LEARNING TO TALK ; c High school students are goo. c talkers. For a number of yeai" A oral expression has had a ver prominent _ place in all English i: classes, an5 to a considerable e a tent has received attention in aj 1 classes. As a result most student, are able to stand before a clasi li for five, ten or fifteen minutes, t p tHink straight and logically, tc a talk grammatically and more 01 less fluently. The variety of topics treated is as wide as the universe. For instance, on Tues­day, .while visiting the English class for 30 minutes we heard the following topics eloquently treated: Should every one go to col­lege ? Social adaptability versus brilliancy. What becomes of star ath­letes of college? The Merchants' Credit bu­reau, TENNIS MATCHES In Tuesday's intra-school tennis games Wallace Randolph defeat­ed Harper Culley, 6-4, 6-2; Bob Craven defeated Wilford DeHaan, 10-8, 6-3. Today Wallace Randolph will play Gilbert Beck and Bob Craven will play Ralph Pugmire. A. C. CONTESTS The commercial department of the high school is entering all of the contests at the agricultural college tomorrow. Mr. Abplanalp and Mr. Franke are accompany­ing the students over to enter .con­tests as here outlined: . i - ' Typewriting - Novice:- Lucy King. Laura Walker, Henry O'Keefe. Second year: Virginia Pfisterer, Lucile Nelson, Blanche Nelson. Amateur: Mary Cragun. Shorthand-Emily Lynch, Elma Swanson, Edna Childs. B. Y. U. SCHOLARSHIPS The Brigham Young university offers Ogden High school students three 100 scholarships to attend the university, also two tuition scholarships. The notice of these scholarships has been posted on the bulletin board. VITAMINES Diet-what to eat for health and long life-is receiving more and more attention everywhere. All who are interested in the sub­ject would do well to read a splen­did article in Colliers issue for May 9, "Three Times a Day." Here is a synopsis in a nutshell: "Three foods contain everything Aye need. The food scientists are beginning to call them 'protective foods' because if we eat enough of them to keep our laboratories in good running order we don't need to worry much about any­thing else. (1) The green leaf, because it is the workshop of the plant. (2) The "whole animal" because it contains the worshop of the beast. When we think that for centuries whole sections of the human race subsisted mainly on shell fish we see that the "whole animal" is more than a mere phase. (3) Milk, because nature has fitted it out with all that is necessary to supply the little workshops of babies and kittens and wolf cubs and calves. We can set aside the whole ani­mal because he's usually so hard to get, but green leaves and milk -these we cannot afford to do without. Eating enough of them everything else will be properly taken care of. Eat lots of let- ; Cuce or spinach or beet tops, asparagus or other green leaves, and j drink plenty of milk. I HYLAN KEEPS FIT J Mayor John F. Hylan of New York City says he learned early in his career that the fleshpots are more potent destroyers of political strength than all the money bags; he thrives on a scrap and has mastered the art of keep­ing fit. He says in his pictur­esque English, "I don't let them i stuff me with food until my but­tons pop off and burst from a strained waistcoat; I don't le.t them egg me on to speak till the cows come home; they don't Avhimwham, flimflam and wheedle me into digging my grave with my teeth, and, like a bagpipe, gas while my belly is full. "My great ambition is to keep fit and rebust for another 20 1 ! years and keep on working for the children of New York, be­cause the future welfare of the city of New York, the hub of the American nation, must at all times have a healthy and intelligent cit­izenship to carry on its manifold activities in private and official life." In other words, Mayor Hylan keeps fit by eschewing the flesh pots and sticking to his "greens and milk." THURSDAY EVENING, Ogden High School Notes A large number of students vill attend the track meet in Brigham City tomorrow afternoon it 3:30 o'clock. In addition to the typewriting md stenography students enter- ng the contest at the agricultural college today the following stu- ients are participating in the bookkeeping contests. First-year, . Edward Carver, Nellie Weaver, j Second-year, Afton Bowman, j Vivien Baumeister, Ruth Lee, j Alice Bragonje, George E. Clifton. AUTHOR TO SPEAK Clayton Hamilton, author of more than a dozen books, a prom- j tnent educator and lecturer, will