The Exponent, 1931-02-05

              LAST LECTURE NUMBER- The Exponent
CECELIAN SINGERS—MON.
LAST LECTURE NUMBER-CECELIAN
SINGERS—MON.
Northern State Teachers College
VOL. XXIX. .1 BERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, FEBRUARY 5, 1931 No. 16
OP LAST LECTURE COURSE NUMBER--CECELIAN SINGERS--MONDAY NIGHT I 0,21
PRESIDENT ANDERSON
AWARDS HONOR MEDALS
105 STUDENTS MENTIONED
LOCAL DEBATERS MEET PITTSBURGH TONIGHT P1 OMEGA PI WINS
ONE-ACT TOURNEY
SPONSORED BY MASQUERS CLUI
English Club and Leadership Club
Also Appear In Final ,
Tournament
Five Students Receive Gold Medals
For The Third Time; Awards
Established Last Year
CHEMISTRY ESSAYS ARE
DUE FEBRUARY 9, 1931
MANY STUDENTS COMPETING Winners of the preliminary one-act
play tournament presented their pro-ductions
before the public, last Fri-day
night in the auditorium. In the
preliminary contest held Thursday the
Pi Omega Pi won first; English Club,
second; and the Leadership Club
third.
Those taking part in the plays were:
English Club, "All On a -Summer
Day,"—Helen Kelly, Rowena Shifflet,
Helen Burton and Mercedes Ahern;
director, Miss Vera Lighthall.
Pi Omega Pi: "The Mayor and the
Manicure,"—Alfred Bieber, Marjorie
Christensen, Beryle Streeter, Carl
Hansen; director, Marie Madsen.
Leadership Club: "Suppressed De-sires,"—
Margaret Burrel, Hazel Dun-can,
Wesley Grapes, director, Laura
Cooper.
The contest was sponsored by the
Masquers Club. The judge for the
preliminaries, in which seven groups
were entered, was Professor El-wood
Ramay. The judges for the finals
were Sadie Neville-Berg, Miss Beryl
DeHaven and John Linn.
Other groups which entered the
preliminaries were the Secondary Edu-cation
Club, Newman Club, French-
Spanish Club and Public School Mu-sic
Supervisors Club.
To open Friday's program the Jun-ior
Speech department presented six
young students in a dainty skit en-titled,
"An Old-Fashioned Garden,"
which was given with musical ac-companiment.
By virtue of winning the final con-test
Pi Omega Pi will possess the
prize cup for the year. The Masquers'
committee in charge of the tournament
was Rose Ramthun, Lillian Kuechler,
Harvey Swenson, and Lewis Bartlett,
stage manager.
Owing to a mistake in counting the
ratings the English Club was award-ed
first in the final contest. When the
scores were interpreted correctly it
was found that first place should be
given to Pi Omega Pi, who produced
"The Mayor and The Manicure." The
judges ranked them two first places
and a second, and the English group
received two seconds and a first. The
English Club courteously withdrew in
favor of Pi Omega Pi.
Prof. Jensen Is In Charge of Local
Arrangements
Scholarship awards, given at the end
of each quarter, were presented to 105
honor students by President David
Allen Anderson, on January 29, at a
student assembly. These scholarship
awards were established last year to
recognize and encourage a high grade
of scholarship. Gold medals are
awarded to those who earn 2.10 or
more honor points for each credit
hour, and silver medals to those who
earn 1.85 to 2.09 honor points for each
credit hour. To be eligible students
must carry at least 12 credit hours.
Five students, Helen Burton, Mabel
Eggers, Mary Hyatt, Irma Maschke
and Zenie Price, have earned gold
medals for the third time. Four
others, Dorothy Davies, Elizabeth
Holtz, Elmer Loken and Rose Ram-thun,
received the distinction the sec-ond
time.
