiences
During the past week the students
have been favored with worthwhile
musical programs, plays and lectures
and other forms of entertainments
from the chautauqua entertainers.
W. L. Maupin was the director of
the musical section. He is one of
America's great band leaders. His
singing band expresses the "Spirit of
America". A brass band, a glee club,
a male quartet, jazz orchestra and
novelty entertainers were all com-bined
in one big organization. It is
one of the three leading concert bands
in the United States.
Sorrentino's Venetian Strollers also
rendered fine music. This is a band
of musicians direct from a tour of
the European concert halls. They
presented a program of the world's
best music in a manner highly en-joyable
and pleasing to every musical
taste. Instrumental and vocal num-bers
were given both in ensemble and
solos. They appeared in colorful
costumes amidst special stage set-tings.
Jessie Rae Taylor, a make-up artist
of the highest type, is one of the
most noted on the American stage.
She presented a variety of clever en-tertaining
costumed sketches and
quick change specialities. Lon John-son,
famous radio musical star, as-sisted
Miss Taylor.
The great 1930 feature comedy,
"Big Pond" was staged with wonder-ful
success. An American girl who
knows what she wants and works to
get it, falls in love with a young
Frenchman. The father in order to
prove his contention that she would
not care for the foreigner in America,
but is only temporarily infatuated,
employed him and brought him to
work in his rubber factory in Ohio.
How the young man succeeded in win-ning
fame and fortune in American
business, but almost lost the girl, was
told in this hilarious _comedy.
The greatest drama of the age,
"The Fool", a play for the people and
by the people, is indeed a real contri-bution
to the American stage. It is
the story of capital and labor, of love
and romance, pride and humbleness.
It was written for those who think,
for those who wish entertainment and
for those who are interested in big
questions of the present day.
Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, the
first woman governor in the United
States discussed national affairs and
"Women in Politics". Mrs. Ross has
proven herself a home-maker as well
as a capable executive.
The noted orator and world traveler
"Sam Grathwell", brought an inter-esting
and informative talk on the
Japanese situation. He has spent
several months in the Orient obtain-ing
information regarding conditions
and people.
One of the most popular convention
speakers in the United States, New-ton
W. Gaines, agriculturist, delivered
his great inspirational address, "Old
Wine in New Bottles".
Lastly is George Staples, the mag-ician.
He is a clever character and
keeps his audience in laughter with
his comedy stunts. His program con-sisted
of feats of magic, cartooning,
ventriloquism and other amusing fea-tures.
The entire week was wonderfully
worthwhile.
MORE TEACHERS ARE PLACED
Every day students at Northern
are being placed in good positions by
the Teacher Placement Bureau. Earl-ier
placements have been published
from time to time. A new list, in-cluding
some who have been re-elect-ed,
follows: Those going back to the
positions they held last year are Flor-ence
Anderson, Vienna, to intermed-iate
grades position at Webster; Keo
H. and Dorothy Peterson, Northville,
to grade positions in Watertown; An-nette
Linstadt, Menno, rural position
near Menno; Clothilde Donovan, Aber-deen,
high school at Loyalton; Ethel
Kidder, Holmquist, grade poistion at
McIntosh; Georgine Sullivan, Aber-deen,
commercial work at Frederick-town,
Missouri.
Violet Trapp, Watertown, will teach
the lower grades at Selby; Isabel
Hager, Wabasha, Minnesota, goes to
the intermediate grades in the Yak-ima,
Washington, schools; Arvilla
Anderson, Fulton, will teach grades
one, two, and three at Farmersburg,
Iowa; Ellen Anderson, Salem, grades
one, two, and three at Owanka; Lorna
Buntrock, Columbia, will be in a rural
school near Columbia; Olga Carlson,
Ortonville, has taken a rural school
near Columbia; Olga Carlson, Orton-ville,
has taken a rural school near
Florence; Gloriene Engel, Ipswich,
has accepted a grade position and
music work at Milbank; Myrtle V.
Hagen, Roslyn, has- been elected to
the Trail Demonstration school near
Aberdeen; Florence E. Hall, Aber-deen,
is elected to teach English and
athletics at Glenham; Marie ',eighty,
Aberdeen, and Darell Mitchell, New-ell,
both graduates from the senior
class this spring, will teach in the
high school at Lakeview Consolidated;
Ruth P. Schlener, Conde, goes to Ash
Consolidated, near Raymond.
