FOREST PROTECTION This is also National Forest week. The protective idea has been, in recent years, extended beyond the mere salvaging of for¬ests to the protection and salvag¬ing of; all national resources—wa¬ter, watersheds, grazing grounds, plant and animal life. The law of self-preservation is the first law of nature, and Utah people do well indeed to give most care¬ful consideration to the steps that must be. taken to keep this the desirable home state that it is for future generations. Only a very small portion of Utah lands are arable, and conse¬quently it stands us in hand to conserve the resources that we have. Our obligation in this re¬spect is graphically portrayed in representative drawings and ex¬hibits now on display in the win¬dows of the Utah Light & Power company. We suggest that all students view this exhibit as a civic problem. FACULTY MEETING At faculty meeting on Tuesday the teachers decided on having a dinner social at the Valley House in Huntsville in the near future. Miss Merrill gave an interest¬ing talk on the Chicago method of language teaching. COLLEGE RECORDS The high school received Tues¬day the ratings of Ogden High school students during their attendance at the Utah Agricultural college, winter quarter. The following students were in attend¬ance: Constance Shaw, Nona Todd, Floyd Thomas, Kenneth Vanderhoof, Helen Stephens, Vir¬ginia Pfisterer, Velva Backman, Stanley Hall, Herbert Griffin, John G. McCune, Rosabelle Gar¬ner, LaVon Daniels, Vernal Shurtliff, Ellis Wade. The markings, on the whole, are quite satisfac¬tory, and represent the same type of work the respective students did at high school. Miss Nona Todd, with four A's and a B, has the highest rating. ORATORICAL CONTEST Philip Finkelstein and Frank Rose will compete Thursday af¬ternoon at 2:45 o'clock in the high school assembly for the hon¬or of representing Ogden in the district oratorical contest on the subject of the Constitution of the United States. The contest will be held in the presence of the entire student body. Prof. B. Roland Lewis of the University of Utah will act as judge. LECONTE STEWART LeConte Stewart was born in Sevier county, Utah, and attend¬ed the public schools in Rich¬field, Utah. His education was continued at Ricks academy, Rexburg, Idaho, and at the University of Utah. After graduating from college he taught for two years in elementary schools. He then studied at the Art Students' League of New York under Ken¬neth Hayes Miller, Du Mond Blumenschein and others; at the Art Students' League Landscape school under John F. Carlson and Walter Goltz; and at the Penn¬sylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia under Deniel Garber, George Aberteuffer and George T. Pierson. He has ex¬hibited paintings with the Society of Western Artists, and in ex¬hibits of San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Chicago and Seattle. He has paintings in the Utah state collection, the Alice art collection >.nd in the collec tions ofOgden and Springville High schools. He has mural dec¬orations in church temples in Hawaii, Canada and Arizona. He has been engaged to teach land¬scape and composition at Santa Maria during the summer, in a college affiliated with the Uni¬versity of California. He has taught art in East High school in Salt Lake City and at the Og¬den High school, where he is now teaching. The paintings which he has in the high school exhibit represent three very different types of his work. "Late Afternoon—Winter" is a study of snow-covered moun¬tains in the warm glow of after¬noon sunlight. The snow has body and is full of reflecting col¬or. "The Desert" is a stretch of typical Utah desert—the desert that has such a wreird fascination for those who know it. Eastern¬ers regard it as barren and rough, but to Utahns it speaks in a di¬vine language. Mr. Stewart has caught the spirit in his painting:. "Afternoon—Early Spring" is an entirely different sort of painting. The artist has developed the greens and the shadows of early spring, which we recognize so oft¬en at this time of year. MABLE FRAZER Mable Frazer of the University of Utah has an oil painting in the exhibit at the high school. Miss Frazer has studied art in the east, and shows a distinct pen¬chant for the dramatic in her work. Her picture, a study of moun¬tains, is worked out in a sure free style. The color is clear and the interpretation of the moun¬tains is original. ORSON D. CAMPBELL. Orson D. Campbell is superin¬tendent of art in