The Exponent, 1921-04-16

              The Exponent
Northern Normal and Industrial School
Vol. XIX
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, APRIL 16, 1921
No. 26
THE NORTH DAKOTA NORMALITES ARE DEFEATED
N.N.I.S WINS IN DUAL DEBATE 
Our Negative Team Wins at Ellen-dale;
Affirmative Team is Victo-rious
on Home Platform
The question "Resolved that the
principle of the closed shop should
be adopted in the industries of the
United States," was hotly debated
and ably handled by both negative
and affirmative teams of this school
in the dual debate with the Ellen-dale
Normal representatives, last
Friday evening. On the home floor
the question was thoroughly discuss(-
ed from both standpoints and al-though
Ellendale had the side most
commonly favored by the public, the
open shop, our boys put up the
strongest speeches, and thus won the
debate by a two to one vote in fa-vor
of the closed shop. Those who
took part in the debate, which was
held in the Northern Normal audito-rium,
were: Earl Clark, Leonard
Reager and Emanuel Schmierer of
Ellendale, and Ben Sueltz, Carroll
Stinson and David Lynch of Aber-deen.
While the affirmative team was de-bating
the issue on the home floor,
our negative team, composed of
Phila Humphreys, Russell Hall and
Harold Hammer, were arguing for
the open shop at Ellendale.
Each speaker had 10 minutes for
constructive speeches; in the rebut-tals
the first two speakers on each
side had five minutes each, and the
last two on each side seven minutes
each. The debate was held under
the regular rules 'which usually gov-ern
dual debates. The decision in
both cases was 2 to 1 in our favor,
making a double victory for N. N. I.
S. The judges were: Atorney Thos.
L. Arnold and Rev. F. W. Bartlett of
Aberdeen, and Superintendent W. J.
Atha of Ipswich.
Paul J. Northrop, professor of pub-lic
speaking at N. N. I. S., who had
charge of the training, is to be- con-gratulated
on the outcome. This is
Professor Northrop's first year with
us, but in the course of a few months
he has succeeded remarkably in or-ganizing
and conducting exception-ally
good work in dramatics, oratory
and debate.
GOOD WEATHER BRINGS
FORTH MUCH SPLENDID
ATHLETIC SPIRIT
TRACK—TENNIS—BASEBALL
Women Stage Interesting Indoor
Baseball Tournament
The young women of the school
are just completing a very ieterest-ing
and successful indoor baseball
tournament. Three teams chosen
from the Pre-Normal department,
two from the Junior Normal and one
from the Senior Normal, make up
the contesting teams.
The lead throughout has been
maintained by the seniors, who have
at the time of this writing, won all
games played. Next in the tourna-ment
stands the second Junior team.
The other teams are about evenly
matched and comparative scores are
almost equal. All teams have been
working hard and have shown
strong improvement since the be-ginning
of the season.
Competition at these games has
been very strong and has brought
forth a fine class spirit. The ri-valry
between seniors and juniors
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FOURTEEN TO COMPETE
IN SHORT STORY CONTEST
FOR GALLETT MEDAL
STORIES IN HANDS OF JUDGES
Announcement of Awards Made in
Next Exponent
Fourteen manuscripts were hand-ed
in for competition in the Gallett
short story contest. This is a larger
number than usually submitted,
hence this contest will be keen and
snappy. One judge has already pass-ed
judgment on the stories and they
are now in the hands of the second
judge. In all probability next week's
Exponent will be able to announce
the final decision.
Meanwhile there is much guess-ing
and unbounded suspense as to
which three competitors will be the
fortunate ones to capture the prizes
as well as the honor of winning the
contest. The three prizes are: a gold
medal, a silver medal, and a foun-tain
pen. These are given by one
of Aberdeen's progressive business
men, Mr. D. G. Gallett. Mr. Gallett
is one of those business men who
is not too busy to be interested in
matters beyond his own threshold.
Thus he has every year since 1910,
offered the above inducements to
aspiring students in the field of writ-.
ing. "The main idea,' says Mr. Gal-lett,
"is that it might bring out a
short story Writer of real ability.
It is for every student in the Normal
and I hope that everyone tries for
the prize. You never know how'
much you have in you until you start
to write."
NO ADELPHIAN PLAY
Last year the Adelphians present-ed
"The Arrival of Kitty," as the first
annual Adelphian play. The play
met with such a rage of enthusiasm
and was so cleverly presented that
it was decided to make the Adel
phian play an annual affair
This year, because of the many
activities of the school and the
amount of work which the Adelphians
already are undertaking, the
play was given up.
