The Acorn PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER ACADEMY SIX TIMES DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. Subscription Price Seventy-five Cents per Year Single Copies Fifteen Cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Edna V. Woods '09 Associate Editor Frances M. Rogers Literary Editors Minnie E. Jensen '10, Norma Sears 'II Miscellaneous Lenora Brown '10 Locals Lila Eccles '10 Exchange Editors Alma Winters, Mabel Rolapp '10 Cartoonist Ephraim Tillotson '10 Music Beatrice Brewer '11 Athletics Veda Farley, '10 Burton Driggs '09 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Fred Jensen '09 Advertising Manager Victor H. Sears '10 First Assistant Joseph M. Eccles '10 Second Assistant Herbert Reeder '10 Subscription West Lindsay'09 Circulation Francis Goddard '09 Now that the spring- season is approaching and the days become longer, let us use the best efforts we may in doing those things which will be of the most benefit to us and to all among whom we are living. As the athlete saves a certain amount of energy for his final showing and then makes his moments count, let us make the closing months of school our very best. It is time enough we should be realizing some of the serious views of life and that we were working with a purpose an end. It matters not what you wish to become, doctor, lawyer, merchant or poet, every minute of these golden school days should be used for the preparation for that career. Too often do we forget the foundation in making our plans for out-mortal as well as immortal habitation. We see only the beautiful colors of the rising spire and forget that under it is a huge mass of rough and uncouth rock. In our desire to become a great writer we may see no use in fitting ourselves to be men and women in every day life as well. THE ACORN 5 If we desire to become a business man or woman, why must we spend long and tedious hours in studying the minor details of rhetoric or the dfficult problems in algebra or geometry. Impatient as we are and it is natural that we are so, yet we should never forget that every new idea we may learn, every new word we hear, every problem we work is that much in the rough foundation which bears and supports the lofty spire of perfection. Some of us are in proper condition for rising but we carry to much ballast; and instead of sailing high and free we are dragging along just barely escaping the ground. A few of us are just about ready to sink and have not sense enough to cast overboard the ballast of irregularities such as tardiness, loitering through the halls, being unprepared in classes and other careless acts which are keeping us down. If this ballast is not released, its weight increases until finally we sink out of sight, unless some kind "adjuster" sees our plight and gives us a lift. Too often this aid is resented and looked upon as interference, the student who recieves the aid does not or rather will not see his danger- At this time of year each student should know his place and be able to tell quite accurately whether he will sail through clearly, drag along just barely escaping the danger points, or sink entirely. Watch carefully and see to it that you constantly get rid of ballast so that you may reach the upper air currents and sail rapidly. One of the handicaps that former Acorn staffs have had to work against has been the lack of headquarters for the business and literary departments of the paper. Since the building has been enlarged we have been given a room in the basement, which has been fitted up very cosily and at no small expense. The walls of the room are done in green while the floor is covered by a rug in which the prevailing color is tan. The furniture is of fumed oak built on old mission lines. In this room all work pertaining to the paper is done.