RIDA EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1932 Initiation Conducted By O. H. S. Girls Club Courage-Testing Devices Used On Group of Novices OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Parke Petterson, Editor. Bobbie Kimball and Marjorie Wood, Associate Editors. Yeeeow - eeek -oooo! P-lease my nerves." Then all was quiet for a time. Two long minues later a figure stumbled out of teh doorway and amid gasps stuttered, "never again." Then more figures stumbled out and soon three breathless girls were running away from a large tumbledown house which seemed to say-"I am haunted." What I am trying to say is that three senior members of TauEta Nu that were taken in last year were initiated. They were forced to wear costumes which consisted of overalls and torn shirts, with dabs of paint on one side of the face, and to carry a bushel basket. Selling applies, onions and potatoes in this garb is no fun. If you don't believe me ask Ruth Ellis, Ruth Robinson, and Kathryn Skeen. After much em­barrassment we all landed at the Creole shack, tired but happy. (They even know how to get rides on street cars for nothing.) -Min and Yoosh. HONOR STUDENT Floyd Pell, a former student, has received an appointment to An­napolis on the strength of his good grades from Ogden high and Weber college. We should feel justly hon­ored to have a student of our O.H. S. advanced to such a high position. We congratualte him. IMIGINATION Just imagine- Earl Wright snubbing someone. Adele and Vergie separated. Boyd Hopkins without an "A." "A boy in every port" seems to be the slogan of Helen and Bernice although they do seem to favor Salt Lake City. I wonder why Melba Randall's thoughts turn toward the "west." After that stunt in assembly you might some day even see some of the Zeta girls in the Follies. They'd be plenty peppy-don't you think? PHILOSOPHY My own atid other famous people's Someone said: Books contain the treasure o: knowledge. If youths learn to feed on tlx thoughts of the great men and wo men of all times, they will aspir to something noble. Good books purify the taste ele vate the character, and lift us to ; higher plane of thinking and liv- j ing. 1 There is no excuse of original J ignorance for a coarse, untrained mind. I say: 1 One is cehating himself , if he de- 1 nies himself the opportunity of en- ' riching his life uy reading good books. Our library contains thousands of books; everyone should strive to read at least a few. We should cultivate the "library habit." Students, your representative is anxious to philosophize on your - favorite subject. If you have any ( pet views on current happenings, scandal, philosophy, or some prob­lem (not algebra) you would like to 3 have explained, address your re- , quests and ideas to Notes Editor, O.H.S., and gracefully slip them into the note box while nobobdy is , looking. -The Editor. BELIEVE IT OR NOT (It's all true) Man is really insignificant and there really isn't so much of us as illustrated by the following from Dr. Henry Van Leon: If everybody in this world of ours were six feet tall and a foot and a half wide and a foot thick (and that is making people larger than they really are), then, the whole of the human race "(nearly 2,000,000,000) could be packed into a box measuring half a mile in each di­rection. If you don't believe it figure it out for yourself. If we transplanted that box to the edge of the Grand canyon of Arizona and gave the unwieldly contraption a slight push, there would be a moment of crunching and ripping as the wooden planks loosened stones and trees on their downward patn, an dthen a low bumpty-bumpty-bump, and a sud­den splash when the outer edge struck the waters of the Colorado River. Then silence and oblivion! The human beings in their mortuary chest would soon be forgotten. The ; canyou would go on battling wind ' and sun and rain as it has done i since it was created. The world f would continue to run its even 1 course. Astronomers on distant planets would have noticed nothing out of the ordinary. A century from now, a little mound, densely s covered with vegetable matter would perhaps indicate where humanity f lay buried. And that would be all. e THEN AND NOW e In the old days high school stu­dents spent their surplus energy ir i- self-declared holidays, in 'stealing a refreshments, in crashing girls parties, in painting school buildings and grounds of opposing schools in tieing cows to corridor drinking fountains, and in other sports ad finitum. Nowadays students spend their surplus energy in boosting school ac­tivities, in student councils, in de­bating, language art, science, history, school clubs, etc., in a word, in all sorts of constructive ac­tivities; and yet they say the world isn't growing better. The hope of the world lies wholly in this: "We are all of us fellow passengers on the same planet and we are all of us equally responsible for the happiness and well-being of the world." A colored boy was asked where a certain road led to. He replied, "it don't lead nowheres; it just goes to the top of the hill and stops." Major Braden says many people are on the road that "leads no­where-It just goes to the top of the hill and stops." STUDENT BODY CARDS By this time everyone should realize the extreme necessity of a student body card for the school ac­tivities this year. If these many pleas have not caused any direct response on your part toward that goal you should be severely reprimanded, ducked In the lake or put to some other form of shame. Now we place the decision in your hands. All we can say is that the moral to this story is-"get a stu­dent body ticket now!" (See about the installment plan.) -I.W.O. , MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24. 