The Monmouth herald., June 21, 1918, Image 1

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Vol.X
Monmouth, Polk County Oregon, Friday, June 21, 1918
No. 42
Mpnmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union.
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NEW NORMAL
"SCENE OF
With Fine Weather and Ample Space for All Corners, the Annual
Commencement Exercise are Attended by Large Crowd
The benefit which the enlarged
. ehiiixd have conferred upon Mon
mouth and the Normal have been
abundantly in evidence this week
when with an open invitation to all,
the commencement exercise have
been attended by record Veaking
throngs of people. The main floor
and balcony were both filled on sev
eral occasion and the attendance
included people coming from all of
our neighbor communities.
Rural School Day ;
Rural School Day at the Normal
attracted a large number of patrons
and school children from the three
centers that are contributory to
Normal training. Automobiles
were parked along the campus to
the length of a block, placed there
by people who came to attend the
exercises. A picnic dinner wns
spread upon tables under the fir
trees and In the af ternonn the chap
el of the Normal was the scene, of
a characteristic Rural Center pro
garm. It had the usual features
as was announced in full in these
columns lust week, working up to
the central idea which was the
awarding of the flag for the year's
-honors. This, flag has become an Mology and inventions, not to overlook
stitution in the Rural Center work
being awarded periodically on a ser
ies of counts, such as work done,
visitors, punctuality and attend
ance, etc. The award on this occa
sion was a general summing up fur
the year, and the possession of the!
flag was to last until the end of the j
first period after the beginning of
school in the Fall.
Mountain View had the flag for
the past period and when called up-
'onto surrender it, did so with a
nice little address by Louis Amert.
After announcing the records of the
schools and the hard work each had
done, Mr. Pittman, who had the
awarding of the flag, stated that
Mountain View had done just a lit-;
tie bit more than any of it compet- j
itors and had therefore won the
honors. The Benton county town J
was aready primed for the occasion i
and had a speaker, Nan Dencham, j
who did the honors for, her fellow
pupils and teachers. " '
Mountain View has not had a crit
ic teacher since last February. At
that time Mrs. Tirrell resigned be
cause of the serious illness of a sis
ter in Iowa, and since then the Nor
mal students have conducted the
work in lots of two, dividing the
critic's salary betweenlthem. Miss
Snook and Miss Bond had the first
period and Miss Griffis and Miss
Gilman.have had charge the last
period. '
; Brief addresses were made, by
Supervisor F. D. Moore, Mr. Cannon
of the State Superintendent's office
and by President Ackerman. Mr.
Pittman also took advantage of the
occasion to bid good by to the rural
school people in whose work he has
had a great deal of pleasure. '
t There were refreshments and a
moving picture play before the pro
gram was ended and all agreed that
it was an auspicious end of the first
year of actual rural supervision in
CHAPEL
BUSY WEEK
the Normal. A fine spirit prevailed
throughout the day showing the de
partment to be in a healthy state.
Senior Clan Play, on
All-Around Triumph
The annual Senior Class Play giv
en Monday evening in the Normal
chapel was an original production
by a student of the class, Miss Jo
sephine Seger of Portland and it
was very successful. Indeed, the
play turned out to be a personal tri
umph and at the close the modest
authoress was pulled out in front of
the curtain to receive a large bas
ket of flowers, as a tribute from
admiring fellow students.
The drama symbolized the war,
its contestants as nations and Amer-
lea', entry into it. Before them
appeared Industry with her dryads
and gnomes of production and mar,
ufacture and also the guardians of
raw products, wheat, corn, oats, cot
ton, cane, hides and even a small
live lamb was carried upon the stage
as a symbol of the wool from which
garments are made,
Science then appeared and illus
trated in turn by dances and other
wise, sound, light, time, gases, ge-
a real aeroplane which with its dim
inutive gunner blazing away at the
enemy, passed over the stage. Oth
er themes were introduced in logic
al and fitting order, conservation,
war work and then Democracy was
given the place of prominence, ush
ered in by the Spirit of the New
Day. !
The drama was well worked out.
The ideas were excellent and the
whole showed Miss Seger as the pos-
sessor of a high order of talent,
She has been warmly congratulated
on the success of the production.
