SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1932 PUBLIC BIDDEN TO SEE GROUP , OF DRAWINGS: ; Work of Maynard Dixon Being Shown At Ogden High School By LeCONTE STEWART At the Ogden High school, there are some forty drawings by May­nard Dixon of San Francisco, brought here by the Girls' associa­tion of the school, through the courtesy of Mrs. Joseph Evans, j Drawings are usually esteemed by artists more than a man's finished paintings, as revealing more di­rectly and spontaneously his im­pressions. These drawings of Dix­on's were done while the impression was hot and give one a clear in­sight into the man and his work. Ruth Pielkovo, in the International Studio has this to say of Dixon: , "In San Francisco there is an artist, Maynard Dixon, in whose art is revealed the almost- epic pageant of the West. Here the biggest and simplest forms of man and the biggest and simplest forms of nature merge-the slow, wide flung rhythms of mesa and desert,, of purple mountain and tawny I plain blend with the mysterious life of the Indian. It is the pres-f ent, not the past, which Dixon paints, for in this vast and silent land which he recreates, time matters little, the shadow of ancient things slants across the present, scarcely a breath between. . . . Perhaps here, facing this limit­less natural expanse, where we ap-' pear as specks upon the desert's J face, staring across the dim, un- 1 measured plain to strange and ever 1 ' receding horizons of level mesa, a wind-cut butte, far from the clan­gor of industrial life, comes a realization of the immensity of the American rhythm, of a larger and freer life than most of us have known. The artist, with the egoism of intense conviction, has himself ' expressed this feeling in these lines: "'I am the one - I am the one who brings, From the rocks From the records, From the cliffs where they dwell The authentic feathers of direc­tion From the crumbled earth of my bed The undoubtable dust of dreams Out of the dust of dreams (Long held and last undertaken) I who hold the black bowl of visions Come with answer of thunder- topped mesas, And revelation of star' traveled plains.'" "The supreme value of such painting as Dixon's is its pugent individuality. Dixon has something to give us that is entirely his own. . . . The Arizona desert, the coun­tries of the Navajo and Blackfeet Indians, the rolling cattle ranges of the north are his favorite theme, these lands of squat hills and end­less skies, he has made peculiarly his own. His painting is full of a strange and sombre poetry. In it we find sore barren hills, oppressed by the weight of the far reaching sky, flat plains spreading to the horizon, palpitant beneath the heavens. A harsh and lonely land, alien from the intimate charm of surroundings where most of us are at_ home th'at we feel as if we were , MUSHROOMS I Mushrooms and mushrooms and more mushrooms. Well, some day Betty Gunnell and a few of her co- jhorts are going to have a strictly mushroom brawl. Anyway, the sim­ply slibber-slobberous ones we had the other night at Janet's just strengthened their resolution. And mushrooms weren't all. Salad, hot biscuits, noodles, pie, etc., just nat- jurally went the way of all good food and the bridge we played was just unnaturally good, too. Even if Maurine did win the prize by let­ting Mrs. Wangsgard do all the dirty work. Maurine had a nice time sit- intruders in a world not quite our own, caught up in an infinite space of earth and sky, very remote from the hearthside view of things." "Skies, rather than the earth, predominate in much of his work: skies filled sometimes with swollen and thunderous clouds, again hard and bright, stretched like a sapphire tent above the gaudy and desolate land. This sense of space, this simplicity of theme is reflected in the technique, which seems to be inherent in the subject. It is simple bold almost to starkness, yet there is always organization, a marching rhythm of design. "A master draughtsman-Dixon is also a daring colorist. Dixon's intrepretations of life in the west­ern range have no storied human- interest quality. There is no at­tempt at becoming a second Rem­ington. Dixon is an artist, not an illustrator and the literary appeal is absent from his work. It is in the handling of his subject matter, not the subject matter itself, that Dixon's claim to distinction lies. "It is natural that upon such a man as Dixon the American Indian exerts a strong influence. He knows him well, through years of association. Summer after summer has he gone to his reservation and lived with him. He is familiar with his history, his legends, his art, and many of his close friends are mem­bers of this race. "A Californian from the flat val­ley of the San Joaquin, a man of Virginian ancestry whose fore­fathers fought in both the Revo­lutionary and the Civil wars, he is purely a western painter, an artest who has held his own Way unaided and whose work is little influenced by modern European theory." The public is cordially invited to see these drawings, ting on peoples' laps. S'all that mat­ters, s'all that matters. And "I Was Born on a Farm in I-I-I-owa-a-a-a" pounded out fam­iliarly-just ask Marjorie Wood. Dave was there, too. ? ? ? From all signs, Phi Lambda Tau had a good 'ole get together. And did we guzzle-and also have hys­terics-pledges included. - M. J. W. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1932. School Invites Gift Of Harvard Classics Suggests Donation From Some Owner Not Using Volumes OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Parke Petterson, Editor. Bobbie Kimball and Marjorie Wood, Associate Editors. We have not received a single answer to our suggestion (request) that someone make our library a gift of the Harvard Classics. We repeat: If anyone owns this set, and is not using or needing the same, the books would be f great value to our library. We have had some valuable con­tributions in the past, and we are not averse to receiving other con­tributions of useful books. We have never conducted a drive for books because we would prob­ably get books that were either duplicate of what we have or ones; we could not use. Our library is being gradually built up of the very best reference books in history, language, science, art, etc. All are dependable and useful. TESTING OBSTACLES He who does nothing except the things that he likes to do is a drift­er, not a rower. If civilization means anything it means progress through hard Work, overcoming ob-l stacles, doing impossible things and following relentlessly the guidance 1 of sober reason. The best thing that high school offers is an opportunity to learn to think, to study, to do things that! present difficulties. In a word, to meet discouraging circumstances . and conditions with all the vigor j and energy at one's command. For students to say "I don't like this, I don't like that" is only another way of saying "I'm beaten! I give up." t j Professor James, our greatest j psychologist, said something to this effect: "We must do something jt every day that we do not like to do, Sl tor the purpose of keeping alive the t faculty of effort." j WHAT AN ASSEMBLY! s Fellow students: I think that an a assembly as entertaining and origin- c; al as that sponsored by Zeta Phi Xi a week ago deserves some mention in the notes, so I am taking it up- v on myself to tell you about it. The melodious voices of darkies singing in the distance announced the southern idea. It was in the form of a playlet. As Jeannette Johnson, s a southern belle, plays an old southern pie'ce on the piano the head of § the family, an old gentleman, bet- b ter known to us as Helen Brophy, becomes reminiscent and tells us the story of his romance with the most beautiful lady in the south, g Hazel Lewis. Then Ruth carver; one of his daughters, sings "Lord You Made The Night Too Long." t (She sings it as the negroes sing it. You'd died laughing as Liza Jane, or Bernice Lindquist, a colored serv- O ant, is encouraged to tell of the pro­posal of her bashful sweetheart, Ike tc Johnson-or our society editor, Helen Parmley. And believe me he tb surely needed a lot of encourage­ment! And say, when that little negro boy, Keith Saville, gave us th that snappy tap dance it was hard wi to realize that we weren't really down south. Then after Barbara . at Lindquist, a visitor from the north, j gave her interpretation of southern1 music the assembly closed with the singing of the darkies once more. In view of the fact that scenery and stage accommodations were very limited it is my opinion that this was the best assembly ever sponsored by a club at high school. -B. S. n The care of the rest room is a real school service and as such is gratefully acknowledged by the Girls' association. _ First Period-Margaret Stone- Phyllis Wardleigh. Second Period-Jean Jensen- Maxine Briggs. _ Third Period-Ruby Schultz- Teresia Pullman. t) Fourth Period-Melba Randall- a -Virginia Soderberg. Fifth Period-Jean Siddoway- Ls Donna Smium. ie Sixth Period-Maxine Stone-Lois it Smalley. Seventh Period-Frances Stephens -Edith Bush. GIRLS' REST ROOM The following instructions have re been given concerning the girls' rest room: ,r 1. The rest room is designed to ,gj care for those who are ill and un­able to go home or who may be v resting for a period before return- ',g ing to classes. g 2. Attendants are asked to keep the room in perfect order, replace blankets, hot water bottles, etc., in the proper cupboards when not in use and keep the cots in neat con­dition. They must not permit stud- e ents to visit the rest room in school '- time without admittance slips from n class room teacher or from the jg office . If the student is too ill to get a slip, one of the attendants may go to the teacher for the same, d 3. Perfect quiet must be main- e tained at all times. Attendants are on honor to carry out such regula- 1 tions as would be in order in a sick 0 room. t 4. A roll must be kept each day, listing those visiting the rest room s and returned to the office, the r seventh period, accompanied by the admittance slips, e HALLOWEEN ASSEMBLY The Halloween motife was effec­tively carried out in several ways at Friday's interesting assembly. The t platform was attractively decorated s.with cornstalks and pumpkins, and; ? the program offered Halloween selections galore. Fay Staker gave the origin of Halloween and Clara Johnson favored us with a sketch of Halloween in Ireland. These splendid offerings were followed by a number from the high school or­chestra. We were then entertained by those two master story tellers, Marian Wilson and Adele Larson. And say, do we believe in spooks or do we believe in spookers? I was actually, scared stiff before those ghost stories were finished. Two other splendid musical numbers were given and rounded out another high school assembly. WE WANT TO KNOW Why Jack Shaw is nursing a grouch? Why B. T. doesn't sound off? Why the poor clocks won't wave their hands? Who took the airplane view of Ogden in 1875? Why the Lindquist cousins wish to know what it's all about? Why the students won't support the student body funds? Why Wayne W. has "It"? Why the teachers couldn't go to the state convention (my marlb will drop for this one)? Who the "A" students were out at the Logan game? -Mr. L. J.