The Exponent, 1939-11-17

              The Exponent
Vol. XXXVIII, No. 8 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota November 17, 1939
Son Of Northern's Pres. Emeritus
Is Awarded Nobel Physics Prize
South Dakota Collegiate Press To
Meet On Northern Campus Today
Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence
of Berkeley, California, son of Dr.
and Mrs. C. G. Lawrence, has been
awarded the 1939 Nobel prize for
physics, as was announced Novem-ber
9, by the Royal Academy of
Sciences at Stockholm, Sweden.
The award was made to Dr. Law-rence
for the invention and de-velopment
of the cyclotron-and-atom
smasher which is being used
in research as possible cures for
cancer and leukemia.
The cyclotron, using high volt-ages
to break up atoms formerly
regarded as indestructible, is a
huge electro-magnet arranged so
that atomic particles whirl around
in it until they attain speeds of
thousands of miles an hour. The
speeding particles are drawn off
and used to bombard chemical ele-ments.
Prof. Lawrence, son of Dr. Law-rence,
former president of NSTC,
has been a member of the Univer-sity
of California faculty since
1928. In 1937 he was awarded the
Comstock prize of the National
Academy of Science, the highest
scientific honor of its kind in this
country.
Scanning The Front Page
by Mervin Reisenweber
Germany does not care for peace
just yet according to Foreign
Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop
who informed the Belgium and
Netherlands envoys that Germany
wants nothing to do with the joint
mediation offered from the lowland
nations. His reply was based on
answers already received from
Great Britain and France which
make peace impossible at this
time. From authorities, it is also
hinted, Germany will stress a stern-er
sea warfare aimed mainly at
Great Britain.
Russia may be playing an im-portant
part in the present Euro-pean
war in its "dreams of world
revolution" according to Rev. Dr.
Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., regent
of Georgetown University's foreign
service school, in a recent speech.
He links the sinking of the Athenia
and the bombing plot on Hitler's
life together with Russia. He pre-dicts
that if Germany were de-feated
the Russian troops would
march in and protect the laboring
class and then England and France
would be confronted with commun-ism.
Pope Pius XII appealed for
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Quadruplet Tag Day
Proclaimed Success
The Schense Quadruplet Tag day
proclaimed by Governor Bushfield
was well-supported Tuesday, Nov-ember
7.
Superintendent C. J. Dalthorp,
chairman of the funds-raising com-mittee,
sent out 75,000 tags to
county and city superintendents
over the state. All funds raised
are deposited in the Aberdeen Na-tional
bank and are subject to with-drawal
by order of the central com-mittee
only.
The purpose of the tag day is
to promote the education of the
Schense quadruplets of Aberdeen.
The success of this tag day will
give the eight-year-olds, James,
Jay, Joan, and Jean, a chance to
be a credit to South Dakota.
M. M. Guhin, founder of the
Young Citizens League, is general
chairman.
NOTICE
All persons who expect to
finish a two or four year curri-culum
are asked to report at
the registrar's office immedi-ately
in order to make applica-tion
for graduation if they have
not already done so.
Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence
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Band and Speeches
Feature Armistice
Day Observance
The Armistice Day assembly was
featured by the appearance of
Northern's recently received shiny
new instruments. The band played
several lively numbers among them
the march, "National Emblem."
Legionnaire Roe Granger dis-cussed
the principle of one hundred
percent Americanism and neutra-lity
of the American Legion and
told that his college days twenty-one
years ago ended in a call to the
colors.
Faythe Mantel, sophomore, and
Joe Kelly, senior, discussed topics
related to Education week. Miss
Mantel discussed education in rela-tion
to democracies and dictator-ships;
Mr. Kelly presented the
problem of the "Aristocrats of
Education" and "what we should
do about them and about the voca-tional
students."
Northern Faculty
Are Guests of
Ellendale Normal
About forty Northern faculty
members, headed by Dr. N. E.
Steele, motored to Ellendale to at-tend
a social gathering as guests
of the Ellendale faculty on Thurs-day
evening, October 16.
