Minnesota State University Moorhead RED: a Repository of Digital Collections The Western Mistic Student Newspapers 11-11-1938 The Western Mistic, November 11, 1938 Moorhead State Teachers College Follow this and additional works at: https://red.mnstate.edu/western-mistic Recommended Citation Moorhead State Teachers College, "The Western Mistic, November 11, 1938" (1938). The Western Mistic. 247. https://red.mnstate.edu/western-mistic/247 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Western Mistic by an authorized administrator of RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Commission " War? No! " Say MSTC Students, But Hesitantly An Editorial from snap judgment. Ask yourself even though the U.S. does preach the Yes, 25; No, 28. To Get New these questions seriously today, as part Monroe Doctrine, such interference Clarence Bjork: "No, American inter­ Twenty years can make a big dif­ of your Armistice Day observance. is neither wanted nor warranted as ests helped cause the war, and we ference. If an MSTC student on WOULD YOU FAVOR WAR TO far as these countries are concern­ should have stayed out of Eu­ Member November 11, 1917, had been asked PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROM ed." rope." publicly, "Do you think the United FASCISM. NAZISM OR ANY OTHER Delores Gaag: "Yes, I think we Amer­ Ginny Murray: "No—'cause I don't States was justified in entering the A new member of the MSTC Stu­ "ISM" IN EUROPE? Yes, 26; No, 36. icans should stick together." think war is justified at any time. World War?", he would have risked dent Commission is soon to be created Reinhold Utke ; "No, if we con­ Marilyn Olson: "No, I don't give a We have never given peace a chance a jail sentence as a spy, if he hadn't by that body, according to a recent tinue with democracy, the "isms" darn." to prove itself." shouted a hearty, patriotic "yes." report from Willard Swiers, student will hang themselves." lone Dalen: "Oh, yes, I believe in the Norma Christensen: "They must have Yesterday 62 students, one-tenth of president. M. Murray: "No, I wouldn't kill a guy Monroe Doctrine!" been if they did. I don't know." the College student body, were asked Bnngmg the total number of the for an 'ism'." Eunice Eastland: "No, we don't give lone Dalen: "No, I don't thing so b:- that question. Answering in the neg­ Commission to eleven, the added offi­ Marjorie Otos: "No, can't get rid of a darn about them anyway." cause Washington said we shouldn't ative were 28, in the positive 25. Nine it by war." have any foreign entanglements." cer will carry the title, "commissioner AI Gronner: "No, they can take care were undecided. Jack Weling: "Sure, I like democ­ Helen Fisher: "Yes, I guess so. They, of properties." His duties will in- When interviewed following the of themselves." cluae caring for all properties owned racy." sunk our ships so I suppose we had chapel-Armistice day address, MSTC Bryon Townsend: "Yes, if they get a by the Commission, such as decora­ Alt' Richards: "Well, absolutely." to." students in general revealed a grow­ WOULD YOU FAVOR WAR TO foothold in South America, nothing Leo Pikop: "No. Propaganda was the tions used at Homecoming, banners ing positive pacifist attitude—perhaps ana lignting figures. Under the PROTECT SOUTH AMERICA FROM would stop them from coming to chief reason for our entering the superficial, hut definite. present setup, the already over-loaded Pour questions were asked. Some FOREIGN INVASION? Yes. 15; No, the U.S." | war." commissioner of forensics is in charge answers were positive, some hesitant. 47. DO YOU THINK AMERICA WAS I Reinhold Utke: "It's debatable. There of this job. A few showed thought, many arose Lillian Stenhjem: "No, I don't because JUSTIFIED IN THE GREAT WAR? are logical reasons on both sides." Candidates for the position will be announced soon, and a student election in Chapel will decide the new member of the governing body some­ time in the near future. Faculty Speak The Western 55 WESTERN MINNESOTA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Oil "Future VOL. 42 Moorhead, Minnesota, November 11. 