The Acorn PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH Subscription Price Seventy-five Cents Single Souvenirs Two Dollars EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Victor H. Sears '10 Associate Editor Alma Winters '10 Literary Editors Davis Green '11, Beatrice Brewer '11 Miscellaneous Athleen Woods '10 Locals Jim Scowcroft '10, Lenora Brown '10 Exchange Mabel Rolapp '10 Cartoonists Leonal Read '11, Ellis Barlow '11 Music Alberta Wright, '11 Athletics Lila Eccles '10 BUSINESS STAFF. Business Manager Advertising Manager Joseph M. Eccles '10 First Assistant Stewart Eccles '10 Subscription Leland Read '10 Circulation Irwin Nelson '12 Editorial Last month, when we featured the gymnasium number of the Acorn we little dreamed of its far-reaching effect. It was got up on short notice and limited to space on account of funds, but the issue had hardly left the press before we began to realize its power for good. It was the means of "starting something" among its readers to the extent that several men of Ogden presented themselves to ask: "What can I do?" Just at present we can hardly make an intelligent answer, except that the time is ripe for boosting. However, by the time the next issue goes to press we hope and fully expect to see a committee organized and a systematic campaign begun. Then "Weber expects every man to do his duty." THE ACORN 7 There is a growing tendency in this school to "let it pass." If a student violates laws of the school, we all look on and "let it pass." The faculty and we students may consider it highly improper, but we "let it pass" "willing to forgive and forget," etc. There's no use going around with chips on our shoulders, but when we see a person or a group of persons being imposed upon let's all get in and help "oust" the offenders. And now we plume our wings for the greatest and grandest edition of a school paper the Souvenir Acorn for 1910. Come all you poets, authors, artists and contribute your might to the year-end creation. This final number must represent the best efforts of the most talented ones in our Weber and everyone can help. We want stories, songs, poems, pictures, humor, ideas everything. Of course, there are times when we feel more patriotic than others, but there was absolutely no excuse for the cool, in-different way in which we "condescended to allow the Juniors the great privilege of presenting the school with a trophy cup." The making of gifts for such purposes as this cup was intended cannot be too strenuously encouraged. The best way to encourage such outbursts of loyalty is to "loosen up" and give vent to our appreciation. Juniors: We openly, heartily and most sincerely thank you. Russell Conwell's lecture on "Acres of Diamonds" is again impressed upon us with added force by the few facts given us in Governor Spry's talk on "Utah's Resources." It should also impress us with the fact that any man with ordinary intelligence and sincerity of purpose can "make good" in this great world of opportunities. Whenever a special number is attempted it is the custom of most magazines to issue an editorial bulletin telling EDITORIAL about the excellent features of the next issue. This BULLETIN? we would do in the case of the "Souvenir Acorn," but we don't know just what those excellent features are to be. At any rate, we will make the following announcement: "We feel it in our bones that the Souvenir Acorn for 1910 will be a record-breakerone that you will be proud to write and draw for." Now is the time to start work, as we present the material to the printer April twenty-first.