The Exponent, 1917-11-24

              THE EXPONENT NORTHERN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Vol. XVI
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, NOVEMBER 24, 1917
No. 10
War Program is Adopted
to Help Beat the Kaiser
CHOOSE PLAYERS YOUNG
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
The members of the class teams
in young women's basketball, which
will play for the interclass cham-pionship,
have been chosen as fol-lows:
Seniors—Forward, Josie Gron-seth;
forward, Burdette Coutts;
guard, Jessie Cure (captain) ; guard,
Zita Rowan. Substitutes—Laura
Schoepf, Marie Lund, Sophie Sor-kilmo.
Junior (first team)—Center, Flor-ence
Scott; forwards, Jennie Pfeif-fer
(captain), Beatrice Hobart;
guards, Lurena Matson, Madge
Heathfield.
Junior (second, team)—Center,
Zita Kelley; forwards, Berenice
Eakins, Mary Riddle; guards, Gene-vieve
Fargen, Mayme Loehr.
Fourth Year—Center, Sarah Van-derlinden;
forwards, Julia Danielson
(captain), Olive Granger; guards,
Elma Glanzman, Irene Rauch. Sub-stitutes—
Center, Lucy Erbe; for-ward,
Clarice Lee; guard, Blanche
Rider.
Third Year—Center, Mildred El-shere
(captain); forwards, Vera
Aughembaugh, Alice Bartlett; guards,
Myrtle Naessig, Lenora Kimmel.
Substitutes—Center, Alta Lewis; for-ward,
Eva Stelter; guard, Alice
Cleveland.
Second Year—Center, Mary Dues-ler;
forwards, Jessie Crawford (cap-tain),
Alice Thomas; guards, Blonda
Melcher, Elva Granger. Substitutes
—Center, Ella Scheibe; forward,
Violet Schrimpf: guard, Rose Geis.
First Year—Center, Ruth Fritz;
forwards, Amanda Clausen (cap-tain),
Sylvia Thomas; guards, Mae
Fugg, Gladys Gilbertson. Substi-tutes—
Center, Edith Walberg; for-ward,
Gladys Pharis; guard, Essie
Adams.
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CHRIS MERKLE ENTERS
U. S. AVIATION CORPS
C. Arnold Merkle, familiarly
known as "Chris," a graduate of N.
N. I. S., who has won more "N's"
than any other man in Normal, after
having three times applied for en-trance
into the army and been three
times rejected, applied a fourth time,
and was accepted into the aviation
branch of the United States army.
Chris has just returned from
Omaha, where he was called to take
the rigid mental and physical ex-aminations,
which lasted, all told,
seventeen hours. He took eight dif-ferent
examinations. under seven
army physicians. He reports that
one cannot hide the smallest physical
defect; his left eve was examined
four times before he was finally ac-cepted.
Chris considers the equi-librium
test the most difficult one
to pass.
He tried to enlist in the regular
army last spring, and applied for
entrance into the two officers' train-•
ing camps, but was rejected every
time.
During his four years at Normal,
Chris was a favorite with class-mates
and teachers alike, and was
especially prominent in athletics,
winning a place on the all-state
'football team three years ago, and
pitching in baseball every year.
At present he holds the position
of superintendent of schools of Bow-dle,
with a corps of six teachers.
THANKSGIVING REASONS
ARE MANY SAYS GUHIN
Americans Should Observe Day in
True American Spirit
The Y. M. C. A. held its Thanks-giving
meeting last Thursday even-ing.
It was one of the most inter-esting
meetings held yet this year.
Professor Guhin spoke to the men
on "Why I am Thankful." Parts of
his fine address follow:
"One of the things for which we
must be thankful is that we have
grown out of our own insignificant
selves and are able to think this
year in terms of centuries and con-tinents.
"The second point for which we
have to be thankful is the awaken-ing
of America to the responsibili-ties
and duties brought upon her by
the war. We have at last a right
to say that we are part and parcel
of the mighty forces standing for
what He taught years ago when He
was on earth.
"The next thing for which we
have to be thankful is a united
United States. A true Americanism
has developed during the last few
weeks. We are beginning to see
what America is.
"Then I have to be thankful for the
fact that when the bugle was sound-ed,
America rang true to the spirit
of the times of Washington and of
Lincoln. It has been said that the
dollar was the god of the United
States. We have subscribed and
over subscribed the Liberty loan.
We have given to the Red Cross and
other causes freely. When the Y.
M. C. A. called for $35,000,000, we
subscribed $49,000,000. Is the dol-lar
our god?
"Then, again, I have to be thank-ful
for the men who have donned
the uniform and showed their wil-lingness
to sacrifice all for the
cause.
"I have to be thankful for the
fact that students are realizing what
.momentous times we are living in.
We are a more serious minded stu-
'lent body this year than we were
last year. We do not live so much
in ourselves. No longer is it true
that our two best friends are the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
"I am thankful for the greatest
privilege that was ever conferred
upon a human being at any stage of
history—the privilege of being an
American citizen today. We are
Americans standing for what Amer-
ica was instituted for, and we are
going to stand for it until American-sin
shall triumph."
