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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
COMMERCIAL Club
PASS RESOLUTIONS
(Normal School Budget

The Valley City Commercial Club is
fully awake to the financial and other
needs of the Valley City State Normal
School for the next biennium. At a
meeting of the club held Wednesday
evening, January 26, the resolutions
printed below were adopted by that
body. These show how the business
interests of the city view the local
situation in this institution. Every
expression is a statement of fact.
. Resolutions
WHEREAS, The State Of North
Dakota requires by statute that ply
steal education shall be included in the
branches Of study to be taught in all
educational institutions receiving
money from the state, and lays upon
the boards Of management of these
institutions the. duty to make pro-
vision for daily instruction in this
branch of study, and
WHEREAS, No adequate provision
has been made in the Valley City
State Normal School for meeting the
requirements of this law, and
WHEREAS, The last appropriation
for buildings for the Valley City State
Normal School was made by the
18th Legislative Assembly, in 1911
and since that time no building appro-
priation has been made for said nor
NAL school, and
WHEREAS, The highest welfare
of the state demands adequate sup
port of it's teacher training institu-
tions in order that professionally
trained teachers may be prepared fol-
the work of teaching in the public
schools of the state.
THEREFORE, Be it Resolved, by the
Commercial Club of Valley City that
we urge upon the 18th Legislative AS,
sembly now in session the necessity
of making provision at this session
for a physical education building fol-
the Valley City State Normal School
Be It Further Resolved, That it is
false economy to. stint the state edu
cational institutions and thus injurt
not only the institutions directly al
fected, but also public education ir
the entire state, and we urgently re-
quest the 18th Legislative Assembly
to make appropriations sufficient tc
meet the current expenses of the Val
: ley City Normal School for the COM
ing binnium.
/ Be It Further Resolved, That we
recommend to the 18th Legislative
Assembly that legislation be enacted
to provide for the maintenance OF
state educational institutions by a
millage tax, and that a ten year
building program be adopted for these
institutions, with plan for financing
such program.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
DISCUSSED ROBERT
FROST AS A POET
Normal School Budget)

The first speaker on the program
before the Faculty Club Wednesday
evening was Mr.. J. E. Switzer who
outlined the life and literary work Of
Robert Frost, one of our modern con-
temporary poets. What follows is
an outline of what Mr.. Switzer said:
An English critic said:
eff l ware to sum up Robert Frost
with one word, it would be frost
Winter lies over all his landscape;
his brooks are sealed with ice, and his
hills are covered with snow. More than
half of his poems refer definitely to
winter, the remainder with few excep:
tions suggest winter. His spring
poems are full of the remembrance OF
snow, and his autumn poems with the
anticipation of it.. He is not like
Whittier describing a snow bound
world, but snow has taken possession
of his mind. ~.
Born in San Francisco, 1874, OF
New England parentage, he moved to
New Hampshire with his widowed
mother and graduated from the Law
renee, Mass, high school. After that
he took up but few tasks that were
not self-imposed. He attended Dart
mouth few months in 1892 acting.
as he says, 'like an Indian in col
lege founded for Indians" He left
Dartmouth abruptly (but voluntar-
ily), worked at a mill, engaged in
newspaper work, married at II, tried
College again, Harvard this time, but
without success, retired to farm at
Derry, N. H.. and for seven years
wrote, taught school, and farmed.
His first poem that has received
recognition, "The Butterfly" was
written at the age of eighteen. Dur
ing those seven years at Derry he
wrote "The Death of the Hired Man, "
"The Housekeeper," and "The Black
Cottage" which were subsequently,
incorporated into "North of Boston"
In 1906 he began to teach English
in Pinkerton Academy at Derry. He
was considered such success that he
was invited to the Plymouth Normal
school in 1911 to teach psychology.
Restrictions there became irksome,
and in August, 1912, he decided on
England as a home. thinking it bet
ter place to work out his literary
ideals. He had no friends there, nor
letters of introduction. yet he ac-
complished what no other American
poet Of this generation has been able
to do. With nothing to speak for him
except his own work, unintroduced and
unheralded. he was able to dictate
terms to an English publisher, and
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
NEW DORAlITORY

