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Page Two THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL AT BILLINGS, MONTANA Editorial Committee....Hazel Lavell, Sam Panos, George Hovland, Dor- othy Kottas. Reporters—Elsie Bezdek, Lee Birdsall, Jean Carroll, Bill Chase, Ella Gil- bert, Margaret Hensley, Reino Hill, Ruth Hodgson, Agnes Hodik, Carl Johnson, Roy Johnson, Alice Leimback, Dolly Leo, Eleanor Loomis, Stella Maart, Letha Mead, Myra Mitchell, Ann Patterson, Bob Pepper, Charles Perkins, La Vetta Powell, Eva Scabad, Bob Zepp, Marjorie Marquette. Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek EDITORIALS OUR NARCOTIC MENACE An extensive survey recently made in Montana by Helen Howell, narcotic expert of the Foreign Policies group in Washington, D. C., has revealed that the narcotic situation in Montana is worse than it is in any other state west of the Mississippi. One town alone in Montana has con- tributed enough dope to supply a quarter of a million people or one-half the population of the state. These facts and others were made public last week, International Narcotics Week. The distribution is due to the efforts of a few unprincipled physicians and druggists far more than to \bootleg dope\ sold by independent distributors. Anyone may unsuspectingly be made an addict by the prescription of some unscrupulous doctor. If he eases the pain by narcotics the patient continues to take the medicine, and soon the habit is formed. The physi- cian is usually working with some druggist who has agreed to fill his prescriptions. Together they make huge profits from the innocent public. One doctor issued over three hundred prescriptions, which is enough dope to supply 2,250 people for one year. The fight against this problem is many sided, but it is our duty as teachers to become so well informed on the subject that we can give it our intelligent support in clubs and other groups of adults and can see that the children we teach become conscious of its dangers. Many children like to lounge around drugstores, where they secure candy and refreshments. Any drug store that deals in narcotics is the hang-out of addicts. Children should be warned against the advances made by these seemingly good natured men, who offer them candy or cigarettes. If children understand that their future lives may be ruined by the use of narcotics, few of them will knowingly contact the habit. If they are shown the seriousness of this problem now, when they be- come voters they will demand strict, uniform laws in order that the black spot on the narcotics map of U. S., which now indicates Montana, may be removed. Teacher-to-be, your task is clearly defined. Inform yourself; educate your community; guide your pupils in the fight against narcotics. HOSPITALITY During the rest of this week we shall have about two hundred basket- ball players and their coaches as our special guests. This is our chance to be cordial hosts to these boys and to the thousands who will come to the building to see the teams play. Many students have special duties on committees—but let us remember that all of us are members of the HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE. A PLEA FOR PUBLIC OPINION Isn't there a saying to the effect that the pressure of public opinion can bring about reforms if that public opinion is expressed in the right man- ner? Specifically, we refer to the recent loss of the special five-cent rate on bus fares for the students. A few students have sold or given their five-cent tickets to other peo- ple, and as a result we can now buy only fourteen tickets for one dollar. Won't the student body appoint a committee to make an attempt to have this rate restored? Use of these tickets by other people could easily be stopped by having a special kind of ticket for students. Another thing in which there is need for public opinion to express itself effectively is the question of library rules. Some few students check out reserve books for room use, hold them all afternoon without using them, and then are allowed to take them home at four-thirty, completely depriving others of the use of this book. Isn't it possible to mark the time on reserve cards in order to check up on the time a student uses a reserve book? No doubt action by the student body could bring about a rule to prevent this inconsiderate use of reserved books. It would at least be worth an attempt. It has always been true and will always be true that the majority suffers from the actions of the inconsiderate few. We should take action as a body to correct the wrong doings of the few who will not be influenced by a desire for fairness. If E. M. S. N. S. students should put into their weekly time budget forty hours for leisure we wonder what would happen to these Montana History projects, art creations, and other gadgets on which our students keep busy? It would be interesting to institute a survey of leisure time pursuits in our school. We are certain that it would present a far differ- ent picture than that furnished by the survey reported elsewhere in this issue. An Appreciation Although our basketball team won only one of the nine games of the Small College Conference, we are very proud of our boys for their fine sportsmanship and fighting spirit throughout the season. When we con- sider the fact that the team competed with schools having a much