BAND IN SALT LAKE. At 12:30 o'clock today the band, 56 strong, with Captain Dockler, Hyrum Lammers, Sergeant Mayer and other school officials departed for Salt Lake to participate in the Sousa silver cup contest at 2 o'clock in the assembly hall. OGDEN-BOX ELDER. The, game between Ogden and Box Elder will be played in the Weber gym Friday night at 8:30 o'clock. Class work at the gymnasium prevents opening the doors before 8 o'clock, so the game is scheduled at 8:30. The game seems to be the one subject for conversation this week and the crowd will be a record-breaker. TAKE IT FROM ME. Profiting by experience is using the knowledge you have gained through failures. In other words, it's converting failures into successes. Walk fast. A fire department looks just as much like business when answering a false alarm as it does when going to a real conflagration. The fellow who works by the clock never earns the price of a watch. A lady once told me that the reason women didn't have any sense was because the Lord made them to mate the men. When you get the idea in your head that the world is Against you—it is. When your work becomes a task, quit; you're in the wrong business. Until your work is your pleasure, you can never be successful. It isn't what you start that counts, it's what you finish. OHS 2-4-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES TO FRANCIS AND MILNE When the train carrying the R. O. T. C. band started Wednesday for Salt Lake, it was found that one very important member was not present. He failed to reach the train in time. Frank Francis jumped off the" train, saying, "I'll see that he gets there." He went over to the Rotary meeting and explained the situation, whereupon E. J. Milne volunteered to drive the boy to Salt Lake in record time, despite the snow storm. Ho and Mr. Francis drove the boy to Salt Lake, reaching there just in time. What a theme is this for dramatic monolog! Consider the excitement and strain of the leader and the band members and all concerned during the interim and you have a subject for vivid story telling. Someone ought to write it up. Anyway, the winning of the contest is thus due to Frank Francis and Principal Erastus Milne—all honor and thanks to them. Hats off, everybody. ASSEMBLY FRIDAY "Better and Better" is the motto for high school assemblies this year. The assembly this week will be held on Friday at 11:15 o'clock, and will be under the auspices of the Stellae, club. The club promises an interesting program and invites the public to be present. FORUM REPORT "Resolved, that the immigration law of 1924 be amended so as to admit Japanese into the United States on the same basis that Europeans are admitted," was the question debated by the Forum club at its last, meeting. The decision was given to the affirmative, championed by John Griffin, David Camp and Bill Gunnell. The speakers on the negative were Reed Ames, Kenneth Skeen and Arthur Farley. These weekly debates are in and are open KEEN CONTEST "News and Views" says the band contest in Salt Lake oil Wednesday afternoon is one of the finest, nigh grade sort of contests that any high school can engage in, and of a sort that should be continued from year to year. Perhaps no one in Ogden is more enthusiastic about our wonderful bind, and we should like very well to have our 39,999 other citizens partake of the boosting, encouraging spirit of Frank Francis. TAKE IT FROM ME He who has to depend upon his friends to find him a job is not much of a salesmen. If he cannot sell his own services, I doubt his ability to sell anything else. The open-face envelopes, which come in the first of each month, do not contain savings bank accounts. Go to a friend for advice, a stranger for charity and a relative for nothing. No one thing in life makes a greater coward of a man than debts. Do what you have to do and do it now. Spell "now" backwards and you have the answer. One time I saw some children playing with a rubber ball. I noticed the harder the ball was thrown down, the higher it bounced. P. S.—Read that over again. A college education is supposed to fit you for a position, not to entitle you to one. 2-5-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES "When Rip Van Winkle went to sleep the world went right ahead as though nothing had happened. Indeed, nothing of any importance had happened, because Rip had scarcely any brains, and his absence withdrew very little intellogence from the machinery of the world's affairs. There are countless thousands of just such brainless, cheerful loafers as Rip, both on the sidewalk and in limousines, who, should they sleep until Kingdom come, would never be missed." One object of education is to so train one that he can make himself a place in the world, so that when he withdraws the world will be just a little poorer. BOX ELDER COMING. Word came from Brigham City that at least three or four hundred students and townspeople will be here tonight to back the Box Elder team in the great contest. They asked that there be reserved a good big section. Of course, this will be done as we always endeavor to show every courtesy to our visitors. THE DIVISION TITLE. The game tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Weber gymnasium will come near deciding the division championship of this division. Neither team has as yet been defeated, but one must go down tonight. Which shall it be? That's the question that's agitating the big student bodies of both schools, and not a. few townspeople of both Brigham and Ogden are vitally concerned. O, it's a big night tonight. BAND CONCERT. Ogden people are very much elated over the band's victory at Salt Lake Wednesday, although the affair was not Hearst headlined in the Salt Lake papers. Scores of requests came to the high school and the board of education offices Thursday that the band give a concert in the very near future in order that the people might hear "the greatest band Ogden ever had." The requests have been gratefully considered and it is more than likely that a big concert will be arranged for some evening early next week. THE SILVER CUP. As we intimated the other day, Ogden High has now another beautiful silver cup for the trophy case. Perhaps there is hardly a cup in the case that will bespeak