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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Valley City Is Ranked
njoh in Musical World

That the work of the Normal school
and of Valley City in music ranks
above that of any other community in
the northwest, as shown from series
of questionaires, was the message
sent here by Prof. Charles Farms
worth, head of the music department
at Teachers college, Columbia univer-
sity, through Miss Fannie C. Amidon,
whom he met at the national confer
ence of music supervisors held at
Rochester, N. Y, April I'll.
You people in the west do things,
while we in the east talk about them"
said Mr. Farnsworth, when told of
the work that was being accomplish
ed in the schools of Barnes county
with the Victor monograph.
Miss Amidon spoke of the confer
ence at the general exercises on We'd
nesday and made mention of an ad-
dress on Music in General Education
delivered by United States commits
sioner of education, P. P. Claxton.
She also made special mention of the
address of Prof C. A. Fullerton, of the
Cedar Rapids, Ia, State Normal school
on Normal School Problems"
Mr.. Fullerton spoke of the mechan-
les of music and emphasized mini
mum of effort in the Normal school,
for a maximum of results
because of the short time pupils are
in the Normal schools. Among 9TH
ers mention was also made Of the adj
dress of Prof T. P. Giddings, super
visor of music in the Minneapolis
schools. The spirit and burden of
nearly all of the addresses was that
of the extension of musical education
to the rural communities.
Besides the addresses by noted music
supervisors, one of the other interest
ing features OF the conference was a
chorus of $500 pupils from the fourth
through the eighth grades, with mono
tones and boys with changing voices
eliminated. Most of the work was
unison accompanied by a large or
chestra. Miss Amidon paid tribute to
the splendid tone quality, attacks and
shading of the pupils in this chorus.
She also visited in the Rochester
schools.
Miss Amidon attended the banquet
of the delegates at the Hotel Seneca,
and took part in the open discussions
and is very enthusiastic over the
meeting. The conference will be held
in Minneapolis next year. Mrs. Eliza
beth Casterton of Rochester, N, Y,
was elected national president for the
coming year.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Ju|y II to Be N0rmdI'S
Day at ChdutauQua

Friday, July II, has been designated
as Normal school day at the Valley
City Chautauqua. This day will be
made the occasion of a grand rally
of the students, graduates and friends
of the Normal school. There will be
special music, addresses, plays and
other forms of entertainment on this
occasion and it will be marked with a
grand Normal school home coming"
according to arrangements the Chau,
tauQua manager now has under way.
Summer school students at the Nor
NAL school will be presented with the
customary admission tickets upon
registration and payment of the small
registration fee of $3.50.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
NORMAL SCHOOL PARTY
TO TAKE A 1HlRTY-FIVE
MILE HIKE TO JAMESTOWN

A Normal school party of ten will
walk to jamestown, starting on Sun
day, the weather permitting and going
to Sanborn, where they will remain
until Monday morning. On Monday
the party will leave for it's final des-
tination, arriving at jamestown in
time to take the evening train for Val.
ley City The party is not limited
and any others who wish to join in
the hike" will be welcomed. Arrange
ments have been completed to accom-
modate the party while at Sanborn
and an enjoyable outing is anticipated.
Among those who will make the trip
a:e TIC Misses Broomall, Cranz, Cook,
Messrs. Grain, Rodewald and McMul-
len, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Johnson and
Mrs. X. B. Macdonald.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Dramatic Club to Give
1.-THE House Next Door,
MANNERS POPULAR COMEDY
TO BE PRESENTED IN AUDI
TORiUM-CAST CHOSEN.

