TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1934. Box Elder To Be Site Of Content Ogden School Has Strong Array of Musical Talent OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Mary Paquette—Editor Jack Bennett—Associate Editor The district music contest will be held in Brigham City the twelfth day of April. Several schools from this section of the state will be represented. The first place win¬ners of this contest have the right to compete in the state music con¬test, which will be in Price, April 19. Competition is likely to be extremely keen at both of these contests. However, our music department has students with enough talent and ambition to compete against the very best. The students, who will represent Ogden High school will be trained in their divisions by Mr. Robinson and Mr. Hanson within the school. Ogden High school has the repu¬tation of being among the first place winners, and our talented musicians are doing their part in - upholding the reputation of our school. Ogden High's musicians can always be counted on to rank near the top, so these contests will perhaps be an¬other successful activity for the music repartment.—J. W. P. CADETS AT WORK For the past two months the cadets of the school have been lounging around in rooms, discussing military tactics. Such things, as how to advance while in battle, the workings of the automatic rifle as well as the ordinary one, the duties of officers and how a good soldier acts, have all been discussed in de¬tail and both men and officers seem the better for it. Besides the gain¬ing of knowledge upon such lines, it has given the commanders and the commanded an opportunity to get acquainted, which leads to a higher degree of efficiency upon the parade ground. The most important subject under discussion and practice now is that of extended order drill. Detailed charts, of how to execute different positions in this phase of military drill have adorned the board and it is time to put this learning'into practice. If you happen to chance by and see a company or a platoon suddenly break into a run scattering in all directions you will know that these men are taking up some, phase of extended order drill in prepara¬tion for inspection in the spring. Company D, winner the past two years of the cup awarded to the best drilled company, has been working hard and Captain Clyde Greenwell expects to win the cup again this year, making it three consecutive years that that company has gained possession of it.—Frantzen Todd. Note: The writer of this article must be a member of D company. ART ROOM PROCESS Scratch! Scratch! Itching? No! Etching. Tedious scratching on a copper plate. Etch is an old Dutch word for eat. Etchings were named thus because the lines of the design are bitten into the copper by acid. After the smooth copper plate has been covered with "ground," a wax compound, and the design has been scratched on it, the plate is placed in the acid bath. The acid com¬bines with the exposed copper, leav¬ing hollows for the ink to fill in. The deepest lines print the blackest. When bitten as deep as desired, the plate is cleaned, and ink is rubbed in the lines. A soft, moist spongy paper is placed on the inky plate and rolled through a special press which forces the paper into the lines. Peeling the paper off one has a print (providing he knows the ! technique.) The "dry point" is another type of etching in which the lines are scratched in deeply enough to print without acid treatment. The dry point and etching are the main types, but there are others, too, which are produced by different re¬actions on the copper. If you think that to make an etching is easy, try it! (I have)— Mable Foulger. AIR-MINDED Some of us, when we are young, j make up our minds that we want to follow a certain vocation throughout our lives. During our education toward our special vocation, how¬ever, things happen that rather lessen our desires to do big things. For instance, those of us who have the desire to be airplane pilots were startled last week to learn that a huge plane crashed into the moun¬tain at the eastern part of our state. Such things as these make us stop and wonder if we really want to be what we think we do. We need not worry, however, because by the time we are ready to enter the field, air travel will be as safe as the rail¬road is today.—Blaine Larsen. SEE YOU LATER WEBER Sportsmen at Ogden High say Weber won on Friday night because they had the best team. We do not concede this but we admit they played the better ball that night. The Weber boys certainly put up a beautiful fight and we congratulate them on their success. We are glad also that Weber will go to the tournament. They deserve to go, and we predict they will make a fine showing there. AN ACTIVITY PERIOD The High school faculty are alert to modern movements in education and appraciate the fact that the school must not only give instruction in English, history, science, etc., but must also develop social conscious¬ness, and aim to meet present day requirements of learning how to spend leisure time and how to adapt one's self to the social world. In this spirit a committee is now in¬vestigating the possibility of scheduling next year a full period to be I known as the "activity period." In I this period all students would be I given an opportunity to engage in j some special work in which they are directly interested such as debating public speaking, music, art, physical education, radio, aviation, com- - merce—what not. It is known that many of the larger High schools of the country have adopted this plan and have found it most commend¬able and worth while. MISTAKEN GREATNESS In days of old There were men quite bold. Who gave to us our holidays. Our men today. Are greater still They take our free days away. So if you think there is some mis¬take And Lincoln, he is not so great For we no longer get a holiday Hopkins is greater—so they say. —Guess Who. