The following poem written by Miss Klea Passey, an Ogden High school student, is a fine example of the spirit of good fellowship and friendship in the Girls’ Association. A PLEDGE To be a loyal band of girls, To be a credit to the school, To help each other all we can,And prize each friendship as a jewel. To do a little good each day, To help each other in our needs. To give the school the best we can, And may our best be worthy deeds. To further every worthy cause, To boast for Ogden to the last, To show good cheer and never pause, And always good reflections cast. So we, a merry band of girls, A troop that stands to head the school, Will pledge ourselves to do our best, And ever live the Golden Rule. ONE'S VERY BEST The subject of doing one's very best was considered at faculty meeting Monday. The teachers were complimented and commended for the excellent work they are doing, and each teacher was asked to regard himself as his own rival, and to endeavor, day by day and every day, to be a little better teacher. Years of experience should count for richer scholarships and far more effective teaching. MAN IS BUT THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE DUST Man is nothing more than a hero and martyr of nature. He is a hero to both mankind and beast and he is a martyr to both mankind and beast. Man and beast are alike in that they are nothing more than an accident in nature that has risen to power through intelligence. They are alike also because they come from the same dust and will return to the same lust when they die. Why is it that man has risen so far above the beast when he is made of the same material? It is because man has a superior intelligence. He has been given the power to rule over all other living creatures. But still Man is but the quintessence of the dust." Men rise to different degrees of prominence. Men like Lincoln, Gladstone, Napoleon and others have risen high above the average of men. These men in their respective days did much for the cause of mankind. Lincoln was a martyr for the cause of equality of rights. Gladstone gave his whole life proving the rights of the common people. Napoleon spent his time in giving to the world a higher science of unity in government. Millions of men have given up their lives in defense of their country or their king. Why should such a cost paid for so little gain? This world would still have been here if this had not been done. In a few years hence all this strife and turmoil will have been forgotten and the men will be the dust of the road to be wafted about by the four winds. —EDWIN HALL. Nov. 11-25 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place and in the sky, the larks still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high; If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields. —John McCrae. ARMISTICE DAY. Today, appropriately enough, we observe Armistice day—one of the most notable days in all the history of the world. Who cannot recall the happiness, the joy, the exultation that we all experienced seven years ago when the tolling of bells and firing of guns announced that the most cruel and bloodiest of all wars in the history of the world had probably ceased and that the world's great era of peace had been ushered in! We were heartily sick of war and all its attendant sorrows and sufferings, and we indeed felt and believed that we had fought the war that was to end war, and that neither we nor any of our descendants should ever again be called upon to suffer the horrors of war. War is wasteful, hateful, sinful; we thought then that we should have no more of it. We must not change our attitude upon this dreadful subject. We can no longer think of ourselves as civilized if we continue to think in terms of primitive man. Let this great day, Armistice day, with all other days of the year, be dedicated and consecrated to the sacred task of establishing peace and good will in all the earth. Let the school children of today commemorate the day by dedicating their lives to the propagation of the highest and best ideals of the twentieth cenurv. Most prominent among these ideals are ideals of world peace now and forevermore. GLEE CLUB REPORT. The Glee club held a very interesting meeting this week. Jean Warner informed the class that they were considered as a club by the council and to be treated as such we would have to make a constitution. The president asked Mr. Gammell to choose members of the constitution committee who will be named in the near future. It was moved and seconded that the club have pins. The motion was carried and the following pin committee was appointed: Klea Passey, chairman; Mabel Reynolds and Frank Rose. After the business session the following program was given: Vocal solo, "Love's Old Sweet Song," Maurine Peck; piano duet, "Sunny Fields," Dorothy Lund and Bernice Roskalli; playlet', "Lunatics," Verda Shaw and Sydney Norton. —Mabel Reynolds. HISTORY E. The regular meeting of the fourth period history class was held Monday, November 9, in room 202. A very good program was given: "Queer Lights on Brown Mountain," Henry O'Keefe; "The Lodge Attack On Wilson," Blanche Shurtliff; "Machines With Nimble Fingers," Maude Milne. Our class has quite a setback, having only seven boys with 23 girls, but we aren't going to let that hinder us, as we aim to let the rest of the school know Mrs. Irwin has a very lively class the fourth period. —Dorothy Lowe, Reporter. CARPE DIEM REPORT "That certainly is a snappy club." "It can't be equalled." "Those girls surely do things up 'brown'." These are just a few of the many complimentary remarks the girls of Carpe Diem received from the boys who attended their party, which was given at Miss Verna Reeves' home on Friday, November 7, 1925. Most of the evening was spent in learning the Charleston. We find that there are quite a few professionals in that line in our midst. Late in the evening delicious refreshments were served. You can see by the way this party went over that the rest of the clubs are going to have to hustle to keep up with the Carpe Diem. —Mabel Reynolds. MILITARY DEPARTMENT. Ogden Senior High School, Nov. 5. The following promotions are hereby .announced in the reserve officers' training corps to take effect in Company E, this date: To be sergeant and platoon leader, first platoon, Gordon Larson; to be sergeant, and platoon leader, second platoon, Lynn Gibbs; to be first sergeant, Ralph George; to be sergeant bugler, Oscar Browning; to be supply sergeant, Edwin Massae; to be platoon sergeant, first platoon, Henry Jordan; to be platoon sergeant, second platoon, Harry Porter; to be sergeant and right guide, first, platton, Myln Woolley; to be sergeant and left guide, first platoon, Voy Hickman; to be sergeant and right guide, second platoon, Harold Ferguson; to be sergeant and left guide, second platoon, Jim Russel. To be corporals—Elmer Campbell, Lowell Newey, Louis DeHart, Ward DeWitt, Carl Phillips, Orvil Hemmert, Albert Bragonje. C. J. DOCKLER, Captain Cav. D. O. L., P. M. S. & T. OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there is any kindness I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.