MONDAY EVENING, DEC OGDEN H "With Christmas trees in the hall¬ways, Christmas trees in the office and Christmas spirit everywhere, it's only natural that we should find studying rather difficult this week. "THE UNKNOWN MAN" Bruce Barton has written a great essay on "The Unknown Man," referring to Jesus. It's a that the world does not known Jesus, as He (Jesus) would be known. Christmas advertisers refer to Christ as "X," the unknown quantity, in the use of the hybrid "Xmas." It has been suggested and wo think wisely, that there be a campaign to urge all men to cease writing Nmas for Christmas. As a matter of sentiment and good judgment we thinks such a cam¬paign should be waged. CHRISTMAS CHEER High school students were asked today to exhibit a wee bit of Christmas spirit by bringing food and clothing to school tomorrow for the benefit of the unfortunate ones in Ogden. It is hoped that the response will be general and generous. NONE SHOULD WANT. As a part of the education of the day the youth should be im¬pressed with the flagrant evils at¬tending our present economic sit¬uation, and converted to the idea of using their influence and power toward remedying the condition. One of the sad blots on our present-day civilization is despite our great wealth and plenty, that some actually suffer because they can not procure the necessities of life—food and cloth¬ing. to say nothing of comforts or luxuries. This evil is all the more apparcnt at Christmas time, when men just naturally look around a bit to c.i how their fellow men live. It is refreshing to note the ac¬tivities at .his season to relieve distress and suffering, but some¬what pathetic to realize that there is dire want and suffering in so rich a world. WE LOST. Of course we lost in our game with Weber, but we won, too We learned many good points about basketball. We know just what it means to go up against a strong team. We are the stronger for the tussle. THE CANTATA. East Friday at assembly the R. O. T. C. band thrilled us. We all recognize that we have a very su¬perior band and we are very proud of it. Now we are anxious to see an outstanding chorus in the high school, and Mrs. Bowen is working very hard to establish it It can be done and in evidence of it we ask all students, parents and friends to hear the cantata to be presented in the high school auditorium tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 8 o'clock. You will be pleased and surprised at the prog¬ress the class has made. Then remember, this is just the begin¬ning. We are going to do ome- thing very fin beZore school closes next May. A GOOD PAPER. The Christmas edition of the Washington Pilot, published by the students of South Washington jun¬ior high school, is just off the school's mimeograph press. The magazine is full of Christmas stories and poetry, school news, views, ideals, hope?, aims. It is well printed and in every way a credit to the students and the school. The staff consists of about 25 writers, managers, artists, etc., and is assisted by six faculty advisers. Miss Louise Emmett is the editor and Donald Bingham the business manager. CARVER TO SPEAK On Wednesday at 1:15 the high school will have the regular Christmas program. The princi¬pal number of the program will be the address to be driven by our sood friend, the Rev. John E. Carver. Mr. Carver ests, instructs and helps us. We invite our friends to come in and enjoy this Christmas treat with us. THE LOST ART During the evolution, which means orderly change, of man, ve have lost the power to do certain things which we originally could, and acquired the power to do cer¬tain other things. As an example. I point to the lost art of moving your ears. Cats, dogs, and, in fact, nearly all animals can voluntarily move their ears. Quite a number of humans can do this also, but this number is steadily decreasing. I am om of those who can. I did not learn; it came naturally, as naturally as moving your finger. At first I could move my ears but a little and very slowly. I prac¬ticed it. however, until when I was about nine years old I could make them fairly flop. I then conceived the idea of moving one at a time. I spent many hours patiently mastering this until I was able to move one of m ears as quickly as I could both. At school this made a kind f general curiosity out of me; every¬one wanted to learn to do it. I got most pleasure, however, from causing others trouble. I soon found out that if one person looks seriously at another and moves his ears, especially if they are large and stand out straight from his head, the other invari¬ably bursts out laughing, and in¬appropriate fits of laughing over nothing always lower your "be-havior" mark surprisingly. Now that I do not move my ears for amusement, I find that it is an extremely useful accomplishment. In fact, I hardly see how those who can not do it get along. In the summer there is no more ag¬gravating place for a fly to light than on your ear. Do I have to lift my arm to bru it away? No. I conserve my energy; I merely shake my ear and the fly falls off. In winter what part of your body is so apt to freeze as your ears? Exercise is the best way to keep warm, so I move my ears, and they are never cold. If you are an aspirant for the title 'Mr." or "Miss America," how¬ever, I advise you not to try this exercise. It is very healthful, but i. tends to make the ears large and prominent. And when you come in from the cold they are a deep red, and not unlike two glow¬ing headlights. BOYS' ASSOCIATION. THE LOST DIARY. Oh. Diary, you should have been in assembly this morning. Hv Lammers sure is a keen band leader and the band seems to know It, too. I think that the boys know what a swell weight, lifter Mr. Lammers is and they' are scairt of him. I know that h gives them heck once in a while but they seem to profit by it. The fellows know just when to blow their horns—I wonder what Hy would do to them if they didn't. Bill Yeaman sure knoWs how to make a trombone sing—only I think that the horn has got a cold and I am going to tell him to give it some cough syrup. Mrs. Bowen is some canary, even if I do say it myself (I think that is what you are supposed to say. isn't it, Diary?) I liked the last sad song she sang better than any of them —I almost cried but I didn't have a handkerchief, so I didn't. Say, Diary, do you know that Mrs. Bowen is Jean Warner's mother, I just found it out and I am tickled to death. P. S.