Melissa Watson and Dorothy Gates
were entertained at dinner at the
Koontz home Sunday evening.
Martha Brennan has invented q
new style of mouse trap, namely, the
waste-paper basket.
Mr. and Mrs. Pitts, of Lucca, visit
ed Helen Bantel Sunday.
Evelyn, Martha, and Lillian held a
rather exclusive spread in room &c
Sunday evening.
Lost, strayed or stolen from room
36, one chew of Spearmint gum.
Evelyn Cruff spent Saturday and
Sunday visiting her uncle and aunt
at their home in Spiritwood.
Erna Grain and Helen Rue were din.
ner guests at the N. P. Hanson home
Monday.
Martha Brennan was called to Far
go Monday evening for an indefinite
length of time.
r Esther Godfredson and Mrs. N.Y.
stall, of Lucca, visited Helen Bantel
and Evelyn Cruff Wednesday.
Dorothy Gates took dinner at the
Koontz home in Valley City Tuesday
evening.
Jane Hellander went to Fargo to
spend Sunday and Monday.
Eta Thies entertained Helen Hud-
son and Myrtle Long for supper Mon
day night. They went to the theater
later in the evening.
Ruth Leibbrand had Sunday dinner
at the Kelsey home in Valley City.
Two new cases 90 in room 80.
Dorothy Duncan was welcomed
back to the first floor after having
spent some time in the infirmafy. She
returned Wednesday.
Myrtle Helgerud has been i'll all
week.
Alice and Emma Hanson were
pleasantly surprised when their
brother, N. Everett Hanson, arrived
last Saturday evening for short
visit.
A large bunch Of New Dormitory
girls are planning to attend the bas-
ketball game at the Moorhead Nor
NAL School tonight.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
NOTES ABOUT The
ALUMNI FAMILY
Normal School Budget)

Mr.. Otto Faust, 20, has enlisted in
the United States Army. We quote
from letter written to the editor
and dated January 10: II am now in
the Service Company of the 61st In
fantry at Camp Jackson, South Caro-
lima. Here l have chance to turn
my band practice to very good ac-
count. / find that musicians of any
kind are much in demand and what
little l can do in the way Of music is
going to help me great deal.
ut was a big surprise to me to find
Magnus Grundfossen "a former V. C:
N. student) here too. =. Neither of
US knew the other was in the army
until we met at Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri"
Miss Julia A. Bergen, a graduate
of the standard curriculum in June,
1920, says of her teaching: 81 enjoy
my work here at Wahpeton very
much but often think of the pleasant
year of work at Valley City last
year." She is teaching a seventh
grade.
Through the kindness of Miss Anna
K. Cook we are quoting a few lines
from letter written by J. F., Danish,
OS:, "Just word regarding the Bud
get. We read it with much interest
Absence makes the heart grow fond
err is true in that we long to hear
from the good old school. Altho fac
ulty may change, still to me it is the
same old Normal School, where l had
many good time and where l should
| have spent more hard work in study
| But those days are past and only the
fond memories remain"
Miss Emma 0. Woodland, IA and
'18, who has been teaching at Harvey
since the beginning of the school year
is at home in Valley City temporal
| lily to care for her mother who is in
poor health.
Mrs; T. H. Darrow (Laura Rhien:
hart, '07) has taken a new home in
Stanfield, Oregon. She formerly
lived in Caldwell, Idaho. s
Mrs. J. Barrett, reported in the 1918
Alumni Directory as Mrs. J. J. Dunn
has removed from Havre, Montana, ia
PIT Pleasant Ave-, St. Paul, MINI
She was member Of the Glass OF
1914, and was Jennie E. Witzig.
William Karr. II, is farming near
Community, N OAK, which is his ad-
dress.
Mrs. Austin G. Cummings. who was
Anna Croonquist, 10, is living in or
near Finley, this state.
Information was received last
! month that Mrs. Grover H. Collins
| (Olga Maasjo, 'O9) is living at Kalis-
pell, Montana. She is bookkeeper
in one of the Kalispell garages.
Miss Emma H. Johnson, O9, has been
teaching for several years in the
, schools of Seattle. She may be adj
dressed in care of the Clark Hotel
Miss Florence Clemmons, '18, is
teaching the first grade in Darlington
this year. She is receiving a salary
that is quite good.
Miss Jean NJ. Campbell, 10, is sec
rotary of the city superintendent of
the Bismarck schools. Her home is
814 Avenue B in that city.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
SPEAKS WHEAT
ANDITS HISTORY
Normal School Budget)

