AT DETROIT. D'Orr Cozzens, '24, was an interested visitor at school on Thursday last. He departed later for Detroit, Mich., where he may enter college or a technical school; he has not definitely decided which yet. FOR RIFLE PRACTICE. The school is better equipped for rifle practice this year than ever before. The building has been repaired and cleaned and is quite comfortable. The range has been enclosed with a fine board fence put up by the cadets so that danger of people running in is eliminated. The boys are settling down to good practice, so -we believe that the year will be a successful one for the rifle club. ARTISTIC WORK For the football banquet last week Miss Ruth Agee prepared 60 telling cartoons for place cards; for instance the picture of Principal Merrill tapping the glass on the hall door for order and "hurry up" call to class; Superintendent Hopkins ensconced in a big comfortable chair reading the "Joke Book." Frank Francis with his clothes in a pack on the end of a stick thrown across his shoulder while he is marching on "to the White House"; James H. DeVine on a bucking broncho; each of the football boys in characteristic action on the field. The work was exceptionally well done and created many a good laugh from the guests of the evening. The work also received the much merited approval and commendation of Mr. Stewart, the instructor. Miss Agee is manifesting very unusual ability in her art work and we predict for her a glorious future. A CORRECTION. Zeta Phi Xi wishes to compliment Carpe Diem upon their showing in school activities this year and upon their social functions. However the former club overlooked a few parlies and meetings, but the events listed below will efface this mistake made but a short time ago. 1. Our initiation party was held in Edith Ebert's barn and was in the form of a Hallowe'en fiesta. Fourteen new members were affected by this affair. 2. A banquet was held at the home of Thelma Burt during which each of the members was presented with an engraved membership card. The "eats" were delicious and the party broke up with everyone feeling fine in the region of their lunch basket. 3. Then we sprang the biggest surprise that high school has ever had—we became the proud possessors of distinctive black and white uniforms. Mr. Merrill himself complimented us upon our fine showing among the other organizations in the school. At present we are the only club besides the sponsors, in Ogden High that have any sort of uniforms. 4. After that we showed the students that Zeta Phi Xi and the H. C. were the only clubs in the school with initiative enough to give a real peppy assembly. We have brains and we know how to use them. 5. At our last meeting we ate and ate. then went to a box party at the Orpheum; by the kind courtesy of our advisors, Mrs. Kohler and Miss Corliss. 6. We are the only club in the school that has an honorary member. Miss Owen from the Weber gym represents this part of our lively bunch of girls. There are two events that every member is impatiently looking forward to, our Christmas party and the play. The Christmas affair is to be held at the canyon home of Naomi Wilbur. The girls will hike to the canyon in a body and the parties that Naomi can arrange are sure the best found anywhere. We are going to the play in a body, absolutely no males allowed. This constitutes the events that we have engaged in dining the first part of this year. Zeta Phi Xi again wishes to compliment Carpe Diem upon their undertakings and we will look crward with interest to reading about more of them. —Carmen Garner, Reporter. GORGON'S PEDAGOGY. I reckon that what this generation needs is a little less pie and a little more piety. Never hire men who drink after office hours; for it's their time that gets the effects and your time that gets the after effects. Praise goes a long way with a good man and some employers stop there; but case goes the whole distance. Small salaries make slow workers and careless clerks; because it isn't hard to get an underpaid job; but a well-paid man sticketh closer than a little brother-in-law-to-be to the fellow who brings the candy. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails in that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up. Every fellow is really two men —what he is and what he might be; and you are never sure which one you are going to bury until he's dead. OGDEN The Girls' Association had a very interesting program this morning at 8:30. Mrs. Edward Bichsel gave a very fascinating account of her trip around the world. In addition, there were several musical numbers. THE EUREKA PLAN The town of Eureka, Cal., is trying to live up to it3 name. "I have found it." The townspeople and school people there think they have the educational system "par excellence," the system which will in the future days be regarded as the model. The city has grouped together the Junior high, the Senior high and the Junior college—and has developed plans and ideals that, according to report, meet the needs of the present day. An interesting brochure concerning the system has just been published, and we shall present to our readers later some of the features of the "Eureka—I have found it" plan. INVITATIONS The following O. H. S. students are reported as entering societies at the University of Utah: Martha Wright, Gamma Chi; Allene Rut-lodge. Lambda Chi Lambda; Ida Gveenband, Delta Theta Chi; Fannie Greenband and Frieda Kramer, the Spurs. Wallace A. Goates is elected advertising manager of the Varsity play. THE BRIGHT CHILD Supt. W. Karl Hopkins gave a very interesting talk yesterday morning before the high school teachers on the subject of "The Exceptional Student." He maintains that we have given too much attention to the sub-normal the indifferent and the average child to the neglect of the bright one. The superintendent's thesis is supposed to be supported by a very extensive study made of the subject by Prof. Truman of Stanford university. COUNCIL REPORT President Fife presided at the regular council meeting. The roll was called and the minutes approved as read. Miss Bailey gave a report of the social committee and the report was accepted on motion of Miss Weeks. The report of the Junior dance was tabled on motion of Mr. Beck. It was moved and seconded that if Stellae takes any action in preparing a party their charter be revoked. The motion was repeated by the President on advice of the advisors. It was moved and seconded that the discussion of Stellae's affairs be dropped until an offense be made. A vote was taken which resulted in a tie, but the motion was declared out of order by the President on the