—First time In years. Diary, Hon John Danvers wasn't late. I think that he deserves the aluminum eadfess, don't you? GIRLS' ASSOCIATION. CEMBER 21, 1926. OGDEN H WEDNESDAY'S PROGRAM. The Christmas program will be given tomorrow at 11:15 a. m.. and will consist of the following numbers: Vocal Solo Jean Warner Selections. . .Troubadour Orchestra Dale Wangsgard, Director. Christmas Talk . Hon. Samuel S. Dye Vocal Solo Maurine Peck BAND CONCERT. The R. O. T. C. band will give a free concert in the Orpheum , theatre next Sunday, December 26, at 1:30 o'clock. So many people have asked for an oppor¬tunity to hear the band, that this concert was arranged. The Or¬pheum is contributed for the oc¬casion by Mr. Goss and the con¬cert will be free. The program will be as follows: March—Under the Double Eagle J. Wagner By Special Request. Overture 1812 TSchaikowsky Trombone Solo—Down On the Farm Air Varie. Fred P. Harlow Wilford Yeaman. Old Timers—Medley of Songs Popular Thirty Years Ago.. M. L. Lake Sousaphone Solo—Sounds From The Hudson Waltz Caprice. .Herbert L. Clarke Elmer Weller. Ballet Egyptian Lugini March, National Elmblem . Bigelow Merry Christmas! ARTISTIC COVER DESIGN The Christmas Classicum will be out Wednesday. The cover de¬sign is one of the most beautiful and artistic the magazine has ever had. The design was drawn by Ruth Agee, and depicts the old town crier at Christmas calling messages of Christmas cheer. It is printed in the three primary colors which, blending, give also complimentary colors, making a six-toned picture. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE. On the west wall of the hall on the main floor of the high school hangs this week a large beautiful painting, "The Tree," painted by a Utah artist, B. F. Larson, and loaned to the school for the week by the Ogden Art society. Being [ the largest picture of our collection it attracts considerable at¬tention. The school expresses ap¬preciation to Mrs. W. H. Reeder and the Art society for favoring us with this piece of art. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION. One of the New Year resolutions of the students of the Og¬den High school will be this, "I firmly resolve to bring a written excuse from home whenever I am absent from class or school. I shall bring it when I return to school and not any old time. I will be jprompt." The teachers have recommended this resolution and it will be adopted by all students. As a fitting climax to the close of the year 1926 the students have formed a year-end resolution "nor to enter ahy class late" and it has resulted in a wonderfi im¬provement to the school. MRS. DOCKLER IMPROVING. Friends of Captain and Mrs. Dockler will be glad to know the latter is recovering rapidly from the recent operation for appendi¬citis. AT IT AGAIN. A yuletide party was held Fri¬day evening at the home of Naomi Wilbur. Decorations and atmos¬phere Avere seasonal and refresh¬ments were served to 16 enthusi¬astic girls. The spirit of Saint Nick pervaded the evening and each girl received a useful and appropriate gift. As the evening waned many beautiful Christmas carols were sung. The party broke up at midnight with everyone in good health and humor. Who? Why Zeta Phi Xi, of course—who else could do such a. thing? —-Carmen Garner, Reporter. THRILLS. Deep down in the remote region of the anatomy dwells an army of thrill worms. They are strange creatures, resembling (darts oF electricity and possessing the assidious quality of lying dormant for long periods of time and then springing to life with a terrific shock. There is perfect team-work among these thrill promoters. A certain bell is touched and every little worm answers the call of the commander-in-chief, gliding with lightning rapidity through the anatomy, breathing scorching flames of fire, and holding aloft in their tails glowing tapers of light.—Louise Mackay. SPORTSMANSHIP. Sportsmanship is a term which is badgered about, tossed and whirled, thrown recklessly as a taunt or as a challenge until the word itself must roll bewildered eyes to the heavens and vainly demand its own moaning. If words have souls, and it is only natural to suppose that our most powerful mediums of thought have feelings as sensitive as those they portray, surely the soul of "sports¬manship" must cringe before the unsportsmanlike usage. Sportsmanship should be hon¬ored and worshiped. Almost rev¬erently one should seek for un-derstanding. Sportsmanship is not a thing made of muscle, a tyrant to crush the weaker, favoring the fearless. A true disciple of sportsmanship is one who serves his god un¬flinchingly, minus alibis and plus the spirit to carry on even though the task is hateful to him, even when fear threatens mastery, even when a thousand voices in him cry to throw the games over. To me, a truly poor sport is one who, through physical powers con¬tinually poses for the public, who makes grandstand plays, who is brave only because he has nothing to fear, who criticises blindly, and who always holds himself com¬placently superior, the shining model for the "rotten sports" who try and fail and try again. Sportsmanship is the greatest "ship" the world has known, forced to sail the stormy seas of misuse, yet triumphing always just as its glorious spirit will triumph in the hearts of men. —Louise McKay. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OGDEN H FACULTY PARTY Principal Merrill was ousted from his chair at faculty meeting Tuesday and Dave Wangsgard was installed as director. In an im¬passioned (?) speech Mr. Wangs¬gard pleaded for the abolishment of Reader's Digest, The Atlantic, N. E. A. Journal and other high¬brow stuff and for the substitut¬ing of Whiz Bang, College Humor and other up-to-date classics for faculty meetings. Just as the speaker reached his peroration, he was interrupted by the entrance of Mr. and Mrs. "Yon Yonson," just over from Wisconsin, who proved to be most interesting comedians. They put on several vaudeville stunts to the great delight and amusement of the teachers. (In real life Mr. and Mrs. Yon¬son are known as Alice Pedersen and Marguerite Hubbard.) RARE GIFTS The visitors also played the role of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and presented each teacher with a candy cane and other appro¬priate gifts. Mrs. Irwin, Miss Hubbard, Miss Atkinson and Miss Evans each got a handsome pair of scales, so they might continue to develop their weighing propensities. Mrs. Raymond received a pair of doll babies. The men teachers received marbles and dice and tops and all sorts of useful and appropriate toys.