The Exponent, 1930-10-16

              THE GEORGE MULVANEY
COMPANY COMES NOV. 5
CALLED "SONG REVUE OF 1930"
Program Will Include. Opera Sketches.
Song Hits, Dances and Costume
Dramatization
"The Song Revue of 1930," presented
by George Mulvaney and Company,
at the college, November 5, will be the
second number on the lyceum course
this year. They will present an unusually
versatile program of musical
comedy and light opera, and popular
song hits of today, arranged in quartets,
trios, duets, and solos.
The Music Box Revue consists of
five artists: three women and two men
-soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto,
pianist, tenor and baritone. The presentations
include costume dramatization,
dance-steps, wonderful singing,
and special scenery. The program
will be made up of selections from
"Robin Hood," "Naughty Marietta,"
"Blossom Time," "Mikado," "Prince of
Pilsen," besides many others including
numbers of the old-time favorite
songs, and also the standard popular
song hits of today with many theme
songs from the latest talking pictures.
This program is so varied that
everyone would enjoy it. The Mulvaney
Concert Company is recognized
as one of the most entertaining and
artistic musical companies of the day.

PFITZNER DELIGHTS ASSEMBLY
Four piano selections by Professor
Walther Pfitzner, three on the regular
program and one encore, provided the
main features of the regular assembly,
last Thursday morning. The numbers
presented were Cracovienne Fantastique,
Paderewski; Rainy Night,
Niemann; Sequidilla, Albeniz, Valse
in G flat (encore), Chopin.
The program was thoroughly enjoyed
by all as Professor Pfitzner is
always a prime favorite with a college
audience.
School Has Fine Orchestra

Prof. Goodsell, Director, Reports Organization
of Forty
Members
Although orchestra work at North-ern
has been delayed in the rush and
whirl of the Gypsy Day homecoming,
nevertheless progress has been made,
according to Prof. H. E. Goodsell, director.
About forty reported for the first
rehearsal and regular meetings have
been scheduled for Tuesday evenings.
Final selections of the orchestra
have not been made, but those who
reported include:
Violins-Maurice Dobbins, Aberdeen;
Leon Everson, Aberdeen; Ray
Gusseck, Aberdeen; Roy Schoppe,
Aberdeen; Maurine Martin, Aberdeen;
Alvin Skibsrud, Aberdeen; Miriam
Hoke, Platte; Morris Hagenston, Aberdeen;
Irene Hersrud, Hettinger,
North Dakota; Grace Clarkson, Buffalo;
Winifred Cody, Groton; Carol
Van Walker, Aberdeen; Ethel Olide,
Aberdeen; Ingevelde Pfitzner, Aberdeen; 
Elizabeth Switts, Aberdeen;
Suzanne Pattno, Aberdeen.
Cellos-Dale Ward, Hettinger, North
Dakota; Maynard Buck, Aberdeen.
Saxophones-Marian Fuller, Aberdeen;
John Pagones, Aberdeen; Esther
Sueltz, Groton; Dorothy Stone, Andover.
Basso-Sidney Freyberg, Aberdeen;
Roderick Ross, Aberdeen.
Flute-Dorothy Lilly, Aberdeen.
Clarinets-Ralph Bisbee, Aberdeen;
Catherine Van Walker, Aberdeen; Lee
Buck, Aberdeen; LaRue Schmidt,
Tripp.
Cornets-John Elsing, Aberdeen;
Erwin Hamilton, Aberdeen; Ralph
Carlson, Aberdeen.
Horns-Mrs. R. Ross, Aberdeen;
Arthur Metcalf, Aberdeen.
Trombone-Herbert Black, Big
Stone; Harold Jahuel, Aberdeen; Sylvan
Moe, Aberdeen.
Piano-Patricia Fitzpatrick, Aberdeen;
Marjorie McDonald, Aberdeen.
Drum-Robert Hill, Aberdeen.
MISS BROWN'S "PARADISE"
WILL BE GYPSY DAY PLAY
CAST IS HARD AT WORK
Miss Bagstad, Director, Says Drama
Is Full of Amusing and Emotional
Situations
"Gypsy Paradise," was dramatised
by Auralia Rouvenol from Alice
Brown's novel "Paradise." Miss Brown
is a woman of well-established literary
reputation, the author, among
other plays, of "Joint Owners in
Spain."
