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2 THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL AT BILLINGS, MONTANA Editorial Committee Rosemary Maddux, Mary Lemmon Make-up Clara Fitchner, Bill Bowen Reporters Adelphia Koliha, Mary O'Connell Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek EDITORIALS X1 2 LAGGERS By the time we have reached the university level we should be able to do things for ourselves without the prodding practiced by high school and grammar school teachers. Yet there are in our midst certain indi- viduals who make a practice of lagging along, causing confusion, and irking the teachers and the members of the class. University students who thus persist in wasting their time are about the only group of customers who deliberately cheat themselves of their money's worth. Fortunately most of us can see their folly. If one has decided to spend money on an education he should at least treat it as an investment and do his level best to get all he can out of it. Without a doubt it will take considerable effort to achieve some accomplishment, yet Rome wasn't built in a day, nor can an education be founded on slip-shod principles. If we wish to attain the best education the institu- tion offers we should make the most of our time and try to get the maximum out of our courses. HERE IS ENCOURAGEMENT In this day when college students feel that there is no sure place for their talents in the world, Lincoln Steffens' encouraging words may offer stimulus. He says: \I teach my child, and all other youths I can reach, that the world is full of jobs for them„ full of all sorts of things for them to do, or to do over and do right. There is everything for them to take over. We have not now, and never have had in the history of the world, a good government. There is not now and never has been a perfectly-run railroad, school, newspaper, bank, theatre, factory, farm, grocery store. No business has ever been built, managed, financed as it should be and will be some day—perhaps in their awn day. The best picture has never been painted; the greatest poem. is yet unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived.\ TEACHERS Teachers have many different kinds of students to cope with, but so do students have various types of teachers to work under. In my esti- mation, there are about three types of teachers: the understanding type, the indifferent type, and the sarcastic type. The most desirable of these three is the understanding type. He always has a smile for you, or at least not a frown, and is always willing to help you, explaining things when you don't understand. It seems that you can get your work more easily and feel more like doing it well under this type of teacher. The indifferent type is just a half-way link. He is good in many cases but not so good in others. He expects you to do your work well. If you don't or can't he doesn't expect to help you any more than is absolutely necessary. If you are a student naturally bright you will get along all right under this type of teacher. If you are slow, however, you will find it pretty tough sledding. The least desirable type of teacher is the sarcastic type. It seems no matter what you do or say, the sarcastic teacher finds something wrong and says something to embarrass you. For instance, if you don't hear or understand something he says and you ask him about it, his answer will probably be, \Why don't you pay attention.\ One nice thing about a sarcastic teacher is that he teaches you not to be like him yourself, because you know how he makes the victim feel. HAVE YOU READ \SUDDEN DEATH\? Of course 1936 cars can go eighty or ninety miles an hour, but that is no reason why we should take the liberty with other people's lives and make them go as fast as possible. Sir Malcolm Campbell has driven more than 300 miles an hour— faster than any other human being—but he has never been arrested for speeding because he knows when and where to speed. He never endan- gers the lives of other people. The number of car accidents in the United States has greatly in- creased as the rate of speed has been increased. In the last year 36,310 deaths have occurred and over a million people have been injured. Few of us realize that these figures mean a death every fifteen minutes throughout the 365 days. Within the last two months accidents to our own students have resulted in one death and serious injury to two. It is pertinent to suggest that all of us may well use ten minutes in reading thoughtfully the magazine article entitled \Sudden Death,\ in the Au- gust \Reader's Digest.\ It might be interesting to know if Adolf Hitler has kept up his pay- ments on his paper hanger's union card, in case he needs to go back to work. DOING ONE'S BIT \Gee there's nothing to go to in this school.\ We wonder who said that. There are many organizations in the school, and each one is \doing something.