1932 Radio Club Learns Short Wave Signals Members Trying to Gain Federal Amateur Licenses OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Parke Petterson, Editor. Bobbie Kimball and Marjorie Wood, Associate Editors. W6OHS, the short wave radio club of Ogden High, has just recently been organized. The acting officers t are John Larson, president; Junior Iverson, vice president; Marvin Farr, secretary; and Earl Lundquist, re­porter. The aim of the club is for each member to obtain a United: States radio amateur's license. Eachf week the club has been practicing code so that the members may get in shape to pass the test for licenses. O. H. Geertsen, of the Utah Radio Service laboratory, recently gave us a very interesting talk on the Olims law and also different radio circuits. The talk was of great benefit to the club and we hope to hear from Mr. Geertsen again in the near future. The club is trying to have a special speaker every week to talk on the various phases of radio. -Earl Lundquist, reporter. STUDENT BODY TICKETS Once more the sun is shining through the clouds of what has been a rather dismal looking future with the announcement that all school dances and activities will be held the same as usual. This has been made possible mainly through the courtesy of the management of the Berthana ballroom in offering Og­den High schol the use of its hall for the last dance of the year, the senior reception, free of charge. Students! This means that stud­ent body cards will furnish them with the same amount of enjoyment and entertainment that they have in previous years. The purchase of student body cards has been made extremely easy and convenient by the installment system of payments; consequently, there is really no legit­imate excuse for students not ob­taining" them. Let's all extend a little extra effort and show Old Man Depression that he can't limit the sale of student body tickets after I all. -Norman Carrol. AIRPLANES WANTED Members of Amigos Del Mundo were worried Wednesday as to how they should get their miniature air- , planes down from the alcoves in the hall. But on returning to school Thursday morning, we found that someone had answered our prayers and had taken them down for us. The trouble is that the planes were not returned to the club. If the kind person who aided us so much would return them we would appre­ciate it very much. -A. D. M. BELIEVE IT OR NOT (It's all true) We offer today a few trusims ex- ; tracted from a pamphlet put out by Antioch College. They are worth knowing and thinking about. What we prize we undertake to protect and preserve. What has little value to us, we waste or throw away. Drunkness is unethical, not be­cause in its total consequences to I the person and to society, ill re­sults far outweigh the temporary pleasure. Our best guides to conduct are the experience and judgment of man­kind, informed and guided by ex­ceptional intelligence and insight. No civilization can long survive' the decay of ethical controls, or the! failure of ethical insight to grow' with changing conditions. There can be neither business stability nor general economic wel­fare when unrefined profit motive expresses itself in greed, exploita- tion and deceit PHILOSOPHY (My own and other famous people's) I'm just swamped with requests for some philosophy on love. Such a popular subject. I'm sure I don't know what this younger generation or that of O. H. S. in particular, is coming to. i Someone said: Mysterious love, uncertain treas­ure, Hast thou more of pain or plea­sure? Why did she love him? "Curious fool!-be still- Is human love the growth of huma will? It's love, it's love that makes the world go found. How wise are they that are but fools in love! Love is like a dizziness. It winna let a poor body Gang about it's biziness. I say: Love is the root of all evil-let's extract the root! Love is blind-but not so with some people : Love is one thing and becoming one's sponsor is another. People can live on love. In these days they would have to. -Socrates. OBSERVATION Have You Noticed That: The major never stands still? Mr. Dave Wansgard is in his glory when he has someone "on the spot"? Pinch Hitters always prove them­selves inferior to regulars by "strik­ing out?" Don Banks has begun to sprout wings by associating with the "Angels"? Roland Stone is really making i money? i There are students who think ; "me" is the past tense? i No name record" has been played over the radio this year? Vern Springer is having a hard time choosing a sponsor? Wayne Watson has "it?" Many girls are out "gunning" for sponorships, down in "Virginia"? This writer has many times over- heard, "May I be your Sponser, Dale?" I -"R" : WANT AD COLUMN Some new Jacks for Lavon Garner. ; A front porch for Zeta's doll house. The ticking of the thus far idle clocks. Some new school yells. A little support at the football ; games. Bigger purchase of student body l tickets.