The Last Chapel
The Last Chanel served its time'
honored purpose of officially closine
xhoo and giving juniors a com.
mon interest with the seniqrs in the
last week of exercises which in its
nature must naturally belong large
ly to the latter class of students.
This year a military flavor had been
worked into the exercises by means
of a pretty little drill. The seniors
were all specially arrayed with caps
and waistcoats of purple and white
and with wands for rifles marched
in military' form to their seats at
the beginning of chapel and carried
out a drill on the campus at' the
conclusion' of the exerises. s ;.
On the program there was a rep
resentative for each of the student
divisions of the school and one for
the faculty. Miss Fish spoke for the
Juniorrand her witty sallies pro
voked considerable laughter; Mrs.
Clair Grout was orator for the Se
niors and returned with ability all
the shafts the Juniors had sent. G.
A. Hurley of Independence repre
sented the alumni, bringing into his
discourse considerable ancient Nor
mal history , He referred with par
donable pride to' the seventy six stu
dents who wer,e graduates of Chris
tian College up to' 1882, many of
whom are prominent in Oregon to
High School
Commencement
High school commencement exer
cises in the auditorium of the school
building last Friday night called out
a large crowd and as usual the early
arrival stood the best chance of get
ting a seat Many of the late arri
vals hid to, stand. :
E. L. Keezel of Eugene, former
teacher, was the speaker of the even
ing and was warmly greeted by old
frlendiTand "former pupils. " He
took his subject from the war rag
ing at present, referring to a "Ger
man peace" as something to be
avoided and went into detail as to
the causes of the war and the many
sided developments which had arisen
from it. , ( i , , ,
Of the twenty four graduates,
twenty two were present, and were
duly presented to the board of dir
ectors by Principal E. H. Hedrick,
and received and awarded diplomas
by 0. A. Wolverton, chairman of
the board.
A special feature of the program
was the music furnished by the Nor
mal Orchestra, an organization of
which Monmouth is justly proud.
Other excellent features were the
singing by the glee clubs and solo
work by Mr. Blackstone.
day. ,-!
Prof. Gentle represented the fac
ulty and with his characteristic
keen wit kept the audience in a
continual laufh from start to finish.
A broad sympathy with humanity
and a wide knowledge of everyday
things he said must characterize the
teacher who would reach the truest
usefulness. '
, President Ackerman was the clos
ing speaker, paying an eloquent trib
ute to high ideals as the aim of the
teacher.
Before the exercises closed, Oscar
Williamson, one of the seniors, on
behalf of fellow students presented
W. H. Burton, retiring member of
the faculty, with a handsome travel
ing bag.
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Alumni Doings
Tuesday afternoon was given
over to the Alumni doings, business
meeting and reception and in the
evening the Alumni program was
presented.
Judge A. E. Wheelock was the
Almuni speaker taking for his sub
ject "Service Without Price". Ac
cording to the trend of the times
his talk was along patriotic lines
and he drew distinctions 'between
the service which is for the wages
and the service which through
achievement yields satisfaction and
pleasure to the server. A man who
performed a service well for its
achievement sake and who took
pride in his work, the speaker look
ed upon as an ideal citizen. He
Bpoke of the great sums of money
being spent for war, yet wealthy
people were giving their time and
paying their own expenses out of
motives of patriotic pride because
they felt their work was for poster
ity and not something that could be
recompensed in dollars and cents.
E. E. Bragg, Normal regent of La
Grange and B. F. Irvine of Portland
were present and occupied places on
the platform. '
Reuben Hastings of Pedee was a
visitor in this city Monday.
THREE PORTLAND MEN
DO PATRIOTIC TALKING
Baccalaureate, Alumni, and Commencement Annual Addresses
. .
Bear on People's and Nation's
With the presentation of diplo-J
mas to one hundred fifty eight grad-1
uates Wednesday noon the com
mencement exercises for 1918 of the
Oregon Normal School were brought
to a close. -,
Commencement Address
B. F. Irvine, editorial writer on
the Portland Journal was Com
mencement orator and in the course
of a long address he kept the large
audience thoroughly mterested. He
could crave no higher honor, he
said, than a reputation as a friend
of the educational institutions of
the state for their influence was tre
mendous and in befriending them
he felt he was doing that which was
of crowning importance in the de
velopment and welfare of the state.
