Hurriedly, I Began the" battle to M conquer the knot. With numb fin- : gers, and no time to really spare, j j I commenced tearing and pulling i i which only made the task more'! hopeless. My tongue wagged con- 1 slantly, muttering my thoughts to- I j ward the cursed knot. . The frigid- j ' ness of the atmosphere coupled!' with the mumbling warmth of my j j words produced a chattering of ! i teeth, and violent pulling of shoe ! lace. The more I gnashed, tore ! I and muttered, the more ornery the knot became. ' j , Finally I realized that tact and ' I patience must be used. So calm- ' ing my raging mind and body, . worked with skill and patience. In a short time the knot submitted to science. A knot, as I found out, ! cannot be untied by cursing, gnasb. ing of teeth or tearing of threads, but only complete mastery of sell does the deed.-Joe Irvine. Nov 24 - 24 Ogden High School Notes This is Thanksgiving week. Slogan for today: "Thankful only two i more days before Thanksgiving day." The High school will have a j Thanksgiving program on Wednesday morning at 11:10 o'clock.! There will be special musical num- j bers and an address by the Rev. : John E. Carver. Patrons Invited. TERM CLOSES. This week closes the second i term-the end of twelve weeks- : one-third of the school year' has I passed already. My goodness! jit doesn't seem possible! Where J has the time gone? Only 24 morel weeks till graduation time! Wheth­er the world moves or not, surely i the time moves on. The office force is checking up already on the seniors who shall j probably be able to graduate. i On Wednesday night the high ' has its first big party of the year j j - Thanksgiving party - getting i J ready for the turkey-at the j Berthana. The party is sponsored by the junior class. The girls are preparing to have a candy booth and candy sale at j the school play on December 10. ; Miss Beck is also planning inter­esting features between acts so that there will be something doing all the while. Ogden had a rather unusual in­terest in the L. D. S.-Carbon game last Saturday on account of Carl (Stubby) Peterson, the Carbon coach, having been a former coach at Ogden. Stubby has sure­ly done some fine work at Price this year. MANY PARENTS VISIT. A goodly number of parents fa­vored the school with a visit last week. They expressed themselves as pleased with the work that the students are doing. Miss Smith, the librarian, had about a hundred worn books re­bound on Saturday. The work; was done by Mr. Boyer, who travels1 from sckool to school doing tliat j i sort of work. Friday's O. H. S. Notes were brief1 on account of (1) two pages being overlooked at high school and not; sent down; (2) the refusal of the paper staff to publish the best article ever sent down, as it violat- : ed federal law and hence unprint­able. What a shame! a lucky teacher, , Some teachers are born lucky. ; Such a man is Instructor Willis Smith of the high school. Three times now Willis has been loaded ' down with free groceries. A mea­sure of good luck is coming to all 1 high school teachers as Willis is - thinking of inviting all the teach­ers up to help get rid of his sur­plus "goodies." I All teachers and students should clip the Saturday editorial in The Standard-Examiner on spelling. It was well worthwhile. Tomorrow (Tuesday) night the j high school musical department will give a musicale in the Audi­torium at 8 o'clock, free. The public is invited. FORUM MEETING. The Forum anticipates an inter­esting meeting tonight in that there are to be tryouts for new member­ships to fill vacancies. There are but 12 members in the club and there are at least that many on the waiting list. OGDEN-EAST-WEST. The principals of East-West and Ogden high schools decided at a meeting in Salt Lake City on Satur­day last that these major schools should hereafter schedule games with each other. There has been some talk In the newspapers recently about .these schools breaking away from the U. A. A. and forming an independent league. There is nothing in this talk, as we all appreciate the value of that organization and would not willingly injure it in any way. In 5 forming this minor league the schools act within their constitu­tional rights and maintain their membership in the State Athletic ! a association. ONE PUPIL'S IDEA. Why I do not wish to become a teacher. j ! s ! I like teachers. In fact, I don't i know what I would do without! them, but I would very much dis-J like being one myself. I would like