The play has continuous interest
and vivid characterization. Through
it runs the superstitious fear of
witches which still clings among the
less educated classes from Maine to
Massachusetts. A pretty French-
Viennese Gypsy fortune teller in the
tent show becomes terrified at the too
ardent love-making of the mesmerizer,
Ben Ali. She runs away and seeks
refuge in the home of Malory Dwight
a young villager. The girl is utterly
untaught in the ways of civilized
life, and the older people cannot quite
overcome their superstitious fear of
this girl who has never before lived
in a house.
Malory Dwight, however, descendant
of the blue-blooded Dwights of
Massachusetts has no such fear; to
the consternation of all he takes the
girl into the house as nurse to his
invalid sister, Clary. The neighbors
begin to talk and amusing situations
follow.
SOPHS CHOOSE OFFICERS
The election of officers in the Sophomore
Class resulted as follows: President,
Edward Dresselhuys; Vice-President,
Virgil Hanlon; Secretary-Treasurer,
Elizabeth Holtz; Student Council
Representatives, Clinton Williams
and Lorraine Aldrich; Social Commit-tee
Member, Beecher Callaghan.

"Father" Of Gypsy Day Writes
Charles Fleischman Carries Bumper
Sign Over 5000
Miles
John Schaal, Gypsy Day chairman,
recently received a letter from Charles
Fleischman, graduate of the college
and now an instructor in the Central
High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr.
Fleischman has been generally credited
as one of the originators of Gypsy
Day and was very active in the years
of 1916 and 1919 inclusive, while a
student. In his letter to the Gypsy
Day committee he sends greetings and
words of cheer, hoping that the celebration
planned for October 18 will be
bigger and better than any of its
predecessors.
Mr. Fleischman also stated that he
has carried one of the bumper signs
on his auto for several thousand miles,
through seven states. His mileage
record is just a little over the 5,000
mark. The continued interest of Mr.
Fleischman in the Gypsy Day celebration
is most gratifying to the local
committee.
Miss Milligan Wins
Former Student is Successful in Atwater-
Kent Radio
Contest
Louise Milligan, a student at Northern
for the last three years, and this
year a teacher in the Barnard Consolidated
School, was the winner of
first place in the district Atwater-
Kent Radio Audition Contest which
was broadcast over the Huron station
on the evening of Friday, October 10.
Miss Milligan, who is a lyric soprano
soloist, competed with nine other vocal
soloists from this section of the
state. Miss Bernice Remde was her
piano accompanist.
The contest held Friday evening at
Huron is one of a series of elimination
contest which are held in all parts of
the country in order to select outstanding
soloists from each state.
The contestants to represent South
Dakota in the national contest will be
selected at Yankton, on October 24.
We wish for Louise further successes.
Come To Pep Fest
One of the biggest pep fests ever
staged at Northern is being planned
for tomorrow evening at 7:30, on
Johnson Field. According to announcement
it will be in charge of
the Y. M. C. A. "Cy" Houge and
Herb Black will be in charge of the
bonfire and are asking the assistance
of any boys who are willing to help
in gathering the material. Harold
Fowler also promises a fine display
of fire works. Among other events
will be a snake dance and a parade
through the downtown district. Dr.
Anderson, Coach Campbell, Captain
Lewis and others will speak. Everybody
should be out.
THANKS
I want to thank you all for
your cooperation and help. I
appreciate the honor you have
given me and I will try to live
up to it by helping to make this
the gayest and happiest of our
Gypsy Days. -Jeanne Champlin
FORMER FACULTY MAN
IS HIGHLY HONORED
MR. SIPPLE CALLED TO INDIA
Wichita Dean Was Dean and Head of
Rural Department At
Northern
A letter to Dean Moulton from Mrs.
Sipple, post-mistress at Northern for
many years, tells of an outstanding
honor which has come to Mr. Sipple,
formerly Dean of the Senior College
and head of the Department of Rural
Education here at Northern. They
are now located at Wichita, Kansas.
We congratulate the Sipples on this
honor. We are proud to number Mr.