advice of Mr. Beason. It was moved and seconded that the staffs of the papers be riven two votes instead of one. The motion was declared out of order, as such action must be presented in the form of an amendment to the constitution. The meeting was then adjourned. Eleanor Weeks, secretary. NOTICE TO FELLOWS There are two reasons for being good nowadays: One is that Santa Claus is coming, and the other is that Carpe Diem is giving a cabin party during the holidays, to which only those fellows of real merit will be considered as guests. This coming party is especially promising, inasmuch as it is the first party of its kind ever given in the high school, and also because the Carpe Diem are sponsoring it. Vellys Woods. MORE NEWS The tickets are out for the Yuletide glide And we've something to tell you on the side; Of all school dances this is the best, More snappy, more peppy, than all the rest. The time draws near and before it's too late, Each masculine gallant makes sure of his date, For never a student, attending here, Would miss the best time of the whole school year. —N. Wilbur. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP We frequently say that we are educating for citizenship; that we are preparing youth to participate in the affairs of government. Strangely enough, however, we are finding each generation more and more apathetic concerning their franchise—the exercise of their sovereignty. The individual feels that he is so insignificant in the great body of citizens that his vote and his influence are worthless. In consequence, there seems to be a necessity of finding some means of forcing all people to vote when occasion demands—or at least to get them to vote, whether by force or other means—so that the government may remain and be a government of the people and by the people, instead of by a few of the people. In some cantons of Switzerland and in Belgium, it is an offense not to vote and penalties are meted out to citizens who are so indifferent or neglectful as not to vote. In America we coax people to vote, and we are but meeting with indifferent success. The question is still before us—How can we cause people to appreciate their franchise? GORGON'S PEDAGOGY A boy's education should begin with today, deal with a little more tomorrow, and then go back to the day before yesterday; but when a fellow begins work with the past, it's likely to take him too long to catch up with the present. A boy ought to know a good deal about the wheat belt before he begins loading up with the Patagonia products! He ought to post up on Abraham Lincoln and Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison first, and save Rameses Second to while away the long winter evenings because old Rameses is embalmed and guaranteed to keep anyway. Some professors will tell you that it's good training anyway, to teach boys a lot of things they're going to forget, but it's been my experience that it's the best training to teach them things they'll remember. Of course boys will be boys, but you mustn't let them be too cussed boyish during business hours. A slow boy can waste a lot of the time of a five thousand dollar man whose bell he is answering; and a careless boy can mislay a letter or drop a paper that will confuse the work of the most careful man in the office. 22ND PAGE OF LOST DIARY Guess what, Dairy! One of our dear teachers has presented us with a future physics instructor. I am going to give fifteen rahs for Ernest Wangsgaard, the youngster, (it is a he) looks just like his daddy too, all that's missing is the yard stick and a smile, but his dad is smiling enough to make up for that. I think he is going to be a football player—he is already yelling signals, maybe he will be a baseball pitcher—the way he waves his arms. I am going to tell Coach Kapple to keep his eye peeled, because when that kid comes to high school he is going to take all the letters, honors, medals and anything else that happens to be running loose (look out for your future flappers). He is going to be a regular sheik. I already told you that he takes after his dad. I'm glad that I don't live with Ernest, because that baby sure has got husky lungs. I'll bet a nickle that Mr. Wangsgaard loves to walk the floor and sing about 2 a. m. I am going to take him some ice cream and bananas the next time I go to see him. Mr. Wangsgaard is getting in good practice to entertain the young son; he spends two or three periods a day making a thing on the end of a string swing around. He practices all day so that when he goes home at night he will have it down pat. If Mr. Wangsgaard fetches him up right and learns him everything he ought to know maybe I'll marry him—or go to the Christmas dance with him, anyway. Diary—let's drink to the health of Mr. Wangsgaard, Mrs. Wangsgaard and little Neon Helium Xenon. P. S. Diary—Why don't you ask Jim Neil, Cece Fife and Larry Trousdale why they had to walk home from West Ogden? They had to have something to pacify them so they swiped Neon Helium's pacifier away from him. Scandal — Our president walking home. —Girls' Association A TREE. Who has not marveled at the glorious beauty of a tree, as it stood in lacy silhouette against the evening sky or leaned in graceful acquiescence to a burden of shimmering snow? This same tree may be interpreted as a symbol of life, even of that human existence which man vaunts so boastfully. Look at a tree. It is budding into life; each glistening, oval sphere represents the full-leafed maturity that is to come. Is it not the same with the childhood of the land, with each tiny personage presaging manhood? Then the bud unfolds, and the promise is fulfilled. The leaves come forth in all their glory, even as childhood merges into and becomes maturity. The nation is thronged with eager, glowing faces that will carry on its work, while the wistful sighing of the tree's green hosts comes only as they do their duty in the realm of plants. Each face is an individual, yet all the people are united in a common cause the nation; all must live by a few fundamental essentials; all breathe that one vital breath, called life. Does a leaf show much difference? Each tiny, green particle lives its little life, yet the entire tree is united, and the sustenance of one depends upon the whole. Gradually the leaves begin to decline, until, with yellowing listlessness they become but faint reminders of the past. One by one they flutter bank into the earthy lap from whence they sprang, while life glides by into oblivion. Certainly that is the course of men after they have passed their prime. A passing flutter into the grave, and who is there to tell their tale?