OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES THE PROFESSOR. Here he sits droning On some forgotten truth, Heedless of springtime Intolerant of youth Here he sits dryly Talking all day; Woodenly sober And slim as his pay. —Maurice Kelly In American Mercury LAMBASTING. The American Mercury maga¬zine is securing a wide circulation because of its lambasting articles. The March number had a par¬ticularly vicious article on "Utah." The April number an especially salacious article that everybody wanted to read because no one be¬lieved that anyone would dare to print such vile stuff. Now comes the May number with an article by a New York school teacher that epitomises all the slander and ignominy of the ages against the teaching profession. There have always oeen people who have taken great pride in belittling the teacher and his work, and so now when a teacher comes along with an article that teems with vitup¬eration, contempt, ridicule, slan¬der—it becomes at once a sweet morsel to them. Teachers them¬selves all want to read the article bccause, however hateful it may be, it is about them and they want to know' just how miseraTe and contemptible thy can be pic-tured. So naturally, the magazine is getting the publicity it craves and Brother Mencken is reaping a rich harvest for his audacity and for his ability to select expert mud slingers on his staff. "KEEN OBSERVER." Just how keen an observer how eloquent and how clever Mr. Starett, the author of the last men-tioned article is may be seen from his opening paragraph: "I remember as though it were yesterday that teachers" confer¬ence the first day I was appoined to teach at Lafayette High school. In the sloping seats of the lecture room a hundred and fifty teachers sat waiting for the principal to arrive; and that first agglomerate impression has never left me. All of them had the same face—a face which, for the back of proper physiognomical nomenclature, I call the teacher face. It is a face diffident, un¬easy, reserved, guarded, hostile. It is a face that does not often smile and seldom laughs. It is a face on the defensive, pettily intelli¬gent and drably noble; jaded, unadventurous, cowed; and for all its fine assumption of authority, it is the face of a sheep." Now isn't that promising? Who wouldn't part with a little old half dollar to get three or four pages of spicy literature of that sort? FROM MR. GAMMELL. The high school teachers re¬ceived Monday an apprecative letter from Mr, Gammell who is wearing out the long cheerless days in the Fitzsimmons General hospital at Denver. He says, "I cannot tell you much about my case for a week or two until my diagnosis is complete, but at pres¬ent I am very fine." DIFFICULT JOB. It seems an almost impossible job to get a good picture of the band. Three or four attempts have been made—and unless a satisfactory one was obtained Monday by Link-Tiffany we haven't yet a satisfactory photo¬graph. Mr. Lammers reports that he has had a number of requests from newspapers, magazines and musical organizations all over the country for a "picture of the band." TRIANGULAR DEBATE. Today at 3:30 o'clock three de¬bates will be held concurrently at the high school. The question. "Resolved, that the Japanese should be admitted to the United States as other immigrants," will be debated both affirmatively and negatively by the high school teams of Ogden, Morgan and Logan. Representation in the state contest is at stake in this debate, the winner representing the north¬ern Utah district. HIGH SCHOOL MOURNS. The teachers and students of the Ogden High school are in deep mourning today on account of the most unfortunate and lamentable calamity that occurred on its grounds Monday. It appears that as the cadets received their rifles that morning at 8:15 o'clock preparatory to drill, two boy chums in the spirit of play took the bayonets from their scab¬bards, attached them to their 4'uns and proceeded to banter one another. In the case of one boy, Groberg Woods, the bayonet was not. securely attached and as he threw the gun down from shoul¬der to horizontal, the bayonet flew off and struck his friend, Lloyd Parker squarely on the chest. The latter was hurriedly taken into the office of R. O. T. C. head¬quarters where first aid was given and a physician called. The latter examined the wound, dressed it and expressed the belief that it was not serious. He and Captain Dockler drove the lad home, and after putting hint to bed, gave him an opiate to produce sleep so as to overcome the nervous shock from which he seemed to be suf¬fering. About half past four in the afternoon officials of the school were greatly shocked to re¬ceive word that Lloyd had died, It seemed incredible, as neither the physician who attended him Dr. Merrill, nor one called later Dr. Rich, could believe the wound could have been mortal. An autopsy later, however, by Drs Rich and Merrill showed the bay¬onet point had passed through the sternum and had pierced the right oracle of the heart. In consequence of the fatality the entire school is thrown into a gloom that will not pass. All are inconsolably grieved that such a fatality should mark an other¬wise eventful and happy year. Sincere sympathy is expressed to the heart-broken parents who are thus so untimely bereft of a fine promising son.