VICTORY MEDALS
FOR ARMY MEN
Have You Yours
President H. W. Foght,
Normal Industrial School.
Aberdeen South Dakota.
Dear Sir:
No doubt there are a number of
army ex-service men who are at-tending
your sch-ool. These men
are entitled to a Victory Medal. Will
you be kind enough to have insert-ed
in your school paper if you have
one, or have posted on the bulletin
board the following notice:
"Every man who served during
the World War and honorably - dis
charged from the army is entitled
a Victory Medal. All that is neces-sary
to secure this medal is to for-ward
the discharge to the Victory
Medal department, Aberdeen, S. D.,
or the Victory Medal Department,
State Capitol Building, Pierre, S. D.
and the office force on duty there
will fill out the application, and re-turn
it to the applicant for his sig-nature.
The discharge will not
leave the local office .So there is no
uneasiness about its being lost."
I hope that you will personally
interest yourself so that the stu-dents,
who are ex-service men, will
secure the information as to how
they may secure their medals.
Sincerely yours,
R. - E. Frith,
Lt. Colonel, U. S. A., Retired.
FREE SCHOLARSHIPS
AVAILABLE IN STATE
CONTROLLED SCHOOLS
N. N. I. S. IS ON THE LIST
Three Types of Awards are Offered
by Board of Regents
Three kinds of free scholarships
are available in the seven state ed
ucational institutions under the con-trol
of the State Board of Regents
of Education according to provi-sions
of law and the rules of the
Board of Regents of Education.
Honor Graduates from Accredited
High Schools
To the highest ranking young man
and young woman of good moral
character, graduating from any ac-credited
four-year high school in
South Dakota, shall be awarded free
scholarships in the State University,
the State College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, the State School of
Mines, or in any of the State Nor-mal
schools of the state. These
scholarships shall afford free tuition
and fees, except breakage charges,
dormitory rent, and such deposits
as may be required for the return of
the equipment lent to the student,
for any course or courses in these
institutions, and shall in no case ex-ceed
$60' in one fiscal year. Scholar-ships
are not transferable from in-dividual
to individual but upon the
satisfactory completion of a year's
work in one institution may be
transferred to another institution.
A student transferring from one in-stitution
to another shall take with
him the original copy of his scholar-ship,
with his attendance record at
the institution he is leaving, endors-ed
thereon, certified by the president
or registar of the institution he is
leaving. Scholarships may be with
drawn temporarily or permanently
for misdemeanor or for failure or
condition in any subject.
Should any high school graduate
be unable or unwilling to accept a
scholarship for any given year, it
may be awarded to the graduate
next highest in rank requesting it.
A student waiving the privilege of
a scholarship for any given year
may claim it for any succeeding
year or years, but in no case shall
more than one scholarship for a
young man and one for a young
woman be awarded to any high
school graduating class.
Special blanks are provided for
students wishing to apply for
scholarships.
Senatorial and Representative
Scholarships
Each state senator may issue
scholarships for two students and
each representative to one student
in any one of the institutions under
the control of the Board of Regents
of Education. These schlarships ex-empt
the students from the regular
tuition fees which amount to twelve
dollars for the regular college year.
These scholarships expire with the
term of office of the senator or rep-resentative.
Special blanks are provided for
students wishing to apply to their
senators or representatives for these
scholarships.
War. Veterans
Free tuition and fees are given by
the institutions under the control of
the Board of Regents of Education
to residents of the state who per-formed
military service and who
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YOUNG WOMEN ATHLETES
WILL HAVE FINE BANQUET
MONDAY EVENING
WILL BE THIRD ANNUAL FEED
All Athletes to Dine at the Sher-man
Hotel
Final arrangements have been
completed for the Third Annual
Banquet of the young women ath-letes
of the Northern Normal and
Industrial School. The event will
take place in the Sherman Hotel,
Monday evening, at 7:00 o'clock.
All indications prove that this is
to lakf the most successful affair of
its kind. Reservations have been
made for practically one hundred
people.
The customary regulations regard-ing
attendance at this function are
being followed. No girl is allowed
to attend the banquet unless she has
taken an active participation in
either the hockey, basketball or
baseball tournament games, which
took place during the fall, winter
or -pring seasons under the direc
tion of Miss Jones, physical direc-tor
of women.
The representatives of four field
hockey teams, six interclass basket-ball
teams and six inter-class base-ball
teams make up the group. Prac-tically-
all of these young women
have, as trophy rivals battled
against each other in decisive games
and now they have banded together,
as is their custom, to celebrate their
victories and defeats.
The folowing toasts have been
arranged:
Toastmistress—Ruth Michel.
Hazel Shay—"The Gold Ball."
