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2 THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL AT BILLINGS, MONTANA Editors Donna Paley, Juanita Davis Associate Editor Josephine Strawn Staff Class in Advanced Composition Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek Assistants—Katherine Alt, Agnes Arestad, May Birdsall, Christie Fatur, Don Foote, Johanna Hansen, Dorothy McDonald, Gilman McDonald, Charles Murchie, Frances Murchie, Leon Nelson, Clem Owen, Thelma Parsons, Bonnie Richardson, Ruth Robertson, Carl Shogren, Robert Tyler, Benedict Webbinger, and Dora Wheeler. COME UP AND 'READ ME SOMETIME If you have been in one of Mr. Ilawkes' classes you have heard of the hen who starved while sitting on a sack of grain, or if you have visited E. M. N. S. you have seen the student who missed everything because he failed to read the bulletin board. It is admitted that as dry reading goes, nothing is so parched as the bulletin board, but once in a while a bit of interesting material may be much interested, and a summons to the office may prove to be dynamic. interested, and a summons to the office may prove to be dynamic. Something very pleasant occasionally finds its way to that board. Per- haps you have a - letter in the Audent'mail box, perhaps Miss Stevenson would like to see you, or maybe Mr. Foote knows of a school board that can't live without you. The bulletin board is begging you to \Come up and read me some- time.\ Why' don't you try it? oilept. t2 EDITORIALS Apropos to reading the bulletin board—how about taking down the old notices before the thumb tacks fall out from rust? CAN YOU LAUGH? Perhaps the most admirable quality that a person can possess is the ability to laugh when a laugh is needed. This, in common language, is called \a sense of humor.\ Scientists have another name for it, but in our everyday experience the above title will do. There are many different ideas about what a sense of humor really is. First we have the person who is sought as a friend by all. He laughs at his own mistakes and is careful not to hurt the other fellow with his jokes. Unfortunately, of this type there are few. Next is the practical joker. He, too, has a sense of humor, but his popularity extends only to those who are of his mould. His victims have no use whatever for him. Practical joking, however, is permissible if there is moderation in the practice, but to carry it too far is consid- ered \cheap.\ Finally there is the person who is, to himself, a wit. This person is continually \wise-cracking usually with the old time-worn sayings which long ago have lost their humor. He is avoided by most people, mainly because he has the habit of saying the improper thing at the improper time. Try to classify yourself in one of these groups. Can you laugh at the right time and refrain from laughing when such conduct is not per- missible, or do you find yourself carrying a perpetual grouch which is uncomfortable to yourself and to your associates? A sense of humor wins popularity for its possessors. Who wants to chum with a person who is continually growling or one who is contin- ually giggling? We must pay some tribute to the grouchy person, though, for if everyone were happy, where would we find the variety which makes life interesting? ARE WE A NATION OF 12-YEAR-OLDS? Are we a nation of 12-year-olds? At times, as we watch mass conduct, it is hard to believe otherwise; and, indeed, the statement has been made by eminent psychologists that the average American has a mental endowment equal to a 12-year-old. This statement is ardently denied by David Sigel in an article in a recent \School Life.\ He bases his denial upon the adult intelligence survey made by Thorndike and a similar examination made by Jones and Conrad. These psychologists have obtained results showing that 95 per cent of our adult population, 16 years of age and older, have a mental age of above 12 years, and 50 per cent have mental ages above 17 years. It is interesting and encouraging to know that as a nation we are a trifle beyond childhood.—Digest of \Are We a Nation of 12-Year-Olds?\ by David Sigel in \School Life,\ December '33. WHY WORRY? According to David Seabury everyone will be insane by 2139 A. D. This is rather an astounding statement, but statistics show that within the last ten years insanity has increased 30 per cent. The increase is due largely to worry. Of course being told not to worry will be good news to students, be- cause if they neglect to do their geology, for instance, they need not begin to worry about it at 7:50 a. m. Their excuse, naturally, will be that they must not let school studies cause them any worry. Beware of the following types of people, for they are the ones who are likely to worry or cause others to worry, according to Seabury. 1. A gossip or critic (\That teacher sure gives terrible grades. I almost go to sleep listening to the lectures.