Sipple among our faculty for ten
years and we are sure that his years
of service here had something do do
with his advancement and present opportunities.
"Last Saturday, Mr. Sipple had a
wire from the Institute of Social and
Religious Research of New York City
asking him if he would be available
for the covering of Rural Education in
India on a staff of eight specialists
to work this college year.
"After consulting Dr. Foght who
advised him to go Mr. Sipple wired
for details which came special delivery
a few minutes ago. In brief, he has
accepted the offer subject to favorable
action by the Board of Regents on
leave of absence. With Dr. Foght's
recommendation, we anticipate no difficulty.
"Educational work in India and
Burma is to be covered by E. L. Hendricks,
President of Warrensburg,
Missouri, State Teachers College, he
covering the secondary and teacher-training,
and Mr. Sipple the rural
schools. I'm sure you know him. C.
Luther Fry is director, and a man by
the name of Hypes, a rural sociologist,
is one of the party.
"They will probably sail from New
York November 20, because on that
steamer will be the American members
of the Educational Commission
that goes to study mission colleges in
India-also Dr. Diffendorfer, fraternal
consultant of the staff."
RURAL SCHOOL NOTES
Prof. Culp lectured at the community
club meeting held at the Trail
School, Friday night.
Miss Anna Dorothea Cordts, author
of one of the newer reading primers,
visited demonstration schools, Monday.
Children in the rural demonstration
schools are given library privileges.
Miss Mary Schram, secretary for the
Rural Department, checks cases of
books out to each school once a month.
Children are encouraged to read every
book sent them, checking books from
the teacher's desk the same as if
it were the college library. When one
case of books is read, another case is
exchanged.
Improvements Are Made
Considerable work on the lighting
fixtures on Johnson field was done this
week, according to LeRoss Morris.
The poles have been painted and a
patented, removal step was installed.
The removal step is calculated to keep
boys from climbing the poles. Work
has also been done on the back campus,
grading and prepairing the
ground for seeding next spring about
the open air theatre.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS NOTES
Officers of the Industrial Arts Club
were selected recently with Paul Finnegan
of Aberdeen as president for
the year. Other officers include Seymour
Houge, of Aberdeen, vice-president,
and Leonard Sloan, of Aberdeen,
secretary-treasurer.
Definite organization plans for the
year were made by the club at its
first meeting. As in former years a
float will be entered in the Gypsy Day
homecoming parade. Verne Tyrrell,
of Bancroft, will have direction of this
project, assisted by Paul Finnegan.
Verne Tyrrell was last year's assistant
school carpenter to Robert
Sloan, who is this year teaching at
Flandreau. Verne now has full charge
of this department.
Spear Spearfish Yellowjackets Oct. 18
GAYEST
GYPSY GATHERING
MEET US AT THE
Northern State Teachers College
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
*
PROGRAM OF THE DAY
9:00 Coronation of Gypsy Queen
11:30 Colorful Gypsy Parade down town
1:15 Band Concert and Gypsy Lawn Dancers-Campus
2:30 Championship Football Classic
(Northern Wolves vs. Spearfish Yellowjackets)
5:00 All School Gypsy Supper
6:45 Awarding of prizes for costumes, floats, etc.
7:30 "Gypsy Paradise" three act Gypsy Play
9:30 Gypsy Costume Ball, music by Gypsy Merry-makers
Dance Band
SPECIAL FEATURES
Governor Bulow, members of the State Board of Regents,
United States Senators Peter Norbeck and Wm. McMaster, and
United States Representatives Royal C. Johnson and C. A. Christopherson,
as well as other notables, have assured the committee
that they will attend the big celebration.
The two-mile parade will include hundreds of Gypsies in
colorful costumes and scores of beautiful floats. Music by four
bands.
The championship Drum and Bugle Corps of the Aberdeen
American Legion will give an exhibition between halves at the
football game.
BIG FOOTBALL CLASSIC
The Northern Wolves have decisively
won their first two games. We
have the best team in years. The
Gypsy Day game against Spearfish,
Conference champions for the last two
years, will be a battle long to be
remembered.
