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Show MONDAY EVENING OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Night school opens tonight at the high school. Several hundred adults will receive instruction Monday and Thursday nights during the school year in Ogden's popular night school. Adult education is receiving more attention in Ogden than any other place in the state, and we are not sure that any night school anywhere in the entire country is receiving better patronage than Ogden's school. TO OPPORTUNITY Francis T. Wiggins is the popular principal of extension work, night school work, part-time work and Americanization work in Ogden. Perhaps no man in Ogden is doing better work than Mr. Wiggins. He is opening the door of opportunity to all classes of people, and several hundred people are entering that door. MUCH USED BUILDING The high school building is used for regular instruction for high school students from 8:30 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily; from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m., Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 8 a. m. to 12 m., Saturdays for part-time instruction; from 7 p. m. until 9:30 p. m„ Monday and Thursday evenings for night school, extension and Americanization work. It is thus seen that the high school is a much used building. PEP ASSEMBLY The first league game will be played Friday afternoon at Kaysville and consequently the assembly on Friday will be a "pep rally." NEW LOCKERS The carpentry department, under the supervision of Devere Child, has built and installed a new set of lockers in the auto mechanics building. The other equipment of the building has been re-arranged by Mr. Bergstrom and his students, so that it now presents itself as an almost ideal workshop. ASSEMBLY HELD High school students convened on Friday in the assembly room with President Fife in the chair. Announcements were made by the editors of the year book and the quarterly concerning the requirements of their respective reporters; they invited members of the student body to try for these positions. The Girls' association dance was advertised in a very original way by members of the association. Musical numbers rendered by Mr. Greenwell and Edward Cox (which delighted the audience). A valuable demonstration of first aid treatment was given by Dr. Fenton, who is representing the Red Cross. The talk was interesting and useful, and was given in a vigorous way. Frank Christensen, from the Agricultural college, asked for the support of the Ogden High school at the football game next Saturday. —Eleanor Weeks. THE CLASSICUM Competition for places on the quarterly staff will be closed Tuesday. There are still a few good positions left as follows: The news editor, who is to collect interesting news items of school activities, and take charge of those contributed. The athletic editor: Any fellow who is interested in athletics can fill this position. He has merely to write accounts of all league football and basketball games and track meets. The humor editor is a very important personage in the school. His duty is to know all about anything there is to laugh at—a terrible mental strain. It is a good place for anyone with ideas and a sense of humour. Anyone—juniors, seniors or sophomores, is eligible. Hand in your reports by Tuesday. FINE SENSE OF HUMOR Dr. Fenton discovered Friday that the Ogden High school students have a very keen sense of humor. In talking to men's clubs he consciously injected an occasional bit of humor. At the high school he had to make a very great effort to keep out humor in order to deliver his message. All in all, however, students got considerable information from Dr. Fenton in addition to sixty-two hearty laughs in twenty-one minutes. EDUCATION PAYS A. N. Marquis company, publishers of' "Who's Who" in America, has a very striking graph that shows the major portion of the men in "Who's Who" are college graduates. As we cannot product the graph we offer the figures Self-educated and privately educated, 388; furnished no data 1814; common school education 1880; high school education, 2756 attended college from one to three years, 3022; college graduates, 14, 055. Total, 23,915. MOVING PICTURES The great part played by moving pictures in American life is evidenced by some very interestin figures just given out by Will H Hays: Number of theatres, 20 233; number of seats, 10,500,000; value of taxable buildings, $2,000. 