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Show FINE ORCHESTRA Til high school has now about as fine an orchestra as we haveever had. It has twenty-five members and Is already attacking some very difficult music. The students are very enthusiastic and are determined to surpass the efforts of past years. We have also two splendid chorus organizations, one with 45 members and the other with 35. Mr. Gammell, the instructor, is very much pleased with the progress the music department is making. . j THE SMITHS The science department of the school is pretty well "Smithed" this week. What with Burdette Smith teaching biology, Edwin S. Smith teaching chemistry and Willis Smith teaching zoology-and all in one part of the building, it if hardly possible for any other teacher to hold forth in the west end of the building. We may expect any day to hear of Ernest Wangsgard being thrown out of the window and another Smith installed in the physics department. HAM AND The Radio club is making plans to put an amplifier in the assembly hall and to give the students an opportunity to get the world series results. The work will probably be completed today. Another big project of the club is to have an exhibit soon of radios and radio material. All firms dealing in radios will be invited to take part. COUNCIL NOTES At council meeting Tuesday night it was decided to postpone the student body dance from October 9 to October 16. The council ordered also the purchase of 500 megaphones and as many arm bands to be used for advertising purposes and to pep up school spirit. On motion, the junior dance date was changed "from November 20 to November - 13. All clubs are asked by the council to submit copies of constitution and by-laws and names of advisors. TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THRIFT Work and earn. Make a budget. Record expenditures. Have a bank account. Carry life insurance. Own your home. Make a will. Invest in safe securities. 9. Pay bills promptly. 10. Share with others. FIRE PREVENTION This, as every one knows, is Fire Prevention week. The schools are having fire drills and are giving instruction with reference to fire hazards and fire prevention. The toll of life and loss of property annually from fire is appalling; 16,983 men, women and children lost their lives by fire last year. The property ioss is estimated at 548,810,000. RARE OPPORTUNITY Students who have completed one or two years of high school and have been unable to continue longer have an opportuniay this year to take third year (junior) English at night school. The class has been organized primarily for the benefit of such students and it is believed that a large number will wish to avail themselves of this opportunity of continuing their work. A .number registered on Monday night and it is thought that several others will enroll Thursday night when the regular class work begins. The class meets in room 206 at 8:30 o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. A class in business English will j also be given at 7:30 on the same : evenings. The amount of credit given .will depend upon the I amount of work done. Principal Merrill ,has been engaged as in- ) structor. TACT Most people lack tact. Indeed - many are so short on this com- i modity as to render themselves almost useless in society. In or- "r der to get along amicably with people one must be tactful. It'a I really a pity that situations in school life are not more frequent- t Jy employed to inculcate in youth ! this very desirable virtue. As a;n ' aid for both young and old to 'r develop this sadly needed gift we offer the following from the Iowa plan: " ' 1. Study your own' mistakes to determine how they might have I been avoided. Then see that they do not recur. See humorous side of perplexing situations. Avoid insinuations and sarcasm. Study situations in which others exhibit tact, or fail to do so. Lead others to your view by questions rather than by arbitrary statements or argumentation. Copy the acts of tactful persons. The ones to imitate are those who get things done without friction. Express approval, criticize sparingly; be kind; emphasize the good. Suggest, rather than command. Don't take too much re- ; sponsibility for the behavior of others. FORUM MEETING Regular Forum meeting was held again Monday evening. It certainly was the Forum. Truly no livelier discussion could be heard anywhere, either in congress, parliament or even faculty : meeting. With five or six people asking for the floor at one time, and all the rest of the club awaiting a turn, we surely had a peppy meeting. The scheduled debate was postponed because of the absence of one of the debators. A try out for admittance to the waiting was asked for and granted to Merrill Tribe, Laurence Skeen, Bill Stratford and Emerson .Thatcher. Garff Wilson and David Camp challenged Hal Armstrong and Jack Craven to debate the question of continuing the Classicalia. The challenge was accepted, so if you wish to learn something of school affairs, drop in a week from Monday. SYMPATHY NEEDED "As I ponder weak and weary" (quoting Edgar Allen Poe) I think of what Mrs. Kohler stated today in class, that material for High School Notes was badly needed, and that Mr. Merrill had asked for work from each division that might prove interesting for the readers. The first thought that entered' my head was to console, and, in another sense congratulate those who either registered too late, or in some way, found it impossible to take typing-and I judge there were many disappointed. Take my advice, ye would-be typists. if you have not an over- p supply of patience, a wonderful sense of duty, and a pleasant j temper, stay away from those heartless old machines, which are not in the. least bit considerate of ' the number of mistakes they print, or the paper they waste. If one has not all the virtues mentioned, he will enter the typewriting room (maybe) smiling, and in 45 minutes later, nine out of ten will emerge with a face -that would not do any student justice --and who wouldn't for- Every paper must be letter perfect, not an eraser used, and spacings correct. These papers must be handed in at a given time. This may sound simple, but one who has escaped the clutches of the demon, typing, on entering a room of beginning students will be instantly convinced that what have just stated is true. He will see the students sitting stiff and tense, writing and struggling to keep the right fingers on the exact keys without looking, and expecting every moment to make a blunder (and may I add, their expectations usually come true). Then from another section of the room will come a smothered exclamation and the vicious tear ing out and replacing of a fresh piece of paper, and once again with a sigh, the tedious task will begin again. Papers will be seen flying in the direction of the waste basket, and still greater piio lying on the desks. GROANS HEARD Students with less patience, af- I ter getting near the end of a lesson, and tfyen making a slight mistake, will' double fists and come down on those glaring, merciless, blank keys with a cry of . despair and a groan of "I give j up," but only to rip out that paper j and start again. And so it goes, with the din i. and hammering of keys to your rir,ht and to your left, and yourself rigid with fear lest you strike the wrong key-rthen the routine all over again of bororwing paper and making mistakes. Beginning students and fellow sufferers, is it not so? I But let's show true high school I spirit and not be quitters, using the old saying as our motto, "If you fail once, try, try again." In conclusion, however, as these short weeks of school pass, let me add that those keys are becoming more merciful and our tasks easier and-well- Maybe it isn't so bad after all! -Ruth Mark. |