b.
General Amasa A. Peake, of Valley
City, gave a talk in chapel Thursday
morning entitled "The Ancient History
of Wheat"
The worlds civilization has been
built around two great foodstuffs, rice
and wheat.
The first mention of wheat that
we have in the Bible is in Genesis.
When Noah built his ark he was in
structed to take into it foodstuffs of
every kind. Noah must have#had
grain in the ark, because according to
the Arabic legend the lion by sneezing
saved the grain from destruction by
mice.
The great wheat fields on the plains
Of Chaldea between the TigrIs and
Euphrates river are referred to in the
Biblical history.
Mr.. Peake mentioned Pharaoh's
Dream. Almost four thousand years
ago the King Of Egypt called for an
interpreter Of his dream and the He
brew slave, Joseph, told Of the seven
years of plenty when there would be
good grain crops and the seven years
of famine when the east wind and no
overflow of the Nile would bring starv-
alton to the people Of the land.
The Grecian Empire ate wheat. The
Assyrian Empire and the Persian En-
pire lived on wheat. While all these
people baked their wheat the Romans
were the first to cook it into sort OF
mush. s..s
n time Italy was divided into es-
tates. The people no longer brought
their grain to market and the Imperial
City was threatened with starvation:
Then the rulers bought wheat from all
over the then known world. Now the
Egyptians began to ship wheat to
Rome. 1t was carried on pack mules
and in camel caravans to the river
where it was loaded into the river
boats and brought to the seaportss'
Here it was loaded. onto seagoing gal
leys at Alexandria inegreat quantities
Al the mouth Of the Tiber River in
italy it was loaded into sacks and
sent up the river to Rome.
General Peake hopes to give anoth,
er lecture in the future tracing still
further the more modern history OF
this great foodstuff, wheat.
.''-A Q ,s~@ H. r.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
WESLEY HALL

We are more than glad to have Var
with us again. She has been gone
three week-to some Of us it seems
months.
Josie spent the week end with her
parents, at Darlington, N. D.
Z Pearl, we're mighty glad to have you
spend the week ends ct home if you
bring us some of that taffy.
Emily Paulsoh was the guest of Flea.
nor Farley Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Schroeder and daughter called
at the Hall Monday afternoon.
We had as our guest last Friday
evening Reverend Wilds. He enter
tanned us by telling a number Of
amusing incidents, some of which were
personal experiences. When he first
came he seemed rather embarrassed
among SO many girls but soon seemed
to feel quite at home
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
PRESENTS PAPER ON
AMY LOWELL'S WORK

Normal School Budget)
On account of lack of space we
nrint this week but portion of the
paDer read by Miss Gertrude Widdi--
feid before the Faculty Club last
Wednesday night. AS in the case OF
the two speakers who preceded her on
the program Miss Widdifeld read
some Of Miss Lowell's poems as types
Of her work.
/ have quoted quite literally from
aThe Advance of English Poetry in
the Twentieth Century by William
Lyon Phelps. He says, 1T is in
terestinr to note that a Cosmopolitan
radical like Amy Lowell should Pc
long ancestralIS so exclusively to
Massachusetts, and to so distinguish
ed a family. She is born patrlclaln1
and reborn Liberal. James Russen
lowell was cousin Of Miss Lowers
grand father, and her maternal grand
father. Abbot Lawrence. was Minis
ter to England. Her eldest brother:
nineteen years older than she, was the
late Percival Lowell, scientific as
tronomer with poetic Imagination,
very interesting and charming per-
sonality. His constant encouragement
and example were powerful forma-
five influences in his sisters develop
ment. Another brother, Abbott Law
renee Lowell, is president Of mar
ward"
Amy Lowell was born at Brookl1ne:
Mass, in 1874. She has SAID Cnat hke
all young poets she was influenced py
everybody in turn. but most proiouno-
" by Keats. Miss Lowell is q collector
Of Keats manuscripts, and has spent
much time in studying hls erasples
and corrections, in this way learning
much about poetry. !.
When she was child, her 1aml!y
took her on long European tour; IN
later years she passed one WINTER On
the Nile, another on fruit rancn n
California, and another in visiting
Greece and Turkey. In 1902 she De,
cided to devote her life to writing, and
sDent the next eight years in faithful
study. effort and practice, without
nnblishing word. In the Atlantic
Muahly'' for August, 1910. appeared
her first printed verse, and In l9 y
came her first volume of poems. "A
Dome of Many-C oloured Glass: Since
that wear she has been notable inquire
in contemporary literature. Her repu,,
tation was immensely heightened and
widened by publication of her second
hook. seSword Blades and Poppy
Seed in 1914. In 1916 came the third
volume. s.Men, Women and Ghosts"
She has been valiant fighter for
poetic theory, writing many articles
on Free Verse, Imagism, and kindred
themes. She is the author Of two
works in prose criticism s"Six French
Poets" isD1915 and Tendencies in
Modern Poetry in 1917 !. Of which the
former is the more, valuable and I'M
portant.
Miss Lowell's first volume, A
Dome Of Many-C oloured Glass" is not
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
EPITOME OF PAPER
ON VACHEL LINDSAY
Normal School Budget