Those who received the gold medals
for the first time are Lillian Allen,
Johanna Bauder, Marjorie Black, War-ner
Blake, Grace Clarkson, Evangeline
Cumiford, Bernice Dailey, Perry Don-
- ey, Pearl Eicher, Pearl Greeno, Elmer
Hanson, Ann Heck, Ira Hess, Georgia
Kemper, Martha Kilker, Elinor Krau-shaar,
Harold Marquis, Lois Oehler,
Bernice O'Grady, Edna Olson, Louise
O'Toole, Shirley Potter, Helen Powell,
Esther Robertson, Francis Sauer,
Lucile Scholberg, Robert Soike, Es-ther
Sueltz, Lorene Swenson, LaVern
Vahldieck, Bernice VandenBerg, Doro-thy
Vandewerker, Dale Ward, Doris
Watters, Blythe Weed, Gertrude Weis-man,
Ila Williams, Carol Jean Wilson.
Seven students were listed as win-ners
of, the silver medal for a second
year: Barbara Anderson, Virgil Bell,
George Fossum, Helen Kelly, Elvera
Kundert, Alice Lortscher, LaVaun
Vahldieck.
A group of fifty-five received the
silver medal for the first time: Erma
Angerhofer, Julia Berg, Viola Boek-elheide,
Ruth Bovee, Margaret Brown,
Edna Bruns, Chester Buenning, Emma
Carda, Lola Carter, Dorothy Casavant,
Winifred Cody, Dorothy DeMersse-man,
Delila Dettmer, Marcella Eide,
Ruth Eldredge, John Elsing, Johnanna
Elsing, Flora Grinde, Reva Hagg,
Winnie Herbst, Sophia Homan, Rob-ert
Irvin, Dorothy Johnson, Gurnald
Johnson, Marion Karrigan, Srelda
Kienast, .Elda Kienest, Jenevere
Knutson, Lillian Kuechler, Florence
Lewis, Arthur Metcalfe, Thelma Mil-nor,
Charlotte Mollenbrink, Gladys
Mott, Edward Moyer, Emil Olen,
Elizabeth Petcoff, Cleone Pierce, Ella
Pietz, Irene Polnau, Harriet Premack,
Doris Reich, Dorothy Reich, Virginia
Rowlee, Norval Strachan, Lloyd Swar-tout,
Eugenie Tulson, Louise Wake,
Margaret Westenberger, Elva Whi-taker,
Clinton Williams, Faith Will-iamson,
Orville Wilson, Esther Zech,
LaRoy Zell.
The national prize chemistry essays
will be due February 9, according to
Prof. Jensen who is in charge of the
contest.
Much interest is being shown in the
contest. About 30 students are writ-ing
essays for English credit through
collateral reading, and more than fifty
students, who are regular chemistry
students are entering the contest with
essays.
It may be recalled that Jack Readey
won the first national prize essay in
1928 with a cash prize of $500.00, and
that Russell Jonas of Sturgis won sec-ond
place in 1929, with a cash prize of
$300. Mr. Willard, a student at Eastern
State Teachers College, took a second
place prize in the contest last year.
This explains why so much enthusiasm
is prevalent.
Harold Stoakes, Charles City, Iowa,
and LaRoy Zell, Aberdeen, won first
honors in the local contest here last
year. Their essays failed to place
at the national contest but they de-rived
much benefit from their work.
Mr. Jensen has not yet announced
who the local judges will be.
y. W. WILL SPONSOR
ANNUAL VAUDEVILLE
THE DATE IS FEBRUARY 13
Fifteen Campus Organizations are
Entered; Attractive Prizes
Are Offered
A great interest has been shown
again in the Y. W. C. A. annual vaude-ville
to be given in the college audi-torium
the night of Friday, February
13, at 7:30 o'clock. Admission charges
will be twenty-five cents and ten
cents extra for reserved seats which
will be on sale at the secretary's of-fice
beginning February 10.
