DISCIPLINARY VALUES. The disciplinary values of Latin , 1 reside in its capacity to develop mental power. It develops the habit of sustained attention, the 1 j overcoming of obstacles, and culti- j ! rates accuracy and thoroughness. ' 'The fact that it is considered a' I "hard" subject is one of the best I arguments in its favor. CULTURAL VALUES. From the cultural point of view Latin gives one increased ability to understand references and al­lusions to the mythology, tradi­tions and history of the Greeks land the Romans. It gives also an j increased knowledge of facts re­lating to the lift, history institu­tions and religion of the Romans; Jan increased appreciation of the influence of their civilization oil the course of western civilization; j and a broader understanding of ' social and political problems of to- I day. I First-hand acquaintance with ! three of the greatest of world's j writers and with three types of lit­erature-history, oratory and the epic-forms an excellent basis for the study of literature in general. Australia expects a bumper wheat crop this season. 2-11-25 Ogden High School Notes Superintendent W. Karl Hopkins leaves Ogden tonight to attend the National Superintendents' conven-1 tion at Cincinnati. En route he'j x will visit the schools of Denver, Kansas City, and other places. Aft- ' er the convention he will visit the schools of Birmingham Chattanooga, New Orleans. He will be ac­companied by Superintendent Child of Salt Lake. Reserved seats for the great game of the year can be obtained ; at the high school and at Weber gymnasium today and Friday. LEGIBLE WRITING. The writers of high school notes are requested to write as legibly as possible so that the printer can read it-and we can keep home of the humor out of the column. On Tuesday, for instance, "new suits" were "new stunts" and in­stead of Coach Christensen bring­ing rooters to the game it was re­ported that he is to bring a lot of "roosters." GOOD RECORDS . The school received recently a report of Ogden High school stu­dents enrolled in the University of Utah. The report shows that Row­land E. Browning made the high­est record of all during the first semester. He carried 18 hours suc- cessfully, eight with A's and 10 with B's. Albert Spann was second, car- I rying 18 hours, 2 with A's and 16 i with B's. Most of the other students made fairly good records. j MEMORIAL FUND. j The Ogden Historical society is; ; raising a'memorial loan fund to be I i used by needy and deserving stu- j S dents of Ogden without interest, j ! in continuing their education. The j I movement is a very laudable one, and we wish the ladies of the cluT? every success in their work. INTERESTING LECTURES. Dr. Draper gave a very interest- ! ing talk Tuesday on the care of i the eye, ear, nose and throat before ! one of Miss Chipman's classes in ! home economics. At 8:30 o'clock this morning, Dr. M. J. Seidner gave a splendid talk : J on personal hygiene to all boys of the high school. 1_ THE PURPOSE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. Why Science Is Taught. Science is organized knowledge of the general facts and principles of the physical world. All sciences have a physcal world. All sci­ences have a physical basis. In this subject the way of natural i phenomena is looked into while in i the arts tlyghow is of special in- AN AGE OF TRUTH We are living n an age of science ! or truth. No subject in the curriculum treats of more vital truths than this one, as all our industriesthat: supply our daily necessities; and luxuries owe their very exist­ence to a scientific or physical basis. The spirit of the age is one of progress and learning new facts ! and laws that control our daily life. J AN AGE OF DISCOVERY. ; One can scarcely pick up a newspaper without reading of a new and j startling discovery in some field of ; science. The cause and cure for! scarlet fever, mercury turned into i gold, the world circled by airplanes.' photographs sent by radio and wire, stars given thirty trillion years of life, new stellar universes a million light years away discov- j ered. vitamines isolated, ultra-violet light found to influence life process, all these and many more reported in 1924. Facts that puz-j zled the trained scientist a gener­ation ago are common knowledge j to the average boy of fourteen to- I day. The puzzling problems of to- I day will be common knowledge to­morrow. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. This is thspirit of science. Science then must be taught to keep the stu­dent abreast of the times. THE WORLD RULED BY LAW. In the study of the biological sci­ences one learns that the same laws and principles that govern the plants and the animal are also op­erative in his own life. When he learns that the lowly worm and the elephant, the pond scum and the lily, are governed by the same laws and principles that control his own, a new viewpoint toward life comes to him. He begins to see a big oneness in all living things. He finds that the physica.1- man is not separated from the so- called lower animals. This view­point is valuable to him because it gives him an appreciation of na­ture. UNDERSTANDING NECESSARY. To appreciate the wonders of nature one must understand them. The study of the "'sciences gives i this understanding. This thing that is called an appreciation of nature when once gained is never lost. In I the later life of the sceince-student the same thrill that comes from a quiet walk through the fields will be experienced. This thrill can only come through an understand­ing of nature laws. MISUNDERSTANDING COMMON. Some times the uninformed or the misinformed feel that the j teaching of biology to young peoDle endangers their faith in God. This is a mistake. It strengthens their- faith. Who can see the orderly op­eration of native's laws" and not have a greater faith and more per­fect trust in the Creator of these laws? The teaching of truth can never be a menace. Science aims at this, and if it finds itself mis­taken it immediately takes steps to make correction in its teachings. It is bound by no creed or dogma. -It seeks only the truth. ENCOURAGES STRAIGHT THINKING. Another value of teaching of j science comes from the training I that it gives the student in straight j thinking. There are two methods i that are employed in teaching a subject. Namely the didactic and the'scientific. In the didactic meth­od the student learns from the teachers' instruction or from the printed page much as a sponge takes up water. In the scientific method, which is the one used ex­tensively in the science subjects, the student is merely asked to be himself, awake and prepared to use his own mind. He is given cer­tain materials and apparatus with which to work, an aim, and a few suggestions as to procedure. He is then left somewhat to himself to observe facts, record them, organ­ize them and draw sound conclu­sions of his own based on facts that he himself had observed and re­corded. The value that comes to the student by this method of learning is not so much in the facts" themselves as in the way in which ; he learned them. This method de- j velops a scientific attitude or habit of mind. This is the type of mind 1 that faces life's problems and' solves them. The scientific atti-1 tude does not mean a blustering- "show me" sort of a student, but it does make one have a tendency to "suspend judgment pending fur­ther investigation." The student of science is taught not to make snap judgment nor draw too hasty con­clusions. „- . THE AIM OF SCIENCE TEACH­ING. Science then is taught in high school because it opens students' rhinds to the truth and beauty in - I the world, keeps him abreast of I I the times; it helps him in his religious faith, and it trains him in I straight thinking. 2-12-25 Ogden High School Notes Today we celebrate the birth­day of Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest characters of all time. Someone suggested the other day that in nobility of character Lin­coln stands second to one only. And yet like that other One, he was despised and rejected of men during his life time. Of the 23 ministers of the gospel in Springfield, Ill's., in I860, 20 of them voted against Lincoln be­cause they thought him an athe- ist. ORPHEUM GUESTS On Sunday afternoon, next, the city teachers are to be guests of Mr. Goss at the Orpheum the­atre to witness an Abraham Lin­coln picture. Indications point to the fact that the game tomorrow night will be one of the most interesting and thrilling of any games ever played in Ogden. PURE METAL "Man's nature is like iron, never born in a pure state but always mixed with elements that weaken it. Envy, greed and malice are mixed with every man's nature when he comes into the Avorld, They are the brimstone that make him brittle. He is pig-iron until he boils them out of his system. Savages and criminals are men who have not tried to boil this dross out- of their nature. Lin­coln was one who boiled it out in the fires of adversity. He puddled his own soul till the metal was pure, and that's how he got the iron will that was strong enough to save a nation." -James J. Davis. WHAT IS EUGENICS? In the World's Work for Feb­ruary, Mr. French Strother has an excellent article on the subject of Eugenics, which we commend to all. He closes the article .with these words: Eugenics is not a panacea of the ills of the human species. It is not a quack prescription guar­anteed to produce a super. race. But it is a science that bears about the same relation to indi­vidual and family welfare and happiness that