Viva Milbrandt—"Ground, Sticks."
Esther Thornton—`Up Against Odds'
Edwina Jones—"Playing the Game."
Phila Humpreys—"For the Sport of
it."
Ethel Bennett—"Those Good Old
Days."
The following menu will be ser-ved:
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Celery and Olives.
Braised Beef Tenderloin—Mush-room
Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, Head
Lettuce and Thousand Island Dress-ing.
Apple Pie A la Mode, Coffee.
Summer School Bulletin Out
The Summer School Bulletin is
now out and ready for distribution.
It is a forty-seven page book. It
contains an outline of the special
features which will be offered in
summer school as well as the general
caurse of study. The special courses
are: Americanization, Instruction in
Teacher Training in High Schools,
Rural Leadership, Vitalized Agricul-ture,
Hygiene, Red Cross Activities,
Visual Education, and Rural School
Administration and Supervision.
The bulletin also contains two
very interesting maps showing from
what part of the country the stu-dents
in attendance come. They show
that students from Nova Scotia, Sas-katchewan,
British Columbia and
Costa Rica have attended the Nor-mal
since June 7, 1920.
Pictures of Dr. Albert E. Jenks,
Dr. David Snedden, Dr. Edgar J.
Banks, Marie T. Harvey, Dr. J. -S.
McBrien, S. Dana Townsend, Walter
R. Smith, J. C. Muerman, and Dr. P.
P. Claxton, some of the special in-structors
and lecturers for this sum-mer
school, are shown.
COMMERCIAL DEPART-MENT
CAPTURES MEDALS
AND HONORABLE MENTION
TWO 100% CLUBS ARE FORMED
Typists and Shorthand Artists Send
in Membership Lists
The shorthand and typewriting de-partments
of the Normal, recently
sent in tests for membership in the
Order of Gregg Artists and the Order
of Artistic Typists, organizations
started and directed by the Gregg
Publishing Company. Tests appear
in the Gregg writer each month.
Tne purpose of the Order of Gregg
Artists, which is known as the O.
G. A., is to encourage the develop
ment of skillful shorthand writing.
Membership is granted to those
whose notes show artistic merit. The
notes must  be "correct in theory,
accurate in proportion and execu-tion,
and free in movement."
Twenty-four O. G. A. papers were
sent in. All the papers fulfilled the
requirements, making what is known
as a 100% club. Douglas Cocking's
paper was judged best in the group
and he was awarded a silver O. G.
A. pin.
Papers were sent in by the follow-ing:
Thelma Hanson, Louise Han-sen,
Lea Galbraith, William Vetter,
Vera Laverty, Edith Bebout, Doro-thy
Scarborough, Ottelia Englund,
Julia Samuelson, Mrytle Spilde,
Agnes Gullikson, Laura Briscoe. Mil-dred
Cowles, Ella Berreth, Herbert
Everard, Douglas Cocking, Rosa
Bokelheide, Hattie Solomonson ,
Sadie Marttila, Cora Gengerke, Syl-via
Palmiter, Esther Meyer, Elenor
Huntington, Florence Bluiner.
Tim Order of Artists Typists
which is known as the O. A. T., is
the "professional organization of
the artists in typewriting." It is
open to all who qualify as superior.
typists. There are two divisions of
the O. A. T., Junior and Senior.
Memberships in the junior division
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SURVEY FOR ARISTOCRACY
OR DEMOCRACY
(By A. E. Winship)
The National Council of Educa-tion
should only consider large and
vital educational problems, and the
most vital of America's present ed-ucational
problems is to eliminate
all causes for a death grapple be-tween
aristocratic and democratic
ambitions in American education.
Let present tendencies continue to
develop antagonism and there will
be at no distant day such a catas-trophe
as has not been in America
since the Civil War.
The stage is already set. He is
wilfully blind who does not see it.
It is not a question of school men
and women alone. It already in-volves
Capital and Labor. Big busi-ness
and big politics are organizing;
it is already a race question and a
religious question. It requires no
considerable wit and no wisdom to
see the classes that are arrayed with
aristocracy and the masses that are
arrayed with democracy. The Na-tional
Council of Education should
be big enough and broad enough to
avoid being caught up by the fas-cinating
charms of educational roy-alty
and too staunch and strong to
be caught by the under-tow that
is so seductive when the cry of
autocracy is raised.
If aristocracy ever rules and
reigns the public will be mere slaves,
but if democracy becomes merely
anti-aristocracy the world will go
back to the autocracy of savagery.
If for twenty-four hours the Ten
Commandments should be absolutely
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Women Athletes to Banquet Monday Night