The Exponent, 1939-10-27

              The Exponent
Vol. XXXVIII, No. 5 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota October 27, 1939
Old Fashioned Frolic in Gym Tonight
If You've Ance In Your Pance
Don't Miss The Barn Dance
Plans were completed today for
Masquer's spectacular barn-burn-ing
bang-up barn dance to be held
in old Spafford barn tonight. N. S.
T. C. students were urged by Mas-que.
officers to bring their "old
gals in old clothes for an old
fashioned frolic in the barn."
Prof. Bob Schmidt, Masquer
prexy predicted that this year's
barn dance will be "barnier than
ever." Joe Kelly, veteran barn
stormer and chief of haying oper-ations
suggested reluctantly that
the dance would be "cornier than
ever." Tessie, the bovine beauty,
brought at great trouble and ex-pense
direct from a stalling en-gagement
near Bath, smiled coyly
when your Exponent reporter
greeted her, took a healthy poke
at a fly, mumbled something about
horns, and that she'd be there with
"bells on."
Theme songed with "0 Hay Can
You See," the dance tonight will
have as its decorative motif, hay,
both baled and on the loose as it
'twere.
According to Masquers, impor-tant
things to remember concern-ing
the dance are as follows:
It's tonight
It's in Spafford Gym
Wear your old barny clothes
Admission, 10c with your acti-vity
ticket
No feudin' allowed. (That's feud
for thought)
Come prepared to have fun
Come prepared
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Scanning The Front Page
By Mervin Reisenweber
United States is in the limelight
of the European situation with the
seizure of the American freighter,
City of Flint. It was taken into
the Soviet harbor of Murmansk by
a German prize crew. According
to Stephen Early, presidential
press secretary, the City of Flint
made a "perfectly legal and lawful
voyage" according to American
laws, but international law may
look at it differently. The ques-tion
of right of seizure—apparently
supported by the Germans on their
assertion that cantraband was
aboard—was being investigated by
the State Department. There is
much comment because this might
be an effort to effect the neutrality
legislation now in debate in con-
()Tess.
Adolph Hitler's foreign min-
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Ruth Bryan Owen
To Address Students
On "Our Democracy"
America's first woman diplomat,
Ruth Bryan Owen, will speak in
Aberdeen on Saturday evenii*.
November 4th, at 7:30. This ly-ceum
number will be held at the
Civic Arena because of the crowd
expected. Faculty and students of
both Central High School and
Northern will be admitted through
activity tickets. Mrs. Borge Rohde
(her present name) will speak
upon "This Democracy of Ours"—
what it is and how it may be safe-guarded.
A brief summary of
Ruth Bryan Owen's career shows
that she was the first woman ever
to represent the "Old South" in
Congress, she was the first woman
on a Foreign Affairs Committee
and the first woman to represent
the United States at the Interpar-liamentary
Union (London, 1930).
Her appointment as Minister Pleni-potentiary
and Envoy Extraordin-ary
to Denmark gave her the dis-tinction
of being America's first
woman diplomat.
Cundill Visits Campus ;
Steele, Cundill Leave
For Regents Meet Today
Regent Frank Cundill of Isabel,
South Dakota, chairman of Regents
Committee for Northern State
Teachers College, spent parts of
Thursday and Friday on the cam-pus,
investigating problems in con-nection
with the completion and
operation of the Boys' Dormitory.
Today, Regent Frank Cundill
and President Steele leave for Ver-million,
South Dakota, to attend
the meeting of the Board of Re-gents
tomorrow morning.
Dr. Steele participated in a panel
on Monday, October 16, at. Pierre,
discussing the "School as a Factor
in Child Growth." Tuesday, Octo-ber
17, he addressed the conven-tion
on the topic, "Human Rela-tionships
and Development of
Child."
Monday, October 23, he ad-dressed
the 1VIens' Club of the St.
Marks Episcopal Guild on "Our
Responsibilities for Religious En-vironment
of Child."
The Faculty this week received
an invitation from the Faculty of
Ellendale Normal and Industrial
School, Ellendale, North Dakota,
to come to Ellendale compus for a
dinner in November, the date to
be decided upon later.
Northern To Entertain
Hallowe'eners Tuesday
Northern is doing her part to
give Aberdeen a "safe and sane"
Hallowe'en. Johnson field is being
given for the activities, and Pro-fessors
Marc Cleworth, Theo.
Rozendal, and N. H. Mewaldt are
serving on the committee in charge
of affairs.
