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THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL at Billings, Montana RIMROCK ECHO COMMITTEE—ADVANCED COMPOSITION CLASS Pearl Baird, Max Buitenveld, Mabel Burns, Betty Cooper, Doris Deckert, Ruth Miller, Roland Flynn, Ernestine Hanley, Clinton Oster, Mary Foy Shadduck, Rex Welton, Lois Woods. Adviser Mary J. Meek EDITORIALS \4 E 0'12 Why Not Ride to School? Why should so many students spend a couple of hours each day walking to and from the Normal School when they might go sailing along on a bike with the greatest of ease, (until they came to the hill beside the St. Vincent's Hospital), covering the same distance in one-fourth of the time? Besides saving time and energy, a bike, unlike a car, is inexpensive to operate. It may be a little difficult to pump a bike up the hill but when you think how merrily you can coast down it makes the going up easier. Bike riding is good for your health. It will give you the right amount of strenuous exercise and keep you in good condition. It is marvelous for helping to maintain that school girl figure, and will help you, as Mr. Hoheisel says, from suffering from \vicera optosis. - There Are Teachers and Teachers Teachers have many different kinds of students to work with, but so do students have various types of teachers to work under. There are about three types of teachers : the indifferent type, the understanding type, and the sarcastic type. To me the indifferent type is just a halfway 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 naturally are a bright student you will get along all right under this type of teacher. But if you are slow you will find it pretty tough sledding. The understanding type is the most interesting to meet. He very seldom has a frown, but usually a smile for you, and is always willing to help you, explaining things when you don't understand. This he does in such a way that you don't feel dumb about asking questions. It seems that you can get your work more easily and feel more like doing it well under this type of teacher. The least desirable type of teacher is the sarcastic type. It seems, no matter what you do or say, the sarcastic teach- er finds something wrong and says something to embarrass you. One nice thing about a sarcastic teacher is that he teaches you as a prospective teacher not to be like him yourself, because you know how it makes the victim feel. Are Students Younger? \The students get younger every year.\ We've all heard that expression, especially after we see the freshman group. They do look younger! Certainly not old enough to take over a school. Maybe they act younger, too, but are they, in actual years, younger than the average college freshmen? Their ages vary from seventeen to twenty-one. Other colleges show the same age range to be true. Per- haps the people who make these remarks are remembering themselves as they were when they entered college. Clothes make a difference. New coiffure adds charm to one's looks. Make-up gives the impression of youth. Our students are well versed in these arts, so don't judge them or their ages by their looks. CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING Page Two THE RIMROCK ECHO Thursday, October 27, 1938. In the race betwen education and catastrophe, catastrophe is winning in the opinion of H. G. Wells, noted British author and historian, in an article declaring that the world needs more and better teachers. Becoming more specific he says, \Nothing but twaddle and nonsense about property, money, or economic control is being handed out to young people throughout the world. No picture of the economic world is given to them. The ideal teacher has to have a working conception of the world as a whole into which his teaching fits. Nevertheless, for good or ill, the future is in the hands of the teacher as it is in the hands of no other men and women; and the more this is recognized, the more urgent must be our criticism.\ Though Mr. Wells may be too sweeping in his criticism, the fact remains that the world of most col- lege students is confined almost ex- clusively to the campus. In the tense days and nights at the end of Sep- tember the world threatened to break about our ears, carrying civilization into the unspeakable horror of war. Surely the names of the chief diplo- matic and military figures in that tragic drama are household words. Yet in an English class recently in which had been assigned a discus- sion of the Czecho-Slovakian crisis not one of the 32 had any mental reaction to the phrase \the one-eyed Syrovy.\ That despite the fact that his name figured for ten days in every news broadcast and on the front page of every newspaper. Teachers, more than any other group, should be alive to the far- reaching implications tied up in the conferences which snatched Europe from war, for the time being at least. Time for the reading of a good daily paper—not the sport page only, but the foreign news and the editorials —and a not-too-liberal weekly mag- azine should be in the time budget of every student in our school. No study is more exciting and thrilling than history in the making. MISS MEEK TOURS EUROPE • (Continued from Page 1) hall, waiting an hour to hear the Pope give a ten-minute speech in Italian. Miss Meek said that in order to see him over the heads of the people she had to take her pocket mirror and turn around to get a glimpse of him in it. While in Ger- many they saw Hitler. The contrast between the view of Hitler and that of Mussolini was quite marked. When they saw Mussolini he was riding with two other men just as an ordi- nary citizen without even a uniform, whereas when they saw Hitler he was riding in his car down \Unter den L in den,\ the famous Berlin street, the entire route of two and a half miles guarded on either side by soldiers, shoulder to shoulder, and two deep. Between them and the crowd was a cleared space and then a row of police. There were many thousands of people who had stood patiently for three hours to greet the Fuhrer upon his return from Italy, and to quote Miss Meek. \I was one of them, but I suspect I was the only one who failed to give the Nazi salute.