OGDEN H MARCH Veni, Vidi, Viei. A silent, slumbering world Shut in by winter's cold; Sunshine rain and wind iiy scheming March controlled. A warm and spring-like day—- A wakened, joyful world- Rain and sudden shower Hail and snow unfurled. Wet feet and snuffling colds— And March, with winds cntwirled, Laughing with victor's mirth— A. sickened, saddened world. —Eleanor Weeks. GOOD bye, MARCH. We welcome April. March haS been seasonable — consistent throughout, but none too enjoy¬able. We were glad to say'good¬bye to her. April, we hope you'll be fair and pleasant. LTST OF AWARDS. Typewriting awards for the month of March include: L. C. Smith—Certificates: Edna Thatcher, Joe Fakler. Bronze pin: Delsa Foulger, Lorin Wheelwright. Silver pin: Evelyn Benowitz. Hazel Davis. Remington—Certificates: Blaine Carruth. Gaye Gibbs, Belva Hamp¬ton, Virginia Jensen, Blaine McMurrin, Alvilda Nielsen, Fern Parry, Florence Perrins, Ella Smout, Margaret Stevens, George Vaughn. Silver medal: Aleen Johnson, Lorin Wheelwright. Gold medal: Evelyn Benowitz. Underwood — Certificates: Virginia Anderson, Virginia Christenson, Wayne Fisher, Glen F. Hardins Nordis Harlin, Neldon John¬son, Charlotte Scheunman, Gene¬vieve Syphers, Edna Thatcher. Bronze Emblem: Neth McClellan. Aleen Johnson. Silver Emblem: Lorin Wheelwright. —Edith B. Kohler. INTERESTING LECTURE. Dr. M. G. Murphy for many years a missionary in the Orient, talked most iM&festingly Thurs- Ilie history classes on "Japanese—Chinese—American Problems." Students plied him with many questions and received in Rturn first-hand information bout what the Japanese and Chinese people think of America. VISITORS. Ogden High was favored Thurs¬day with'a number of visitors. Professor Reavis of the Univer¬sity of Chicago, spent a very pleasant hour here and was much interested in our work. He left, incidentally, a good many suggestions as to how the modern hign school should meet the present- day needs. John Luckner, field representative of the Los Angeles Times, was also here in the interest of the International oratorical con¬test on the subject of the constltution. Miss May McCary of the Logan High school visited our com.mercial department with the idea of noting how this department is carried oil in the Ogden High school. The recruiting officer of Fort Douglas visited the R. O. T. C. in the interest of the citizens military training camp. He hopes that Ogden will have a large rep¬resentation thi3 summer. GRADUATING CLASS. It now appears that this year's graduating class will consist of about 115 boys and 140 girls, total 253. This is about 100 short o< last year, due largely to the establishment of Weber County High school, in small measure perhaps to its being an off year. Last year's class comprising 353 members, was the largest class ever graduated at one time from any high school in Utah. ROTARY AND BAND. The Ogden Rotary club is very I enthusiastic about the R.O. T. C. band. They seem to realize rather I better than any other group of people that we have in Ogden one I of the very best amateur organ¬izations in the world, and they are willing and eager to let the world know about it. Last year Rotary members did more than all other members combined to send the band to Fostoria. They held the band for 10 days at Denver to attend Rotary Interna¬tional convention. Now this year the club is sending the band to Boise, Idaho, all expenses paid, to furnish music for Utah-Idaho i Rotary district. It is only fair in this connection to say that all Rotary members of Utah-Idaho district have contributed some during the past year to further the interests of the R. O. T. C. band. Thanks, thanks, Rotarians all. CONTRACTS OUT. This is the teachers' day of joy or gloom. All teachers of the city schools receive word toda.y from the superintendent's office con¬cerning the estimate placed upon their value to the children of Og¬den. For the mo3t part teaching contracts are renewed and oc-casionally at a slight increase in salary. Many teachers have reached the maximum and ex¬pect no increase. In securing efficient teachers for the schools of Ogden, Super¬intendent Hopkins and the board of education assume a tremendous responsibility. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Old Charley Charr guarded his old sour cherry tree as a miser guards his sack of gold. Charley's often-repeated challenge. "I'd like to see the boy that gets into my cherries," had spread among the boys. One night some boys dsired me to get a pocketful of cherries from this tree of forbidden fruit. Unwilling not to take a dare, I crept into the orchard and shinned up the tree.. I was en¬joying the cherries and the night's cool breeze when I said out loud, "Wouldn't it be interesting if Old Charley should happen along!" Just then some bushes moved and who should be there but Old Charley Charr himself? As the moonlight shone on his face there seemed to be a sarcastic smile as he said, "I'm here to make it interesting for you!" —Dorothy Abbott. WORLD'S GREATEST FORENSIC. In 1923 tfhe Los Angeles Times conducted an oratorical contest among the secondary schools of 1 California, at the suggestion of Prof. Randolph Leigh, on the subject, "The Constitution of the United States." Its purposes was "to increase interest in and re¬spect for the constitution of the United States." The contest was successful. In 1924 the- contest was carried on upon a national scale under the auspices of twenty-odd metropoli¬tan newspapers. In 1925 the contest crossed our borders north and south into Can¬ada and Mexico, across the wa¬ters into England and France and thus became a great internat'onas movement. The contest in the United States is now carried on in seven great districts or zones out of which come yearly seven cham¬pion orators, each of whom gets a $500 ash prize,, a trip to Wash¬ington & with high honors paid them there by the president and vice president of the United States, the members of the su¬preme court, senators and repre¬sents, tives.wetc., after which they are givem a free summer trip through foreign lands. 