MARCH 3, 1929. MISS VERLA RATY and Miss Vema Taylor who take leading parts in the play, "Little Tin Banks,'' written by Miss Ruth Zuppann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Zuppann. This play is one of four which will be presented on Friday evening, March 8, in the Central Junior High school by the Dramatic Art class of the Ogden High School. struction. Keep your eyes on the "Classicalia News" bulletin board in the west hall and learn what's what! A COLLEGE FOR OGDEN A canvass of the school situa¬tion at Ogden High shows that the sentiment among the teachers is very strong for a junior college un¬der the auspices and direction of the University of Utah. It is a well-established principle In Amer¬ica that unification and centraliza¬tion of effect along all lines of endeavor contribute to stabilty, strength and progress. This is just as true in education as in business. We have a state school system. It is a part of the state's business to promote, stand¬ardize, unify and strengthen all educational interests. We must see to it that we do not dissipate our means and energies by endeavoring to set up local, independent units. We are not suffering in this state from over-centralization educationally, but rather the reverse— a lack of centralization. An instance of this may be cited: Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan, Murray, each has its separate sys¬tem of education, ell differing from the system prevaling in the various counties. In consequence, we lack uniformity, coordination,, strength. Each has its own system of text books and courses of study. If, by chance, a student moves from any county school into any one of these city schools mentioned, he must obtain a new set of books and make an extraordinary effort to adapt himself to the new sys¬tem. Now, as everyone knows, there is a great deal of shifting about within the state, and in the course of a year e, great deal of inconvenience and expense is occa¬sioned by our lack of uniformity—by our lack of system In our state educational program. Let us not continue to work to¬ward decentralization, but towards centralization and unification of educational interests. Now is the time to set up a state standard of higher education. Let us have a real state university, and all work, together to see that its standards are high and that all college work wherever done meets the standards set by our state institution. Let us forget this local pride stuff, this jealousy of Salt Lake or Logan or Provo and center our efforts to¬ward the establishment of an edu-cational policy for higher educa¬tion in this state. MARCH 5, 1929. TWO GIRLS WIN GOLD MEDALS They Will Repeat Orations At School Assembly On Friday Nine young women of the Ogden high school participated in the ora¬torical contest conducted by the Golden Spike chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mon¬day afternoon in the English room of the Hotel Bigelow, first and sec¬ond winners being Miss Elsie Wheelwright and Miss Virginia Rose, respectively. Miss Wheel¬wright's oration was entitled, "The Stars on the Field of Blue" and that, of Miss Rose was "The Consti¬tution and Peace." Hostesses of the occasion were Mrs. H. L. Taylor and Miss Nan Williams. The committee on pa¬triotic education sponsoring and ar¬ranging for the contest was com¬posed of Mrs. H. L. Taylor, chair¬man, Mrs. A. D. Barber and Miss Eva Erb. Judges of the contest were Mrs. Fred M. Nye, chairman; Mrs. Albert Saxton and Miss Jo¬sephine Seaman. Gold D. A. R. medals will be awarded to the 'two successful contestants at the Og¬den high school assembly Friday, March 8, at 8:40 a. m., and the ora¬tions will be repeated. Other orations were given by Jeanette Morrell, "America"; Mad¬eline Stringham, "The Writing on the Snow at Valley Forge"; Katherine Thomas, "Our Country, a Liv¬ing Monument to the Past"; Ruth Kraines, "The Unknown Soldier"; Ruth Falck, "The Greatest Mother on Earth"; Verla Baty, "Preserve Our Ideals," and Viola Teuscher, "The Unsung Hero," all of which were ably given and received high commendation by the judges. The meeting was attended by about thirty women and was pre¬sided over by the regent, Mrs. John Coffin Evans. Mrs. P. H. Mulcahy acted as secretary. MARCH 6, 1929. "The world is too busy to bother much about the fellow who is too lazy to make the most of the stuff that is in him." TWO MORE DAYS Just two more days until the big theatre night. The four one-act plays, to be presented March 8, are in excellent condition waiting to show you a good time. Remember this: "We'll do our part. If you'll do yours what a wonderful time