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2 THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO \ Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL AT BILLINGS, MONT. Student Editor William Giltner Assistant Editor Idamae Alexander Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek Staff—David Duncan, Louise Solem, Rebecca Graham, Audrey Wendell, Ardell Kemnitz, Holly Waits. EDITORIALS 4E1012 A BLESSING IN DISGUISE As the sum set aside for higher education in the family budget shrinks and shrinks, the sons and daughters, for the first time in their lives perhaps, have set their wits to work to reduce their college expenses. In colleges all over the country stringent economy has become popu- lar. How to live on 50 cents a day is being successfully answered on some campuses by cooperative dormitories and boarding clubs, where each member shares in the task of keeping the house and preparing the food. Those whose homes are nearby often furnish vegetables and dairy products in lieu of cash. In a Mid-Western college one dormitory has been fitted with unit apartments, where each group of eight girls shares one dining room, and there are two kitchenettes. The four sleeping rooms are adjoining. These girls live much more cheaply than the students who are regular boarders in the dormitories. Men, too, are cutting their living costs by cooperative housing. At Missoula such a club was started this spring with great success. On the campus at Harvard, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and other universi- ties men are participating in similar cooperative rooming and boarding experiments. The encouraging thing about this movement for cheaper living is that it has been initiated by the students themselves; to them an education has not become \just a gift from dad.\ It is a treasure gained by much thought and labor, and the return is in direct ratio to the sacrifice each puts into it. If the depression has curbed the extravagance so manifest on college campuses a few years ago and has brought a swing toward economy, it is truly a blessing in disguise. THE \OXFORD\ MOVEMENT With the growing interest among students in international affairs, there comes a brighter outlook for world peace. At least there is evi- dent a more intelligent conviction of the hopelessness of war, and a hatred for the underhand methods responsible for plunging the nations into conflict. Do you realize that 75 per cent of every dollar that goes into the United States Treasury is spent either on paying for former wars or preparing for even more costly ones? Do you know that the most forceful arguments for armament as a guarantee of perpetual peace are backed most \patriotically\ by united international manufac- turers (of which our own Du Pont is a member), who profit by the sale of ammunition, firearms, bombing planes, submarines and other such \playthings?\ It is only by the realization of such truths that we shall be able to keep our heads when again the great wave of false war-prop- aganda sweeps our nation. The first outstanding movement for pacifism among students, the notable \Oxford Movement\ started on the Oxford campus, has resulted in making at least a few intelligent people think. Students at North- western and Harvard, two of the universities who fifteen years ago were among the first to send their students into the World War slaugh- ter, were the first to take up this courageous peace movement. Such a peace organization would be a credit to any university or college cam- pus, for pacifism is not cowardice; it is an intelligent understanding of the utter uselessness of wholesale murder, which has been fostered by political graft and selfish interests. The youth of all nations fought in ignorance in the World War. Why should not the youth of today fight with intelligence for world peace? If higher education fosters a sane view toward life, then it must surely foster a burning hatred for war. • THE \BRAIN TRUST\ Much argument is rife in the country concerning President Roose- velt's policy of choosing trained advisers outside his cabinet to assist him in managing the affairs of state. Regarding this matter the Port- land \Oregonian\ makes pertinent comment as follows: \The present alarm over presidential advisers, a power beyond the cabinet, is due we dare say to the fact that these are reputed to be pedagogs. Educators. Theorists. But what is so alarming about this fact, if it be the fact? We have tried statesmen. They failed us. We have tried politicians. They insisted only upon the improvement of Goose river. We have summoned most puissant captains of industry to the national crisis. They babbled like children in the dark. Lawyers too. Why not try a few schoolmasters now? \It is assumed that we all are patriots and eager for the rehabilitation of America. To such as are fearful of the influence of the pedagogs, it may be said that professors are people, too.