Provo City schools and teacher in the high school there. He has studied art at the Art Students' league in New York, at the Art institute of Chicago, and at the California School of. Fine Arts. An interest¬ing thing to consider about his work is that he did not adopt painting as his vocation until late in life. He does work in oils, wa¬ter colors and pastels. He has at the high school art exhibit three representative studies in oils, "The River," (winter) is, as the name suggests, a river winding through snow-covered banks; "The Hills" is a very in¬teresting portrayal of summer hills, using rich orange and yellow tones. "The Aspen Ravine" is a painting of an aspen grove. The artist has used the graceful aspen trunks to advantage in the com¬position of the picture. UTAH AND OUR MOUNTAINS. Utah, a mountain, a summer day, A walk, a path, a flowery way, Thoughts, alone, of life and play, Sweet birds a singing songs so gay, A climb with nature as companion fair; A sight, a city, Oh, what do I care? The mountains in Utah, the won¬derful west, Are friends, true pals, worth all the rest. —Thelma Burt. OVERLOOKED. In mentioning the other day the names of the teachers who were present at junior prom last Friday evening the names of the follow¬ing teachers were inadvertently omitted: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Connell, George Bergstrom, Miss Em¬ma Chesney, Mrs. Ethel Franke, Miss Sarah Keener. We are sorry. TO JOIN AIR SERVICE. Ed Woods, '25, is making appli¬cation to join the air service in the United States army. Ed has the necessary qualifications and will, without doubt, be accepted. Elmer Malan, '25, is now in the service and report comes to us thai he is very efficient. AFTERNOON BREAKFASTS. The domestic science classes are indulging themselves these days in afternoon breakfasts. The best part of it is that the breakfast comes in as a regular part or their work. What to eat, how to cook, how to serve, how to treat guests and all similar problems are made features in the regular instruction. SPRING HOUSE CLEANING. Complaints have been made dur¬ing the past two days about 'spring fever." Spring fever is a psychical phenomenon behind which indifferent people like to hide. They seem to think it gives them a good excuse for being in¬dolent. It seems, however, as bad as it is in its virulent forms, less fatal to school work than the spring house cleaning. So many excuses read these days "we need¬ed Jane's help (or John's) yester¬day, please excuse her," that teachers become somewhat dis¬couraged. They feel that good work depends absolutely on regular attendance and that absentees not only lose the work themselves but retard the work of the class. Absentism is a social evil that needs demedying. DOROTHY SAYS. Dorothy Dix says that high school students shouldn't fall in love. That students afflicted by the germ cannot do justice to their studies; that the age is complex and advanced and that youth is the time for serious preparation for life's duties and obligations; that when life was simple and require¬ments were few it may have been proper for 17 and 18-year-olds to think of mating, but that it ,1s very improper, very unwise in these modern times. It is recommend¬ed that all high school students read what Dorothy Dix said in The Standard-Examiner Tuesday eve¬ning. THE BIG CONTEST. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Central Junior High school the big oratorical contest on the consti¬tution of the United States takes place. Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Logan, South Cache and Ogden participate. We invite and urge all students to be present at this contest. THEORETICAL BANQUET. The public speaking class seat¬ed themselves about an imaginary banquet table and indulged in Americas' famous indoor sport— after-dinner speaking. James Neal acted as toastmaster and the members of the class gave toasts as follows: "School Activities," Marjorie' Kelley; "The Band," Dorothy Foulger; "Our Teacher" (Miss Beck), Dorothy Higgs; "Our Principal," Delbert Poole; "Athletics," Jean Kimball; "School Days." Grace Abbott; "Mr. Lammers," Wesley Gephart; "The Seniors," Antonia Schriver; "R. O. T. C.," Ralph Wheelwright; "Spring Fever," Larry Trousdale. Mr. Neal made a splendid toast- master and the speeches of all were well prepared and rendered. More and more we see the activi¬ties of school functioning along the lines of life's realities. The public speaking department is one of the real assets