Dec 16-24 Ogden High School Notes A big contribution of jams, jel­lies, fruits, etc., was made by the high school students today for the unfortunates in Ogden. The con­tribution will be augmented by of­ferings tomorrow morning. Miss Celena Beaulieu and Emma Chesney will pass the Christmas vacation in California We are not . advised whether for personal reas- ! ons or just to see the country. Miss Dillon announces that she may go to Huntsville. L; i About 150 students have made i application for "prevention of ! goitre" treatment prescribed by Dr. Barrett, school physician. ! The art department has just re- i i ceived a consignment of plaster of ; Paris casts for study of detail in j drawing, the various stages in the process of sculpturing, effects of , light and shade, etc. PUNCTUALITY CONTEST. j At faculty meeting Monday night 5 it was decided to begin an inter- class contest in punctuality. A re- port will be made dally of per- centage of punctuality in every 5 class in the school. At the end of the month the percentage of neith- j er absent nor tardy during the I month will be listed. "FIRES OF AUTUMN." The Utah Federation of Women's clubs has received the follow­ing letter from general federation headquarters at Washington, D. C.: "The painting, "Blazoned Fires of Autumn," by Le Conte Stewart, has arrived safely at headquarters.- We are notifying the art division to this effect. "May I thank you at the time for the gift to headquarters. it is a lovely picture and we appreci­ate the interest the women of Utah have expressed in sending it to us. Sincerely yours, LIDA HOFFAD, Director, Headquarters." FARM PEDAGOGY. Hoeing potatoes is a calm, se­rene, dignified and philosophical enterprise. But at bottom it is much the same in principle as teaching school. In my potato- patch I am merely trying to create situations that are favorable to growth, and in the school I can do neither more nor better. Catching a boy is analagous to catching a colt out in the pasture. Both feats require tact and, at the very least, horse sense. To do the former one needs a pailful "of oats. An empty pail might do once, but never again. Either a colt or a boy becomes shy after he has once been deceived. The boy who fails' to gets oats in the classroom today, will shy off from the teacher tomorrow. He will not even accept his statement that there are oats in the pail, for yes­terday the pail was empty-noth­ing but sound. -Pearson, INTERNATIONAL DEBATE The Ogden High school forum! (debating organization) journeyed to Salt Lake on the eve of Satur­day, Dec. 13, to witness the clash between the intellectuals of Utah and Oxford in an international de­bate. Even to those who hold no in­terest whatsoever in the art of de­bating, the contest would have been enjoyable due to the wide contrast in character of the two teams. The result of the peculiar Eng­lish voting system showed 257 votes ; cast for Utah and 23 for Oxford, j We hold no malice toward our I home team but the high school organization claims 12 of said 23 votes. The great difference in results, we think, is due to the oratory used by the Utah fellows. The av­erage audience can easily be swayed by a fluent orator. We feel, however, that the English­men were easy winners in the con­test. The members of the forum feel very much elated over having had the privilege of attending such a contest and would gladly welcome another. -- William Taylor. OGDEN TOPS LIST. In a report just issued from the office of Col. Norton, Ninth corps j area, R. O. T. C. work, showing the enrollment and increase in en- ! rollment during the past three : years in all schools of the area-, Ogden shows an increase of ove, ; .100 per cent-to be exact 100.8 percent-the largest increase in any school. Oakland High schools j come second with an increase of 85.2 per cent. The increases vary from 100.8 down to .7 per cent, j Three schools-Alameda, Calif.; ; Boise, Idaho, and San Diego, Calif j --show decreases of 39.2 per cent, i 15.4 per cent and 21 per cent re- j spectively. Ogden's enrollment in 1922 was 250; 1923, 376; in 1924, 502, Hurrah for Ogden High! SPECIAL PROGRAM. On Friday at 2 p. m. a special program will be given to mark the close of the school before holiday vacation. C. P. Brewer will ! give the address. His subject will ! be, "What of Tomorrow?" Special Christmas music will be given, j Awarding of six cash prizes in the j National Electric company's essay j contest will take place at this time. Frank Francis will make the awards. WHY SCHOOL NEWS IS SCARCE. Fred Charles, writing recently in j the Cleveland Plain Dealer, gives j the following explanation for tfhe j paucity of school news in most j newspapers: "The school man is frankly su­spicious of the reporters, fearful that his policy and methods may j be misunderstood or misrepresent-! ed in the newspaper. "And why is this? Merely be-! cause the school man has had so much experience with the dragoons of the press that he has become accustomed to guarding his utter­ances. Even now, in some cities his only visits from the reporters are when a teacher has eloped with the big boy in her class, or the principal has been beaten by onej of his students, or some scandal i or row has been reported." We need not add that this con- j dition does not maintain in Ogden. We have no "dragoon" re- : porters, nor is there any lack of 1 attention to school affairs. The I I daily publication of this column, i in addition to the daily publication of other school news, bears evidence that the management of i the paper and school officials are i collaborating to give widest pos­sible publicity to whatever is hap­ pening in the people's greatest in­stitution-the public schools. TREACHEROUS TYPEWRITER To many people, the symbol for abject treacherv and cunning is the tiger. To others this quality is personified by one of the "oppo­site sex," the sex to which, thank Heaven, I do not belong. Some even look upon the snake as the most treacherous thing on earth. They are all wrong. I say this because I know. I know because -well anyway I know. The most treacherous thing on this afflicted earth is this intricate, slow-moving impossible, impudent, thing with which I am trying to grind out enough material to pull me through another semester. A tiger can be pacified. A wo­man, if handled tactfully, can be gagged; a snake will glide away at the first sound of picnicers or tramps, but a typewriter-a type­writer will not even attempt1- to listen to reason. If one should place on the desk in front of a typewriter an offering of meat, or of valuable spices the only 'thing that would keep it from laughing out loud would be the lack of a sound box. It is impossible to spell correct­ly upon the typewriter. If you go too fast you find that the accursed son of a twentieth century inven­tor has placed the letters back- "WaTdsr "If you go slow you so oil forget your subject and wander listlessly over the keys, pressing, at random, several misplaced ('s and x's & and 's). There are, of course, times when the typewriter is civil, and even pleasant. Unfortunately, these moods are few and exceedingly far between. They often strike the typewriter quite unexpectedly and then you are allowed to write the last sentence in your theme or let­ter in absolute peace. However, a good deal depends upon your approach to this beast. If you sit down joyfully and play­fully run your fingers through its keys you are sure to have grief before you rise again. If you come up to it, in a sulky mood and pound it most heartlessly you may be able to write a few lines un­disturbed. If you sit down expect­ing to do a perfect piece of work you are immediately inflicted with a mania to press the wrong key at the wrong time. If you resign yourself to making a lot of mis­takes, you are allowed to write unmolested, until you begin to think that you can finish your work without any mistakes. "The pen is mightier than the sword,". said someone. Thus a typewriter may be compared to a machine gun. It rattles like the very dickens, it kicks every once in awhile, and it usually places a bunch of shots in the same place. Be as it may, someday, I will give up trying to write with a typewriter. Some day, I will pick up a pen and try to restore to myself the knowledge of hand­writing. Some day, I will lose my temper and slam this && " x x ( ? ; P). Some day, I will write a title without placing a period after it- Some day. -David C. Camp.