* * * *
JOIN THE CROWD
AND ENJOY OUR
15th ANNUAL
HOMECOMING
SPEAR SPEARFISH
(Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18
Northern State Teachers College
VOL. XXIX. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 16, 1930
No. 4
NOTHING MORE GAY THAN GYPSY DAY OCTOBER 18
The Exponent SPEAR SPEARFISH
(Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18
FIRST GYPSY DAY HELD OCTOBER 18, '16
FOUND IMMEDIATE POPULARITY
Fleischman, Kieser and Creed Are Among Those Credited
As Originators
With the fifteenth annual Gypsy
Day at the Northern State Teachers
college set for October 18, thoughts
turn to the first homecoming of the
institution in 1916. Gypsy Day, it
would seem, was the outgrowth of a
constant urge of the general student
body. Several figures stand out as influential
in the first day, including
Charles Fleischman, now a teacher in
the Central High School in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, Paul W. Kieser, located at
present in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and C. H. Creed, Jr., a farmer near
Columbia.
The direct origin of the Gypsy Day
idea is buried under a maze of conflicting
opinions and memories. In
the Exponent of November 15, 1915,
a letter to the editor signed Livewire
proposes the following: "As this is
more of a girls' school I would suggest
"Gypsy Day" as a suitable celebration.
Floats could be easily pre-pared
and the parade could meet the
trains, then all could retreat to an
ideal Gypsy camp near the school for
dinner, after which a football game
would be played, and if the weather
were suitable an evening camp could
be held. Come on, students, alumni
and faculty, with opinions and suggestions."
It was not until the year following,
however, that Gypsy Day became a
reality. Whatever the origin, the success
cannot be denied. The Aberdeen
American-News has described it in an
approving write-up: "So great a success
in point of beauty and spirit was
the first Gypsy Day that the Normal
students celebrated yesterday, that it
should become a well established custom
from this time on."
The Exponent write-up of the day,
says: "Early Saturday morning gay
colored figures swarmed upon the
campus. With dark braids done up in
unique headdress, with bright skirts
and gay sashes, the fair N. N. I. S.
Gypsiettes gathered for the carnival
of the Romanies. Their dark fiercer-looking
partners of the stern sex
mingled with them, making dark
patches in the gay throng."
LECTURE COURSE OPENED
BY MR. FREDERICK WARDE
NOTED SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR
Address Is Full of Personal Incidents
and Excellent
Advice
Frederick L. Warde, famous Shakespearean
orator and lecturer, opened
the lecture course with an address,
Wednesday evening, in the auditorium.
The lecture, which contained much
humor and many interesting side
lights on the life of Shakespearean
actors of his career, was very well
received by a large audience which
was often moved to bursts of hearty
laughter. Mr. Warde was introduced
by Doctor Anderson who said in introducing
him: "No name in literature is
more universally known and under-stood
than that of Shakespeare. Few
actors are more familiar with the
great dramatist of the footlights than
Mr. Warde, Shakespearean scholar
and interpreter."
Mr. Warde spoke of acting as the
profession of the stage. Some people
call the stage a mimic stage, or a
world of make-believe. He called it
a world of work, involving a study of
personalities, and, above all, sincerity
to one's fellows-a world illuminated
by fancy and glorified by truth. a
world nourished by manhood.
In the early days of his career the
stage was a standard of pronunciation
of the English language with
Johnson's dictionary on the table, just
as we have Webster's now. Mr. Warde
distinguished between the English and
American language because of the additions
we have made to the version
we speak. He said that we do not
open our mouths enough when we talk,
and he quoted the line from the Bible,
"The Saviour opened his mouth and
spake." Referring to our flag he said:
"We would not see the Stars and
Stripes mutilated in any form, why
not honor our language as much as
we would the flag?" He begged the
audience to preserve the integrity of
the American language and to hand it
down to posterity unsmothered.
Mr. Warde denies that there is a
hidden meaning in Shakespeare. He
advised to put the simplest possible
meaning into the plays of the great
dramatist. His remarks on personal
incidents and his comments on the
famous personalities he has met made
his lecture one long to be remember-ed.