\ Join one of these organizations. There is always room for one more, and the more the merrier. Remem- ber one gets out of the institution only what he puts into it. If a student doesn't voluntarily join the various organizations how are others going to discover what he can do? Often it is the one who does the most complaining who has made the least attempt to apply himself. He is always expecting the other fellows to act for him. The E. M. N. S. offers an organization for every type of student, namely: the Katoya, Sketch Club, Luncheon, student committees, class organizations, M. E. A., athletics and musical organizations. First year students may be bashful at first, but the time to begin taking part is now. Identify yourself with some organization. Make this your school, and take part in some extra curricular activity. Many have shown that they have the right spirit when they voluntarily offered their services to make a success of the Coed Party to be given Hallowe'en. Let's see YOU do something. When .Mr. J. L. Harris, owner of a huge factory in Wisconsin which manufactures barbed wire, was ap- proached about shipping his prod- uct to Africa to be used in the Italo - Ethiopian war, his response was, \No we are doing fine selling barbed wire to keep cows out of fields. We'll continue to confine our sales to peace purposes.\ The forces working for peace should rise up and call Mr. Harris blessed. Unit Housing Plan Innovation At M. S. C. The new women's residence halls, built as a P. W. A. project on the campus at Montana State College in Bozeman, are the only ones of their kind in the United States. The residence halls consist of three separate buildings, connected only by tunnels for kitchen service. Each building is divided into two units with four floors for each unit. Each unit will house 20 girls and a chaperon. The lowest floor of each unit has a large meeting room., a storage room, a laundry and wood room. The main floor of every unit has a reception hall, a living room with a fireplace, dining room, library and pantry. The dining room, liv- ing room and library are so ar- ranged that the three rooms, com- prising three-fourths of the entire floor area, may be thrown together for dancing and parties. The two upper floors in each unit are designed for sleeping quarters and study. The second floor has three suites and a chaperon's bed- room with private bath. On the third floor are two suites and a huge bathroom with showers. Each suite has five rooms and will house four girls. Two bedrooms, each with single beds, are on the oppo- site sides of a study room. Each bedroom opens into a dressing room. With ,central kitchen service, all 1 - roups may plan the meals of their choice. Special lunches, teas, lunch- eons and odd hour meals may be served. Three women from each unit, or eighteen in all, will have the opportunity for working for their board and room. The kitchen will be under cooperative manage- ment and support. A representative from each group and one from the college faculty will constitute the board of managers. One thing we like about Shirley Temple is that she hasn't been to Reno yet. Monthly Luncheons Cooperative Stunt The monthly luncheons held in the gymnasium for the past four years have been a demonstration of the success of a cooperative ven- ture. Since there is no equipment for cooking in the building, all the food has been prepared in the bak- eries and eating establishments in the city and delivered, piping hot, in the hall leading to the gymna- sium. Here a student committee has dished it up ready for another large committee to serve to the students, who were seated at im- provised tables, which had been set up the night before by the men's class in physical education, and decorated and set by another com- mittee from the Art department. After the meal was eaten (and food has always been abundant); other committees cleared away the paper plates and cups and other debris, washed the few bona-fide dishes and pans, and took down the tables, allowing the room to resume its proper function as a gymnasium. The luncheon of last Wednesday was doubtless the last to be served in t this manner. On behalf of the students, past and present, we take occasion to thank the merchants who have managed the cooking: Mr. Stuber, who has been the pur- chasing agent; Mr. Bjorgum, who sponsored the table set-up; Miss Roberts, who directed the decora- tions; Miss Meek and Mr. Dean, who marshalled the kitchen police; Miss Stevenson, whose cohorts were the hash-slingers; Miss Dewey, who bossed the cleanup committee; and Mr. Abbott, under whose direction the last signs of the big feed were made to disappear. And not least of all, we wish to say that the hun- dreds of students who did the work and ate the food, which they paid for with a part of their activity fee, deserve our gratitude. Will every- one please take a bow? WILL YOU FIGHT? A committee representing eleven national student organizations meet- ing in New York City last Sunday, declared that the present European crisis \challenges the students of America to refuse to support the United States government in any war it undertakes\ and issued a call for mobilization for peace on Armistice Day. Students and fac- ulty members all over the country were urged to stage demonstrations against war at eleven o'clock on that day.