To show the importance and effect
of education he traced the bent of
the German nation towards militar
ism to the teaching which had been
fed the youth of that nation, delib
erately, that all might be welded in
to a'machine to do the wishes of an
autocratic government. ,
In i860, he said Germany was
thirty little nations, with Prussia
the strongest, a nation located nat
urally in a bleak and barren land.
He spoke of the effort to secure ap
propriations for military expansion
by a vote of the representatives of
the people, of its failure and of the
failure of a second attempt to se
cure a like vote; when the repre
sentative body had been dissolved,
the money raised without popular
consent and the wars against Aus
tria and France undertaken to ce
ment the thirty nations into one.
At the time of the Austrian war,
many of the smaller nations of Ger
many had fought against Prussia
for the sake of continuing to lead a
life of peace.
Bismark had then gone to work
to teach militarism to the youth of
the land through the schools of the
nation and how well it had succeed
ed was evidenced in the world of to
day. Mr. Irvine quoted from the
various authorities of Germany in
education showing the sentiment
relative to war, justice, society and
foreign policies which are taught to
the German youth.
These are some of the reasons
why he felt the need of impressing
on the young teacher the importance
of the responsibilities she was as
suming. .
, f Baccalaureate Sermon
Dr. Joshua Stansfield of the First
Methodist church of Portland was,
the baccalaurate speaker at the ex
ercises Sunday evening. It was
his second sermon of the kind during
the day, he having officiated at the
University in a like capacity in the
morning. The "Honest Doubter"
was the subject of his discourse and
he held that to doubt was the most
natural thing in the world. A
doubt, he said could not be removed
by argument but it could be removed
by a new fact. He showed how the
evolution of understanding had kept
pace with the revelations of scienti
fic knowledge and how as the occa
sion to doubt had arisen new facts
Part in the Great World War '
had displayed themselves that gave
foundation for new faith. !
He showed how in the nature of
things the scripture could not be
taken literally and applied in our
direct speech manner but said that
it piled testimony on evidence of
the actuality of God. Literal peop
le were apt to be puzzled at the
working of God. He did not always
act on the schedule they had laid
out or nim
He said that if God
would Jn . egtabIighment of
peace and the end of war as they
would have him do, it would make
a Kaiser out of him and not a God,
And he showed how God, in His
own way, was working through the
only agency that could be effective
in benefitting civilization! He said
that Julia Ward " Howe's- "Battle
Hymn of the Republic" was the
greatest of national songs with its
optimism and deep faith. He spoke
of the Civil War and showed how
the hand of God worked through the
agency of men and expressed confi
dence that in a like manner the
same ideals were being upheld in
our present war. His address was
strongly patriotic and was closely
listened to by a large audience.
the music of. the Normal'
orchestra served to leaven the vari
ous programs of the week and its
excellence was frequently comment
ed upon. Likewise the singing of
the glee clubs and of the Normal
quartet did not fail of thorough ap
preciation: Mr. Blackstone 's tal
ent was also noticeably in evidence
and wherever heard was sure of
hearty applause.
New Faculty Members
The Board of Regents held its -annual
meeting in the Normal
building on Wednesday afternoon.
The Regents present were: Supt
J. A. Churchill, Miss Cornelia Mar
vin, E. E. Bragg, H. D. Stark
weather, C; L. Starr and W. C.
Bryant.
, The principal business transacted
was the consideration of the Presi
dent's report and his budget for the
ensuing year. Perhaps the most
interesting part of the proceedings
was the granting of a slight in
crease in salaries to members of the
Faculty who have been connected
with the Normal for at least four
years. ,. .... . ( .. : , .
From the financial report of the
matron of the Dormitory $833.00,
which was loaned from the Normal
fund to the Dormitory fund for the
purpose of completing the Girls'
Cottage, had been returned to the
Normal fund, which means that
the entire cost of the Cottage came
from the Dormitory fund.
.To fill vacancies the following
persons were elected: Miss Ida H.
Holmes, Department of Mathemat
ics; . Miss Lucile Chase, Depart
ment of Household Economy f Miss
Gladys Boise, Asst. in English; Mrs.
Margaret Craig Curran, Head of
Rural Department; Miss Margaret
Anderson, Department of Art; Miss
Bessie Dunham, Third & Fourth
Grade Critic; Miss Ida Smith, First
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