May 19 '24 Ogden High School Notes Thought for today: Try these: self-respect, self-control, self-re­liance. Anyone who has tried these has come to know that education is a personal matter. No one can give it to another; each one gets it by himself and for himself. Collier's magazine points out that the American people, as a whole, are learning self-control as demonstrated by the decrease in the annual number of lynchings. In 1921 there were 64, in 1922, 59; in 1923, 29 only. In 39 states there was no case of lynching during th year 1923. FOUR GREAT DESIRES. The dominant desires of life, they Bay, may be grouped into four classes: (1) Desire for food, (2) desire of self-preservation, (3) de­sire for reproduction and (4) the desire to express and develop per­sonality. A great personality must be his who has good measure of self-respect, self-control and self- reliance. Shakespeare sums up almost all there is to philosophy and educa­tion in the words: To thine own- self be true and it must follow as the night, the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. In many of the old countries to­day and in our own country until yesterday it was unnecessary for ! the school teacher to possess the virtue of self-control. He could vent his anger when he would and corporal punishment was regarded - as a necessary adjunct to keeping . school. Today the "rod" is un- known, and the teacher who would lay hands upon a child in the way jj of punishment is an anomaly; and yet some say "Times are not im- proving!" h PREVENTATIVE DENTISTRY. In Newark, N. J., and in many d of the large cities of our country, g a new profession is developed in gJ connection with school teaching. The profession of Mouth Hygienists." Young women are trained a for this profession, and these with y an equipment consisting of a dental chair and a few implements, costing about $250 for each set. They pass from school to school, set up their offices in school cor­ridors or vacant room.? and call in e the child to clean their teeth, to d locate cavities, to note the condi­tion of the tonsils and to find n ajieans of preserving their health. n The theory is "the prevention of ri disease is more important than its 0 treatment." The child and the par­ent are advised and warned of the dangers of decaying teeth and an t unclean mouth and it is believed a that the dollar that is spent by the a district in this manner is the best c spent of the seventy odd, that is .required for the annual education w of each child in the system. n TONSILS AND HEALTH. Next to the teeth, the tonsils are next in importance as sources I u of infection and ill-health. One of " the most noted specialists of the state recently had this to say in jX public letter: "In the child, a normal tonsil is valuable to the system and should not be re- n moved. When tonsils are diseased, ° they not only have a bad influence Cl on the voice, but they become a menace to health. Much illness and many serious diseases come ifrom a point or focus of infection. The root of a diseased tooth may give rise t"o it. The tonsils, when diseased are the most frequent fo- cus of infection, for they lead to 1 diseases of the blood, diseases of the eye, rheumatism and other maladies, a large percentage of d heart disease comes from rheuma- ic lism and therefore indirectly from w diseased tonsils. In any system of education, e1 health' must receive first consid- a: juration. The time is near at hand n when medical inspection will be gi common in all schools and school el authorities will see .to it that all w children are kept physically fit. n" Specialists declare that "preven­tative dentistry in the schools can add 15 years to our children's lives. More than half of all the children in the schools have infect­ed teeth which endangers their health." Mr. Noall of the mechanic arts department and Miss Nelson of the sewing department, have placed a small exhibit in the front window of the Ogden Furniture company which is attracting much attention,! and is serving as a splendid ad­vertisement of the school exhibit to be held at school on Thursday. TEACHERS' OUTING. A goodly number of the teach­ers are enjoying a little outing and dinner at Pine Crest this after noon. Surely tney will be better natured and better teachers tomor­row for this bit of recreation. Go often, dear teacner. Too many parents 'made the mis­take of permitting students to with­draw from school one, two, three and four weeks before school closes. This means unfinished work and handicapped pupils when they re-enter at the begin­ning oi another year. The chemistry classes have been much interested during the past three weeks in the subject of dye­ing, and some beautifully colored faeries will ,. e on exhibition on Parents' day. The state department of educa­tion is asking that a special course of applied chemistry for girls, a course that is related to the home economics work, be given in all high schools. Such a course has been offered at the Ogden high during the past three years. The following notes are contrib­uted by one of the O. H. S. Eng­lish classes: BUSIEST TIME. Most of the students of the Og­den high school are waiting anx­iously for the last day of school when there will be no more tell­ers and no more books. Some however, wish school to last for­ever and ever; but they are few and far between. School life is now at its height. Seniors are getting ready for graduation, the election of officers for next y iar will take place, and the rest are making up work to receive grates. This is truly the hurry and scurry part of the year.