medicine and surg­ery bear to the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and about the same relation to national and racial welfare that preventive medicine bears to the prevention of destructive epidemics. It is not a compulsory device for wholesale practice on the public at the hands of government or science. It is a body of knowl­edge available for the voluntary use of such individual persons as may be wise enough to use it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The story of Lincoln's life is so beautiful that it is like a mas­terpiece of some wonderful com­poser. It bears repeating and re­peating, and the more we hear it the more we love it and appreci­ate it. But so much has been said of Lincoln's life, and birth­place, that I shall base my essay, in commemoration of Lincoln's birthday, on his characteristics as depicted in his works. KNOWN BY WORKS "By their works ye shall know them." This maxim can be truly applied to Lincoln, because there is not an address, speech, or letter that does not show his powerful characteristics. Through reading I his speeches and letters we may j get an intimate picture of iim. LINCOLN AS SPEAKER Lincoln had a great deal of practice in the art of speech long before his debates against Douglas made him known to the nation; endless talks in country stores, endless jests in frontier taverns, twenty years of pleading in the circuit courts, twenty-five years of constant political dis­cussion. His debates and letters of law show an interest in the precise meaning of words. His clear statements to juries show his passion for putting ideas into language plain enough for any boy to understand. Throughout his gradual development as a master of his mother tongue, it seems that he was pre-occupied, not with words for their own sake, but solely with words as the garb of ideas. HIS STYLE-THE MAN i Furthermore, Lincoln's mental characteristics show that his style is the result of a desire to tell the truth as honestly and vividly as he can. He was "Honest Abe": not a man who told all he knew, by any means, but yet a man essentially fair-minded. He looked into the nature of things; he could read human na­ture dispassionately. He was not fooled by phrases. As a debater, , he made no attempt to mislead his audience. As president, when he found frank conversation im­possible, he told a lium&rons story of more or less remote bearing upon the subject in hand. Probably the stories, were proof of his understanding of the limita­tions of language. He knew when a picture, or a parable would best serve his purpose. SENSE OF HUMOR Lincoln's gift of humor added much to the vividness and homely naturalness of his style. His mind had the impartiality, the freedom from the prejudice, the flexibility of sympathy, which belongs to the humorist alone. HIS LETTERS Lincoln's letters show still an­other ide of his strange and fascinating individuality. They are. compressed and forceful, full of humor and homely pathos, and shrewd knowledge of character. I think that his letters are among the most! extraordinary ever writ­ten. Even his telegrams that he sent. home in the most crowded days of politics and warfare show the touching quality of his af­fection, anxie'ty and playfulness in matters concerning his life and his "dear lad." MASTER ARTIST As great national responsibili­ties and problems pressed closer, Lincoln grew more clear-eyed and certain of his course. And his style changed as the man chang­ed. His earlier style was direct, forceful and manly, but not mark­edly better than that of many of his contemporaries. As he grew a.z a master of men, his faculty of expression rose, until at Gettys­burg, and in his second inaugural address he reached the highest tone. So transparent is the lan­guage of the Gettysburg address that we may read through it Lincoln's wise and gentle and unselfish heart. His uiyireten- tiousness, his homely honesty and humor, and his tragic martyrdom lust as he had led the nation through war to peace, enshrine him in the innermost heart of every American. One closes a volume of Lin­coln's addresses and letters with something of the feeling that Walt Whitman has uttered with regard to Lincoln's portraits: "None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep though sub­tle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there." LOUISE RICHARDSON. 2-15-25 Ogden High School Notes The event of the season-the' O H S.-West game in the Weber gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. Those who miss it are to be pitied. Ogden city teachers were guests Thursday and today of H. E. skinner at the Colonial theatre to wit­ness the great historical "Napoleon and Josephine. It is a very fine picture and the courtesy of Mr. Skinner was much appre­ciated.