The paper here printed is con-
densed version of that read by Miss
Josephine Wright before the Fac
ulty Club Wednesday evening. The
speaker read a number Of Lindsay's
poems to illustrate the points she
wished her auditors to note. These
are necessarily omitted.
Vachel Lindsay was made known
to the world by worker for poetry,
Harriet Monroe, a poet, critic, and
editor She has founded and endowed
Poetry, a Magazine for Verse" where
as she says, poets may have a place
of their own"
There is no man in America that
has labored longer and more earnest
ly than Lindsay to encourage the
half hearted beauty that hides and
complacent villages. He took a
walking trip through the South in
1906 and later through Illinois and
New Mexico. In these trips he took
no money, only printed matter, poems
and cartoons illustrating his ideals
on village improvement and the like.
These he traded for bread and lodg-
ing in the homes of the poor. He
shows an understanding of poverty
as keen in it's own way as Edwin
Markham's "Man With the Hoe" The
pity and sorrow of it all to him is ex-
pressed in his poem, "The Leaden
Eyed" s.
The time spent on the road was a
time of learning. Our people gave
! him many secrets. Perhaps they
taught him not to scorn the simple
virtues and helped to make him what
he has become, the spiritual descend
ent of Mark Twain and James Whit
comb Riley. To sum it all up, he is
something that has never been before
AN American. minstrel.
In General William Booth Enters
Heaven" we have a poem which is a
masterpiece of powerful phraseology
set to the tune Of "The Blood of the
Lamb"
Examples Of organic rhythm as an
accompaniment of mood and meaning
at it's best can be found in Lindsay's
works. To hear them by Lindsay
himself is necessary to bring out their
full surge and swing. In all American
literature we find no greater master
Of rhythm than he. William Butler
Yeats greeted him as the first Amer
lean poet of today. No poem shows
his mastery of poetic music better
than the "Santa Fe Trail"
He presents characters with the
vividness and power of genius. In
particular he has written a number of
poems which ably c11aracterizes the
negro, presenting the attractive
qualities and vitality Of the race, with
out the sentimentality of most Amer
lean poetry on this theme.
Louis Untermeyer says, "Any ad-
mirer of Lindsay will observe with
distrust the growing emphasis on the
sermonizing of his work. When he
forgets to preach he regains his pow
er. 1t is relief to read such poems
in which his native fancy is given full
sway"
1T is in this homely fantasy of ma
tional extravaganza and rollicking
high spirits that Lindsay excels. A
careless singer of Democracy, he
goes adventuring with one hand on
his Tyre and the other on his sword.
And the tune that he whistles is
'Gaily the Traubadour.'
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
EPISCOPAL HALL
Ruth Hurlbut was supper guestat
4lo Pn.,d Iorco ma 1fua on Sunday eve

4 q. = I -. + i Z b 81 y
Ruth Hurlbut was supper guestat
the Boyd house party on Sunday eve
nine:..
The burning out Of, the chimney
caused great deal Of excitement on
Thursday morning. We had visions Of
all our worldly goods reduced to ashes.
However it was case of much smoke
and little fire.
Mrs. Helferty left on Tuesday
morning for a visit with friends in
Monango, N. Oak.
The new beds are much appreciated
by the girls also the newly vanished
floors.
Archdeacon Martyr left Wednesday
evening after performing a wedding
ceremony.
Mary Mason took dinner with Ruth
Hurlbut on Wednesday evening.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
TEMPERATURES AT V. C. N.