Mr. Warde gave good advice when
he said that every address should
have a moral, and his was taken from
his own experiences: "If at first you
don't succeed, try, try, again. Don't
give up; don't be disheartened. Try
again, and again, and again." As a
conclusion to his speech he left with
his audience his best wishes for "365
days of health, love and work." and a
memory of an actor of intense emotional
and dramatic ability.
Note Change of Time
To meet the requests of many girls
the time for the Y. W. C. A. meetings
has temporarily been changed from
Sunday afternoon to Monday evening,
seven to seven-forty-five o'clock. If
the experiment proves successful this
hour will be made permanent. On account
of Gypsy Day activities there
will be no meeting October 20, but
the first regular Monday evening
meeting will be held October 27 in
the Lincoln Hall sunparlor.
Congressman Johnson Speaks
Speaker Tells Students That Working One's Way Through College Is
Best Preparation for Life
In his address before the student
body, Tuesday morning, October 14,
Royal C. Johnson, United States congressman
from this district, reviewed
his past visits to Northern and his
trials in working his way through college.
He stressed the idea that out
of the struggles through which young
people go in their way through school
comes the qualities which make the
best in citizenship and leadership, and
it is these young people who often
become the outstanding personages of
their state and nation.
He advised young people to study
politics, for every activity in the
United States is involved in politics.
Study politics from the economic
point of view because many of the
depressions of the past and at the
present have come about because of
economic laws. Dieting in the United
States has lowered the demand
for wheat to the amount of 120,000,-
000 bushels the last decade. There
are 7,000,000 fewer horses used since
the coming of the automobile. The
study of economic conditions is valuable
not only for mind training alone
but for the purpose of solving future
problems. The young people of the
present will be the executives of the
future, and it will be their task to
work out these problems for coming
generations.
Congressman Johnson also called
our attention to the fact that three
of the largest corporations in Chicago
are run by former South Dakota
boys who at one time held unimportant
positions in our state. Such executives
have come from boys who
had to struggle in their youth.

Dr. Anderson In Minneapolis
Dr. Anderson left for Minneapolis
last Thursday to attend the football
game Saturday between the Leland
Stanford University and the University
of Minnesota. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Anderson, Marie
Louise Gaylord and Miss Louise Hansen.
The party returned to Aberdeen
Sunday.
CHOOSE HANSEN PRESIDENT
The Juniors elected their class officers
Wednesday morning, as follows:
President, Karl Hanson; Vice-President,
Albert Mattice; Secretary-Treasurer,
Marjorie Eyestone; Social Committee
representative, James Sipes;
Student Coucil representatives, Jeanne
Champlin and Percy Washabaugh;
Class Adviser, Professor Mewaldt.
Seniors Elect Officers
DRAFTING CLASSES ARE LARGE
More college students are registered
in the drafting classes than ever
before, according to Prof. H. P. Gerber. 
There are over twenty freshmen
in the class and the increased enrollment
has required the installment of
new equipment. Included in the
courses are cabinet making, carpentry,
wood turning, mechanical drawing,
architectural drawing, concrete construction,
methods of teaching industrial
arts, organization of industrial
arts, elementary sheet metal, general
metal, general industrial mechanics,
industrial arts for rural schools, observation
and practice, vocational education
and guidance, sheet metal work,
pattern making, furniture design and
construction, graphic presentation and
thesis work,
THANKS
Lewis Is "N" Club President
Wilson Lewis, captain of the Northern
football team, is also president of
the "N" Club for 1930-31, succeeding
Albert Mattice as head of the athletic
letter-men of the college. Paul
Finnegan was elected vice-president of
the group and Karl Hansen secretary-treasurer.
Plans for "N" Club representation
in the parade will be under
the direction of Perry Doney. The
program for the year will include the
sponsorship of one of the all-school
dances.
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank my friends for their
support in the recent campaign,
and the student body for the
honor they have conferred upon
me -Percy Washabaugh
For the past several days the different
classes have had their meetings
for the election of officers. Tuesday
noon of last week the Seniors held
their election and the results are as
follows: President, Viola Oyhus;
Vice-President, Alfred Bieber; Secretary,
Irma Maschke; Treasurer, Leroy
Zell; Student Council representatives,
Harold Marquis and Lois Buchele;
Social chairman, Virgil Bell; Faculty
Adviser, Mr. Lipscomb.