This year the clubs have shown un-usual
interest and an evening of fun
is promised. A goodly number of en-tries
are in up to date. At the time
of this writing, the following organi-zations
are entered under one of three
heads—artistic, clever, or appropriate
to the organization: W. S. G. A., Mas-quers,
Lincoln and Graham Hall, Kin-dergarten
Primary Council, Inter-mediate
Teachers, W. A. A., French-
Spanish, Home Economics, Beaux
Arts, Secondary Education, Pi Omega
Pi, Leadership.
A first prize of ten dollars and a
second prize of three dollars will be
given in each class.
The object of presenting an even-ing's
entertainment of this nature is
to secure funds to make it possible
for our college through Y. W. C. A.
to be represented at the national Y.
W. C. A. conference at Geneva.
The Geneva Conference is one of
the biggest of its kind in the North-west.
Last year Belle Wallen, presi-dent;
and Lila VandenBerg, secretary,
were representives at Geneva. Reli-gious
workers of both national and in-ternational
repute are on the pro-grams
at the conference.
For the past five years, Y. W. has
sponsored a vaudeville. Miss Kroe-ger
has been financial adviser for
three years. Y. W. appreciates her
efficient leadership in this regard. The
dramatics classes, through Mr. Hark-ness
and Mr. Ramay, are cooperating
in the staging of the entertainment.
Dorothy Stone, financial secretary, is
student chairman of the vaudeville.
Professor Goodsell, through his de-partment,
will see that music is fur-nished
for the evening. The Y. W. C.
A. Vaudeville represents one of the
finest pieces of club and departmental
cooperation offered on the campus. Y.
W. appreciates the cooperation of the
many clubs which make possible this
splendid, yearly feature.
DEBATERS MET NORTH
DAKOTANS LAST WEEK
ACCOMPANIED BY HARKNESS
Two College Teams Meet Two North
Dakota Word-Mixers on Free
Trade Question
Accompanied by Prof. P. J. Hark-ness,
four debaters traveled to Val-ley
City, last Thursday morning,
where they met the Valley City Teach-ers
College that afternoon.
Louis Anderson, of Lowry, Harvey
Swenson and Mairon 'Karrigan, of
Aberdeen, took the negative side of
the question: "Resolved, that the na-tions
should adopt a policy of free
trade."
Friday evening Genevieve Keller
teamed with Marion Karrigan against
a Jamestown negative team while
Harvey Swenson teamed with Louis
Anderson against a Jamestown af--
firmative team, also at Jamestown.
JENSEN COMPLETES PROJECT
Prof. J. H. Jensen, chairman of the
committee on minimum equipment for
high school chemistry, announces that
the material is now completed and will
be sent to the American Chemical As-sociation
senate, which is composed of
three members, for their approval.
This committee will meet at Indian-apolis.
There are more than sixteen
thousand high schools which are mem-bers
of this society.
Considerable work has been accom-plished
here by Mr. Jensen who has
supervised all the activities. Several
of the local students have compiled
material as requirements for earning
their Sigma Delta Epsilon keys. Mem-bers
of Mr. Jensen's methods classes
have also worked on this project.
Ex-Teacher Visits Campus
Mrs. Zillah E. Wilson was a recent
visitor on the campus. She was a
member of the first faculty of the
school, serving for fourteen years,
from 1902 to 1916, as a critic teacher
in the training school, teaching the
seventh and eighth grades.
While in the city Mrs. Wilson visited
friends among whom are a number of
faculty members. During her stay she
was luncheon guest at the Crawford
home. Miss Dorothy Hooper, who was
once a pupil under Mrs. Wilson in the
training school, was also a guest.
Mrs. Wilson's home is in Luverne,
Minnesota.
Individual pictures of members of
Rhenania were taken for the Pasque
last week.
LET BAND SPONSOR DANCE
The band at the University of South
Dakota is playing for a series of all-school
dances there. The money ob-tained
in such a manner is set aside
for use in making an extensive tour
next spring. According to reports
this has proved a very successful un-dertaking.
In view of this, we sug-gest
that the band here play for one or
more all-school dances.
