Efficiency Certain To Return Rewards Apr. 8, 1932 School Editor Declares Nothing Else Quite So Important OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Robert Hetzel, Editor There is really nothing quite so important in the daily routine of life as efficiency. This is one of the best keys to success. Ineffi¬ciency is the largest detriment that any person can have, and anyone that does have it never amounts to much of anything in this world. No matter what a person is doing, un¬less he is efficient, whatever he is! doing will be a failure. Efficiency in getting lessons, in doing work or ; study of any kind is always re¬warded in time, because the whole (world demands it, and thus, when things are done inefficiently public j I sentiment is greatly against us. i .Since it is generally accepted that : efficiency is the best policy, it is ; best that everyone m'ake a prac¬tice of it.—The Editor. j THE BAND Although none of you have read ' anything about the band yet (?) I shall try to tell you a little bit ( about it. The band is like the foot¬ball or basketball team in this way —it needs your support and 'a lot of it. Even such a good band as Ogden has cannot win all by its lone- 1 some. It needs Ogden's support. 1 Next Thursday the band leaves for Price to take part in the western contest. The night before the play- ers leave they will probably give a concert here in order that you mayj hear them, for the small price ofr one quarter. I know that the de- pression is on, but why not save; that quarter that you were going to' use to see Nancy Carroll or Clark Gable with, and come and support the band?—Helen Parmley. I SYMPATHY The students of Ogden High school offer their sincerest sympa¬thy to Wilkie Newman and his family upon the death of his father. ENTIRE NAME NEEDED Jeremiah? Sophia? Gilmore? Or perhaps it is just plain Elizabeth? Your whole name! Are you sure- you haven't left out one of these? Your whole name is required for the diplomas. Don't be bashful—; write it out! How proud all of your! . relatives will be to see the inherited names!—Janet Fife. R. O. T. C. ACTIVITIES As every cadet knows, the drill corps has been engaged in several important undertakings of late. On Tuesday the battalion remained in ' the gym and continued preparation 'for the coming inspection. Wednes¬day was Army day, a national day set aside to create interest in na¬tional defense, and it was celebrat¬ed by the R. O. T. C. parade, in which all units joined. On Thurs¬day morning the platoon competi¬tion took place. Pirst prize was won jby the First platoon of A company, after much competition from the other platoons—Parke Petterson. GIRLS' BASKETBALL Have you ever seen a basketball game in which girls are the play¬ers? You haven't! Well, you don't miss a thing. I happened to stroll in while a game was going on, that was all the farther I strolled! I executed a right-face and left the place. Anyhow, Ogden won all the games she played and she played eight or nine, I forget how many. And the scores, well, there is no need to tell you about them, be¬cause there isn't much to tell. The main cog of the team was Erma Higginson, who very success¬fully pullled a "Bill Kinner"; she made every basket but one. Mean¬while the guards were having a verbal dispute over what kind of dresses to wear for graduation, while the aforesaid center was playing her worst for dear ol' Ogden. Anyhow, nothing plus nothing is still nothing.—Sammy Sixteen. QUOTATIONS Bill Thompson—See that girl- well, she's nuts about me. Louise Peterson—Don't pull a Mary Lou Marve Bingham—I'm your pal, ain't I? Arlene Davis—Where's my four- bits? Me—What's news. Someone else—What's not news? The Editor—There is no news, j HOLO Winners of Tourney in Best Shape Eight Top Teams Excelled Eight Losing Fives in Utah Classic NO HARMFUL EFFECTS Complete, Results of Tests Cited in Report of Dr. Henry Raile Physical fitness wins! Definite proof of that statement is given in the report of Dr. Henry Raile, covering the physical tests given all players in the recent state high school basketball tournament. The analysis of the various te&ms showed that the Ogden team, winner of the tournament, possessed, as a group, the highest degree of physical fitness. Only one player on the Ti¬ger squad had a slight, nondisabling normality. The eight teams winning the great¬est number of games outstripped the losing eight—all eliminated after three days of play—in point of team physical fitness. Not one instance was noted where¬in it could be said that the player had been harmed by playing in the tour¬nament. Charges Refuted This last statement by Dr. Raile di¬rectly refutes charges made by some school officials that the state tourna¬ment is harmful to the players, and supporters of competitive athletics believe that this conclusion will end the agitation to abolish the state hoop classic. The charge of physical in¬jury has been one of the two main points advanced by those advocating abolition of the tournament; the oth-er point is the question of expense for outside teams. Dr. Raile's report further states it is doubtful if any abnormalities of the players, with two or three exceptions, had been made worse by playing bas¬ketball. The surprisingly consistent find¬ings in the matter of team success on a basis of physical fitness should em¬phasize to every coach the importance of having his team in the best pos¬sible condition, the report points out. These and many other interesting facts are given in Dr. Raile's state¬ment, submitted to the Utah State High School Athletic association at its request for a scientific and authentic analysis of basketball in general and the state tournament in particular. All 155 athletes, comprising the 16 teams in the 1932 tournament, were examined, with the following pur¬poses in mind: Determination of the physical state of all players before the games; finding of any possible harm that might come to tournament players; finding of a basis for an au¬thoritative reply to criticism aimed at high school basketball; determina¬tion of any relationship between the most physically fit and the winning teams; preparation of helpful sugges¬tions to state high school coaches for the protection and betterment of the state's growing manhood. Heart Irregularities Every individual was examined be¬fore the tournament, and during the affair 50 were examined after games, a total of 205 examinations. There were 155 urine specimens examined 'before games and 119 after games, a i total of 276. Tonsil troubles, enlarged lymph glands of the neck and thyroids were the most frequent abnormalities noted. Before playing two men were noted with definite heart murmurs and one with an irregularity in which there seemed to be a skipping of every third to seventh beat. After playing, one murmur became intensified, but the other murmur could no longer be heard, and the "skipping" or pre¬systolic heart became perfectly regu¬lar. None of these boys complained of the slightest fatigue over that of the other players. Sixteen boys were found to have flat feet of varying degrees—cases which were remedied by proper ban¬daging in the more severe instances. One of the tournament's best players had extremely flat feet. .