Mr. and Mrs. Hanks have a wonderfully fine farm and home at Burley, Idaho. Mrs. Hanks supervises the farm on which is found pure bred Jerseys, fine dogs and other animals. Both are very enthusiastic about their ranch and home, and their friends rejoice with them in their happiness and their fine prospects in life. BEING UNPREPARED Life is a give and take proposition, but even at that, fairness due each person is not always obtained. I knew a man once who thought the world should give him a luxurious existence, so he took all he could possibly get. To every gamester in life, his plan or method is fair. No matter what the odds are against him, he is able to advance some idea to prove why his game or method is fair. For this reason I contend that being unprepared occasionally is fair. A romantic poet penned a thought common in use to everyone: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Can't we construe this to mean that if I fail occasionally in my daily preparation, the mighty effort I am sure to make the next time should be more highly appreciated by the teachers? "Be prepared" is the time worn motto. Is the world in general always prepared? Is there no excuse for a lack of preparedness to the minute detail? I see a beauty hidden away in the word "Preparedness," but somehow farther back I see the phrase, "Fairness in all things." "We cannot cast the mote from our brother's eye when in our own there is a beam."—Edward West. 4-1-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES THE PRESS HELPS The A. L. Scoville Press sent us the good message that the press would send a boy to Gary and that they would also do two other kindnesses that would send two other boys to Gary. The generosity of the A. L. Scoville Press is very much appreciated. AND ANOTHER And still another who offered to "send a boy" was Albert Becker The good work goes on and enthusiasm of the R. O. T. C. mounts higher every day. BETTER, THANK YOU The students at high school are feeling much better today. A sort of gloom pervaded the school Wednesday on account of having lost the first game at the national tournament. Winning the second game helped us considerably. Here's hoping that we may win some more games. SALT LAKE BOOSTER Salt Lake, Utah, March 31, 1926. The following letter received Wednesday, shows the boosting spirit has struck Salt Lake: Dear Supt. Hopkins: I hear that Ogden has a crack R. O. T. C. band. Well, any band that can defeat West Side High must be deserving of congratulations and should go to Gary to compete for national honors. Ogden could not do a finer bit of advertising for Utah than to send her band back to the May tournament. I understand that you have started a campaign to raise funds to pay the expenses of the boys to and from Gary—which will take $6,000. If this is true, put me down, for $100 or one-sixtieth of the entire amount needed. Somehow I feel that if the Ogden Band goes east they will bring home to Utah national honors in the field of band music. Wishing you and your band good luck, I am. Cordially yours, HEBER NIELSON. President Utah-Idaho School Supply company. BEG YOUR PARDON The younger women of the High school faculty demanded an apology today from "school notes" in not giving full and true report of the "bobbed" hair situation among the women faculty members. They report that the number of the unbobbed is the mystical Biblical, 7, not 4 as reported. We are sorry. A BIG ASSET A recent questionnaire sent out by a great university to more than five hundred colleges in America, reveals the fact that practically every college regards a good band as one of the school's biggest assets. Bands consisting of from 15 to 200 members are reported in various colleges—the usual number being above 50. Interest in athletics and all other activities is greatly enhanced, according to the report, by having, a good band. It is becoming known also "Wat a good band is a wonderful asset to any high school. May we add "Ogden High has a good band." THE CONCERT The concert Wednesday night converted another large gronp of Ogden people to the belief that the R. O. T. C. band is one of very exceptional merit. A number of prominent people, including President W. H. Harris, Charles Empey, Wilford Dean, Joseph Chez and Supt. W. Karl Hopkins, complimented Mr. Lammers and the band, and expressed their belief that the band should be sent to Gary. Of course, it should go to Gary. Who says so? Everybody. LOST HANDSOMELY There is no use doing things by halves; if you're going to win or lose why not do it handsomely? Anyway, that's the way we started out at Chicago. We lost handsomely. We are claiming no alibis. We just came up against a faster team. Besides we are being educated. The boys are learning a lot of basketball. We hope they're not worrying, but are having a good, time. We shall make a creditable showing and that's good enough— since we cannot do any better. HARDIN COLLEGE The library has received a catalog, circular and views of Hardin college. Missouri. Any senior girls who may be interested in a private small school may secure all the information they desire about this school from this material. PRIDE IN WORK It is only axiomatic to say that no one can have real, genuine success in life unless he enjoys his work and takes a pride in it. Unskilled labor means in large measure work which is monotonous and filled with drudgery. Yet even here, one can learn to take pride in it. and strive to do it a little better than it has ever beer, done before. In the work-a-day world every workman should realize this great truth, "Pride in work is essential to any sort of success." ENTERTAINED The band played for the Elk's club Tuesday evening. The Elks were delighted with the fine work the boys are doing. The spirit of true hospitality pervaded Elk headquarters that night as usual and the boys were wined and dined (without the wine) and were entertained in royal style. The favors and kindnesses are very much appreciated by the band boys. AT SCHOOL Students are very happy in welcoming Franklin Richards back to classes. Franklin was the popular drum major, the singer par excellence, the accomplished actor last year, but has been detained at home the major part of this year on account of illness. It seems mighty good to see him back in the ranks. IMPORTANT CONTEST The high school has received a poster and information concerning one of the most important essay contorts conducted in the high schools of the country, the II. S. Firestone four years' university scholarship contest on the subject of "The Relation of Improved Highways to Education." Full information concerning the details of this contest are given on the poster now