The evening's activity included
introduction of faculty members by
Dr. Steele and Dr. McMillan, presi-dent
of Ellendale, and a lunch
served by the Ellendale faculty. A
program was sponsored by N. S.
T. C. which consisted of community
singing led by John Lukken, a
vocal solo by Miss Ruth Allen, a
reading by Miss Ruth Covington,
a piano solo by Mrs. Merritt John-son,
and a duet by John Lukken and
E. K. Baillie.
The faculty members who at-tended
are as follows: President
Dr. N. E. Steele, Dean E. A. Bix-ler,
Dr. G. 0. Kelley, Miss Grace
McArthur, Miss Lyda Williams,
M. M. Cleworth, V. H. Culp, E. K.
Baillie, Dr. M. L. French, H. L.
Robertson, M. M. Guhin, Miss Ruth
Covington, Miss Ruth Allen, Miss
Leila Schmidt, Miss Ehna Woiffe,
P. J. Harkness, J. L. Murphy, Miss
Vera Lighthall, Dean Lillian Love,
Miss Emaline Welsh, Dr. M. E.
Nugent, G. M. Jordan, H. 0. Ash-ton,
John Lukken, Merritt Johnson,
Mrs. Merritt Johnson, Miss Marga-ret
Briscoe, Miss Dessa J. Bush,
Dr. Katherine McLennan, A. N.
Wray, H. K. Hutter, R. W. Ross,
Dr. W. R. Van Walker, A. W. Coe,
J. H. Jensen, and J. W. Thomas.
Ceremony To Feature
Steele Welcome As
Auditorium Opens
Regent Will Speak;
Chorus To Give Concert
Northern is to open the reno-vised
school auditorium Fri. Nov.
24. An elaborate ceremony has been
arranged in connection with the
auditorium opening to officially
welcome Dr. N. E. Steele, North-ern's
new president.
Highlights of the program will
include concerts by Northern's band
and glee clubs. Vice-president S. R.
Lipscomb will welcome Dr. Steele
on the part of the faculty.
Notice has been received by
school officials that Frank Cundill,
Northern's regent, will be present
to extend to the president the
board of regents' welcome.
Douglas Chittick, alumnus of
Northern and now superintendent
at Mina, South Dakota, will address
the student body and welcome Dr.
Steele on behalf of the N. S. T. C.
alumni association.
Northern's band under the di-rection
of Howard E. Goodsell will
play several numbers: "Sir Henry
March," by King; "Serenata," by
Moskowski; "Hungarian Dance," by
Brahms; and "Morning, Noon, and
Night," by Suppe.
Under the direction of John
Lukken and Miss Grace McArthur,
the choruses will present several
selections. The men's Chorus will
sing "Hear Dem Darkies Sing," by
Arnold. The women's octet, under
the direction of Miss McArthur will
sing the "Snow Storm," by Rogers.
The combined mixed chorus under
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Northern Students
Comment On Dance
There's something about that
walk leading northwest from Spaf-ford.
Coming out the door, one
thinks Jay street would be nice
to walk home on just for a change;
to start for Jay street means to
stop at the store. As there is
something about the walk that
drags one to this little grocery
shop, there is also something about
the little shop—it may be the un-der-
current constantly present, or
it may be the over-tones. Some of
these over-tones prove interesting;
witness the answers that Northern
brains produced when a general
question was thrown out. The ques-tion:
"What did you think of the
dance Friday night ?"
The answers:
Margaret Conway—"They should
have had it in the auditorium."
Barbara Gallett—"The feeblest
rat-race of the year."
John Allgiers—"Kept in time by
yawning."
Grace Omland—"Swell! I got
my money back."
Keith Woitte—"What dance?"
Mary Whiteside—"Shux, I missed
it."
Eileen Dempsey—"Close the cen-sored
and the censored and the
dance would have been swell."
How mail was carried across the
lines during the Civil War will be
dramatically portrayed by North-ern
students at 8:15 Tuesday even-ing
over KABR, under the direction
of Bill Nicholas.
The fllowing students have been
chosen to take part in the skit:
Miriam Smith, Don Storeim, Gloyd
Smith, Norman Nordby, Charles
Jones, Henry Wiepking, Harold
Ellery, and Ferdinand Goetz.