\ ETHICAL CONVICTIONS AND THE DEPRESSION From Antioch College conies a message about Social Codes, Energy and Forethought which says, in part, \The present revolt from ethical convention is extreme . . . (But) . . . History records many erratic movements, some toward asceticism, others toward indulgence.\ The article goes on to show that, just as an engine needs a fly wheel to enable it to move uniformly, and just as the individual needs his ethical codes and moral convictions to guide and control his conduct, so times, like the engine and the individual, need flywheels. Indeed the pendulum seems to have swung far away from asceticism, and to have moved far along the path of complete indulgence. The progress of the 33 years of the 20th century has worked miracles with our established ideas and convictions. Modern science, the war, loss of family contacts, and traditions by industrialization, moving pictures and the radio have brought manifold results, some of which are good, many of which are bad. \If ethical conviction were well grounded, this revolt might free us from obsolete codes without social loss.\ We cannot take two steps forward and then slide back one step without consuming more energy than we would if we walked ahead step by step. This depression period, if we use it wisely, will do much toward set- ting up concrete, modern, dependable ethical standards upon which we can build wisely and well. The aspirations to abolish forever the re- curring periods of depression, to internationalize the world and remove the causes of war; to stigmatize intemperance, legalized gambling, cor- rupt government, business infidelity, and lax personal standards; to do away with racial, social and religious intolerance—these aspirations, while idealistic, can come to fruitition through ethical living. And surely nothing could enable us to see the values of ethical living than a period when all that is good in people is brought into play by their unrelenting fight against these ailing times, by their unceasing labors to fight back to times which are built upon more secure, lasting and dependable foundations. Did you know that twenty-six million dollars has been spent on the buildings housing the World's Fair? And that six million dollars worth of exhibits have been carted from all over the world into the three and one-half mile long enclosure? That fifty million people will see the fair is the conservative estimate of those in charge? SUMMER SESSION PLANS ARE NOW FORMULATED Summer Session Bulletins of Eastern Montana Normal School are now available. Arrangements have been completed for most of the numbers on the lecture and en- tertainment course for the session. This course will be one of the strongest and most varied in sev- eral seasons. The summer session starts June 12 and closes August 11. One of the most prominent of the lecturers scheduled to appear here is Dr. Edward H. Griggs, noted author and lecturer on philosophy and ethics. He will be here for three lectures on July 17, 18 and 19. Foulkes to Lecture During the week of June 12, Dr. Foulkes, head of the Education De- partment of the University of Wis- consin, will give three lectures. Dr. Foulkes spoke here during the Mon- tana Education Association meet- ings last year. Chancellor Brannon is scheduled to make an address dur- ing the same week as Dr. Foulkes. William L. Finley, famous nat- uralist and contributor to Nature magazine, will give two talks with motion pictures of wild life. Later Dr. Levi T. Pennington, president of Pacific College in Oregon, will discuss three subjects of a popular nature. Dr. Penninghon, who is a leader of the Society of Friends as well as a noted educator, will deal with a recent trip to England in one of his talks. Astronomy Talks. By Harding A. M. Harding, professor of as- tronomy at the University of Ar- kansas, has been engaged to give (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) Cross registration for the present school year has been 443, counting no name twice, according to a re- port of H. N. Stuber, registrar. Of this number, 66 are men and 337 are women. The increase over last year is approximately 121/2 percent. The total registration of the 1931-32 year was 395, of which 46 were men and 349 women. During the spring quarter of last year there were 309 students regis- tered, while this year there were 351, an increase of 42. During the spring quarter of 1932, there were 33 men and 276 women, while at the present time there are 47 men and 304 women. There were five new registrations, all women, dur- ing May. MR. STUBER MARRIES VERNA McRAE, MAY 28 Harry Stuber, registrar, and Ver- na McRae, principal for the past year at the Garfield School, were married Sunday night, May 28, by Rev. George Sloan at the Congrega- tional parsonage. They left immediately for a short wedding trip to Bozeman Hot Springs, but Mr. Stuber, true to his principles, was back at work Wednesday morning. They will be at home to their friends at 31 Ave- nue B. Through the Rimrock Echo, the students wish to express best wish- es for their future happiness. Students—join M. E. A. REGISTRATION FOR YEAR REACHES NEW HIGH, 443