According to the committee,
children from the first to fourth
grade will have a costume parade
with a movie at the civic arena
afterwards. Upper-grade children
of the city will enjoy football
games and peanut races at John-son
field.
Although this "safe and sane"
Hallowe'en costs the merchants of
Aberdeen approximately $350, this
method is considered cheaper than
the $1000 property damage the
community has suffered in previous
years.
Edinburgh Protects
Books From Bombs
Austin, Texas—(ACP)—A new
wrinkle in literature evaluation—
grading books by warfare's stand-ards—
has been uncovered here by
Donald Coney, University of Texas
librarian.
The National Library of Edin-
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Absent-Minded Profs
Hunt And Meet Law
Last Sunday, four Northern
professors laid aside the cares of
their curricula and turned nim-rods
for the day. They were: Pro-fessors
E. A. Bixler, M. E. Nugent,
J. R. McAnnelly, and V. H. Culp.
Returning home with a fair
amount of game, the hunters en-.
countered their first difficulty at
the edge of the city. There a game
warden met them, demanding their
hunting licenses.
Professor Bixler and Dr. Nugent
produced the desired objects imme-diately.
Mr. McAnnelly flashed
his, next. After the warden looked
at it, he exclaimed, "Why, you
can't hunt on this!"
"Why not ?" asked Mr. Mc
Annelly; "this is a 1939 license."
"You can't hunt on a fishing
license," said the warden. Fumb-ling
in his pockets, the embarrassed
professor at last found the proper
license.
All this time Professor Culp, who
was in the back seat, was busy
emptying his pockets, frantically
searching for the important paper
he so greatly needed. This profes-sor
tried to tell the game warden
that he had attended Sunday school
in the morning and had left his
papers in the pockets of his other
trousers. He explained, "I am a
professor at Northern. I do possess
a license, which I secured in Han-son
county, which I will produce
in the morning." Whereupon the
warden wanted to know why he se-cured
the papers in Hanson county
instead of Bown county. More ex-planations
were necessary to get
him out of this situation. But at
last the warden, convinced and
satisfied, waved them on their way.
Next time they'll be more care-
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Northern Alumnus
Busy At Cornell
For those who think they have
too much to do, here's a real sample
of really being busy.
Bruce Tiffany, Aberdeen, is a
senior at Cornell university this
year and manager and chef of the
dining association of Llenroc
Lodge, a Rochdale co-operative
men's residence. Thirty-five hours
is the average working time of this
honor student. Besides training and
working with twenty-two students
who earn either board or room
serving three hundred meals a day,
Bruce was in charge of concessions
for feeding six thousand for Junior
week and running two lunch rooms
during Farm and Home week.
Dr. Edward A. Ott, educator, is
adviser for the boys at Llenroc.
One hundred and fifty boys call
this club, home, and there is always
a waiting list because they've got
such a good chef.
P. J. Harkness, director of
speech, would like to have all
debators meet in S-204 on Mon-day,
October 30, at 7:30.
This is for all persons inter-ested
in debate. All who plan
to take debate next quarter
must be at this meeting.
Mr. Harkness also announces
the two big plays to be given
by the college year. They
are "Wuthering eights" and
"What a Life."
Murphy Lectures On
European Struggle
The present European situation
has caused Professor John Murphy,
Northern's highly informed social
science instructor, to be much in
demand.
Friday afternoon he spoke at
S. D. E. A. social science panel on
the "Misdirected Sentimentalism
over the Versailles Treaty as a
Cause of the Present European
war."
He tried to show how misdirected
sympathy after the World War
enabled Germany to disregard the
Versailles treaty and to threaten
the world's peace today.
"When this war is over and
peace is made," Mr. Murphy stated,
"people should be more realistic
and see that the terms of the treaty
are carried out."
Sunday night he spoke at the
Methodist Episcopal church on the
"Dangers of Uncontrolled Emotion-alisms
in International Relations."
He again tried to show how people
took sides and obscured the real
principles on which international
relations have to be based.
Jensen Returns From
National Science
Meet In Chicago
J. H. Jensen, head of the depart-ment
of physical and general
science, recently attended the meet-ing
of the National Committee on
Science teaching, sponsored by the
National Education association. All
sessions were held at the Stevens
hotel, Chicago, Illinois. This com-mittee
is attempting to work out
a fourteen point science teaching
program.