on the bulletin board. Ogden should make a great effort to secure the prize. THE SAINTS, TOO Students at the high school felt keen disappointment when they learned that the L. D. S. team had also gone down in the first game of the national tournament. Utah evidently needs a mascot at Chicago. JUNIOR GIRLS' MEETING In the library Wednesday, many of the junior girls met with the vice president of the junior class, Wilma Bailey, presiding. The girls are planning a program to be given soon and elected a girl from each junior high, and one from the county to aid the program committee, as they know the talents of the girls who came from the same junior high as they did. Those elected were: Dorothy Young, from Central: Vellys Woods, from Nona; Kathleen Alsup, from South; Virginia Anderson, from Lewis, and Emma Jacobs from the county. We are expecting a good program and will need all the girls' co-operation. The girls are going to send one of the band boys to Gary. The. girls of Central have generously agreed to play another basketball game with the O. H. S. girls' team This game will be played next Tuesday on Central's floor. We expect the support of the whole school in this same, for the Proceeds are swelling our fund for a band boy's railroad ticket, and this is something the whole school is back of. Mrs. Irwin urged the girls to give their undivided support to this game and to the other activities we are planning. She told us of a big get-acquainted party that she is planning for the junior girls to give for the tenth grade girls of all the junior highs. We all remember our own lonesome days at, high school when we first were here last September, and hope this party will help the girls get started here next fall. The junior girls should remember that they will be the mainstay of the Girls' association next year. So let's get together and learn how to co-operate now. —Florence Cartwright, Reporter. "Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that, was only taught by himself, had a fool for his master."—Ben Johnson. UNUSUAL MEMORY. A student wrote this classic line in an "English composition on Wednesday: "The old brown frame building will always stand out foremost in my memory with its narrow porches and drooping eaves where the sparrows built their nests." VISITORS. Miss Helen Cortez, a former teacher at high school, now dean of girls in a California high school, and Dick Graves, an alumnus of Ogden and Stanford university, now a representative of the World Book company, were visitors Thursday at high school. ASSEMBLY TODAY. At today's assembly Prof. Mark Robinson, city supervisor of music, will be the speaker. Miss Grace Nelson will sing. GRADUATION DRESSES. The senior girls at a meeting Thursday, night unanimously passed the following resolution: "That the graduation dresses should be simple; inexpensive, of pastel shades and suitable for afternoon wear; that the girls should wear light shoes and hose and that there should be no flowers." They voted also that they should like announcements. Mrs. Newcomb advised that samples of announcements would be in the trophy case during the next three or four days, so that the girls might make a choice. OGDEN OUT. Thursday's defeat of the Ogden boys by Cedar Rapid boys, score 25 to 23, eliminates us from the national basketball tournament. Students Insisted for a time that the announcement was a canard-an April fool joke—but alas, it was all too true. But at any rate we went to Chicago, we made a pretty good record. The boys doubtless had a pretty good time, so "we should worry." MILITARY DEPARTMENT. The following appointment is hereby made in the reserve officers' training .corps, Ogden senior high school, effective April 1: To be second lieutenant: Battalion Sergeant Major Henry O'Keefe. Second Lieutenant O'Keefe will be attached to the staff. The following appointments and promotions are hereby announced: To be first lieutenant: Second Lieutenant Arthur Farley. To be sergeants: Corporal Randall Tanner, company A; Theodore Martin, company A; Private Alma Lowe, company A; Corporal Cecil Fife, company B; Corporal Orville Shrider, company B; Private Parley Johns, company B; Corporal Arthur Hales, company C; Corporal Thomas Adams, company C: Corporal Ellis Hoggan, company C; Corporal Wallace Evans, company D. To be corporals: Private John Melling, company A; Private Vernal Johnson, company A. CARL J. DOCKLER, Captain, Cavalry, D. O. L., P. M. S. & T. BAD IS GOOD. Everybody is interested in the weather, even high school students. Teachers, however, are in a class by themselves. When most people say the weather is bad, the teachers insist that it is good. And when people insist it is good, teachers say, "No, it is bad." We presume most pupils can explain this strange phenomenon. In the "Idylls of the King" when young Gareth's mother refuses to get him enter lists, he admits that she is good and wise, but yet he exclaims, "Good, mother; but good mother is bad mother to me." So often too perhaps do the youth of today think "Good mothers are bad mothers; good teachers are bad teachers; good friends are bad friends," etc., ad inifinitum. COMING FINE. The people of Ogden are coming fine in their support of the band. The band will go to Gary. That seems to be understood. We need, however, at this time about 25 more people, generous, enthusiastic people to help us out. Each of these should say, "I'll send a boy." About 15 people have already said this. Then we shall need quite a group of people to say, "I'll give $10," as did a kind woman Thursday night; others to say "$5," $20," "$25," "$50," etc. We desire that the contributions shall be voluntary and unsolicited. ESSAY CONTEST. The high school was invited today to engage in an essay contest under the auspices of the Utah W. C. T. U. The subjects assigned are: 1. Total Abstinence and Modern Industrial Organization. 2. Smoking and High School Scholarship. The rules of the contest have been posted on the bulletin board. GLASS HOUSE. Mr. Bergstrom has erected a beautiful glass house. He doesn't intend to live in it himself as it isn't quite large enough, and besides he says he wouldn't care to live in a glass house. He built this house, however, to accommodate the rattle snakes, blue racers and others of their kind that he purposes collecting during the summer at his scout camp. DISCIPLINE AND TRAINING. In sending the boys to Gary, Ogden is making one of her finest investments. It isn't just the going that counts so much, but it's the year's discipline and training of 60 boys that counts most. Hy Lammers is an exceptional band leader because he demands quick thinking, mental alertness, strict obedience to the rules of