THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1934. Writer Calls For Ousting Of Borrower Would Clean Ogden High School of Human Parasites There are a great many different kinds of human parasites, but the ones that I think are the worst, especially to students of Ogden High school are the paper, pencil and lesson borrowers. If these peo-ple could only be exterminated like their animal brothers, oh what peace I could have! Just to show you what pests these people are, I shall write up a little of their "line." For example, Mary wants to borrow some paper. This would probably be the ensuing con¬versation. "Jane, could you possibly lend me five or six sheets of paper until tomorrow? I'll pay you back." Jane, afraid of being rude, answers very meekly, "yes." Jane knows very well that Mary will never pay her back, yet she must continue to put up with Mary's borrowing. The same is true of the pencil borrower. John, who doesn't have a pencil, will probably yell to Tom: "Say, you've got two pencils; let me borrow one until tomorrow." With that John comes and snatches a pencil out of Tom's hand, and then he is gone again. Tom can do nothing about it, for he wants to be on friendly terms with John. Worst of all is the lesson bor¬rower. The borrower will probably begin something like this: "Did you get your lesson for English?" The victim feeling very proud because he has, dumbly answers, "yes, I stayed up 'till eleven-thirty getting it, too." Then the borrower pro¬ceeds to fish again, until finally the victim finds himself with a promise something like this: "Thanks a lot old pal. I'll do some¬thing for you sometime." There you are. Someone borrows this and someone else borrows that, until you feel as if the shirt off your back has been taken. I have thought of this matter many times, and still I have found no way to solve it. So please, dear reader, give me a few suggestions. BROTHERS Brothers are a problem; aren't they? They seem to always be ag¬gravating us. When we bring our friends home it is always little brother who receives all of the at¬tention or it is big brother who car¬ries on all parts of the conversation utterly ignoring you, and you some¬times wonder if he is not doing it merely to irritate you. When you ask for the family car for the afternoon, brother always has to go some place and you can-not have it because he is going to use it. You will always notice that when you do something that makes you feel very proud, brother immediately criticizes you to the point where you really believe he is ashamed of you. Then when he wants some¬thing done he right away chooses you to do it. If you do it you are treated real nice. Although I am not the least bit envious, it seems that brothers always have a way with them.—Virginia Combe. The students and faculty of Og¬den High school wish to express their sincere sympathy to Byron Tomlinson, student, and family for the loss of their father . Dear Nose-all: Are the seniors supposed to get dates for the sen¬ior reception, or are they allowed to go stag? Do girls ever go stag to this dance?—Worried. Dear Worried: Girls do go stag to this dance; a senior student may get a date with a senior girl or go stag.—Nose-All. ADVANCING MUSIC Music is a very attractive pro¬fession. In one season, John Philip Sousa and his band received $12,- 500 weekly—$500,000 a year. The union scale for musicians in many cities is around $100 weekly. Radio musicians draw from $150 to $1,000 weekly. According to a recent Mu¬sic Center survey, there are five times as many musicians as there are journalists and three times as many as dentists or actors. More persons are wholly dependent upon their music for a living than there are clergymen or lawyers. Surely this proves that "music is a major subject." Ogden High's music department should be given every attention to make it known throughout the na- I tion. If this were done it would not only make a name for O. H. S., but for the city of Ogden as well.— Kling Klung. MAKING EXCUSES Making excuses is one of the old¬est and most used habits of today. Not only are excuses used in the home to bluff the parents but they are used everywhere in common. In many cases mothers are the origin¬ations of these little white lies. They keep a student out of school for very trivial matters, then write an excuse to the teachers. Later on when the student is late or has failed to prepare an assignment, he invents an excuse imitating his mother. Teachers also seem to en¬courage the student on. If the student is late the teacher insists on having an excuse. If she is told that you left early enough she will not believe you. Now to avoid a scolding one usually designs some fabulous story. Of course telling lies is a very bad habit, and habits are hard to break, but I think if we were rais¬ed to face our difficulties rather Uian dodge them we would be much happier.—Francis Holmes. SENIORS Two more weeks of school. Does¬n't it sound good. But we'll all be glad to get back in September and have the honor of being seniors. Then comes the jolly good time of helping the juniors of next year to realize what the juniors of this year have had to compete with. But put¬ting it all in a hat box, I think it has been a mighty fine year. The seniors have done well in helping Ogden High school to keep up the fine standards that it represents. May all of our seniors board the train marked "college" next fall and go to college with the spirit of making that school, which ever it may be, an institution to stand for the qualities and standards which it has written out on paper in black and white letters. The juniors of this year will con¬tinue their good work next year. May the seniors ride on and do likewise.—Charlene Cook. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1934 Time Arrives For Rally In Brain Energy Ogden High School Pupils Have Chance To Make Final Impression Now is the time for Ogden High school to generate all potential energy into full bloom. Our teachers are awaiting the chance to surprise us by a final ex¬amination, and then will we need to have an oversupply of energy to put that "artistic touch" in our papers! Especially is this true now, since the delightful summer weather has injected that laziness germ into our susceptible, airy minds. We can easily see how worried the seniors are to leave a favorable impression upon the memories of their never-to-be forgotten teach¬ers. Hence, these ambitious little souls will put forth every effort to pass their finals and set a shining example for we juniors. We in turn remember that we'll have to grace the high school halls next year, so we desire to leave a slight imprint upon our teachers, poor victims. But such thinking apparently has not started us to action as yet, for we're all sleeping in our seats. Wake up! Wake up! Our good in¬tentions will drift into space unless we immediately wake up.—Emily Merrill. STUDENTS WHO SLUFF It won't be long now, students. Don't be impatient and sluff school we have only nine days to get our lessons. Then some of you will go to work, some will go on trips, some will have parties and outings, while still others will stay at home. Don't think you don't like school, because you really do. You who graduate will soon be wishing to be back next year. If you are not able to go on to college and study you will not be perfectly satisfied; you will always want to study, to learn of higher things and other people. School means fun. Just th,ink of all the good times you have had. The dances, parties, and outings that you have been to, have been full of excitement. Your school days are days you will never completely forget. And students don't rush them past you by sluffing your classes these last few days.—Anna Wilson. A GREAT MAN How many people have looked for¬ward to meeting a "great man" (whose inventions, or contributions to art or literature, or brilliant en¬gineering feats, have brought bim world wide fame) only to find an irascible egotist, a man incapable of appreciating any creative work outside his own sphere of interest Too often we take as an object for hero worship some man who has mercilessly thrust aside everything that interferred with his ambitions. We think of him, perhaps, as typical of this age of specialization, forgetting that this is also the age of co-ordination and co-operation, and that we specialize so that there may be "enough of everything for everybody." He who sacrifices poetry on the altar of science, or barters his health and his friends for mych pedantic research, may not be ful¬filling his mission in the world as well as the man who keeps every part of himself—in tune with the universe.—Fred Nickson. PINS There are certainly a lot of dif¬ferent kinds of pins, stick pins, safety pins, hat pins and tie ptot You can buy pins one thousand for a dime, and safety pins cost a littkl more. Hat pins and tie pins cost all the way from ten cents to $100. Have you ever been in need of pin so badly that you went arouad saying, "my kingdom for a pin?" Well I have and the first thiol that came to my mind is the one I threw on the floor yesterday. I look in the drawers, and on thi walls and when I find that tin search is in vain I pick up a needle , and sew on the snap, for that really is the best way after all.-Barbara Handy. BOOK REVIEW "The Lady Jean" by Frank Diln is a historical romance. In it the are kings, queens, princes and rogues. They are all fighting for fee control of the throne. The book re¬calls familiar figures such ai Richelieu and the duke of Buckingham. Lady Jean Berill is the duke's ward. She stands between the duke and Richelieu and tries to h(N| them from their desire—the bt trothal of the prince of wales to the young Princess Henrietta Marie of France. Lady Jean is the main charact and has unusual beauty, pride o race and honesty. The plot is fast moving with her in the center. Frover is a soldier of fortune vb is found by Buckingham to kidnap Lady Jean. He falls in love with her aodl the situation becomes almost u bearable to him. He had given hf word, but he releases Jean and fj retained his honor. This is the main point in -J* story. At the end they find happi¬ness, though it means the loa of the throne to Jean and the rlghttnfj of an old wrong fro Frover. I think this is an interesting book and if you like adventure and hittory, you should read it.-Olga Dellamar. THE DELAY What is the matter with the pper? How is it that the paper so late every night? These are some of the queatioa that you could hear if you walked if our street. The answer to Used! questions is just around the corner. Here you would find the paptr boy talking to a young lady, tot body knows what they are t&lkfig about because when you come ne they stop talking and make goo-goo eyes. I think when this happens to tht paper boy, something should to done about it. One suggestion was to put hla a new route, but I dont tnm dli would be fair to him. What tiMr should do is turn off their pool light at night as they c&n nt on her front porch and talk. If this was done they could tak all they wanted to the night befo& and he would not have to stop al talk on his route.—Ronald Unander. CAMPING Why do I desire a camping tity as soon as school is out? There art many reasons for this longing d mine. A few of them are retaw tion, beauties of nature, my fedW of freedom, and plenty of tint to think in solitude. It is wonderful to be high to At mountains in the clear, cool, frok air, to hear the singing of the birds by day, and listen to the howl of coyotes by night. This is very toofe ing after the noises of city life The beauties of high peaks, pia peaceful streams, and the thoua of being alone bring back confident to a person, who has become tin! and discouraged with life. For these reasons as well at auf others, I think a camping trip Is good change for a person after worries and trials of school.-LG.