1938 No. 8 During the observance of American Education Week. November 6 to 12, MSTC faculty members were sched­ MSTC Coeds, Passion Play uled to speak on the theme of the week, "Education for Tomorrow's Extras, Find Cast Chummy America.' ' By Gwen Easter and Cleo Springer The series of speeches include As two insignificant "extras" in the mob scene of the Luenen Passion Play, President R. B. MacLean, who spoke presented at the Moorhead armory last week, we had the opportunity to inttr- at the Schoolmasters' Club at Cli­ , icw a lew of the chief characters. Hesitantly approaching several of the max; Dr. Christensen, at the P.T.A. actors we tried to garnish a few facts which might be of interest to those at Halstad Gunderson School, and 7 17 77 , , . who witnessed the play. Byron D. Murray, who spoke at Cli- COlle£e HobhieS How does Barry Gordon feel when max. | ® he is on the stage, dramatizing the Editorials contributed by Edwin Jj Range From Gas crafty cunning and tragic despair of Hammer and Alice Corneliussen ap- . Judas Iscariot? In his own words, peared in the Moorhead Daily News. A j J"n[ail€S tO GBillil "While enacting the role of Judas, I They were also presented over KVOX. am Judas. I try to portry him as a morally weak character who is not American Education week is spon- By Helen McClurg sored by the United States office of A gas model airplane that runs on necessarily tad. My mood can be In the above rehearsal scene of "King Lear" the Duke of Kent, Reinhold Education, the National Education! an ounce of gasoline, a group of likened to that of a person who feels Utke, rebels against the narrow-mindedness of the mad king, Morton Prest- , .. , ,, _ . ameless pottery animals, early Am- that he is double-crossing his best ing, while the dukes at Albany and Cornwall, played by Wilbert Johnson and Association and the American Legion, , i glassware, movies, and col- er can friend." Adolph Berge, attempt to stem the clash of wills. The wise Fool, played by In Moorhead Dr. A. M. Christensen I lections of stamps and coins are only Dathan An Old Hand Ruth Dalil, and a courtier, Henry Stevenson, look on with keen interest. , T a few of the fifteen MSTC exhibits American Legion commit- exhibits one can see while wander- Many and varied are the experiences tee. :ng around the second annual Ki- of Leland Stanford Harris, who plays wanis Club hobby show, which the part of Dathan, a priest of the Allergy Vexes Makeup Boens "Hobby Family" Sanhedrin. For three years he trav- Dr. Archer Appointed Herbert Boen, Wadena, Freshman, is eied jn a road show with May Robson the owner of the gasoline-motor-driv- piayjng jn "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Assistant Professor en model plane. He built it in two;^jary." He also directed Jane With- Staff Perfecting "Lear hundred hours at a c Dr C P Archer former head of °st of about ers and Davjd Holt in their first pro- By Connie Hall thirty dollars. It has a six foot wing fessionai performance. (Hint to pros- Allergy, kenesiology and a man named Serge Strenkovsky who wrote a the department of Education at MSTC, spread and will fly for two or three ; pective actors: Mr Harris asserts that book on painting faces are the chief concerns of make-up artists during the was recently appointed assistant pro- i hours under good conditions, a towel soaked in vinegar water, will, last few practices of "King Lear", which will be presented oy an all-col­ fessor of education at the University Helen Boen, Wadena, Senior art kep(. on t]le throat all night, keep lege cast, November 17 at 8:15 in Weld Auditorium. A stickler for make-up artists is diminutive Merle of Minnesota. student, has arranged a tiny menag- voice in good condition for the Husband, "Goneril", who is allergic erie of glazed pottery animals upon!next day,s performance.) Dr. Archer has served under tem­ to makeup "dope" and must experi- a round mirror. A green turtle is "Christus"Christus' Jovial Arm For Peace., porary appointment since last Janu­ , ment to find something which will particularly fascinating. She also Before the last performance on Sun- ary. and his position is now perma­ tr k et are WnYfi V/ /vtpi'ji »") soothe rather than irritate her touchy ,i?. , 'L day night, we talked briefly with j s Veteran epidermis. Elizabethan costumes for nent. displayed by "Miss Matilda Williams. Josef Meier, the Christus. When ask­ the women characters are being creat- Profs Show Movies ed how rhany years he had been in NOTICE In the clubroom upstairs, J. R "An adequate national defense as ed by those in charge of the extensive the play, he replied jovially, "In oth- the best method of preserving peace" , wardrobe, while costumes for the All faculty members who desire Schwendeman and Doctor A. M. er words how old am lr At the age was the main topic of the speech giv- men must be rented for the occasion, tickets for King Lear report to Christensen have movies to show, in-; n Meier assumed the role of eightee en by C. T. Hoverson, director of the Aarnes Shows 'Em Room 126 during the 10:00 and eluding "College Activities" and Qf gaint John and for the past ten 4:00 o'clock hours on Monday or veterans administration in Fargo, at A real hovel, a king's throne, a "Hunting Scenes." Immediately to years has been playing the part of make arrangements with Art last Wednesday's chapel program.