speak at the high school on Mon­day morning, next, at 11:15 o'clock. Mr. Clayton's visit to the west is largely for the purpose of creating interest in Eighteenth century drama, and as advanced special representative of "The Ri­vals," by Sheridan, which will be presented at the Orpheum theatre May 18. On Monday evening, next, Professor Hamilton will lecture at the Central Junior High schol under the auspices of the Drama club. His subject will be "Dra­matic Art of the Eighteenth Cen­tury." TO VISIT CEMENT PLANT The high school chemistry classes under the direction of E. S. Smith will visit the Utah-Idaho cement plant near Brigham City tomorrow afternon to study the principles on which this great modern industry is operating. The marl beds west of Brigham city are the most interesting and profit­able in the world. In no other cement plant is the material of­fered by nature presented in such convenient form as here. VALUABLE LESSON The senior class had a real treat Wednesday in an opportunity giv­en by the state department of education to test themselves out on their ability to use good Eng­lish. Sentence forms and sentence structure, verb forms and pro­noun forms, simple punctuation exercises-the absolutely essential elements of English-were the subjects of the test and served to awaken a new interest in English work. We wish that all students ! of the school might be given an opportunity to try this test. CLASH OF IDEAS Every office is quite likely to be decorated by at least a few mottoes; the high school office is no exception. Our attention was called the' other day to the fact that some of our motto ideas seem to clash. On one side of the room, for instance, we have "Si­lence is always safe," q.nd when ; we read it we invariably think of Calvin Coolidge. On the other side we have "Protest: To sin by si­lence when we should protest, makes cowards of men. The world has climbed on protest." And when we read this we in­variably think of Theodore Roose­velt. Between the two we are more or less nonplussed. We hardly know what to do in this perplexing situation. We have a mind to ask Dorothy Dix. TENNIS MATCHES Semi-finals of intra-school con- ; test: Ralph Pugmire defeated Bob Craven, 6-4, 9-7. Gilbert Beck defeated Wallace Randolph, 6-1, 6-4. Matches today: Ralph Pugmire vs. Gilbert Beck for school championship, 4 p. m. git Liberty park courts. TO REPRESENT SCHOOL Garff Wilson has beenchosen to represent the high school in the extemporaneous speaking contest to be held at the University of Utah on Friday, May 14. Miss Jean Warner will repre­sent the school in the dramatic reading contest. Jean was award­ed this honor as a result of a spirited contest held Wednesday afternoon at the high school. Miss Mina Storey was a close second in the contest. The judges were Mrs. Lucille Chambers and Mrs. Agnes Kennedy. VISIT PACKING PLANT Mr. Smith's biology class visit­ed the plant of the American Packing & Provision company Wednesday. The class took spe­cial Interest in learning first hand the modern methods of producing the best and cleanest meat for , public consumption. The public is i protected from buying any meat that is unfit for human food if they always insist on meat with the "U. S. Inspected and Passed" stamp on it. Government vet- . erinarians inspect each carcass for any diseased condition that might render the meat unwholesome. Any animal found unfit for food is consigned to the fertilizer tank. The students were unanimous in declaring that they would in­sist on government inspected meat from now on. They wish to thank the man­agement for the courteous treat­ment received from all tle em­ployes with whom they came in contact. RUINED GARDENS We presume there are not a few of our readers but have had the experience of planting a beau­tiful garden in the spring only to have it scratched ut and ruined by the neighbors' chickens just after the seed had begun to sprout or the green leaves to peep above the ground. It is not a pleas­ant experience to see one's ener­gies thus wasted and his hopes destroyed. We feel that something similar happened to our "School Notes" Wednesday. Our neighbor al­lowed her chickens to do a little scratching at the end of our column and engage in some silly, foolish personalities, that we re­gard as very damaging to our crop of news and worthwhile ideas concerning our school. We apologize to our readers for these inanities and assure them that we shall endeavor to prevent a repetition of the offense. NOTABLE DAY The