FEW TEACHERS LEAVING. For various causes, about seven - of the present corps of high school teachers will not return next yea,r. This is fewer leaving: than usual 1 and is a matter of congratulation, 1 as a more permanent teaching s corps is highly desirable feature for successful high school work. j CADET INSPECTION. Major Harry Jordan, commandant of Ninth corps area, will be 3 here tomorrow morning to inspect the R. O. T. C. unit. The public is : cordially invited to witness this in­spection as well as to meet Major Jordan. The major has been in Ogden several times and has a very warm spot in his heart for the Ogden R. O. T. C., as well as for the people of Ogden. SPRING CLASSICUM. The spring Classicum, the last I for the year, was given out on Friday last. It proved to be the best . issue of the year and consequently r a fitting climax of the work. Miss Frieda Kraines, editor, and Ward Armstrong, manager, and their 3 able assistants, are to be congrat­ulated on the splendid success of r the year's publication. It has been 1 a credit to the high school. Ap- - preciation is expressed also to the i advisory teachers who have co-op- crated in the work. t HONOR FOR STUDENT. Miss Helen Tollefsen won second place in the Utah-Idaho district of L the National Federation of Music clubs in a contest held in Salt Lake on Friday. As Helen is but t a, student, and her competitors were professionals, the distinction is very notable. AMERICA'S BIG PROBLEMS. The big problems in America are: 1) Giving every child oppor- tunity to function without physical J or mental handicap, (2) a more equitable distribution of the coun­try's wealth, (3) a specific training in democratic ideals with opportu­nity for that training to function. That these are real problems is ; evidenced by the following facts: -Eighty-two per cent of our chil- ; dren are born with a chance to be vigorous men and women, yet for 1 lack of proper attention and care, e only 17 per cent grow up without a handicap. The grim wolf of poverty lurks at the door of every second home. c Sixteen and seven-tenths per cent 5 of all families in the United States " live on or below pauper standard. ! Thirty-four and eight-tenths per 1 cent live on the minimum subsis­tence standard. Forty-four and six-tenths per cent live on health and comfort standard. Three and eight-tenths per cent l live on luxury standard., l Sixty pir cent of all our people j live in rented houses. One boy in every four gets hi.'i American ideals from a foreign born home. STUDENT BODY ELECTION. Petitions for Herbert Verheek and Lorene Wattis have been filed as candidates for student body sec­retaryships. The election will be held this week. The candidates for president are James Ure, Harry Richardson and George Glen. The only candidate for vice president ia Marian Ure. 4-21-25 Ogden High School Notes Professor Russell gave some very interesting tests to all Spanish students this morning. The 1 professor is working out some original ideas concerning the teaching of languages and his tests aim to corroborate or disprove the " ideas of his plan. WINS BOTH DEBATES ' O. H. S. won both debates Monday-the one at Davis with Davis, and the other with Box Elder at Brigham City-by a 2- to-1 decision. Naturally the stu- ' dents were very much elated; 1 they feel that their study ffflHHIl burning question concerning the right of congress to override the 1 decisions of the supreme court 1 has been thorough and worth j while as they were 'able to prove to the satisfaction of the judges i in one case that congress should have this power and in the other 1 case to prove that congress should 1 not. 3 Ward Armstrong and Garff Wil­son maintained the affirmative at Ogden against Box Elder. John Griffin and David Camp main- tained the negative at Davis. The judges at Ogden were Principal Ina Craven, John Edmunds of Salt Lake and Oa Christensen of Brigham City. The judges at i Davis were Attorney Sam Blackham of Ogden, Mr. Gailey of Kaysvile and Mr. Ellison of Layton. THE JUNIOR PROM The annual junior prom .will be given at the Berthana on Friday ' evening. This is another of the ' outstanding 'events of ' the year j and will be largely attended. The j dance is complimentary to the 1 seniors-with this condition im- j posed upon the 125 senior boys: ' Each of these to be admitted free must show his gallantry by bring­ing a senior girl-no stags nor ' outsiders-otherwise full admis- " sion price is to be requested. All I former students, alumni, Weber students and parents are invited ' to enjoy this function. NEW SPEED STUDIES Instructors in typewriting feel much encouraged with the work . this year-that students have made a greater progress than ever be-- fore. Due to this, new speed p study books have been purchased j. for the purpose of giving a thor­ough review and extra practice g during the next six weeks. 