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1934. Class Tries Dance With Pirate Idea Selected Students Will Present Number At Classicalia OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Mary Paquette—Editor Jack Bennett—Associate Editor After a competitive series of basketball and volleyball games, and other physical sports, participants in gymnasium work are now adapt¬ing their sense of balance, grade, and rhythm to dance steps. A pirate dance involving spryness, enthusiasm of movements, vigor, vim in in¬terpretation, and jollity and pleasure in performing the swinging motions is capably being taught by the in¬structor. The intricate perfections gradually learned through completion haven't of course, yet been accomplished. The girls are still practicing the various parts of the swaying, stamp¬ing, physical exhibitions deliberately and slowly so that they will attain speed later. The intent of learning such dances i lies in the fact that the most cap¬able girls will dance, accompanied by the regular beats of thrilling music, at the Classicalia to be held in the near future. We wish them luck.—Emily Merrill. THE SPICE OF LIFE For the last ten years one of the colleges in our state has had a num¬ber of splendid football teams. Game after game, these teams swept their weaker opponents, off their feet. Three or four times teams from this college had won the conference title. But during the last two years teams from this college had begun to lack interest in football; they had grown stale on victory; there was no goal to work toward. Finally last year this team lost three games; at last the team learned that it had some competition. After that, team play and pep were greatly improved. Last week Ogden was defeated by Weber; had Ogden won, she would have played Logan for the division title. We lost, however, and as a result Ogden takes second place. Al¬though we should like to have won the title, we realize that a team can¬not expect to win every game. The Tigers have made a splendid record this year with eight victories and two defeats. Even though we were defeated by Weber, our team will be able to enter the state finals in Salt Lake City. We hope it makes a good record in the state finals. Be¬cause variety is the spice of life, Ogden will be in the game, playing the best ball it is capable of. "It isn't whether you win or lose, its how you play the game!"—Blaine Larsen. MEMORIZING Slowly strolling home from school, reclining against walls within the educational building and sauntering to classes are students, memorizing. They don't notice anyone but stare at their surroundings, and, with a slight frown marked on their fore¬heads, are engrossed in repeating lines of speeches, poetry and every conceivable type of literature. . Some are learning thoroughly their particular characterization of an individual to be presented in front of an audience; others are assimilating material to give an oral talk. Still many more are digesting j information to remember for tests. Bui no matter for what purpose they are taxing their mental powers, all are undergoing the same amount of exertion, and their benefits are the same. No other form of school life can so broaden one's capacities, be more adaptable, gratifying, and beneficial than memorizing. In spite of time and effort spent to accomplish the desired end, the goal is worth seek¬ing. Since the ability of memorizing is, indeed, so useful in every way, may we indulge in more work of this sort.—Emily Merrill. ART—GOOD AND BAD I don't know anything about art or painting and if I visited an art gallery I wouldn't know Venus de Milo from a modernistic nude. Yesterday I saw the picture of a girl studying, but it was too unnatural and so it wasn't good art. A portrait of a teacher studying is also not natural because most of the time teachers just ask questions that no one can understand, like asking you your name. A picture of a band playing is better because you see the instruments. You can use your imagination. The picture of a student failing in an exam is good art because it gives you a certain feeling--usually sadness. The picture of a principal who is lecturing to someone isn't good art because it makes you forget what your feeling is. A portrait of the noon hour isn't good art because there are too many different impressions, but it might be if unity is supposed to go into making art because all have two things in common -- (1) they are hungry and (2) they don't want to go to class again. Art is either good or bad. --Beth Cardon. PROVES PROFITABLE At midyear, feeling the very progressive student, I marched into Mr. Merrill's office with the worthy intention of beginning a new subject. Spanish was what I had in mind, but, alas, little did I know Mr. Merrill's fine powers of persuasion. Somehow when the office door closed I found myself contemplating not rooming in "gay Madrid" but delving into the intricacies of law. Oh, horrors! How was I going to stand it! However, I was in for a delightful surprise. Instead of being the ineffably dry subject I had anticipated, law proved to be both interesting and entertaining. Many of the problems have actually happened, and it is interesting to understand the decisions of the court. Indeed, I am sure any hours in studying law have been and will continue to be profitably spent. --M. M. W.