Instead of paying for outside music,
the school can pay the band. This
money can then be set aside to be
used in defraying expenses for a
spring tour.
Some may say that the band can
not furnish dance music. But after
hearing the band we are confident
that it can.
Still another idea is to have a select
group from the band or orchestra, or
both, play for an all-school dance.
Many students are asking for more
dances and would welcome such an ar-rangement
as suggested above. Why
not act on the suggestion?
—Clifford Welch.
SPIRIT OF SPRING IS HERE
When it gets too warm to wear
overcoats, and the golf season is get-ting
underway, then, according to Le-
Ross Morris, superintendent of build-ings
and grounds, it is in order to be-gin
the transplanting of trees. An
elm has been transferred from the
back campus to the east side of the
campus, directly in front of the Ad-ministration
Building. The ground, ac-cording
to Mr. Morris, is frozen only
to a depth of about eighteen inches.
Wolves Play Augustana Friday
Game Will Be Seventh Conference Encounter For Local Men LAST LYCEUM NUMBER
APPEARS HERE MONDAY With a quintet that has, as yet, been
unable to break into the win column,
Augustana College will invade Aber-deen
tomorrow evening. The game
will be the seventh conference encoun-ter
for the Wolves.
But little is known of individual
performers for the Sioux Falls quin-tet.
Kochenderfer, a forward, from
Hendricks, Minnesota, is playing his
first year and has been scoring freely
in encounters of the past month.
Sonstegaard is another forward for
the Viking quintet and Reinertson usu-ally
holds the center position. Gun-derson
and Quaiset, at guards, are
relied on for the guarding duty.
A weak defensive team has account-
Haney Addresses Students
ed in a large measure for the defeats
suffered by the Augustana men this
season. At the hands of Spearfish
they suffered their first conference
loss 27 to 17, with Kochenderfer lead-ing
the Vikings on scoring.
A somewhat revised lineup may be
used by Coach Campbell to meet the
Augustana invasion. Captain Black
will probably be started at the cen-ter
post but of the forwards the mos'..
that can be said is that either Wil-liams
and Scherf, or Doney and Swar-tout,
will start. All will probably see
action during the contest.
Dresselhuys and Marquis are start-ing
guards with Mattice labeled for
use during the contest.
Pasque Goes to Printer
CECELIAN SINGERS ARE NOTED
Four Ensemble Artists Promise A
Most Attractive
Program
One of the outstanding musical or-ganizations
of the Northwest, the
Cecelian Singers, is to appear in the
auditorium, next Monday night. This
is to be the concluding number on the
entertainment course. The program
will consist of opera, oratorio, and con-cert
numbers.
The ensemble artists, Meta Ashwin
Birnbach, soprano; Mabel Pelletier,
contralto; Mathew D. Crawford, ten-or;
Edward H. Herman, bass; and Al-ma
Westin Smith, accompanist, have
quite a reputation in the Northwest.
They have appeared many times with
the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
They have sung with well-known opera
companies and made extensive tours
where they have won distinctions as
artists of rank.
Students will be admitted on their
student activity tickets.
HILLS ARE HONOR GUESTS
Last week, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Mc-
Callister entertained at their home in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hill
who are leaving soon for their new
home in Minneapolis. Among the
players were Messrs. and Mesdames
Lee Byrne, John Muhn, Arthur Hill,
C. M. Barnes, Milton Tostlebe, Miss
Lillian Hilt and Prof. Harold Alsup.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill were given party
gifts. Bridge awards were won by
Mrs. Byrne and Mrs. Barnes.
Mr. Hill was formerly an instructor
of sociology and economics, and Mrs.
Hill was an instructor in the campus
school.
The 1932 Annual Will Contain Many
Attractive Features
Chaplain of Sioux Falls Penitentiary
Speaker at Special
Assembly
N. L. Haney, chaplain of the Sioux
Falls Penitentiary, was speaker at the
student assembly, Monday morning.
