Friday, is probably the greatest ex¬perimenter in secondary education in America, and it is our guess," that he is the most wide awake,.; successful higli school principal in the land. He has some very new ahd seem¬ingly practical ideas about what a modern high school curriculum should': be and how it should be administered; he knows more about "fitting students to their job" than any man we have ever met. Ho gave the Utah administrators more information, more inspiration, more concrete help in the subject of school administration and school supervision than they have ever received from any educator that has ever ,appeared on a Utah plat¬form. During the two days' con¬ference, Dr. Reavis gave eight lec¬tures, each one seemingly better than the preceding. His closing addresfe Saturday afternoon on "The Improvement of Teaching Technique in Secondary Schools" was declared by principals and su¬perintendents the most helpful ad- dross they have ever been privi¬leged to hear. Utah High schools will take on a new lease of life because of the visit of Dr. Reavis. A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY. A very exceptional lecture was given to school principals by Dr. F. W. Hart of the University of California the other day in Salt Lake City on a very commonplace subject,' "Heating, Lighting. Ventilation of School Buildings." Dr. Hart succeeded in making the prin¬cipals appreciate that in providing proper heat, light and air in school buildings and in anticipating fire hazards, they are assuming a fear¬ful responsibility that must "tTe as-sumed and discharged with ex¬treme and vigilant care. He noted the fact that every day in the United tSates that there are on an average of five fires in school buildings and that by the law of chance, every principal is likely to have a fire sometime during hia career unless greater care is exer¬cised. We are very sure Ogden's Fire Chief Graves would have ap¬preciated this address. He would have said: "This is just what I have been telling you these many years.” Dr. Hart made the principals feel that their buildings must be in¬spected freely to remove all fire hazards. We venture also that practically every ventilating flue in the school buildings of the state will get an inspection today, to make sure that the air pumped into the school building comes from a clean source and is not interrupted in its way by dirt, filth and unclean objects. Principals will be about the buildings, too, to see that the light is coming from the proper source and that teachers are not standing by windows so that pupils are forced to face the light. Moreover, the temperature ixr ohoolrooms will be more careful- [inspected. All told this was a I must telling address and will go I far in safeguarding the health and 1 lives of Utah children. Ogden High TO DAD. Can anyone know the loss of a dad, The loss of a true pal and friend? Can anyone realize how much dads are worth? They are fair and square to the end. Do you know the wealth in dad's friendly smile Or the strength of the clasp in his hand ? Do you ever long for a talk with dad, A fellow who will understand? Its most of all that you want your dad When you're puzzled with problems deep. And it's most of all that you miss a dad, When you dad is forever asleep. —Student glish F. GERMAN AGAIN. The board of education of Kan¬sas City recently voted to resume the courses in the German lan¬guage in the high schools. Ger¬man is now taught most of the large high schools >he country and will likely be re ted in the Ogden High school ' t/t year. Many of cur students entering eastern colleges have been handicapped during the past eight years by not having the necessary preparation in German. SCHOOL DRAMATICS. "The Embryo," a one-act play written by Percival Wilde, was pre¬sented by a "group of six" on Fri¬day. the Second period. "The Em¬bryo" is a typical no-plot story. An author goes to sleep while writ¬ing a play. While sleeping, the characters produced by his mind appear on the stage. They act and talk as human beings. In the midst of this the author wakes up and assigns them as characters in a play he i.s going to produce. The author is played by Donna Slater. Dortha Myers takes the part of a cynical young man. Melba Bowman acts as a stately bru¬nette. Margaret Soderberg is a lively young blonde. Cleone Grix is a dead man who turns out to be a deaf man. The play was directed by Arleen Larsen ,the chairman of the group. PLEASING COMMENT. Dr. Reavis, who spent a short time at our school on Friday morning last, has written the prin¬cipal a letter of appreciation for the courtesies shown him. Among t other things, he says: "I was very favorably impressed with your school. The instructor in art appealed to me particular¬ly." LEARNING A LANG UAGE. At. the University of Chicago High school, a foreign language is tjwrerht exactly as reading or our own language is taught in the pri¬mary school. The students learns to read first. After one learns to read, then he may dissect the lan¬guage and learn the grammar of the language. Later still he gets appreciation. ANOTHER INNOVATION. Another innovation that they claim is very successful in the school is that of having no formal 1 composition in the English classes. The "content" subjects, sci¬ence, history, etc., deal with thoughts and ideas, and, as writ¬ten composition is but the organi¬zation and expression of thought, the written work in these subjects serve all the ends of composition. RELATIVE COSTS. When people complain about the cost of education it may not be remiss to remind them that as a nation we are now spending at, much for candy as we are for ali our schools; that we spend three times as much for tobacco as for our schools. AND NOW IN COLLEGE. It seems to be a sin to commit matrimony. Several districts of the state have announced that married women will no longer be employed as teachers. Now comes Lombard college, Galesburg, 111., with the pronouncement: "Here¬after, students who marry while attending Lombard college will be automatically dropped from the college." The president of the in¬stitution claims "marriage inter¬feres with education." THE DAY AFTER THE NIGHT, BEFORE. I hear, from a great distance, the sound of lusty students about me in the study hall. The hateful dream of work I should be doing is deadened by the haze dancing dizzily before my eyes. Darts ana flashes of colored lights, woven with strains of youthful laughter, beckon to me, and I forget for a moment that I am in such a pro¬saic place as a study hall. Once again my dream is blurred by meaningless words of the Civil