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DECEMBER 11 DATE SET
FOR PRESENTING PLAY
Juniors Spending Many Hours Re-hearsing
"The House Next
Door"
"The House Next Door," the
junior play, will be presented Tues-day,
December 11, by an all-star cast
under the direction of Mrs. Metzler.
This is a strong play of high class
and of good literary value, and is
of special interest to the Jewish
people. Two families figure in the
play—the Cotswold family, an aris-tocratic
old English family who are
poverty stricken, and the other the
wealthy Jacobsons, a Jewish family.
who buy the estate and live next
door. The fair treatment of the
Jews is as popular among the Jews
as among the Gentiles.
NORMAL RESEARCH BUREAU
RECOGNIZED IN MANY STATES
Requests for Material From Fifty
Schools in South Dakota
The Bureau of Educational Re-search
is receiving recognition from
schools in various parts of the
union. Orders came recently from
the State Normal school at New
Paltz, New York, and from the State
College at Kingston, Rhode Island.
The school men of our own state
are very much interested in the
work of the bureau. Inquiries and
requests for materials have been
sent in from approximately fifty
schools. The tests used are the
Courtis arithmetic, Ayres spelling
and writing, and Haggerty reading.
The Aberdeen schools, along with
the other schools of the state, have
joined the bureau in this work
of measurements. Here, because of
the proximity of the bureau, a few
additional tests have been used. In
arithmetic both the Woody and the
Courtis tests have been given, the
former in grades three and four and
the latter in grades five to eight.
The Woody differs from the Courtis
in that it is a scale, while the Courtis
is a standardized test only. The es-sential
feature of an educational
scale is that it is easy enough on the
low end that every child makes a
start, and difficult enough on the
high end that no child finishes.
Thus the ability of every child
measured is adequately determined.
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SENATOR REEVES TALKS ON
COUNTRY PRESS PROBLEMS
"The Problems of the Country
Newspaper" was the subject of an
interesting talk given by Senator
Jay Reeves of Groton to the class
in journalistic composition, Friday
of last week.
Mr. Reeves is editor of the Groton
Independent, and thoroughly fa-miliar
with the country newspaper
and its field.
"One would think at first that the
country newspaper was all prob-lems,"
said Mr. Reeves, "but they
are problems that are worth solv-ing."
He told of the subscribers to be
reached and what they demanded in
their home papers. Local news, he
said, was of the most importance,
as the daily papers brought all of
the world news, and it would be
time wasted for the country weekly
to print what the dailies had already
had.
A feature which Mr. Reeves
brought out in his talk was the pos-sibilities
of girls running and tak-ing
complete charge • of country
newspapers, which, he said, they
would undoubtedly do in the near
future.
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NO ISSUE NEXT WEEK
There will be no issue of the Ex-ponent
next week on account of the
Thanksgiving vacation. The next
number will be issued December 8.
N. N. I. S. TO CONSERVE TIME;
REGULAR WORK TO BE DONE
Students Will be Released for Farm
Work—Special Spring Term
Will be Held
In these stirring days of patriotic
effort and sacrifice the American
people are learning practical les-sons
in the conservation of utilities.
The food conservation program has
made a most successful start, and
now comes the Northern Normal
and Industrial School, the school
known more than state-wide for its
initiative and its "pep," with a time
conservation program.
Last spring the schools of the na-tion
were urged to release adult stu-dents
in the spring for farm work.
To comply with this demand many
educational sacrifices had to be
made. This kind of sacrifice, how-ever,
is the most costly to civiliza-tion
and, indeed, to the immediate
war needs as well. Trained and in-telligent
men and women are needed
as•never before.
At a recent meeting of the state
board of regents held in Aberdeen,
President Willis E. Johnson pre-sented
a tentative program for the
conservation of the time of the
young men and young women now
in school, whereby their school
work ,could be accelerated and they
could be released for farm work
a few weeks earlier in the spring.
"Last spring," said President John-son,
"we were caught unawares.
The labor shortage was upon us,
and there was nothing to do but to
release all who could secure farm
employment. The outlook for a
labor shortage next spring is far
more alarming than ever before, and
we will be derelict, indeed, if we do
not anticipate the conditions of next
spring."
The regents heartily approved of
the plan to intensify the work of the
school. Then followed several fac-ulty
meetings, conferences with the
student council and with the stu-dents
in classes. A vote of the stu-dents
was taken to ascertain how
many would actually engage in farm
work if a war program of con-servation
of time were adopted.
Fifty-three per cent stated definitely
that they would engage directly in
farm work, and 17 per cent stated
that they would engage in farm
work or some other employmentt
that would release labor for the
farm. 'Twenty per cent of the stu-dents
were in doubt as to whether
they would engage in productive la-bor
or continue their work in school.
(Continued on page 4)
Thanksgiving Vacation
School will be held on Mon-day,
Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week, in order that
the Thanksgiving holiday may
extend from Thanksgiving day
to Tuesday of the next week.
Tuesday's regular class work
will be taken up on Monday,
and so on through the three
days.