24 THE ACORN EXCHANGE Fellow Exchanges: Please do not roll your papers as long as envelopes are so cheap. We are in receipt of The Spice for the first time. It is very good in some respects, but there are too many little stories of questionable merit. "The Western Mustang" is good and interesting, but lacks unity. The other stories are out of place in a high school paper. You must remember that you are not writing for little children; that if you want your paper read you must write some high school stories and good live articles. Your exchange department is far from ideal. None of your exchanges get any real benefit from being "gratefully acknowledged." Give the rest of us some criticisms, even though you can comment on but few in each issue. Hail Lens, another paper new to us. Your publication is as nearly ideal as any on our list. It teems with enthusiasm a sure promise of success. Your policy mentioned in the editorial column is the only right one. You might have your artists work a little more, but our only real criticism is that your poems are too long. Your exchange column is a good model for other papers to pattern from. High School Register, we will retain you on our list if you will maintain an exchange department. Snap Shots is almost complete. Write more editorials next time and have "Ed." make you some seasonable drawings. THE ACORN 25 Welcome Muhlenburg, a good paper, but the editorials lack vim. The appearance of your book can be much improved by altering the form. Tell the printer. Get some more cuts. The High School Journal contains some interesting and well written stories. With two staff artists you ought to have more drawings. The nine large pages of separate society notes are of questionable interest unless these organizations are the supporters of your paper. Under the heading of "Personals" we recognize several exchange jokes in disguise. Your exchange comments are too laconic. EXCHANGE JOKES. If you see a smiling phrase That really makes you grirt, Don't waste it just upon yourself; Cut it out and send it in. For Boys Only There, I knew you would do it, you wouldn't be a girl if you didn't. A fool can ask questions that the wisest man can't answer. This is probably the reason for the flunks in the recent exams. Old Lady "What's that odor?" Farmer "Fertilizer." Old Lady "For land's sake!" Farmer "Yes, ma'am." Teacher to Freshman) "Compose a sentence with the word 'dogma' as the subject. Pupil (after a moment's thought) "The dogma has five pups." Customer (in restaurant) "Waiter! My cocoa's cold!" Waiter- "Well, sah, why don't you put oil yo' cap, sah?" It was a dark night, and the owner of the chickens', gun in hand, was investigating certain suspicious noises he had heard. "Who's in there?" he called at the open window. Erastus, inside, replied softly and reassuringly, "Ain't nobody heah 'cepin' us chickens."