'c ' FINE TALKS Hon. Frank Francis favored ; the school greatly on Monday by giving two very fine addresses to two of the history classes of Miss Helen Cortez. . In the first talk he spoke on commission government, giving 1 special attention to the duties and responsibilities of the mayor and ; the characteristics that mark the " successful mayor. He said that . sympathy and humanity, a heart ' of love and good will, and an ap-( - preciation and understanding of ! the people's conditions and prob- j ; lems take precedence over so- ; called business acumen in hand- ling the government of a city. 1 In the second talk he spoke on 1 . the owning' of public utilities by " city corporations. He advocated the owning especially of an elec- trie power system by the city f rather than having it a monopo- i listio enterprise. He said that the : city waterworks department turn­ed over to the city last year 65,000 as revenue. Both talks were very much ap­preciated by the students. THE JANITOR One of the first necessities in a good school is a good janitor. The school is the day time home of boys and girls and as such it must be clean, neat, attractive. The influence of wholesome sur­roundings is very marked in the formation of character and there- fora school officials do well to see to it that the janitorial serv­ice is first class. Good class room teaching loses touch of its effi­ciency if done in a littered,, un- tidv, ill kept room. For this Yea-j son we feel that we may "frell congratulate ourselves at the Ogden High school; our janitorial force is energetic, persistent and ambitious to keep our building in a presentable condition at all times; our building is old and worn, but is kept in god repair and clean. Recent visits to schools in other communities have made some of us feel that we should be grate­ful to our janitors. Our students, too, have shown j pretty good co-operation in this , matter and we commend them for it. We recommend that they help even a little more in this ; matter. GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! The big chance has at last come for you who can swim and for you who have always wished you knew how to swim. Ogden High school is establishing a Girls' Swimming club which will soon nrnvA to he one nf the biererest and best organizations in school. Why will it be the biggest and best? Well, ask Phyllis Shaw and Helen Yogel. They will tell you all about it on Wednesday at 3 o'cock in room No. 202. Come on, girls. Let's go. For if you're healthy you will be wealthy and if anything will make you healthy it's swimming. - PRINTER'S APOLOGY The printer of the spring Clas­sicum expresses through the "Notes" his apologies for typo­graphical and other errors appear­ing in the last issue of the Classi­cum. These were due to a rush necessitated by trying to get the j magazine out on time, accom- i panied by breaking down of the : press at an inopportune time. "CRAZY ABOUT?" During this age of "flappers" I and "sheiks" the language which! the Americans speak has been j changed more than during any j other age, pst or future, I be- lieve. But with all the changes, ; there is only one phrase that j makes me "scratch my head" and ! think, and that phrase is "crazy about." The other day I overheard a con­versation between two modern i young "male-men." One could i guess at the sum and substance of j tie discourse if he had just h'eard this part of it. "Gee, but I'm crazy about that boat. Ain't she' a daisy Wish I owned the license to drive her.' That could be Quickly Translated to "mean that" He v admired an automobile and wished that he owned it. At last I had the phrase "crazy about" translated to ; mean "to admire" or "to like." There is an old saying which is something like this: "False pride comes before a fall." I think that is the saying. But, anyway, I then proved the correctness of those few simple words that can be found in any dictionary. I felt so proud be­cause I had at last solved the meaning of the phrase that I decid­ed to treat myself to a sundae. While I was devouring it in an ecstasy of bliss, two of the stern­er sex seated themselves at a table opposite me. My "air Castles in Spain" were suddenly , brought crashing to the earth when I heard one of the chaps say, "Oh, kiss mama! I'm just crazy about her." Oh! What did he mean? I tried to tell myself that he was having an old fashioned case of "a girl just like my mother," but his voice de­nied that. He was not serious enough, and his face did not have a lovelorn look. Was he sarcastic,- and meant that he-well-hated her? No, his voice was hardly 'sarcastic. Did he meaij that he Was crazy and knew it? That ,night be possible