higher praise or commendation than the Sousa cup. The cup is now being engraved in Salt Lake and will be placed as soon as received. SEEKS SCHOLARSHIP. Garff Wilson, a senior in the high school, who has made as good a record perhaps as has ever been made in the high school, and who has received rather more medals, prizes and awards for scholastic achievements than any student that we can recall, is seeking the Thompson memorial scholarship at the University of California. His credits and record were forwarded to the committee today and his friends sincerely hope that this coveted scholarship will come his way. THAT NEW UNIFORM. Only a few noticed Sergeant Holloway's new uniform Thursday, as the sergeant always looks like a military fashion plate; but this uniform deserves special mention because of its interesting history. It was ordered last September and was made in Philadelphia. Early in September it began a tour of the world, traversing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and through the Panama canal. If it could only talk it would certainly give an interesting recital of its travels in an effort to come to its lawful owner. THE HOP. A week from tonight, February 12, occurs the great annual cadet hop. The famous band will have a conspicuous part on the program and the noncommissioned officers will put on a classic drill that will enthuse, inspire and thrill. We wish Abraham Lincoln might be revived for an hour or two, just to see how the Ogden High school celebrates his birthday. MILITARY DEPARTMENT. Following are averages of the organizations composing the Reserve Offcers' Training Corps, Ogden Senior High school, Ogden, Utah, for January 1926: Pct. N. C. S. and Staff .990 Band .950 Company A .995 Company B .960 Company C .970 Company D .970 Company E (So. Wash.) .997 Company F, (So. Wash.) .991 Company E having the highest per cent for the month will carry the guidon during February, 1926. CARL J. DOCKLER, Captain, Cavalry, D. O. L., P. M. S. & T. DEBATING A FINE ART. Debating offers a wider and better field for educational training and development than almost any other school activity. For one to learn to express himself clearly, efficiently, is one of the fine accomplishments of life. This is partially true because it presupposes some clear, logical, straightforward thinking. Some one has said that "education is the power to think, to do, and to appreciate." He pretty nearly hit the nail on the head. Debating educates because it comes mighty near doing these three things effectively. This is the reason, too, that the Forum has come to have a significant place in the Ogden High school. In several years past it has been giving Ogden high school boys an education that could hardly be otherwise obtained. Because of the prestige this club has attained, and because of its splendid accomplishments, we heartily recommend that the new boys coming into school make a determined effort to join the club. It has paid big divdends and we believe it will continue to pay big dividends to its members. BILL GUNNELL. OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL THE SCHOOLS HELP We spoke Thursday of education de luxe—the education that seeks to give training in appreciation. We feel that the schools are aiding in this and that Superintendent Hopkins is to be commended In securing such teachers in art as L. A. Ramsey, Le Conta Stewart, Sarah Wilson, Joseph Packard, Mrs. Drake, Miss Hodge and others; such teachers of music as Reed Gammell, Mark Robinson, Clem Crapo, Hyrum Lammers, Douglas Brian, Mary Fisher, Edna Hardy, Melba Douglass, Vera De Lameter and others. Yes, the schools are helping in giving the education de luxe. HIGH HONORS Word came to high school that Erica Berne, '25, had been elected to Gamma Phi Beta at the University of California and will be initiated on February 18. Sincere congratulations, Erica! NO ASSEMBLY We had no assembly today on account of death in the family of the person who was to speak. In view of the fact that we had two excellent assemblies last week, we feel that we could well afford to miss today. LETTERS FROM LOGAN A letter from the Utah Agricultural college, received at high school today, says: "The Utah Agricultural college, in common with other colleges and universities throughout the country, requires two units of mathematics, one of algebra and one of geometry, for full admission to the institution. The usual deficiency is in geometry; and while such students are admitted, they are placed at a disadvantage because they must remove this deficiency before they may graduate: in fact, before they can obtain other than freshman standing at the college." For several years Ogden schools have stressed the importance of the fundamental academic subjects and her students, therefore, are generally prepared to enter any college. INTEREST IN BAND Many people in Ogden, especially men in the various civic clubs, are manifesting keen interest in the Ogden High school band, and the proposed trip to Chicago. Scores of these have exprescsed a desire to be permitted to assist the boys in making the trip. BEAT DAVIS In a clean game Thursday afternoon the high school second team sent the Davis seconds down to defeat. This is evidently Ogden's year. We have much good basketball material and we believe we stand an excellent show for the state championship. GET YOUR ENGLISH One of the most unwise things a student can do is to be indifferent to the subject of English— his own vernacular. All through life one is judged by his use of his native tongue, it he speaks with grammatical correctness, he is regarded as educated. If he makes solecisms of speech, he is uneducated. Again, if he goes to college, his first test is English. The chances of matriculating are favorable if he has a command of English. Last year a neighboring state university gave all its freshmen an English test. We had what we thought was a pretty good student at that institution, but yesterday this report was sent to us. That student made six errors in punctuation; six mistakes in spelling; seven mistakes in good use; ten mistakes in grammar, distributed as follows, verbs one, parts of speech three, grammatical rules one, sentence structure five. Really, this is serious, students.