Each of the various national
science organizations, twelve in
number, is cooperating in this pro-ject,
and each had a representative
at the meeting. This includes such
Northern's instructors, students,
and alumni held the spotlight in
the northeastern district meet of
the S. D. E. A. conducted in Aber-deen,
October 19 to 21.
President N. E. Steele opened the
convention with an address of wel-come.
In the second general ses-sion,
Leopold Rutter led his high
school orchestra in a concert. The
Northern State Teachers' college
orchestra gave a concert before the
fourth general session.
Marc Cleworth was secretary of
this district S. D. E. A.
Dr. Wills spoke on classical
languages before the classical and
foreign languages club. V. H. Culp
was secretary of Rural Education.
Dr. N. E. Steele addressed the
Rural Education group on "What
Can We Do to Improve Schools ?"
J. H. Jensen was president of Phy-sical
Sciences and Mathematics.
Keo King spoke on "Newer Trends
In Reading" before the Interme-diate
Grade Teachers. Professor
John Murphy lectured on the Euro-pean
situation before the history
teachers. H. P. Gerber spoke be-fore
the Industrial Arts group on
the subject "Industrial Arts."
Margaret Briscoe lectured on
"What's Wrong With Penmanship",
before the Grammar Grade Teach-ers.
Harley Robertson was presi-dent
of Physical Education and
Athletics. Miss Ruth Allen was
chairman of the women's group.
Professor Lipscomb's major bio-logy
students gave a lengthy de-monstration
on "Uses of Camera
and Projector Equipment in Study
of Plants and Animals." Mary
Alice Lipscomb sang a solo before
the Physical Education department.
Miss Grace McArthur directed a
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Northern Students
Set New Record In
Stowing Away Chow
For the first time in many years
the college dining hall under
George Ericksen, head chef, is filled
to capacity. The student waitresses
are really getting a work out. This
is one of the best years that they
have ever had.
This year, more than any other
year, the students are putting away
more food. They are eating three
times as much per person. The
baker is working over time trying
to keep up the bread supply. He
makes from eighty to one-hundred
ten loaves per day. The amounts
of meat and potatoes is inestimable.
Clubs and groups on the campus
have been having banquets and
feeds every day. This shows that
everything on the campus is in full
swing. The coffee shop and cafe-teria
have handled this very nicely.
Those students who live in Aber-deen
and wish to eat at the hall
may report to the head waitress
when the bell rings at twelve. In
the past a great number of stu-dents
have taken advantage of this.
According to George, "It is great
to see all the students from differ-ent
towns getting all they can to
eat in the shortest time possible."
In closing his interview he stated,
"I am glad to see you all, and the
most of the best for the least."
Gerber Alters Course
In Metal Working
The Industrial arts department
features changes this year that
make the course even more inter-esting
than formerly, according
to H. P. Gerber, head of the de-partment.
The metal working department
is housed in three rooms: the mach-ine
shop, general metal shop, and
foundry. The foundry has been
moved from one corner of the
general metal room to the back
room of the building. This depart-ment
was formerly cramped for
space. With this change it can
carry on its work much mbre easily.
To many, the work of a foundry
is meaningless. This department
makes all manner of aluminum
castings for machine purposes. In
the first place, a plan of the part
has to be drawn. Then a pattern
is made from wood, both by ma-chine
and by hand. This pattern has
to be perfect in every detail, as the
castings will be an exact duplicate
of it. Moulding sand is then treated
with water to just the right con-sistency
so that when it is packed
it will retain the same shape with-out
any outside support. The
wooden pattern is withdrawn from
the mould, leaving an opening in
exact duplicate of the pattern. At
this time the aluminum is heated
in a special furnace to a heat of
1500°F. When it has cooled to the
proper heat necessary, usually
about 1300°F. as found by the use
of a portable pyrometer, it is
poured in the mould. When the
metal has set a sufficiently long
time, the mould is broken up, re-vealing
a metal casting exactly like
the wooden pattern.
These castings are then finished
by machines to a perfect fit. The
department uses most of its cast-ings
for machines of its own design
and use.
Northern Auditorium
Dons Finishing Touches
The college auditorium which
was damaged by the fire last
spring will be reopened in about
two weeks, according to Theodore
Rozendal, superintendent of build-ings
and grounds.
Paul Borgeson, the decorator, is
putting on the finishing buff
touches, and Fred Nordling, the
carpenter, has about completed
work on the stage.
All that remains is the electrical
wiring.
ful! Continued on page 2.
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Northern Faculty and Alumni
Feature District S.D.E.A. Meeting