000,000; permanent employes, 235,000; average weekly attendance 00,000,000; annual cost of productions, $150,000,000; number of features produced in 1925, 823. It is thus seen that one would be obliged to go to a movie twice a day and more to see all of the reels. ORDINARY DUBS Most people must learn sooner or later in life that we are C. O. D. people, i. e. common ordinary dubs. In youth we dream of greatness, but realize later that we have not achieved it. We presume that God never intended that many should be great. Just a very few great ones suffices any age Lincoln aptly said: "God must have dearly loved common people, else why did he make so many of them?" We hear people say frequently that they "want to go with the crowd." That's easy, for most of us are born into the crowd, and into the crowd we go. MUST PAY THE PRICE It isn't perhaps altogether complimentary to think of one's self as common, but there is a deal of satisfaction in knowing that the vast majority of one's contemporaries are common, too. Besides, greatness pays its price, and the great ones often wonder if it's worth the cost. Emerson said, "To be great is to be misunderstood." Certainly that's a handicap. Greatness must usually be accompanied by loneliness; what a terrible thing it is not to have any number of congenial friends! Greatness lives in a world of fear, fear that greatness may depart and be left common. Greatness has reputation at stake that is ever threatened. Greatness entails sacrifices, hardships, cares, responsibilities, worries, sufferings, that commonness know nothing about. Truly the common man, happy in his vocation and in his quiet home life, gets far more real joy and happiness out of his life, than the king in his palace or the great one in his high office. We presume most people know this and that accounts for the vast amount of contentment in the world. TUESDAY EVENING Oct 5 26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Four new students registered Monday. Any students who expect to enter school this year should do so at once, as this is the fourth week and much ground has already been covered in all subjects. BOOKS HERE The books for the Home Nursing and Red Cross work to be given in the physical education classes reached school Monday, thanks to the energy and good will of Dr. E. P. Mills. ANNOUNCED SOON Captain Dockler is making a careful survey of officer material for the present school year and will be prepared to announce the complete staff within the next few days. MEDALS ARRIVE Medals for the boys who participated in the national band contest in Fostoria last June have reached Ogden and will be presented on Friday. It is thought the trophy will be here by that time also so that it may be formally accepted. SCHOOL PLAY It is intended to stage the school drama again this year, as last, the second week in December. The big question now is—what shall the play be? Miss Beck has four plays in view as follows: "The Goose Hangs High," "The Show Off," "The Torch Bearers" and "Daddy Long Legs." It is our opinion that the plays are given above in the order of personal preference of Miss Beck. She says, "I am very anxious to put on "The Goose Hangs High," as it is a very wonderful play, but, having new material to work with, I am not sure that I dare attempt it." MUST BE HIGH CLASS Miss Beck has established an enviable reputation in Ogden as a coach of dramatic art and of course this year's production must equal if not excel any past production. It is rather easy to put on some of the lighter comedies, but when it comes to putting on a high-class production in first-class style, the problem becomes exceedingly difficult. LAMMERS' COMPLIMENT Hy Lammers sees all the plays that come to Ogden and he is rated as somewhat of a critic. What he says then is of some significance. He said the other day, "The high school plays of the past two years have been exceptionally fine productions and reflect not only great credit upon the conductor, but upon the school and community." Thanks, Hy. Come again. A NEW RULE The state industrial school now has a fine brass band and a fine orchestra. The school music is under the direction of R. E. Cox, who is making a very fine showing. Ogden high will have to look to her laurels. SENIOR MEETING The third senior meeting of the year was held Friday afternoon in the library under the direction of President Kenneth Skeen. The purpose of the meeting was to elect class reporters for the year book and school notes. Those receiving the offices were as follows: Mildred McKay, reporter for the year book, and Parnell Lemon, reporter for the school' notes. The class carried on further discussion concerning future school activities and assembly programs, but no definite arrangements were made owing to inadequate representation of clubs. The H. C. club, however, was granted first chance to present an assembly program which will be given on October 15. A motion was carried placing President Skeen in charge of a committee to select the class. The following essay was written a year ago, but we think it suits October, '26, quite as well as October, '25, and present it to our readers. OCTOBER THOUGHTS A flash of gold, a scarlet leaf, a bit of old lace, echoing footsteps, dying laughter—October thoughts. And why, why these thoughts? Why is it that autumn, the fulfillment of nature's promise to man, frees those Shadowy, indistinct little forms from the dusky corners of the memory to play on our fancies, and fill us with a sad hopeless little note of something lost, something vanished, something gone forever. Maybe it is the old and mellow light that clings to Autumn. Maybe it is the fading leaves, the lonely breezes. Maybe it is these that sway the slender stalk of sadness that is implanted in all of us, and carry us away to reverie, to dreams, and to a ghost-like longing for things past. Not only to things of the vanishing summer, but to remote, distant, echoing things—to a grim old castle on a bleak hilltop; to a rusty chain in a secret dungeon; to romance, to romance of the past, to romance of days long since departed. O Autumn reveries, O October thoughts, how beautiful, and yet how sad you are! How you transport, carry us away to the land of dreams, to the land of infinite shapeless longing, and then, like autumn, with a flash of crimson, a flash of gold, you are gone! —GARFF WILSON. Oct 6 - 26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES "The schoolhouse at the crossroads has done more than arsenals and fists to advance the nation from its humble beginnings to the proudest nation in the world."