to stay young asj , long as possible, and we all know , that a young school teacher soon gets old-or, at any rate, gray I headed. j This change in the hair is due ! wholly to the actions of the students, test papers and unprepared assignments. Another reason why I should not like to be a teacher is because most teachers are either old maids, j d or they lose their heads in the j rush and get married. Poor things. I want to stay young and happy. The first issue of the classicum! ( will be out Wednesday. All students be sure to have student body j j tickets with them. Henry-Dad, there's a girl in our I-. school that we call Postscript. Dad-Postscript! Why do you call her Postscript? Henry-'Cause her name is Adaline Moore. I In 1925 the high cost of forget- j ting will not be lower. Eden came from school bearing ! every evidence of having had the worst of a fight. j "Why, Eden!" exclaimed his mother, "How often have I told you to play only with good little boys? Good boys don't fight." "Well," said Eden, "I thought i he was a good boy till I hit him." Mr. Kristofferson-Boys, who was the greatest inventor? George-An Irishman named Pat. Pending. : "Life is made up of sobs, snif­fles and smiles-the sniffles pre­dominating."-O. Henry. POTENT PARAGRAPHS. To those who are interested in big thoughts, beautifully and pow- ! erfully expressed, we recommend the article, "The Two Courages," j by Charles E. Jefferson in "Good Housekeeping" for December. To; I . give a foretaste of this splendid! article we quote a paragraph: j " "There are two kinds of cour- i t aSe- The first we may call "military" courage. It is the most abundant of all our virtues. We have a greater stock of it on hand 11:1 than of any other form of moral treasure. We have more courage than we have justice- or prudence j or self control, truthfulness or honesty or forgiveness or mercy. This j was demonstrated in the great war. I The world is enormously inexpres- i sibly rich in courage, i Add by the side of that fact we must place another fact: The world I distressingly poor in courage. i Courage is the most abundant of all our virtues. Courage is also the scarcest of all our virtues. We are richly supplied with military courage but we are deficient in civic courage. We have been trained to be good soldiers, but we have not been trained to be good citizens. We know how to use steel, but we do not know how to use effectively the resources of the spirit. We can fight victoriously in the armor of Caesar, but we are awkward and often impotent when it comes to fighting in the armor ' sWe are strng enough to tignt a victorious war, but we are not strong enough to create an honorable and lasting peace." nov 25 - 24 Ogden High School Notes This is Thanksgiving dcek. We are thankful for Thanksgiving and thankful there is only one more j w day of school before Thanksgiving' day. The school was favored Monday j by a visit from Supt. W. K. Hopkins. He seemed pleased with conditions and work being done. THE FORUM. At the Forum meeting Monday night the following boys made i jtf j formal application for entrance to a the club by making arguments on c j the subject, "Resolved, That Ogden should have a new 500,000 high school." John Cragun, Billy Gunnell, George Glen, Jack Craven, John Griffin, Reed Eames ; Scott Kellogg and Hal Armstrong. ! Some splendid arguments were' ad- j i vanced on the affirmative side of j ! : , the subject but, strangely enough, j I ' none of the boys chose to speak j ; i on the negative side. Mrs. Hyrum Smith, Claude Coray and Miss Reva Beck acted as judges, ana i complimented the fcoys very high- ! ly on their splendid work. The editor of the Quarterly, Frieda Kraines, announces that all material for the Christmas Quarterly must be in by Thursday, December 4. NOVEL COMPLAINT. It was reported Monday night; that a number of high school students are overworking-staying up 1 far into the night, working all day Sundays, holidays, etc., and not; taking proper care of their health. ' The teachers do not desire any students to overwork or to endanger their health, and will gladly do- operate with parents in helping students to keep reasonable tudy hours, and to form good study " : habits. Much pains is taken to ! get students to study enough to prepare their lessons, but there is : always danger of some conscien- 1 j tious, ambitious students over-, " doing. In all cases-both of un- t derstudy and over-study-we de- sire that parents confer with teach- ers