University of Colorado authori¬ties so honor the Tigers. Ten snappy sweaters of old gray with gold lettering, "Intermountain champs" have been expressed to the Tiger athletes. These, mind you, in addition to some three carloads of trophies recently brought back to Ogden by the Orange and Black athletes. "Frog" Clark, one of the best all-around athletes ever turned out of the Ogden High school, is training for the 880-yard run in track. He will also compete in the pole vault. Clark has a nifty stride, plenty of strength and may pull a surprise as a runner. A query for every student: What kind of a school would our school be, if all of the students were just like me? It takes 14 muscles to frown and only four to smile. Why waste energy? GIRLS ABSENT. Where are the girls? Eight students were selected the other day to represnt the school in de-bate. All of these were boys. Strangely, too, of these eight, seven are Forum members. "Pa, what is an advertise- j ment?" 1 "An advertisement is the pic¬ture of a pretty girl eating, wear¬ing, holding, or driving something that somebody wants to sell." Nellie (at supper table). "I guess our teacher don't know very much." Mother: "Why, dear, you mustn't talk so of your teacher. What makes you think that?" Nellie; " 'Cause she's all the time asking us kids questions." UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT. John Chugg, a student, had his arm badly broken Thursday by the back kick of his Ford car which he was cranking. First aid was rendered by Instructor George Bergstrom and Scout Joseph Ray, after which the arm was set by Dr. Edward I. Rich and John was taken to his home in Farr West. The accident is the more re¬grettable because of its being one of a long series—a broken arm— a broken leg—appendicitis opera¬tion and other injuries in addition to the above have come to John within the past three years. Chester Zinn, '24, underwent a successful operation at the Dee hospital on Tuesday for appendi¬citis. QUARTET SHINES. On Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock the school quartet, com¬posed of Milford Piggott, bari¬tone; Francis Hales, bass; Vascoe Laub, second tenor, and Elvin Blackburn, first tenor, sang at the opening of Browning Broth¬ers' new radio station, KFWA. The numbers sung were, "Old Back Joe," "The Tack" and "Old Folks at Home." The praise rests on Reed Gammell, director, who has spent considerable time in perfecting this quartet. Some of the teachers who heard it, say that it was "very fine." wild power. Dr. Snoddy of the University of Utah maintains that we have no such thing as will power; that we are prone to act in accord¬ance with set principles estab¬lished by past experience; that we show our humanity by acting under the influences of the higher brain centers which exercise dis¬criminatory power. He intimates also that what we usually desig¬nate as will power in ourselves is stubbornness, pure and simple, in j the eyes of others. As an illua-j tration of this he cites an ex¬ample of a young man who re¬fused ever to speak to his mother again, because she crossed him and he didn't, though the family pleaded with him for years and even at last as she lay on her death bed. A teacher yesterday told a. story of how she exercised her will power when a girl by refus¬ing to go within her aunt's home for three years—the time stipu¬lated when the fool notion en¬tered her head. I presume all of us could give illustrations of our remarkable will power, if we would, and in most cases impartial judges would designate it as plain "mule stub¬bornness." there first. A good illustration of this sort of will power is found in this little story in a local magazine: Alice, a dear little girl of five, one rainy day drew her rocking chair to the window and began to rock. Presently the sun came out with such force as to fall with disagreeable intensity and glare across her face. She blinked and blinked, but did not move. Finally her mother, observing her discomfiture, said, "Alice, why don't you move your chair out of the sun?" "I wont," responded the young¬ster, "I was here first." CROSSWORD PUZZLES. It is now believed that cross¬word puzzles are serving a real purpose as aids to getting correct inflected forms in language work". The high school teachers in Latin, French and Spanish report that they are getting good results with these forms.' STEP TWO. The Standard-Examiner recom¬mends Monroe park as a suitable- place for a senior high school. The city commissioners say, "Bar¬kis is willin'." We must anxious¬ly await now the third step—for the city commissioners and the board of education to get together and do business. Come on, gentle¬men, let's go. STRANGE if TRUE. Carlyle, in his masterful essay on Robert Burns, rates sincerity as his first grand virtue. We sometimes wonder if this isn't one of the grandest of virtues in the character of men and women everywhere—just plain, simple, honest, natural sincerity; to be just' what we are and to not pre¬tend to be what we are not. If this be, as we surmise, one of the greatest of virtues—we pre¬sume it must be, in part at least— because of its rarity. It's the scarcity of things, you know, that makes them precious. It seems to be second nature—if it isn't first nature with most of us—to appear to be somewhat different from what we reaiiy are. We seem ! afraid that some one will find us out. This may be illustrated and partially explained by the story of the Pullman porter, who, when asked why the rich men usually gave him small tips, while the poor men gave him large ones, j replied, "Well, suh, boss, I don't I know, 'cept the rich man don't j want nobody to know he's rich, j and the po' man don' want no- j body to know he's po'. " CARELESSNESS INEXCUSABLE. A complaint has been made against junior and senior high I school students to the effect that after years of training in the grades in habits of neatness and care, such as' exhibited in pen¬manship, spelling, etp., that they j lapse in these higher grades into i habits of slovenliness and indif¬ference. Several explanations of this condition have been offered but none can possibly justify this retrogression. Not to do one's best is always a sin in matters of education, and it is the bounden duty of every teacher to see to it that no slip-shod indifferent work is tolerated anywhere throughout the school course. At a meeting of the city prin¬cipals on Wednesday the old slogan, "In all education, care¬lessness is inexcusable," was re¬iterated as one of the fundamen¬tal principles of tne schools. This thought probably cannot be din¬ned too often into the ears of pupils and teachers. 