Arthur Langland
SDCPA President
Lloyd O'Conner
Secretary-treasurer
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N.S.T.C. Town Girls
To Hold Fall Dance
In Armory Saturday
Tomorrow night will climax the
week's social activities for North-ern
students when the Town Girls'
organization holds its semi-annual
formal dance at the Armory.
Misses Lucille Kirk, Jennie Walker,
and Pauline Hohler are in charge
of arrangements.
Bill Klitz and his orchestra have
been engaged to play for the dance,
it was announced.
Chaperons will be Dr. Mary
Wills, Dr. Katherine McLennan,
Miss Stella Yates, and their guests.
The dance is held for all North-ern
girls who live or stay in town
(off the campus) and their guests.
Customarily two formal dances are
held each year—one in the fall
and one in the spring.
More than a half-century after
the last wild buffalo roamed his
native plain, a half-century after
South Dakota
shed its terri-torial
govern-ment
and don-ned
the garb
of statehood,
N. S. T. C. stu-dents
feasted
on roasted buffalo at the Lincoln
dining hall.
Last Tuesday evening Lincoln
hall "shuffled off the buffalo to
the hungry pack," when George
Ericksen brought out his wild culi-
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President Art Langland of Da-kota
Wesleyan will preside at the
twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the South Dakota Collegiate Press
association when it meets here Fri-day
and Saturday of this week,
it was announced. Lloyd O'Conner,
secretary-treasurer of the associa-tion,
is in charge of the conven-tion
plans.
High-lighting this twenty-fourth
annual convention, H. C. Anderson,
editor and publisher of the North-west
Journal, will speak on the
topic, "War Propaganda." Mr.
Anderson was the former editor
and publisher of the American
News and was pioneer editor of the
Industrial Collegian of State col-lege.
He also worked on Aber-deen's
first daily newspaper.
P. J. Harkness, of the language
and literature department at
Northern, is also scheduled to speak
at the banquet. His topic will be
"Publishing the College in Rural
Towns."
Toastmaster at the banquet,
which will be held in the college
cafeteria, will be Joe Robbie, a
former student of Northern and
now of the University of South
Dakota. Talented college students
will entertain the group.
This convention follows out the
trend of past conventions in that
it features discussions on news-paper
work under the supervision
of student leaders. News, features,
advertizing, and related .phases of
newspaper work will be discussed.
Northern's representative is Lane
Thomas, Watertown student, who
will address one group on the
merits of advertizing.
Round table discussions will be
held on Saturday. Yearbook edi-tors,
newspaper editors, and busi-ness
managers are to be divided
into groups of their own.
The final business session of the
convention will be held at eleven
o'clock. Officers for the coming
year will be elected, and the host
school for next year will be se-lected.
Red Cross Instructor
To Teach Life Saving
R. A. Jakoubek, Red Cross ex-aminer,
will finish conducting a
course in life saving instruction for
those interested. Part of the water
safety course was given at North-ern's
pool and part at the Y. M.
C. A. pool November 14 and 16.
More classes will be held November
21 and 23.
A preparatory course was given
before November 13 for the pur-pose
of familiarizing all candidates
for the water safety instructor
course with the technique involved
in the new swimming and life
saving program.
Leila Schmidt, physical educa-tion
instructor, assisted with in-struction
for girls.
A water safety instructor takes
the place of the former Red Cross
examiner, and senior life savers
who have reached the age of twenty
are eligible.
Music Department
Presents Broadcasts
For the remainder of the
school year the music depart-ment
of Northern State Teach-ers
college, under the direction
of Merritt Johnson, instruc-tor
of piano, will sponsor a
series of musical programs to be
broadcast each Thursday even-ing
from 7:15 to 7:45 over
KABR.
These programs will consist
of vocal solos and vocal groups,
band, orchestra and smaller en-sembles,
piano and vocal solos.
Don't forget to tune in to
KABR each Thursday evening
at 7:15 o'clock.
Northern Students Celebrate State
Anniversary By Eating Buffalo Steak
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Northern Students
Portray Civil War
Episode in Broadcast