\ The travelers were in Vienna on May day. The streets of Vienna, the city noted for its beauty and cul- ture, were hung with swastikas and filled with factory workers on pa- rade. Everyone was on the streets (by government request) and though the crowd was very orderly it was plain to be seen that it wasn't a happy crowd. They were not al- lowed to disband until after Hitler's speech, which came over the radio at noon and was carried to everyone by an arrangement of loudspeakers. Talks With Czech Senator While in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Miss Meek entertained at dinner a Czechoslovakian senator, Madame Plomonkova, and when questioned about the concensus of opinion re- garding the danger of a German invasion, the senator seemed very confident that Germany would not try such a thing and that if she did there were two countries, France and England, that would not let them down. How beautifully they were let down! Though reluctant to admit it, Miss Meek says that the Swiss and Ba- varian Alps are more beautiful and spectacular than our own Rockies. She felt unprepared for such rugged beauty and such lovely green vege- tation in the same scene. In Germany the tourists visited Berlin, Nurnburg, Munich, Cologne, Heidelburg, and other cities. They took an all day trip down the Rhine, from Wiesbaden to Cologne, seing along the way ruins of many famous old castles, among them the scene of the familiar song \Die Lorelei.\ Visits Belgium Battlefields They took a trip through the Bel- gian battlefields. A German doctor, who was in the German medical corps in the World war and his wife, an Englishman who fought in Flan- ders, the two Americans and a Bel- gian guide made quite an interna- tional party. When walking through these battlefields the horrors of war became very vivid because in places the trenches, the barbwire, and shell holes are left as they were. The cathedral at Ypres has been partly rebuilt, but part remains as an eter- nal reminder of the ghastliness of war. All through Belgium are peaceful cemeteries for the war dead. Even the German graves, which otherwise would lie unkept, are cared for by the Belgian peasants who undoubt- edly are relatives of people whom these same German dead had killed. Miss Meek loved Paris, with its wide, brilliantly lighted streets, so gay and enticing. Everywhere there were statues, monuments and lovely formal gardens. She had quite a thrill when she saw the beautiful \Place de la Concorde\ and realized how much blood had been shed and how many heads had been dropped off there by the guillotine during the reign of terror. While in Paris Miss Meek attended the night club \Moulin Rouge,\ the same night club that the king and queen of England attended when they were in France. In the next issue Miss Meek will tell of England and give an impression of the food, the dress and the customs of the people, whom she met. Finger Paint Artist Demonstrates Work Ruth Faison Shaw, discoverer of the art of \finger painting,\ gave an interesting exhibition of her work in the Normal School auditorium Monday, October 10. Miss Shaw does not take full credit for the discovery of finger painting. One day she sent a small boy to the bathroom to get some iodine. When he did not re- turn she found him making lovely swirls and designs on the floor. It was this little boy who gave her the beginning of an idea. She then searched for months for a clayey paint that would be harmless, wash- able and easily manipulated. Finally in 1931 she developed finger paint, a sort of soft mud, that the children loved to handle, coming in a variety of colors pleasing to childish eyes. Children Charmed by Her Miss Shaw feels that finger paint- ing is the most natural form of self expression for all children, espe- cially those who are handicapped or maladjusted. We, ourselves, can vouch for this, judging from the amount of interest shown by both children and grownups as Miss Shaw spoke. Even while she was explain- ing to the older people the psychol- ogy that is back of her finger paint- ing, the children never took their eyes off her. As she began her actual demonstration the children crowded around so close that she had to ask them to let her have all the table to work on. Before she finished even the grownups had left their chairs and were peeking over each other's shoulders in order to get a glimpse of what she was doing. Miss Shaw is primarily just a \country school teacher,\ although she is naturally an artist and a born psychologist. Praised by Bernard Shaw At the outbreak of the World war she went abroad and spent many years in active war work. After the war she established a school in 'Rome which brought her recogni- tion from the great George Bernard Shaw. He once asked her if the little Italian children weren't hun- gry, since there was always maca- roni in their pictures. Those of you who saw \Carefree\ at the Fox recently saw Miss Shaw's hands making the titles with finger paint. While she was in