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Page Two THE RIMROCK ECHO Wednesday, October 25, 1939 THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL at Billings, Montana RIMROCK ECHO COMMITTEE—ADVANCED COMPOSITION CLASS Editorial Chairman Martha Calvert Student News Chairman Mary Worth School News Chairman .Nellie Reukauf Reporters—Ruth Buckler, Bettye Cox, Dorothy Davis, Helen Essington, Shirley Fuller, Henry Good, Vivian Hall, Elizabeth Hunter, Dolly Johnson, Marilyn Laughlin, Myrtle McCammon, Emilie Nadler, Dor- othy Neal, Vivian Nielson, Doris Spisler, Dale West, Betty June Worst Adviser Mary J. Meek EDITORIALS GONE ARE THE DAYS There are those among the second year class who can still remember when the library was a delightful place to meet one's friends and have a chat over a stick of gum or a candy bar. Those who strolled in again this fall to take up where they left off last spring were mildly surprised to find signs placed in conspicuous places saying \Quiet Please,\ \No Talking in the Library,\ \Silence.\ \Oh that's just to scare the new kids into studying,\ was their passing mental note. But those who pass the door on their way down the second floor hall are aware that no pleasant buzz floats out to greet them, and those in a conversational frame of mind eventually find their way else- where. In fact, an old student was heard to remark, \I'm not going to study in there any more; they won't let me talk.\ GRASP THAT OPPORTUNITY If education is learning to live, a very fine education is offered to anyone who wishes to take advantage of the many experiences open to students on this campus. There are appropriate outlets for almost every interest, such as organ- izations specializing in dramatics, athletics, art and music. Every student should endeavor to choose those organizations which appeal to him and then set to work to get the most out of them. The person who gets the most out of any activity is he who puts most into it. Then, too, the social calendar has just been posted outlining the events planned for this quarter's social life. There are to be two luncheons, two parties, a couple of basketball games, an evening of drama and other out- side programs. And it's all yours for the taking. Of course, you work hard up here—that's expected and who would have it otherwise? But here's your chance to have fun, too. If you don't attend these activities and get acquainted and put out a little of yourself— well, who wants to be a hermit? DON'T MISUSE YOUR PRIVILEGES Our citizens take pride in the belief that the American people know how to use and safeguard the privileges granted them. Justifying this -pride is sometimes difficult, however, when we see evidence that many consider it their right to satisfy some desire at the expense of others' enjoyment. This is true in connection with the misuse of the nickelodeon last year. It was rented for the pleasure of everyone and as an attempt to offer more relaxation and fun for the whole student body. Yet a few inconsiderate students, trying to get a little something for nothing, damaged it so that not only they, but the whole student body as well, forfeited the pleasure of using it. The nickelodeon has been repaired this summer, and the school autho- rities are anxious that it be enjoyed, but only so long as it and the privi- leges that go with it are respected can we expect to have the continued pleasure of using it. BUDGET YOUR TIME Perhaps you freshmen are a little bewildered and confused at the amount of work that has been thrust at you the past few weeks. Perhaps you are even saying that it is impossible to do all the teachers are giving you to do. But are you making the best use of all your time? Every min- ute counts—especially for you who are working as well as going to school. A good plan which will help you in this way is to budget your time. For instance, your budget may run like this: 8 to 12 every morning— classes; 1 to 3 p. m. can be devoted to gym on certain days and to un- finished business on the other days; and 3 to 5 p. in. is to be reserved for study alone. Keep the study hours closed to any other activities; and if that is not enough, more will have to be taken from other odd moments of the day. If you are unusually busy, it may be a good plan to jot things down and definitely get things done in the allotted time. Thus you will form a habit, and soon the act of doing these certain things at certain times will become as natural to you as brushing your teeth or combing your hair. Better still, it will enable you to keep in step with your teachers' assign- ments and avoid the end of the quarter rush. ARE WE HIGH HAT? This school is anything but a high-hat college? Among the students who are top-flight performers in scholarship and school activities, many work for most or part of their expenses. Many spend five or six hours a day working for room and board or on some other job. Yet, with all this outside work to do, their names are seen on the honor roll and in the activities list each quarter. ACTIVITIES CALENDAR Date Event Sponsors Mon., Oct. 2—Reception Faculty Committee Wed., Oct. 4 Songfest Faculty Committee Fri., Oct. 6—All-School Party Second Year Thur., Oct. 19—Ben Ferrier Student Council Mon., Oct. 23—Fat Stock Show Dinner Second Year Wed., Oct. 25—All-School Luncheon Katoya Players Wed., Nov. 1—All-School Hallowe'en Party Women's Athletic Assn. Sat., Nov. 4-4-H Club Luncheon Second Year Fri., Nov. 10—All-School Dance (with guests) Service Club Thu., Nov. 16—Huntington Company (3 p. tn.) Student Council Fri., Nov. 17—Evening of Drama Dramatic Art Classes