HANDICAPS Another excellent thing to result from the Weber gymnasium work for girls is the careful physical examination given. Already several instances of poor eyesight, defective hearing, diseased tonsils, etc., have been uncovered. All these are serious handicaps to successul study and remedial measures will be adopted in all cases. AGAINST TOBACCO Teachers were asked Tuesday to use all possible influence to induce students to refrain from the tobacco habit, as is well known that the high school student who becomes a prey to the tobacco habit unwittingly places upon himself a tremendous handicap. No student who participates in high school athletics ever thinks of handicapping himself through the use of tobacco. Scientists assure us that the mental handicap is quite as great as the physical. RUNNING SMOOTHLY Although school has been in session but two days, practically all registrations are complete and things are running quite as smoothly as if school had been operating several weeks. ROTARY TO HELP There are two hundred or more high school students not yet enrolled. The Ogden Rotary club members are preparing to open a campaign to induce all students to return to school at an early date. KIWANIS, TOO The Ogden Kiwanis club members are planning to assist Ogden High schools this year in the matter of vocational guidance. Men of all vocations will visit the various schools and explain the advantages and opportunities afforded in their respective vocations. RIDING THE SAW A college graduate went to spend his vacation in the Maine woods. He was put at one end of a cross-cut saw, cutting trees into saw log lengths. After two hours of work he began to shirk. Finally the huge woodsman on the other end of the saw stopped a moment to say: "Look here, young man, I don't mind your riding on that end of the saw, but for the love of Mike stop letten' your feet drag on the ground!" In every community, in every organization, everywhere in life, there are people like that, who let their feet drag on the ground. Note satisfied with simply riding —doing nothing to help the community or organization—they drag their feet, complain and knock at those who are trying to do the work. In school, in industry, in life everywhere, let's adopt the slogan: "Ride the saw if you will but for the love of Mike, don't let your feet drag on the ground." FINDS LIFE GOOD There is no better teaching than that which helps us to feel that life is good and absolutely worth while. Those who have lived and found it so, are consequently our best teachers. Accordingly this bit of personal history from one of America's best known and loved newspaper editors, E. W. Howe, is worth repeating: "As a young man, the first general saying I particularly noted was that life is gross and mean; that there is no beauty, no happiness, no hope. And this saying has continued in the stream of conversation and reading until I am old. "I have not found life so bad as represented." Mr. Howe then tells of the untoward circumstances of his eadly career, and the troubles and obstacles of his life, but offsetting every instance by the finding of joy and friendship, companionship and helpfulness in the children, the men and women, about him. He concludes: "I have heard it said we should look for good. Perhaps we should, but we should find it in the course of every ordinary day's work without looking; it will demonstrate itself, and make its presence known with helpfulness. FEELS GRATEFUL "In my long life I have suffered no great wrong; I have been the victim of only small offenses. I have been rescued from many dangerous difficulties, and have had many and great blessings. And I am so grateful that sometimes I believe we are Sept 16 ’26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Teachers are complimenting students on the readiness and earnestness with which they are beginning work. The principals and coaches of Region I, Utah High School Athletic association, will meet at Brigham City next Saturday afternoon to draw up schedule of football games for the season. Region I includes Logan school district, Cache school district, Box Elder, Ogden City, Weber county, Davis county, Rich county. FOR TYPEWRITING The demand for typewriting and stenography taxes the capacity of these departments. The high school has 60 machines and two teachers of typewriting, yet can hardly satisfy the' demand. Not only commercial students but those in other courses are asking for one or two years of typewriting. PIN FOUND A 1926 O. H. S. class pin with, initials E. S. is awaiting its owner at The Standard-Examiner news room. NEW CLASSES New classes have been organized as follows: Stenography A, fourth; Spanish A, fourth; English E. fourth. HEALTH WORK As a part of the educational plan, physical education of some sort is required of all students for two years in the senior high school. Students are advised that drill or physical education in the junior high, seventh, eighth and ninth grades do not meet the requirements of senior high—tenth, eleventh, twelfth grades. The R. O. T. C. band is in full swing again and makes merry din from 8:30 to 9:30 a. m. daily. Mr. Lammers will have charge of the orchestra this year also and asks all students who are interested to report on Monday, next, at 3:15 o'clock. The class will meet on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week at that hour. TRANSLATIONS How the beauty of one language may suffer when poorly translated into another is illustrated by the following: Our class song, "Rock of Ages," was translated into Hindustani. On re-translation into English by a student the first two lines reappeared as: "Very old stone, split for my benefit, Let me absent myself under your fragments." Perhaps this is as good time as any to explain the difference between poetry and prose. The difference is the thing you feel when you read the original of the above, alongside the Hindustani retranslation. TICKETS NO GOOD A Chinese servant had been carefully instructed how to answer the door, the lady illustrating her instruction by passing out and coming in at the door at the same time handing him her card. Lee says, "Me savee." The next day two ladies called, and presented their cards. Lee compared these with that of his mistress, and said, "Tickets no good, can't come in." WE'RE BACK Station HAM AND, now broadcasting its first program of the year. Howdy, friends. Here we are rip snortin' and rarin' for good old Ham And again. You said it. Last year it was the best club in the school.' Boy, this year just watch our smoke! Like to get in? Oh, yes. Sure, I knew it. Don't know nothin' about radio. Remember. This club ain't for second Steinmetz or anybody like that. It's for fellows who want to do something to advance. If you don't understand radio, why cotne on in and learn. Folks, what we need is some new parts. Maybe you would make a good grid-leak. Maybe a good tube. We want some new parts. Come on up Thursday at 7:30 p. m. and see. Up and rip snortin' to go, we sign off for this time. So long! You'll hear more later. —Poole. VOCATIONAL WORK If parents and students only knew the value of the work offered in cooking, sewing, carpentry, electrical construction, auto mechanics, we are sure those classes would be much larger than at present. STELLAE REPORT The Stellae club has started the school year with a bang. The first action taken, when a special meeting was called, was the election of Miss Hubbard, who will share with Mr. Beeson the advisorship of the club. Miss Hubbard takes the place opened when Miss Bowman decided not to return to the O. H. S. The Stellae club will do its best to maintain and encourage the maintenance of a high standard of scholarship in the O. H. S. and will back all progressive action taken for the betterment of the school. The Stellae club is not a social one but educational and demands of its members, scholastic standing leadership in scholastic activities. The first regular meeting will be held on Thursday evening, when the policy of the club will be shaped and planned. The officers for the first semester are: President, Grant W. "Chandler; vice president, Kate Healy, and secretary-treasurer, Mary Rich.