—Hegeman. The universal education of young people is the most stupendous, the most inspiring, and the most necessary enterprise ever undertaken on our planet. Upon it and it alone depends the destiny of the human race; its happiness, its progress, its adjustment to new conditions, its self realization and its self improvement.—West Virginia School Journal. A GREAT GAME. A tremendous crowd, an enthusiastic, exuberant aggregation, an ideal day, a blaze of school colors, a perfect setting with snow-capped mountains and the variegated hills of autumn for a background, two very evenly matched football teams both fighting with might and main; these and a few other marked features characterized the great Armistice day game Wednesday afternoon at Lorin Farr park. To Ogden people it seemed especially appropriate that we should win by the narrow, margin of 14 to 12, as the Saints defeated Ogden a year ago by the score of 13 to 12. Narrow margins mean hot contests with a lot of enthusiasm which carries over from year to year. Already Ave are beginning to count on the big game next year on Armistice day. This day is to become the Thanksgiving day of Ogden sportsmen; that it is to be quite as interesting to Ogden as the University-Agricultural college game is to Salt Lake and Logan. HATS THROWN HIGH. Many people were heard to say Wednesday that they enjoyed the game every bit as much as any college game they had ever witnessed. Why shouldn't they? It surely was quite as spectacular and was thoroughly punctuated with thrills. People who have not been excited for years jumped high in the air, threw up their hats, and yelled like mad. It was good to see them, as we believe it was also good for them to be filled again with the pep and enthusiasm of youth. WONDERFUL EXHIBITION. The R. O. T. C. parade and review conducted on the football field Wednesday afternoon, from 2 to 2:30, was signally successful. It was a beautiful sight and brought home to Ogden people perhaps more effectively than ever before, what a splendid asset and organization Ogden has in this magnificent battalion. It is one of the outstanding notable features of the high school, and this fact was splendidly evidenced in yesterday's performance. People expressed surprise and unstinted admiration at the very exceptional band the school has this year. We now have a definite aim—to have as good a school band as any school in America—and the music discoursed yesterday gave us renewed hope for the attainment of that aim. In fact several people were heard to say yesterday. "That's the best school band I ever heard." The part played by the R. O. T. C. in the day's program was singularly appropriate for Armistice day, and all members of the American legion express appreciation for the assistance rendered by the R. O. T. C. GOOD SHOWING. The Saints came up in perfect comfort Wednesday in two mammoth Pierce-Arrow omnibuses. As these stupendous white cars entered the field, Ogden people held their breath for a moment, for it looked as if half of Salt Lake's people might be housed within these great "boats" Neither was the thought entirely dispelled when the Saints began to emerge for there was veritably an army of them. But they were very welcome as there was plenty of room for them in the grand stand and the two cheering groups, Ogden and L. D. S., side by side, made merry din as well as a most imposing spectacle. The Saints brought their band, too, which, by the way, is a very good band, and so the school as well as the team made an excellent showing and contributed to the success of a very memorable day. GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP. Students will long remember the I splendid talk Coach Kapple gave at Tuesday's assembly on "Sportsmanship." He told us that we do not play to win, but we play for the joy of it and the good that is in it; that we must not count on always winning, for sometimes it's quite as good for us to lose as it is to win. He recommended that we cheer the good plays of the opposing team and learn to appreciate every feature of the game; that we extend courtesy and good will to opponents at all timet, remembering that we are engaging in a friendly contest; not in a battle with our enemies. We believe we profited too by his advice for surely Ogden High never gave more whole-hearted support to a team than we did Wednesday; nor did we ever have a better time. From the standpoint of good sportsmanship, Wednesday's game was simply superb. Everybody happy, everybody gay. Everybody have a good time?— Well, I should say! USE OF FRIENDSHIP. "You do freely bar the door to your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend." How true this statement is! Who has not found that trouble that seemed so hard to bear became much lighter after confiding in a friend? Trouble can make a prisoner of one. It preys upon the brain until one can think of nothing else. It distorts the features, making them j lose their natural happy appearance. In fact, it takes such a hold on one that the whole being seems transformed. I am speaking of the person who allows trouble to make a prisoner of him, the person who keeps his griefs entirely to himself. Of course I do not mean to infer that one should be forever bothering his friends with troubles, but when a friend wants to help one by listening to his woes, why deny that friend the privilege? It is strange how much comfort one may get from his friends. We ordinarily think of a friend as one whom we know quite intimately. In one sense this is true, but it goes farther 'than that. If we cannot confide in him he is not a friend; but if we can confide in him and do not, we are not classing him as a friend. Thus by his griefs to his friend one not only keeps himself imprisoned, but also wrongs his friend. He doubts the friendship and love his friend holds