-Ruth Lee. EDUCATION WINS. If in the scale of life we should put literacy and illiteracy, the scales would tilt in favor of liter- i acy. Although the Ogden high school is boasting of having a high­er percent of graduates this year than any other year previous to this date many have fallen by .fc wayside. If the students that are continually dropping from school would take into consideration that the nation in time is going to fall upon their shoulders to manage, they would stop to think a moment before playing "quits" with educa­tion. They would remember that: "In the education of the people lies the safety of the nation."- Fred R. Flinders. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE. The beauty of trees has been considered lately by Mr. Smith and j Mr. Croft, in their biology and botany classes. These teachers have j taken their classes to Ogden's Lester park. They endeavored to! study nature and also to becor more interested in the trees and tu enjoy nature's beautiful gift to a, community. The endeavor proved j a success, many of us knew little j about trees before we went, but! now have some conception of na-! ture's meaning.--Fern Fuller. O. H. S. COOKS. During the past year cooking classes of the O. H. S. have been a wonderful success. Under the supervision of iMss Marshall and Miss Chipman, the girls have learned to make many attractive and sensible dishes. They have learned which foods are good and which are not. Besides this the classes have served breakfasts, luncheons and dinners which have all been worthy of mention. Bach time several teachers have been welcome guests. The banquet, which was served to the basket- j ball boys and some members of the j faculty was due principally to the work of tne cooking classes. O. H. S. will have some expert cooks gr. uating in the next year or so. -Greldon Nelson. SCHOOL HONESTY. My fellow students, as the end of school nears, have you ever stopped and thought o'ver the work, and things that you have done dur­ing the term? Can you honestly and proudly show off some very good marks, or are those good marks tainted with dishonesty. Did you look on your book while the teacher wasn't looking, and when he suddenly looked up, did your oid neart leap into your throat and j your conscience pain you terribly? j Or did you say unprepared when,! you wasn't? Did you think that! you were putting something over on the teacher? But think it over, weren't you fooling and hurting yourself? These little dishonest­ies narden our conscience, and n- nally we do things that would make us stand aghast! These little ti-ngs, .aat we might ltrugh at in all our later years if we aren't in prison, nevertheless have left their black marks upon our characters. Evil doesn't hit any person all at once, it develops; the little things grow into larger ones. The little acorn into the giant oak does grow. So students even if your marivs a,re lo-w, be honest with yourselves; have a clean conscience, don't try to open other people's lockers just for fun, it might lead to trouble later; don't answer pre­pared ii you are not, and for heaven s saKe don't lie to the teacher. What good is an educa­tion lo a crook?-Herbert Verheek. "IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED" June Tribe, living at 2462 Ad­ams avenue, suffered a serious breakdown, which was caused through having too many school lessons to do. She was immediate­ly taken to the hospital where Dr. Rich attended her. He reported that it was a very critical case. Her father reported the case to the sheriff's office. An investiga­tion followed. It was found out tnat at the Ogden high school where the girl goes to school, sev­eral of the English teacherst had a contest to see who could assign the hardest lessons. The teachers' j names are withheld by request of j the principal. Many of the students were questioned and it was discovered that these certain teachers gave much more work than the rest of the faculty. This gave the officers a clue to work by and was not long till they found the teachers who were engaged in tnis outrageous contest. As yet there has been no action taken against these teachers by the parents of the stricken girl.-Milton Farber.