PUBLIC SPEAKING. On Wednesday, November 1, a hectic argument concerning' the senatorial candidates was held in room 305 in the public speaking department. The attributes and defects of both candidates were discussed and the meeting was a regular congressional session. PHILIP FINKELSTEIN, Reporter. LETTER RECEIVED. Dear Mr. Merrill: We wish to officially thank you for the splendid hospitality shown the scouts at our older scouts' conference, in your entertainment of them at the Ogden-Logan football game. The afternoon's entertainment was one of the high spots of the conference. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the game; they will not soon forget your kindness. Sincerely yours, S. D. YOUNG, Scout Executive. OVERWORKED WORDS. Most people are prone to fall into the habit of using words or phrases over and over again until all their conversation, becomes fatuous. To avoid this unpleasant habit, we recommend that the following words and phrases be eliminated from the vocabulary for a time: You know, sure, fine, nice, splendid, elegant, kid (meaning a child), delicious, uh huh. NEW TEACHER. Supervisor Mark Robinson has found the conducting of chorus work in the high school too strenuous in connection with his work as supervisor and therefore Mrs. Agnes Warner Bowen has been secured to conduct the high school chorus work. Mrs. Warner began her work today and expresses pleasure for the opportunity of meeting high school groups daily. THE PLAY. '"The Goose Hangs High," the school play for 1926-27, will be presented in the Orpheum theatre on December 15. It is very likely that there will be an afternoon and an evening performance. The cast for this production was chosen and announced last week. JUNIOR PAPER. The Lewis Chronicle, vol. 3, No. 1, an eight-page paper, has just been issued. The paper has a cut of the Lewis R. O. T. C. unit and is full of items of school news. Principal Wintle has an article extoling the beauties, conveniences, accommodations offered by the new building in its various departments. Mildred Higgs is editor, Albert Beach, associate editor, and Richard Anderson, business manager. The paper in its news, editorial and advertising sections reflects credit upon both the editorial and management staffs of the paper. NEW METHOD. Frank Rose, manager of the quarterly, believes in deeds, not words. In selecting assistant and associate managers he is asking applicants for positions to give evidence of what they can do in the way of securing advertising before any appointments are made. Pretty clever, we say. GIRLS HELP. During the last two football games the Girls' association has had charge of the stand at Lorin Farr park. They sold everything that was eaten at both games. The girls who worked so consistently and devoted their services, deserve a great deal of credit. Especially does Dorothy Coop, as president, deserve credit for the effort she put forth to make the sales a success. The students responded to the call with wide-open pocket-books and the girls did not have to seek for prospective buyers. After the games, the team was "fed" by our cooks and after the Logan-Ogden game, Logan enjoyed themselves at our expense, also. The proceeds of these sales will go to defray the expenses of the forthcoming mothers' tea. Not wishing to draw on the "picture fund," this means was used to get the money. CARMEN GARNER. OGDEN The teachers had a straw vote at Tuesday's faculty meeting on the senatorial candidates, but did not announce the results. We suspect they were pretty evenly divided. Miss Kener gave an 'interesting talk at faculty meeting on the subject of marks and grading. TEACHER ILL. Gordon Croft was obliged to leave school Tuesday on account of illness. EDUCATIONAL WEEK. The high school is making preparation for the proper observance of Education week. ARE TEACHERS JUST? Teachers are sometimes accused of being unjust and unfair. This is only natural. Most people feel that they frequently meet unfairness and injustice in their relations with their fellows. Teachers are not all-wise nor infallible. Like the rest of humanity they only try to be fair—to approximate justice as nearly as they can. Students would do well to remember this. MILITARY DEPARTMENT. Following are the averages of the organizations composing the reserve officers' training corps, Ogden senior high school, for the month of October. 1926: Band 967 per cent Co. "A" 963 per cent Co. "B" 947 per cent Co. "C" 968 per cent Co. "D" 980 per cent Co. "E" 963 per cent Co. "F" 994 per cent Company "F" North Junior high school having the largest average for the month, will carry the guidon during the month of November. CARL J. DOCKER. Captain, Cavalry (Dol.) P. M. S. and T. ONE-NIGHT STAND. The school council has decided that no attempt will b3 made this year to present the school play on two successive evenings, as last year. Instead, the council recommends a matinee and an evening performance. In view of the fact that student body tickets are good for the performance, a committee has been appointed to devise a plan to make an equable distribution of seats, so that all students may receive fair consideration and treatment. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! If ye know all concerning the senior dance, waste not thy precious time on this, but if ye know not all, read on: On the night of November 5, in the year of Our Lord, 192 6, there will grace the ballroom of the Weber gymnasium a fair dance. This is your dance, ye grand seniors, so be ye there each boy with a fair maiden. But lo, that is not all. The dance commences at the hour of 8:30. Get ye tickets while they last at 75 cents per couple. RONDELL TANNER. FORUM REPORT. On Monday, November 1, the weekly Forum meeting was held, but it was not the "dignified and grave" Forum which for so many years has debated and discussed the greatest questions and needs of the nation. In its stead was a jolly and frivolous Forum assembly. Being human, we, too, must have our fun and on this meeting, we had our "bit of nonsense." The meeting was humorous from beginning to end and was enjoyed by all present. The main business was a humorous debate on the most diginified questions: "Resolved, that a man's left leg should be longer than his right." The debaters were Cecil Fife and James Neil, affirmative, and Grant Chandler and Philip Finkelstein, negative. The decision was given first to the affirmative and then to the negative, so that we do not know which side won, and both sides are still claiming the victory. In all, it was "great." The members and visitors were in good humor and all this aided the meeting. It is such times which keeps the fellowship and good-will of the 'Forum