\) 2. Timid, despondent, parasitical persons. (I'm afraid to tell my landlady that I broke a chair because I get my evening meal for noth- ing.\) 3. Arrogant, obstinate, melancholy, and self-piteous persons. (\She makes me mad. I gave her my notebook, and she agreed to give me her term paper in exchange, but I haven't received it yet.\) 4. Jealous, envious, and angry persons. (\Ever since so and so asked her for a date she's been high-hat about it.\) 5. The painfully good. (\I saw her in his car smoking.\) 6. Those who look on the gloomy side. (\What's the use to look my best? The boys never give me a tumble anyway.\) A liar is one who has no partition between his imagination and his information. SOCIAL LIFE There is a distinct lack of social life in E. M. N. S. Students find that lessons take up much of their time when they are out of classes, and many of them study until late into the night. Yet there are times when everyone needs some good clean fun. The point isn't that life can't go on without student gatherings and dancing, but after going perhaps a month without doing anything but go to classes, study, and attend a show now and then, students find that they have grown a little stale; they wonder if they would know how to act if they had a chance to attend a \good\ dance. \Good dance\ means just what it says—not going to a public dance once or twice a week, but attending a respectable dance given in a re- spectable place by respectable people. Since we do not have many such dances within our school, many of our students get impatient and attend public dances, thoUgh they realize that the school authorities as well as their parents disapprove public dances. Why not give students a chance to make a good habit in place of the bad one they are rapidly acquiring? Why not have more school dances? We have a gymnasium, a school orchestra, and a ladge student body. These dances could be held - once every two weeks under the manage- ment of a different student committee each time. The expense of these informal parties would be very little but the experience which the students would gain by conducting them, as well as the fun they would have in attending them, would be most desirable. How about it, Student Council? It would be a good idea to have cards for those who do not care to dance. A class room could be used for the card playing. GOOD WORK, BOYS Now that the basketball trip is a thing of the past, a word of appre- ciation for the boys is in order. Though they brought back no record of victorious scores, they worked hard and played clean games. They will play three games on the home floor. Turn out, and with whole- hearted support help them to win. Don't be as dead as you were at the Dillon game Monday night. What team can expect to win unless it is backed by the students! FISHER PUBLISHES BOOKS Vardis Fisher, assistant profes- sor of English at the State Uni- versity at Missoula, recently fin- ished the first two books of his four-decker novel, \In Tragic Life\ and \Passions ,Spin the Plot.\ Both books have received-very favorable comment. If the next two are on a par with these he will be spoken of in the same breath with Theo- dore Dreiser. Like Dreiser, Fisher adheres to frankness. Vardis Fish- er, having had a difficult and un- happy life, writes only about the type of life with which he is famil- iar. His books are unpleasant read- ing because they are inhuman and cruel. \In Tragic Life\ portrays the un happy life of a poor farmer . boy, Vridar Hunter, in the hills of Idaho. \Passions Spin the Plot\ takes Vri- dar, a gawky lad, to college at Salt Lake City. Because his country sweetheart is untrue he attempts to lead a wild life like his wayward. . fellow roomer. Vridar's conscience keeps him out of any real trouble. Quite suddenly he quits school and returns home to his former sweet- heart, with whom he has become reconciled. Vridar marries her al- though he knows he is foolish and that the future holds nothing for WE ARE ALL GUINEA PIGS \100 Guinea Pigs,\ a most interesting new book, written by Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink, is in both the city and E. M. N. S. libraries. This book deals with dangerous and unsuspected conditions, ingre- dients, advertising claims, and the like, connected with foods, drugs and cosmetics. Manufacturers and products are named without regard to size or prominence, and appar- ently without the least fear of con- tradiction from them in regard to the author's findings. Pebeco, Pepsodent and other well known tooth pastes are scored be- cause of poisonous ingredients or failure to bear out claims made for them. Listerine, Absorbine Jr., Pepsodent, Hexylresorcinal, Mer- curichrome and other familiar prod- ucts are taken severely to task as to their efficiency as antiseptics. Many food products and cosmetics are discussed in detail. First -published in January 1933, this book has been reprinted 18 times in less than 11 months. There's a terrible surplus of wheat in this country, but it could be worse. It could be spinach. —Life.