war, and they become a mist of forgetfulness. Once again I hear a voice which brings back a per¬fect vision of the "night before." Forgotten are the problems of life and the weary achings of the body, as the leaden eyelids droop over the eyes already dim with sleep. —Edith Helm. Ogden High CYNICAL SONNET. What means a thing, or what Is worth the while, To give my hours of inner con¬templation To, and bend my thoughts from Truth's libation To aught that's weight with aim¬less, inane, guile From fatuous lips o'er-weight'd with style— Supposed Truth's own, -but really fabrication Of palpable "design and machina¬tion— Meant to paint me fool for laugh and smile! None of that pigment on me will stay. I'm o'er-coat with comprehen¬sion's "size." The path of clouds, in Simon's Cloak I tread, Nor know that laughter is my passing's pay For grinding wit on sophist wits "bewised"— To prudence, doubt, and question I have wed. —Gilbert Beck. NEGATIVE WINS. James Neil and Winifred McConnell debated Tuesday the af¬firmative side of the question, "Resolved, That the Volstead .act should be so amended as to per¬mit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers, containing not more than 2.75 per cent al¬cohol by volume.' The negative side was defended by Box Elder's team, Miss Gail Bunderson and Miss Jennie Cut¬ler. The negative won the debate by a two to one decision, the judges being Attorney B. H. Jones of Brigham City, Attorneys Sam Blackham and Roscoe Gwilliam of Ogden. IT WEBER HIGH. At Wteber High school, Philip Finkelstein and Frank Rose supported the negative side_of_lhe jIlfmeTquestion against Weber High's team and won by the same vote, a two t<one. It would seem tlien that the negative has rather the better side of the question. Most excellent work was done by the teams of all three schools. The judges pronounced the debate most interesting and worth while. Today, Messrs. Rose and Finkel¬stein go to Brigham City to de¬bate the question, while Ogden High's team. Miss McConnel and Mr. Neal, meet Weber High-is team at Ogden High. THE LEWIS CONTEST. As soon as the debate question is settled in the Ogden, Box Elder, Weber district, the annual Lewis oratorial contest will be called. In view of the fact that the interna¬tional contest is scheduled for April 29, it has been suggested that tn Lewis contest be scheduled about April 20. TO BE OR NOT TO BE. The girl sponsors want to give a dinner; they have wanted to give it for a long time. In fact, the date has been set several times but something always in¬terferes. For instance, the girls {were surely going to have it on Friday evening, April 8, when along comes the Boise excursion, carrying off Captain Dockler, Sponsor Rich and three or four officers. Anyway, the girls will not be discouraged and will arrange this i fine annual fete for the R. O. T. C. officers at an early date as possible. SHRUBBERY SET. Ogden High has some shrub¬bery.. Maybe you have heard that before. Well, it is planted now and can start to grow just as soon as it wants; A ad of mountain , soil was brought Tuesday and tamped about the roots so they shouldn't know they are io grow in clay. The theory is the roots will get a good start before they discover the hoax, and when they do—they'll be ashamed to quit and will go right on growing. MAYBE SO. Maybe so we are going to have; a fine flag pole at the hii sgool'. Anyway;" we have- heard a nJfnor' to that effect—and we are qjpt disposed to deny the rumor. Ki fa'ct, we really think that with a three; 1 vfnes honor schog!, in R. O. T. C. w<jjrk, we pretty 'nearly de¬serve a .-.g pole. A VALUABLE BOOK. The Los Angeles Times has sent to every high school in California. Utah, Arizona and Ne¬vada, Prof. Randolph Leigh's fine book on oratory to give assistance to high school students entering the national and international ora¬torical contest on "The Constitu¬tion." The book treats the following topics'in excellent fashion; "What Is Oratory," "Composition," "De¬livery," "The Orator In Action," The national oratorical contest and the international oratorical contest, "Rules of the 1927 Con¬test," "Rules of the 1927 Contest," "Suggestions to Contestants," "The Constitution Club," "The Winning Orations (verbatim) 1924, 1925, 1926," "The College Contest." In addition, the book also gives the addresses of President Calvin Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, John Hayes Hammond, Walter A. Stung, etc. Altogether, it is a very choice book, a very valuable book for any school library, and an espe¬cially- helpful book to those in¬terested in the present contest. A BIG WEEK. Thi$,, i's Clean-up week, also Hu¬mane Week in Ogden. It is an opportiltiity for the schools to as¬sist in inculcating two of life's greatest virtues, "cleanliness and kindness." May we not hope that every child in Ogden will be in¬duced to take a little personal interest in,,,making his home, his school, Jjis city, a cleaner and a 1 more jjmutiful place in which to live; also may we not hope that some sympathy and love may be instilled for animal life, so that greater consideration and kind¬ness may be manifested toward the dimb animal life that contri¬butes so much to man's well-being- Mrs. John W. Hyslop is writing an article illustrating the neces¬sity and virtue of humane edu¬cation, Every student iii Ogden should read daily what Mrs. Hys¬lop has to say. It might be well to repeat also these fine senti¬ments that were penned by Coler¬idge: "I would not enter on my list of friends, though \ graced with polished manners and fine, sense—yet lacking sensibility, the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. NO SUICIDE WAVE. Statistics are Very good things. Sometimes they correct false stories that circulate wildly. For instance, Mr. Haskin shows in a recent article that all this talk about the suicide wave among the youth of the land is un¬founded; that there is no such wave. He says in 1919 there were 477 suicides of youth under 20 years of age; in 1920 there were 1 709: in 1921 there were 858; in t 1922 there were 900; in 1923 they dropped to 449 and in 1925 drop¬ped again to 339. There are no statistics available for 1926; in January, 1927, there were 19. If this ratio maintained through tne* year, there would be 228; this is fewer than for many years past, hence there is no wave. It means simply the subject is receiving more attention, more advertising. In 1923 less than 4 per cent of all suicides were Under 20; in 1925 less than 37, were under 20. In 1921 there werfe 40 college student suicides, in 1923 there were 3 8. In 1925 there were 79 million¬aire suicides.