Hear Chinquilla July 8
Wolves Have Heavy Schedule
Coach Campbell Says Prospects for
Next Fall Look Most
Promising
The 1930 football schedule is near-ly
complete with only one open date
left. The Wolves face one of the
heaviest schedules of any team in the
conference. Only three of their
games will be played away from
home. The longest trip the team will
take will be to Superior, Wisconsin,
where they will battle the strong
Superior Normal aggregation on
October 25.
According to Coach Campbell the
prospects for next year are very
favorable. LaVerne Frink, guard,
will he lost by graduation; "Mike"
Finnegan, ex-captain, and full-back
will assume the duties of assistant
coach and "Tiny" Johnson plans to
attend the University of Minnesota.
With the exception of these three all
the lettermen of last year will return.
With the new material and the re-serve
material from last season the
Wolves should make a good showing.
The big game of the season will be
the Gypsy Day game with Spearfish
Normal on the home field. The Gypsy
Day game is always a thrilling one.
The 1930 schedule is as follows:
Sept. 27—Huron at Aberdeen
Oct, 3—Springfield at Aberdeen
Oct. 10—Open
Oct. 18, Gypsy Day—Spearfish at
Aberdeen
Oct. 25—Superior Wis., Normal, at
Supe ri or
Oct 31—Yankton at Yankton
Nov. 7---School of Mines at Aber-deen
Nov. 11—Trinity, Sioux City, at
A berdeen
Nov. 13—Valley City, N. D., at
Valley City.
Book Store Plans Changed
Marie Madsen Will Become Assistant
Manager to Miss
Burnham
A slight change in the management
of the College Book Store was an-nounced
this week by Miss Etha Burn-ham,
who took charge of the store at
the beginning of the last fiscal year,
July 1, 1929. In the past it has been
the custom to employ several student
assistants for part-time help. Under
the new management a new system is
to be tried out next year and Miss
Marie Madsen is to be assistant man-ager
of the college Book Store.
Miss Madsen's home is in Wilmot.
She graduated from the two-year cur-riculum
at Northern in 1924 and for
the next five years taught commer-cial
subjects at the Eureka Academy,
Eureka, South Dakota. While there
she entered her students in state com-mercial
contests four years and placed
three years, winning a third in typing
one year, a first in typewriting an-other
year, and the last year a first
in bookkeeping and a second in typ-ing.
Two years her winning students
received the honor of a free trip to
the national typewriting contest at
Chicago.
Returning to Northern last fall,
Miss Madsen entered the Senior class
and graduated this spring with the
B. S. degree in education. During
the past year she has been vice-presi-dent
of the senior class, vice president
of Pi Omega Pi, commercial frater-nity;
and member Kappa Delta Pi,
national education fraternity. She
has also been student assistant in the
Book Store. Besides being assist-ant
manager for the coming year, she
will assist in Secretary Oates' office
in the capacity of stenographer.
BOY SCOUT CAMP HELD
AT LAKE ENEMY SWIM
H. F. POTE WILL HAVE CHARGE
Week's Program Will Include All
Details for Community Scout
Work
July 6, at five o'clock in the after-noon,
H. F. Pote, Regional Scout
Executive, will open the Che-K-Pa
Boy Scout summer camp at Lake
Enemy Swim for mature men who
are interested in training themselves
in the lore of the outdoors as given
through regular Boy Scout programs.
This short course group will be or-ganized
in Boy Scout patrols and will
live in tents, boarding at the camp
mess hall. One week will be given
over to training in woodcraft, camp
craft, scout troop management, patrol
operation and methods, advancement,
organization. Opportunity will be
given to put the knowledge gained
into actual practice.
Application for admission should be
made to Registrar Leroy Crawford,
at Northern State Teachers College,
Aberdeen, by June 5. All men are
requested to bring their own cot and
bedding.
Assisting Mr. Pote in the work will
be N. G. Bent; Regional Field Ex-ecutive;
and L. D. Cornell, Regional
Field Executive, of the Scouts organ-ization;
also Norvum Ovrom, Scout
Executive and Special Examiner for
Life Saving in the American Red
Cross, from Aberdeen. To those en-rolled
N. 'S. T. C. will grant one hour
of college credit. Details will be
worked out for methods to keep boys
in large and small communities in-terested
in manly work and play.
WELCOMING BYRD
The following is an excerpt from
a letter from Gideon Seymour, son
of Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Seymour, and
a former student of N. S. T. C. Gid-eon
is now in charge of all A. P.
News Service for New York. This
excerpt gives an inside view of pro-blems
confronting those who are re-sponsible
for what the world reads
day to day.