alive, for it draws the members closer together and, unites them under one fold. Enough for that. As this can only happen once in a great while, we will get down to business at our next meeting with a challenge debate: "Resolved, that the five-day labor week be adopted by industry." The participants are Frank Rose, Ambrose Merrill, Kenneth Skeen and Tom Broadbent. The question is one of great importance at the present time and will call for good discussion, but as all the debaters have fine records in the "Forum annals," we are sure to have a wonderful, A-1 debate. PHILIP FINKELSTEIN, Reporter. TO TEACHERS. The men and women who are serving the world today are your boys and girls of yesterday. In the great, final balance sheet they represent your surplus. Give of yourself so that you may have. As a class, we shall never ride in Rolls Royces. But we are accumulating a vast surplus. OUR GOVERNMENT. Mr. Hoover said the other day that our government is the biggest business in the world. Unquestionably he is right. We are all participants in our government, but most of us know very little about it. How little we know is being demonstrated this week in Mrs. Irwin's classes, where a chart giving the various departments is being exhibited. Under the legislative branch, for instance, consisting of the senate and the house, there are four subsidiary departments and six auxiliaries operated in connection with the executive branch; under the executive branch there are 10 subsidiary departments, in addition to the six auxiliaries mentioned; under the judiciary there are six main departments with their subdivisions; in addition to these there are 29 somewhat independent departments. Let anyone who thinks he knows something about our government attempt to make a diagram of these departments of government and "he'll be surprised" how short he is in information on this great subject. DAILY BREAD. The first time I saw Myra I laughed; the last time I saw her I gave vent to the first signs of femininity—tears. I had heard some people talk of "Myra, goddess of luck"; others faithful to Faith, called her "blessed with divinity." I expected to see an angelic being, winged, crowned and perhaps labeled "saintly," but Myra gave no such first impression. Her humorously fashioned features urged my inner feelings to irreverently express themselves smilingly. Could the wrinkled lady of twisted countenance and of witchlike appearance be the model angel I had placed so high upon the pedestal of idealistic fancy? After all, its your soul that goes heavenward, and Myra had applied the cosmetics of character and personality to glorify her soul until OGDEN Bubo, the great-horned owl, is now beautifully mounted and is on exhibition in Willis Smith's laboratory room—306A. This bird is one of the largest in this part of the country and makes a wonderful specimen, mounted as he is upon his perch. The taxidermist, Walter Gilmore, did a fine piece of work in mounting this owl. CLASSICALIA MANAGER. E. S. Smith has been appointed to act as general manager of the Classicalia this year. He will be assisted by Ernest Warigsgard, These appointments assure us that the school's greatest function will go over big again this year. ON THE JOB. Burdett Smith dropped from the clouds Wednesday about noon whence he was sent on Tuesday night by the election returns. Immediately upon landing he picked up an S. o. S. call from the high school to take some science classes for an absent teacher. He responded to the call and is teaching most enthusiastically. IT'S DRAWING NEAR. Do you want to have a good time, seniors? That's what the senior dance is for. The girls are getting nervous, so boys get your dates and tickets right away. The price per couple is to be not more than "six bits," nor less than 75 cents. Think, seniors, what you get for this small sum. Sixteen wonderful dances, some moonlight, with 16 wonderful girls. You can't afford to miss the dance, so boys get your tickets, and girls, get your boys, and all be at the Weber Gym ballroom November 5. FRUITS FOR DISABLED. Tomorrow (Friday) is the day assigned in the schools to the furthering of a fine philanthropic cause—that of helping to make the life of the disabled soldier just a little pleasanter, happier. Every child is invited to bring to school a jar of jelly, jam, or fruit, to be sent to the hospitals where the disabled soldiers are located. Let every school student do his "good turn tomorrow" by contributing the fruit for the soldier. CASH PRIZES OFFERED. The staff of the annual Classicum announces two cash prizes of five dollars each to be awarded in competitive contests open to the student body as follows: The first prize of five dollars will be given to the student who submits the most acceptable idea for a general theme or motif for the art work in the Year Book. Last year for the first time all the drawings and designs in the book were made to conform to one general idea, that of western or frontier life. The border was a cartridge belt, the sports heading showed two western characters pitching horseshoes in a frontier back yard, the organization's page showed a stockade of emigrant wagons, and so on through the whole book. The staff this year seeks another idea that can be similarly used. Drawings are not required. The general scheme, together with ideas for particular pictures should be stated briefly in writing and submitted to Mrs. Newcomb on or before the close of school on Friday. November 12. The second prize of five dollars is to be awarded for the best group of three snapshots of subjects or objects connected with school life, that can be used in the Year Book. This contest will run for several months. A final date will be announced later in the year when the book must go to press. The only requirement is that the name of the student who took the picture shall be written on the back of the picture and the picture be dropped in a box to be provided soon. The staff also announces that it will pay 10 cents for every picture submitted in this contest and used in the Year Book. Every student in school is eligible in one or both of these contests. COUNCIL REPORT. The regular council meeting was held with President Fife presiding. The minutes for last meeting were read and approved. Discussion concerning the seating of students at the school play was next taken up and the committee which was appointed to investigate the same, was advised by President Fife to continue the report until completed. The Girls' association president, Dorothy Coop, reported on the financial results of their booster and refreshments stands of which they have had charge at the last two games at Lorin Farr park. The report was accepted.