Wed., Nov. 22—Thanksgiving Luncheon Montana Education Assn. Wed., Nov. 29—Symphony Orchestra (10 a. m ) Student Council Wed., Dec. 6—Hoosier Schoolmaster (pictures) Montana Educ. Assn. Fri. or Sat., Dec. 8 or 9—Spearfish Basketball here Physical Educ. Men Sat., Dec. 16—Formal All-School Dance (guests) First Year Sun., Dec. 17—Christmas Play (4 p. in.) Katoya Players Tues., Dec. 19—S. D. Mines Basketball here Physical Education Men Wed., Dec. 20—Commencement Luncheon Women's Athletic Assn. MR. RIDGELY ATTENDS SCHOOL Mr. C. V. Ridgely of the music department spent the summer quar- ter at the University of Wisconsin studying and acting as assistant in orchestra to the dean of the school of music, Professor Carl Bucken. He also assisted Professor Leland Coon as reader in a course in history and appreciation of music . As given this year, this course attracted over a hundred students from all colleges of the university. Mr. Ridgely found the varying view- points and degrees of preparation of the students very interesting, though the examination papers proved very complicated to correct. He also stu- died choral technique and was a member of the university chorus, both under the direction of Profes- sor David Nyvall, who is head of all vocal work in the high schools of Chicago. \Comparisons of teaching methods and administration in Wisconsin and Montana interested me as much as the actual music studied,\ says Mr. Ridgely. \Also through the cour- tesy of Miss Bundy, secretary of the school of music, I was allowed to find out a great deal about methods of examining candidates for degrees.\ The University of Wisconsin, orig- inator of the high school clinic movement in music, was host this summer to the tenth Wisconsin mu- sic clinic. This year the courses, lasting three weeks, attracted over 700 high school students of Wiscon- sin and twelve other states, as well as 75 of their directors. The boys and girls lived in dormitories on the campus and studied or practiced nine hours each day, under leading symphonists and coaches. \Some splendid concerts evolved out of this unique concentration,\ commented Mr. Ridgely. \We were fortunate in securing living quarters across the road from Madison's largest and loveliest park. My children reveled all summer in its unique zoo and swimming pool, and, most unusual of all, in the free camel rides offered every Sunday to children by the Shriners of Mad- ison.\ Town Versus Church In Statistic Tie=up If you're the kind of person that yawns and turns away at the sight of statistics, you may skip this item. But if you are interested in your school and wish to know something of it, here you are. We have a student in our midst from far off Friana, Texas, also one from Powell, Wyo., the town of \Tarzan\ fame. Another student comes from Ten Sleep, two from Sheridan, and one from Buffalo, Wyo. North Dakota sends us one from Beach, two from Watford City, one from Rolette, and one from Roseglen. From Spokane, Washing- ton there is one, and even glam- orous Hollywood has swelled our ranks by one. There is a coincidence in our sta- tistics, as there are 85 Billings stu- dents enrolled here and also 85 Methodists in the ranks. Which also brings us to the question of how many students belong to each church. Attending school are the above mentioned Methodists, 85 strong, 51 Lutherans, 19 Presbyterians, Bap- tists are 22 in number, 36 Catholics, 12 Christians, 32 Congregationalists, nine Episcopalians, 10 members of the Evangelical church and 52 stu- dents from other churches or with no preference. Southern Cruise (Continued from Page 1) some time with Mrs. Catherine Mc- Mullen Williams, daughter of Dr. McMullen. Sees Family Record of 1795 Then for several weeks she mo- tored through the New England states, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, and Connecti- cut. On North Hero island in Lake Champlain, Miss Dewey found in the archives of the little town, a record of the sale of some land by her great grandfather, Alonzo Butler, in 1795, and another by his son in 1836. After spending several weeks in her home, Mendota, Illinois, she re- turned to Billings, September 27. McMullen Montana's Only Representative Attends World Congress on Education for Democracy Dr. McMullen went to Now York immediately after the summer ses- sion ended, as the only invited rep- resentative from Montana to take part in the discussions at the World Congress on Education for Democ- racy, of which his friend, Dr. William Russell, dean of Teachers college, was chairman. This congress represented a new departure in conferences on educa- tion, because it undertook to bring delegates from important organiza- tions, who were competent to speak for the groups they represented, to meet with an equal number of edu- cators for a three-day period of discussion of educational problems. The congress recognized that the public, of which teachers are only one part, should have the final de- cision regarding the general policies of education and that the technical matters should be left to educators. Took Part in Seminar Besides the general meetings, the congress broke up into 16 seminar groups to discuss specific phases of education for democracy. Dr. Mc- Mullen was called to take part in the seminar discussing democracy of culture. Dr. Harold Rugg of Co- lumbia was chairman of that group. One of the outstanding figures among the speakers and delegates from most of the democracies of the world was Dr. Charles Beard, the noted economist and historian. Dr. McMullen was happy to renew his friendship with Dr. Beard, who was a college friend of DePauw univer- sity in Indiana. FACULTY MEMBERS FEATURED A talk on \Observation of the Status of Women in European Coun- tries\ was given by Miss Mary Meek before the Yellowstone County Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, Thursday, October 12. She is especially ac- quainted with this subject as she has met professional women in Ber- lin, Paris, Amsterdam and London. Miss Rember, Miss LeClaire and Miss Mehl spent the week-end of October 7 at Miss LeClaire's cabin above Red Lodge. On November 24, before the Yel- lowstone County Medical association, Dr. Hines will discuss \Psychology as Applied to the Practice of Med- icine.