OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES 4-16-26 history repeats. Wednesday's debating history was repeated on Thursday. The negative team won from Box Elder as from Davis by a two to one division, while the affirmative team won from Davis by a unani¬mous decision. It's rather unusual for a school to win four debates in succession, but Ogden did it this time and of course we are very happy about it. The de¬baters are entitled to great credit, as is also the coach, Miss Reva Beck. We congratulate all on their success. next venture. Our next venture, of course is the district contest, after which comes, if we continue to win, the state contest. declamation. The next event of importance to look to is the Lewis oratorical contest between the Ogden High, Davis and Box Elder schools. This contest is to be held at Davis on Wednesday, April 28, at 2 p. m. willing to serve. Ogden attorneys as well as Og¬den citizens always show a fine spirit of helpfulness. A half dozen lawyers were called the other day and asked to serve as judges in our debates. Not every one was able to come, but every one expressed a willingness, a de¬sire to come. Each invited us to call again. in salt lake. Principal Merrill was called to Salt Lake today to work with a committee on the revision of a state high school manual being put out by the state department of education. how long? Teachers and students returning from their visit to Box Elder High school at Brigham City, are given to asking the question, "How long, O how long, must we wait at the Ogden High school for softie of the conveniences that are enjoyed by this school and all other high schools of the state?" As one enters the magnificent as¬sembly hall there, with its fine gallery, its broad stage, with its proscenium arch and beautiful cur¬tain, its comfortable opera chairs, its grand piano and other com¬forts, he heaves a disconsolate sigh as he thinks of our own as¬sembly "barn with its bleachers and its utter lack of the common necessities. As' he looks out of the window of the Box Elder assembly he beholds across the street a beau¬tiful 10-acre campus, sodded, with its fine tunning track, its foot¬ball field, its tennis courts, and other requisites, and then won¬ders how we get along—and con¬tinue to get along year after year without any of these things at the Ogden High. Yes, as we said some time ago, Ogden needs new hotels, new of¬fice buildings, new coliseums, new viaducts—but we do not need anything else half so badly as we need a new high school build¬ing and campus. winning fame. Wherever one goes these days in Utah one hears praises from every quarter for the R. O. T. C. band. The concerts given before the Rotary district convention in the Utah hotel this afternoon and evening before the thousand rep¬resentatives or every club in Utah and Idaho, will serve to carry distinction for the band, the school, the city, to every part of both Utah and Idaho. more advertising. The school and city will also get more favorable advertising to¬day when Garff Wilson, Ogden High's brilliant young orator, gives his address on the subject of "Peace" before the Rotary dis¬trict convention in Salt Lake. spring vacation. Many schools have a week's va¬cation in the spring. Teachers claim that a change, a rest for a week about this time of the year, gives both teachers and students new pep and vigor, thus enabling them to accomplish very much better work during the closing weeks of school. We half believe they're right and we respectfully recommend to Superintendent Hopkins and the board of educa¬tion that in arranging next year's program they plan for a week's vacation in the spring. club pins arrive. The long-expected Ham-And Radio club pins have at last ar¬rived and are now garnishing the breasts of the club members. The emblem is cut to resemble a radio tube, even to the prongs on the base. The pin, made from white and yellow gold, has the letters O. H. S. inscribed on the base in Old English type. The silvery bulb contains an A that is super¬imposed by an H. The club members are the fol¬lowing active students: Ralph Stevenson, Scott Kellogg, Jack Crave, Warren Cross, Milton Parber, Wayne Iverson, Winifred Hancock, Roland Manning, Casper Woods, Delbert Poole, Rulon Sco¬ville, Byron Crittenden, Kenneth Read, Edgar Calder, John Griffin and Dean Parry. The club ad¬visors, both of whom are indispensible to the club, are the Messrs. E. Smith and E. Wangs¬gard. —Warren Cross. the soft voice. Cordelia—sweet, lovable, un¬selfish, mild-tempered—straight¬forward and honest-—was one of Shakespeare's finest types of wom¬an. Perhaps Shakespeare said nothing more truly nor beautiful¬ly of her than this, "Her voice was ever sweet, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman." per¬haps no quotation is more fa¬miliar than this, and rightfully too, because such attributes of voice count for much in per¬sonality and character. As character can be developed, so also can the voice be trained to be like Cordelia's—expressive of sweet disposition and tempera¬ment. This thought was rein¬forced Thursday when a boy de¬bater delivered his argument in this sort of voice. In his intonations he won confidence, respect and admiration of his auditors. His voice created at once in his hearers a disposition to believe the things that he said. One's faith, one's ideals, one's sincerity, one's whole inner life, may well be expressed by his manner of speech. We would say, then, that as one wishes to be gentle, fair-minded, sincere, en deaver at all times whether in conversation or public address to cultivate the Cordelia voice. Such training will not only develop power of effective expression, it will also reflect favorably upon character and life. OPEN-MINEDNESS. Usually three persons are em¬ployed in judging a debate. This is upon the theory, we presume, that the viewpoint and judgment of three is likely to more nearly approach fairness and justice, than can be obtained from a single individual. We are content to let one individual render final judgment upon all the fine points of an athletic contest, but not so in the very difficult art of judg¬ing a debate. It is quite the custom also to accept the verdict of this com¬mittee three, in much the same spirit that we now accept all the ruling cf the referee or umpire in an athletic contest. In the trianglar debates just held, the three schools have acted upon the principle that the men chosen to judge are not biased, narrow-minded, or prejudiced, but open-minded, fair, just, weighing all the evidence offered and ren¬dering their decision upon the facts and evidence submitted. In our contests it has been necessary to secure local judges, hut we regard it as an especially fine thing that all three schools have been happy to recognize in the decisions rendered the above mentioned principles of open-mindedness, fairness and justice.