TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1934. Writer Comes To Defense of School Clubs Urges Strict Obedience To Rules To Avoid Official Ban OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Mary Paquette—Editor Jack Bennett—Associate Editor Organized society protects itself by establishing laws, customs, and traditions. Groups of people assemble together purely to gain the friendship of other people, and to become more socially inclined. These are the ideas incorporated in the present club life of our school. Originally clubs were organized to promote extra-curricular activities. But the desire rapidly gained a strong foothold. Clubs are wonderful organizations. When one desires to create new friends, he has only to join a club. But in order to be organized the club must obey rules and regulations prescribed by the constitution. It is because of disloyalty to these existing laws that clubs have deteriorated. Students, I fully sympathize with clubs, and I have received tremendous support from them in school activities. Clubs should be maintained. However, if they are abolished it will be because specific ordinances have not been heeded. It is too late for reform, so to the future , students we will intrust the fate of these organizations, which form the backbone of student life. — Grant Jensen. PUPPET SHOWS WANTED When the puppet show, produced by some of the oral expression stu¬dents, was exhibited, all of those individuals in the assembly laughed merrily with glee. They enjoyed humorous impersonations of various teachers and certain boys, each outstanding for some activity, for this type of entertainment is strik¬ingly different to the numerous and unvaried routine features on an assembly program. And any diver¬sion which is new is refreshing. Not many, if any, boys or girls or teachers have seen enough displays of this kind to have tasted to the brim such enjoyment. Perhaps such entertainment is hard to cleverly feature because of difficulty in manipulating the miniature people, perhaps the faces and costumes de¬mand time and care in making, but think how much more satisfaction the audience obtains from a play of that sort than if students acted the parts on the stage. We are used to plays, and dramas, and such phases of pleasure. Because puppet shows are different and a spice to the listeners, may we have more of them.—Emily Merrill. SCHOOL CHATTER Strange as it seems: The Junior class seems to be hold¬ing its own against the mighty seniors. All the school loves a Dorothy for queen, which is not such a bad idea after all. The Classicalia was a howling success, due to the splendid support , of the student-body, which only proves that all of us are children at heart. School will soon come to a close. (Much to the sorrow (?) of all of us). Yours truly is about to clamp the lid on the Chatter Box for today, you unlucky people.—Peter Zane. TO A BREEZE You kiss the golden daffodils; You laugh at sunflowers on the hills, And gossip with the joy Each merry summer day; You tease the busy bumblebees— Oh, willful little summer breeze, Is that the way to play? —Elizabeth Parkinson. Well students the "Classicalia" is over and a good time was had by all. Boy! What a Queen! What a Maid of Honor! What a celebration and what a night! Never was there such a Carnival, and was it swell? Mmm— You should a been there if you weren't. Ha cha! Those pirates were just "ducky," especially Bernice P. This event (Classicalia) will be of long remembrance. Mr. G. L. Hanson and the music department should be congratulated for the splendid showing they made at the contest in Brigham last week end. The school being well represented many honors were gained. Congratu¬lations Mr. Hanson and music de¬partment.—Sincerely, Kling Klung. DISCOVERIES One fine day I rose into the clouds, and there I sat on a big puff of smoke, and I squirmed and I wiggled, trying to see what every one was doing. Aha, what person was that down on earth running hither and yon? Well, I narrowed my eyes, and then I soon recognized Ruth La Vin, with her finger in the air, saying, "Now girls, you can't be chaste if you're chased!" N-o-w Ruthie, I humorously thought, but I turned my attention quickly to three love-stricken Forum members. Oh, the love shining out of their wistful eyes—it was so pa¬thetic. There was Bob and Helen Pae giving each other sweet glances on the street, George and Margaret smiling together, and Blaine and Prances looking soulfully into the other's eyes. Say, but it's a heavenly feeling! Who should I then espy but Earl R. showing his lovely sunburn and Lloyd F. flirting with the damsels. Nearly instantly I heard some one laugh, and I turned and saw that lively Dorothy H. prancing around. And oh yes, the pretty blonde with Jerry was attracting quite a bit of attention too. But oh, was the fasci¬nating junior red-head "slaying" them. Don't tell me now you don't know who I mean! Alas, however, in the midst of the most pleasant sight-seeing scenes the cloud evaporated, and I fell back to earth to remain until my next journey.—E. M. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1934. Students Find O.H.S. Building Bright, Shiny Janitors Clean Structure While Occupants on Vacation OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Mary Paquette—Editor Jack Bennett—Associate Editor A vacation and, oh boy, what a vacation! But say, have you noticed how much good the vacation did for the school property? The grass has again come into its own, the win¬dows are clean and the building is clean. The janitors have certainly been working to get the school building and surroundings in shape for our final dash to graduation. Thanks, janitors, now we can con¬centrate.—J. B. CONGRATULATIONS As a mere note of congratulations we write this to Virginia McNamara and Fred Nickson, juniors who have made a name for themselves in drama. These students have been doing fine work with the Weber community players here during the past season. Their acting is fast improving, and before long we may find two "topnotch" performers in them. Again, we express our wish¬es for your unhindered rise to fame and say how proud we are of your success.—B. TRIVIAL Trivial (triv'i-al) comes from the Latin words tri, meaning three, and via, meaning road. The old Roman roads used to be such that three could come together in one place. There would usually be watering stations at these junctions, and while the horses were getting water the people would indulge in idle conversation. Hence trivial has come down to us as trifling, insig¬nificant.—J. Woodrow Lewis. LITERARY CRITICISMS A literary criticism is just what! the title suggests—that is, a theme, usually, consisting of personal ideas and constructive suggestions regard¬ing the ability and style of an au¬thor or authoress. First, one reads their productions, then the individ¬ual forms an opinion concerning the quality and potentialities of the writer whom the student portrays in his work. To be able to depict a correct image of the powers and weaknesses of #he novelist, poet, or dramatist, the individual must develop an un¬derstanding human and broad enough to probe into the meaning of what the writer wishes to reveal to the reader. Also, the student needs a deep perceptive and keen in¬telligence so that he will interpert the stories correctly. To many, the writing of literary criticisms has been extremely en¬joyable. They received new impres-sions and thoughts from the variety of books and practice in forming and writing their own opinions, and this type of study has been to them the most interesting one taught in English this year. Because of this, may we delve more into such de¬lightful avocation in the future.— Emily Merrill. LILACS' BLOOM Lilac fragrance, send sweet perfume From your dainty clust'ring blos¬soms— White and purple hearts of early bloom. Let me see you gracefully sway, Feel your freshness filled with drop¬lets Of dew moistened on this April day! —Emily Merrill. OFFICIAL RATING Instructor Glenn Hanson has re¬ceived certificates giving the offic¬ial ratings of all Ogden entrants at the regional musical festival held Friday and Saturday last. The ratings are: Girls' glee, excellent; boys' glee, superior; bass solo, Lloyd Frederickson, excellent; tenor solo, Chester Christensen, excellent; contralto solo, Mary Vance, excellent; cello, Beverly Brown, superior; violin, Melba Allred, superior; baritone, Woodrow Peterson, excellent; trombone, Dean Crandall, excellent; drums, Joe Swartz, excellent; piano, Wayne Devereaux, excellent; cornet, Eugene Hawks, good; saxophone, Kenneth Brizzee, superior; clarinet, Richard Congdon, excellent; so¬prano solo, Beverly Harris, excellent; orchestra, excellent. The slogan of the festival was "Not to win a prize or defeat an op¬ponent, but to pace each other on the road to excellence." A fine slogan, we think.