\ Miss Martha Dewey gave an ac- count of her cruise on the Carribean to members of the Billings chapter of P. E. 0. on Saturday, October 7. On Thursday evening, October 5, Miss Stevenson spoke on posture at a mother and daughters' banquet in Bridger. Hear Radio Programs An interesting radio program which is heard over KGHL at 11 each Sunday morning is Pilgrimmages of Poetry, with Ted Malone as com- mentator. The broadcast originates always in the home of a poet or in a spot associated with a famous poem. Next Sunday it will include a sketch of Edgar Allen Poe, and his cottage at Fordham where he wrote \The Raven\ will be the scene. Last Sunday the program came from the home of Chief Justice Taney in Frederick, Maryland, where Francis Scott Key and his sweet- heart heard for the first time, in 1814, the musical rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. The music was played on the same 200-year-old reed organ which was used on that occasion. Another educational program of NBC heard over KGHL every Sun- day at 12:30 is a half-hour round table discussion of an up-to-the- minute subject by experts from the University of Chicago who make an objective and non-partisan presenta- tion of the subject under discussion. Each issue of the Echo will call to your attention some interesting pro- gram, and it is hoped that students will take advantage of the infor- mation. SOCIAL PROGRAM DEMOCRATIC The social calendar for the fall quarter, which is to be found on page 2, is the result of much discus- sion and argument by the members of the committee. Oftentimes the students complain about activities of the calendar, say- ing that there aren't enough parties, aren't enough assemblies, etc. But if the objectors will ask any member of the social committee they will find that every question has been discussed and passed by a majority vote. The members of the social com- mittee are the officers and sponsors of the two classes and the different clubs in school. Dr. Hines is the faculty chairman. At the first meet- ing he presents a tentative program of the traditional activities and sug- gests the cash allotment from the student activity fund for each ac- tivity. With this tentative program be- fore them the members discuss each point, add or remove items as the group decides, and apportion the money, as fairly as possible, ac- cording to the available funds. At long last, the social calendar which emerges is as nearly as possible the choice of all the students, as ex- pressed by their own representatives. PROPAGANDA DISCUSSED Dr. Vernom Cooper spoke to the American Association of University Women Saturday, October 14. His subject was \Propaganda Analysis.\ He defined propaganda as a deceit- ful selection of facts or the conceal- ment of certain facts in the interest of the propagandist. Dr. Cooper reminded his audience that nearly 75% of our newspapers derive their chief revenue from ad- vertisers and that fact colors all our news. He cautioned his audience about propaganda tricks, such as the use of one point alone in an argu- ment. By way of illustration he mentioned the embargo debate in congress. Neither the present law nor repeal alone will keep us out of war. Another propaganda trick is the use of names of famous p - e - op - le as supporters of a cause. Unless a famous person is qualified to give reasoned judgment on the question at issue his name alone should bear little weight. According to Dr. Cooper, we can expect a veritable barrage of prop- aganda of all types at present, for propaganda thrives where conflict exists. How to Play Bridge Taught by McMullen Learn bridge in college? Why not? Thousands of women throughout the country pay good money and plenty of it for instruction in bridge. We are lucky here in E. M. S. N. S., for we have an expert teacher in our president, Dr. McMullen, who is the instructor of the Bridge club, organ- ized October 18. There were eight girls present at the first of the bridge meetings, which are to be held every Wed- nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 206. Dr. McMullen gave the main points of playing and demonstrated how one should play. At the next meet- ing each member is to try her own hand at playing. This is strictly a no-credit course, but ifyou would like to know how to play bridge this is the place to learn. TESTING PROGRAM GROWS Three rural schools have been added to the list of schools in the Billings district now being given psychological tests by Dr. Hines' class in testing. They are Rimrock, Elysian, and Canyon Creek. Others will be added as time and transpor- tation permit. The tests are conducted by the 20 second year students in the testing class. There are two students work- ing in each school, and they test one child a week. A few special cases are being cared for in Dr. Hines' office. If you have bitter medicine to take, rub your tongue with ice. The taste buds on the tongue scarcely function when they are cooled, whereas warmth stimulates them.