Hollywood she met a talent scout who invited her to come to his home. There she showed his little son, who was suf- fering from spastic paralysis, how to fingerpaint. The little boy thought it was wonderful and his father was so impressed that he told everyone about it, including the director of RKO. The director was interested and asked Miss Shaw to demon- strate. This she did, with such not- ables as Fred Astaire peeking over people's shoulders to watch her. While she worked a movie camera photographed her hands. The use of finger paint is very simple. All you need is paper, paint and a bucket of water. The sheet of paper is wet and smoothed on a flat, washable surface. The color is smeared on the paper, and you are ready to begin your picture. If it does not suit you at first, all you have to do is wipe it out and begin Again. Work to completition, reduce it to void, work again and, suddenly satisfied, put it aside to dry; then wash the table, wash the hands, and put the materials away. This little routine of orderliness Miss Shaw in- sists on as a part of the lesson in fingerpainting. Extension Work Begins; New Course In Speech Organization of extension classes was made on Saturday night, Octo- ber 8, with a schedule of 12 two- hour meetings of each group. Courses which are now in full swing are: Public Speaking for Men, offered by Miss Dewey and Dr. McMullen; Badminton for Women and Bad- minton for Men, directed by Miss Stevenson and Mr. Bjorgum respec- tively; and Plays and Games, a class for nurses, by Miss Stevenson. The class in creative art for children, conducted by Miss Roberts and Mr. Manion, and the class in Psychology of Marriage, offered by Dr. Hines, will not begin until after the Christ- mas holidays, when several new courses will be listed. PRESIDENT'S CORNER On behalf of the faculty and the present student body I want to wel- come the former students of this institution to the campus of the Eastern Montana State Normal School. Possibly one-half of the teachers attending the meeting of the southeastern section of the M. E. A. have at some time or other been students in this institution. The meeting in Billings every other year becomes, then, a real homecoming for our former students. The big event so far as E. M. S. N. S. is concerned will be the lunch- eon Friday noon in the auditorium. We hope that all former students will be present. Many reasons are given for be- longing to the Montana Education association and for attending this meeting, but I find that one excel- lent reason does not receive much publicity—namely, that of making homogeneous the teaching process in all parts of the state. Montana has several thousand teachers. Any- one passing the most remote rural school and stopping to visit would find aproximately the same ideals that he would find in the most pre- tentious school in the state. Educa- tion is regimented, but it is regi- mented in the right way. That is, by the rank and file of those interested in education. It is not regimented from above. Teachers' colleges ev- erywhere give to teachers much the same foundation. Their supervisors, urban and rural, hold them up to practical standards. Frequent meet- ings in large groups carry out the process of standardization still fur- ther. When you are tempted not to attend a meeting, remember that through your attendance one more straw will be placed upon the bal- ance in favor of the universal edu- cation which is the bulwark of democracy. KGHL Offers Program Each Sunday Morning On each Sunday morning over KGHL the NBC presents two excel- lent educational programs well worth the attention of every student. Again this year at 10:30 the Uni- versity of Chicago Round Table presents a half-hour discussion of up-to-the-minute problems in a de- lightfully informal manner. The other, which comes at 11, just after the first, is a new program entitled \Great Plays.\ The series began October 16 and will continue for 28 weeks, during which time skilled actors, a good orchestra, and Burns Mantle, the foremost dramatic critic of America, will present dram- atizations of the most famous plays of all time. The first play given was \Trojan Women,\ a tragedy written by the Greek dramatist Euripides 2300 years ago. Mr. Mantle recreated the scene as it was acted at that time and the Czecho-Slovakian actress, Blanche Yurka, assisted by a fine cast, gave a moving and beautiful rendition of the play. Last Sunday the English morality play, \Everyman was presented with Charles Shirley in the title role. Again Mr. Mantle as commentator gave an informative introduction about the manner in which this and other morality plays were presented in the churchyard during the fif- teenth and sixteenth century. Tune in on KGHL each Sunday to hear these excellent programs. Work of Board of Trade Explained to Students On Tuesday evening, October 11, in the Normal School auditorium, Mr. Clarence Henry, educational di- rector of the Chicago Board of Trade, gave an interesting talk on trade. \I would much rather talk with you than to you,\ Mr. Henry said in beginning his talk. He spoke mainly about wheat, re- vealing many interesting facts about that well known grain. China leads in its production. Russia, commonly believed to hold this position, ac- tually ranks third while United States ranks second. Only twice in twenty years has Russia produced enough for exportation. Did you ever come out of a class just dying for a drink of water and then lean over the water fountain only to see someone's wad of gum or crumpled piece of candy wrapper in the bottom of the bowl?