Dr. David Allen Anderson was in
charge of the meeting.
"I have two convictions," stated Mr.
Haney in the opening part of his talk,
"One is an abundance of faith in hum-anity.
The other is a tremendous
faith in the power of the Master to
change and remake human life."
Building his address from this basis,
Mr. Haney traced the relation of re-ligious
devotions to the inmate in a
penal organization. "No class- of re-ligious
work is more inspiring and no
group is more appreciative than a
group of inmates," he stated. "Dur-ing
the past year both our chapel ser-vice
attendance and Bible class atten-dance
have greatly increased, although
it is optional to the men whether they
care to devote this period to religious
study.
Facts on the education of the aver-age
inmate were given. A large num-ber
are, according to Mr. Haney, il-literate.
The first grade of the prison
school usually has from eight to ten
men enrolled. The largest class is the
third and fourth with an average en-rollment
of from 30 to 40 students.
Men in prison are constantly going
through a moral and mental transi-tion,
Mr. Haney stated. "And I be-lieve,"
he added, "that a man should
not be made to stay longer in prison
than it takes him to change his view-point."
The girls in the physical education
department who are majoring in the
courses have ordered new outfits.
Under the efficient leadership of
Lewis Bartlett, editor-in-chief, the 1932
Pasque is progressing nicely. The
first two sections, 64 pages, are al-ready
in the hands of the printer and
proof is expected almost any day. The
third section is awaiting a few odds
and ends and it, too, will be ready
for the publisher. These three sec-tions
contain the introductory pages,
views of the campus, the faculty, and
senior, junior and sophomore classes.
Other sections still in the making
will include the freshman class, popu-larity,
activities, organizations, ath-letics,
humor and advertising. It is
expected that the book will be ready
for distribution by May 10.
The book this year will contain
many new features. Among these are
the most attractive cover ever produc-ed
for The Pasque; an eight-page in •
troductory section in two colors, a
special Ben Day shadow background
of an Indian fire on every page of the
book. There are also many surprises
in store which we are not permitted
to mention here.
Have you ordered your Pasque yet?
THE SIOUX PROVINCE TOURNAMENT—a "LITTLE NATIONAL"
by Prof. P. J. Harkness, South Dakota Zeta, Governor
The 1930-31 Sioux Province tournament will he held at Morningside
College at Sioux City, Iowa, on March 26, 27, 28.
The schools of this province represent three states: North Da-kota,
South Dakota and Iowa, and comprise the following Pi Kappa Delta
chapters:
North Dakota Alpha, Jamestown College, Jamestown.
South Dakota Alpha, Dakota Wesleyan College, Mitchell.
South Dakota Beta, Huron College, Huron.
South Dakota Gamma, Yankton College, Yankton.
South Dakota Delta, South Dakota State College, Brookings.
South Dakota Epsilon, Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls.
South Dakota Zeta, Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen.
South Dakota Eta, Augustana College, Sioux Falls.
South Dakota Theta, Eastern State Teachers College, Madison.
Iowa Delta, Morningside College, Sioux City.
Iowa Iota, Western Union College, La Mars.
Iowa Kappa, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake.
The Sioux Province is carried on in miniature national tournament
fashion. Each chapter is assessed from $30.00 to $40.00 to cover expenses
of the tournament. This pays for the judges, including the expert judge
usually called in for the final contests. From six to eight rounds of debate
are usually held with competition keen from the very beginning. The
Sioux Province was the first to give medals to individuals. This was done
at the last provincial meet at Huron in 1929. We plan to carry on this
system of awards. In every department and phase of its convention,
it is like the national,—the Sioux Province "Little National."
The Forensic.
OATES SPEAKS AT LEMMON
W. M. Oates was in Lemmon, last
Thursday, where he was the principal
speaker at several events, addressing
the high school students in the morn-ing;
in the afternoon he was the guest
speaker at a banquet of the Lions
Club. Mr. Oates is Past District Gov-Two
Lectures Announced ernor of the Lions.