climax of Music week was reached Wednesday in Ogden. Those who were fortunate enough to join the children at Lester park in the afternoon were much impressed by the vast array of talent found in the schools and perhaps uttered a prayer that this divine art shall receive more and more attention from those who are interested in the future of Ogden. We can perhaps live without music, but not nearly so happily nor so well, and we are all wishing to live more arid more abundantly. We all regret­ted yesterday that we have in Og­den no comforts nor conveniences so that all who attend might see the performers and enjoy to the full such a program as was ren­dered. THE SEMPRE SOCIETY That Ogden appreciates fine music was abundantly evidence Wednesday evening when the Cen­tral Junior auditorium was pack­ed and scores stood throughout i the evening to enjoy the very de- lightful musical program fur- 1 nished by the Sempre Musical so­ciety. People do like good things and we believe if we had an audi­torium that would seat two or three thousand people comfort - i ably that that many people would respond to an invitation to enjoy such a treat in music as was of­fered Wednesday night. The 24 1 women who sponsor this fine or- aniz-tion are entitled to the ,-jear..y- thanks and appreciation ! of all the people in Ogden. They are helping to educate us in the finer things of life, and we must hope that the fine spirit which htey evidence shall act as a leaven to all of Ogden and that we shall ere long become renowned, as well we might with the abundance of talent here, as a music center. A SUGGESTION We do not know just what "Sempre" means but we notice that this society is an organiza­tion of women, and that every number Wednesday night was ren­dered by the "gentle folk." These women seemed to have no use for the men except to have a couple of them come out to raise and lower the piano lid as oc­casion required. This gives rise to the question, "Why do not some of our men get together and form a similar organization to satisfy the hungering souls of this community as well "as to give enocuragement to the develop­ment of this fine art?" We are sure that we have the men of talent that could do it, and we have a sort of feeling that they ought to do it. We have now several "Service" clubs, but an organization of this sort would enter a field where the service now is altogether top limited. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY Ogden High School Notes Today at 2:30 o'clock Ogden High athletes went up to win the division track meet. A goodly num­ber of students went with them. Music hath charms, they say, to soothe the savage beast. It hath charms also to make life sweeter and better for all mankind. The universality of music's ap­peal is due to an inborn apprecia­tion of rhythm and cadence and; harmony which are found.through­out the universe in the orderly pro­cession of the planets, in the ebb and tide of oceans, in the move­ments of the winds, in the mobility of human emotions-in fact every­where. Nothing in life is static. Even in the solid rock physicists tell us there is a rhythmic flow among the infinitesimal particles. In 1862, Judge Willis tells us, Helmholz discovered that 62 per cent of the music of the day was made up of discords, and discords, he tells us, is absolutely necessary in the composition of music. Per­fect harmony would be monoton­ous and uninteresting. But we have plenty of discord in the mu­sic of today-some 75 per cent in our modern jazz. HONORABLE MENTION. Misses Lucy King, Blanche Nel­son and Mary Cragun received honorable mention Thursday for excellent work in typewriting in the contest at the Agricultural col­lege. Miss King in first year work. Miss Nelson in second and Miss Cragun in the amateur class. Nine schools entered the stenog­raphy contest, but no prizes were given as no school seemed able to qualify for the test as giypn. Aside from students mentioned Thursday to participate in book­keeping were Edward Carlson and Victor Wheeler. The teachers express themselves as satisfied with the showing made by the students. The experience was new, the situation was unusual -for instance, in typewriting, the students were all seated on the stage with new machines and an audience before them; all the con­ditions were so unusual as to make it difficult for students to main­tain composure and do good work. The experience, however, waft well worth while and we are very glad to have had an opportunity to enter the contest.