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2 THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL at BILLINGS, MONTANA Student Editors Robert Gail, Mary Weinschrott Humor Editor Dorothy Flaherty Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek Staff—Members of Advanced Composition Class Dean Aldrich, Freda Erfle, Martha Fitchner, Dorothy Flaherty, Lois Elda Howard, Sarah Hewett, Marvin Klampe, Charlotte Lemmer, Louise Mammen, Jim O'Connor, Marie Rademaker, Evelyn Raymond, Jane Roberts, Cary-.Alice Sanderson, Mary Thorne, Roger Walters, Melba Webster, Dorothy Wilson. EDITORIALS TRADITION Our first duty as students of the Eastern Montana Normal School is to the school itself. It is organized to give us the maximum benefit from its technical and social training. Being a two-year school, its social problems are manifold. Its short period of existence has made it difficult to establish traditions and examples of procedure which will bind incoming groups. The larger number of girls in the school adds another problem which is of utmost importance to them. Their fun is usually computed in terms of \men and when men are lacking it is hard to please. We are engaged in establishing the traditions of the school. It is fitting, then, that we place school pride above our personal pleasures; that we do our part to make the traditions of the school living things, that will, when the school is stabilized, stand as monuments to those pioneer classes of which we are a part. There are two types of parties given by the school: the all-school party and the invitational party. The first type is usually a get-together party with a good program and a lot of fun, everyone having fun because the party is such a purely \family\ gathering; girls do not have to de- pend on boys for the success of the evening. The second type is a fay final dance, with some sort of program, but with most of the evening devoted to dancing. Dancing is not the popular sport of everyone; it is not democratic enough for an all-school party. The success of the eve- ning depends almost entirely upon \man who is too fickle a thing to depend upon. One of the already established traditions of the school, which is sup- ported by the faculty and the president, is the first all-school party on the social calendar, a costume party sponsored by the second year class. This party serves to introduce the students to each other and to estab- lish friendly relations within the school. At this time the majority of students have had no opportunity to become acquainted with outside people, and an invitational party would not be satisfactory to many of them. The second year class takes pride in the fact that it has upheld this tradition; that its name can be placed upon the roll of honor as a truly school-spirited class; that, in spite of much opposition, it has succeeded in continuing an honorable and worth-while tradition of a school which has, at best, few of them. And you, who are students of this institution, should take pride in the fact that you can have more fun at such a party than at any other. EVEN THE POOR CAN BE RICH In these days when poverty and unemployment are matters of grave concern, we may well remind ourselves that material wealth is not the only kind of riches. Consider, for instance, the value of friendships. Seth Parker says, \You know, as time gits on, folks sort of accumulate one thing or another. Some get stock in the market, and some get land, and some get money in the bank, but you know when old age comes along, I kind of think I'd like to have my life's savings in pairs of shoes coming over to call on me and spend the evening. Seems to me I'd git a lot more enjoyment in seeing the reward of my life's work walking around the streets than in bank vaults.\ It is a truism—too often overlooked in practice—that to have friends one must be a friend. One can be popular on the basis of rather super- ficial qualities. One cannot be loved unless one is willing to sympa- thize and to serve and expect no reward, if one would have many friends and keep them. Friends are truly riches — and even the poor can be rich! INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL Both the men and women of E. M. N. S. have organized intramural basketball leagues. Many benefits will accrue for both the school and the members of the league. An intramural basketball league benefits the school because of the outlet it affords for physical prowess and because it gives rise to an- other social activity in E. M. N. S., of which there is rather a scarcity. The participants of the league are benefited in a number of ways. Knowledge of the game and the latest rules is an advantage in itself. Training in organization is valuable, for without it no athletic activity can succeed—certainly not a basketball game. Each member of a team has a specific duty to perform, and he must not shirk it. Any bit of information that might change the game in any way must be known to each player. The part played by the score and time-keeper, the referee, the captain, the umpire, must be so well known by the player that he is able to put those things in his sub-conscious mind and bend every con- scious effort towards the playing of the game. • Being able to MANAGE has its place everywhere and so also on the basketball floor. The confidence acquired in carrying a responsibility of management would be transmitted to various undertakings that smack of the same flavor. The last valuable asset to be gained is sportsmanship. The intramural games make it necessary to keep on good terms with everyone. Playing the game to the best of one's ability, keeping one's temper, seeing the other fellow's side above all things—these are the requisites of good sportsmanship. READING FOR THE FUTURE When you read a book, do you read it for enjoyment, because you have to, or to get something worthwhile out of it? Every good book written has behind it a message from the author. We can't expect to receive worthwhile messages from the many cheap novels and maga- zines in circulation today, but there are numerous ones which are worthwhile. In his essay on books Emerson gives three suggestions to follow in choosing a book: Never read a book that is not a year old, never Dead any but famed books, never read any but the kind you like. If you follow these suggestions when selecting a book, you will learn to appreciate good literature. Most ideas and thoughts come from something that has been read in books or magazines. Character is formed to a certain extent by what is read. With a book in your hand you have the world at your com- mand. You may travel in foreign lands, look into the future, or glance back into the past. An hour with a good book will repay you many times in the years to come. BULLETIN BOARD USE At the beginning of every quarter at E. M. N. S. one thing Dr. Mc- Mullen stresses is, \Watch the bulletin boards.\ The absence of facil- ities for general assemblies makes the bulletin boards the only means of announcing important information. There are three such boards— one in the hall of each building. Despite this fact, students complain of not knowing what is going on. This seems to be due to the fact that only the board at the Administration building is generally used. Those who do not go there every day have no way of knowing what is going on. It seems advisable that more use be made of the other two boards if the entire student body is to be reached, especially when notices of importance to all the school are being posted. BUSINESS IS GOOD IN THE SCHOOLS Children's Book Week is being nationally observed during this week, November 15 to 21. From year to year observance of Book Week has grown in popularity, and it has become a stimulating factor in making good and appropriate literature easily accessible to the children in our nation. Children are entitled to receive their full in- heritance in the literature of the past, and to become acquainted with the delightful modern books. The great volume of modern juven- ile books, many good, but many worthless and even harmful, makes careful choice of reading matter of grave concern to parents, teachers and public librarians. Book week is a concentrated endeavor to that end, and this year special emphasis is being laid on books which de- velop international friendliness. All over the nation, children are participating in these activities. Teachers are using the class peri- ods for dramatizing favorite books, for story hours, and for discussion by the children of reading they have done at home in their leisure hours. Book festivals, playlets, pantomimes and book character pa- rades furnish programs of great interest. Public librarians are dis- playing new books and encouraging parents to come and see them so that the choice of books for the children may be the best available. According to an article in the Journal of the National Education Association, \Business is good in the schools. The business of edu- cation has never been so good as in the United States at this mo- ment.\ Nearly every college in the United States reports an increased enrollment this year. It is claimed by many that this \back-to-school\ movement was inspired by unem- ployment. Young men and women, unable to find work, are going to school to improve their leisure time. Even though many of them are going to school for this reason only we cannot help but expect very satisfying results. The article also states, \These thirty million students are getting the best education ever given to the masses of the people. They are learning to live on a higher plane of life. They are building up health and vitality. They are learn- ing how to learn and to keep on learning as a lifelong enterprise. \These products of the schools are the pride of America. They are the basis of all other produc- tion. Speculation has had a hard blow. Honest, intelligent, courag- eous industry and business can lift America. TODAY business is good in the schools. TOMORROW busi- ness will be good in industry.\ BOOK WEEK