Two numbers on the summer school
entertainment course have already
been scheduled. They are Frances
Homer, dramatic reader; and Clyde
Fisher, lecturer on astronomy.
Miss Homer is recognized through-out
the country through her brilliant
and varied repertoire of readings and
her individual technique.
Dr. Fisher has for years been in
great demand for addresses in a lim-ited
circle of the leading educational
institutions and the college takes
pleasure in announcing his appearance.
His lucid exposition of subject matter,
supplemented with marvelous motion-picture
films and lantern slides, make
a truly interesting and instructive lec-ture
on the absorbing subject of
astronomy.
Tryouts for Senior Class Play, "The
Royal Family," were held on Monday,
beginning at 3:15 o'clock and at 7:00
Lukken To Give Voice Recital Thursdap in the evening.
Will Offer Program of National Moods And Racial Dialed s
JOHN N. FINLEY SA YS
I dream now of a newspaper
not especially for youth, but one
which is fit for youth as well as
age, fit to be carried into any
schoolhouse and there used as a
textbook, a history in i he pres-ent
tense, a history which will
bring the past into the present
and help the present to see
where the next day's march
should lead.
WALTER DAMROSCH SAYS
Music is a language just as i he
English or the German or the
French is, but it is a language
which above all others express-es
our feelings—feelings which
the child has just as much as the
grownup—feelings of happiness,
of sorrow, of joy, of misery, of
reverence, of search for God, of
patriotism, of all those things
that make up the sum total of
our inner life.
Professor John Lukken is scheduled
to present a voice recital during as-sembly
time, Thursday, February 12.
Miss McArthur will be his accompan-ist
and she will also give a special
piano number. The program is open
to the public and will prove instruc-tive
to everyone. The program is as
follows:
Types of Exalted National Moods:
I Know a Hill—Whelpley
Sundown (Londonderry Air—A rr by
Wilson)
Spring's Profusion—Franz
My Ideal--Tosti
Thou Art My Rest—Collan
Hour of Dreaming—Hahn
Types of Racial Dialect and humorous
Moods:
Marietta—Rornilli
Stuttering Lovers--Hughes
Richard of Tauntan Deane—Mallay
Paul on the Hill—Anderson
Ain't it a Shame—Gaul
Redman's Death Chant—Bliss
Old Chisholm Trail—Fox.
This Debate Is Highlight Of Forensic Season; Miss
Ramthun And Miss Milnor Will
Represent Northern
One of the high lights of North-ern's
debate schedule will be reached
when Rose Ramthun and Thelma Mil-nor
meet the University of Pittsburgh
debaters here tonight in an open-forum
discussion.
The question for debate will be the
unemployment and insurance question.
This question should prove to be both
interesting and vital because of its
timely aspects.
The University of Pittsburgh is na-tionally
known for its accomplish-ments
in the forensic field.
"The chief aims of debates as we
see it, as we try to practice it, is to
give students instruction in public dis-cussion.
We do not make debating
either a major sport, a gladitorial
combat, or an advertising agency. A
second aim it to give interested audi-ences
an opportunity to hear public
questions discussed. Our debates are
not shows staged for the people's
amusement, but forums for the mold-ing
of public opinion.
"Our debaters are urged to try to
present the truth, and to present it
in a favorable light, not merely to
score hits or to win victories." These
are the aims and policies as out-lined
by the University of Pittsburgh.
In this light their debaters should be
able to give considerable information
on this question; the debate should be
of great interest to the general public.
Miss Ramthun and Miss Milnor are
debate veterans and should be able
to cope with the Pittsburgh word-mixers.
They have won many laurels
in this field. Last spring at the Pi
Kappa Delta Convention they placed
third in the national finals. Two
years ago at the provincial Pi Kappa
Delta convention they placed second.
The general public is welcome and
urged to attend this debate because
of its economic aspects which are vital
and significant to every American
citizen.
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