THE House Next Door, comedy
in three acts, written by J. Hartley
Manners, will be staged by the Normal
school dramatic club on June 49,, as
q result of the selection made my the
English department. This sterling
play, which a few years ago enjoyed
a long run in London and New York
simultaneously, is an excellent speci-
men of the best English play-writins
of the day. 1t deals with sort of
twentieth century Romeo and Juliet
situation, the emphasis, however, be.
ing laid chiefly upon the guarding
parents, rather than upon the young
lovers.
The play is in three acts and re-
Quires a cast of twelve characters,
nearly all affording unusual opportun-
tiles for intelligent acting. After the
try-outs held this week, the following
cast was announced by the English
department:
The cotswoId Family.
Sir John Cotswold- Hartnett
Lady Cotswold-Nina Peterson.
Cecil Cotswold- Morsbach.
Ulrica Cotswold-Ida Myhro.
Vining-Edwin White.
Captain Give Trevor-Eikart Aust
ford.
TheaJaeobson Family.
Sir Isaac Jacobson-Dell Rodgers.
Lady Jac0bson-Ethel Greer.
Adrian-Earl Fritch.
Esther Jacobson-Dorothy McFar
land
Maximillian-Emil Wandke.
Walter Lewis-William Bublitz.
Rehearsals will begin at an early
date under the direction of Miss EN- ~
S. Wyman, of the department of read
ing and expression.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
LISBON ENGAGES TEACHERS.
Minneapolis JOurnal.)

Lisbon, N. D., April 10.-The fol.
lowing teachers have, been engaged by
the Lisbon school board for the com.
ing year: Jessie Danielson, principal;
Luella Lien, assistant principal; Del
Laughlin, science; Birdie Adair, mis-.
tory and Latin; Maude Wil1yard ~,
domestic science and manual train
ing; Violet Conant, music and draw.
ing; Cora Gilbertson ~, eighth
grade; Louise Weller (+), seventh
grade; Lizzie Grinager ~, sixth
grade; Rose Fielstad, fifth grade;
Nina Gilbertson ~, fourth grade;
Mrs. l.. B. Adair, third grade: Marion
Sullivan ~, second grade; Elva La
Du, primary.
Note: (*) are Valley City State
Normal school graduates.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

Miss Susan Norton, critic in the
Model school, sang "Hayyp Days"
by Strelezki and DAY is Cone by
Lang, during the general exercises on
Saturday. Miss Josephine Wright
played the accompaniment and Prof.
Goodsell the violin obligato.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Wrong Modern Attitude
Toward Super NormdlS
(By DR.. r. A. Acher, Superintendent
of Psychology

In this day and age we hear so
much about the care and education
of the subnormal child, the dependent
the defective and the delinquent child,
as we'll as the criminal and the insane;
but rarely is anything said about the
special education of the super.normal
child, the potential genius, the child
that If properly trained would bless
the world thousand times and in a
thousand ways which would be utterly
impossible in case of the defective
or even the normal child. If an appeal
were made to the public for the pur-
pose of securing aid to educate each
of two children, one a defective or
sAb-nornal child, and the other an I'M
usually promising, or super.normal
child with every promise of future
greatness, which would be likely to
get the more liberal response? The
last legislature appropriated three
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
for additional buildings for the state
hospital at Jamestown but cut off
some of the higher institutions OF
learning without one cent for ,addi-
tional buildings. What would have
happened if fund had been request
ed for the purpose of educating the
super-normal children of the state?
Are not our sympathies and pity
somewhat morbid and one sided in
these matters? Who is it that really
makes great contributions to the sum
of human knowledge and pushes aside
the limits of human attainment in
any field of human endeavor? Does
not one super-normal, we'll endowed,
we'll trained individual do more to
serve mankind in these respects than
whole army of mediocritics however
well cared for and we'll trained? Can
soviety afford to allow the potential
genius to be born to blush unseen,
or perhaps not to blush at all and give
all Its attention, sympathy, and pity to
the tail end Of the human procession?
Could we not better afford to do all in
our power to hunt out the superior
mails and care for and educate them
to the highest degree possible and
thereby be blessed a thousand times
in return by the service which thew
would render in return.
This is exactly what happens in
Germany and other European states.
There the state feels that it cannot
afford to allow any unusual talent
to grow up without the best training
possible. The whole school system is
means Of discovering these potential
geniuses who when found are educat-
ed wholly at the expense of the state
Ihls is not plea to reduce the care
given to unfortunates but it is a plea
Tor the better enducation of those
supernormal children who in the end
Will be the greatest asset which anv
state can possibly have,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Even S2l0 Forwarded
For Flood Sufferers