we'll all enjoy." CAMPAIGN BEGINS Campaigning for queen has be¬gun with a bang. The News, let it be said, is not sponsoring' any one certain girl but we will gladly loan space to those who are. The following letter has been dropped in the box by Margaret's boosters: Now if the other candidates' back¬ers are as progressive, we look soon for some snappy competition. "With the Classicalia near at hand the time draws near when we should choose our candidate for queen. In looking over the prospective candidates many of us have come to a conclusion already. It is agreed that there are many sweet girls in the school, but it is equally true that there is one that stands out clearly above the rest in beauty, charm and personality. The queen should not only be a blonde but she should have golden hair and big blue eyes. She should be intellectual, beautiful and moreover, the name of the queen should be Margaret Ellingson. "You all know Margaret. She has every requirement of a real queen and certainly deserves such an honor. Therefore, when the balloting is begun our motto should be "A Queenly Queen with Mar-garet." HAM AND Last Thursday after a short ses¬sion, Ham And went to work on j the amplifiers to be used in receiv¬ing Mr. Hoover's speech. After blowing five tubes the speaker was hooked up and made in readiness ; for the fourth. And what a fourth it was! All those who heard the inaugural ceremonies can see what an asset a fine radio installation is to any school, but the student body has only touched upon the wonders with which the members of Ham And are concerned. It is the en¬deavor of Ham And to make radio interesting to all and this is rapid¬ly being accomplished. THE OPERA Along with the first signs of spring hanging around the drug¬store every noon has come the im¬portant announcement of the se¬lection of the opera cast. Blanch Heed, of musical fame, is to be the lovely leading lady. Keith is to be the dashing prince, hero of the story; Mickel is to be played by Kent Bramwell and Gladys Ander¬son will be Paula, the mother. Har¬old Felt will understudy Keith, Dorothy Martin will understudy Gladys, and Charles Housley will be the second for Kent. Hessel Stowe, understudied by Bill Smiley, will be Slingsby and Van Tromp will be Royal Harrop to be under¬studied by Gerald Klomp. Coniche will be Walton Foulger, whose un¬derstudy is Elmer Broome. Liane, the milliner, is Helen Miller. The six sisters, very charming sisters, will be played by Erma Reardon, who is Lizette; Julia Jones, Clarette; Eleanor Stevens, Babette; Audrey Clark, Jeanette; Rachel Medoway, Joenette, and Venna Hokanson, Nanette. Captain Lourent is Dick Ballard, a captainly captain. There are two parts which have not been chosen. They are the First Footman and Karl. Watch for more news. TOURNEY TIPS The Utah State High school bas¬ketball tournament will be staged in the Deseret gym, Salt Lake, March 13 to 16 inclusive. Sixteen championship and near champion¬ship teams from all parts of the state will be competing for the state championship and the right to rep¬resent Utah in the national tourna¬ment at Chicago in April. Pairings for the first night's play (a week from tonight) have been made, and Ogden, champions of the Weber division, will play Bing¬ham, champions of their division. A single defeat eliminates a team from the champonship and two de¬feats withdraws it from all com-petition. The best showing an Ogden team has made in the tournament com¬petition was in 1926 when the Or-ange Streaks lost to L. D. S. in the finals by one point max-gin. They received a special invitation, how-ever, and made the trip to Chicago. CONGRESS Congress was called to order by President Ririe. The old business consisted of the settling of the Congress-Forum debate. We fin¬ally decided to appoint a commit¬tee to meet with Forum and de¬cide all the details. We also elect¬ed the two teams to meet Forum and show them how to debate. Next week we are going to have a snappy waiting list debate, and anyone who is interested is invited to be present. Congress then adjourned, because if we had stayed any longer, we might have con¬ceived more ideas for showing Forum up. —Ruth Kraines. MARCH 5, 1929. Ogden High School News "The fellow who is always kill¬ing time may find some day that he has been murdering good op-portunities." JUNIOR CADET HOP On Saturday evening, March 9, E company of Lewis Junior High school and F company of South Washington will give their first conjoint cadet hop. The affair will be held in the Ninth ward Arcadia ballroom at 8:30 o'dlock. A limited number of tickets will be allotted to the high