"A hectic day is over—Byrd • is
home, has been welcomed, and is by
now about ready . to start for Wash-.
ington, and the biggest task thus far
in my .career as a city editor is safely
weathered. Although it may not
appear so from what appears in the
columns in the "Aberdeen Daily
Nooze", it's a monumental task for
the AP to handle a story like a hero's
welcome which begins half a dozen
miles down the bay and continues
in a running stream up Broadway,
past the city hall, and all around
town from dawn to midnight. Not
one reporter or two or . three can
keep abreast of things, much less do
all the special things individual
papers or vicinities want done, like
telling Virginia all about Virginia's
part in the welcome, and getting to
Boston all the details theyfre inter-ested
in about Byrd as one of the
home town boys, and giving Erie, Pa.,
600 special words about the Boy
Scout from Erie who came home with
the expeditions, and writing lead
after lead so that the big papers will
have fresh news to write streamers
on in every new edition, and so that
the middle west will have a good
new story when it's press time in the
middle west, and the Pacific Coast
will have the story it wants when it's
shortly after noon there and dinner-time
here.
"Lots of planning and rapid-fire
writing is necessary, and not the
least of the task is arriving, before-hand,
at a decision as to what "angle"
we shall take on the story: whether
we shall regard Byrd as a man fam-ous
primarily for his fortitude and
heroism in lonely places, as Peary
was, and as Byrd wasn't at all, in the
sense that he had more to work with
and much closer contact with civil-ization
than any other explorer ever
had; whether the news of his home-coming
should tell of his arrival and
the cheering, or of what he found in
Antarctica, or of his adventures and
hardships . . . and so on.
"Stories written without such a
preconceived plan are likely to be
hodge-podges trying to tell every-thing
and actually telling nothing.
One has to attack such an occasion
with a preconceived notion of what is
the best angle to build on.
"Well, it's over, and it went well
enough or better than that. We
managed at least to keep a smooth,
sequential running story going all
day, and to weave accounts of the
celebration coming to us from a
dozen reporters and reportorial
sources into a well-knit, unified story.
It had me pretty worried for the last
ten days and I was glad we got away
with it as well as we did, even if we
didn't write any epics which will live
in literature.
"It was a tumultuous welcome—the
greatest New York hats seen since
Lindbergh, and in some respects
greater, for in addition to spontaneity
it had better organization. I was
frankly surprised at the outpouring
of people-;-two previous Byrd home-comings
have been disappointments
to him and to the city's welcoming
crews because the public seemed to
care so little for Byrd and his ex-ploits;
but they turned out today!"
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The Kindergarten-Primary super-vision
class under the instruction of
Miss Lida Williams visited in the
campus school one day last week.
Hear Chinquilla July 8
Baillie Makes School Seals
These May Be Used for Many Pur-poses
for Artistic Decora-tion
"Unique", and "how appropriate"
are very naturally the first exclama-tions
of students when they see the
beautiful seals which have been de-signed
by Prof. E. Kenneth Baillie,
head of the art department. Mr.
Baillie's first aim was to produce an
emblem to be sold at Christmas time
by the Beaux Arts Club, of which he
is faculty sponsor. Annually this
club sells Christmas cards or novel-ties
to raise money for a scholarship
awarded each quarter to the most
progressive art student.
As the result of a campaign for
something different, Professor Baillie
presented the club with two very
appropriate designs. The seals were
ordered through a local firm and are
now awaiting the opening of school
when they will be placed on sale.
Both seals are on maroon paper with
the art work and a dainty border in
gold ink. The smaller of the two
bears the head of a wolf with fangs
bared and ears laid back in a vicious
pose. The second, the larger of the
two seals, carries the initials, N. S.
T. C., in a circle just inside the border
and the center space is decorated with
a conventionalized pasque flower, re-presentative
of the college year-book,
"The Pasque".
Though the first intentions were
that the seals were to be used for
Christmas or other gift packages, the
finished project is so charmingly
dainty and colorful that they are just
the thing for sealing envelopes, to
place on plain white stationery for a
letterhead and many other uses where
an artistic touch is needed. Summer
students interested in the seals should
see Mr. Baillie.
Former Student Speaks Here
Miss Graeber Tells of Work in Massa-chusetts
State Hospital
To make their patients feel perfect-ly
at home until a cure is effected,
when possible, and to keep them from
being a burden to the community are
some of the aims of the work carried
on at the Worchester, Mass., State
Hospital where Miss Paula Graeber
is employed in the Social Service De-partment.