A draft for $21O was forwarded TO
Governor Cox of Ohio Tuesday after
noon by Prof. A. P. Hollis; the sum
realized at the flood sufferers benefit
concert given in the auditorium on
Monday night by the Normal school
music department, assisted by citizens
of Valley City, and including the sum
of SIS donated by the Atheneum Lit
erary society.
While the audience Monday was
not as large as was anticipated, the
response of the public to the call for
aid coming from a destitute commun.
ity is as commendable as the spirit
shown by those who took part on the
program. The work Of the Normal
orchestra was surprising to many who
had not heard that organization be
fore, and it showed the possibilities of
such an organization in a student
body.
That a girls band, nearly every
member of which had not touched an
Instrument before the coming of Prof.
Perfect last fall, should be able to
give such numbers as were heard last
night was as surprising as the work
of the orchestra.
Mrs. Craswell's work with the
group of Hungarian Folk Songs" was
thoroughly appreciated, as was Prof.
Meyers Interpretation of "Recollect"
from the opera Faust. Mrs. Mikkel-
son sang Tschaikowsky's Joan of
Arc" in manner very pleasing to the
audience, and Miss Wyman again de-
monstrated her ability as a reader in
the Interpretation of scene from
Leah, the Forsaken" by Daley.
Her encore number was equally appre
4ciated
Miss Fjelde gave two delightful
piano numbers, "Liebes Traum" by
List and Grieg's Bridal Procession"
which met with their usual applause
and the boys Glee Club, surpassed ex-
pectation in their first public appear
ance this year.
But while these people together
with Dean Goodsell, volunteered their
services, the success of the entire pro-
jnrt Is also due to the citizens, not
Only those who attended, but those
who offered their services in selling
tickets, those who donated the cost of
advertising, etc. and on whole the
response of Valley City has been a
commendable one.
Miss Nellie w. Farnsworth, head of
tho domestic science department, is
Cy,nctad to return to the city tho Ia I.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

mands of all classes of people. Any
subject not on the schedule for which
six or more students apply, will be
presented by some competent instruc-
tor. The present indications are that
the enrolment at the summer term
this year will be record-breaking.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
PROF. BURCkHAL1ER IN
RECEIPT OF DIPLOMA OF
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF P. e

Prof. T. w. Burckhaiter, of the de
partment Of physical education yester
day received the diploma Of merit
conferred upon him last December by
the American Academy of Physical
Education for excellence shown in his
Masters thesis entitled college Ply
steal Education Administration" COM
pleted at the Y. M. C. A. training
school, Springfield, Mass. The di-
ploma bears the seal of the American
Academy and reads: THE American
Academy of Physical Education has
Awarded this Certificate of Merit to
Thomas William Burckhalter in Rec
ognition of the Excellent Work En-.
bodied in College Physical Ed.
ucation Administration. Here
follow the signatures of all
of the fellows of the Academy:
J. H. McCurdy, Paul C. Phillips, D. A.
Sargent, George L. Meylan, Fred E.
Leonard, r. TAFT Mckenzie, Thomas
A. Story, G. Ward Champion, Clark w.
Hetherington, w. p Bowen, VIM.
Skratstfom and Luther H. Gulick.
These men are known as the most
eminent authorities in physical educa-
ton in this country.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

Prof. A. P. Hollis has been secured
to give his address Riches from Rub
bish" before a meeting of the North
western Teachers association at Mi
not on Friday evening of this week.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

Miss Nellie w. Farnsworth, head of
tho domestic science department, is
expected to return to the city the lat
ter rart of this week.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

A geography and nature study pro-
gram will be heard at social profess
sional faculty meeting at the Normal
school on Thursday evening, April "a,
when Prof. j. E. Switzer will open the
discussion on ''The Place of Field
Work in Geography" Miss Bessie L.
Ashton, will speak on "The Relation
of Geography to Other Subjects"
Miss Carolyn D. Wood will dwell on
Nature Study as an Introduction to
Geography" and Prof Morris John
son will lead in the general discussion
following these talks.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17

Practically all of the studies of the
Normal school curriculum will be of.
fered at the summer term, and stu
dents will be allowed to carry three
subjects. Regular Normal school stu
dents who hold unexpired certificates
may renew such certificates by attend
ance and at the same time prosecute
their course toward graduation.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
superintende nts and Principals.