A better appreciation of our pres
ent weather will be obtained, I am
sure, if we make comparison of the
temperatures Of the past week with
those of the same days of last year.
Below give the highest and lowest
temperatures of the same days in 1920
and 1921.
Temperature 1920
Jan. 21-Highest below; lowest "a
below.
Jan. 22-Highest 16 below; lowes&
81 below.
Jan. 23-Highest IS below; lower:
80 below. -
Jan. 24-Highest II below; lowest
40 below. -. ~,
Jan. 25-Highest above; lowest 10
below.
Jan. 26-Highest 10 below; lowest
80 below.
Jan. 27-Highest 6 below; lowest
80 below.
Jan. 2S-Temperature at 9 a. M. was
6 below.
Temperature 1921
Jan. 21-Highest &c above; lowest
10 above.
Jan. 22-Highest IS above; lowest
Is above
Jan. 23-Highest Is above; lowest
IL above
Jan. 24-Highest II above; lowest
below.
Jan. 25-Highest % above; lowest
zero.
Jan. &c Highest 80 above; lowest
II above.
Jan. 27-Highest 81 above; lowest
IL above.
Jan % temperature at 9 a. m. was
Fl above.
~. E. Switzer, Observer.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03

Ollie Buckwalter, Of Jamestown,
v.ssted With Pearl Olson Sunday.
Miss Mccarthy entertained Miss
Howell, Miss Ware and Miss Kreutz
at lunch last Sunday evening.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-14
LIFE PROLONGED BY
HEALTH SERVICE

During the second week in January,
Columbia is to hold Health Institute,
or winter school for the benefit of
all persons interested in better health
conditions.
In view Of the great success of the
institute of the Public Health Service
ncld IN Washington last December
ana of the difficulty, due to the con-
n:ctmg dates of other meetings, oc
arranging for another on the same
scale this fall, the Service sometime
ago decided to try to meet the inss-
tent, nationwide demand by arrang-
ing series Of Institutes to be held in
the larger widely scattered cities of
the United States. Locations and
datos We're so arranged that at least
two on three Of the meetings should
be held within reasonably convenient
reach Of nearly every resident Of the
country; and a tentative schedule OF
courses and of speakers was mapped
out. The plans were promptly adopt.
cd by many cities, with some varia-
tons to meet special local needs.
Columbia is one Of the score Of i'm
portant cities in the United States
selected for a Public Health Institute.
Dr. j. Adams lIaync, State Health
Officer is to be the director of the in
stltutc and the preliminary arrange
mcntS arc being made by DR.. c.. Y.
Akin, officer ii charge Of vcnercal
disease control work in this State. DR..
llayne will be section Chairman of
the tuberculosis section. DR.. G.. Fred
Williams cf the mental hygiene sec
tlon; DR.. llaync Of the vcnercai disca-
$" sections and the sanitary Cnpinccr-
lng section; Dr.. Robert ilson, .Jr., of
the non-communicabIc disease section;
Dr. Robert Rankin Of North Caroline,
of the administrative problems sec
ton; and DR.. A. NJ. Mccormick Of
Kentucky, Of the section Of nutrition
IN health and in disease.
| Since the first announcement few
days ago, Dr.. Akin has received a
! number Of inquiries and the signs in
! dIcatc that the Public Health Insti-
tutc in January 9th to l4th inclusive
viii be largely attended. The teach
| rrS have their Institutes in the sum
m"r, but the doctors and public health
| workers lind 1t more suitable to have
| theirs in the winter.
DIR. Akin is getting his programme
lncd up, and he says that this will
be most instructive week for any
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-14

which is necessary to save the coun-
try. Conditions, as they stand today.
are worse than they would have been
had we fought the Hun on our own
soil caused by the delay in the ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty and the
destruction and suffering caused by
the fact Of the federal reserve board.
| am farmer, pure and simple; one
who studies the agricultural and eco
nomic conditions of the world and
know whereof | speak. | appeal to
President Harding and congress to
take hold and do something to relieve
the situation anad save our people. If
President Harding will take the initia-
tive, | believe he will have help suffi-
cient from the Western and Southern
congressman and senator's, who rep
resent the mai nagricultural interest
OF this country, give the relief need
ed. If the president will lead, | be-
lieve results will follow. We made
tremendous sacrifices of men and mon
cy to save the world for democracy
and humanity. This was absolutely
necessary but greater crisis is upon
US now. It IS more necessary to do
something at once to save ourselves
and our country from financial de-
struction and our people from awful
distress and suffering. Will our presi-
dent and congress rise equal to the
occasion?
r. NJ. Mixson, in the Columbia
State.