Miss Graeber is a former
student at Northern where she major-ed
in sociology and economics. She
stressed the training offered to the
patients in her address before the as-sembly
last Tuesday. The hospital's
plant includes nearly all the facilities
a modern community would have, and
this gives the inmates opportunities
to become refitted for life when they
are released.
Y. W. SENDS DELEGATES
From June 23 to June 30 the north
central regional meeting of college
Y. W. C. A. is in session at take
Geneva, Wisconsin.
For many years the Northern State
Teachers College has been sending
delegates. This year the represent-atives
from the local college are Miss
Belle Wallen of Volga, who is presi-dent
of College Y. W. C. A. for next
year, and Miss Lila VandenBerg of
Volga, the secretary for next year.
Besides the profit received and in-spiration
obtained from addresses by
outstanding religious and college peo-ple,
the delegates greatly enjoy the
friendships made with college stu-dents
from many campuses and the
beauty and recreation that Lake Ge-neva
affords.
Before returning to their homes the
delegates expect to visit in Chicago
and near-by points of interest.
LIBRARY NOTES
According to library reports, the
present summer school students are
very studious. The book circulation
for five clays was about 1500. This
refers to the books taken out of the
library. It would be difficult to
estimate the number of books used
in the various rooms.
Many students are availing them-selves
of the opportunity to see and
read the new books now being re-ceived
at the library. They show an
interest in non-fiction books as well
as fiction.
The library has recently hung, in
the main reading room, three por-traits
of former presidents of N. S.
T. C.: Charles K. Koehler, first pres-ident
of the school, George W. Nash,
and Willis E. Johnson. These por-traits
were formerly in the President's
office.
Mrs. Goodsell and her two young
daughters have gone to Enemy Swim
for a month's outing. During each
week-end Mr. Goodsell will be with
his family.
The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
VOL. XXVIII. • ABERDEEN, SOUTH D AKOTA, JULY 3, 1930 No. 36
'TIS THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER-LONG MAY IT WAVE
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IS REAL INDIAN PRINCESS
Lecturer is Universally Recognized as Finest Exponent
of Her Race
Chinquilla, a prominent American
Indian woman lecturer, will be the
next entertainment number on the
summer school lecture course, appear-ing,
Tuesday, July 8.
Universally admired by press and
public for her great personal charm,
for her brilliant ability as a public
speaker, and for her great gift as an
actress, and loved from coast to coast
by the many scattered tribes of her
own people to whom she early dedi-cated
her life, Chinquilla is every-where
regarded as the outstanding
American Indian of today.
Popularly known as Princess Chin-quilla
she was born and brought up
in a tepee. on the western plains, a
pure blooded American Indian. As
the daughter of the Head Chief of the
Southern Cheyenne nation, she en-joyed
advantages over other Indian
maidens. In her early 'teens she left
the roving, prairie life, and under the
care of the U. S. government she
came for the first time into contact
with civilization. Subsequently she
graduated from the famous Carlisle
Indian School.
Tier early associations and studies
showed her the vast abyss of ignor-ance
that has always stood between
civilization and her own race. Alien-ated
from her own people by her
schooling, and yet unable to accept
the culture of our civilization, she
eventually dedicated her life to bring-ing
about a better understanding of
the American Indian by the conquer-ors
of the continent.
Early success in recitals of Indian
songs and dances brought Chinquilla
into prominence as an amateur enter-tainer.
She was soon compelled to
take up the work professionally. Her
extra-ordinary and continued success
soon made it possible for her to re-tire
from the theater and concert
stage and to devote her life to lectur-ing
and interpreting the spirit of her
fast-vanishing race to modern Amer-
In her art Chinquilla depends upon
no single medium of interpretation.
Her dramatic recitation is powerful
and effective. Her songs are true ex-positions
of her native tribal music.
Her dances show a rare gift for mim-icry
and an unusual sense of humor.
The appeal of her program is art-istic
and entertaining. Both adults
and children will learn for the first
time the true nature and character of
the American Indian.
She has a striking and lovely ap-pearance,
especially when dressed in
her tribal regalia, coupled with a
great personal magnetism and charm.
Her voice has been trained not only
to project a message, but to sound
the inner-most emotional depths of
her audiences.
The comments that come as a re-sult
of her performances are most
interesting. One from S. 0. Lands
of the State Teachers College, Minot,
N. D., states, "When Chinquilla talk-ed
here, she held her audience from
her opening prayer, until—well, until
I had to send them home." In fact
she is the only speaker, outside of
Will Rogers, that had to tell the aud-ience
she was through speaking, and
even then they crowded the platform
to meet her, personally.