of the Ogden High school. TREES. Trees are almost the oldest friends we haveTThey were friends even before fire, and before iron. Their branches might hide terrible things in the blackness of primeval night—things with ripping clawS" and eyes of flame—but still they were refuge from a dogen dangers yet more terrible. Even when man was still hiding in holes in the rock, trees were friendly. Their branches fashioned his war club, made his bow and arrows. His only bed was the tree's springy boughs. They made his boat, his oars. In the Arctic regions, trees were his books of history; when he had carved them, he worshiped them, and they be¬came his gods. After fire came, trees lit the world and warmed it—comfort be¬yond imagining in a universe of mysterious, gray fog. They cooked man's food. They made a flaming wall to protect him from the terrors of the night. Even today, trees are our best friends. They build our walls and roof of our houses; our chairs, our tables come from them. They make our beds even as they did in those misty eons of the past. They furnish our clubs—which we now use only to strike a ball. They come into the house and keep Christmas with us, brightening it with their, cheery green, and spic¬ing it with their fragrance. They stretch above our hearth,' and flame there to warm our hearts and homes. They cradle our new born; they coffin our dead. All through life trees are with us. They share with us the ex¬quisite response to sun and showers. The turn of the year is their cycle as it is ours. They, too, have their bloom-time and harvest. And i like us, too, they grow old and quit this marvellously sentient life at last. Such friendly trees! Everyone should hold them as sacred. No one should ever injure a tree or let one be felled except for actual need. The groves and forests should be preserved as faithfully as churches. For in them God walks in brotherhood with man. —Virginia Morton. AWARDS MADE. Typewriting awards for month of April: Remington: Certificates—Frances Bryant, Joe Fakler, Wayne Fisher, Kathryn Garff, Carmen Garner, Glen F. Harding, Norma Mortensen, Eu¬gene Newey, Carma Peery, Kath¬ryn Sherman, Jessie Welsh. Silver pin—Clifford Chappie, Maxine Folkman, Aleen Johnson. Gold pin—Lorin Wheelwright. Underwood: Certificates — Flora Brussard, Alice Hyde, Donna H. Manning, Norma Mortensen, Dorothy Man¬ning, Fern Parry, Vera Piersanti, Elsie Rowse, Mable Sundquist, Margaret Schmalz, Kathryn Sher¬man, Sharon Greenband, Helen Walters. Bronze pin—Virginia Anderson, Kathryn Blake, Joe Fakler, Donna Ramsdon, Elda Wilson. Silver pin — Frances Charlesworth, Margaret Hellewell, Aleen Johnson, Dot Olsen. Gold pin—Lorin Wheelwright. L. C. Smith: Certificates — Flora Brussard, Glen F. Harding, Jessie Welsh. Bronze pin — Kathryn Blake, Margaret Hellewell, Donna Rams¬don. Gold pin—Lorin Wheelwright. Royal: Certificates—Joe Fakler, Glen F. Harding. Gold pin—Clyde Moyes. —Edith B. Kohler, Teacher. THE FORUM. The regular Monday night meet¬ing was held as usual. Before we turned to the main business of the evening, there was some discus¬sion about where the Forum should meet. After a few of the so-called "obstinate" members had been "reprimanded" by Mr. Finkelstein, we turned to the main busi¬ness, which was a debate on the question: "Resolved, That the I scrapping of the U. S. battleships! was for the best interest of the American people." The affirmative was upheld by Walt Slater and Tom Broadbent; the negative by] Clifford Fretwell and Lee Cain, The decision went to the affirmative. We are all anxiously awaiting our banquet and we wish to thank our president, Frank Rose, our advisors and all those con¬cerned who are helping to make 1 this affair a great success. -—Lee Cain, Reporter. NO TARDINESS. It rang out like a sentence of doom! "No Tardiness!" It meant changing my entire mode of liv¬ing. All the time from when I get up in the morning 'till I go to bed at night must be changed, for vigilant teachers were on mv trail! Eight o'clock—Eighty-thirty—I have to get up. Eight-forty-five—no use, the W is ruined so I might just as well get up and rush to school, late, be¬cause of a few luxurious moments ; of indecision. "As the day begins, so shall it end," seemed to guide my loiter¬ing footsteps for the rest of the day. "Razzing" from every teacher and a wild, exciting dash through one hall and then anoth¬er dodging through doors and up and down stairs, barely missing an "office examination"—the punishment for tardiness.