—Grant Chandler. THE FINE MIND President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin says the fine mind has four characteristics. These are (1) humility, (2) curiosity, (3) courage, (4) responsibility. "Our brain is," says he, "the major tool we bring to the task of living. Like good mechanics, we profit from keeping our brains under continuous and critical study. The better one knows his tools, the better he can use them. Good craftsmanship is impossible unless the tools are well adapted to their tasks." MANUAL TRAINING The day is past when one needs to advocate the advisability of making manual training a part or the high school curriculum, but it is necessary perhaps to cite the advantages offered by this subject occasionally for the benefit of new students. It is only trite to say that every man needs to know how to use tools in a common way, and, properly taught, manual training possesses just as high educational value as any other subject. To some extent, of course, it may serve a pre-vocational purpose, but its greatest values are intellectual and moral training. Manual training has one great advantage over many other studies. The student can see for himself what he is able to do and there is little opportunity to deceive either himself or others. When the article is finished it stands forth as visible evidence of his workmanship. The student also learns the great truth that the doing of something worth while is the real secret of true happiness. Sept 17 ’26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Final registration cards we filed Thursday in the office. Students have chosen for good will the courses they are to pursue for at least a semester and most cases for the entire year. THE BIG TASK And, by the way, the choosing of the courses is the hardest work in the world. Many of the subjects are absolutely new to the students and they do not know whether they will like them or not. If they do not like them and can’t make themselves believe they like them--what a miserable time ahead it is; and then perhaps failure in the end. And teachers, too, are deeply concerned about this thing. They assume some responsibility in correcting the students in this choice of subjects--and who knows that they may give wrong directions about half of the time? Oh, for the wisdom of Solomon that good counsel might maintain about 75 per cent of the time! VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE There is much talk these days about vocational guidance. Some people pretend that they can take what vocations other people ought to follow. As a matter of fact, however, is a sort of hit and miss proposition, and about 10 per cent of the others onto the work for which they adapted after a few failures in other lines. Perhaps one of the best things that can be said of high school education is that it is a “testing out” proposition where pupils come in contact with different branches of science, art, literature, craftsmanship, and develop interests which let them on into life’s real callings. HARD STUDY PAYS But it has been found, fortunately, that nothing pays so well as hard study, hard work. We are told that one may develop a liking for any study however distasteful, providing he applies himself diligently enough and ling enough. TEACHER’S RESPONSIBILITY Here again is the teacher’s responsibility. The real teacher must make his subject interesting to all students. They must be like the late President Harper of the University of Chicago, who, it is said, made the study of Greek roots so interesting that students were always reluctant to have the recitation close. ASSEMBLY TODAY The first assembly of the year was held this morning at 11:15 o’clock. Principal Merrill and Student Body President Cecil Fife were scheduled to give addresses, and music to be furnished by some of the students. MONTANA GRADES The University of Mantana sends to every high school from which students come, the grades received by pupils from such schools every quarter during the entire college course. The standard of distribution of grades determined by the faculty is as follows: From 45 to 55 per cent of all students should receive Grade C. From 22 to 27 per cent of all students should receive grades above C. From 22 to 27 per cent of all students should receive grades below C. KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER “We make a sad mistake in assuming that knowledge of right and wrong determines character. It does nothing of the sort. A knowledge of right and wrong is only one of the elements necessary in the building of character, and it is not the most important element at that. Desire to do right is the most important element, and that desire must be fed on daily satisfaction until it becomes a habit before one can have character. Hope of reward and fear of future punishment are too far off to be attractive or to be feared. Daily satisfaction here and now is essential.” --J. F. Wright. MIND HUMILITY “"A first class mind is never cock-sure; it is always willing to admit that it may be wrong; it is never afraid to say that it does not know; it does not specialize in closed questions; all questions are open questions to it; it is always ready, in the presence of new knowledge or fresh challenges, to question the soundness of its earlier observations and the sanity of its earlier conclusions."—Glenn Frank. A GOOD ANSWER Some times even Dorothy Dix gives a sane answer to a fool question. “Dear Dorothy: I am seventeen and am going to be married. What shall I wear? A veil or not?” Answer: “Wear a fool’s cap by all means.” THE NEW EDUCATION We hear much these days of the “new education.” Many people wonder when education is “new” and when it’s “Old.” As good a rule as we can formulate is this: The education of yesterday is old; the education of today is new. A professor on a well known western university spoke recently of the new education and declared that any person could consider himself education if he could give an affirmative answer to each of the following questions: 1. Has your education given you sympathy with all good causes? 2. Has it made you a brother to the weak? 3. Have you learned how to make friends and to keep them? 4. Can you look any honest man or pure woman squarely in the eye? 5. Do you see anything to love in a little child? 6. Are you good for anything yourself? 7. Can you be happy alone?