and school, officials, Coach Kapple is now a bonafide resident of Ogden, having purchas­ed a fine new six-room home at 2767 Monroe avenue. OUR BEST ARTICLE. Elbert Hubbard once said the best article he ever, wrote, was e : whisked by the wind out of the car window. We have a feeling . that the best article we ever wrote for high school notes was 'whiske.i' into the waste basnet at The Standard-Examiner office on Fri­day last They said it was in via- j lation of federal law to pubjsn 1 such articles. i Do not get excited-it wasn't personal nor libel, nor anything like that-at was just a simple di- j agnosis of a peculiar trait in hu­man nature. A meeting of Ogden division representatives is to be held in! the principal's office, Ogden High school, this afternoon at 5 o'clock, j A DEBATE. The members of the Diaet were: entertained by an instructive de- ' bate Monday afternoon. The ques­tion was, "Resolved, that the Yel­low Race should be excluded from ; the United States." Frieda Keines ; snd Harold Olson presented the af­firmative issues, and Marjorie Al­len and Dee Bingham gave the negative. The judges gave a, unan­imous decision to the affirmative. Both sides presented their argu­ments in an able manner. At Assembly tomorrow, Genevieve Moyes will read "The Coming Out of Maggie," by O. Henry. Willard . Scowcroft & Company will give a saxaphone duet, Cecil McDonald & Company will play a violin trio. : The Rev. J. E. Carver will deliver the Thanksgiving address. Pat­rons will be welcome at this pro­gram. The musicalfe given by the musi department tonight at 8 o'clock promises to be of unusual inter­est. The following paper was hand­ed in Monday in a Home Eco­nomics class:. MY DRESS. I can very truthfully say that when I finished my dress, I, liked it very much, for it fit well and ! turned out exactly as planned. Of this I am quite proud for we used a drafted pattern and the dress looks very much like picturs in the Delineator magazine. The pa-1.- ! tern was altered only 'so that it would fit better and this only oi . I the underarm seams and the seams 1 of the sleeves. The making of the ! dress was interesting and I do not! . believe there was any part more . i difficult than any other. I learn­ed how ,to make .the buttonholes I had always thought so hard to make. I also learned how to sew the collar of my dress on in -tailor j i fashion and how to make the stitch j around the hem and on either, side j of the lapels. It took me about J two weeks to make my dress ,.inj class. It is made of 2 1-4 yards of tan checked flannel, which Wsck 44 inches wide and cost 6.70. The j dress is trimmed with 5 1-2 yards! of brown silk military braid which , cost 56c, and a dozen buttons at j ! 1.25. The total cost of dress wasj ; ! 9.51. This included thread at 30c j S and tie at 70 c. CLEONE SHANKS. WE SALUTE THE JANITOR. To the carefree students,who ev­erlastingly delight in littering the hallways with gum wrappers; the janitor's duties are mere trivialities. However, let us think' for a mo­ment of all those pet boresome jobs that forever keep him on the run; here a locker and no key; there a weeping female mourning the loss of her long hoarded book, money, or perhaps an ordinary heel, that by some mis-step has ' j become' "soleless." ;Again, to whom does the teach­er go when suddenly the loss of - key is revealed, or the desired heat r in room 10 is lacking? Even tho' the janitor's business is said to be "picking up,"' the y thanks and gratitude he receives y seems no compensation, o Tho' we may still be carefree 0 midst our foolishness, we owe to s our best friend, .appreciation. So, let us salute the janitor as we pass! RUTH FISHER. A PARENT'S PRAYER. i I have aboy to bring up. Help I me to perform'my task writh wis- ! dom and kindness and good cheer, e 1 Help me always to see him dear­s' ly, as he is. Let not my pride: it I in him hide his faults. Let not my fear for him magnify my doubts, and fears until I make him doubt­ing and fearful in his turn. ie Quicken my judgment so that l is shall know to train him to think ie as a child, to be in all things pure tg and simple as a child, te Give me great patience and long 'i' memory. Let me remember the 10 hard places in my own youth, ao i- that I may help when I see him j struggling as I struggled then. sh ! Let me remember the things i j that made me glad, lest I, sweat- 't 1; ing in the toil and strain of life, i forget that a little child's laughter :i- j is the light of life.