school. Any cadet or student interested will please see Captain Oswell Jackson in order to make the proper res¬ervation. No one will be admitted without the regular invitational ticket. BACK AGAIN The halls of Ogden High were populated once more with the re¬turn to school of some of the "vacationists" who have been enter¬taining the mumps for the last cou¬ple of weeks. Mr. Robins, "Stampede" Carver and "Dribbling Doc" Stone came back, looking none the worse for their "swell" experience. To even things up a bit, "Ray Ran¬dall closed his locker and jour¬neyed home to remain under quar¬antine for the same reason. TOURNEY BOUND The championship Ogden High basketball quintet is back to work in preparation for the big state tournament in Salt Lake next week. Coach Kapple has named the fol¬lowing players to wear the Or¬ange and Black in the annual joust, Don Chambers, Rex Greaves. Slim Hales, Doxey Stone, Jim Francis, Jack Harbertson, Frank Read and Les Mayer. Before they leave, these players will be fitted in new playing shoes through the courtesy of the Larson Sporting Goods company, for cap¬turing the division pennant. QUEEN NOMINATIONS This week the candidates for queen of hearts of O. H. S. will be nominated. Fifteen will be selected in the first convention probably Thursday and this number will be later reduced to nine and then to two and then one—who will she be? That’s the question. Talk up your candidates and watch the news bulletin for the latest tips. HOOVER HEARD The Ham And club mads it possible for the students of our institution to hear the inaugural ceremonies in Washington, D. C. The program was made possible through the co-operation of the advisor Mr. Smith, and Mr. Coray. Equipment used during the broadcast was furnished by the George R. Browning and W. H. Wright’s companies. WASHINGTON PILOT The February issue of the Washington Pilot (South Washington Junior), is about as fine a specimen of mimeographed magazine work as our eyes have ever beheld. We commend especially the art work to which we are attracted by a beautiful cover design and which holds our attention as we turn the pages one by one. We stopped long on pages two and three. "Americans All"—sixteen of them, in profile. We could recognize three or four, so we conclude we do not know our countrymen and shall probably have to go back to one of the junior schools to get a foundation in American history. All the remainder of the magazine, however, we could read and understand and enjoy. We think the book a very worthy effort and we congratulate all who participated in its publication. FEBRUARY 21, 1929. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestal fire, conscience—From Washington’s copybook. STONE OUT OF GAME The Orange Streaks will be minus the services of one of their star guards in tomorrow night's game with Davis. Doxey Stone will be lost to the Tigers for the rest the season, due to mumps. "Stoney's" guarding duties will fall on either Francis or Parks. It's a tough break, gang, and the going will be real rough tomorrow night—but if you're behind the team 100 per cent we're going to win and cinch the championship. Absolutely everybody—tomorrow’s a holiday, no school—and the game at 7:30 in our gym. We've got to fight—fight—fight. KEEP OUT The News staff requests that all persons not having business in tilt student body room during the 8:30 to 9:30 period please refrain from entering. The staff is bothered and cannot turn out a high grade of news. COUNCIL The regular council meeting was called to order by President Corry and the minutes were read and approved. I-Wannan-O's request for a party to be held on Friday was granted, In the absence of Miss Emmett, the reports handed in by various clubs were read by the secretary. They were accepted by a motion. On motion of Mr. Norback, it was decided to appropriate money for the railroad fare of the debating team to Salt Lake, Miss Crockett read the report of the expenses of the Girls Accolade. The report was accepted and the girls' association was commended for its work as this is the first dance this year to clear expenses. After various discussions rela¬tive to assembles Council adjourn¬ed.—Jeanette Morrell, secretary. WHO'S NEXT Our English teacher, Mr. Robins, is confined to his home with the mumps. He noticed a swollen jaw and a thorough examination with lemons and pickles revealed an ex¬cellent example of the mumps. Mr. Robins is replaced by Mrs. Eakin. We sincerely regret his illness and await, "the time when he will be with us again. Among others who have not had the mumps and who are exposed and feel like they will