EDITORIAL What a blessing to mankind is Christmas! It is the one day of the year when all Christian nations enter into a common spirit. Old and young, balck and white, rich and poor, follow the example of their Master and go on journeys of "making others happy." All can achieve success, for all know the secret the smile is never behind. This Christ-like spirit is so effective that the sick forget their suffering and the long hours of affliction, those surrounded by hardship and poverty receive new courage and go on their way with a song, and best of all, bad thoughts are driven away by the presence of good ones and truly, the blind are made to see. Even the narrow-souled pessimist smiles as he thinks of his surroundings. Tears are brought to the eyes of the hardened criminal as he gazes through the barred windows on the star-lit sky and listens to the chiming church bells on Christmas eve. One great writer has said, "The mind is its own place, and can make a Heaven of Hell a Hell of Heaven." Now what kind of Yule-tide are you going to have? Since the greatest joy comes from making our fellow creatures happy, the ACORN'S greetings to all are thus expressed DO GOOD TO OTHERS. As you look upon these numbers what thoughts are brought into your mind? Do you think of another year added to a series that 1912 has passed? Do you see in the three hundred and sixty-six days a number of incidents that you look forward with pleasure? Is the first day of that year one upon which you are to put into effect certain resolutions that you might have made? Is your mental conception composed of such thoughts or do you think of a space of time that the numbers 1912 might some day measure, and say to yourself. "I know thee not, the present is all that I have." The present! The moments now in existence are all that you possess, why then wait till ACORN 13 tine unborn to live better? "Let the dead past bury its-dead! Act! act in the living present! Heart within and God o'er head!" Make every moment worth while and each evening as a certain moment cuts off the consciousness of that day another golden link will have been added to the chain of life. In the year 1912 may satisfaction crown the efforts of each individual. The two definite aims of School Activities are first, the development of the student, and second the advancement of the school. Every student wants development. That is why we are here. These activities offer to develop a higher degree of self-control, self-reliance, individuality and decision than can be attained in the ordinary routine of school work. Every loyal student desires his school to stand first among the high schools of the state. It is for us to place and keep Weber in that honored position. A school is known by the quality of its activities. Already to Weber has been attributed the quality of "squareness" which has so characterized her work in the past so that whether in victory or defeat her banner, the symbol of clean, manly activities, has been kept flying. Many students in trying out for the various teams have in mind that to win is the only aim. To these we would say, "Remember that our reward is not in the crowns we win, but that the power to win is ours." Do not think that a few popular students are the only ones who can do things. It is not their prominence which places them on the various teams; it is the fact that they win these places which makes them prominent. MERIT IS THE PASS-WORD TO SUCCESS AT WEBER. There is room for all in the field of competition The activities are for the student, not the student for the activities. Are you in harmony with the spirit of Weber? The students here have but few restrictions. All of Weber's KEEP IN laws may be expressed in four words "Keep in YOUR PLACE, your place." Easy to say, easy to remember, but O, how hard to do. And yet it is impossible to be in harmony without observing this rule. How much it should help the appearance of our school if every one would keep in his place. There would be no "slurring" classes, no loitering in the halls, and some might say, no life. Must a school be dead if every one is in his place? The mechanic knows that every part of a machine must be in perfect working order if the best results are to be obtained. The same thing applies here. Every student and every other person connected with a school must be in his place in order to do perfect work. If you have grown careless, wake up, for to be indifferent is to be out of harmony. Students, respond to Weber's call and get in tune with the ideal of Weber.