3-30-29 Ogden High School Notes There's not much credit in be¬ing at your post if you're merely leaning on it. cigaret smoking. A number of years ago Elbert Hubbard made a remark about boys that every school boy would do well to consider: "The boy who smokes cigarets need not worry about his future; he has none." General opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, the 'great major¬ity of the high school boys do not smoke. The few who smoke are marked. They are not A stu¬dents, they are seldom B; they are very frequently Ds or failures; 90 per cent if infractions of dis¬cipline on the part of boys, is by boys who dabble with tobacco. Students are' advised that if they belong to clubs or organiza¬tions whose pictures will apnear in the Year Book, that they must furnish the manager of the Year Book as many pictures as they will appear times in the book. , how to get fired. Under the above title the superintendent of schools recently sent 1 out some fine advice to students who are plication alscT hi school work su i we repeat an item or two: 1 "U'se empi yer's time, with or without no: if- . to visit your sick relative (real or imaginary) at his home or in the hospital. Then take a day off to attend the funeral. (Note—Don't bury the . same relative 'more than three or 1 four times.) "2. Be ill frequently. Get real ' or imaginary headaches, or keep t the one bad tooth. The boss likes to think he is employing hospi¬tal cases. 1 "3. Be late frequently. The! c business can well go along with- J but you. . — "4. Offer the old excuses. it Hate .tell the boss you had to go " to the d'-nli'st, or that the street car was not running." misunderstood girls. It's not easy to understand one's t self; how much .harder then is it—- to understand ,the iaipulsiis and motives that dominate other lives, j s. A high school girl was .asked onj Friday to write out something of1 c her ideas about the making of a tl life. We quote one or two para- a graphs from her splendid paper: b "My idea of a perfect woman a is one who has ambition to learn ancl do things, even .though she c inay havC obstacles to overcome, t. "If a girl who has to work her a way through school has courage t enough to master discouragement t she usually,' I believe, turns out to be a much better woman than f the girl who' has had nothing to V worry about; but, if the girl can- t not meet disappointment with a smile she nearly always fails. ,f "I believe, if I could go through! college, as I have always dreamed of doing, I could make a success i of my high school work. "Sometimes I wonder whether I will ever reach my goal; but when I think it over, I know I can if I only have will-power enough to continue my work and ; stay interested, no matter what happens. "Many working girls are misun¬derstood; some people think they are just naturally wayward and lazy; but I am sure if these peo- pie could put themselves in the place of the girl, they would soon change their opinion." LEGITIMATE EXCUSES. An employe in any business is j : excused from work only when ill, i or when there is death in the im-mediate family. School authorities feel that here is no more important work i the world than school work, ,&nd that no cause less than either the above mentioned should excuse a pupil from school. Par¬ents who appreciate the import¬ance of school do not permit their children to miss a single day's session or even a class if it can possibly be avoided. They find that it pays not only in that it gives the student an opportunity to keep up grades, to maintain interest in work, but it estab¬lishes in the students habits of promptness, punctuality, depend¬ability, that are probably of more value to them than all the infor-mation they acquire. Would that every parent appre¬ciated the absolute necessity of Establishing firmly in their chil¬dren these habits, and would Work unceasingly to that end. LET'S GIVE A DINNER. The University ofChicago wants some new buildings. They gave a dinner the other day and re¬ceived 230,910 from 4 subscrib- : ers. I guess we'd better give a dinner and invite subscriptions for & new high school. WORTH-WHILE FIGHT. Life is not a summer holiday, j or a personally conducted tour i through joyland, or a dream we ! must accept just as it comes—it I is a struggle, a battle. We must j do our part. We must fight the j enemy that is nearest, vanquish the duty that stands in our way, help the faint and fallen, win every point of higher, better, clearer vision, be ready for what¬ever comes. Whatever is worth ; while is worth ' the fight to at- tain it. If you want happiness fight for it like a man. Fight to be worthy of it, fight to win it, ' fight to keep it, fight to share . it, fight to help others- get theirs. W. S. JORDAN. AUTOBIOGRA PHY. Through the courtesy of Supt. W. K. Hopkins each principal in the schools- of Ogden is able to hang up in his office this week a large card upon which is beau¬tifully printed in colors and large type the following autobiography: I AM EDUCATION. I bear the torch that enlightens the world, fires the imagination ; of man, feeds the flame of genius. I give wings to dreams and might to hand and brain. From out the deep shadows of the past I come, wearing the : scars of struggle and the stripes of toil, but bearing in triumph the wisdom of all ages. Man, because of me, holds dominion over earth, , air and sea; it is for him I leash ' the lightning, plumb the deep and i : g g? b& . j shackle the ether. i I am the parent of progress, ! creator of culture, molder ol des- ' . tiny. Philosophy, science and art ! are the works of my hand. I : banish ignorance, discourage vice, i disarm anarchy. i Thus, have I become freedom's ; citadel, the arm of democracy, . the hope of youth, the pride of : adolescence, the joy of age. For- 1 tunate the nations and happy the t homes that welcome me. t The school is my workshop; i here I stir ambitions, stimulate 3 idealsforge the keys that open the door to opportunity. I am the a source of inspiration; the aid of aspiration I am irresistible hi power.