larger enrollment of men than our own, we are very well pleased with the showing made by the team. SURVEY SHOWS WASTE OF TIME BY STUDENTS Miss Rich has issued the figures for the 1935 inventory of E. M. S. N. S. library. According to the re- port, the total number of titles in the library is 6617, distributed as follows: Professional, 19 volumes; General, 101; Religion, 30; Philos- ophy, 204; Sociology, 1559; Lan- guage, 32; Science, 485; Useful Arts, 255; Fine Arts, 697; Literature, 880; Travel, 193; Biography, 218; History, 573; Reference books, 825; and Juv- enile books, 546. The number of books accessioned since the library has been available to students is 9275. Of these there were 966 books lost or withdrawn, and 1692 dupli- cate copies. The actual number of books now in use is 8309 volumes, but only 6617 separate titles. The report shows that 486 new books were added in 1935. According to Miss Rich, 19 new books were added to the school li- brary in January. One of the most interesting new books is \The Parade of the Animal Kingdom,\ by Robert Hegner, which is a natural history of animals, viv- ified by 743 unusual illustrations. Also two new volumes concerning the fur trade have been added. The new books are \Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri,\ by Carpenters, and \Journal of a Trap- per,\ by Russell, both of which Mr. Abbott considers exceedingly val- uable sources of information re- garding the fur trade. -+ Student Matinee Featured At Fox On the evening of March 4, the movie of \A Midsummer Night's Dream\ will be shown in Billings for the general public. The price for this spectacular Shakespearian com- edy will range from 55c to $1.65, and all seats are to be reserved. However, in order that the stu- dents of E. M. S. N. S. may see this wonderful picture, the management has agreed to a special showing at the Fox, starting at 12:15 Wednes- day noon, and running for approx- imately three hours. The price to students is 25 cents. Mr. William F. Gordon, Salt Lake City Man- ager of Warner Bros., was in the city last week, and at that time he arranged for this special booking. A superlative cast has been se- lected for the picture. Dick Powell plays Lysander. Quince, a carpenter—Frank Mc- Hugh. Bottom, a weaver—James Cagney. Flute, a bellows mender—Joe E. Brown. Hippotyta—Verree Teasdale. Helena—Jean Muir. Titania—Anita Louise. Oberon—Victor Jory. Puck—Mickey Rooney. Don't think you are going to see a stiff, formal performance. The far- cical characters, Quince and Bot- tom, are \a riot,\ and the whole performance is a beautiful extrava- ganza. o t C\ - - ii.,1 2 In a large midwestern university more than 700 students, represent- ing every class and condition on the campus, were asked to tell how they spent their time outside the classroom. The staff of officials in the Student Union Building, visited daily by 5,000 students, added their observations. Much interesting in- formation came to light. The average student — this in- cludes the one who works part time —devotes six hours a day to lei- sure, the total of 42 hours per week being almost equal to the whole time he spends in study and classes. Now what does he do when he does just what he wants to do? At least one hour each day is spent in absolute idleness; he can't for the life of him tell where the hour goes; next, idle conversation, \bull ses- sions\ he calls it, meaning desultory talk with his associates covering instructors, campus gossip, scandal, dates, sports, sex, and rarely, social and economic questions, for which interesting diversion the average student reserves five hours each week. Listening to favorite radio programs on his own or another's little portable radio checks off an- other 31/2 hours a week, not count- ing the vast additional hours spent in other occupations with the loud speaker blaring its accompaniments. Drinking consumes barely one-half hour a week; and aimless car driv- ing is equally low in time consump- tion, because the depression has thrown into the discard the sporty roadster and the \tin can Lizzie,\ so popular on the campus in pre- depression days. When the average student drives a car it is a rent-a- car type, which is expensive. Dates, which consume so much time with some students, do not figure at all with many; for the average student uses only one-half hour a day for this amiable diver- sion. Organized sports are not very much in use, but as informal out- door exercise walking and swim- ming head the list with three hours a week. Reading, usually light and desultory perusal of newspapers, magazines and novels, consumes six hours each week. He knows the high-brow magazine only by name or because of class assign- ments. He goes to five movies in four weeks. The other 10 hours per week are distributed over a great variety of diversions. Cultural interests occupy so little of the average student's time that it is impossible to score them on a weekly basis. During the year, lec- tures, unless attendance is required, are attended by only 36% of the students; concerts, plays, instru- ment playing, forums and debates and art range downward from 34% to 8%, the difficulty of the activity being a direct indication of its scarcity. All these statistics prove that the average college student is not prepared to use leisure time wisely when he is unsupervised. MISS RICH ISSUES LIBRARY REPORTS