Superintendent and principals and
others interested in problems of
school administration will be offered
special courses to suit their needs.
Frequent round tables will be conduct
ed by the members of the faculty and
special lectures will be given from
time to time, bearing upon the general
problems of education, besides those
to be given by some of the most emin.
ent educators.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Rura! School Course.

The summer session will be an in
tegral part of the ten and one-half
months course fer rural school teach
ers. Those expecting to complete this
course may do so j. they have attend
ed the previous nine months, or they
may enter this ccs-,:' with the sum.
mer session.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Domestic Science.

Thorough instruction will be offered
in cooking and sewing, with special
classes for those who are now direct.
ing these subjects in the public
schools. There will be classes for be.
ginners as we'll as for those whose
work will be in the rural schools.
Suggestions will be given students
along the lines of public school exhi-
bits, the rural school hot lunch, and
many other interesting topics.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
Review Glasses.

An effort will be made in all re-
view classes to make the work as
thorough as time will permit of the
entire subject together with sugges.
lions as to methods Of teaching them.
Teachers who are entering to review
for examinations will have opportun.
ity to enter the review classes in
arithmetic, grammar, geography and
history.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Cologne Is Annihi|ated in a Garlic Car Battle

of South Deering car by another
sense than that of sight. Ways living
along the line like to say: Il smell
a car coming"
When these cars were put on the
Windsor Park line and the cars Of the
latter line sent to the garlic line, there
arose howl Of protest in Windsor
Park. Business men who reside there
vowed that their wives and daughters
should not be compelled to ride all
the way to the Sixty-third street
Il" station in the garlic cars"
The other night a meeting of pro-
test was held and Miss Jane Hin.
man, prominent in social uplift work !;
Mrs. John c. Corners and Mrs. Frank
Edwards were appointed a commit
tee to see President Busby Of the
south-side lines and enter a protest.
Meantime, the women are trying to
counteract the smell of garlic by the
proiuse use of cologne. Experience
has not given them encouragement.
Its no use," said one of them.
"Delicately scented eau de cologne en-
tiers the battle terribly handicapped.
Our only chance would be to buy
some Of that loud-smelling stuff"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
More Americans Go to Teach in the Philippines

time go to the Philippines under
two-year contract. This provision is
made to enable the government to
will succeed in the new field and also
to give the teacher a chance to find
out whether or not there is a sufti-
cient future to the service to warrant
him in remaining. That there are
only eighty-five vacancies this year
for American teachers in the service,
indicates, so the insular bureau off,
Gals say, that those already on the
ground have the greatest faith in the
future of the educational work In the
islands.
The salaries of the teachers az we'll
as the expenses of the trip, are paid
from Philippine revenues. The feder-
al government pays no part of the
cost of education in the Philippines,
which amounts to about $3,500.000 an
nually.
When these teachers get ready to
return to the United States, either on
leave of absence or by resignation at
the end of two or three years of serv-
ice, the Philippine government will
pay them, in addition to salary up to
the last day of service, an amount OF
money sufficient to pay their trans
portation home, either via Europe or
the Pacific, and they usually take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to come
home through Europe
Washington correspondent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20