--Jose Mercury-Herald. "The real value of a school lies in its teachers, and their success is measured by the influence they exert upon their pupils."—Roland B. Woodward. FUNDAMENTALS. "If schools have taught a boy to be self-reliant in spelling, exact and quick in arithmetic, intelligent and deductive in reading, apt in grammatical construction, thoroughly familiar with civil government and conversant with commercial geography, many parents would call their accomplishments wholly satisfactory.-"-—Fall River (Mass.) Globe. WRITES A DRAMA. Robert True, a senior, spent the leisure hours of the summer vacation in the writing "of a school drama. Teachers declare that it is an excellent piece of work. WHAT TO TEACH. At faculty meeting Tuesday, Principal Merrill asked all teachers to help teach helpful, constructive English. He said: "Whatever else may be taught in literature, science, history, mathematics, etc., all boys and girls should speak and write with grammatical correctness, should write legibly, spell all the words they use correctly, punc- good sentences singly and in series." Our native tongue is the instrumetn through which we give evidence of culture or ignorance. One' may have but little knowledge, yet if he can speak and write vernacular with some fluency and precision he will be regarded as educated. E. S. Smith and Mrs. Florence Newcomb gave interesting talks at faculty meeting on Tuesday on the subject of supervised study. FIRE DRILL. At fire drill on Tuesday, the building was emptied in exactly two minutes and all students were back in their seats three minutes afterward—five minutes well spent JUNIOR MEETING. Another snappy meeting of the junior class was held Monday at 3:15 o'clock in the library. The purpose of the meeting was to elect class advisors, also a chairman and committee to plan the junior dance to be held on November 17. Miss Hubbard and Mr. Kapple were elected as class advisors. Carmen Garner was elected general chairman of the committee, and it was decided that Miss Garner and the class officers would appoint the committees. Fay Hopkins was elected as editor of the junior notes for the Classicum. IRIS SMITH. COUNCIL REPORT. President Fife called the meeting to order. The roll was called and the minutes read and approved. The social committee reported about arrangements for the student body dance. The following committee chairmen were announced: Entertainment, Frank Rose; decoration, Emerson Thatcher; refreshment, Louise Eccles; advertisement, Don Corey. The social calendar for the year was announced. A motion was made and carried that Mr. Thatcher name the assistant business manager to the year book one month from today. Mr. Beeson and Mrs. Irwin urged active participation in school activities on the part of council members. A motion was made and amended to the effect that a committee be appointed to draw up traffic regulations and procure signs for their enforcement. It was moved and seconded that a committee be appointed by the president to take care of advertising for athletic activities. Committee, Kenneth Skeen, chairman: Roger Woods, Dorothy Coop and Winifred McConnell. It was moved and seconded that a committee be appointed to look up transportatoin facilities for out-of-town games. Committee, Clifford Fretwell, chairman; Charles. Thorstensen, Joe Olfred. It was moved and seconded that the advertising committee look up arm bands and megaphones to be used to increase school spirit at games. The meeting was then adjourned. ELEANOR WEEKS, secretary. EDUCATORS RIGHT. Since the establishment of the public schools in America, the plan of a five-day school has everywhere been in vogue. Many times the plan has been questioned, but never changed. It now appears as if the plan is right, after all. Henry Ford has recently announced that he is to have a five day week in industry with a full week pay. It is to be an eight-hour day, too. He believes that the plan will soon be followed by other great industries. GOOD ARGUMENT. In favor of his plan he says that with highly developed machinery, industry must slow down a bit to permit consumption to catch up. He says, moreover, that American people are learning how to use leisure time, and that they need the time in order to obtain the satisfactions that modern life furnishes. He reminds us that in the last generation when men worked 10 and 12 hours a day for six days a week, that the laborer had neither the time nor inclination to enjoy life. Surely the world is changing and the outlook becomes brighter. |