among the ounger generation. Who knows? bid he' mean that her features, general appearance, mention of hei' name or her actions drive him crazy? I can't and couldVt ex­plain. There are "flappers" and "sheiks" to spare in this world, and they all'use that phrase "crazy about." I wish that one or two of them, preferably "sheiks," would explain to me, "an old fash­ioned girl in a gingham gown," just what that phrase means. Does ' crazy about" mean to "love," "ad­mire," "hate" or does it mean that the person who says it is crazy and knows it? I don't know. One might as well use the Dutch language as to use that phrase when talking to me. -Margaret Ward. 4-22-25 Ogden High School Notes Term report cards are due par­ents today as they were passed out bv ' the advisory teachers this morning. They should be signed and returned in the morning. INVITATIONAL MEET. Coach Kapple has selected 20 men to represent the school at the B. Y. U.' invitational meet on Sat­urday. Manager Ross Sampson is asking for volunteers to furnish automobiles for transportation. These will probably be thrnished, as they always are. The co-opera - lion and service that we receive from patrons, owning automobiles for events of this sort is very much appreciated. VISITS SCHOOL. , Superintendent W. K. Hopkins Spent some time at the high schoolTuesday. He is very much pleased that the vast majority of teachers ate returning next year, as it means stability and progress. He regrets also that those who arc leaving are doing so on account of seeking higher remuneration ,,no that he doesn't want them to re­ceive higher salaries, .but regrets That Ogden is not in position to of­fer them better pay. PLACES FOR TEACHERS. California for the past ten years has been the Mecca for teachers, as the schools thei'e are consider­ably better than anywhere in the vest. Many former Ogden teach­ers are now located in various places in California, receiving sal­aries all the way from 25 per cent j to 75 per cent higher than they j were receiving here. Certain east­ern citieg-the large manufactur­ing centers-Detroit, Duluth, Min­neapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, etc., are also very desir- j able places to teach, for tne sal-j ancs are inviting. As an example, an Ogden High teacher of 1921-22, who received less than' 1600 here, is now receiving 3000 in Chicago. THE YEAR BOOK. Editor Bill Taylor and Manager ( Jake Reynolds of the Year Book,! with tneir respective staffs, are very busy these days in prepara- tion of the book. They aim to get it out early in May. It promises to be equally as good as any of the former issues. SERVANTS OF DEMOCRACY. "I believe that the right training of men, both to the hands and mind, we add to the wealth of the world. The far-reaching quality of the work that energetic educators are doing lifts them out of the ranks of mere schoolmasters and puts them on the level of construc­tive statesmen. They are the ser­vants of democracy in a sense that -- no other servants are."-Walter Hines Page. GOOD TO READ. The above statement of Ambas­sador Page should be read with care by at least. a few people-at least the people who are inclined to pity and even to look down upon the poor school tacher. We often hear people speak of business men and school teachers, as if; school teaching were not a profes- i sion on a par with medicine or; law. Lst it be acknowledged and everywhere known that teaching deals with the greatest thing in the j world-the human mind-with the training of heart, head and hand of &Jie race-that the present owes much to the work of the teacher that the future depends most upon the skill, tact, wisdom of the hum­ble teacher and that consequently teaching really is. the greatest, the noblest of professions. Teachers may not be business men, but let us at least say they are profession­al men. SIDERS GEMS. Here are remarks by Superin­tendent Walter M. Siders, superin­tendent of schools of Pocatello, at . the recent intermountain confer­ence, that might interest our read- trs: "I was once about to sit on an i individual who said that he re- i ceived no benefit from belonging to tne N. E. A., but then I remem- bered the inconvenience one might i fcuffer from sitting on a wet j sponge." ' "Every brain is as strong as its i weakest think." "Fishing is' an act of faith per­formed before a body of water. Teaching' is an act of faith per­formed before a body of students. Both acts are performed in the hope that there might be something there to justify their faith." "We spend our time training the mind, but I think we should give more attention to the train­ing of the soul. I-appeal for the teaching and the development of those finer things which constitute the real sources of plsare-mu- sic, noetrv. TIMHMgH MpTnc me