to find you last night, but couldn't.
l made a speech yesterday"
, That did not impress Mr.. Brown to
any great extent, so Mr.. Johnson con.
tiued to further explain:
And as l thought your paper would
want it, filed about 800 words of it
with the telegraph company"
Brown WINGED. His paper had been
advising him to cut down the tariff
stuff to the bone, as most of it was
the sort of soft pap that goes we'll in
the country districts, but hasn't much
circulation in we'll regulated news
paper Furthermore, Brown investi.
gated and found that Representative
Johnson had really filed 1900 words
and the telegraph tolls to Oregon are
enormous! He hail visions of being
fired" by wireless, but he discovered
to his great relief that his paper had
chopped the speech in two before it
was entirely relayed to Portland from
Chicago, thus saving lot of time and
trouble and costing Representative
Johnson whole lot Of money for halt
a speech to Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Pities Bachelors; Establishes a Mendinq Bureau

CLEVELAND, GA motherly little
~ woman has taken pity on the but
tonless, undarned and proverbially
"holey," helpless bachelors Of Cleve-
land. She has established Bache-
lor's Mending Bureau.
Bachelors, because they are com.
monty supposed to be in need of the
kind of aid which she is prepared to
give, and married men whose wives
are away, or who like to shop and
"gad" better than sew, are eligible
for assistance from this seamstress
extraordinary.
The woman is Mrs. E. T. Benson,
formerly of New York, where she es-
tablished a reputation for bachelor
mending." She has patched" and
darned for some Of the best known
bachelors in the East. There is one
condition that she insists on in taking
mending of unmarried men to do. That
marry they will not daunt her mend
ing in the faces Of their wives and
speak regretfully Of "the way Mrs.
Benson darned."
why get married?" inquired q
young blade" who had just had rent
in his trousers (the extra pair, not
those he was wearing) mended so that
no one could see where his girls
fathers bulldog had embraced him.
There is really no longer excuse for
any bachelor having a hole in his
otherwise lovely silk sox. To be one
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
High School Students "Ponies" Kick Up Real Riot

ID PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-A miniature
I riot was caused at the Central
high school here the other day when
hundreds of negro boys appeared in
answer to the following advertisement
which had been inserted in several
papers:
WANTED Colored boy to care for
pony; good wages. Apply Professors
Language Department, Central high
school"
The school had hardly opened its
morning session before the pavements
were crowded with colored boys of all
sizes, and at least a score of fistic
combats ensued during the rush to the
main doorway. The professors and
the student body added to the excite
ment by attempting to repel the in.
vasion without success.
The boys fought their way to the
language department, and after the
noise had been partially subdued the
shocked professors were compelled to
read the lad" from a dozen papers
thrust at them. Then it suddenly
dawned on the instructors in ancient
languages that the work was that OF
some mischievous students who had
plotted to ruffle the dignity of the pro.
fessors after their conflscation of all
"ponies." or foundations, used In the
Latin classes. .s T.. ~
In vain the professors tried to OK
plain the situation 70 the angry. boyl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Rep. Johnson "NearIy" Had His Speech Printed

ID REPRESENTATIVE Albert Johnson
II the handsome and vociferous mem
Der from Oregon, nearly had a fine
speech printed in a faraway coast
paper for which Harry Brown is the
Washington correspondent. The word
nearly" is perhaps not used advisedly,
for some of his speech got no nearer
Portland than Chicago, and thereby
hangs tale.
Johnson used to be newspaper
man in this city. He was night editor
and copy editor and reporter and all
the regular things which are supposed
to give newspaper men that broad and
sympathetic view of large affairs
They are supposed to know when to
spend fifty dollars on telegraph tolls
for a speech on the tariff bill, and
when to chop 1t of at few words.
Johnson made a speech during the
general debate on the tariff bill few
days ago. 1t was his first speech
in the House. It was a good speech
taking it by and large, but the air was
damned full of speeches about that
time and the only newspaper that was
publishing them was the Congress.
sional Record.
However, Mr. Johnson did not want
Portland to go unfed with crumbs
from his table, so the evening fol-
lowing the great event of his speech
he started out to find Harry Brown
and tell him all about it. He couldn' t
ind Mr.. Brown until the next day.
Say, Harry" he remarked, II tried