1 This becomes then intrinsically 1 from every point of view the ! most interesting, valuable, worth- I while contest carried on under ' the auspices of any organization in the world among high school students. Ogden is entering this great contest and we are very grateful for the opportunity. DANGEROUS VOCATION. President Wriston of Lawrence college, Wisconsin, in a recent ad¬dress before the state teachers gave expression to these perti¬nent thoughts: "There is danger in perpetual contact with immature minds. There is a tendency toward lazy mental habits, a tendency to bluff, and a tendency toward under- preparation. Your mind is not being stretched in discussion. People going into dangerous pro¬fessions must develop their pow¬ers of resistance. So with the teacher. Tho teacher must de¬velop his resistance by setting for himself intellectual tasks which demand all his powers, by the development of a strong profes¬sional interest." OGDEN H April 4 MORNING. There is nothing more wonderful than morning, That eternal pause between night and day, When snowy white clouds catch the first sun ray; So like a little spring bud opening lo a pale rose flower, the petals of it floating In the air like silver-laced ships in bay. The sun appears: the stealthy shadows play; And the quiet morning is fading. But though the sun comes up with flaming beams, Though half the creatures of the world awake; Though day is here with the noise of men, The sun sinks; night appears. The cycle will never break; For the dawn of the clay will coin- again. —Virginia Miller. ! SONNET WRITERS. Attention of students and read¬ers is called to the many student written sonnets that are occurring quite regularly in these columns These are written by students in Mrs. Newcomb's classes and ar > praiseworthy efforts in this very difficult form of writing. OFF FOR BOISE. On Wednesday morning 42 mem¬bers of the R. O. T. C. band, under the direction of Captain C Dockler and Hyrum Lammers, leave Ogden in two large U I C buses to make a tour of southern Idaho and to Boise. The band will piay at Pocatello at noon and at Twin Falls in the evening. On Thursday the bank will reach Boise, where it will play for the Utah-Idaho district convention nf Rotary International. This will another fine trip for the boys and wilt advertise throughout these two states Ogden High's crack mil¬itary band. Prominent citizens trom every community of these two states will be present at this convention. NIGHT SCHOOL CLOSES. Night school classes close on Thursday night of this week. Prin¬cipal Wiggins reports that the at¬tendance has been larger and more regular than ever before and that a better grade of work has been done. Ogden's night school is a great institution and is doing a splendid work in adult education. SECTION DEBATES. The annual debates of Ogden, Weber, Davis and Box Elder high ' schools will be held tomorrow and Wednesday, determining the sec¬tional winners, who shall be privi¬leged to represent the section m the state contest. It is hoped that some day there shall be found in the high schools of the state that type of interest and enthusiasm for intellectual contests, such as debating, oratory, dramatics, etc., as now character¬izes athletic contests. MUCH INTEREST IN THE CONSTITUTION. - For the part several years the Kiwanis clubs of the country have endeavored to awaken an interest in secondary schools- in the subject of the "Constitution of the [ United States." The clubs have succeeded. > irt getting Constitu-: tion Days," "Constitution Weeks,:' and have offered some prizes for the best assays and the best ora¬tions on the subject. It. has remained, however, for the great newspapers of the coun¬try to awaken a real interest among a large class of students in every high school in the land by the inauguration of the, grdat na¬tional and international oratorical contest on the constitution. This is the greatest contest ever fea¬tured in the schools and it is es¬timated thkt two and a half mil¬lion high school students will write orations on the subject and contest for places to represent their re¬spective schools in the contest. Although this is the first time the Utah students have had oppor¬tunity to participate a real genuine interest has been awakened in all the schools and practically every high school in the state will try out for honors. For some time past the Los An¬geles Times, which is sponsoring this zone, has been sending litera¬ture to the high schools on the subject and consequently when the field representative, John Luckner, appeared at the administrators' convention in Salt Lake City Fri¬day and Saturday to complete the details of instructions of how to conduct the contest in the several divisions of the state, he found ail high school principals enthused over the contest. They reported to him that their students were now in active preparation and that a spirited contest would be held in all their high schools. On April 29, the following schools in the northern part of the state will hold a district contest in Ogden: Logan, South Cache, Box Elder, Weber, Davis and Ogden. The contest will be held in Ogden. The winner in this district will re¬ceive a $25 prize, second place $15. third place $10. The winner Will go to Salt Lake to compete for the $100 prize on May 6. The winner of the state will go to Low Angeles to participate in the zone contest May 13, which offers a $500 prize for first, $250 for sec¬ond, $100 for third, $50 for fourth, and $2 5 each for fifth, sixth, sev¬enth and eighth places. WORSE OFF THAN OGDEN. Ogden students sometimes feel to complain that they haven't a fit- assembly hall in which to meet. Perhaps we can derive some little comfort from the fact that we at least aren't the worst off. The University of Utah hasn't nearly so good a one as we have. It isn't as large nor as comfortable, nor half so clean as ours. To offset this, however, perhaps the university has the most beau¬tiful setting and the most beauti¬ful grounds of any school in the state. Our guess is that-the uni¬versity janitors are .lovers of the outrof-doors and spend all their time keeping the outside neat, for-getting the washing, sweeping, dusting, of the inside. A GREAT EXPERIMENTER. Dr. W, C. Reavis, principal of the University of Chicago High school, who visited our school on