The New York Herald says, "Cul-ture
and musical talent are qualities
foreign to the old conception of the
Indian, but Chinquilla possesses both".
"Chinquilla gave a very interesting
revelation of the soul of the Indian.
Personally, I was deeply impressed
with the great reverence she showed
in her prayer to the Great Spirit,
which was no perfunctory part of a
lecture, but was from the depths of
her soul reaching out of the Great
Spirit", is the opinion of Miss C. E.
Mason of Tarrytown—on Hudson,
New York.
LAKE ENEMY SWIM
Instructor Going Abroad
Mrs. Garvin and Her Sister to Carry
Gypsy Day Strip Into
Russia
Mrs. W. W. Garvin is planning to
carry the Gypsy Day strip into Russia
this summer. Immediately after the
summer term is over Mrs. Garvin and
her sister, Mrs. Nella T. Westrater,
secretary of the local Y. W. C. A.,
will leave for an extended tour
through various places of interest in
European countries. On July 30, they
plan to see the Passion Play. After
going to Vienna for a short stay they
will start for Russia, going through
Czecho Slovakia and Poland to Lem-berg
and on to Kiev the literary
center of Russia.
A very interesting event will be a
river trip on the Duipper. This
journey will provide excellent oppor-tunity
to see the farming methods
used in Russia.
The travellers will make a short
visit at Kharkow and then go on to
Moscow, where they will stay one
week. While at Moscow they will
make short tours to places of interest
near this famous city. After this
they will go on to Berlin for a week's
stay.
From Berlin they plan to take an
aeroplane trip to Paris, where they
will stay for one week. From here
they will go to Cherbourg and sail
for the United States on the ship
Berangaria, arriving home in time for
the opening of the fall quarter of
school.
Prexy's Office Renovated
Walls Are Refinished, Floor Carpeted,
and New Furniture Is
Installed
A complete renovation is being
made in the President's suite at the
college while Dr. David Allen Ander-son
is in Des Moines. Old, out-of-date
furnishings are all being set
aside and new, attractively harmoniz-ing
ones put in their places. The
walls of the room have been refinish-ed
in cream-color with tints of green.
The woodwork has been stained in
walnut and the floor is being laid
with a lovely green-patterned, all-over
carpet. The window hangings are of
damask carrying out a note of green
with contrasting colors.
The new furniture will include a
large office deslc, swivel chair, arm
chair, three side chairs, two book
cases and an occasional table and
chair—all in walnut of the famous
Olson furniture.
To acid charm to the room Professor
E. Kenneth Baillie of the art depart-ment
has, himself, made a beautiful
lamp, the shade of which carries out
the color scheme of green and cream-color.
ALL-SCHOOL PICNIC COMING
Elaborate plans are being made for
the all-school picnic which will be
held July 9, at 3:30 o'clock in Mel-gaard
Park. During the afternoon
games will be played, one of the big
events being a kittenball game be-tween
faculty and students. Then
will come a satisfying feed consist-ing,
of potato salad, baked beans, sand-wiches,
cake, fruit, coffee, lemonade,
candy and Eskimo pies. After sup-per
various athletic contests will be
held. Miss Aldrich is in charge of
the women's sports and Mr. Camp-bell
has charge of the men's. The
plans seem to indicate that this picnic
is to be a "never to be forgotten
event" and none of us can afford to
miss it. Remember a splendid pro-gram
and good eats! Every student
and faculty member is invited,
SPEAKS ON BLACK STEM RUST
At last Thursday's assembly George
Frandsen of State College gave a talk
on the control of black stem rust.
He said that the rust is caused by
the barberry bush which acts as in-termediate
host for this rust to com-plete
its life cycle.
He gave a brief history of the bush,
saying that it came originally from
Asia, was carried to Europe and
brought by early immigrants to this
country.
On examining the rust one finds it
to be a living material—a fungus
growth which is very harmful to the
grain.
For twelve years a campaign has
been waged against this barberry
plant, and every year there has been
The results of student's spelling a decided decrease in the amount of
and penmanship tests are posted in grain plants harmed.
the Administration Building on the Mr. Frandsen urged that every
bulletin board. Before receiving a teacher educate her pupils to know
certificate one must have passed both the barberry when they see one, and
the spelling and penmanship tests in this way the campaign against this
according to a certain scale. If you plant enemy cbuld be more success-are
expecting to receive a certificate fully carried out. Material may be
on the completion of your work this had free of charge, from government
summer, you had better be certain of biological stations, which will greatly
your passing of these tests satis- aid the teacher in teaching her pupils I
factorily. the effects of this grain enemy.
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